Jericho
Tenebris In Lucem
This is OPEN to ALL who wish to join but be warned, injuries CAN occur!
It was a curious thing, the force was a gift of gifts, being able to create and manipulate raw energy. In his mind there was no true extremes; it was all so simple to him. It was more about the element itself, the element of heat, of flame. At least that was how he was taught about the flame and that is what he had gathered from his time training himself both physically and mentally.
There was one thing Jericho loved more than anything else in this life besides his friends and family and that was knowledge. After gaining the unique ability, this gift; his insatiable thirst for knowledge took hold. Another chance to improve himself even further more than just a regular force user, a fighter, a martial artist at the peak physical and mental might as well with the wisdom and knowledge of many.
His journey thus far has led him here, to gain more knowledge of himself and his ability. Jericho walked into the hallowed halls of the training area. Hearing that the silver jedi had a top notch training area, his first visit would be here, to start at least. And what better way to learn of oneself and limit than test it in the field against others? Masters, of course. But when he reached the opened door to the room he merely saw no one. Did he come at a wrong time? Quickly analyzed the room and let out a sigh, walking into the room quietly. The one time he wanted to see people and no one was around.
Jericho had crossed his arms and leaned onto the nearest wall as he analyzed, gathering information on the location that he was at. He uncrossed his arms and quietly took off his jedi robes and placed it onto a bench. As quietly he did that for his robes he did for his other gear, his gauntlets, his gloves and torso armor, but left his leg armor and combat breathing mask on. He noticed a gravity chamber and that was where he was going to start for his first couple hours to "warm up" his body. He cranked it up to ten times the normal gravity and started his work out doing ten sets of five hundred push ups, sit-ups, and squats.
He of course engulfed his body with the force to enhance his physical stamina and endurance as well from being crushed by the sheer feeling of the increased gravity. This not only worked the physical aspect of himself, he was training his mind to work through the pain from only his willpower. As he needed to resist the numerous torture scenarios he had to go through, the most notable and recent being the mental confrontation from the former jedi master now sith lord, Rosa Gunn.
To feel her pain, hate, her anger, her sadness, surge throughout his mind was more torturous than anything he has had to endure physically. How could someone so confident and strong as her fall so deep into the dark side. She was a friend and ally and there was nothing that he could honestly do whether or not he wanted to and knew that. Though this did not truly anger him as he knew the path that he had chosen, this did however, displease him that he could do nothing to help. 'Rosa....I'm sorry, If can cannot save you from the sith, our next encounter I will have to......' He thought letting out a sigh. He was commit to peacekeeping and willing to get his hands dirty to do so, if needed. Even if that meant cutting down a former friend.
At this point he was apparently quite infamous to the sith as many he has come across knew of him and thought they knew not what he looked like they knew his signature mask and out fit. Knowing this he had to become stronger still. His mind refocused on his training as he knew the sith are slowly becoming a more stronger force as their numbers continued to grow despite his best efforts. Still, there was the Sanctum though they were peaceful they were a force to be reckon'd with, the silver jedi and of course the Republic the original jedi order, but that did not mean he would allow his blade to dull.
After finishing his sets he set for a moment to meditated, while still under the pressure of higher gravity, he didn't focus on that though, he focused on his breathing. His body covered in sweat and the force. His body was at it's physical limit after those two hours of "warming up", now the real training started. He took the concept of enhancing his physical ability, such as speed, strength, sight, and hearing took the concept of training his endurance and stamina even more so than before. As he did for the active aspect from movement he did so from a resting point, gathering energy to allow himself to train even longer and even harder.
'Deep inhale.....Long Exhale....Let the force flow.'
He thought as he slowly cleared his mind and let the flow of the light side force flow throughout his body, balancing out the darkside energy that was crying out to be let out, to be used. Since his battle with the sith forces in Zeltos, the darkside energies has been wanting be unleashed more and more. The calm Jericho kept it under control but he knew why he had it within him and knew what he wanted to use it for. As long as it is maintain and controlled, it would have it's uses, to combat; well, anyone destructive.
After sometime to gather his energy, he stood up slowly, feeling as though he was just beginning his workout without his lightly warm up. He turned the notched back to regular gravity setting and walked out slowly. Forgetting a towel, he walked out and used his robes to clean the sweat from his eyes and forehead. He then put on his armor, taking a seat for about 10 minutes to rest once more, not wanting to completely drain himself and went the the simulation chamber and putting on a battle simulation.
Setting; Set to fail, Defend the wall scenario
Level Of Difficulty; Master Force-user.
