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Jarrkha Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 5/8/04 11:10am Subject: THE BLOOD WARS --> post-NJO story w/ ANAKIN (OC, Ben, Jacen, Jaina, Jysella, etc.) - Date Edited: 5/18/04 4:43pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Jarrkha
	Title: The Blood Wars this is a serial synopsis AUthour: Jarrkha Timeframe: 18-23 years after The Unifying Force Characters: features OC; includes S/S, J/J, A/T, etc. Genre: Its a series..(which means all kinds of genres) Keywords: EU, S/S, J/J, A/T, OC, NJO, Wars Summary: read below (still incomplete) Notes: Highly philosophical. Email me at jarrkha@mmhs.ca for a list of dramatis personae. Please note that this list is more up-to-date than the actual general synopses. Without further ado... (Special thanks to Jaymach Raltir, Shadow and Taaru of MSN groups fscRP.com and strandsoffate.com for use of their names...) The STAR WARS continue... When the Universe grew, it had experienced the splitting of beginning and end. Time, as unstable and surreal as it was, existed only to keep beginning and end at bay. So that life and death may coexist. Time's legacy brought prophecy. As in all things, prophecy was inevitable and always unclear. As the Force became aware of relativity, it knew that its balance and unbalance would eventually morph to the point where they were felt in reality. It saw a point in "time" as its unbalanced state--due to the growing complacency of the Jedi (who callously gave birth to new orders, cults, and societies that worshipped twisted or divine manifests and incarnations of the Force, eventually leading to the diabolical transformation of the Sith, who too had offsprung civilizations.. the Force, thus, saw the unending spread of its unblocked reach to all beings, and if all beings became sensitive to it, it would no longer have control--and the Jedi created the Prophecy of the Chosen One. It soon came time, that the Prophecy needed to be forfilled... ...the Jedi, it seemed, lost sight of their nature. They believed their nature had grown to encompass knowledge, among other things. Even though some, like Mace Windu and his comerades, knew that the complete nature of the universe was not one of what civilization called peace and order, they did not realize that they could not hear the words of the Force any longer--too many of them had grown stagnant. They did not realize that THEY, the Jedi, had given birth to the Force's incarnations. The seeds of the sides of the Force had already been implanted with the creation of life's sentience--for all sentience had the potential for "good" or "evil"--but now it was being threatened to split into manifestations of the Dark Side... and the Light Side. Even the waypoint between good and evil was being twisted. And above all, the Jedi lost their ability to keep a higher level of clarity with the Force. Thus, they did not see its colours. Its proverbial wavelengths became immeasurable. As a result, the galaxy became suspectible to the treachery of the shadow; the dagger fell upon it through the rise of Palpatine. It was his existence, that finally threw upon a dark, everlasting pall on the Force. Before him, threats of it, and similar threats like it, opposed the continuity of the Force's balance and inertia: Sith Empires and Brotherhoods, Krath and dark Jedi insurrections; despots and cretins; an order doomed to be makers of war (Mandalorians); and now the Dark Side domination. However, unlike other menaces, Palpatine was not an instance of vice, probability, misunderstanding, or mistreatment; he was an instance of the Jedi's hamartia and the Force's nemesis. He had a role to forfill in the Prophecy. Khan saw this, and used Palpatine's life and death as a gateway. He had waited for the coming of his vessel through the gateway--and now needed a key to open it. The key was not one man, but a series of events corresponding and correlating to the Prophecy that would bring about a new revelation. A revolution in the structure of the galaxy; not its state. First, he had to wait to allow this key to have a chance to exist, because the moment of truth and the decisiveness of the Force's imbalance had come. With the Chosen One, its rebalance was inevitable. The Chosen One, Anakin Skywalker, possessed a life and death that would spawn on two more lives and deaths. But the lives are what counted. On a revolutionary day, a point in existence that would forever mark a future and remark a past for the galaxy and civilization, the Chosen One's legacy came of age. New hopes, in all forms of literature in all cultures, tended to be a sapient man aided by ones he connected with in his lifetime. A man defined by his choices, his talents, his lifetime... and his role. A new hope had arisen: Luke Skywalker. Revelations The Sith Wars--intermingled with the Mandalorian War and periods of relative cold war, peace and rest--had been long and bloody; said to have reoccured many times over a few millennia until the demise of Lord Kaan and his Brotherhood of Darkness. Then came Palpatine, and the waning days (of the Old Republic). Nothing in history--not even the Sith Wars and all related conflicts and resultant animosities; nor the great Jedi Schism millenia before those wars; nor the war with Xim the Despot, the premier interstellar and galactic menace; or the calamity of the Rakata... the first major, star cluster-sized empire maintained by one species--could hope to contend to beat the scale of the Clone Wars. It was galaxy-spanning like few wars before it; but intense, and foreboding. A three-year period of hopelessness was wrought over the Republic and its Jedi. The Chosen One fell. All hope was lost until, a few decades later, Luke's and Leia's journey began. Then came the longest standing galaxy-wide political war in history: the Galactic Civil War, the Rebellion. It was said to have ended with the first death of Palpatine. However, his death--his being marred to ever truly attain full, indominatible, complete power--marked the beginning of the restoration of the Force's balance. And it was not but the Chosen One who brought about Palpatine's death; the Emperor's role as the negative had been fulfilled, as was Luke's role as the positive--the rekindler of hope and goodness for the Chosen One. But Luke's duties did not end there. No, he wanted to help Leia and the rest of his family and their allies to restore the galaxy to what it was before the New Order. The Galactic Empire had ruined the history of the galaxy, and much had to be reinvented. But war--unrest, politics and acts of terrorism and vengeance to be precise--plagued the New Republic's birth and growth. The Empire remained vast and powerful for quite some time, even though Palpatine's heirs killed themselves off one by one. Its forces and ideals remained at large for two decades: the Grand Vizier and Palpatine's Inner Circle; the last Grand Admirals and Thrawn--the galaxy's greatest military genius; the warlords and a cold, maniacal Intelligence director named Ysanne Isard; an interim council of deceivers and shadowy puppets and the last of the Crimson Guard; and even a vain, vengeful Palpatine reborn through his clones lead his hidden Dark Side Adepts--an Executor, the last Hands, Prophets of the Dark Side alike--in an attempt to take over the Empire or restore it. Coruscant was regained by the Republic, and that should have ended the Empire... but it persisted through surviving ranking officers regrouping its military. First it was Thrawn, then Daala, and their ally Gilad Pillaeon... soon the Empire died off to leave room for new threats--or threats that reemerged after dormancy during Palpatine's reign. Jedi-exterminating dreadnaughts; Dark Jedi lost away in the galaxy from Palpatine--or Dark Jedi who fell-from-grace, whom even Luke failed to guide; an insipid set of superweapons hidden away for years; an insidious scheme to build an army of anti-Jedi troopers that lead to a Reborn order--warriors whose treachery uncovered the Valley of the Jedi and great Force power, as well as a sceptre capable of siphoning essences and traces of powerful Force-auras that would restore the essence of the last great Dark Lord of the Sith of the fallen Sith Empire: Marka Ragnos, so that his spirit be summoned; despots fueled by envy and greed threatened the political stability of the New Republic's peoples and their faith; and even xenophobic or visciously savage species trying to purge the galaxy of humans and their allies threatened the Republic's infancy. As well, the Jedi saw the appearance of long-forgotten, isolated and oppressed cultures such as the Witches of Dathomir, the Jensaarai, the Fallanassi, and the Aing-Tii monks (among other secretive societies). The reach of Palpatine and his right hand, the Dark Lord Vader, had grown long indeed--extending well beyond their deaths. But it was not until the resurfaced schemes of Thrawn appeared that fully pitted the New Republic against itself. The Hand of Thrawn menaced the Republic's validity and viability by blaming the Bothans for the Caamas incident. This vast, intricate plot--a marvel how life's custodians, people, could weave such details--was solved with the much-wanted peace treaty between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic. From Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliances to Remnant forces and a new Republic; the Civil War had ended. But with the Civil War and the era before it, came an age in the galaxy where many prongs and pistons of allies, opponents, peoples and intertwined details vied for change and resistance. There were scheming plots to drive a wedge in the Republic and Remnant from veterans who remained fanatical to an older age before the New Republic; a Second Imperium comprised of remaining Warlords who enlisted one of Luke's own former students and one of the Jedi Order's debacle offspring, the Witches' of Dathomir counterparts--the Nightsisters--to create a Shadow Academy. At one point, prejudice grew to the point where the next generation of Jedi and leaders--Anakin Solo and his friends, as well as his older sibling twins and their colleagues--trained and fought under the guidance of their veteran counterparts against a Diversity Alliance of non-human New Republicans. Such "peace" was not meant to last. Another galaxy-wide conflict was on the horizon of a still-squabbling galaxy, long doomed by the shadows' reckoning. Remained unknown and hidden for many decades, the thwarting efforts of secret alien agents from another galaxy now threatened to bring their galaxy's long history of war to coexist with this one's. They came in great forces--since they had conquered their own galaxy, their war machine and prestige was as great as any culture or society in the galaxy; and their numbers rivalled that of all interstellar governments--amplified by their unique threat: they were nonexistant in the Force. They were not even voids--just nothingness. They were even more nothing than empty space between celestial bodies. They were the Yuuzhan Vong. Worse than any other alien threat before them--the Ssi-ruuk, the Yevetha's Duskhan League, even the Charon from Otherspace--and against all other threats as well! This brought a revolution to the New Jedi Order and the galaxy; and it appeared that the New Republic's destiny lead to this. The galaxy, it seemed, was ready for a vast change after its restoration. The Jedi were reminded, now, of why they had fallen in the first place. Yet, this time they did not fall--they were strengthened! The Yuuzhan Vong were not their enemies; the Jedi had no enemies but themselves! Like Mace Windu's revelation, their enemy was the jungle of the universe--but even still, they needed not to overcome an enemy. They just had to fight. They needed to stall the militaries of the two galaxies to uncover the real thorn and simply overcome this misunderstanding. The Jedi--Jacen Solo and Tahiri Sachi especially--learned to accept all colours of the galaxy, and the Force, as one. The Yuuzhan Vong received the home they sought for, and were saved from their self-damnation by themselves and by the Jedi and their allies. The Jedi undertook a drastic change that was less a result of prophecy but that of necessity, and the New Republic--whose own ideals and methods were far too old to be effective in the universe now--was let to die peacefully amongst its veteran survivors, rogue factions, and the next generation. With the aid of an Imperial Remnant unified and fleeting from their territory, and the Hapans, Mon Calamari and Tion Hegemony, the Jedi and the Inner Council of Rebel Alliance veterans created the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. The New Jedi Order, had faced its hard birth and now must face its trying life. The mystery of the Yuuzhan Vong--which was now solved--and their summative effect on a cumulation of a changing galaxy's modern events, was the key. The New Jedi Order's perils were the key. The time of Khan's reassertion, had come. However, in mixing with Jymnos, Death's original plan of making inevitability known and merely existing in an of itself, beyond its borders, became an insanely glorified plan to slaughter without apparent cause. An early apocalypse was brewing... Present day In the last two years against the Vong, the eye of Khan had seen affairs far and wide. The already-shattered and defunct New Republic now split up into Galactic Alliance parties and self-proclaimed surviving New Republic parties. Eventually, factions even more rogue than the Peace Brigade arose in the remnants of the hearsay of the "New Republic." Whilst projects like Alpha Red began, worshippers of an arcane sect in the Force--started by the last surviving pseudo-Sith, Dark Lady Lumiya--began to research lost orders, religions, castes and occults in the Force. Although Luke's Jedi Academy--primarily Kyle Katarn and his students--had defeated the recent cult of the Reborn and their subsequent Disciples of Ragnos, lead by Tavion, the handful of survivors fled to begin this council of Black Masters under Lumiya's guidance. Eventually, the Masters learned of Khan's existence, and he coerced them into developing a microcosmic empire like Thrawn's that would be extremely formidable in time. A deep, complex research & development station was soon built, which also housed a hidden command facility that could harbour Khan as he recovered into the physical realm. In his cloning station, Khan had set up spaarti tanks with slight variants of Phest's DNA. Choosing one of the better and fresher clones, he "instructed" the Masters to practice an ancient Sith art that would reincarnate Khan's soul into the clone body. At the very end of the New Jedi Order's definitive struggle, the life's most ancient and time-ascending threat had been redefined: pestilence had been incarnated. Over the years, with shocking and horrible new advances with biotechnology, cloning techniques and arcane magicks, Khan and his accomplices employed some of the galaxy's most unwitting geniuses to create a line of individually uniqye, but communized super-soldiers bred from the best of life's blood... During his endeavours, Khan maintained a public face. He paraded around the galaxy proper as a revived, resuscitated Phest Dakk, rejoining the Empire and further coalescing it with the forces in the Unknown Regions and the Galactic Alliance. In 18 years after his rebirth, Khan had created a super-elite Stormtrooper-categorized force called the Imperial Star Commando Officers (ISCO); heavily trained in rudimentary Force skills, lightly trained guerrilla warfare, cold warfare, frontline battle, covert & overt operations, and specializing in tactics/command. What ISCO skill had most impressed Imperial leaders was their skill with transcended lightfoil-technology swordarms (lightfoils were cheap, offsprung variants of lightsaber technology derived in the Tapani sector). Comparable in ability to a lightsaber, the lightblades--as the ISCO's called them--could not cut through most materials like a lightsaber, yet it could withstand the mightiest of destructive, concentrated energies and applied forces. Khan was also part of a major government-restructuring in the Imperial Order. Whilst the Galactic Alliance abstained from becoming truly republican, democratic or capitalized--instead maintaining itself as an alliance of galactic powers and a peacekeeping, sub-militant nation coalescing with Jedi and their allies--the Imperials recreated their chain of command based on the old Supreme Commander, Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon. The High Command consisted of an upper party of indefinitely-termed, elected supervisors; who were the Supreme Moff, his subsequent Grand Moffs (there being 5 in total), and a portion of the High Moffs who won over others in the elections. These High Command High Moffs, of course, would then be promoted to Grand Moffs, whilst the most senior Grand Moff would ascend to the Supreme Moff once motioned on by the High Command. The lower party of the High Command--which had most of the directing, organizing, and delegating duties--was the Empire's military and military correspondent leaders. There was: the Grand Admiral, in charge of enlisted naval troopers, commissioned naval officers, and organizing all Admirals in his/her various fleet divisions; of slightly lower authority, was the Starfighter Marshall Baron, who maintained control of the Imperial Starfighter Corps. and its relations with the Armed and Naval Forces of the Empire; the extremely hard-won and often most-decorated position was the Grand General, who maintained absolute authority over all enlisted Army Troopers, commissioned commando soldiers--who were the off-duty army officers--and supervised all Imperial military bases. There was also the coveted Stormtrooper Surface Marshall, who was the highest-ranking officer in the Stormtrooper Corps (the revived Stormtrooper Corps was special, in that both its soldiers and officers were neither enlisted nor commissioned by Imperial government...). Finally, the last representative was the Ubiqtorate Director, who also employed the training and maintenance of ISCO. Mediating both the non-military and military sides of High Command, was the Grand Vizier, who also served as the official direct representative for the Empire in the Galactic Alliance government committee. Since the Moffs on the High Command were elected and were allowed to remain in power indefinitely--unless kicked out by the Supreme Commander--they were never candidates for the Supreme Commander, since it was they who appointed the new military leaders under guidance of the Vizier. However, to remain true to the origins of the new Empire, the Supreme Commander was one of these top officials: the Director, the Grand Admiral, the Grand General, or sometimes even the Grand Vizier. The Baron and the Surface