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Skywalker277
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6/10 4:14pm
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RE: The Purpose of Mara Jade Skywalker Vol. III - Part 2 updated 5/10
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I man, Jacen is being such a gundark! I hope Ben or somebody swoops into action and saves Mara. Can't wait for more!
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Myriad_Daydreams
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Lookin' good madman  Keep up the awesome work, I can't wait for more! 
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dm1
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Loved the ship talking, takes everything so literally! I had to laugh about the Sithspawn "I have no spawn" comment!
How's Mara getting out of this one with Jacen firing now?
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Irish_Jedi_Jade
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6/11 3:00pm
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AUGH!!!!!! Madman! That was super-de-duper amazing!!!!! I finally got to this gem  and now I'm DYING for more! *sigh* That was SO good! I loved loved loved the ship....haha!!! No spawn....rofl! But WHAT a cliffie to leave us at! Especially those of us (like me!) who don't know what happens in the book!
More...please? Soon? As in...now? 
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mara_jade_rox
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6/11 4:37pm
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Lumiya...*storms off to fume in a small corner*
*loud crash and shatter*
*comes back*
OK!
I think my brother might hurt me for killing his laptop, but I feel better.
I hope you kill Lumiya in a long, painful, torturous way 
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PonyTricks
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Now THIS is the way Mara SHOULD have reacted in the profic books. Hopefully, if she defends herself against Jacen (assuming here that he is firing at her) the Sith Ship will decide to defend Mara. Jacen needs to have someone wake him up from his Sith-induced stupor, and soon. Nice chapter! 
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madman007
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RE: The Purpose of Mara Jade Skywalker Vol. III - Part 2 updated 5/10
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Jaina_and_Jag - You're welcome for the PM. The more the merrier. Never fear; Lumiya will get her due in my version too.
Jade_eyes - Thanks for admiring my marvelous wit. I think Lumiya may have had to do something with manipulating Jacen, even if he is doing it himself at this point of the story.
VaderLVR64 - Glad to see this story up and going! Thanks and I'm glad to have you read it.
dancing_star - Yeah, I just love dem cliffies, don't I? Thanks for keeping up.
Skywalker277 - I hope Ben or somebody swoops into action and saves Mara. You may soon get your wish. Or perhaps not in the way that you think.
Myriad_Daydreams - Lookin' good madman. Feelin' good, Myriad! Thanks and you shall wait no more.
dm1 - That No spawn line just came to me right when I typed Lumiya's curse, Sithspawn. Thought it be funny hearing a literal translation from the Sith ship. Thanks!
Irish_Jedi_Jade - Thanks, Irish. You always deliver the best praise. And you made me think of something that I will ask later.
mara_jade_rox - I hope you kill Lumiya in a long, painful, torturous way. I'm sensing a lot of anger towards Lumiya here. Good thing we don't have the Force on this planet or we'd all be on the Dark Side with all this hate. Soon...mjr...very soon. Thanks for reading.
PonyTricks - Now THIS is the way Mara SHOULD have reacted in the profic books. Possibly THE best compliment I could receieve for this. This is my goal and I hope I'm writing up to profic standards.  Oh wait, does profic have standards? Oh yes...sell, sell, sell!  You made me think of something PT and I have found a solution to your quesiton. Wait...you thought I'd tell it here? No, ma'am, you can read it soon.
Irish brought up something that I wanted to know. Sort of my own survey. How many reading this has read Sacrifice? I am trying to include or mention little things that happened in Sacrifice and then I have Mara change it. For those who have may find out that whatever events came before the start of my verision actually happened in canon.
I'm typing in Part 3 now, so it will be posted soon. 
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Skywalker277
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to tell the truth i haven't read Sacrifice, I've only read both Edge of Victory: Conquest and Edge of Victory: Rebirth. but i do know some crucial things though, like Jacen killing Mara, but a lot is blank. But i kind of get the initial picture of what's going on. Hope the next part comes soon!
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madman007
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Here be the next post. I'll do the PM's tonight as I'm at work now. DRL took a nasty turn in the form of needing a new car fast.
