Excellent, that'll take care of things neatly.

At the realspace reversion chime she goes look for an Occlus to shadow.

Occlus is at the helm, talking to Andronikos.

"...we'll land at High Command, leave the ship there and rendezvous with Pyron."

Well, Nariveth will just be over here. She expects Occlus to already know she's present, there's no need for her to interrupt anything.

The landing proceeds without incident.

"Pirate, you and Lieutenant Drellik will stay on-board. Don't let anyone steal it."

"Right."

"Apprentice, you and Khem Val will accompany me." And off to the airlock!

To the airlock!

Nariveth feels nervous and a little extraneous. She logically understands that the safest place to be is near Lord Occlus, but illogically she would like to hide on the ship and not leave until the Kaggath's over. But that's not happening, so instead she stretches out with the Force to sense the area around them. Lord Occlus likely has a much better handle on things than she does, but that's no reason for her not to keep an eye out.

The only person in the docking bay besides the three of them is a man in Imperial uniform. He comes over to the group.

"Lord Occlus. Sergeant Heffin, at your service. Moff Pyron sent me to bring you to his command post. Is this all of your group?"

Occlus senses no deception from the man. "Yes. Lead on, sergeant." They are conducted outside to a speeder, which the sergeant pilots to Pyron's base in Axial Park.

It's probably a good idea to radiate an aura of calm confidence to help make Lord Occlus look more in control of the situation, so she does that.

And then, because she's got nothing else to do, she works on sensing emotions while she's doing the equivalent of following Lord Occlus around and looking pretty. Almost more than anything, she wants information, and as long as she's not getting in anyone's way she'd like to collect it.

Occlus is calm, with an edge of anticipation. She has been waiting a long time for this, and she is ready for it. When they get to the base, the military personnel are - soldiers in a warzone. They're busy, under stresses, but they've been trained for this and they know what they're doing. Occlus goes over to where the Moff and his advisors are gathered at a map table, discussing strategies.

"Gentlemen. What news of our enemy?"

"My lord," says Moff Pyron, bowing. "Lord Thanaton has wasted no time. He's cut off major transport from this sector, and his whereabouts are currently unknown, though we have more complete information on his apprentices and several of his allies."

"What alternate transportation is available?"

"We have a few, and I'll have a list sent to you, but the most intriguing are a pair of Republic dropships captured by Darth Charnus."

Occlus smiles. "Yes, I can see the potential. Does Charnus already have plans for them, or can we convince him to give them up?"

"We believe he can be convinced, he has no love for Darth Thanaton either, but he will want several of our more elite squads at his service in exchange to shore up one of his more ragged flanks. "

"Send as little as you can without risking a collapse, but I want those shuttles. What of the apprentices?"

"Thanaton has Darth Kallous with his newer apprentice, he's been keeping both of them away from a large part of the fighting. We can surmise that he's keeping his younger apprentice in safety, and his strongest in reserve. More importantly, he has placed Lord Skar in charge of the 115th at the Islands Outpost - it's through there that our transportation has been cut off, the outpost has control over the rocket trams in and out of the Incorporation Islands."

... 'Kallous'? 'Skar'? Really? Really? It's probably a bad idea to write the both of them off as useless, but it's really tempting. She hopes that she does not have to go by a name that idiotic at some point in time, because wow.

"Is it only our forces affected, or has Thanaton disrupted the entire network?"

"When it was the previous commander acting under Thanaton's orders, it was only our forces, but putting Lord Skar in charge has ultimately disrupted the entire network. He's overzealous and only letting trusted allies access the rocket trams for fear of a sneak attack. We think Thanaton's aware of this, and is hoping that his apprentice's power will win the battle fast enough that the network will barely be affected, but so far his bet hasn't paid off."

"Then Skar will be our first target. Even if he can't point us to Thanaton, restoring normal operation of the trams will gain us goodwill with the main Imperial force. Do we have eyes on his base?"

"We have eyes on the outside and troop movements of the place, but nothing inside." He hesitates, then presses on. "... My lord, it is also possible that Skar is bait."

"Yes, but it is bait we must respond to. Without freedom of movement, our options are severely limited. Do you have any indications of what manner of trap it may be?"

"We suspect it might have something to do with Kallous or Thanaton doing something we can't respond to while we're dealing with Skar."

"Leak Kallous's location to the Republic. Present it as a base where our starfighters are being repaired or some other credible threat. Let them distract him while we move on Skar."

The moff digests this, then nods.

"It will be done, my lord."

"Bring up the layout of Skar's base."

Planning! Strategizing!