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Within the observatory of the Mad Emperor Palpatine, the Padawans would find it has been originally designed to be as cold and brutally practical as most of the old Imperial facilities had been. At its height, it would have been walkways of highly polished black metal, reflective like glass, surrounded by walls of cold, stark, white durasteel.
It was not anymore.
In its place was a blanket of growth beneath their feet more akin to the swamps of Dagobah than Jakku – let alone the inside of a bunker on Jakku. Mostly it was moss and short plant growth (up to their shins) but in some patches there were grasses that grew easier up to their mid-thighs if not their waist.
Pollen and spores floated lazily in the air ahead of them, dancing in the stagnant air.
Ahead of them, the observatory seemed to branch out from the entrance way in three different directions; each of them was overgrown as the entrance hall had been, each of them stretching into the distance on a downward slope with light becoming less and less readily available.
The central corridor from the main entrance way was different to the others in that as they Padawans would advance, the corridor would only slope gradually downward. As with the others, the darkness began to grow heavier around them until it was safe to say that the Padawans needed either high-powered torches or their active lightsabers to actually be able to see anything.
After several dozen feet, the corridor would level out but the room they would find themselves in was something they might not have expected. The room was circular and, quite literally, cavernously large. So much so that even with four lightsabers providing light, they wouldn’t be able to see the other side of the room ahead of them. What would dominate their view was the railing in front of them and, beyond that, the sheer drop.
The middle of the room appeared to have been entirely scooped out, cored like a piece of fruit. There was no bottom to the hole in sight and the room itself seemed to be warmer than expected. Once again, vegetation was all around them, some of the higher patches of grass covering the walkways around the edges of the central hole.
Slumped over the railing in front of them was a Stormtrooper in white armour.
Two people roll for investigation into the room, two people roll for investigation into the stormtrooper.
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