Marshall were considered warriors in the truest regard... Eighteen years after the end of the Yuuzhan Vong incursion, the current Supreme Commander was the Grand Admiral Jozeff Stormton. The Director of the Ubiqtorate, who was aptly nicknamed "The Shadow" (little homage to Shadow there hee hee), was his second-in-command. Following a crisis involving the birth of a new galactic superpower--the descendants of remnant self-outcasted New Republic leaders and subsequent rogue factions, including the Peace Brigade--The Grand Vizier, Conrad Mathur, was assassinated. This new governmental party, remaining true to the galaxy's most free and oldest tradition, the Republic, called itself the Interplanetary Confederate Democracy; spanning the gap of the Deep Core all the way to half of the Expansion Region. The designated domain of the Galactic Alliance--that is, how far its arm reached--spread from the Outer Rim to the other half of the Expansion; and even some systems in the small outbreak of stars near the Core's globular cluster--worlds including Corellia, Commenor, Duro and Vortex. Most of the Colonies, such as Fondor, and key Core worlds such as Kuat, flocked to the Democracy's side because of past disputes with the leaders of the Galactic Alliance (originating all the way back past the Yuuzhan Vong invasion). It seemed that the offspring of the New Republic, these two quarrelling factions: the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances started by Chief of State Cal Omas, General Wedge Antilles, Colonel Tycho Celchu, Admiral Traest Kre'fey, and the other Rebel Alliance veterans like Admiral Ackbar, the Solos, General Keyan Farlander, Colonel Gavin Darklighter, and the Jedi; as well as the shadow of the advisory council the self-proclaimed New Republic president/chief of state, Senator Pwoe, had tried to create--but his efforts ended up in NR rogue factions (often coercing with Thrackan Sal-Solo's portion of the Peace Brigade). The life-teeming Coruscant, in the midst of many years of reparation and restructure, became the middle of the political conflict. The Empire, of which Khan--the former Director of the Ubiqtorate and the Grand Vizier a decade before--had never intended to fully merge with the Alliance, had long claimed that a ruling body was in order (due to the chaos of total independence that had been reaching all the way to the Deep Core). For two years, the event-which-became-a-crisis boiled to a conflict, spurring long-forgotten animosities between Alliance forces and other cultures, within Alliance forces, and causing mainstream prejudice to reoccur in the galaxy proper. The stability was broken; and the peace was on the verge of being shattered. The Tion Hegemony, at one point, even threatened to pull out of the Alliance; almost threatening to regain its full independence. Among the midst of these rivalries was the reborn Mandalorian order that history records as Hurn--otherwise Boba Fett--had recreated during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. The Mandalorians--whose warriors now numbered in the thousands--were being driven in two by those who remained true to the Shock trooper ways... or those who were the descendant people of the original Mandalorian culture that had colonized worlds near--and including--the Empress Teta system. Nearly two decades ago a man named Maestrel Mandalon, leader of the people of Kuar (the largest Mandalorian descendant culture) and soon to be succeeded by one of his twin sons (either Morgon or Jaxxon Mandalon), had originally joined his people to Fett's growing order new Mandalorians once he had caught wind of a warrior gathering men with ties to the Mandalorians. Jaxxon Mandalon, once he came of age, had succeeded both his father and Fett, letting the Mandalorian order replenish and stabilize itself. Morgon Mandalon, always the adventerous and romantic boy, started a family of four children--a boy, two girls and his youngest son--but was later disappeared in an intrigue involving the birth of ISCO. His oldest child Meikel, who was at the time only seventeen going on eighteen, had forsaken his people and left to wander the galaxy to govern his own life. Jaxxon had become sick and weary of his brother's sudden disappearance, became the pinnacle regarding the dispute of men loyal to Fett and those who were not. The Democracy crisis sparked this dispute full-bloom, and the Mandalorian order finally split. It had been without a leader for many years now -- and the one who was capable of bringing his peoples back together had left. The Jedi Order felt a growing disturbance in the Force; unlike their old ancestors, they were not blind to the shadows that grew. Unfortunately, the threat they were about to face from Khan was unlike any other: for he believed they were evil and that he would bring the entire galaxy, and then the Universe, salvation... from life. Whilst the Hapans now suffered an internal struggle, there were rumours of Imperial sympathists for the Democracy; and a terrorist organization began spreading dissent across the galaxy. The Alliance's current Intelligence Director, a Cathar jack-of-all-trades named Sevlar, hired the best recon, scout, and non-Jedi fighter he knew: Meikel Mandalon. Meikel often was beset by ignorant Jedi--namely Master Vin'yopassik and his apprentice, Xenn--excluded from Sevlar's and General Jaina Solo's plans. Meikel uncovered the secret plot involving the hidden Super Soldiers --and unfortunately, their creators-- and thus learned that there is an Imperial co-conspirator/liaison within this terrorist group. His findings were ironic: the Imperials were blaming outside groups for the recent assassination of the Grand Vizier. Once he reported his findings to the Galactic Alliance High Council, the Council deduced that one of the few suspects matching the liaison's criteria--and one that could hold such ties to the terrorists--could only be a Force-user... ..."Governor Dakkorez" had received Force-training; and it was he who employed the unorthodox training for ISCO. In fact, it seemed all to convenient that it was also he who helped initiate a secondary guardian legion force of trained Alliance soldiers trained by Jedi Kyle Katarn, called the GA Task Force-II, aka Page's Guardians--men who were sent out by him on catastrophic missions to scout out the terrorists. Khan was called to Mon Calamari for a secretive inquiry when the High Council, as well as Jedi praxeum administrators had assembled with members of the GA's senatorial committee (who included the new Grand Vizier, "Shadow"; the Hapan Queen Mother, Jedi Knight Tenel Ka; the Chieftain Gilrian Ysanna; the Fallanassi leader who had left the Democracy; the Jensaarai Saraai-kar Rayma Jaltir, among other GA-world officials). The Imperial Grand Admiral was also in attendance, supervising the fleet forces above Mon Calamari's clear skies. Khan was under much scrutiny by this commission--and yet, they all failed to see the trap he had carefully laid out in advance... too long in advance. For his super soldiers lead a small and unseen force that ensnared the Jedi administrators into a hostage situation (using ysalamiri); and only Jacen Solo, now a Jedi Master, was in position to free them. Unfortunately, he too was unable to figure out the entrapment in time--and the combined might of the super soldiers and a mysterious shrouded foe had bested him. It was then, that this shrouded foe who had been the most cunning and lethal of all the terrorists the Jedi had been facing for the past year or so, revealed himself as Governor Dakk.. who had escaped from his recent confines. But more importantly, he had spoken his name in public for the first time in a century. He was Khan... and this was the decisive moment for the Alliance's future: who would be their champion and lead them out of the galaxy's latest--and possibly last--conflict? He marched on towards the chambres of the committee, and fought the Sword of the Jedi: General Jaina Solo. Even she, with the sudden appearance of Captain Ben Skywalker, did not defeat Khan. It was only until the combined brilliance of the Imperial High General Todrin Pierce, Meikel Mandalon, and Ben's friends--ex-Jedi student Taaru Masako and their childhood friend, Jedi apprentice Amira Veila (Master Tahiri Veila's adoptive daughter)--using ysalamiri and an entire platoon of troopers, that Khan was bested. And even then, Khan's trustworthy super soldiers--the swords of his would-be army--had rescued him and escaped. Nightmares come true Khan introduced his greatest Force-power: the plague of pestilence. An outbreak of disease deferred the peoples of the Galactic Alliance from taking arms and banding against the traitorous Khan. Khan's military cunning and his decades of deceit spawned forth a sizable force that began the conquering of the beleaguered Democracy; and soon, it was only the Imperials that presented a united, direct threat to his growing fist. But even then, the Imperials had been dealt a mighty pre-emptive blow when Khan had revealed himself: he had taken legions of soldiers from the Empire who were loyal to him, including a division's worth of capital and support ships; he had enticed the allegiance of the Starfighter Marshall Baron and the Stormtrooper Surface Marshall; and had inserted pockets of rebels within the Empire to be a nuisance to the Moffs' and Viziers' subsequent government bodies: the Inquisitors of Justice and the Imperial Security Bereau, as well as new COMPNOR. The Grand Admiral--and the Empire's last Supreme Commander in an era of peace--had been killed in the battle above Mon Calamari. Now, High Command lay in ruins, and it was Shadow who picked up the threads and became the Grand Vizier, reinstating the Moffs and appointing a new Grand Admiral, Grand General, Ubiqtorate and Marshalls for Starfighter and Stormtrooper Command. In times of war, the military assumed full, direct power, and the coronation of a new Supreme Commander had to be temporarily delayed. Todrin Pierce became the new Grand General; as he was both one of the first Imperial Star Commando Officers and served time in the coveted 501st Stormtrooper Legion. To substantiate the merger of the Nine Ruling Families' Expansionary Defense Fleet & the Empire of the Hand--Thrawn's, Baron Soontir Fel's, and Admiral Parck's microcosmic empire within the Unknown Regions--and the Imperial Remnant, High Command acquired the service of a female Chiss officer named Velis'car'nuruodo (Scarn) as the new Grand Admiral. Shadow deemed it necessary that he appoint one of the newly formed Cerulean Guards--the reborn offset to the Crimson Guardsmen--and one of the top ISCO recruits as his Hands; Todrin appointed an ISC officer as the Surface Marshall--and it was none other than a sibling of liaison Jagged Fel, who became the new Marshall for the Starfighter Corps. As for the Galactic Alliance itself, it was Jaina Solo who reminded her Chief of State and his subordinate companions as well as her Jedi colleagues and family, that the Alliance was originally created as a free-serving government body that would not assimilate other independent forces but ally with them against invaders, and possibly warlords and terrorists. But it was created out of the need to merge the efforts of the peacekeepers of the galaxy and the defenders of the Force (the New Jedi Order) and the government of New Republic remnants. Thus, the Jedi High Council realized that it would seek a peace treaty and a cooperative solution to coexist and possibly reunite with the Democracy to reform what was once a great government; if the New Republic had coexisted with the Imperial Remnant, then they could too. The Blood Wars ...were inevitable But a war, that many historians call the Second Civil War--but many civilains remembers as the Dark Wars--already began. Khan, an enemy to the Jedi; a servant for the Force's greater self; a deity people worshipped as Death; called upon the lost spirits of the dead to empower him in this physical realm. He created a Force wellspring for the dead on Ruusan, a nexus of life-draining energy, morphing the Valley of the Jedi--a source of raw Force currents--into an unusable resource so that no living being (for all dead ones were his people and subjects) could hope to attain any power to contend with him. His power, in the past, had been manifested and fueled by the Dark Side that life creates; now, as people in this era began to realize they DO have control over their Dark Side, Khan realized he was not like any other Jedi enemy before him. The Jedi would be sentenced to death for their usage and twisting of the Force, and acting as living conduits of the Force; especially Jacen Solo (who was the first in many lifetimes to ever truly name and realize this role of the Jedi; being a living conduit) and his sister--and now their young cousin Ben. He would let old Luke Skywalker live out his last days as the very ally Luke had fought alongside his whole life--the Force--began to plague and poison his mind. The Force was being changed by the mere living existence of Khan; of whom no one had realize, was a mutilation of Death incarnate. It would not be, for a long time, that the galaxy's next champion would realize that Khan was not an enemy of the Force's continuity, or the negative of the Jedi, or even a victim of life's--of which was black and white--cruelty; but an enemy of himself. He fooled himself into believing he was the Force's champion; but it would be a long-dead spirit guiding a misshapen lifeform, a Force heretic also born from a laboratory like his super soldier brethren, who would one day realize that Khan was the smartest of all living and dead beings alike: Khan had cheated death and non-existence, and fought his way through eternity to meld with the Force and its imaginary deities... Khan as he was now, was a living embodiment of the merger between Jymnos and Death, and Death must once again be free so that it may find its rightful place alongside Life; not opposing Life. In three years, it was not Khan who had laid waste to the galaxy but the people he convinced to do it. To make known the symbolization of his intent, his voice for the Force, his abilities; Khan had won the support of many races and civilizations to aid his Legion of Justice and Inevitability. With the Rebel Imperials, the Vagaari of the Unknown Regions, the Geonosians, and the conquered worlds along Wild Space all the way to the Kathol Outback; Khan's forces were widespread enough to keep the galaxy proper at bay. His growing territory matched even the Imperials' growing territory and the Alliance's. Even the Galactic Fringe--the aspect of society outcasted from political Law--consisting of major crime syndicates, the black market, the Hutt Empire remnants, and shadowy figures, had become subjects of subjugation and ironically, rescue, from Khan's allies and Jaina's & Farlander's military. The Yuuzhan Vong fanatic faction; the Truly Faithful, united radical warriors who refused to surrender to either Nom Anor or the Alliance two decades ago, lead by religious caste members still devoted to the mysteries of the Quang Qhasa's eighth cortex, Yun-Yuuzhan and the Gods; were also pitted against the Yuuzhan Vong proper (who reside on Zonama Sekot with no Shamed One caste, and who did not outcast infidels and their ways). Khan convinced them that it was not in their best interests to follow the foolish ways of the last Supreme Overlord, Shimmra; and his foolish, victimized accomplice--or rather, controller--Onimi, by forsaking "infidels." But in order to truly show the galaxy how he played this game and that he really was death; Khan's first major campaign was to travel to Otherspace (of which the people of realspace had forsaken and forgotten decades ago) to enlist the help of the Charon deathcult. However, the efforts of the Imperials and the Jedi thwarted his plans; and Otherspace would be indefinitely sealed for the time being. Khan's viscious campaigns infuriated the rest of the free peoples of the galaxy as a side-effect; and eventually the Tofs and their former rivals, the Nagai, became victims of the galactic animosity. On the public face, the frontlines of battle, all available attention was diverted to the struggle the Mandalorian factions were facing. The heroes and fighters of the galaxy managed to avert disaster by keeping the Mandalorians from joining Khan once they realized it was Khan who had really caused them to split into rogue factions; but that was not enough to keep them from reuniting. The Mandalon family and their people allied with the Alliance, and the men of Fett regarded this as a treachery to the neutrality the Mandalorians had maintained. Their leader, Hiras Omen, was challenged by a vengeance-filled Jeryl Mandalon and his followers of mercenaries. Meikel's youngest sibling, Jeryl, of whom Meikel had returned to his homeworld to stop from putting the Mandalorians in danger by going to open war with the lecherous and rash Hiras (once a loyal friend of the Mandalon family), nearly killed Hiras and his followers (who called themselves the Journeymen Shocktrooper-Death Watch, symbolizing the rebirth and merger of the last of the Mandalorian protectors/factions that lived in the waning days of the Old Republic). However, an alien female named Sart-u (who was recovered by Boba Fett/Hurn with her ailing family as refugees during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion) outcasted the irrational Hiras and managed her men for the time being; Meikel had seen that these men had accepted a non-human from the Unknown Regions as part of the Mandalorian culture, and he hoped to use her as an example of someday reuniting his people. But in the meantime, he was officially hired as an enlisted freelance Soldier for the Alliance and an ally. Seeking out people who fought and lived under similar circumstances as his own, Meikel helped organize a secret anti-Khan force and also helped train the new batch of TF-II soldiers. However, his allies and employers did not see much success in the ways of recruiting and retaining friendship: for Sevlar's surviving daughter, Vahr, had disappeared in the Core.. which was overrun with war zones. Sevlar had no hope; and he temporarily took a leave of absence. However, using this as a way to fool their adversaries, Sevlar and his colleagues created a plan to create another rogue faction that would join Khan's outward forces in an effort to fool them from behind enemy lines. The plan worked well for a year-and-a-half, and near the end of the war, the Alliance and its allies had managed to subdue Khan's forces to the core and bulk of his territory, keeping the Democracy's worlds free for the time being. Imperial and Hapan scientists had cured the plague as well, and it seemed like all was going uphill. Even Jacen, Mara and the Jedi who were managing to keep Luke alive, were able to rest for the time