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Post by Chickenman on Nov 27, 2006 0:51:02 GMT -5
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… It is approximately two months after the events that led to the creation of the Galactic Empire. His regime firmly in place, Emperor Palpatine now focuses his attention on one task: the total annihilation of the Jedi Order. Nearly all of the Jedi have been wiped out, either in battle during the Clone Wars, or slaughtered at the hands of their own soldiers during Order 66. Indeed, the fires at the Jedi Temple still smolder from the assault on the once sacred site. However, a small number of Jedi have thus far survived the purge. Palpatine orders his Dark Side Adepts to hunt down and destroy the remaining Jedi. Some of the survivors have managed to hide themselves, abandoning the Jedi way of life. Others have decided to continue the fight, despite insurmountable odds. However, all agree that the Jedi Order is finished. Meanwhile, political radicals have set up resistance movements on their home planets, hoping to bring about the fall of this new Empire. Both Republic Loyalists and former Separatists join in this effort. Elsewhere, civilians contemplate what this change means for them. Every sentient being from Bakura to Dubrillion knows one thing: The galaxy will never be the same again...
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Post by Chickenman on Nov 27, 2006 2:16:58 GMT -5
On an unamed planet, deep in the Outer Rim, a Jedi ran through a dusty canyon as if her life depended on it. To be fair, it did. Cliffs soared high above her head, preventing any escape save continuing on her path. Her breathing grew heavier, and she knew she cannot run forever. Sooner or later, she will have to turn and face what she is fleeing from.
It turned out to be sooner, as she reached a dead end in the canyon. An unclimbable cliff prevented further escape. She heard the snap-hiss of a lightsaber igniting behind her. She turned, igniting her own emerald blade as she did so. She stared at her opponent. He was cloaked completely in black, the hood of his robe drawn up to obscure his face. She did not need to see his face however, to know who he was. He wa her death.
"Why are you doing this?" she pleaded. He did not answer. He only raised his weapon in an attack stance. She lunged at him. He parries easily, then transfers the parry into a lunge of his own. She parried again, backing away from him. The duel continued for a good two minutes before the man dodged a swing and neatly sliced off the Jedi's saber carrying arm. She fell to the ground, defeated.
"Why?" she sadly asked. She didn't get her answer. The cloaked man's crimson blade seperated her head from her neck. The man paused. Shaking his head in disgust, Dacklis Elran walked away.
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Post by Rogue on Nov 30, 2006 15:54:53 GMT -5
Why are you doing this? Why?
One by one they were being hunted down: the last of the Jedi Knights.
Kyra Darkweave awoke with a start from her meditation. She reached two hands up to wipe sweat from her brow. She was panting, as if she had been running forever. Oh no...Viera... The dream had been horrible. Kyra was in her Jedi garb, running alongside her childhood friend on a barren world of cliffs and valleys of sand and dirt.
They were being chased, no, Viera was being chased...and killed by a fallen Jedi who's face was shrouded in mystery.
Kyra watched him decapitate her friend, unable to do anything about it. It was times like these that she wished the Force hadn't made her a Dreamweave but had instead made her a part of another force-sensitive family like the Halcyons or the Gallias...but instead she was born with a curse.
She tried to slow her breathing, listening to the gentle hum of the hyperspace engine. It didn't work the way she wanted it to. She stood, walking briskly to the cockpit of her YT- 1760 frieghter. She sat down in the co-pilot's seat and ran her aquamarine eyes over the controls. She flicked on the intercomm. "You girls might want to come up here and strap in. We're coming out of hyperspace early."
She felt confusion and worry through the Force. Her apprentices, a twelve year old girl from Corellia, and a seventeen year old from Ryloth weren't as attuned to the Force as she was, and was probably wondering why they were abandoning thier course to the Outer Rim world labeled U14295. She was glad. Hickory and Aula would hopefully never have the horrifying visions that she did.
