Path of the Jedi

[Teynara Jeralyr]

@[member="Mikhail Shorn"] @[member="Kalia Vondiranach"] @[member="Althina Bari"] @Au'Rus Rhaeyns

Teynara turned to greet the new Miralukan arrival, startled though she was by the woman's presence here. It wasn't often you got to see members of that species these days - many remained on their homeworld of Alpheridies, rarely associating with outsiders, many of whom simply could not understand that their entire race was utterly blind, at least in the physical sense. Not that it stops them perceived the world around them. She'd learned of their species as a Xenobiologist, but her understanding of them as a Jedi...that had opened up a few levels of understanding alright. She simply hadn't expected to meet one. This day's turning out to be full of surprises, she observed.

She had been about to speak when a male voice got their first, coming from behind the group of female Jedi, issuing forth a cry that made him sound as though he were a child back on a school playground, appearing out of nowhere to startle his peers. The reality here is more complicated than that, though. Teynara's initially startled reaction simply froze her still in her tracks, knowing that she hadn't registered his presence until he'd thought to reveal it to them. A trick he's played once too often, the blonde woman reflected. He's done this to us before.

Spinning around, she eyed the young man coldly, her pale-blue eyes fiery with indignation and annoyance, her usual calm slightly ruffled. Exactly the reaction he wants, she knew, berating herself mentally, but she hadn't felt able to help herself. She exhaled a soft breath and gathered her thoughts into order, her facial demeanour not changing one iota from the scowl she had adopted, but the exasperation behind it fading as reality kicked in, and a sudden realisation crossed her mind. How can he come to be here, of all places?

"You have a bad habit of sneaking into places uninvited, Mister Shorn," she said cooly, recalling his name from that brief time they had met when he had been caught sneaking into the Jedi Temple back on Coruscant. She was tempted to raise an alarm - it wasn't as though the Sith had anywhere he could go, stuck as they all were aboard this ship as it travelled through Hyperspace - but that would risk drawing away security personnel from their assigned areas, and they'd used that ruse before. "You really think you'd have better things to do with your time than harrass Jedi," Teynara remarked, her eyes narrowing slightly in visceral dislike. This one is too slick, too sure of himself, she thought. She liked that not at all.

The Jedi half-turned towards the others, gesturing towards Mikhail was a sharp motion of her hand. "Friends, this is Mikhail Shorn, a member of the Sith Empire," she noted, introducing him with a voice that made a winter on Hoth seem warm by comparison. "Our first meeting was when he attempted to infiltrate the Jedi Temple, along with some of his brothers and sisters. They killed several, sought to kidnap the Vice Chancellor and left the Temple quite the mess," the blonde added. "If you brought the Grandmaster with you," she said questioningly, looking at Kalia, "You might want to inform him that this one's here. They have a little...unfinished business," she added with a sweeter tone, smiling in the Sith's direction. See how he takes that.

 

[Nisha Decrilla]

Anaya watched the assault ship as it loomed ever closer in her viewport, dwarfing the imperial yacht she was piloting. Mikhail was in one of the yatch's cabins giving the Jedi a fair warning of their approach...or perhaps just playing games. Anaya would have like to assumed the first, but she knew Mikhail well enough that the latter appealed to him more.

Their job was simple. Investigate the rumours of a ship recruiting Jedi. Well, consider the rumours investigated, Jedi ship found, recruitment more than likely. Next job? Well, technically it was to report back, but who obeyed orders to the point. The yachts sensors scanned the ship before her and she reached out to Mikhail in the force, giving him a gentle nudge to let him know it was time for them to say hello in person.

As if on cue the comm cracked at her before an irritated voice came through "Emerald Queen This is the Skywalker. State your business."

"That's a mighty fine ship you got there...a bit old mind you. Bet the old rust bucket would last a hyperspace jump."

"If you fail to present you codes Emerald I will be forced to fire on you"

"Since When did the Republic fire on their own?" she replied smoothly, transmitting the codes that imperial spies had obtained for them "Got another cargo load for the Jedi. Force forbid that they need anything else"

A chuckle came back in response "Alright Emerald, you've got clearance, landing bay 5. I'll send the Jedi to meet you."

"Oh I wouldn't worry about that, they'll know we're here."

Once the ship was set in the landing bay Anaya sat back to admire her handy work, making a mental note to thank the spy who got her the codes. Lowering the ramp she moved past it to find Mikhail. "I'm undecided as to whether we should have a weapons malfunction or not."

 

[Faye Ward]

Faye stared out at the swirling tunnel of hyperspace as men and women scurried about her on the bridge. Ian McKellan stood off to one side quietly conversing with his XO. Faye couldn't hear what they were talking about but Ian had a clearly agitated look on his face so she walked over to him. "What's wrong, Captain?"

"It's the supply drop we had just before jumping to hyperspace," he said, "It wasn't on the schedule and the pilot was not present at the ship when the crews arrived to offload it."

"You allowed someone to land and board our ship without security clearance," Faye asked accusingly.

