Before the Saga [DDC 2017] Memory Books and Personal Logs - OCs

AzureAngel2 it's okay, life at times is more important. Yeah, the Senate isn't that far gone yet and has a lot of good people that are willing to do the right thing.

WarmNyota_SweetAyesha I'm glad you liked it.

Kahara, I forgot to tag you the last update, sorry.


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First Day of the Tenth Month, 657 years since the Victory at the Rhine River


We have been inside the Jedi Temple for about a week to help keep us safe from any assassins that Ugaidi might send and people looking to interview us without permission.

I have spent a lot of time in the Jedi Temple’s Archives learning all I can learn about what happened to my people during the last major war and I did find a few things.

One of them was a report from a Jedi Padawan Corray Ly-pah stating that she had successfully helped the military evacuate over a dozen villages and take them to fortified bases and that the spiritual leaders sealed large vaults where they stored their histories.

That explains why we are having a hard time finding histories. If they were stored someplace else during the long war than maybe no one saw a reason to take them back home. Or maybe they wanted to forget the death and destruction that was brought to our world seeing that we weren’t introduced to the rest of the galaxy and brought into the Republic.

Padawan Ly-pah stated that she thought that perhaps they could use the vaults as storage areas and hidden bunkers but that they would have to get permission from both the Shamans and Elders to do so but maybe they could learn how they were made.

I found a list containing the names of refugees and what happened to them. Bosta took in almost all of them but a few very young children ended up in the Jedi Order; of the girls I recognize as the Shaman I met shortly before I met David. It is little wonder she didn’t know about the War of the Stars or some other stories and struggled with stories and some Hearth Songs: she was only four when she lost her family to the Sith and was soon afterwards brought into the Jedi Order.

I can’t wait to return home with this added knowledge!


May there always be Order and Harmony

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Corporal Acker’s Personal Log

I have talked to my parents and leaders back home. My parents are grateful that I am safe and that I warned them about what happened in the Senate and they have all sorts of questions. Bosta’s Planetary Leaders are heavily considering charging Ugaidi Industries with criminal charges including forcing an unknown number of their employees to be unwitting accomplices in their crimes.

As of now all of Bosta’s troops that are ‘assigned’ to different companies are going to be recalled amid fear that they are being used as fodder because they are considered expendable mercenaries which isn’t sitting too well with people back home and soldiers are telling their stories of how different companies treated them like they were droids.

There will be blood to pay.

I can’t wait to go back home and see my family. Talking to them via the holonet isn’t the same as seeing them in person and it isn’t safe for my family to travel to Coruscant right now. Chava and Ilan have no doubt grown since I last saw them and are no doubt eager for me to come home and ask me questions and meet Linza.

I hope that this ends soon.

End Log


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Exciting details for Linza to take home & a nice contrast to David's log where he expresses missing his family and wanting the criminals to pay for their corruption and greed.

 

WarmNyota_SweetAyesha thanks!

Kahara

AzureAngel2


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Seventh Day of the Tenth Month, 657 years since the Victory at the Rhine River


I’m going home! The Senate has voted unanimously in favor of stripping Ugaidi of everything and bringing my people into the Republic!

There will be difficulties but with the help of the Jedi and translator droids hopefully everything will go smoothly

My people will have to learn a lot of new things like technology and galactic trade and while I know that my people will benefit from this I fear that at the same time this could have unwanted surprises.

I fear that the Republic will have uses for our ore and minerals and basically take them from us. Will it be worth it? I know that the ore and minerals come back after a decent period of time so there will be enough for my people when the Republic is done with taking their ‘price’ for catching a primitive people and planet up.

I did have a strange dream that I was on my home world in a town that felt so very familiar and after looking around I realized that I was in my home village. It was familiar but so different. Ground speeders were in the streets along with Pferde and carts, there were so many new buildings including a spaceport and maglev station. I walked through the streets and people were friendly but something had upset them and people were grieving if the marks of mourning were anything to go by. I asked a woman minding a stall what had happened and she stared at me as if I had asked a stupid question but she told me that Offworlders had bombed several Temple Shrines in an effort to murder officers. The dream shifted and I was in a huge city and on large screens a human looking woman in a military uniform decried the cowardliness of a ‘Gerrera’ and promised my people that she would continue to do everything in her power to continue to protect them from the terrorists and let them keep as much of their freedoms as possible.