Viera... Kyra felt the pain of her childhood friend's death lingering around her heart. She remembered how Master Starrunner and Viera's master would work together on missions, taking the two of them along. Viera and Kyra would always get into some trouble or another, but Viera's quick wit always got them quickly out of it. She would miss her dearly.
As the door to the cockpit opened behind her and Aula took her seat in the copilot's seat, Kyra felt a twinge of sadness. Her padawan would never have the same experiences that she had when she was her age.
"Strap in." Kyra said, quietly mourning. "Where's Hickory?"
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Post by Lucky on Nov 30, 2006 20:28:05 GMT -5
Hickory looked around. Once again, the ship had gotten the better of her. She was lost, and she hated to admit it. "Okay, where the hell is that damned cockpit?!" She turned a corner, finally seeing her destination. "Kyra, you've really gotta make a few maps for me. I have no clue where anything is!" She yelled almost jokingly. "So, why do we need to strap in? And is it just me, or are we going in the wrong direc-WHOA!" She fell backwards when the ship went faster, for some reason. She rubbed her head, and stood up. "Gee, thanks for the warning..." She sat down in a seat behind the two older women, and strapped in. Sometimes it bothered her that she was so young compared to her apprentice counterpart, and that she wasn't as useful as Aula was either, but she always brushed it off and told herself otherwise. She always told herself that her master would one day need her more than Aula, and that she would be able to do something useful. But those thoughts were always pushed way back into her head.
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Post by Rogue on Nov 30, 2006 20:34:24 GMT -5
"U14295 is not safe for us anymore." Kyra frowned as she searched the star charts for her next course, cutting the ship's speed to zero so they were sitting in the void of space. "Hickory, Aula... i want you to close your eyes. Stretch your senses out around you until you feel yourself grow small in comparison. Tell me what you feel."
She hoped that they would sense what she did: A fleet positioned in their path, a dark shroud, and a void in the force where a Jedi should have been.
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Post by Lucky on Nov 30, 2006 20:40:03 GMT -5
Hickory did what she was told. At first she felt only nothingness, what most of space was. But then she felt something. Something big and many of, something dark, and something blank. There was definitely something wrong.
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Post by Rogue on Nov 30, 2006 23:28:15 GMT -5
Aula had come to the conclusion first, but only because she had had more experience with the Force. When Hickory opened her dark blue eyes, Kyra could see understanding behind them. She placed a hand on Hickory's shoulder proudly. "Very good, Padawan." She nodded. "There is at least one, maybe two Imperial Ships placed further down the route we would have taken. One of Vader's adepts is among them, perhaps leading them."
She turned her attention back to the star charts searching for a new destination. "I had a vision in my meditation...Jedi Viera is dead...so our purpose in entering the system is gone." She took a moment to let that sink in. Viera had been working on building a safe-haven for the Jedi. She had contacted Kyra in secret nearly two weeks ago to ask her to join her in the effort.
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Post by Chickenman on Dec 1, 2006 21:55:34 GMT -5
Dacklis Elran climbed up the landing ramp into his ship, the Affliction. In his mind, the Corellian YV-929 Armed Freighter was the perfect starship for him. Compact, well-shielded and heavily armed, the ship had saved Dacklis' neck dozens of times. The heavy weaponry was also well suited to Dacklis' current task: The wiping out of any remaining Jedi.
"Welcome, Master." greeted Mynock, Dacklis' remote droid. The hovering, spherical droid swooped down to meet him.
"Hello Mynock." Dacklis acknowledged. He had built Mynock from spare parts years ago, and was the only thing that remained from his former life. A dark Jedi could afford no friends, and Mynock was the closest thing to it.
"I trust you succeeded in your endeavor, master?" Mynock polietly asked.
"Of course." Dacklis replied. He sat down in the pilot's chair in the cockpit, Mynock floating over his shoulder. He tapped a couple of controls, and a small hologram appeared to his right.
"I presume you finished your task, sir?" inquired the imperial captain in the hologram.
"Of course. Please express my gratitude to the Admiral for allowing me to use his cruisers. I could not have located the traitor without your assistance."
