Faction [WSR] Meeting of the Minds

[Jonyna Si]

Green Heaven, Daxam System​

TAG: @Wild Space Rebellion Folks

The stone of the cave was cold under her feet. She'd been away for too long. Once upon a time, she had visited this place with Val, rediscovered it and refurbished it. It had been meant to be a place for Shadows to lay low. Now it was a place for her to lay low.

High above, hidden within the Asteroid belt of the planet, The Dawn of Hope sat. Or at least, what was left of it. Coruscant had been brutal, but Jonyna knew better than to call it a failure.

All things considered, she felt more at home here than she did in the halls of the ruined temple.

She had put out the call. Called in favors across Wild Space, and invited anyone she could get a hold of.

The Rebellion would be born again. That was her dream. Now all she needed to do was wait. Wait to see who showed to this little hideaway.

 

[Loomi]

Daxam II
Tags: Jonyna Si

Epo-1, Lushi, Seydan Toth: Appearance​

Loomi had not been back to Coruscant for some time now.

In fact, she hadn't seen a lot of her friends in some time now. She had been spending all of that time aboard the Redwind, doing missions abroad with Knight Seydan Toth. It was a call that came in from the depths of Wild Space that drew her somewhere new today. Once more, it seemed she was going to be away from the Core for a while longer.

That was okay. She preferred it out here. The Godoan had always appreciated the comfort the Temple gave her during the turmoil of her padawan days, but now she needed to be out here.

"Good-afternoon, Miss Jonyna," she greeted, calling out as she made her way to the hidden base from a bit of a distance. Her new mechanical legs were much quieter as she approached. "I'm here to offer my assistance. At least I think you sent out a request for aid. Admittedly the signal was a little choppy."

She wore a warm smile and confidence, and a few fresh cuts were present where her skin was exposed.

"This is a place from your past?" Loomi asked, her good eye scanning the structure in the cave. "It looks like an old starship..."

 

[Kraden Besco]

"Not just an old starship young lady, this is a relic of a war the galaxy has forgotten," Kraden said as he walked slowly into the cave. He had heard the two conversing as he arrived. "Nearly a millennia ago, there was a war that rocked the galaxy, and we were on much as we are now, rebels fighting the good fight... most of us anyway..."

Kraden couldn't say that without looking down. He'd been as much a bane to the Rebellion as he was a boon. In fact, it was on this very planet that he realized he needed to leave this galaxy better than he found it. His old hazel eyes scanned what was left of The Tenacity, it almost brought a tear to his eye, remembering all of the times with friends long gone. Hepburn, Sevs, Zash, and even Khairen, names lost to history now, but yet the sting of their loss remains.

"Very fitting that this old bucket be the staging point for our rebellion once again. Our past becomes our future, something poetic about that," Kraden put his hands behind his back, his body visibly hunched and his legs not moving with fluidity. Every step he could feel his knees grinding against themselves, the arthritic bones having nothing left in them after all these years. Still, he walked up to Jonyna, a soft smile on his muzzle.

"Good to hear from you, old friend. I can say with confidence the the since our unfreezing have treated you far better than they have me. But you did not call me here simply for an old man's musings, I take it you have use for my skills once again? You'll hear no argument from me, I would not miss a chance to repay you for your considerable kindness in the past,"

He then slowly turned to see Loomi, taking note of otherworldly looks. He'd never seen a near-human with obvious insectoid evolution, but he did not gawk, merely taking note of things. "And my most heartfelt greetings to you as well, I am Kraden Besco. You must be a friend of out mutual acquaintance, Miss Si? It is good to meet you madame,"

Tags: Jonyna Si Loomi

 

[Jonyna Si]

Tag: Loomi Kraden Besco​

"Kraden's right." Jonyna mused, answering Loomi in one sentence. "Once upon a time, this was where me and Kraden, and a bunch of others, lived. Found it crashed into the mountainside, we turned it into a home. I tried to turn it into a place for Shadows, but it never caught on. Too far out, I think. Now..."

Jonyna tilted her head slightly, letting out a sigh.