being. But Princess Leia was not so lucky; after many years of marriage to Han Solo, Leia grieved for the galaxy and her family as she mourned the passing of her old husband (who died of old age in unhappy times). It seemed, that there never was, and never would be, a time of true peace in the galaxy. It was forever marred by war since the invention of the hyperdrive, and the initial creation of the first Republic. No matter what the intent; the galaxy would suffer from itself. Even the Yuuzhan Vong's own galaxy, naught but a few eons ago, had suffered a similar fate to the one they were suffering too. The Alliance Chief-of-State had passed away from the plague, and that left General Jaina Solo to temporarily assume command as the government adapted itself to this change. The Jedi High Council reconvened at the beset of the finally-settled Jacen Solo, who had seen the need to be avert all his attention from the rebuilt Yavin-4 training facilities to help maintain order on Mon Calamari. Jaina Solo's and Jagged Fel's young daughter Wyssna (named in honour of Jag's mother's alias), along with newly-appointed Jedi Master Valin Horn, became executive officers of Rogue Squadron; revived in its old glory to thwart Khan. Twin Suns squadron, lead by Gavin Darklighter's eldest boy once again worked closely with Chiss Vanguard Squadron (lead by Shawnkyr Nuruodo, Scarn's cousin) and the Chiss' EDF Spike Squadron (now lead by Aristocra Formbi's great-niece, Feesa's daughter; and a middle-aged Evlyn Tabory). Together, the three squadrons formed the 1st Alliance Wing and it had lead many battles up to the end of the war under the guidance of their supervisor, Br. General Jag Fel. Sevlar had some spare resources--namely Meikel and his allies--to find and rescue his daughter, Vahr. Meikel, who successfully located the last of the known super soldiers (and a feisty rogue one at that) who had fleed from the caring watch of the Alliance's key members. This soldier, callsigned "Soldier Six", travelled the galaxy over many months learning the ways of fledging Fallanassi women and of course... using his talents to infiltrate the Kathol outback--supposedly the impenetrable core of Khan's main base of operations--to free the Aing-Tii Monks. Meikel also employed the second cousin of Phest Dakk--who he now believed was never an alias for Khan in the first place, because Khan had impersonated him for two decades--Yleisiah Blaze, a young woman mysteriously proficient in the Nikto's Morgukai ways, whom Six had nursed to health from the ruins of the Aiki Jedi stronghold. Sart-u, who had developed a blossoming relationship with Meikel, also joined Meikel's group of freedom fighters, as did the freelance and wandering Jedi Knight Jysella Horn. Sevlar also sent Noghri bodyguard Bolphur's descendant, Coldhur, under the orders of Leia (who the Noghri will always follow) to protect Jysella (since she is a good friend of old Jedi Master Colonel Corran Horn, Jysella's father.). Taaru Masako, Ben Skywalker's good friend, also enlisted to join Meikel's freedom fighters since he needed a job and a mission to focus on. Tahiri also sent Amira to help Jysella and Meikel so that she could get some experience in the field. The freedom fighters' first major mission ended in success as they found the incapacitated Vahr and secured her for the time being. However, as they fleed from designated war zones in Democracy space, they ran into a new weapon Khan was creating to turn the tide of the war. It was just past the fifty-second anniversary of the destruction of the first Death Star; but an equal threat now came onto the horizons: Khan had turned his Eclipse-class Star Destroyer--which was his base of operations and his flagship--to encumber a great weapon of scientific horror. A temporal jammer that could distort spacetime around the ship and allow Khan to travel through time-- thankfully, it was rumour. The REAL weapon was a phaser; allowing the ship and its weapons to shift phases at any point during the phaser's activation. Meikel and his crew fled to Mon Calamari to alert the Alliance, who had already seen the cataclysm of such a weapon: Khan had tested it on the Imperial's second Outer-Rim patrol forces, effectively wiping it out and lessening the Imperial presence in the Rim. However, other tales from the three-year period would soon rear their ugly heads... Tales of the Dark Wars A small group of Jedi Knights, lead by second-class (as in Luke's batch of students under the first repetition of the praxeum programme)graduate Jedi Knight Needo, undertook a deep-cover mission behind enemy lines. Their target world was Sluis Van; of which latest intel-data had implied a serious debacle taking place there. The Jedi felt a wavering strength in the Force as soon as they had neared the Sluis Van system-- in fact, the auras of all sentient life in the system felt mutilated and unreal. As they infiltrated through the planet's shipyards and defenses, they seemed to discern nothing wrong with the society or environment of Sluis Van. However, upon closer expection, Needo and his band of Jedi noticed something severely wrong with local peoples in a lot of the cities: they were all bearing bar codes and symbols across their long necks. An investigation regarding the governmental capitol offices resulted in a sick truth that Needo --who was a Rodian-- could not bear.... ...the people of Sluis Van were turned into Force-controlled slaves; their bodies nothing more than walking zombies! Thus, in later battles as it would turn out, many of Khan's men had been enhanced by allowing themselves to be come living-dead puppets; some were even embued with minimal Force-powers by the Black Masters to act as wraith-like zombies. And to supplement this all, many of Khan's ground and air support came from genetically modified creatures --sometimes hybrids-- that could be controlled either by technological or Force-means... including cyborg-rancors; vapaad scouts that scoured the seas of watery planets; enlarged and strengthened howlrunners; hybrid energy-web spiders combined with acklays; hordes of cloned Hssiss dragons; flying cyborg-Battle Hydra (some were two-headed); and Khan had even searched and captured the ancient K'kayeh dragon of myth.... * Another tale tells of a mission lead by the pulled-out-of-retirement General Keyan Farlander, who had discovered the new technologies and designs incorporated in the League of Death's fleet. Strange abilities for capital ships and their weapons proved difficult to overcome, and Farlander nearly faced defeat at the hands of worthy adversaries... ...whom were nothing more than droids controlled through long-distances by tacticians. It seemed, that the League's brilliant leaders had deduced ways to expand and thrust their swords deep into enemy territory without needing to replenish resources for living personnel: entire droid-controlled ships and droid starfighters began plaguing Democracy and Imperial systems, and soon, it became clear that the never-ending swarm of diabolicals would never cease. Farlander's investigation of these ships became far more twisted, as he eventually discovered the existence of several monumentally-sized space-faring fortresses! These monstrosities were capable of setting up base on planet and could hold transports that were large enough to rival a dreadnaught and Victory-class Star Destroyer in size! It had seemed, that the might of the GA's military was not so mighty after all... * One of the brainchilds that Khan had created --excluding the nefarious scheme he concocted to steal and continue the building of the next Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer-- were never-before-seen slave droids powered by biological means: in fact, many of Khan's dead soldiers served as batteries and "CPU's" for these oversize, multi-talented machinations of war. Produced en masse, Khan had found the ultimate solution to maintaining an indominatible, and more importantly neverending, war machine. They were dubbed "Terror Drones" by their enemies, and they were aptly named since the sight of a platoon of these droids instilled terror into all those who gazed upon their forms. It was unfortunate that the new Surface Marshall, San Wei Don, and Grand General Todrin Pierce had sent a legion of stormtroopers lead by Marshall Don and one of Shadow's Hands (Della Kanto) to subjugate a major factory facility of Khan's located in the Mid Rim. To their surprise, 500 of these Terror Drones awaited their arrival. To combat this effort, Pierce, Sevlar and some of their allies in R&D and in the Democracy began the reimplementation of super droid-warrior soldiers that the Rebel Alliance and Empire had once called Dark Troopers. Of course, the Imperials had had to completely reinvent the schematics of the Dark Troopers... however, their small-number & high-performance concept proved to be useful and ideal in fighting the Drones of Khan. But that was not all the Imperials --and some shadowy Democracy members-- had planned.. for years, the Imperials were implementing a force that would supplement the Stormtrooper Corps., called the Wartroopers, and these clone warriors would soon be ready to be unleashed upon Khan... * Many battles fought by the 1st Alliance forces and the Imperials gathered back one commonality: any battle fought while Khan or his most direct and powerful servants were involved, resulted in tragedy -- even if the good guys ended up winning. The mere presence of Khan inflicted danger and bad luck for his enemies: Death would come in all forms; such as starfighters exploding accidentally due to technical errors, low troop morale, capital ships overloading, etc... eventually, all the minute causes of fatality and injury to the Alliance's and Imperial's forces added up to a major setback. As the war neared its end, there were rumours milling about, speaking of gruesome beast men that walked the battlefields ripping apart soldiers of the Alliance and the Imperials... some Jedi attested to facing shrouded, mysterious warriors capable of holding their own without any apparent latent Force-abilities... some were in fact, lead by the now infamous Super Soldiers Khan used as his Voices and Swords. Nevertheless, the rise of the Sixth Soldier would see an end to the diabolicals of biological engineering... The Mousetrap The Imperials and their allies in the Alliance were now at a standstill with Khan and his empire, the League of Thanatos. The Empire, at this point, decided to become full-fledged members of the Galactic Alliance war council. Following their example, the bitter Hapans and other consortiums complied to complete military unity. With the Empire's integration with the Alliance, the Tapani Sector had also been able to be enrolled in its political/municipal/territorial roster. Soon, it was naught but the Democracy that remained to join with the Alliance's relatively political council; the High Council.. should they wish to join. The Geonosians were bereft of membership in the League and remained a neutral party; however, unwanted Jedi had travelled there and begun to try and enlist their aid. On the barrens and ruins of Wayland (devastated by the Yuuzhan Vong decades earlier), Cpt. Ben Skywalker lost his flagship of his picket forces; being forced to accept aid from the GA Intelligence scout ships controlled by Sevlar. In the Viscount-class Star Defender--one of the last few in the Alliance's military--called Lion's Wrath, Sevlar himself was on-board heading specialized forces for the Alliance. Ben Skywalker and the remains of his forces were assimilated into the task force to prepare for an urgent mission vital in preparations for the final strike (the Alliance's equivalent of Operation D-Day). Sevlar and his entourage were recalled to a waypoint just outside of the Cron Drift. In the meantime, Meikel and his newly assembled group had escaped from the vast clutches of their nemeses and finally regrouped with their Alliance counterparts. Jedi Xenn had been sent with Sevlar to meet with the Vizier's forces near the Cron Drift; Jaina Solo was preparing an assault force to head to the world of Omnicron in the Kathol sector; Jacen Solo was busy rallying students together at new Yavin-IV; the rest of the Jedi leaders and contemporaries were sent to convene at Mon Calamari. Meanwhile, General Pierce was delegated with reinforcing the Hydian Way--Perlemian Trade Route half of the part of the galaxy known as "The Wedge"; he kept the trade route brimmed with military space stations and sent the local fleets to patrol the Hydian Way. He was close enough to the Drift that he could be there in hours--if in a fast ship travelling a direct route--if need be... Grand Admiral Scaarn organized the Imperial Remnant sector defenses in light of Intel stating that the League was massing forces to attack Yaga Minor. She estimated that a grand battle would ensue in a matter of time; perhaps even a few weeks. It is here at this point in the war, that a story called Finality transcribed in two parts (Hidden Lies; Obvious Truths and Storm of the Soul) occurs. With little knowledge of the enemy's latest plan, the galaxy's champions march on to finality... The Plains of Ossus In Hidden Lies; Obvious Truths, Shadow and Sevlar are ambushed by unexpected enemy forces. They had been searching for the Eclipse III for a little while; only to be accutely aware of the fact that they were either being lead on a wild goose chase in obvious futility.. or something very bad was about to happen. Alliance members had not heard from Gilian Ysanna, the chieftain of the Ysanna in quite some time. The Cron Drift is supposed to be a serviceable refuge since it is a mass of lumbering star/celestial remnants. In fact, Ossus--the ancient Jedi planet--right on its edge is an ideal refugee spot (even though its skies became an enshroudment of electromagnetic activity and much of the land was reduced to barren ruins that were barely habitable). Many refugees looking for a home had built a small society spanning a few not-so-far apart cities, inter-mingling with the growing Ysanna tribes and their spread-out communities. Over the years, the planet's rehabilitation growth rate accelerated, and eventually a small part of Ossus began to function as a basic Galactic Alliance community. Streen lead a charity to build a huge stronghold fortress protecting a spacesport--that had the necessary means capable of allowing ships a safe journey through Ossus' skies in that area only). The formidable fortress became a Galactic Alliance waystation and a few TF-I (the standard, soldier-class fighters of the Alliance) droids/warrior battalions were platooned there. In response to the perplexing lack of communication, one of the very first batches of TF-II 16-troop teams were sent to revitalize communication. Lead by two cousins, Falumir Rafe and Kend Ysanna, who were in fact men who grew up on Ossus, the soldiers found that all communication arrays had been knocked out. They found little evidence of battle near the stronghold, and ventured out towards the largest common city where Falumir's mother & father governed. In the meantime, as Shadow and Sevlar were ambushed, the reinforcement compadres had arrived. Soldier Six, Meikel Mandalon, Jysella Horn, Sart-u, Coldhur, Taaru Masako, Amira Veila and Y'leisah Blaze managed to keep Ben's and Sevlar's ships safe... however, Shadow's ship had jettisoned into hyperspace towards the "safe" confines of the binary star system of Ossus. In flames, the ship was destroyed and escape pods crash landed on its rough surface. Xenn was also aboard that ship; and now the mission for Meikel's team became a search-and-rescue. Amidst this new shadow, Yaga Minor now faces the great length of its own shadow. The conical and kamikaze ships from the League arrived with ex-Imperial ships to tackle Grand Admiral Velis'car'nuruodo and her forces. A battle with growing ferocity began, and it would be tenacious--lasting many days. These days would be spent more stealthily and perilously on the fields of the ancient Jedi planet, deep in the Outer Rim. Mysterious bandits were sieging the spaceport fort of Streen's, and the freedom fighters were chasing them off through the refugee camps. Afterwards, Shadow's comm signal was being picked up far in the distance, past the plateaued mountainous range on the horizons. Careful to maintain comm silence, to remain hidden to all eyes upon them, the group began the move, with Streen alongside them. Their long trek took them through other villages, towards the "mountainous" range; however, it was upon one day, when they had lost the ability to travel by their vehicles, that Six had had a revolution. Dreams had been jogging his memory of late, ever since he had defeated the last of the super soldiers.... his lightsabers were strange nexes of emotions and currents in the Force, able to keep his wild and untamed super-soldier persona at bay; ironically, it was the ancient dark-bladed, vibroblade hilt lightsaber that amplified all sense of justice in him. The double-bladed, Mandalorian iron ignot-enforced lightsaber gave him unnatural sense of battle prowess. On Ossus, something was drawing him to an energy source far away past Shadow's comm signal; his dreams were recurring more frequently, and the strange spiritual guide entity he had seemed to be too few and far-between. It was only until Meikel had finally revealed that he had undergone an immense, deep meditation with Xenn and fellow fighters during the awakening of Soldier Six that Six had realized who he truly was; the identity he had been ignoring and hiding for so long... He was Phest Dakk--or at the very least, some (re)incarnation of him. And they could sense it too--for Phest's own relatives (Y'leisah and.... the adopted Amira!) were amongst him, amplifying the smell of his blood in the Force. But that was not the only problem Six had been facing: his physical condition was becoming progressively worse; it was thought that he was infected with the plague, but he was in fact failing on a microbiological level (hence why he was never chosen to awaken with the other five soldiers). He found it harder to resist the natural reaction to imminent physical death, and eventually his ailments and shortcomings were becoming of the group's own. In a small skirmish leading up to the foot of the small mountains, Meikel and the others had sensed that they must traverse underneath the mountains to pass through them quickest. In the deepest, darkest depths of the underground, they had encountered a scout force of Khan's army: hundreds of short-stouted, head tail-whipping bipeds punctuated with slave soldiers lead by wraith-like men embued with the magicks of the Black Masters--and even aided by cyborg-rancors--threatened the group's survival in the underground caverns. They had uncovered the ancient underground remains of the ruins of the ancient Jedi library