Enjoy and review as you see fit.
Part 3: An Alternate Escape
The turbo laser from Jacen’s Stealth X hit the forward shields of Mara's own Stealth with a violent force. Mara had already diverted power to the front shields in preparation of Lumiya’s attack. It turned out that it worked anyway with Jacen’s. The shield took damage and the Stealth X shook. Mara decided that she was not going to wait for Jacen’s second attempt to shoot her down. She thrust the craft forward past Jacen to try and shake him. Neither of them could detect the other just by radar alone due to the nature of the their ships. The Stealths were not designed to battle each other. Incom had sacrificed protection for being invisible to scanners. Nevertheless, Mara could feel Jacen’s presence in the Force. And she felt him come after her.
She spoke on the open channel, “You’ve taught him well, Lumiya.”
No response.
“Lumiya,” she called out. She felt through the Force and could not find her nor the Sith ship. At first, Mara thought Lumiya fled because she feared she would be in her and Jacen’s crossfire. Then she realized that her disappearance was out of necessity. The Sith ship had already established that it was to protect it’s trainees, namely she and Lumiya. If she had stayed, would the ship be forced to protect Mara from Jacen? It would be a question left unanswered because Lumiya was gone. Mara chuckled to herself as Jacen continued to pursue. Lumiya demonstrated a general tactic among the Emperor’s Hand’s training. Eliminate all unknown variables which could possibly give your enemy an advantage.
While Mara was being pursued, it was obvious which of the two pilots were more experienced. She was seeing first hand evidence that Han’s piloting skills were passed down to his daughter where his son inherited his father’s cockiness and never give up attitude. Mara went into complex twists and turns to shake Jacen off. Though it was clearly hard for him to follow, he did so with an alarming sense of dedication. As she led him on his chase, Mara tried reasoning.
“Looks like your Master left you.”
Jacen answered, “She is not my Master.”
“And here I thought all Sith came in twos.”
“It’s not the same Sith Order as you think.”
“So you were bored with your command one day and decided to play Sith?”
“It sounds as if you’re patronizing me, Aunt Mara.”
“If you are planning to become a Sith then you lost the honor of calling me your aunt. Especially if you were going to involve my son.”
“I’m not so sure about involving him anymore.”
“You better be sure. I can feel your confusion, Jacen. You’ve been on this Dark path for a while now. I couldn’t admit in seeing it before, but Luke could. It’s not too late.” Mara had flashes of memory when Luke would describe how he used the Force to try and bring his father back from the Dark Side. He said he injected a feeling of hope into his persuasion. Would that work with Jacen, she wondered. She tried anyway.
Jacen replied, “You don’t understand, Mara. I am doing this to ensure peace for the future.” He paused and said, “What I will become will be nothing like what my grandfather was. I will not need any sense of hope to be brought back as Luke did for him.”
She silently cursed at herself but shouted, “Get out of my head! And are you sure peace for the future is your only reason for going to the Dark Side?”
“I never said I was going to the Dark Side. I will become a Sith, however.”
“The two go together like white on rice, Jacen. You knew this all of your life from Luke drilling it into you constantly.”
“I plan to redefine what it means to become a Sith as you or my uncle know it.”
“So, Luke and the thousands of Jedi before him are all wrong?”
“Not wrong. Misinformed. I want my family to know that there is no difference between Light and Dark.”
A piece of data flashed into her memory just then. It had been something she had found out on her last trip out here a month and a half ago to her. “Which family do you mean, Jacen? The one who you tried to shoot down, or the one you arrested and proceeded to court-martial? Oh, wait, I know. You’re referring to your new family on Hapes. How is your new daughter, Allana?”
The anger she felt from him was enough to cause pain in her head like a headache. In answer to her revelation, he started to fire his turbo lasers at her with no sense of pattern. She cursed at herself because she hadn’t diverted power to the aft shields yet. As she made evasive maneuvers to avoid his random shots, her Stealth suddenly lunged forward and shook again before several alerts began to sound. She checked the damage report and one of his random shots hit the fuel cell regulator on the port side wing. She figured she had less than fifteen minutes before the pressure built up in the negative gravity of space and then break to lose propulsion quickly. After that she could lose the wing or worse. If the shot had hit inches to the left direct on the fuel cell she would have died right there and she wouldn’t have known what hit her. Would she have gone back to Alabama? Or would she have used up her two chances?