Environment; Naboo grass plain/wetlands, Open field, Minimal cover.
Allies; Team of five well-trained Mercenary units as well as five knight-level Jedi sent to distrupt advancing enemy forces. Nabooian forces defending the wall.
Opponents; Tactician droids, Elite sith troopers, Battle droids, Super Battle droids, Heavy Artillery, Droidka units, Advance Knight-level Sith, Random spawn as wave level progresses.
Main Objective; Survive continuous waves of enemies as they battle each other and target you.
Secondary objective; Help defending units. Optional, heal any friendlies.
Personal Goal; Train all known abilities and strain self.
Combat Safety; Off, real damage can be sustained. Med bay team will be notified in case of serious injury.
Availability; Open to anyone, automatically allied with Master Jericho. Will be announced in simulation without simulation being paused. More who join level of difficulty will increase.
Creating Environment...
The white room, slowly scan over turning from it's silent presence taking shape to the beautiful landscapes of Naboo. Jericho stood high in the trees, surveying the grounds that would soon be a battlefield. In the distance was a pair of outposts with sniper units, extending from the wall of the defending forces. An anti-heavy artillery shield formed around the wall, ready for a siege battle. "A few mercenaries and myself. Mean't to flank the enemy rather than go for a traditional front wave training. The Silver Jedi are quite into detail. This should be quite interesting." Jericho thought to himself.
This was almost life like in the creation of the environment, with wetlands and the grass plain field and a swarm of enemy troops spawning with tanks among other things. But with the boulders in the middle for obvious cover against enemy fire. And the defenders of the wall over spawned only twenty units at a one poin, though the troops with clad with tradition nabooian uniform. And nothing was truly was passed the wall. It showed that this was far from reality, but the attention to detail was clear. Had he not notice the little things here and there and had he not make the settings himself, this battle would have felt like real high situation battle. Amazing, to say the least about the maker of the chamber.
He had put on an auto-setting on allies and companions in this simulation, for a moment he waited and other people were supposed to be there to help him. But they didn't spawn as of yet, possibly another flaws. You probably couldn't rely on them anyways, right? As he assume that question in mind, the units spawned with generic gear and personas that made up for a needed well-balanced team. To each five Jedi knight there was a masked mercenary to work with them.
They also spoke together, making battle plans and everything working well together. Again, the attention the detail was spot on. Jericho grunted lightly as he made his fist. "Well, a siege will be impossible now, but maybe that'll work in my favor. With the shield up it seemed that this team will be the main focus with the flanking attack." He kicked the branch he was standing on before falling down and elegantly landing on the ground. He clenched his fists tightly, leaving his sabers on his belt for now, he wanted to solely use the force in this battle. But if needed for the progression of waves and difficulty he would have to use his sabers. This was going to be interesting.
3. 2. 1. Wave 1 Begin....
Jericho closed his eyes and listened to everything around him from a far even without the need of the force he could hear the enemies march to the wall ever slowly. He heard the generic challenges issued and by sith knights against jedi on the battlefield. He heard the sounds of his trembling allies on the wall out of fear. The tensions is rising, some people are going to panic and run around aimlessly, others are going to find bloodshed or start it for themselves.
The hot sun will make them even more irritable, at least the humanoids. Many will seek shelter in the forests. Blood will flow shortly. In his mind, Jericho saw the battlefield. The position of where troops were most likely to be hiding. Where they would ambush and chop pawns to pieces. The environment felt right and he was going to treat it as thought a real battle, as he had to anyway.
Facing the battlefield he led the charge of small group of eleven, included himself. Jericho raises his fist to hold their position to give out orders. "Hit and run tactics, flank the enemy, disorient the right side then regroup to the obvious defensive position. Their tanks will be too focused on the the walls to noticed a small band like us. But the troop attention on the right flank will be on us." He proclaimed calmly. The units awknowledge the ordered and with a waved of his arm and his call. "Charge." He clenched his fists tightly while the units charged ahead on the speeders. He jumped from tree to tree increasing his speed with the force, until the reached the battlefield.
Jericho flanked as the second wave after his teams initial attack and acted as a cover. He engulfed himself with heat send bolts of fire at bots and trooper. Then as he made his way to the appropriate cover spot in the middle of the battle field. He made a wall of flame to cover his tactical retreat as he dodge the blaster fire of the enemy forces.
