Zannah learns of the failed attack and the reaction of the Counts of Serenno to hunt down all anti-Republic factions.  Cyndra, one of the survivors of the attack, catches her at gun point and marches her to Hetton, the group's leader, who is actually a member of one of the great houses of Sereeno.  Zannah is immediately taken by his strength in the Dark Side!  Looking over her situation, she thinks back to her early training when Bane first revealed her tendencies to be a Sith Sorceress and the power she could learn even without Bane's help.  She used this power to drive Cyndra insane with horrific visions lying in a crumpled heap on the floor.  After a dazzling lightsaber display leaving the other terrorist dead, Hetton comes forward and greets her on bended knee!

Back on Coruscant, Farfalla questions Johun about Valorum's recent request to have a memorial built on Ruusan for Hoth and those that gave their life.  The Jedi Council does not support of the vane act, but agrees not to keep Johun from helping to oversee its construction.

Hetton tells Zannah that he always had a talent with the Force.  His mother hired a Force sensitive bounty hunter to help him, but he soon surpassed him and killed him.  He had now amassed a sizable collection of Sith artifacts and manuscripts.  His mother wanted him to ally with the Brotherhood, but he thought they were counter to all his studies and thus killed her as well.  He tells her the tale of Belia Darzu, a Sith that ruled centuries earlier with an army of techno-beats, who had hidden her knowledge in a Holocron on the hidden Deep Core world of Tython.  Hetton has the coordinates and pledges his allegiance as well as eight Sith trained assassins to her if she accepts him as an apprentice.  She agrees.

On Ambria, as Bane contemplates his future with the orbalisks, he is set upon by the assasins and his rage at Zannah's betrayal spurs his energy and he kills them all with little difficulty.  Zannah does not assist as Bane cuts Hetton down as well.  He then attacks her full force, but she is able to convince him it was all so she could give him the information on constructing a Holocron.  He is pleased with her deception.

On Ruusan, Darovit has taken on a hermit existance.  Having been taught to heal others by the bouncers he is frequently visited by those in need who repay him with small gifts.  On this night he is incensed to see that the Jedi have returned to the planet.  He sabotages all their equipment and returns unnoticed.

Bane is able to authenticate much of Hetton's information.  As he prepares to leave for Tython, Zannah is heading to Coruscant to infiltrate the Jedi Temple and look for information to rid him of the orbalisks.  She planned to go in posing as a Padawan looking for information for her reclusive Master.  She will need to use a Sith spell to mask her power and her dark side prescense or else the secret of Sith will be revealed.

After several nights of sabotage, Johun decides to stay behind and is reward by seeing Davorit in action and chases him back to his home in the forest.  Darovit tells him he wants the Jedi to leave and the two argue over who was at fault for Ruusan’s destruction.  Daravit shocks Johun by revealing that the Sith are still active and his cousin was taken as Darth Bane’s apprentice.  He wants to take Darovit with him to Coruscant to tell the Council, but he refuses until Johun convinces him it may help prevent another Jedi/Sith War.

Bane successfully arrives on Tython and finds Belia’s fortress intact.  When he finally reaches her inner sanctum, he discovers her technobeast army is still there!  The organic material had vanished away, but the mindless mechanics had them still moving around the room.  As he grabbed the Holocron, they attacked him.  The centuries were to their disadvantage as Bane cut them all down in an exhausting hour long battle.

Farfalla is in disbelief over Johun’s renewed claims of a surviving Sith Lord, but he agrees to meet with Darovit who is studying healing techniques in the Jedi Archives