She shook those thoughts out of her mind and quickly deduced that she had to land now. She checked the nav com for the nearest port to land...and she froze when she read its answer.
Kavan.
The place where she died.
There was no other choice. Hapes would take too long to reach.
First on the list was to lose her pursuer. She made a sharp turn to charge back at him in attack mode. He made his own evasive move, but she was so close that he couldn’t fire back. Any direct hit at that range would damage his craft as well. He had no choice but to go past her. The point of her move was to hide from his scope by going behind him. By the time he turned around himself, she was already going port side to set a course for Kavan. She already knew he lost her for he went starboard. She knew he would not find her in the Stealth X.
Yet, he still could detect her in the Force. She tried to remember the technique that her son taught her on how to disappear within the Force the way Jacen could. That crash course was almost two months ago. Many things happened to her since then. She decided her priority at the moment was to land safely.
She remembered the last time when she approached the Kavan system. Her mission then was quite the opposite. That Mara would have baited Jacen to fight or at least track her easily. She had wanted him to follow her then. Only for the purpose of killing him before it was too late. She pondered after the fact at how she thought she could manage that alone. Why was it up to only me to confront Jacen and murder him before he went to far? If she had gone back in time before Palpatine was Chancellor, could she have defeated him alone? She had already failed in her attempt to do so with Jacen.
The viewscreen showed the yellow-ochre color of Kavan below her.
Maybe I’m destined to die here. No! Not this time!
The last time she was here, she chose to land in a remote area among the ruins and labyrinths. It was inside one of those labyrinths where she died the first time. Instead, she made coordinates to land nearer to civilization this time. Hympalia City. The largest community on Kavan. She set the landing cycle and she glanced at the transponder that showed where her knife was. Where her Ben was. Closer. Her Ben was coming. If she went into the labyrinths now, the fight may not last long enough for him to get here. She needed to buy some time. A few hours at the most. She had already defeated Time at its own game by crossing over galaxies eons apart within the space of a dream. She wished there was a way to compress time.
Mara found a location near an abandoned factory on top of a high ridge just on the outskirts of Hympalia City. She landed as soft as she could just as her fuel gauge read empty. She looked back at her descent from the atmosphere and a trail of white smoke followed her and was starting to dissipate into the air. She was on safe ground and Jacen was still searching for her. She could feel him trying to wedge his way into her mind to reveal her location. Silly kid, don’t you remember who I used to be?
She now concentrated on what her son had taught her about disappearing into the Force. Ben said to find the atoms of the outside world and those of her body and find the edges that defined each. Once she found them, she blurred the edges so that there was no definition between herself and the outside world. Within moments she felt the comfortable ease that was brought on with merging into the Force. The trick, Ben mentioned, was to learn how to keep from disappearing altogether and maintain daily activities. She could imagine those who would try this method in the past would become so comfortable that they wouldn’t want to let go of that feeling and end up physically in a coma. She reached a point where she stayed hidden in the Force but was able to function. She gathered all of her weapons and rations and put them in her bag.
Hympalia City could be seen below a few kilometers away. She started walking and had to brush her hair out of her face from the arid breeze. She noted. Her red gold hair.
She couldn’t go down there as Mara Jade. That would bring about too many questions and too much attention. She thought she could disguise herself but there was no means to do so. Unless. She could try a Force image that would mask her true identity. She was never great at sustaining a false image the way Corran Horn could. It would be asking a lot of her Force abilities to hide inside the Force and project an image. She thought of an appropriate solution and had to laugh at the simple irony. She dove deeper into the Force to produce a false image of herself. Her hair became long and black and her features were less defined. She looked plain. Mousy.