on Ossus--near to what Luke had found decades ago--some of them writ with ancient nightmares depicting the events of modern times. However, as they tried to make their escape while keeping the hordes of wretched and vile demons at bay, the worst of creatures began to awake in the darkness. A low, rumbling growl resonated throughout the ancient libraries, and the very sand-studded ground seemed to shift and tremble as something moved through it. Something otherworldy and very alive in nature was coming, and was very angry. Far worse than dark side Hssiss dragons. It was a foul and long-isolated dragon that historians recorded as the K'kayeh, SOMEHOW it had found its way from Almas in the Cularin system to Ossus. The hordes were bait for the formidable team, but they were not ready for this beast of myth. It was an obvious trap now belayed to all of them, and they commenced their sudden hasty retreat to the fiery chasms of lava and magma in the underground. In the days they took to traverse the underground, a long and harried battle had ensnared the group as they ran towards the other end of the caverns. The K'kayeh managed to get ahead of even the teleport-capable Six, and they were forced to fight it--for flight was not an option were they to survive this very instant. Streen, in order to distract the beast and allow the other eight to escape away towards the surface, had leaped atop the beast and endured many tendrils of Force-lightning from its nostrils. In all the might he could muster from the Unifying Force, Streen had managed to banish the dragon to the Force's netherrealm of afterlife.... but at the cost of his own. Streen became one with the Force and the flicker of his passing was felt through the New Jedi Order. Jysella and the others wept for his sacrifice, but they continued. They eventually found themselves in the old tribal community--of vast proportions--that Jem and Ray Ysanna had met Luke Skywalker and Kam Solusar in. It was at this moment that Ben had contacted them with news of the layout beyond this plateau. For a few hundred miles, the plateau suddenly became plains and plains of layered tundra and barren wastes. Three encampments--two of them recently rebuilt cities--lay far to the south and also southwest in front of their paths. A fourth encampment that was the main Ysanna tribal communion centre--complete with a fortifible great hall, deeping wall and enclosed by raised rock escarpments--lay to the east, on the group's left. The other encampment lay atop what was apparently ravaged, scarred land; gouged with deep canyons and uptorn with huge rocky effaces and cliffs caused by massive earthquakes and ground explosions during the Clone Wars. They made way through the last bushy, vegetational area brimmed with relatively tall trees. A lingering threat soon came upon Jysella; she sensed natives in immediate danger from nasty warriors. These warriors seemed to be the epitome and pinnacle of the hordes of fouls they had just cut through. Nearly one hundred of them were scattered amongst the area. The warriors came upon them. It was just as Taaru feared; he had encountered tenacious, viscious hybrid alien-men writhed with gnarly skin of mottled colours; gory fangs; porous faces; large flat noses; slight snouts; large holes for ears; human-shaped skulls; deep, red-yellow eyes that gleened like fire; huge muscles and tall heights; slithery tongues and twitching, bloody claws... the demon-warriors were the long-wanted goals of the super-soldier experiments: the soldiers were created as test-subjects embued with the greatest of whatever abilities these warriors were aspired to be. Now, with the biology, organization, training and health for these creatures mastered to an art form of war, Khan had his front-line, anti-Jedi force. Each force had lead warriors tapped into the subset communion of the Force Khan had created amongst his Force-powered allies and the super-soldiers. With the soldiers dead, the collective was now able to focus only on the Generals and their Colonels and their Commanders of these warriors. Each progressive rank had greater sensitivity to the Force; to the point where the Generals were comparable to Jedi. What each and every one of the freedom fighters would unfortunately find out the hard way later, to surmount these revelations, was the fact that Khan had created the three Star Fortresses to each house two great transports capable of transporting a grand total of 250,000 of the combined forces of the demon-warriors, their wrangly head-tailed counterparts and the Terror Drones. He had created world devastators of his own kind: planetary assault forces no army could hope to annihilate! As such, on Ossus, they would later estimate that Khan's uber-army numbered to around 125,000 defiles they would have to quell. And then, as Taaru wandered off with Jysella and Coldhur to search for the TF-II signal he was receiving; Meikel was alone with Six. They shared a final argue and reconciliation as Six advocated that he had to continue along towards the calling force. Ben--with his amazing talents--had identified the large concentration of power, mass and energy beyond the greater city as a huge series of upturned mountainous ranges enclosed in a monumental storm. It explained why the skies were suddenly more violent in this region; the thunder clapped louder and harder and the lightning struck more frequently and visciously. Phest, formerly known as Six, continued on towards a drying river... ...While Meikel covered his escape. Drawing upon the dual-phase lightsaber he had recovered from a battle not too long ago--after he had resealed a powerful vibro-sword teething with power and littered with lamented engravings depicting some forgotten prophecy--Meikel charged towards the warriors. Y'leisah and Sart-u appeared to aid his coup d'etach while Taaru and the others encountered problems of their own: the lone survivors of a Ysanna camp, both children, were being held captive by the warriors--after they had torn apart and eaten the children's parents--and Jysella had gone ahead to rescue them as this group of warriors blundered off towards whatever base they were from. Just then, they were intercepted by the leader of the Paige's Guardians' squadron stationed on Ossus: Commander Falumir! Bravely fighting off advancing warriors and accepting every blow that landed, nothing could overcome the hysteria that had befallen Falumir. He had hurried to the freedom fighters' positions after he thought he had lost his team scouting out the forbidden regions beyond his city: he had recovered Shadow and Xenn who awaited at the crash-sites a few kilometres away... and now, he desparately hung on to life as... ... an energy slug cracked and pierced his armour, stunning him. He dropped his polearm-firearm weapon, hurriedly grabbing hold of the flat-bladed nightsabers the warriors wielded (the generals wielded ones that bended light). He fought a few more off, stabbing one and using its weapon against its own armour--and then another slug, shattering his chest-plate and driving him back a few metres. And he stood there, stabbing wildly as his senses began to leave him... and he could see it. The colonel warrior stalking towards him slowly, arm-barrel raised and pointed; teeth beared and snarling... and it fired one last time, and Falumir was brought to his knees, panting and gasping for air. The warrior stood in front and towered above him, leering and jeering... Jysella was incapacitated, and Taaru and Coldhur had rushed off to help her and the kids (for Coldhur had sworn to protect her).... with a rush of final wind, Fal activated his alarm, alerting Meikel and the others.... who came rushing to his aide as the last of the greater warriors were encircling Fal and were ready to pounce. Y'leisah and Sart-u, with their hands full, could only watch as an armour-less Meikel--training in less bounty hunter methods now--engaged in a furious melee with the warrior. Weapons clashed and punches were thrown, spattering blood and skin: bones were hammered as kicks were thrusted: gauntlets flew and eventually, the superior warrior was Meikel, who bested his adversary in a series of quick and relentless lightsaber strikes: decapitating his victim. Falumir's final words were to save his planet and the galaxy... if the war was not decided for the better here, on Ossus, all would be doomed. Part II of Hidden Lies; Obvious Truths Meanwhile, the League's first armada was preparing to launch back at Omnicron. Bakuran advanced forces relayed this information through chopped up relays (since communication relay systems are almost always the first to go in war) towards other Alliance systems Mon Calamari. The standstill was becoming all-out skirmish warfare again. Unlike the Yuuzhan Vong war, which had a long "break" in between when Tsavong Lah called a truce, the Blood Wars' break was not long or productive at all: the worlds near Coruscant were still facing onslaught, and the Imperials' own campaign was gaining less and less ground. In the Remnant domain, the battle had moved from Yaga Minor to Bastion, and things were getting progressively worse for all sides. As such, no one in the galaxy knew where Khan or the Eclipse III was located. Whatever he was planning--and wherever he was planning it--he was likely ready to launch a final assault. Jaina Solo and her forces prepared their long journey through hyperspace to head for the Kathol sector... Back on Ossus, Phest and Amira managed to cross the drying river and head out on the tundra on a straight line towards the stormy mountains past the great city. When they reached what appeared to be a large expanse of bush thickets, they had run into a scout force of terror drones; apparently, the distance between each major encampment out here was great enough for bogey and friendly forces to move through without being intercepted... this could be bad. An entire army could pass between the two cities without being shot on both flanks. What was worse, was that the native and Alliance forces on the planet were dwindling, and the camps of all the free peoples were being destroyed one by one. Soon, all continents on Ossus would be controlled by the League. THe situation had gone very sour underneath the Alliance's nose: and all of it took place outside of war zones.... the Alliance was caught in a kind of mousetrap. Phest prayed, that Ossus didn't serve as some sort of factory guild or military construction yard for the League... They had passed Shadow's crash zone, but could find no one about. They headed on, sensing that Meikel and the others would likely find Shadow and Xenn. As the two drew nearer and nearer to their destinations, the forelorn in their minds grew larger and larger. The planet would soon pass exactly between both of its suns, and a direct hyperspace escape for the Alliance ships would soon become less likely should battle ensue. * Back in the Adegan System (where Ossus is located) Taaru, Jysella and Coldhur, caught in a band of warriors with Ysanna children, were struggling to hand on to consciousness as they were slaved onwards for a few days... with little food and water. Meikel, Y'leisah and Sart-u ran across many kilometres for nearly a day, hunting the last of the warriors and tracking down the signal coming from the crash site. When they reached the site, they had found evidence of a melee engagement, and sensed a Jedi nearby--suddenly Xenn had leapt down before them, and explained to them where it was that Shadow had gone. He lead them to Shadow as his Ysanna natives who were guarding them reappeared. Shadow explained that the Ysanna have been fighting Khan's forces on the planet for a few months now and have had no way to call for aid. Besides Streen--who constantly left Ossus--and Kam Solusar (who remained propietor of the training facility at the stronghold near the old spacesport Knossa on Ossus), the other Jedi at the stronghold/training centre had managed to remain inadverse to the going-ons around them--they had been vieled from the threat like how Palpatine vieled and hid his threat. The Ysanna could not send a resonance for aid through the Force since the very storms of Ossus had somehow gained the ability to mute their Force-amplifying abilities. This suggested someone(s)--or something with great Force-adeptivity--was here on Ossus. And this external force had managed to keep the Jedi away from the hidden backup halls of the Great Library in the underground! However, unlike the Old Order who blamed the dark side of the Force for evil--instead of the Force flowing through the dark side of themselves and the citizens they protected--the Jedi expected that Khan himself must be on Ossus. It was at this moment, Khan--who was on-planet controlling the swiling storm around the military fortress and factories in the distance--realized that a new force was here to stop him. Meikel and the others sensed Taaru in danger, and Xenn volunteered to go rescue them... alone. He knew that he would find aid in the form of the offspring form of the deceased Jedi Master Ood Bnar. He head to the great chasm--a rift created from the explosive end of the original Ood Bnar and Executor Sedriss some many decades before, during Palpatine's rebirth--where the original Ysanna clan resided. The Shaman, Okko, who is still alive--older than Streen was--guided Xenn to the predicted arrival of the band of warriors that carried their children and Taaru's gang. It appeared, that it was en route to the other major rebuilt city of the area: now known as the Slave City. The Slave City, run by one of the older Black Masters, was captured by the League forces and turned into a production centre and waystation for its forces. It held many of Ossus' citizens and natives captive as slaves; hence the apt name. Xenn and Ood Bnar II -- who, unlike other many of his species, was actually as big as a tree -- rescued Taaru, Jysella and Coldhur with the Ysanna children and returned to the Ysanna clan camp. Shadow and his entourage of freedom fighters and native tribal warrior-priests arrived at the great hall of the Chieftain, Gilian. The Ysanna tribe had grown to the size of many clans having intermingled and joining with other tribals and "natives" of Ossus over the decades. Soon, after the settling of Jedi and refugees, the tribal community grew exponentially (with many children being interbred between the natives and settlers) and became officially known as the Ysanna nation. Numbering in the tens of thousands now--as opposed to the hundreds and thousands only decades before--the Ysanna nation called for one of the great Shamans to govern and guide the unity of all tribes in a great encampment of formidable strength. The Cheiftain as he was called, was Gilian (a rather lengthy name for an Ysanna). Gilian did not welcome his newcomers with warm greetings; bitter and sour from the war, he held a nasty predisposition towards Shadow and the others. Shadow's infinite wisdom; Meikel's fierce courage; Sart-u's expansive compassion; and Y'leisah's frightening prowess soon garnered them some measure of respect in the Chieftain's eyes. After a few days, Meikel and the others had seen a great force of the League's demon-warriors amassing. Not risking comm silence, Meikel alerted Xenn and Taaru to this fact, who were obviously aware of the army's assemblance. Shadow then made it imperative that he travel back to Knossa spacesport, past the Great Library's four towers, since it was the only means off of Ossus. He would get Captain Ben Skywalker and the 2000 Mandalorian fighters loyal to Meikel--whom they ushered to take the next step in the unification of their order and become the long-awaited Mandalore--onboard the Lion's Wrath to aid in the defense of the Ysanna Great Hall and its outlying residencies. * The Imperials had managed to drive the League back out of their territory, allowing Hapan and Democractic forces to ambush the survivors in the Democracy's war zones. Pierce now regathered his own forces to formulate a battle strategy to retake the planets that were captured in the Core, one by one. Meanwhile, fearing some dark pall being casted upon the young Jedi trainees, Jacen Solo lead a convoy of civilian ships from Yavin-IV stations--intending to go farther away from designated war zones--towards Mon Calamari. Along the way, the convoy was ambushed and detained by picket forces of the 1st Armada of the League. But that was impossible... how did these forces manage to get past Jaina's Sword Battallion (the premier armada of the Galactic Alliance, containing the Gold Wing and Jagged Fel, as well as Kyp Durron's Jedi Strike Team)? Nevertheless, Jacen and his Jedi instructors, all of whom flew in large starfighters, managed to throw off the invaders. But this left Jacen wondering just how such small-sized ships could travel so far deep-space without some sort of... mobile station or capital ship? There could only be three causes: the information relayed from Bakura was too delayed and now bogus; or the Eclipse III was closer to Mon Calamari than preferred; or both. Jacen sent a warning through the Force to his sister, asking her to be wary as she ventured further to the other side of the galaxy. Mon Calamari went alert as he ordered Saba, Cilghal and the others to be cautious as well. Back on Ossus Phest and Amira came within close distance of the great city, known as New Vithan, and were suddenly ambushed by stealthy Vithani enforcers. Perhaps Phest's senses were also dulling as well. The enforcers, lead by the Governor of New Vithan's other son Noremar, took the two captives to the Governor's fort. Named Veranor (who was incidentally, Falumir's father)., the Governor apprehended them and jailed the two Jedi, taking their weapons into captivity as well... Noremar revealed to Amira and Phest that he was in fact, adopted, but held himself more loyal to Veranor than the wild Falumir ever did. Veranor, however, held his son Falumir in higher regard because of his accomplisments as an elite Alliance soldier. Bewildered and beleaguered by his beloved son's death, Veranor blamed Phest and Amira for his troubles and his son's passing when he found out what had happened near the crash zone. As an official for the Alliance, he sentenced the Jedi trainee and her companion to death.... *** The great battle ensued as Meikel and his allies lead Ysanna warrior-priests of the Great Camp and their designated Alliance soldiers (sent to represent Knossa) to hold the defenses against an onslaught of anti-Jedi ranked warriors. In many hours, both forces dwindled, but it was soon clear that there was no hope for the people of the Great Camp as the demon warriors advanced forward, taking points in the encampment one by one. Soon, as everyone sought refuge, the great hall itself was under siege from the thousands of warriors. Meikel could no longer hold the defenses for the Chieftain. The