I don’t know what the dream means and while it worries me I’m not going to let it worry me too much. Jedi Master Yoda told me that the future is always in motion so I will not allow the dream and it’s possible dark message weigh me down or fill me with fear.

Besides, why would Offworlders bomb Temple Shrines in order to murder officers, their own people? It doesn’t make sense! David said that there are people out there that might do such a thing but even he as at a loss as to who or why since the Republic doesn’t have much of an army and while a majority of planets have a military force it’s just for their planet or territories and rarely are they assigned offworld unless it is at the request of the Senate. He can’t think of any terrorist groups that would target a place of worship just to kill officers and not because it was a place of worship.

So it had to be just a terrible dream brought on my fears and anxieties over bringing my people into the larger galaxy. I pray to Harmony and the First Ones that it is just a terrible dream and if not than it is recorded for future generations.


May the First Ones protect my people!

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Corporal Acker’s Personal Log

I will be helping to escort Linza and a contingent of soldiers, politicians and Jedi to Linza’s home world. They will help in setting things up there and ensure that there is a smooth transition as possible from being ignorant of the rest of the galaxy to being part of a wider galaxy.

After Linza shared a nightmare she had I have started to have doubts about introducing her people to the wider galaxy. In the distant past of my people there was a feud about who was right and who was wrong where our Religion was concerned. Millions were killed in horrific ways and places of worship were destroyed. And when they reached the stars there were more disagreements about whether or not we should only live on our home world or marry aliens. Those were dark times for my people.

I keep telling myself that from the details she gave me that it is very unlikely the events would ever come to pass since the attacks were trying to target officers and at least for several groups if you are not a member of the religion you aren’t allowed inside or only allowed into a few places close to the entrance but others don’t care and let everyone and anyone through the front door and since the Temple Shrines fill many roles I can’t think of a reason they would ban someone from entering.

Could this Gerrera be so delusional that he thought that by blowing up a community building he would kill his target? If so than he is a monster and needs a blaster bolt to the skull. Hopefully someone, maybe a female, will kill him by driving a nail or something sharp through his skull like Jael of Old did to Sisera; unlikely but I can dream and pray that this is no Fate or Destiny.

*pause*

Master Yoda will be one of the Jedi traveling with us to Linza’s home world. He wishes to meet the Shamans since they have a similar view on the universe as the Jedi and wants to know if perhaps there was another meeting even further back.

I pray to the Gods that everything will go well and that it is our Destiny to continue to succeed.

End Log

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Eighth Day of the Tenth Month, 657 years since the Victory at the Rhine River


Linza has been gone for so long that I can’t help but fear for her safety. Günther and Hilda apparently saw something but they won’t say what it was but that it has been dealt with but not how they know.

Helga and Theudhar asked again when we’re going back home and if they could play outside and I had to explain to them again that we can’t go home right now and it might be too dangerous to go outside for long. I reminded them that the last time strange lights were in the sky Agents of Chaos destroyed our village and kidnapped as many children they could and that I don’t want that to happen to them.

They refused to let me go for several hours at the thought of never seeing me again and I admit that I don’t want to lose them either to Agents of Chaos.

With all the strange lights in the sky that increase by the day we are all one edge which is why I don’t mind Theudhar and Helga’s extra clinginess.

I am so grateful that the harvests are done so we don’t have to worry about the fruit of the fields rotting on the vines. It would be a waste and then we would have to worry about unwanted plants growing where we don’t want them to grow. It could upset the entire growing season next year.

I helped with the laundry last night under the cover of darkness and cloud cover since the few Histories that the Shamans have been able to find say that cloud cover will help keep us from being seen easily.

I hope that we don’t have to live in fear for much longer.


Harmony is Order, Order is Harmony. The First Ones Knew this and Taught it.


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Linza's mixed feelings of welcoming and fearing change are understandable but the disturbing dream certainly tips the balance towards what are we getting ourselves in for? Glad Yoda is going along.

 

WarmNyota_SweetAyesha Well her dream is a sneak peek into an upcoming fic and I admit i choose Yoda because I was kind of lazy and I knew for sure that Yoda would have been around during this time period seeing were about two hundred years away from the events of the PT/OT.