Mary Jane Skyler was now walking on the desert towards Hympalia City. She reached the town in a good space of time that allowed Ben to get here that much quicker. Hympalia City was a quaint town with ancient stone buildings among larger durasteel structures. She quickly found a tapcaf which she entered and went straight to the bar. There were hardly any customers inside. The rough looking ‘tender eyed her cautiously and took her drink order. First was a glass of water, then a Fogblaster. She remembered the last time she had alcohol was back on Earth drinking a Jack Daniels whiskey. That had been six weeks ago. She was due. She gulped the water and sipped the Fogblaster.
Here I am now...hiding. I’m even hiding from inside the Force. For what? Fear of death?
She wasn’t afraid of death the first time she was on Kavan. She actually invited Jacen to catch her. She almost dared him. Well, he dared. And she lost. She hadn’t known the outcome then.
It’s not my time yet. I have things to do. People to care for. When I die it will be inside of Luke’s arms while he dies with me.
She chuckled at remembering something that Han Solo had said to her before her wedding. If the Smuggler Han ever met the Married Han, the Smuggler would laugh his ass off. What would the Emperor’s Hand Mara Jade think of the Mara Jade Skywalker now sitting in a bar hiding her identity within herself. It was ironic that she had become Mary Jane Skyler on the outside. Wasn’t this what Mary wanted while she was in her coma? To hide from everyone? To hide from Life. Hiding from herself. She could imagine the Emperor’s Hand Mara saying to her now, “You’ve gone soft on us, babe.”
She was interrupted by a man sitting at the bar with her. She hadn’t noticed him earlier when she surveyed the layout on instinct. To say he was scruffy looking was being kind. His hair was a mess and had very little amount of teeth. For an amusing second, she thought she was back in Mobile, Alabama. He approached her and she was greeted with whiskey-laced breath.
“Hey there, little lady.”
“This little lady wants to be left alone.”
“Oh, I thinks you need help.”
“Doesn’t everyone?”
“Ah, what I can help thee to thou shalt not miss.”
She chuckled. “You sound like someone I knew in a dream.”
“In a dream, yes. Who is this one? A goddess?”
“Not quite. It’s no one you’d know. Yet. You will someday. She’ll greet you at the end and take you on your next journey.”
The man laughed but it sounded different. It was too high-pitched for a man. Almost girlish. Mara looked over at the man and watched his dusty shirt change into a thin black tank top. His dirty brown slacks became a pair of sleek black pants. His skin was now pale white and his grey speckled hair sprouted into a thick mane of ebony curls. He was no longer male.
Sitting at the bar in the man’s place was Didi.
Also known to many as Death.
Didi chimed in her usual cheerful manner, “Couldn’t have said it better myself.”
Mara leaned over to her and whispered, “Didi! What are you doing here?”
Didi put her hands on her hips and stated, “Honey, we need to talk.”
Coming Soon: Death Don’t Have No Mercy
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Skywalker277
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oh man, big speech from death, the suckiest thing in the universe. Hope everything turns out okay. Great post though!!!
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“I never said I was going to the Dark Side. I will become a Sith, however.”
“The two go together like white on rice, Jacen. You knew this all of your life from Luke drilling it into you constantly.”
“I plan to redefine what it means to become a Sith as you or my uncle know it.”
“So, Luke and the thousands of Jedi before him are all wrong?”
“Not wrong. Misinformed. I want my family to know that there is no difference between Light and Dark.”
Oh, Jacen. 
He needs some sense knocked into him.  This idea sounds like trouble. He's trouble. 
Fabulous update!!
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Uh-oh! Mara's with Didi again?? Why do I have a bad feeling about this?
(Oh wait, maybe because Didi's actual name is DEATH! )
Can't wait for more! 
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Oh, it's started? Can I have PM's? Thank you.
Interesting developments... and an encounter with Didi. Oh my...
Good posts.
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ARGGHHH!  That is a scream of frustration for Jacen's  -headedness. HOW, oh, HOW can he be so blind??
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Very cool update. Hee!!! So Mary's Mara's Force disguise. !!Worried about the title for the next chapter though This Didi... is she from a classic myth or Shakespeare? 
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