Chieftain's daughter could no longer keep her people free from fear, and the dawn did not seem so hopeful after all. As the thundering skies lit with morning light, Meikel and the Chieftain lead a final charge out towards the warriors.... and were met by Ben, Shadow, the second TF-II squadron and the 2000 Mandalorians loyal to Meik. They defeated the assembled army from the Slave City and now massed a fresher force to hurriedly squander any reinforcements arriving from the Scourge further south from the Camps. Ben had also brought Meikel's old Mandalorian armour with him, and Meikel donned it on as he finally came to terms with his harried past, nomadic present and dim future. The future of his culture became bright as he became the Red Mandalorian again--for the first time since he found out Khan had killed his father and had given Meikel his father's armour, the red-silver Mandalorian battle garb--and donned his new dual-phase lightsaber in higher respect for the Jedi and their capabilities. The newly assembled force marched on to take the Scourge and its inward fort in an effort to turn the tide of the war. The champions now saw what it was like to truly be on a smaller-scale, more direct and upfront side of galactic war; to be caught on a planet on the forefront of war zones. In the meantime, Taaru--a nutty demolitions expert and reputable Lieutenant in the first Corps. of the Alliance, TF-I--lead Xenn and his Jedi companions (Ood Bnar II, Jysella and her protector Coldhur), as well as a good number of Ysanna warrior-priests in a covert mission to sabotage and retake the Slave City. In a number of days, they had wrought chaos and freed many people, and now entered the very tower at which a Black Master resided. The one who had been aiding Khan for years. A great duel between Xenn and the Master ensued, and Jysella was the one to best him. Meanwhile, Taaru found himself hounded on by vile beasts and demon-warriors, and bested them with the help of Coldhur and Ood Bnar II. As they took the last of the city, the Master escaped in a rugged air speeder--only to be shot to oblivion by the New Vithani anti-air gun in the distance. Shadow and Ben lead the second TF-II squadron towards the Slave City as well, but they would not reach for some time. Meanwhile, Meikel and his forces, atop resurrected Basilisk war droids, managed to leap through the gourge and towards the fort of the demon-warriors there. TO their dismay, one of the six Generals of this Legion of demon-warriors was in attendance; and it lead an elite force of flying Battle-Hydra/Dxun beast hybrids that hammered down on the Mandalorians. The bloody battle was short indeed; and it seemed as if the Mandalorians had finally caught the upper hand--until both the General and Meikel seemed to have fallen into one of the great gorges. Wrought with despair, Sart-u grieved for her companion whilst Y'leisah took the Mandalorians to their victory. But, victory had occured at a great cost. A staunch and hard-won champion had been lost to the freedom fighters; to be added with the list of noble fighters perished in the heat of battle. Epilogue At the trial of which Phest and Amira were officially condemned, a murmur in the Force made them both aware of Meikel's sudden disappearance. Already teeming with wildness from his blood and madness from his despair of imminent death, Phest became uncontrollable and insane once again, going ballistic like the super-soldier he was. Amira's faithful and loyal words were the only means of restoring some sense of civilization into him as she made him realize just what they were struggling for: a chance to live for what's worth living for. Seeing that they were the only means capable of entering the fortress beyond the storm in an effort to destroy the League's presence on Ossus--and what would later be realized as the League's secret war machine--Noremar set them free and took the blame from his father. Phest and Amira ventured on, eventually coming to the great dust and thundrous winds of the cyclone swirling around the fortress. They had to cross the great canyon of which the wind-carried dust arose from; but this was no problem for Phest. Teleporting them through the supernatural barrier, they found themselves in the enemy's territory. Stealthily sneaking past the watch towers and soldier camps, the pair found an underground tunnel to which they could sneak into the fortresses undetected. They commenced on their long, dirty journey through the underworld of Khan... -----signature----- BLOOD WARS -- features: OC; includes: S/S, J/J, A/T, etc http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=15817119&replies=11
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Jarrkha Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 5/8/04 3:22pm Subject: RE: THE BLOOD WARS --Serial Synopses
	bump -----signature----- BLOOD WARS -- features: OC; includes: S/S, J/J, A/T, etc http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=15817119&replies=11
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DarkDroid Registered: Feb '04	Date Posted: 5/8/04 3:58pm Subject: RE: THE BLOOD WARS --Serial Synopses
	Imagine what this synopsis can become if you actually write it out! It could take years! -----signature----- The Inglorious Vision - http://boards.theforce.net/Beyond_the_Saga/b10477/20960324/?2 Far Beyond - http://boards.theforce.net/Beyond_the_Saga/b10477/17625892/?0
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Jarrkha Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 5/8/04 4:05pm Subject: RE: THE BLOOD WARS --Serial Synopses - Date Edited: 5/8/04 4:17pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Jarrkha
	I spent years just creating the story.. :S ANd the sad part is.. this is only the first stage of a "dynasty" of sagas. lol. See, the Blood Wars served a purpose similar to the Rebellion. In terms of the Force, the Rebellion set a stage for a revelation in the mysticism of the Force (which would eventually lead to the redefinition of the Unifying Force). In the Blood Wars, the LIVING Force becomes redefined. Vergere once explained her POINT OF VIEW that the Light and Dark Sides were really control vs. raw power (mixed with opposing intentions, of course). In Blood Wars, as it approaches the climax of the story (the point where everyone finds out how Khan came to be in the first place, in the penultimate story called "Causality"), the freedom fighters and the Jedi learn that the Living Force--which can be considered the Mind of the Force--also has a negative aspect to it, in the form of an opposite-and-equal entity. Death is a manifestation of this entity, and Khan is a malformed incarnation of Death. So you can see that Phest's family (since Phest is Khan's clone's son, another revelation near the end) is full of twisted lineage. The Second Stage of my entire storyarc, which takes place 1-15 years after the last book in Blood Wars (called "Storm of the Soul") is a preparation for the third, which revolves around a THIRD convocation of the Force. The Living Force is one... the Unifying Force is another... and the Temporal Force--the Force-aspect of Universal Mysticism aka "Time"! The ultimate and last confrontation that takes place in the Skywalker dynasty is in the trilogy of the third stage... and it boils down to a middle-aged Ben Skywalker ("merged" with heroes who have become one with the Force) confronting the Force itself. So how do the "Blood Wars" end, you ask? Simple... with the rebirth of another long-dead character fighting against his Lord (Khan). Ahhh.. when minions rebel... -----signature----- BLOOD WARS -- features: OC; includes: S/S, J/J, A/T, etc http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=15817119&replies=11
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Jarrkha Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 5/8/04 4:50pm Subject: RE: THE BLOOD WARS --Serial Synopses
	I'm working on the final synopsis of Blood Wars now (it'll first be posted on Strands of Fate, DD). I've started to read your fan fics too.. and from what i see.. very, very interesting (that Mask.. reminds me of the Ring. heh). From what I've noticed, official stories tend to stay away from relics. Sure we have stories based on Kashi Mer relics, Holocrons, rare antiquities and whatnot.. but its not the same. Not to the extent of Lord of the Rings. Not even The Seeker's lightsabers in Blood Wars is focused on to the extent LOTR focuses on The One Ring. So you're Mask-touch is a nice variation from typical Star Wars story-dom. I've anticipated turns in The New Jedi Order for years now (ever since SbS I could see one step ahead and be pretty accurate --> hell I was almost pissed off when Boba Fett reappeared with pseudo-Mandalorians.. I damn well thought the authors had gone to SW.com's message boards and subsequently fscRP and stolen my idea...), and althought it was QUITE the bold turn away from typical EU-trends (the shy and sullied variation from the norm of The Black Fleet Crisis notwithstanding).. it wasn't enough for me in the end. And I was VERY disappointed with the Galactic Alliance's decision to return to Coruscant in NJO: UF (as well as the extreme emphasis placed on Jacen. Blah. Jaina all the way). Sure, its logical. But c'mon. THREE governments failed on that planet.. surely they don't want to risk continuing the trend with the GFFA (the official acronym of the Alliance btw). So, I looked at the type of villains that the SWU has seen. I came to a conclusion: the most thrilling villains were subtle and cunning, like Onimi. The most interesting adversaries to our heroes weren't necessarily evil (like the Yevetha and the Yuuzhan Vong, who fought for what they believed in). The most bloodied and diabolical crises revolved around the Force (a la the Sith Wars, the Jedi Purges, the Yuuzhan Vong war...). I also looked at the trends I saw in the NJO (culminating with Traitor and Final Prophecy) and in The Hand of Thrawn (remember Jorj Car'das and his "rainbow theory?"); and I realized that even official continuity revelations didn't necessarily have to be the Tao ("Way of thought/Life") in Force philosophy. So.. I created Khan. Anytime he interacts with Force-users, especially Jacen and Tahiri, he advocates a less "pure" philosophy in the Force (although he doesn't call his words interpretation or philosophy, but fact.. since he IS an incarnation-in-someone-else's-body of the Force, after all). Khan believes that the Dark Side and Light Side ARE very much real, BECAUSE of the very beings in the universe. It is their MINDS that give existence to the manifestations of the Dark and Light Sides. Although Vergere is right in the sense that the Force probably didn't BEGIN with a Light and Dark Side (and also doesn't maintain them by its own will); it is PEOPLE who created it and maintain it. After all, the Force is symbiotic and cyclic with life/death. His goals are stated in the summaries, but as to why I gave "him" such "human" goals (i.e., taking revenge on the galaxy--his private goal--and slaughtering everybody he sees because he wants to and its his job--his public goal) was because they provide more catharsis for the story itself (EVERYONE gets tired being in the persona of a God!). Blood Wars is VERY different from a normal Star Wars story in all senses: the villainry, the motives, the Force, the political situation (this is a THREE side civil war after all), the Jedi situation (this is a war they decided to back out on, save for a few), and the character interactions: one protagonist, Meikel Mandalon, is an anti-hero; the other, The Seeker, is not just pschizophrenic but insane as well; the antagonist is a bloodthirsty-yet-lethally cunning mastermind with IMMENSE Force power (wait, that sounds like Palpatine!); the mentor character is actually a Skywalker this time (yes, Ben's role in Blood Wars isn't that direct; and Luke, Leia and Mara are... retired to say the least)! -----signature----- BLOOD WARS -- features: OC; includes: S/S, J/J, A/T, etc http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=15817119&replies=11
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Jarrkha Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 5/8/04 8:22pm Subject: RE: THE BLOOD WARS --Serial Synopses - Date Edited: 10/2/06 11:24pm (1 edits total) Edited By: DVeditor
	Storm of the Soul: (What can I say... I like to follow a Matt Stover kinda-style.. if u've read Shatterpoint, you'll know its divided into three segments.. though I don't know WHY since they all occur immediately right after another!) Prologue: Three bipedal figures stood in a ready position in front of an assault shuttle hatch, itching to board the Yuuzhan Vong warship looming in front of them. Several other shuttles nearby also had figures experiencing the same angst of imminent violence. Amongst the three in the Tempest Blade, was a young man named Phest Dakk. Unlike most of his compatriots, however, he was not a native Imperial citizen. He was from the Deep Core, taken by a strange witch-woman and a tall, sinister-looking pale man writhing with hateful energies. Phest was one of the first students enrolled in The Shadow Academy, created under the banner of the Warlords' Second Imperium. He had known all along that it was Imperials who had killed his family as they fled from the Deep Core into the Corporate Sector, where he spent most of his childhood wandering back to the home that had casted him out in the first place.... Phest, being the better pilot of the Lost Ones, took the remainder of the Shadow Academy's survivors and fled in an escape **** prior to the Academy's explosion. He arrived in the confined space of the true Imperial Remnant, lead by the aging Gilad Pellaeon. They landed on Muunilist, where the Ubiqtorate began a program of training soldiers in the ways of the Jedi. Eventually, when the Yuuzhan Vong invaded, these soldiers were trained in the arts of Echani, Teras Kasi and other martial art forms; becoming lethal warriors in the slaying of Yuuzhan Vong. But they were also smart. Their trainers made it a point of keeping their prodigees educated. As such, one of the subjects in the classroom were the Jedi Knights. Phest took particular interest in young Anakin Solo (who was about the same age as he), and was saddened to learn of his death above the skies of Myrkr on the worldship Baanu Raas. He was there, aboard the cloaked shuttle Tempest Blade, during that incident. He had had a taste of voxyn as well... eventually, he took a liking to Tahiri Veila (watching her grow from afar), but it was not her who would be his first--and only--love. On a long-term intelligence-gathering mission conducted under the auspices of Pellaeon (who had become aware of this group amongst his ranks), Phest met a young woman named Amira. He would never know that Amira would have a daughter of the same namesake. As the Vong fought to decimate Bastion and Muunilist, the Imperial force-soldiers were used to infiltrate Vong ships to subjugate them from the shadows. Alas, a group of strong Hunter-class Vong warriors had wounded Phest and slain most of his comerades. Phest, with his double-bladed green and blue lightsaber, slew all the Hunters save for one (who would later be glorified to become Shimrra's first Slayer), and called upon the Force to destroy the flagship of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet attacking Muunilist... his lightsaber, floated away in space, unbeknownst to the galaxy for many years... Luckily for Khan, the Imperials kept clones of their warriors... Part I In the thickets of the underground, The Seeker/Soldier Six--who finally accepted that his persona was that of the essence of Phest's spirit--and Amira Veila ventured into the depths of Khan's secret lair. They had deduced that this area of Ossus was volcanic, since they had nearly perished suffering the heat and lava of the underground. As they made their way towards the surface, still undetected by Khan's forces, they grew more and more certain that Khan himself was here--and both of them felt the strange call of Living Force (through the words of their writhing midichlorians); drawing them to a well of Force currents high in the caverns of the volcano's mountain. Eventually, they arrived at the fortresses' base, working their way towards databanks. They uncovered full statistics of Khan's forces... Ossus was a breeding ground! Khan had military transports capable of operating on surface and in the atmosphere, and waiting to transport tens of thousands--possibly a couple hundred thousand--demon-warriors (both the superior anti-Jedi and inferior reptile-like classes), their beasts of burden counterparts, and platoons of Terror drones! In a daring attempt to sabotage the factories, they made their way to the roof-side of the fortresses' base. On both sides of the mountain chain, they saw the factories spur out two armies: one army supporting the transports (presumably heading for Knossa, the only place with safe atmospheric conditions); and the other equipped and ready for battle. While Phest made his way past the Tower of the fortress and into the secluded hallways that leached deep into the treacherous caverns of the volcano, Amira headed to the siege Tower command chambers themselves. The fortress' main anti-ship siege cannon could be used as a signal to let the rest of Ossus know that the great battle of the Blood Wars had begun. Meanwhile, Shadow and Ben raced towards the Slave City to aid Taaru and the others. His troopers managed to shoot down the speeder carrying the fledging Black Master; killing the tyrant once and for all. Nevertheless, the scout forces of the transport army were terrorizing the small picket force Taaru had set up. Shadow and the others were forced to flee, towards the city of New Vithan. Ood Bnar II stayed behind in the ruins of the city, making his way back to his camps to give protection to the Ysanna there. As Shadow, Ben, Taaru, Jysella, Coldhur, Xenn and Beta squadron of Page's Guardians raced towards New Vithan's protection, Y'leisah and an ailing Sart-u lead the Mandalorians to victory in the Scourge. It was then, that they witnessed the return of a battered and nearly broken Alpha Squadron of Page's Guardians--Falumir's squadron, now lead by his cousin Kend (who was Gilian's son). The alphas had braved some of the factories surrounding the storm. They had discovered that the Fortress lay in the eye of the storm... Sart-u, incapacitated for the moment, could feel the unrest of the Alphas' souls... she had a vision, one that showed the flight of the Galactic Alliance's forces (Imperial, Hapan, and former Republican alike) from themselves... the remnants of the Democracy were under the banner of the League. The vision then switched to that of herself, fleeing the spacestation of the Shocktroopers and MandalMotors' remnants from the Mandalon clan's troopships.... the station was blown to