Kahara

AzureAngel2



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Fourteen Day of the Tenth Month, 657 years since the Victory at the Rhine River


I am almost home! We are waiting to speak to with an Admiral Zahra Brogan of the Scáthia Defense Force.

Home looks so beautiful from orbit, I can see the oceans and deserts Grandfather Hrolf talked about. David pointed out which continent I live on and roughly where. He pointed out the ice sheets and a storm forming in the other hemisphere.

It’s so beautiful!

Admiral Brogan is exotic. She has blonde hair and eyes the color of clear skies but her skin in the color of obsidian which seems odd. David said it’s because she is a Scáth and in a few months her skin will lighten until she has pale skin before it darkens again; it has something to do with her species.

I asked him if it was like the Winter Fox which during the Winter is white like the snow but during the rest of the year is either brown or black. He said it was probably the closest equivalent that I would be familiar with.

We’re landing! I can see the land coming closer, the trees and river getting closer!

We flew over my village!

We landed! We’re letting the ship cool off before we exit.

I don’t remember seeing anyone in the streets and there is almost always someone outside. Admiral Brogan did say that visual checks of all population centers show that the people appear to be in hiding; possibly underground in the Vaults in smaller places since now and then they pick up heat signatures.

I am eager though to be reunited with my family! I have been gone for over a month so they must be really worried.

We will be exiting soon so I will put this aside for now and continue later.

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Fifteenth Day of the Tenth Month, 657 years since the Victory at the Rhine River

Something is going to happen today.

I just know it.

I know that the Shamans can feel it and it seems to have them in various degrees of unease.

At the moment I am admiring the artwork painted on the walls of the Temple Shrines and I can’t help but wonder what caused several burned and pitted marks. They have been incorporated into the paintings but how did they get there and why. Linza and her strange companion she was with before she left. Shaman Kuno said he was interested in the burns and pits and other such things.

By the First Ones!

I was staring at one of the burns and pits and suddenly I was in the Temple Shrine but something was wrong. The lights weren’t as bright and the artwork was damaged, some I didn’t even recognized and others were missing. The people inside were afraid, more than I have ever seen anyone from the Village, and so many of them were covered in soot and several sported burns, broken bones and a few were missing limbs that had been cut with something that not only cut clean but left apparently cauterized the wound as well. All of them were crying in grief and pain.

More than one set of parents mourned the loss of a child. A Shaman husband held his Shaman wife as they wept for their daughter.

I didn’t recognize any of the people or their odd injuries but I felt like I knew them. It was like I knew their stories or part of them.

Suddenly the Shaman couple turned towards the entrance and together they slowly stood and they led the Villagers towards it; they held tools like they were makeshift weapons. There in the entryway were strange armored figures. They spoke in a language I didn’t know and apparently neither did any of the people but from the way a few acted I knew they had heard it before.

Then one of them, a woman, said that an army was coming and we needed to come with them so we wouldn’t be caught in the crossfire or attacked again.

Everyone turned to the Shamans and they consulted with one another before asking if there was time to gather some of the Histories before leaving. The Strangers conversed before telling them that they could only if they could easily carry it.

Shamans gestured at some of the more able-bodied Villagers and they went to the entrance to the Vault and descended into it. The Strangers seemed curious and the one that spoke our language asked how the Vault was made and one Shaman said it was made with ore and minerals and that no water could get into the Vaults if they were made with ore and minerals.

The Shamans returned with several books and then they sealed the Vault in such a way that I couldn’t tell that an entry was there. It seemed the Strangers were just as impressed as me and they actually tried to see if they could find the entrance and one of them said something in their language sounding impressed.

After a bit everyone started to head to the entrance.

I followed them and I froze at the sight of the familiar but unfamiliar Village. There were no boulders in the street and trees that I knew lined the streets were missing but worse of all were buildings laying in smoldering ruins; the one I grew up in was half destroyed but I would recognize its more unique design anywhere.

And there were strange metal constructs a little further away that were on huge wheels that also appeared to be made of metal and something else.

People froze in fear but after some gentle coaxing from the female they followed her and her companions down into the remains of our home, some of them helping to carry the more severely injured, and towards the vehicles.