He stopped in a spot where he was sure that would him the best cover in this situation from the blaster fire. He prepped with his unit and ordered the mercenaries to open fire on the right flank, while the jedi stayed with them for defense as the forces moved to the defensive point. He took in a deep breath and he heated himself some more and occasionally sent four bolts of fire before hiding behind cover. He looked from the cover and saw that the enemy forces weren't slowing down from their attack.
This would mean close combat soon and he had to do something to disorganize the human troopers. He knew his fire shaping could take out the battle droids but it's doesn't mean they would be disoriented which was bad. But over heated and disoriented troopers would be could so the team's attention would be focused on the battle droids. "Hm..." He huge blast would disorient the troops and take out a few bots as well but could he do it? He usually used fire shaping as a thump card against sith in up to three on one fights.
He has used it for a larger scale battle situation, he could just send a powerful force push but this was the test his abilities.Then he thought why both? "Give me cover fire. When I make my move focus all your fire to the left side of the enemy units." He said, looking for the right moment to make his move. When the front line finally slowed down, he took in a deep long breath before running out and from cover to the middle of the forces. He let out a surge fire, four men wide and five lines down.
To continue his attack he focus and again engulfed his person with the force and sent a mighty force push on right. He charged again as bots fired some bolts in retaliation, he jumped and spun with a light step he zig zagged while doing so he sent bolts of fire at enemy. As he got close to, he increased his strength and speed. From countless training session to in the art of Teras Kasi, He punched clear through a droid with ease without hurting his fist. Though in truth he didn't know whether not he could without hurting himself, well now he knew.
When he pulled out his fist he grabbed it's leg and bashed into couple more then threw it at a couple troopers. Another droid aimed at him and fired rockets then instinctively stopped the rockets with the force and toss it to one of the nearby tanks. He followed the move force pushing the droid into several others destroy them. Fought with a couple troopers in hand to hand ending their fights rather quick with crushing bit precise attacks and blows.
He ran and with great precision superman punch a trooper in the throat crushing his adam's apple. To the next he kick in the man's knee and when he dropped swiftly snapped his neck. To the third he tackle grabbed him around the waist and raised him over his shoulder the and slamming him to then stomping ton the man's helmet for a swift take out.
He then raised a hand and another five battle droids and quickly used force crush them to giant metal balls. Keeping them in the air with one hand with his other hand lit them on fire and threw them at the sith troopers knocking them out instantly. For a moment he dropped the battle bots as a sith knight appeared spewing about how great the sith was and and ignored Jericho was. While the sith was generically monologue, Jericho took the time to breath and wipe his sweat. After few more slurs the sith challenged him to a duel, the man took out his saber, it's red beams taking focus.
The jedi units obviously took notice to the sith presence but when to went the assist. Jericho motioned hand signals to hold position and to continue to fight off the remainder of the regiment. Without question the units remained focused other the other battle droids and troopers, so the sith had his full attention.
Jericho went into the Teras Kasi stance and before they could start the duel another one appear, activating his saber. This was going to hurt if either hit him, he was also fairly large, which mean't he was a large target. But where they had their sabers out, he had his fist and Teras Kasi. He close to a foot on both of them and seeing that despite their sabers were red they were the traditional length of a saber, he had to measure both for a correct a distance and quickly. Without a moment they made their attack and Jericho kept on the defensive.
Their attacks were sync and their skill level was obvious. He flowed with moves that the sith made insuring that he keep enough distance and speed to keep from getting hit. After several movements he saw an opening in the two attackers. The moment he saw it he took the chance to make his at, he increased his speed moved in between them. He grabbed on of their wrist and hit his nerve in his elbow to slightly numb enough to where Jericho had control of the sith's arm but not to where the sith loses his grip.
He flung his arm with the saber in hand and block the others saber. Letting go of the man's wrist he did to quick jabs to the ribs the placed his hand on the siths stomach. While opening his palm to the sith's back he unleashed a powerful force push on both of them. One flew into the rock, head first, and the other into a mass of battle droids back and neck first. Both were defeated.
His attention went back to the super flame battle droid balls with both hand he concentrate used them bash in the remaining forces to the right. After having routing the remained troops with the broken down droids he assisted with the left. Standing at a distance he fired bolts of flame to the right of them while his men kept firing from the front. After slowly dwindling their number they routed the forces.
Jericho breathed heavily despite his mask being a breather mask and helping circulate his breathing. He check his body for damage, there was none. But it seemed that the huge and power stream of fire that gave them the advantage to the battle already exhausted him. Where a if he sent a force push of that magnitude would barely make him brake a sweat. In difference in usage of his abilities obviously showed.
Wave 1 complete.....
3....2....1....
Wave 2 Begin......