Fandom Star Wars: Personal Strifes

[Lucyfer]

Armitage Hux jolted straight in his seat as he heard the soft click of a mug besides his arm. He glanced over to see that a new cup of bitter tea had been placed on his desk, and he followed the trail of white clothe up to see another red-head had placed it there – Cadence Hux, half-sister to him. He furrowed his brows a moment in contemplation as to how she was even in his quarters.

The look acquired the answer he hadn’t yet formed, “I am head of the Security Bureau,” she reminded, “I know all the passwords,” a subtle smirk touched her lips as she moved around to the other side of his desk, caf clasped in her own gloved hands.

He rolled his eyes a bit, and grabbed the new mug. He didn’t lean back or relax his posture, “That is a gross abuse of your power,” he pointed out.

“So fire me,” she said as she sunk into her seat, more than aware he wouldn’t – and couldn’t, really. Only the so-called Supreme Leader, Kylo Ren, could…and that was still a bad joke neither of them could understand. Cadence Hux had only been called into the fray a week ago, to examine the remains of the Crait base after the First Order, yet again, lost the Resistance.

She wasn’t sure if it was Kylo’s ability to make everything personal, or her brother’s overconfidence, that was more to blame. It didn’t matter now. “But speaking of gross abuses of power,” the wry smirk remained, “any more prank calls from our favorite pilot?”

Armitage narrowed his eyes. He didn’t ask how she was aware of that, but said, calmly, evenly, “No, I have not heard anything from Poe Dameron.”

“Do let me know,” she said, “It would be a good way to track the location of the Resistance.” Trace the call, though she doubted Poe Dameron capable of actually reaching out to the ship from so far out of hailing distance. “I actually came here to pose a serious inquiry. I’ve uncovered multiple bases the old Rebel Alliance used from the Crait files,” all useless in her opinion, as the Resistance was proving to be competent.

General Organa would not run to any of those bases, now that she’d escaped.

“I suspect that Kylo Ren will want to investigate each of them,” unless she had misjudged his character, “a pointless waste of our assets. How would you convince him otherwise?”

Armitage stared at her a few moments, a long, baffled silence, hanging between them, before the General set aside his mug and leaned forward, arms crossing over the desk, “You don’t.” He stated it so bluntly, that the other woman’s blue eyes widened in surprise. Armitage usually had much under control, “You have not been around him so long, so the only piece of advice I have is to let him go off on his tangents and wasteful excursions, and do not reveal what you’re actually doing. If you want to put our soldiers to more gainful use, do it out of his sight, or….” Armitage leaned back, one of his hands reaching up to his neck, covered by his shirt.

Cadence had already seen the cause of that gesture.

The ‘or’ didn’t need to be elaborated on, for just that reason. ‘Or kill him’ And make it look like an accident. Easier said than done for someone with the Force, though she was fairly certain Armitage was already working on mapping out Kylo’s sleeping patterns, while she was quietly pursuing technology from Serenno that had been used and advanced since the Clone Wars. She’d been doing that since Snoke, though.
It was what both would prefer.

“I cannot very well send dreadnaughts and star destroyers to the Core without Kylo Ren noticing,” she noted, sipped back her caf. “Now is the opportune time. None are rising up to help General Organa. The New Republic fleet was all but destroyed—”

“I’m not the one arguing with you,” Armitage pointed out, “Kylo Ren is simply impossible. He’s focused on some stupid girl like a lovesick puppy,” Hux rolled his eyes.

“The one he lied about killing Snoke?”

There was a silent beat. Hux looked startled. “You—what do you mean?” Hux almost sounded angry as he asked.

Cadence remained calm, but her own confusion showed, “Colonel Garmuth showed me the holovideo from the Throne Room. I cannot say who, precisely, killed Snoke, but Kylo Ren and that scavenger seemed in alliance, as they both slaughtered the praetorian.”

“Why didn’t Colonel—” Hux started to rise, the fury painting his face as red as his hair, before he realized the pointlessness of it. What did it matter if he accused Kylo Ren of treason? He didn’t slump back down, tempting as it was, “Of course. I should have known,” he pushed his fingers back through hair already slicked back with product, irked, “The girl beat him once, but she isn’t that powerful – but yes, that one. Rey.” He paced back to his chair, “Perhaps if you convince Kylo Ren you know where she is, or the Security Bureau has found her, it will take his attention away from any other movements we make that actually progress our agenda.”

“I’ll take that into consideration,” she rose then, taking her caf up with her. “Thank you – I’ll see you in the morning,” she offered, before departing her brother’s quarters to figure out where Kylo Ren himself was, and see just how approaching the topic would go, before she decided if some manner of trickery might be better.