"I will sir." The hologram faded away. Dacklis rolled his eyes. Two dreadnaughts to locate and kill a Jedi when a Dark Jedi was allready on the case? You can have as many warships as you like, Palpatine, Dacklis thought, but nothing is better for this job than good old fashioned detective work. Sending those dreadnaughts had been a waste of resources.
Dacklis shrugged and prepped the Affliction for takeoff. Within a minute or so, the freighter was touching off the ground and heading for upper atmosphere.
Dacklis sighed contendedly as he guided his ship away from the desloate rock that was U14295. He stretched out his feelings, letting the galaxy coalesce around him. He found nothing interesting, but wait...what was that? He had felt a flicker in the Force. He tried to pinpoint the flicker. Someone else was trying to feel through the Force, but in secret. A Dark Jedi had no purpose to use such secrecy nowadays, so that meant only one thing.
Jedi.
The Jedi wasn't doing a very good job at hiding themself. Dacklis guessed he or she had only a few years of training. Possibly a pre-teen padawan, or one weak in the Force.
Grinning, Dacklis shifted course, heading for the flicker. By the end of the day, he might have two kills. Not bad at all.
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Post by Rogue on Dec 2, 2006 10:49:51 GMT -5
Kyra tried to push her feelings asside for the sake of her apprentices. She had seen so much death in her lifetime...she would push it asside and deal with it in private later. Besides, Aula was still mourning the death of her former master. He was a kind-hearted Jedi, Master Davin,
"There is no death, there is the Force." her own master told her on their first meeting on her homeworld of Melida/Daan. She was only six at the time, but she remembered how the dark-haired man wiped away her tears. Those words had been her first step into a larger galaxy.
"Hickory, i need you on the navi-computer, plotting a course for Dantooine." Kyra turned the engines off of zero. "Let me know when you have a trajectory." She smiled as the toyed with the ships controls. "I hope you've been studying up on that material I gave you on lightsaber construction."
Hickory carried with her a training blade, useful for little more than learning how to wield a real blade properly. Kyra felt that her apprentice had grown enough to carry a lightsaber of her own.
"Tell me my padawans, what do you know about Dantooine?"
(for my padawans who are learning about Star Wars...there's a great website called wookiepedia. It's the star wars wikipedia, you can find anything you need to know on there.)
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Post by Lucky on Dec 2, 2006 19:34:09 GMT -5
Hickory did as she was told, and started thinking of what she could tell Kyra about Dantooine. "Well, I know it doesn't have a lot of inhabitants, that it's a nice place, uhhh..." She thought harder. "The inhabitants are mostly human farmers, but there is the primitive Dantari race, and there is wildlife... Uh.... The... Hath kound... No, wait, Kath Hound, Ira- Iriaz, Kinrat... rath... and the fabule... Fabool..." Okay, so she didn't know all that much about the planet itself. All she knew was what she had read almost four years ago. "Er, Kyra? How do I work this?" She asked, pointing at the navigational equipment. It was much more advanced than what she knew how to use, probably at Aula's level. But no! Aula and Kyra would NOT get the best of her! She could do it, she knew she could! She just didn't know how. So, she did what she usually did in this type of situation. "Lessee here... I think that the big red button usually means go... But then again, it could also mean Manual... I know, I'll try typing in the coordinates of Dantooine! ...What are the cooridinate sof Dantooine...?" She shrugged, feeling more useless by the second. She didn't even know how to operate navigational crap? What kind of apprentice was she?! Well, she was the kind that would try typing in the name of the planet instead of coordinates. Of course, it would've been easier if she could find a keyboad. "How the heck do I use this stuff!?" She tugged at her hair. Yeah, she was feeling really useless.
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Post by Chickenman on Dec 2, 2006 22:48:22 GMT -5
The Affliction accelerated, jumping into Hyperspace.
"You can really pinpoint their location from just a touch of the Force?" asked Mynock.
"No," replied Dacklis, "but I can make an educated guess."