Ian was not happy about it either and his expression mirrored her own. "I realize things are a bit hectic right now but this is just a gross negligence. The pilot should have been stopped by security teams before leaving the hangar and there's some debate about whether the ship should have been allowed to land at all," he scowled at the man sitting in the chair beside him, "Rest assured I'll deal with the officers involved but we've got more important things to worry about right now like finding that pilot."

"Agreed," Faye said, closing her eyes for a moment and reaching out with the Force. She could feel the presence of every Jedi aboard the ship along with a great number of smaller presences belonging to those of the Republic crew. There were so many people aboard it was difficult to tell them apart let along which presences actually belonged. "Perform a sweep of the ship starting from the hangar and post extra guards at engineering, the armory and life support. I want the pilot found and detained for questioning."

"Aye, aye, Ma'am," Ian replied, "We'll have that pilot found in--,"

He stopped suddenly when the ship shook so violently that the shock wave through everyone who was standing to the ground. Even Faye who was known for having perfect balance was caught off guard and thrown onto her side. Lights turned off all throughout the ship and artificial gravity gave way to zero g. A moment later emergency power kicked in turning on some lights but leaving everyone floating in the air. Faye grabbed hold of a nearby console and used it to steady herself. When she turned to looked out the front view port she could see a clear star field instead of the blue and white tunnel she had expected. She looked questioningly at Ian who turned to question a nearby subordinate.

"Hyperdrive malfunctioned causing an explosion in engineering," he replied, "Fire teams have already been dispatched but it doesn't look like the damage is too severe."

"We're listing," Faye observed, looking out the view port as a planet slowly came into view.

Ian nodded, "The explosion must have damaged nearby systems causing even more malfunctions throughout the ship. Obviously we have no gravity, our engines don't seem to be operational for the moment and half of our maneuvering thrusters are not responding which is causing the ship to tilt. I'll have teams begin work on assessing the damage as soon as the fire is out but for the moment it seems like we're stuck here."

"And where is here, exactly? I don't recognize that planet."

Faye floated closer to the view port, her eyes scouring the stars for any familiar constellations but finding none. "You did set a course for Corellia, correct?"

Ian nodded, "We should be about halfway there by my calculation."

He checked the monitor in front of him again and frowned as the computer frantically sought to match constellations and failed. "If we're in explored space the navigation computer should be able to tell us where we are but it's not," he said aloud though he was speaking mostly to himself. "There doesn't seem to be any record of this planet in our systems."

A new planet, perhaps? One that hasn't been explored? "How long until the hyperdrive can be repaired?"

"Depends on the extent of the damage," Ian replied, "It'll be a few hours at least before we'll know if it can even be repaired."

Faye turned around and pushed off the view port heading towards Ian. She caught herself on the central console and pulled herself down towards the controls. Her hands worked quickly over the keypad pulling up a manifest of the Jedi and Republic officers aboard the ship. "I want you to assemble a scouting team and send them to that planet."

"To the planet," Ian repeated, "Are you sure about that?"

"We need to figure out where we are, Captain, and there may be something on the planet to help us do just that."

She pulled up a report of the initial scans of the planet's surface. The planet appeared to be populated, the computer managed to find quite a few large population centers but the power readings were all off for cities of that size. By today's technological standards the power readings should be much much stronger than what they were seeing right now. On top of that she felt a strange sensation from the Force warning her to err on the side of caution.

"Keep the team small," she said finally, "and tell them to keep their presence discreet for now. I don't want anyone making contact with the locals until we know more about who's down there."

"If that's what you want I'll start looking for volunteers," Ian answered with a shrug, "In the meantime we still have an intruder on board who may or may not have been behind this."

"You can use my people for the search," Faye told him, "We have a number of Knights along with experienced padawans, use them how you see fit..."

 

[The White Wolf]

13 was amoung a small group of jedi now. Two troopers escorted him through the ship to make sure he didn't go ballistic and kill everyone on bored. They were doing a good job so far but 13 still felt nervous around all these other jedi. And with all of these things going on only made him afraid. 13 had been born on a space cruiser as a science experiment. So being in deep space meant nothing to him. Thats were he grew up to be kept a secret to anyone who would want to steal something from them. The two troopers walked him down the halls when suddenly he smelled a odd scent lurking though the ship.

Thing was about 13 was that he had powerful force scenes but everything he did was through sense of smell. He smelled aura just as dogs could smell a stranger from a mile away. 13 paused and frowned underneath the bandages that covered his face. "Whats wrong kid, why did you stop. We have to take you to your next class." The trooper stated. Stoping with him. 23 however did not answer when a man suddenly said BOO to a small group up ahead. 13 smelled all of their auras and they were bright and small. It made 13 feel out of place seeing as his aura was simply so powerful and so unstable it was sickening to the others. 13 eyes the older man and stood there blankly, the guards saw the man but thought nothing of it. They were not there to help out with the ship they were there to keep a close eye on 13. And make sure his collar was not removed. But then the ship shook and the lights went out, causing everything to go wonky. But 13 was still on the ground unaffected. His potent aura kept him stuck to the floor as everything else started to float.