The leader took off her helmet and I froze at the sight of snow white skin, blood red lips and obsidian black hair. Everyone was surprised but not as surprised as I thought they would have been.

The Strangers helped the Villagers inside their strange vehicles but they didn’t seem to notice me and before I could do anything I was back in the Temple Shrine with Lieselotte standing next to me asking me if I was alright.

I told her that I had Waking Dream and some of what I had seen. She told me that maybe the First Ones or Harmony gave me a Vision of something that had happened long ago for reasons that I will soon learn.

Lieselotte is one of the Elders and she is wiser than some of the Shaman______

There was a strange noise just now and I can’t think of how to describe it except that it was loud and everything seemed to rumble and shake a bit.

I

Linza’s home! After so long one of my daughters is back in my arms!

She came back on something called a starship with people with just one skin color and a short troll like creature that’s no taller than my knee that’s green and has pointed ears.

The stories of the Wars of the Stars are true! If only Father Hrolf lived a few more years he would have been so excited.

The Shamans are asking all sorts of questions with Linza and her friend Dahvit and some metal thing serving as translators. Eight hundred and seventy years ago Agents of Chaos called the Sith came to our planet with the Republic and Servants of Harmony called Jedi not far behind fought high in the sky and several of their ships crashed in the wasteland where Father Hrolf found all those metal plates with the odd writing and battles were fought here; it was the Sith were the ones that attacked our Village and took children to corrupt to the Dark Side.

After the battles ended it was decided between those in charge of the Republic and a good number of Shamans and Elders that the Republic and Jed would leave and not bring us into their government but they would give us the means to communicate with them if the Sith came back. The Green Troll said that they did receive a strange transmission from our general area some months ago but they couldn’t reestablish contact.

They informed us that a company at some point stumbled across our planet and realized that the could get quite the profit taking our resources and they are sure that our area wasn’t the only place being exploited by this company.

Because of what has happened the Republic decided to step in and we are going to be brought into the Republic.

It’s almost too much to comprehend but there is proof right in front of my eyes.

It’s understandable that people are afraid and yet curious about the new arrivals.


I pray that this will go well for us.

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Corporal Acker’s Personal Log

It was a beautiful sight watching Linza’s mother envelope her in a hug and Linza returning it. I am looking forward to returning to Bosta and having my parents greet me in a similar manner.

Captain Cox has come and delivered her report to Master Yoda and has been relieved of her duty so she can return back home to Bosta and get the medical care she and her unborn child need.

A report is also being filled out since Ugaidi Industries refused to reassign her when she reported that she was pregnant.

I won’t be surprised if Ugaidi Industries goes under due to everything that keeps coming out.

End Log


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Glad that Captain Cox will be able to return home and get the proper care.

The Admiral definitely sounds exotic.
Wow, the Shaman definitely had a unique and disturbing "waking dream" either of past events or something about to happen.

 

@WarmNyota_SweetAyesha Yeah, she kind of put it off but Ugaidi Industries did screw her over it.

That Admiral is a Scath, of an OC Race and I like to try make exotic.

I thought Linza's mother dreaming of what happened would help her except what would soon be revealed.

@AzureAngel2

@Kahara

This will most likely be the last chapter and I apologize in advance for the last Log.


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First Day of the Eleventh Month 657 years since the Victory at the Rhine River



It’s been a long time since I have had time to sit and write anything in this Memory Book. I thought I would have time weeks ago but between coming home, telling and retelling the events that transpired so far away and traveling all over the world I didn’t have much time.


I have seen the places that Grandfather Hrolf talked about and so many more. I stood next to and inside the remains of the Defender and the other ships in the sands of Gruneinmal. Someone asked why we still called the desert something that means ‘green’ I told them that Gruneinmal means ‘Once Green’ so it’s not really called ‘green’ it’s a reminder that it used to be a green and fertile place and a local said that the area used to be called ‘Nahrhaft’ because it used to have rich, fertile soil and beautiful plants.


I think she was embarrassed that she didn’t ask the meaning of the name before making an assumption about the name.


Several spaceports have been restored including the one back home; they are talking about naming it after either myself or David. I am not sure if I should be flattered or embarrassed. I am no one important, the spaceports should be named after people that contributed to our society I haven’t done anything special.