"I'm thinking we start again. I'm...tired of sitting behind a desk. Watching Empires and Sith Lords conquer without retaliation. I did my best to arm the Alliance, but we're too caught up in politics to do anything with them. I need to go back to my roots. Kahlil Noble told me that being a jedi means you can't be a soldier. That being a jedi means you can't be a hero. I think...after all I've been through, I..."

She paused, staring at the Starbird adorned across the old Trade Federation ship she had once called home.

"I don't agree with that anymore. I can't agree with that anymore. We need to be heroes. We need to stand up and do what's right. The people need to believe in us, just as much as we serve them. I see darkness on the horizon of fate. And if I'm known for anything, it's that I'm a candle in the dark. Flickering, burning in spite of the dark."

She looked to Loomi and Kraden with a renewed confidence.

"I think we all can be that. Just in different ways. The Galaxy needs more heroes. More Rebels."

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[Loomi]

Daxam II
Tags: Jonyna Si , Kraden Besco

Epo-1, Lushi, Seydan Toth: Appearance​

"And my most heartfelt greetings to you as well, I am Kraden Besco. You must be a friend of out mutual acquaintance, Miss Si? It is good to meet you madame,"

"Loomi," the Godoan greeted with a dip of her head. "I was a padawan when Miss Jonyna was promoted to the Jedi Council of the New Jedi Order. It's very nice to meet you."

She took the words that Jonyna shared to heart. Jedi should be heroes, she reasoned. Maybe Master Kahlil had his own reasoning, but both were just as valid. It was natural for a Jedi to want to defend the weak and liberate the oppressed. That was, in it's own way, heroic. Sponsoring rebellion where people were under the thumb of oppressors seemed like a natural path to walk.

Especially for someone like Jonyna.

"I'm ready to act where I am needed," Loomi expressed. "I... had a feeling I wasn't going to be returning to the Core for a while anyways. I was drawn out here after I was knighted, and I haven't exactly gone back to pay many visits. I guess I just feel compelled to be out here."

Somewhere where she could do some good.

 

[Kessari Vorn]

Kessari Vorn had the clapped-out Pelta-class frigate Torchbearer put down in the jungles of Daxam II. She'd been the leader of The Sovereign Dawn for the last few years now, forming it up from little more than a gang that threw bricks at slavers' airspeeders into a legitimate military movement. They spent the last 16 years building up and becoming a real pain in the ass for slavers, pirates, and the rest of the shadow economy that made their credits by the suffering of other beings.

It was rare for a Jedi to take an interest in Wild Space, so when one of the council masters came this far out from the core to notice the problems out in the frontiers of the galaxy, Kessari felt that it was important she showed up and have her and the Dawn's voice heard. Of course, given the lack of proper facilities, she'd been delayed as the main hyperdrive was damaged, and they were only moving at about 75% speed.

Marching up into the cave, following the principle of 'if you look like you belong, no one will question you', so no one questioned the woman who looked like a frontier rebel walking into a meeting of rebels.

Kessari threw her rifle down on the table, silently asserting her right to be at the table through military might.

Tags: Jonyna Si // Loomi // Kraden Besco

 

[Teshi Ocano]

Convalescent leave, her CO had called it. Time to mull. To think. To clear her head of the horrors of war. The whole damn core was under attack, and she was sent to sip a margarita on a beach. Teshi suspected the orders had more to do with budget than anything else. She felt fine; she wanted to fight. An old buddy had told her about the gathering of minds in the middle of nowhere. Something to keep her busy, at the least. Idle hands were bogan’s work, as the old Jedi Generals liked to say.

She parked away, and made the hike on foot, not to draw attention to their location proper. Without her usual armor or uniform, she felt naked. The freedom allowed her to notice things she may not have otherwise. The birds fluttering in the trees. A particular flower, fuchsia and flecked with yellow. Simply being with nature was healing, she begrudgingly admitted to herself.

She was huffing a little by the time she finished the hike. Her entry let her catch the tail end of @Kessari Vorn’s introduction- no words needed. Damn, she should have thought of something that cool. Instead, she stopped ten feet behind the other woman and saluted.

“Major Ocano reporting for duty.”