Her brother was, after all, terribly biased against Kylo. He took his desired position of Supreme Leader. The Jedi Killer might not be so irrational. If he was…well, patience would eventually see an end to that obstacle.

 

[tomi]

He sat in his room trying to think about everything that was going on and how it was happening so fast. One moment he was leading the knights of ren and the next he was the leader in snookes place. It all seemed to happen too fast for him and he couldn't stop himself from thinking that he was going to be a good leader and make everyone proud if that was possible. He would do what is best for the people who followed and loved him and make them proud and not think about his mother or his father and the past he left behind to become this.


The male took a deep breath and he got up from his bed and he looked at himself in the mirror, seeing himself for the very first time in a very long time. He looked tired and he looked confident at the same time. He hoped that today would be different and that he could come out of his room and talk to those who now followed him and not have it be an issue with Hux and have them stop fighting like they should but they never will at all no matter what happens now.He will always end up getting into fights with Hux because of how different they were and the fact they couldn't see eye to eye about things. What would happen today?He hoped it would be better for him.

 

[Lucyfer]

The Bridge was usually a hub of information about the movements of leaders. It seemed, however, that Kylo Ren had not been spotted out of his room. He hadn’t gone to one of the training facilities, he hadn’t gone to the throne room, or anywhere else. It was possible he had exhausted himself the day before and slept in late. Cadence was careful to keep any opinion to herself, and decided to head to where she knew Kylo Ren’s room was.

If he wasn’t using Snoke’s. She hadn’t clarified that point.

No matter, she was soon at Kylo Ren’s room, and she knocked on it, not daring to just enter. She might get away with that when it came to Armitage, but Kylo Ren was likely to try using the Force on any intruder, and she really wasn’t inclined to learn the same lessons as Armitage.

She would try to be more mediating. Or at least, appear that way.

“Supreme Leader?”

And act properly. Even if she did not feel as if Kylo Ren was worthy of the title, he had claimed it, and he would likely kill to maintain it. Best to keep her head off the chopping block.

 

[tomi]

Kylo was sure of one thing and one thing only that he wanted to be a good leader and not mess this up this chance that is given to him because of something someone said or something that was done in here with his people and the fact that most didn't believe in him and others loved him was something that drove him crazy and he did have his doubts but he didn't really want to focus on them even if they did seem to haunt him a lot of the time.


Today was no different he felt himself being pulled by his past and the person he used to be. Ben solo. A dirty name and a name of his horrible past, he longed to forget. He had the reminders from his father in his room his dice hanging there for all the world to see. It was a curse and a weakness and he planned on getting rid of it very soon once he could on his own and not deal with anyone causing him any trouble as they did all the time.

Snapping out of his thoughts when he heard someone knocking on the door.Kylo got up from the bed and he walked over to the door hearing the sound of the person's voice. He wasn't going to get angry at them for stopping to his room and wanting to talk. It was all talk after all.It really was."Who is it? Come in the doors unlocked, you can just come in and make your business known."His voice was flat and void of emotion as he waited to see if the other would come inside so they could have a talk about whatever it was on their mind at this point and time.

 

[Lucyfer]

Cadence heard the steps come towards the door, only to pause. Kylo Ren seemed to recall the door was unlocked, and he simply invited her in. Her voice wasn’t recognizable just yet, so that made it all the more strange to her that he would just invite her in, but she didn’t pause to consider it long.

It was quite possible he wasn’t quite awake yet.

She wondered idly if her brother was aware of how out of it Kylo Ren could be. Useful information. It’d be easy to open the door with a blaster poised, wouldn’t it? Though, he might still have the Force to stop it.

Strategizing thoughts always played in the background of her thoughts, but Cadence opened the door, introducing, “Admiral Hux, Supreme Leader,” as she stepped in, and shut the door after her, imagining the Supreme Leader would prefer not to have it open so anyone passing by could see or hear whatever was discussed. Privacy was generally her preference.

“I apologize for the disturbance. I have only just returned to the main fleet from the Unknown Regions, and I have been caught up on the situation at present.” Which was, almost, nothing. Crait had been fully investigated. There was no reason for this inaction, and yet, here they were. Even so, she kept any accusation out of her voice, any doubt, “I wanted to propose a course of action, as we do not know where the Resistance has gone, and it seems we have an opportunity before us. The attack on the Hosnian System has left the Core without protection. I wanted to propose movement to begin taking over the Core worlds and solidifying our control over the galaxy. We have the strength to do so, and it will allow our strength and influence to grow by the time the Resistance resurfaces.”