Mynock paused. "I see."
Dacklis shrugged. If he missed the location by too much, the trail would go cold. Not just cold. Subzero cold.
Again, he shrugged. He'd just have to trust the Force.
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Post by Rogue on Dec 3, 2006 20:33:15 GMT -5
(I have permission to post Aula's dialogue)
Kyra smiled at her apprentice. "I never did get around to teaching you the navigational equipment did I?" She unstrapped herself, and walked over to stand beside her at the navigational console. She pressed a button on the touch screen to widen it to the galaxy map. "It's not as hard as it looks...and don't worry. I had a real fun time learning how to do it back when they reinstated the Jedi Starfighter program."
Kyra began teaching her how to use the navicomputer. Once Hickory had found the system, it was only a matter of letting the computer calculate the distance there.
"Master Dreamweave." Aula said from the co-pilot's seat. "I think you should see this. A ship just jumped out of hyperspace nearby." Aula pressed a few buttons on the console and began a scan of the ship. "Looks like a Corellian YV-929 Armed Freighter to me."
Kyra leaned over, looking at the sensors herself. "What would a frieghter of that size be doing in a system like this?" She wondered aloud.
"Space pirates?" Aula offered.
"Maybe." Kyra frowned. She had a bad feeling about this. "Hickory, i need those calculations as soon as possible."
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Post by Chickenman on Dec 3, 2006 21:09:39 GMT -5
The Affliction dropped out of hyperspace. Almost immediatly, his sensors showed a YT-1760 frieghter in the vicinity. Dacklis noted that the freighter was located in the middle of nowhere. They wern't even near a star system. That could only mean that the flicker of the Force came from that freighter. Dacklis reached out with the Force, and found the now familiar Force signature he had encountered earlier. The Jedi had to be on that craft.
Wasting no time, he armed his concussion missiles and increased the Affliction's thrust, trying to bring the Jedi's craft into range. He reached the warhead's maximum range. His crosshair turned yellow, signifying that the ship was trying to gain a target lock. The crosshair turned red, signifying a lock.
And the freighter leapt into hyperspace just as Dacklis squeezed the trigger. The concussion missile roared out of its launcher, searching for a target that had dissapeared. Dacklis' palm went to his face.
"Damn it!"
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Post by Rogue on Dec 3, 2006 21:19:00 GMT -5
"That was close." Kyra said, finally releasing the breath she had been holding. "Good job my apprentices."
Kyra was proud. Aula had been quick on recognizing that the ship was carrying an imperial beacon, and Hickory had used the quick-witted head on her shoulders to speed up the Navicomputer's calculations.
Now, they were safe in hyperspace for the next twelve hours at least.
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Post by Chickenman on Dec 3, 2006 22:20:33 GMT -5
Dacklis sighed to himself. "Mynock?"
"Yes, Master?"
"Find out what the hyperdrive rating of a Corellian YT-1760 is for me, will you?"
"Yes Master." A few moments later, Mynock had searched the holonet and come up with a result.
"The Corellian YT-1760 has a Class 1 hyperdrive capability, master."
"And I'm guessing we don't?"
"No Master. Our ship is a Class 2."
"Damn it." At that rate, the Jedi would reach their destination long before Dacklis. That is, if Dacklis was even able to figure out where they were headed. He angrily slammed his fist against a bulkhead. Sighing, he pulled up the navicomp. He calculated the Jedi ship's exiting trajectory, and computed it in the navicomp. To his delight, the path that the Jedi had taken was a straight line through a region of space that didn't have many star systems, and even fewer habitable planets with anything important on them. Assuming the Jedi's destination was along that straight path, without any stops and course changes, Dacklis stood a good chance of determining where they were headed.
Bimmiel? No. Too remote. How about Shusugaunt? Not likely. He continued looking. Suddenly, realization dawned on him.
"Dantooine! They're on Dantooine!"