David has asked me if I want to meet his family seeing that he has met mine. I told him that I would love to meet them.


It’s getting late and I need to sleep. I don’t know for sure when I will be able to write again so I guess that I will wish any future readers well and that Harmony and Order will bless them and that they will not be forever lost to the influence of Chaos.


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Corporal Acker’s Personal Log



The work here is almost done and I will be returning to Bosta for Leave and Reassignment. I hope I get assigned to Erde; the people here are wonderful and ask so many good questions. We have uncovered so much of this planet’s History which so many Shamans feared were lost forever.



We have visited so many places here it is almost overwhelming.



I had the opportunity to enter the remains of the RSS Defender and stand where my many greats grandfather once stood and I was able to retrieve a few Sacred Objects that he had to leave behind and were left alone by salvagers and scavengers.



*pauses*



*hesitantly*



I asked Linza if she wanted to come with me to Bosta and meet my family and she said she would love to visit them.



I think I just –



*pauses*



*groans*



I did just begin the Courtship Ritual.



Gods and Creators, I think I am in love with Linza!



*moans*



Gods, please take me now.



Does she love me back? Does she understand the significance of meeting my family?



Why am I talking about this in my Log?!?



End Log



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Excellent conclusion and congratulations on finishing. Very nice job handling two "diarists." It was very nice seeing each POV of the events that unfolded. Their perspectives and personalities really came across well.

 

You invent a new ship and end the story all in one post?! How dare you?!

But seriously, I ship it.

 

Glad that Linza and David made it through the last of their time on Coruscant and that everyone seems to have been okay on her homeworld. I'd worried that there would be trouble but it looks like the combined efforts to keep them safe worked.

It's good that Linza was able to find more information about what happened to her homeworld. There's the practical side effect that it strengthened the case against Ugaidi to have documentation of her people's history. But also it gives the mystery a bit of much-needed closure -- I can imagine that both she and David are relieved to have further evidence of what caused things like the haunted forest. And there's even a probable identity for the mysterious female Shaman-like person that Linza met.

Interesting that all of the various military /mercenary personnel from Bosta were recalled home due to this incident with Ugaidi Industries. I get the impression that public opinion has turned against the apparent lack of oversight regarding working conditions and ethics of the assignments that were accepted. I hope that things will work out for David and Captain Cox and the rest. (At least Cox is finally getting medical leave, no thanks to her former employers.)

Linza's worries about the Republic having less than benign effects are, sad to say, perceptive and realistic. But hopefully she can help influence events for the better. Her vision (which it seems likely to be ) was disturbing and I'm sure even more so for her given the peaceful surroundings she's used to seeing at home.

In spite of all planning, her family did notice her absence. I felt really bad for them -- what a time to have her go missing! (My phone tried to autocorrect that to "kissing" and almost got away with it. ) She and David are both obviously relieved at the chance to go home and reassure their loved ones.

Speaking of David, I think I've been neglecting his side of things because Linza has so much plot to report, but I've really been enjoying his last few entries. It's remarkable how much he's grown to care for Linza, that much is evident in details like his concern about her visions and how happy he was to see her reunited with her family. It's really sweet how they are both finding such caring support in each other and it seems very likely to me that it's no one way attraction.

Congratulations on making it all the way to the end! This was an entertaining tale to follow and I hope that maybe we'll get to see these characters again at some point.

 

All caught up, but if I was to write a comment right now, it would be semi-foolish, as I still need to figure out many things. Anyway - hands down, one of the most creative things from last year! K.U.D.O.S!

 

@WarmNyota_SweetAyesha Thank you!

@Cowgirl Jedi 1701 I'm glad you ship it! Don't worry, David and Linza will be back one day.

@Kahara Thank you for all your thoughts!

@Ewok Poet thanks and it would be a monstrous review, especially if you are still piecing things together.

If anyone else is interested my new DDC is from the POV of a distant relative.

 

Phew, caught up. Finally! And in the end there was: harmony.

Harmony is Order, Order is Harmony. The First Ones Knew this and Taught it.

I hope it counts for their marriage as well.

 

Thanks @AzureAngel2 and they are going to get married.