Raezyr awoke the next morning and began going through his things. He'd been shoving alot of odds and ends into his utility pouches over the last few weeks and wanted to get everything sorted out.
As he was re-organizing things, he came across a red crystal. It was the synth-crystal that he and Trychon had removed from the remains of Darth Vikon's light saber.
He studied it closely, both visually and with the Force, and it seemed to still be functional.
I could use the extra power from a synth-crystal if we're going up against the Jedi soon, he thought.
He pulled his tool kit out of his duffle, cleared off the desk in the room and sat down.
He began taking apart his main light saber, starting with the emitter shroud, working his way down to the crystal energy chamber, when there was a rap at the door.
Trychon entered, looking much less troubled than he had since leaving Korriban, as if some weight had been removed from his shoulders. He walked over and looked at Raezyr's lightsaber laying in pieces on the desktop.
"What are you doing? You having a problem with your blade?" he asked quizzically.
"No. No problem. Why?"
"Why are you taking it apart then?"
"Remember that synth-crystal we picked up on Nar Shaddaa? The one we think came from Vikon's blade?"
Trychon nodded.
"Well, it may be more powerful than the one I have now, so I'm going to replace mine with this one. If it turns out not to work, then I'll just put mine back the way it was," Raezyr explained. "I figure we'll need all the power we can get if we run into that Jedi soon."
Trychon looked on as Raezyr worked for a moment, then suddenly remembered the black crystal that Lord Eiron had given him for winning their mock combat. "Hey, what do you make of this?" he asked, digging the crystal out of his pocket.
Raezyr took it and looked at it for a moment. "Use the Force and concentrate on the crystal. Tell me what you sense."
Trychon focused for a moment before speaking, "I sense the dark side coming from it."
"Me too. It may be a power crystal as well, but I'm not sure. Let me get mine back together, then we'll put this one in your saber. I can teach you a bit about the construction while we do it."
After a couple of hours, Raezyr and Trychon grinned at each other while Trychon's blade hummed, emitting a black beam of energy that somehow gave off a ghostly white glow.
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