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Post by Rogue on Dec 4, 2006 18:12:20 GMT -5
"The crystal is the heart of the blade. The heart is the crystal of the Jedi. The Jedi is the crystal of the Force. The Force is the blade of the heart. All are intertwined. The crystal, the blade, the Jedi. You are one."
Kyra smiled as she recited the Crystal Code to Hickory. "Master Starrunner recited that to me when I was preparing the construction of my own lightsaber." Kyra sat in the hold, which was arranged in a simple fashion, allowing for the maximum amount of space. On the small table in front of her lay a sack-ful of components, all of which could be used in the creation of a lightsaber. It would be up to young Hickory to decide which components she would use. "You'll have some time between now and our arrival at Dantooine to decide what componets you want to use. Take them with you into the Crystal Cave when we arrive, so that you can construct your lightsaber around your crystal. I know we've gone over this before, but if there are any questions you want to ask, now would be the time to do it."
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Post by Lucky on Dec 4, 2006 18:17:42 GMT -5
"Yeah, actually, I do have a question," She started, staring at all of the things her master had laid out. "My guess is that the Crystal powers the lightsaber. If that's true, what does everything else do?" She wasn't sure she was right about the crystal, but from the poem, or saying, or whatever it was that Kyra had said, it seemed that without the crystal, it wouldn't work.
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Post by Rogue on Dec 4, 2006 18:29:31 GMT -5
"I'm glad you asked." Kyra told her, relieved. Her apprentice would need to know what each did in order to construct a lightsaber that would function properly in battle, and utilize the basic mechanical skills taught to her in the accademy. "You need these components to make a lightsaber: A handgrip; An activation stud plate; A safety switch; An emitter matrix; A lens assembly; A power cell; A power conduit; A recharge socket; and a focussing crystal. When you press the activation button the energy from the power cell should flow through the conduit. It would then focus through the crystal that you will bond to within the cave, and filter through the lens creating the powerful blade of the lightsaber."
She pulled her own lightsaber off of her hilt for her apprentice to examine. Kyra's lightsaber was crafted out of wood from a wryshor tree that she had obtained on Kashyyk when she was young. Hickory would have to craft her casing out of the metal plates left on the table. "The handgrip keeps it firmly within your hands, even when you're sweating in battle, and the safty will keep it from igniting when you don't want it too."
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Post by Chickenman on Dec 4, 2006 18:47:23 GMT -5
The more Dacklis thought about it, the more it made sense. It had to be Dantooine. Its surface bursted with fauna, and the natural life of the planet would adequatly cover up a Force signature. It would also make it impossible to find the Jedi using sensors to search for life signs. At the same time, the farmers would posess just enough technology that finding a freighter would be tricky without a decent amount of luck. And also, if Dacklis recalled correctly from his research, the ancient Jedi once had an enclave based there, so the planet held signifigance to the Jedi Order.
Yes...
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Post by Lucky on Dec 4, 2006 20:16:47 GMT -5
Hickory struggled to absorb all that information. It sounded to her that making a lightsaber was no easy task. She shrugged, and at that moment decided it didn't matter if it was perfect, as long as it worked. As long as she could use it. "Okay, lessee here..." She furrowed her brows. Kyra was gone, and Aura had followed, so she had no one to ask for assistance. "Kyra may have told me WHAT I need, but she never SHOWED me..." She muttered, trying to figure out which piece did what, and how they connected. In a matter of moments though, she had it figured out. Eager to try using a REAL blade for once, she started putting the pieces together. She didn't bother to think it might not be such a good idea, and later, realized that it was a terrible one. She had gotten the pieces assembled, but the crystal refused to power it up. "Why won't it work?" She asked herself, finally realizing the answer. With a disappointed sigh, she took apart the lightsaber, and pulled out the pieces she would need. "I can't believe I forgot about the whole Crystal bond cave whatever..."
(Yup, Hickory talks to herself a lot. Amazing what the enemy could pick up if the listened in on her... Note: I know she doesn't have the crystal. She forgot that though. Amazingly, she forgot the most important piece.)
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