Chapter 1

H’Tes sat patiently. His eyes closed tightly, his hands stretched out reaching for air and his mind locked into the Force. The small Aleena focused every ounce of his energy on the Force, letting it run through his body, through his mind as he manipulated it and controlled it.
H’Tes had been sitting in this spot for a few months now. Every morning he would walk out with the other prisoners and once the guard droids were not looking, he would squirm his way through the tiny holes his friends had dug out for him. He had been crawling into these tiny, cramped spaces now for over two years. The same routine everyday.
After morning chow the prisoners would be marched down into the spice mines and forced to work until lunch chow, then repeated again until dinner chow. After dinner they worked again for a few hours and then were marched back to their worn out cots and collapsed in exhaustion. H’Tes also collapsed in exhaustion but not from the manual labours that his peers were undergoing.
No, H’Tes collapsed because for every hour his peers dug away into the cave walls searching for the highly prized drug-of-choice called Spice, H’Tes was using the Force. For the past two years H’Tes had been using every essence of the Force that he could muster. Every ounce of power that he held, and being a Jedi Master, H’Tes was very, very powerful, was used to create something over a thousand miles away.
Far into the orbit of Kessel, floating debris of shattered spacecraft hovered. A starship graveyard that had been added to for centuries. Hundreds and thousands of destroyed crafts hung lifeless orbiting the planet Kessel, creating a protective sphere of garbage all around it making it impossible for large ships to charge through without joining the debris themselves.
Back in his hole, H’Tes twitched his clawed finger slightly and far off into the debris, a massive hyperdrive engine drifted through space and landed gently into the socket of the vessel he was building.
For over two years, H’Tes had been using the Force to build a spaceship thousands of miles away from where he sat. It would only be a few days now before his ship was complete and the escape plan would be unfolded.