 

[Nathan Bloodscrawl]

Wearing: Nathan's Robes

Armed With: Nathan's Training Lightsaber


"I agree wholeheartedly with everything you just said." said the rough voice of a man in the darkness of the hull to Jonyna Si .

Nathan Bloodscrawl, Jedi Knight, official position that of a Jedi Guardian, stepped out from the shadows, having concealed his Force presence. He was wearing his cheap, stitched together robes that provided no real protection whatsoever, his secretly modified training lightsaber secured to his belt. It was unclear how he had arrived. It was unclear how long he had even been there.

Had he gotten there before even Master Si herself had arrived?

"In my time in the Alliance, I see nothing but bickering politicians and not much of a strategy to fight the Sith. Everywhere in my travels, I see the same thing..." The man dressed like a dime a dozen NPC said, his apparel, despite its low tier, deliberately chosen to reinforce the idea he was no one to pay attention to. But his powerful Force Aura said otherwise.

"And with an imminent attack on Coruscant that's likely due to happen any day now, I am slowly getting tired of waiting for that corrupt Senate to come to their senses..." Nathan said to everyone present.

"I would like to apply my...talents to this cause Master Si proposes..." he finished.

Teshi Ocano

Loomi

Kessari Vorn

Kraden Besco

 

[Taam Moghul]

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Tag: Jonyna Si Kraden Besco Loomi Kessari Vorn Teshi Ocano Nathan Bloodscrawl

He had watched them all arrive. Well, all except Bloodscrawl. The big Cathar huffed at himself for overlooking his arrival. But the Essonian had a reputation for somehow seeming to just 'appear'.

From outside, he had watched Loomi and the spacer arrive, finally following the soldier in. He didn't know her, but her demeanor, her gait, all pointed to a military woman. Quietly for his size, Taam entered and leaned against a twisted spar of the old wreck's bulkhead, taking in the scene.

It was a meager gathering, but more would come, he knew. There were always those with a rebel's heart in them, unsatisifed with the lethargic pace of institutions and beauracracies, no matter how virtuous their intent. Those who wanted to take action and see results. No one embodied that more than Jonyna Si.

He knew the Denik well. They were once mated. They again shared a close relationship. She not only had the heart of those original rebels, the celebrated heroes of the Galactic Civil War. Jonyna was one of them.

She wasn't the only one. Taam's amber gaze shifted to the Bothan. Another soul frozen in time and revived. He too was one of those old rebels. He and Jonyna carried a lost flame that they were fanning once again into a congflagration. Taam could not help but be inspired by them.

Taam knew Loomi, not personally, but as a fellow NJO knight. She would be a true asset to the cause. Taam was eager to learn about the others, the unknown soldier and the tall spacer with a swagger. Already, the lot looked like a rebel cell, a motley crew with a diversity of skills, and most likely motives.

His motive? Much of it lie with the leader herself. He loved Jonyna Si. But it was much more than simply following his heart. Taam had always chafed at the stricture of formal institutions. After his padawan was killed, he became a Wanderer. He carried out the Jedi Code as a solitary soul, encountering need and helping, without the 'middle-man.' That was what was so appealing about the new venture. To again live out his values in direct and practical ways.

After Nathan spoke, the big Cathar finally pushed off of the bulkhead and stepped into the circle. His gaze swept over them again, thick arms crossed over a broad chest. His eyes fixed on Jonyna, then moved to settled on the tall, white-haired stranger, amber gaze volleying to the Major, addressing them both. "I know, or think I know, why the others are here. I am eager to hear your reasons." He spoke in a deep croon.

 

[Lucy Laccarr]

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Tag:Open

A transmission came across Lucy one day. She wasn't sure about the intentions about the message from this supposed Jedi Master, but it sounded like she required all the help she could get. Arriving in the system that the message was referring to, Lucy piloted her HWK-290 down to the planet's surface landing down on the pad. Stepping out of her ship, she looked around at the abandoned Rebel Alliance base. For a moment she felt like this was going to be trap. But she did notice other ships that looked as if they landed not too long ago.

Lucy walked over deeper into the base where there appeared to be a meeting within an abandoned ship. She made herself known by knocking on the side of the wall, showing she had no ill intention. "I got a message, said someone named Jonyna needed assistance?"

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