infitestimal atoms and the resulting explosion engulfed every ship in the vicinity, signifying the end of the Mandalorians forever. She next saw the skull of Jaina Solo being thrown to the floor in front of Jacen, who was wounded in a duel with a blindingly bright figure. The figure spoke with Khan's voice; and by the way civilians and soldiers pranced around in her vision, she could tell that he was exalted as a hero. To top it off, Sart-u was carrying twin children in her vision. Her torture ended as she awoke, to the blasting sounds of a giant cannon echoing. Veranor and Noremar saw the lights in the distance, firing in typical GFFA morse-code that were taught to all soldiers and dignitaries of the Alliance. Scanners read a fleet of 10 massive 400-meter long transports converging on Slave City. It was then that Shadow and his entourage appeared, with a troupe of Ysanna tribals to aid the police forces in the defense of the city. Taaru, the ranking officer in the city, ordered Ben to flee Ossus in the Jade Shadow immediately. The ship had landed many kilometers from Knossa with the Mandalorian troopships, and it was the only ship on Ossus capable of getting out of the system to call for aid in unhindered realspace (where the two stars of the Adegan system couldn't distort a distress call). Ben reluctantly agreed, and begun his flight. Jysella and Coldhur decided to journey with him as he made his way to Knossa. They would not leave the planet however; but make their way towards the Jedi Sanctuary to prepare a defense. Taaru headed towards the Scourge to rally up the forces there... leaving Shadow and Xenn charged with the defense of the city, to much of Veranor's chagrin. The semi-reunion of the freedom fighters were cut short, and they all split up again to embark on their perilous quests. None of them had time to mourn the passing of their comerade, Meikel. The scout forces of the battle army began invading the residential areas of New Vithan; forcing civilians to flee towards the Governmental stronghold (which was incidentally, a small city of itself!). Taaru arrived, but to his great despair, he found that Kend had lead Alpha Squadron and their charged Alliance soldiers (finally reunited with the squadron) in a mission to undermine the front flanks of the battle army. Y'leisah volunteered to ride after him in a swoop to prevent utter disaster. As the down-trotted Kend began his dramatic march atop his war mount, followed by 14 other Alpha squadron members and dozens of Alliance troopers on klaadu beasts (domestic riding animals fast on their legs and strong enough to be battle-worthy); Jaina Solo, Tenel Ka Chume-Djo, Jagged Fel, Shawnkyr Nuruodo and Admiral Salabaar lead the Swords (the First War fleet in the GFFA) towards Omnicron. The Twin Suns, Rogue and Spike squadrons lead other wings of forces as they deployed from their capital ships, ready to enter their last leg through hyperspace to obliterate the enemy "homeworld" once and for all. And throughout this tense, drawn-out deep breathing before the plunge, demon warriors and Khan's hive ships readied their weapons to preemptively decimate the forces that were closing in upon them... Meanwhile... Amira realized that the cannon could shoot Sevlar and his command ship (Lion's Wrath) to oblivion now that the League was aware of intruders. She headed towards the lower command centre--visible through a large viewport near the bottom of the tower--of the Fortress to destroy the master console controlling the cannon and outer defenses. But, to get there, she had to go through the back door of the fortress, which teethed with thousands of little critters intent on smittening their stomachs... and Phest, continued his violent trek slaughtering guards in his path as he headed towards the volcano's interior. Ben in the Jade Shadow reached Sevlar's ship and updated him through a short-range holo. He agreed to stay behind to support the Jedi as Ben lead a contigent of flyers towards Mon Calamari. As Jacen found himself worrying more and more while meditating upon the Force, he received the general holo made out to Jedi and Galactic Alliance headquarters alike. A bigger battle was about to start. The closest force near Ossus was Todrin's forces; Traest Kre'fey and the other Alliance ships near Coruscant and Denon could not arrive in time. He sent a flicker through the Force to warn his sister that Omnicron might be a diversion. During all of this, Ben and his flyers aided the Dozen Avengers and their allies in holding off the League forces beleaguring them near the border of the Tion cluster. Jacen Solo appeared with a scrounged-up contigent of Jedi (Kyp Durron, Kenth Hamner, Tahiri Veila, Sannah, Valin Horn and his apprentice Tonic, Needo and his charges Quaal Ti and Dean Purfo) but his destination was not Ossus. Both he and Ben felt that Todrin, Sevlar, Taaru and the Jedi would be sufficient to quell the battle on Ossus. They made their way towards Coruscant first, to enlist Cilghal, Saba, Tesar, Lowbacca, Raynar, Freevth Koth, Vin (Xenn's former master) and Zekk. Back on Ossus, Y'leisah was let through the government building's bays. She rode her bike towards the city hall, carrying Kend's unconscious body with her. New Vithan's residencies were overrun--there were no survivors besides these two. Alpha Squadron had been obliterated to one member. She crawled along the centre's fort walls, picking off advancing enemy warriors from a distance like the assassin she was. Xenn, stood ready at the front gates with some forces, ready to defend the city at all cost. The Beta squadron had dispersed to strategic points along the governmental centre, aiding in the sanctuary of the people. Whatever Alliance forces were left in the city, were called back to the governmental city under the fearful cry of Veranor... who was finally overthrown by his mistreated son Noremar. Noremar and Shadow lead a valiant defense as the centre launched projectiles and artillery deployments to destroy enemy lines; unfortunately, it was no siege base. The troops still advanced onwards, launching their own artillery and wrecking the centre as they did the rest of the city. Even as they were massacred along their flanks by the Scourge's long-range guns and Taaru & Mandalorians alike, the sheer number of the League's warriors meant inevitable victory. In Knossa, the Jedi had mounted a defense as they sensed the other army approaching. Sevlar had told them to hold out as long as they can, as he shot down enemy fighters in space with his ship. Eventually, all unnatural satellites around Ossus were being engulfed and crashed towards the surface; Sevlar had to divulge all his guns to pinpoint and destroy debris heading towards the surface, letting the enemy bulk and assault vessels carry-on in maiming his ship. The combined efforts of Jysella, Tionne, Tekli, Tresina, Tyria, Rosh, Kurtis & Alessia and Do Spune--the administrators and instructors of the training facility alike--could not prevent the siege of Knossa. The great Jedi spacesport began to take heavy hits.. in three days, the demons had finally penetrated the city and moved towards the Jedi stronghold. Not even Chief Shaman Gilian and his Ysanna army could stop this army. Drones and flying beasts attacked from above; great monsters resembling armoured beasts from Mace Windu's world of Haruun Kal trampled the streets like AT-AT walkers; and the massive transports laid waste to the shield generators and the anti-air guns as they headed towards their capital-ship counterparts above the skies... Gilian and his forces had to retreat to the Jedi stronghold (an erected building outlied with docking bays) in the spacesport. Nearby, the Jedi library was attacked as well. Although Sevlar destroyed and fended off some of the escaping transports, he was in no position to destroy the assault force barraging his ship. It was then that Todrin Pierce appeared with his massive troop carriers and his base--a super star destroyer!--to come to the rescue. His army managed to wipe out the remnants of the demon army on Knossa, and it left Gilian free to ride on towards New Vithan to aid in the defense of the city. Eventually it came down to Todrin and the General of the support army... as the General rode around on its mutated howlrunner decapitating stormtroopers and Ysanna alike, it leapt atop Pierce's Y-4 mobile commmand base and began tearing it apart with its weapons. Pierce leapt out and beckoned to it, wielding his lightblade with deadly efficiency. However, much to his disdain, the swordarm of the General was bending light, making it invisible! A terrible duel erupted and Pierce ended up slaying the vile monstrosity at the beset of losing his forearm. Meanwhile, Xenn lead an offensive out into the enemy territory, aided by a shadowy Y'leisah and a very viscious Taaru and Mandalorian forces. Gilian's daughter, Ria Ysanna, had taken arms after her father left to defend Knossa--since he would not be fooled by the offensive launched on Vithan--and began fighting in the offensive as well. Then Gilian appeared with his army and Ood Bnar II, as the battle drew to an end, and they began mopping up the unprovoked flank of the army. But the General of this army--neuro-linked to a great canine-like beast he called a Thornbee-X--used his talents and mortally wounded Gilian. Ria stepped in to slay both the beast and its master... and with their deaths, the first stage of the battle was over. The Alliance forces began repairing themselves, awaiting the arrival of reinforcements to regroup for their ultimate offensive. Meanwhile, Phest came face-to-face with the very thing that had been calling him as the Living Force; the Well of the Dead. A great nexus of spirits and Force energy raged before him, confronting his mind. It was a war of wills and beliefs.. one, who stood for a chance to enjoy life's pros and cons; vs. the other, who stood for a chance to take life's illnesses and mishaps away. These souls were causing the Storm--or so Phest thought. It was then Phest realized that he was not confronting the soul of the storm; but the storm of the soul. Bewildered, he collapsed, feeling his spirit leave as The Seeker's Soldier persona began to manifest itself as a whole being... (TBC) -----signature----- BLOOD WARS -- features: OC; includes: S/S, J/J, A/T, etc http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=15817119&replies=11
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Jarrkha Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 5/9/04 8:42am Subject: RE: THE BLOOD WARS --Serial Synopses
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	Storm of the Soul: Part II The skies were as clear and crystalline as they could get on Ossus. The clouds rolled with a soft and serene tranquility, even though they sparked with tendrils of lightning and electricity every now and then. But, as the lands became more barren and wasted and the newly planted vegetation became more sparse, the thunder claps and lightning flashes became frequent. The wind howled with a bellowing rage and the skies grew as dark as the night. A great dust cloud swirled in the distance, where a fiery ash storm waged war against the skies. But, near to the storm, was a range of mountains that concluded in a great set of scarred earth; laden with miles-deep gorges that careened across the wastelands. This was known as the Scourge of Ossus; and even the highest hill in the scourge could not compare to the depths of the canyons. A skirmish could be heard amidst the canyon effaces--flashes, bangs and screams alike. A great wail from a tormented beast echoed throughout the air, and a yell of pure disbelief and distraught followed. Meikel and the hydra-riding General fought to a standstill; his saber cut down on the dragon, decapitating it and sending both of them on a plunge through a wide gorge as they flew over it. He could hear Sart-u and Y'leisah scream after him as he grabbed onto the nearest ledge, with his enemy latching onto his left leg. The rocks started to shift and crumble--with a sudden jolt they fell free, sending Meikel and his adversary to their abyssmal doom. They fell for what seemed like hours as he wrestled the freak; battering it against the walls of the gorge and scraping its flesh. It gnawed and clawed at his body, tearing skin and letting blood fly in their wake. He grabbed at his falling lightsaber and thrust it deep into the gnarly flesh of the beast--who knew what assortment of species made that up--as it too had slashed at his chest. Together they plummeted into the cataclysmic bottom of an underground ocean. It was not very clear who survived; but when the stink, rotten body of the General washed up next to Meikel's still-breathing but clearly incarcerated form... it was Meikel who ended up the winner. Although, with the injuries he suffered and was still suffering, winning didn't seem like an achievement to be praised for. Many hours were spent as he lathered in the water, drifting in his subconscious as he fought back the bitter pain. And then, even his subconscious was unconscious as he felt himself being lifted from the water and carried elsewhere. He felt his gauntlets and armour stripped from his tattered body, taken with his lightsaber, and cast away somewhere nearby. An armoury perhaps? The next thing he knew, he was chained to a wall in a dank, murky cell that he assumed was underground. He tried to call out, but words would not form. His lips were chapped, his throat was dry, and his vocal cords felt strained and weak. His sweat had dried on his skin, making him feel salty and drained. His wounds had scarred and felt fresh still, and his bones ached with pulsing torment. The lighting was dim; he could see naught but the cobwebs in front of his face. He could hear nothing but the panting of his own body and the muffled echoes of critters--and people?--somewhere. He felt a couple familar presences suddenly flair into existence and then dim in the vicinity. Perhaps his allies--his friends--had come to rescue him? Unlikely. He had kept his presence pulled so close to his being it was like his self had engulfed his aura. Master Solo had once said there was a technique that could mask Force-auras and shy one's power to a point of nonexistence. Meikel had somehow learned it the last time he was captured--assuming he was captured now. The last time, on Geonosis, Khan and his minions had turned him into one of those wretched Force-slaves.. he had become a viscious zombie teething with fear and hatred. He could see himself maim other prisoners and lure his team mates into a trap, but could have done nothing back then. Master Vin, who had once been an old rival of Meikel's, suffered near-fatal damage to both his psychotic and physical state as he freed Meikel from the grasp of Khan. Somehow, since then, he attained a greater hearing in the Force. His relationship with it became more friendly and intimate, and he finally accepted his previous unwanted talents. But he was well into his thirties by then--how adept could he hope to become in a time like this? All he knew now, besides his lingering agony, was that the Living Force was telling him to remain "dead"--or was it? He wasn't even sure anymore.. it had been days. He couldn't remember a time when the call of the Force was so clear; yet he pained to hurt Sart-u this way, fooling her with his prolonged death. He was bewildered as to why his thinking patterns were becoming unlike his own personality... he felt a change in himself. And in his friends. All of them. Some.. were not good either. * The tell-tale blue-white swirling lights of hyperspace instantly dimmed to the blackness of realspace as the Rogues and the First Fleet arrived at Omnicron. Instantly, they were met with blaster-fire from incoming ships--they were expected! However, unlike battles of the past, Jaina and her forces were expecting to be expected. As they were fired upon, automatic systems of the ships coming out of hyperspace ignited magnetic shields, sending the bolts from whence they came. However, this stopped their propulsion; but their momentum from hyperspace carried them onwards towards their targets. What had perplexed Jaina, Gavin, Inyri, Jagged and Evlyn (the leaders of their respective squadrons) the most was the noticeable lack of capital ships surrounding Omnicron. Oh, there were still a good number of assault ships; namely Khan's smaller Manka-class dreadnaughts pouncing upon their Defender-class Star Destroyers like their namesakes: manka cats. The command ship of his defense fleet was also there: the Drainer as it was called. It was a Nemesis-class Star Destroyer, approximately 5600 meters in length, but littered with alien technology capable of polarizing shields... causing them to go magnetic. When used at the right time, that could be very deadly to the victim--should they have been firing blasters at the time. The bolts would ricochet right off their own shields and they would end up being blasted by themselves. Khan's captains and admirals had uncanny timing. The battle waged on for a while, until the Rogues discovered a hidden stationary object orbiting the other side of the system: it was a hyperspace gateway! All of a sudden, things had become clear to Jaina as she heard Jacen's call: Khan's offensive fleets had gone through the gateway to evade the defenses the Alliance had set up.... and since they were heavily concentrated near the core, she could only surmise one thing: Khan was going after Ossus and Mon Calamari. Ossus harboured Jedi hopefuls and the Order's administrators; Mon Calamari had become one of the most able and productive--if not the most productive--military centres of the Galactic Alliance! "All Alliance forces. This is General Solo. Regroup, repeat, regroup!" she had called out. As they retreated from Khan's forces en route to Mon Calamari, Jacen and his contigent--accompanied by High Admiral Traest Kre'fey's fleet--had exited out of hyperspace when they were halfway there. Captain Ben Skywalker was then promoted to Commander, and given command of a new ship under the Jedi's banner: the Skywalker. The Skywalker was an Imperial Penetrator-class assault ship capable of carrying thousands of troops and a full wing of starfighters and operating in an atmosphere! He lead the front battallion of the newly-formed armada on a trek towards Ossus... * Grand General Todrin Pierce, the Jedi, and the freedom fighters had regrouped with their forces and began planning their next move as they awaited the return of Ben. Shadow, the most seniour member of the Alliance on Ossus, had designated Pierce the commandant of the combined assault force they were assembling. The Jedi on Ossus, lead by Tionne and Tresina Lobi, volunteered to aid their forces as defenders and specialized units. This was the first time since the Yuuzhan Vong invasion that Jedi not only fought alongside Imperials, [former] Republicans, and