In the Outer Rim of the galaxy, Dathomir planet was a mysterious world and one of the planets with the strongest Force presence.
A flash of white light streaked past as a modified black Viking fighter dropped out of hyperspace and appeared in the planet's outer orbit. The fighter immediately activated its stealth system and flew silently toward the planet.
The one piloting it was Darth-Lilim.
After being sent to the Mandalore star sector three years ago to establish her own sphere of influence there alongside Sefrans-Tann, she had mainly assisted Tann with intelligence gathering and pirate suppression.
But when she received reports that the investigation of Dathomir planet had failed and that twenty Ghost Agents had been lost, Darth-Lilim could no longer sit still.
Ghost Agents were extremely valuable. Even now, there were fewer than a thousand active Ghost Agents in the Duchy of Dawn. The Ghost Academy's rigorous selection process eliminated the vast majority of Force-sensitive candidates outright, and at least half of those who remained died during the brutal training.
Under such conditions, the Ghost Agents who emerged were incredibly powerful. For most missions, just one or two of them were enough.
Yet on Dathomir planet, twenty had been lost!
It was not because Darth-Lilim and Sefrans-Tann had underestimated Dathomir planet. In fact, they had dispatched so many Ghost Agents precisely because earlier intelligence had revealed abnormal energy fluctuations and disturbances in the Force on the planet.
Moreover, Dathomir planet had previously supplied Count Dooku with assassins from the Nightsister Order. But after the fall of Saleucami Planet, Mother Talzin had directly cut off contact with Count Dooku. Thus, Count Dooku also wanted to know what exactly had happened on Dathomir planet.
Count Dooku knew very well that Dathomir planet could never possibly pledge allegiance to the