Hapans (Alliance members basically) alike--but would be soldiers in their ranks! Tionne knew, however, that such a move could be dangerous for Jedi, given her knowledge of their command of the clone armies during the Clone Wars. This time, however, the Jedi were ready to lead stormtroopers--and their clones, the Wartroopers--and Alliance First- and Second-class soldiers. After a few days of recuperating, Ben and his kin had arrived with official Galactic Alliance forces. They began the repairs of Sevlar's ship and started landing battallions on the planet. Khan had managed to transport nearly half of his army--250,000 demon warriors alone--to his carriers nearby, but had lost more than a quarter of it. However, this left a good 60,000+ warriors, plus a sizeable force of soldiers and an unknown number of Terror Drones to deal with at Khan's fortress. It was clear what Khan wanted to do now: his surprise attack on Mon Calamari would be the first planetary assault made by his starfaring siege fortresses that contained the carriers transporting his countless troops. He was planning to end the war by subjugating Mon Calamari and nearby Alliance worlds through siege and entropy. With his gateways--one of which was fortunately destroyed at Omnicron--he could go anywhere in the galaxy without delay, and his armies would need no time in decimating and subjugating helpless worlds. Each warrior was an elite in this demon army. For strong and well-trained fighters, they may have been straightforward to slay: but in groups their efforts seemed amplified and compounded. Just like the Super Soldiers that The Seeker had slain. They could not let these armies escape the Adegan system. And it would not be easy either: the impenetrable shield around the fortress prevented ships from firing on it, and it also prevented bombing from fighters and escape from prisoners. Even if the shield were to fall, the cannon was capable of rendering an Imperial-class Star Destroyer useless in an instant. Khan was very smart indeed: his storm, that sprung from a canyon surrounding the wastelands in front of the fortress and ending by the mountains by the factories to the side and behind it, prevented an army of troops and vehicles from marching towards his fortress and taking out the generators! Luckily, Traest and Sevlar brought interesting weather devices that would enable Pierce's armies to wash in on Khan's grounds like water washing in on the sands of the shore. Sart-u, healed enough to fight, joined the freedom fighters as they banded together with Needo & his apprentices, Xenn, Alessia, Kurtis and the remnants of Alpha Squadron (which had grown to 4 members--including a healed Kend Ysanna and Wraith Squadron's Plenn Starscreamer--in the last few days, and will later grow to incorporate their trainer Rohann Ekwesh, and the newest war heroes Ria and Vahr). In an assault shuttle capable of flying low in Ossus' treacheries skies, they would infiltrate Khan's fortress with Dark Trooper backup and rescue Phest and Amira... Sart-u, on the other hand, knew from her vision that the fabled Black Masters awaited them in their Tower. * The League's forces amassed themselves on the other side of the Adegan system, near the hypergate. They began their journey towards Ossus, to break the array of Alliance ships and crush the fools once and for all. Then, there would be nothing to rebel against the glorification of the galaxy. And with the Eclipse III and the Bismark amidst the mighty fleet, what force could stop them? Khan himself awaited victory on-planet, eagerly anticipating the confrontation that was about to ensue. He long suspected that the key to his victory--or his defeat--lay on Ossus, in the out-of-control Well of the Dead. Now he knew that his nuances had come to take him out themselves. He was tired of the insane charade he put up. His true goal was revealed: he would purify the Force with his ascension, turning it into the embodiment of death forever. To do that, he would merge his physical self into his astral realm by jumping into the well with the Key in his grasp. * On Denon, the new Chief of State Releqy A'kla and her chief advisors on the High Council convened with dignitaries of the Democracy. Their leader, the old man Dif Scaur, had perished along with Sal-Solo's son Laur. Only Norad, the Vice-President, and his Executive Board could meet with the High Council (notably without their Jedi representatives). As they convened to discuss peace, they received a message from Alliance Military Commander Traest Kre'fey that Ossus had ensued in a battle.. and that they should be wary of the outcome. Both Norad, aka "Razor Shard" and Releqy put their forces on alert, ready for any incoming attack. But none came, save for a message made by shadowy figures sent in a holo. This message would not be replayed until after the battle; whether the outcome good or bad. *** On Ossus, Amira encountered two of the Black Masters; one left her alone after a brief melee... but the other, far greater than most of them, did not pursue violence. Instead, he told her everything she needed to know: that around the Battle of Ebaq her mother, Amira had met a man named Phest Dakk and fell in love. Soon after she had given birth to a baby girl, and later fought in the recapture of Coruscant. Amira died, but left her girl on Zonama Sekot when it appeared in the galaxy proper during the climax of the confrontation. She knew that he was telling the truth, because she could feel it in the Force... besides, her allies had long ago figure out that it was this nefarious clandestine association that had watched certain individuals over many years: including Amira's adoptive mother, Tahiri. Thus it came as no surprise when he told her that Tahiri had found the girl on Zonama Sekot and instinctively named her Amira. The Living Force had also told her to train as a Jedi, as she would play an important role later on. Amira was then left all alone, and she could hear the distant sounds of battle ensue... they seemed close. The Alliance was attacking! She looked out beyond the Tower to the cloudy skies, and felt in the flow of the Force many strong Jedi and individuals. She could feel thousands in segmented clusters above the skies; indicating that fleets were about to engage. The Last Battle had begun. To the sentry warriors, the whirling storm plunging forth from the great gap in the earth did not seem to deviate from its normality today. There they stood, on their guard towers, alert--and tense, for they heard of the battles being waged on Ossus; the enemy had come too close--ready to anything. What they saw was more than anything. For an army under the banner of the Galactic Alliance began to spew through the Force-made barrier! It seemed, at long last, the GFFA had realized once more what it truly was not: it was not the New Republic's remnants nor its successor--it truly was an Alliance. The Imperials, they were the Alliance. The Alliance... they were the Imperials. The same went for the volunteer Jedi protectors on Coruscant, the Hapans, the Tion Hegemony, the Ryn Network, the Jensaarai, the Chiss, the Ysanna, the Mon Calamari, and other autonomous groups. And this showed in the assembled army: a cadre of Imperial walkers and stormtroopers; Hapan royal soldiers; surviving Ysanna warrior-priests; Mandalorian allies about to reunite under the ancient Mandalorian banner; Alliance government troopers and both Class-I guards and Page's Guardians; and the Jedi lead by Jacen Solo and Tionne Solusar. Yes, some of the Jedi had come; but only the veterans used to helping the Galactic Alliance and their allies from the days before political peace and the Blood Wars. Jacen and Tionne (aided by a squad of the Dark Troopers) lead Waxarn Kel, Markre Medjev, Tam Azur-Jamin, Octa Ramis, Do Spune (from Rosh Pennin's and Jaden Korr's class), Tresina Lobi and Rosh Pennin with Todrin Pierce and Shadow (who had Nikki Fardreamer's Page's Guardians squadron scouting the front lines). Tahiri Veila had also arrived to lead Jysella, Tekli, Alessia Kujo (from Rosh Pennin and Jaden Korr's class), Alema Rar, Sannah, Valin Horn, Vin'yopassik, Needo, Freevth Koth (the last three being from Rosh's class), Qaal Ti, Xenn Zhu, Tonic and Dean Purfo (the last few alien Jedi [Quaal to Dean] being newly appointed Jedi Knights). Up above, Jaina Solo also had Ben Skywalker and a contigent of Jedi starpilots/commanders aiding her: Saba Sebatyne, Tesar Sebatyne, Tenel Ka, Kyp Durron, Tyria Sarkin Tainer and Kenth Hamner. Meanwhile, Lowbacca (of whom he and his cousin Lumpawaroo had finally fullfilled Chewbacca's life-debt), Cilghal and Zekk remained behind on Coruscant to assist in matters there. Coldhur, Y'lesiah and a nearly-healed Sart-u felt like third wheels of course, since they were also going with Tahiri's party to infiltrate the fortress to rescue Amira and "Phest." They placed Taaru in command of the the three--aided by Lieutenant Kend's squadron of Page's Guardians--but he had been feeling a growing dread with every moment. He expected that he would not see tomorrow. Aside from the main assault battallion, Pierce had another surprise in store: the 1st Wartrooper battallion ready to come as aide. The plan was to slowly move towards the fortress as they spent the next few days assaulting the sentry positions and wiping out the outer defenses; then they would take out all fortress defenses to allow Alliance ships in low orbit to blow Khan's lair to smithereens. Up above, the two battle groups traded blows for what seemed like eternity, but of course, the heat of the battle had not become and both sides were just warming up. Khan's last planet-bound General ordered the remaining Demon Army to assemble against the incoming enemy forces. Up above, the strongest General he had left commanded the Eclipse III against the Skywalker and other ships. Both battles were beginning to heat up. Meanwhile, "Phest" was beginning to realize why Khan had chosen to place his lair on Ossus... and Khan, began to await the arrival and activation of the Well Key. He was located deep in the volcano, on his central pad that lead to control rooms that regulated the power output to the shield generators and the cannon. Of course, the cannon itself was causing havoc for the fleets; and small ships were crashlanding all over Ossus--not even the various storms could contain them--as well, some aerial fighters began to reign terror on both armies as they fought to dim numbers. Eventually, the storm surrounding the fortress was lessened so much that it appeared to have disappeared. Pierce called the Jedi to lead Wartrooper mounted units to make a push through with the Mandalorians and Hapans towards the Fortress Gate. With their support taking out enemy artillery, the air shuttle was free to fly to settle down within the fortress gates. Taaru's and Tahiri's team slowly made it towards the main foyer area--where they would find turbolifts to the Tower's command base area--as they fought various League guards. Even if a member fell to be incapacitated by wounds, they used their support to carry them back to the hovering shuttle; no one could be left--dead or alive--on the Fortress grounds. Finally, after 6 Guardians and 4 Jedi (Alessia, Alema, Sannah, Valin, Vin'yopassik, and Needo) were terribly wounded (Alessia the most, since her stepbrother Kujo had been killed at Gilian's encampment, marking the third battle-caused death of a Jedi since the war began), the team made it to the Tower base. There, Amira and Phest had already caused havoc days earlier, thus there was nothing left to oppose them. Amira managed to wipe out the cannon once and for all. The battle semed to be nearing a relative calm point. Jacen and the battallion supporting him were soon flanked by Pierce and his commanders' battallions. Pierce lead the designated front battallion--incidentally the one in best condition--towards the Gates.... and suddenly, from the cliff faces and the factories, as well as the hangar gates... out poured thousands upon thousands of Terror Drones and League Soldiers. The climax of the battle was nearing... Pierce, after a courage-striking speech that made his men hold ground, lead the Jedi and the battlegroup in a final, desparate charge against Khan's trump card. As for Jaina, her forces were beginning to dwindle significantly. Ben Skywalker, who needed his picket force to break through the front wedge of the enemy fleet, managed to do so by ramming his damaged flank in a fighter-carrier. He was one of the few ships now up against the Eclipse III. In order to win the battle, the fleet must survive.. and if they must survive... they had to render the Eclipse III destroyed or useless. He remembered a tale he heard of his ailing father once, one that had changed the fate of the galaxy forever. His kinsmen had said that his father had almost single-handedly blown up the first Death Star with two proton torpedos. A superweapon with a loose defense system was weak against relatively infitestimal counter-weapons... he would apply the same theory here. Except, the infitestimal weapons would be a spacetrooper--namely him. Ben made a farewell salute to his crew, and turned the ship over to the tactical offcer. He geared up and launched himself at the mega Star Destroyer... he first started with power supply lanes.. wiping them out and then heading towards comm arrays; destroying them too. With various starfighters whipping about his back, Ben headed for shield generators and began taking them out. The only reason he was able to survive was because of the purity of the Unifying Force--and something else in it too. Jaina, and even the other Jedi in space, could also feel the strangeness coming from the Force. The Living aspect of it. A different "voice" from the midichlorians began speaking... something other than a battle was occuring on the planet. Amira, reunited with her adoptive family and friends, began hearing the strange call from the Living Force. Her own voice in the Force started to project as well. Then suddenly, strange flashes from the past impounded against her memories... she saw how she had come to Zonama Sekot: Tahiri had finally located the Widowmaker as per Luke's request. She had taken it to Zonama to have the crew rested, healed and the ship repaired and restocked. But Captain Yage and her crew had been through some adventures in the past few months... Yage had recovered a dying woman and her baby girl. Tahiri and Tekli knew that no other would take the girl in; she was astutely Force-sensitive, and the Force seemed to dawn some sort of knowing on them. Thus, Tahiri decided to take the girl--who would be called Amira--as her adoptive daughter... raising her.. never knowing the destiny that the Force had beckoned of Amira. The stories that the Black Master had told Amira were true, then. The original Phest Dakk was indeed, her father. The Seeker--the Sixth Super Soldier--had indeed became of Phest. Yet, to all purposes and knowledge, The Seeker was what some Jedi called an incomplete being. Something was missing, and Amira was certain that the strange source of Force-energies would be exactly what it was missing. Sart-u raced to the turbolifts at this point, intent on ascertaining the truth of her vision by attacking the Black Masters--to end this, once and for all. Coldhur and all of the Jedi--save for Tahiri, Tekli and Amira--raced after her. Taaru, began to hack into the computer systems... ...and found that they were being surrounded. He and Tahiri volunteered to hold the fort, whilst Amira headed for Phest to rescue him. Taaru grabbed her and gave her a farewell kiss, and off she ran. The pair began to look for a means of escape; but decided that it'd be better to call the shuttle towards them. Tekli hopped onto it as it blasted thru the viewports, and she began to take control of it, landing it inside the command centre. The Guardians took defensive positions as ordered by Taaru, as dozens of Demon Warriors began pouring in with Slave Troop backup. Taaru then received a call from the army ordering him to wipe out the last generator. He took his demolitions and set off for it. Meanwhile, Sart-u recalled one very brief image from her vision--a gauntleted hand stretching forth from the soil, as if being called from the grave. But it was no ordinary gauntlet--it was that of a Mandalorian's. A red and silvered armoured Mandalorian's. She began to think that Meikel was alive... and if he was, then surely they would know it. Little did they know, the vision was coming true.. except, Meikel wasn't killed like he was in the vision. He arose from the ground, escaping from his prison and clad in his recovered armour. He was at the backside of the Fortress, near the rear bays, and with the steaming mountainside and slopes of the volcano just before him. He grabbed his lightsaber and weant for the weapons cache, recovering familiar blasters he could work with. He began to cut down on the guards and Demon warriors nearby, searching for an escape ship he could use... ...at the same instant, the anomaly in the Force was about to occur. Amira drudged up the slopes of the caverns in the volcano, passed dead bodies, skeletons and crittery arthopods stinging at her feet. It was extremly dry--yet it felt saturated--and hot in the caverns; but not dark. Light was coming from nearby . As she exhaustingly began to fall towards the ground, her persistence kept her crawling towards the downed figure she saw: Phest's alien body. It was writhing, twitching like a human. He clearly was not majorly injured, physically.. but something was bouting with his mind. Then she looked at the end of the cavern and saw it: a vast pit streaming with fearsome, crying out souls and energies causing a vast storm of Force-disturbance. It was the Well of the Dead; a rift in the boundary between the netherworld and this one. Khan had caused it to overflow when he reversed the nature of the Valley of the Jedi.. it seemed the Valley and the Well were reciprocals of each other: if one was A, the other was A^-1. If one gave power, the other took power. The Well of the Dead was a place of sorrow, dread, guilt and eternal suffering from dead souls with unfinished business--or punishment from the Force--and the souls dwelling in it yearned to live again or to quell their torment.. they attempted to attain peace by sucking the Force-energies and the essences from the living. Such was the declarations made in the Jedi Library. Now, she could hear the will of the Force speaking in a different language. It was no longer communicating through the midi-chlorians as an entity's will: it was speaking to her through her soul as its negative... she could see her soul speaking right in front of her, begging her to right the wrongs caused by Khan's assertion into the physical realm. It was time to unlock the doorway to the soul of the Living Force.. by using the Key. And it could be activated by One who could see the Storm of the Souls: Amira. But what was the Key? She wondered this, feeling slightly frantic as she searched the knowledge and wisdom of the Living Force... and she knew. As she felt inside herself, her blood; connecting her mind to the memory of her parents, Tahiri... she was lead to a common denominator: Anakin Solo. He was the key.. or perhaps, his remnant essence. The dark, hilt-bladed lightsaber Phest carried on him was somehow designed to respond only to those who had some connection with its old owner: Anakin Solo. His amethyst blade, made by a lambent crystal, had grown to a near-blackness over the years: symbolizing the void that was becoming of the Living Force. Not knowing how her blood really related to Anakin's--perhaps it contained the same "stuff" that had made Anakin so special--she used the hilt to cut her left arm. She let the blood drip on the hilt.. and she extended her blood to the Well. It began to respond immediately, being lured to the juice of the living. It took the blood she offered, leaving her feeling weak.. and the Well began to inverse itself. Suddenly, a jolt of energy sparked forth from the Well and began to envelop The Seeker. The Seeker's inhabiting soul of Phest emerged, swirling around it as a dark light to compliment the bright light enveloping his body now. It began to pulsate as The Seeker's hearbeat started up again: its mind felt memories flooding in... some Phest's.. some of another's... and the soldier persona became that of their's... two minds started to grow in the Seeker... and the two energies--both souls--were merging into a multi-coloured light! Meanwhile, Jacen and Jaina, as well as Tahiri and other veteran Jedi (including Kyp), began to feel a strange presence in the Force. It was strange because it reemerged from nonexistence. The anomaly was simple: a living aura of a familiar organism was being remade. But they couldn't put a finger on it.. until they remembered: Anakin's death. It was Anakin. He had somehow split from the Force... but his spirit felt different now; as if he had changed. And so did Phest's. In fact, no one, not even Amira or themselves (Phest and Anakin) could tell their auras apart. Phest and Anakin had merged. They were one being contained within The Seeker. It had sought out its completion. Amira realized one thing: Phest was Anakin's negative. He was his negative all along, explaining the unnatural pull Anakin had on Phest even when he was alive. The new being felt drawn to something else: a body that was rightfully its own. Amira watched her fathers fly into the Well and felt them emerge into the heart of the Volcano.... and she began to follow, trying to feel them and the presence of Death beyond. Jaina felt tears stream down her cheeks as she flew in her X-Wing, guffawed by this new revelation. Even though he had changed, her little brother had returned. Anything was possible with the Force. Even Ben--who did not remember Anakin--had felt his rebirth; as did Luke, Leia and Mara far away in the stars. Jaina remembered that she was in battle and began to fight again, heading towards Ben to save him from his mad destruction of the enemy's flagship. As she felt him clank on to her ship, she began to fly at low speeds, heading towards the Mon Mothma where the Jade Shadow was located. On Ossus, Jacen was standing perfectly still, astounded and dumbfounded by the Force. He was likewise weeping and was also engulfed in The Unifying Force again, like he once was when facing Onimi and Khan, and no enemy seemed to be touching him or the others connected to the Force--even though they made know attempt to attack or evade. They saw a great pillow of ash and dust rise from the volcano, and geysers began to erupt all over. Up above, both fleets retreated to their defensive positions for a final skirmish. Down below, all warriors began to step back from each other, all feeling the looming of the Grim Reaper upon them. The battle came to a temporary standstill. Sart-u and her party raced towards the entry way to the Upper Command room of the Tower... once again, they were beset by enemy warriors--dozens--and were forced to fight for their lives. Although, this time, the warriors were resurrected Massassi. The older Jedi foundthemselves hounded; but to their dismay, the younger Jedi (Xenn, Jysella, Dean, Qaal with Sart-u and Y'leisah) entered the room. The doors sealed behind them.. it was a trap. Taaru found his way to the chambre... but he was being stalked by one of the secretive Black Masters, the Assassin. They began to duel, and time was running out for his mission to be accomplished. Even though he fought well, Taaru fell down to maintenance level and could not rise. Facing the imminent death he had been sensing, he laughed and pulled out his thermal detonators. Throwing a wink to his adversary, he ignited them and put an end to his nemeses fortress (well, as a result that would happen). Tahiri, flooding with tears, found Amira weakened and affixed to something beyond the Well. She was yelling at someone, and then she threw the double-bladed saber Phest had given her on Ossus. The Duel of the Fates began. -----signature----- BLOOD WARS -- features: OC; includes: S/S, J/J, A/T, etc http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=15817119&replies=11
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	Part III: Revelations The Seeker had chosen the name Anakin as his call-bearing. It--he; they--did not know what it truly signified yet; but some parts of him realized that they will in time. Anakin knew that the name "Phest" had lost its original meaning--though Death, twisted and fanatical in his human form, had gone by the name of "Khan" for quite some time since the onset of his onslaught, the name "Phest" would bear decades' worth of nostalgic humiliation and historic scrutiny forever. Anakin's footsteps were heavy as he trudged towards the central pad in the volcano's main shaft. He knew that this strange biological construct he appeared to be was not what he once was before, long ago. Looking down at the everlasting symbol of the Jedi's defiance--the lightsaber--he realized what he had come to do. It now glowed with a radiant dark-amethyst ambience laced with traces of bright white light. Even his physical anchor to this world was symbolizing what he and Phest had become: each other. They were in spiritual equilibrium and neutrality, acting as one and of each other. Unlike Tahiri's transformation--or rather the integration of her two personas becoming a new entity altogether--however, the whole beings of both Anakin and Phest Dakk--Y'phestes Dakkorez to be precise--still existed in The Seeker. As the Seeker too. They were the Sixth Super Soldier; it was them. More of Anakin's memories came flooding back to them as he moved on, finally happening upon the central pad. It also seemed that Anakin was having thoughts that referred to his memories as a historical third-person context. Strange.. he included Anakin Solo in his being, and yet, Anakin Solo himself wasn't quite viewing his memories with personal experience and remembrance; rather as a curious investigation, as if he were watching a holovid. The effect of sharing two spirits in one mind. A physically artificial one--in terms of origins--at that. The pad was made of durable materials--durasteel alloys he recalled-- that were capable of extremely high heat capacities. Given the amount of thermal energy lancing throughout the vicinity, that was expected. A great portion of its structure composed of solid metamorphed rock as well... ...the blades on his hilt glinted as something moved past the bulky equipment in the corner of the pad. The doorways around the pad lead to a bridge traversing the volcano's vaping-hot gap, an energy-cable relay and a dimly lit room littered with malformed skeletons.. as if in sacrifice to a God. A shadow began to grow on the pad even though the ash cloud high in the volcano's opening was diminishing. It rose as soot, dust and chipped rock fragments began to swarm softly... an ethereal spiritual presence began to become of the shadowy figure.. and he heard a disgusted, intense chuckle permeate through the stone walls of the chambre. Even with the many faint echoes of explosions, projectile salvos and screams, the laugh was all too familiar. He could discern it as the mad cackle of an omniscient hermit. Khan. Anakin was not wearing his armour, but he didn't notice how his bare alien skin was twitching from the increasing heat of an already hot and sticky situation. The shadow thrust past him, lashing around his body to converge to a sapient (humanoid) form that suddenly appeared from an explosion through a rocky effice. The robe-clad figure was not nearly as tall as Anakin's alien self, yet it stood with a demeanor that clearly displayed a height few people could hope to stand up with. One of pride. Accomplishment. Certainty of victory. Khan's eyes glinted from beneath the cowl of his ornate hood. He sauntered towards Anakin with the might of an Overlord; the grace of a dignitary; the reverence of a wiseman; and the deadliness of a warrior. His footsteps were heavy as well, aching in the conviction of an imminent confrontation all too-natural in the universe; in this galaxy. Despite everything, it would come down to violence again. It always did. Especially when those involved were diabolicals of each other and diametrically opposed. Their destinies clashed before them, everything boiling down to this moment of truth; this decisive instant in time. It was the Force incarnate who spoke first. "Rebellious denizen... monstrosity of existence.. you poor, pathetic being. Did you really want to rejoin the rest of our minions so badly, so quickly, as to willingly confront me here? Hmm.. I will remark on how tasty your flesh looks at this instant--perhaps you want me to cleanse you of this impurity that has become of you?" gimmicked Khan, clearly mocking his opponent--yet said with such conviction that he embued some truth in his words. It was true, Anakin may be a monstrosity of the Force.. but then, any Force-user was from a certain perspective. His eyes were clearly reminiscient of Anakin Solo's; but the voice that emerged from his being was that of the rightful owner of Khan's body. "I have not toiled through life and death to trade witless words with a vaping hypocrit.. Master," replied Anakin with a sudden lash in his tongue. His faintly glowing eyes suddenly leered at Khan's skull with an incredulous gaze. "Or should I call you... slave? How many beings misused the greater forms of the Force, Death? How many times did you feel yourself called upon through others for their own intents and purposes?" Anakin shook his head and continued. "You... " he said, jabbing a figure towards the Overlord, "You have NO control over us. No power. No influence. Nothing in terms of placement in the scheme of the Force. There is no death... not with the truth of all elements in the Force. There is only the cycle.. the reunion with it. And there is life.. the conduit for the Force. Its source. It's means. "Someone like myself? I am a medium. I am an embodiment. WE are your BANE!" he finished. Still, Khan did not peer directly at his adversary. His gaze was still affixed to the fires of their environment, still lusting in it the taste for the fuel of death: pain. Life. His face appeared as nothing more than a skeletal mask filled with rotting flesh teeming with darkness and light... his eyes seemed as voids through which one could peer into another world. He said nothing, and suddenly went into a rigid battle stance reminiscient of a cannibal. A madman... but with the cunning and tact of a lethal mastermind and a despot. He was a formidable opponent. The most formidable a being could ever dare to face: for he truly believed, somehow, that his enemy was the wrongdoer. When two beings differed on their views of right and wrong, they clashed. They wanted to instill whatever they believed was right... by squashing the other completely. "I can feel your thoughts echoing and emanating... they seep through me; gingerly piercing my own. You think I am a monstrosity... all of YOU created me... I created myself too, I am the ONE being to defy the Universe.. YOU are the one being to defy the Force. WE are one in the same then. Manifestations of the SAME entity. Let us rejoin.. I will take your flesh and consume your soul with most respect, kinsman. Khan made an elegant wave with his hand, motioning to the world around them. "I had a hand in this too--the war, the political situation, everything.. so you know, that it is quite probable that I had a tendrils in everything that has occured through, of and by the Force. Especially in this galaxy.. with your precious Jedi and midichlorians. You know the truth of Yun-Yuuzhan and his people. You know how Onimi reconnected to the Force; but you do not know why...." "Anakin Solo... Y'phestes Dakkorez.. you were living representations of Universal balance: positive and negative aspects of each other. If the other left for one of my realms--be it the astral plane or the core of the Force--then the other must have as well. Young Solo died of his own accord, this is true... but he was taken into the Force by our designs. For our purposes to be wraught on this wretched galaxy. My beloved little den of toys. Phest.. he was born from a clone of my human persona.. Jymnos. He was my physical kin. This is why I chose his blood to flow as my own--it is the CLOSEST and best vessel for me to be in this world. "You know all of this, do you not? Or are you realizing it now, through the epiphanies of your mind and the knowledge both of your spirits withhold from each other? Yes... I know what you are. I can sense it.. I can feel it. You escaped from my domain--accidentally or incidentally--BOTH of you. This pertains to nothing though.. for I will slay you and send you back to another dimension. Permanently. There you will add to my repertoire and make me even more powerful than I am now. And I will complete my plans. I allowed Onimi a full connection to the Force, so that he might stimulate the Unifying Force into reality. Only then, could the true will of the Living Force be made into its negative form; the Dead Force, so that I may have the opportunity to claim my vessel." He continued with his maniacal, somewhat lame yet ominous speech. "So far, you Jedi have appalled my source of power by destroying the concept of the Dark and Light Sides--I have Jacen and his comerades to thank of that--and now I will make all your dreams and fears come true. I will permanently shape the Force into the doom of the Jedi.. manifesting the Dark Side as an entity to clash with the Light for all eternity. Only then.. will I be fed my ultimate source of power and become reverred by the Universe and Life as God!" Anakin shivered at these words, and yet frowned with great incredulity and righteousness. He truly is mad, even though he does not lie about his existence, he thought. Khan himself is is own undoing. Life and death must be in balance again... his human persona must be destroyed at all costs. Too bad that he still can't solve his main problem: he decays with every passing moment. I only need to instigate his unwitting self-destruction... All this time.. every epiphany.. all of it summarizes into our revelations. Khan laughed as their energies began to whirl into existence; both commanding the Force--and letting the Force act as them--to bring their goals to fruitition. Anakin once saw that the even the New Jedi Order had misconstrued the Force through their disputes of it being a tool or a guide--he had even died to discover that there were unseen spectrums in the Force; then Jacen and Luke righted the conceptions of the Force and the Jedi, respectively. Since then, it was his sister Jaina and others who continued to rebuild the galaxy. All of this was allowed to happen because of the Chosen One, restoring the balance to the Force. Now, all their efforts would be in vain; it appeared that Khan had organized this all to be incarnated. It was the destiny of their newfound being--the ultimate combination of a body, powerful spirits and a unified mind clear of doubt and confusion--to define the Force for the future.. by being consumed by Khan-Death; or allowing his ultimate persona, the Living Force, to re-right itself through his violent stalling. Khan suddenly stopped laughing as a great slab of stone slammed into Anakin and then into himself. Apparently, they were equally matched. The power of fate was on Anakin's side. This was the form of the Living Force. He suddenly threw off his cloak, revealing his veiny and twitching face blotted with ugly sores. Yet his eyes were teeming with eternity--or something close to it. His voice bellowed the beckoning of pain and death. His aura seemed to make Anakin suffer physically. Yet Anakin just stood, his lightsaber now being beared in defiance. Khan wore a gleaming white ornate suit covered with a scorched, decorated--with blood--battle-suit torso coverings. He had gauntlets carved from bones and boots laden with dead skin covering it. He truly marred the physical realm by maiming what was once Life. He sought to glorify himself in this appearance of a valiant, war-won hero? And what of this thing that stood before him: unique, surreal, an impure mixture... a tool and a construct? Its skin was a sickening orange-brown chrome; its ciliary coverings were white-pigmented and its structure was mostly human in appearance. The skeleton gave away a non-human anatomy however; and its limbs were disproportionate to its body.. massive and elongated. It now stood with a mangled demeanor, as if it were a pathetic, nonsentient creature only capable of violence and killing. It had an existence that was meaningless yet ultimately what the universe wraught on life: survival. This was his opponent? One of the creations of his self-righteous League of Thanatos? "We--I--created you. I will unmake you too!" sneered Khan with complete malice. "Likewise, Sithspit!" yelled Anakin. With that, they charged towards each other to engage in their last duel with each other. Even though they had merely exchanged ideals, truths and philosophies in the past few moments, it had felt like an eternity of pitting two galaxy-sized wills against each other. Their display of Force-power became a violent much of lightsaber sparks and clashes; each fighting with the purity of violence and the skill of true warriors. Two anomalies: one an incarnated deity; the other a biological machine. Both deviations from the cycle of life and death. But only one survivor. *** (TBC) -----signature----- BLOOD WARS -- features: OC; includes: S/S, J/J, A/T, etc http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=15817119&replies=11
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