-Coruscant-
-3 Weeks Before the Battle of Geonosis-

“You will relinquish her saber for interment with the rites of a Padawan, and your request for posthumous knighting is denied,” the stern voice of Mace Windu, despite its flat tone, feels like a condemnation. His next words almost confirm it, as if the Jedi Council, your own Master included, believe you to be entirely self-serving, “This Council will not grant you the rank of Master.”

Your tongue feels like a desiccated Exogorth wedged between the floor and roof of your mouth, but still you manage to speak. “That is not my request. All I wish is for the Council to acknowledge that Rynon fell in service of the Order.”

“Your grief is apparent, and understandable,” Eeth Koth, ever gentle, cuts in. “But you cannot see past your internal turmoil.”

Oppo Rancisis shifts in his seat, his reptilian nature making the action noisy, though you suspect that is on purpose. “Also clear to this Council, young Knight, is your presumption. Indeed, you should not expect to be granted the privilege of another Padawan anytime soon.” Master Windu nods along, his eyes still being fixed on you giving him an air of disdain. Master Yoda nods as well, though his body language is far more empathetic, his wide eyes closed.

“Apprentice,” Coleman Trebor, your own former Master, is as gentle in tone as Eeth Koth, though being a Vurk means that his words are deeper with less inflection. “You have our sympathies, but your insistence on this matter is concerning,” the Diplomat’s long head shakes in resignation. “Please, now that you are back in the Temple, take more time to detach yourself. To meditate and regain your focus.”

“Yes, you have been afforded a week of rest,” Mace Windu adds, his tone nearly as flat as before. It seems the rest of the High Council has allowed Masters Windu, Koth, Rancisis, and Trebor to handle what feels increasingly like a hearing.

Again, Rancisis deems it his duty to inform you of the bad news. “After which you will return to service under the Council of Reconciliation,” a part of you wonders if being deaf to self-righteousness is a requirement to join the High Council.

“Apologies, Master Rancisis,” the old Thisspiasian Master must have misspoke, “but I have worked under the Council of Reassignment since becoming a Knight.” It’s true, all Jedi Explorers, for how few there are, serve (somewhat paradoxically) under the Council of Reassignment, along with the Service Corps. You never wanted to follow in your Master’s footsteps as a diplomat, Jedi Diplomats are forced to deal with the rot eating away at the heart of the Republic. Worse, they are forced to enable that rot; smiling and shaking hands with slavers and crimelords as their vile business is conducted right under the nose of the Order and Republic. You’d seen enough of that at your Master’s side, spent enough time in the courts of the Hutts and Black Sun’s Vigos, watched enough corrupt officials lie through their teeth, and been witness to enough rotten (if legal) deals.

“Be that as it may,” this time, Eeth Koth is the one who preempts Rancisis, likely in an attempt to diffuse the tension rather than add to it, “we are reaching a critical juncture in the Separatist Crisis, as I’m sure you know.” You do know, ever since making it back to civilized space it’s dominated the news, especially after… coming into property on the edge of the Outer Rim. “It is regrettable, but the Republic and the Order need as many diplomats as possible.”

“Yes yes,” Rancisis deems it his place to take charge of the discussion again, you miss the presence of the other senior members of the Council, the conciliatory Yarael Poof and the wizened Yaddle were valuable counterweights to such members of the august body as Oppo Rancisis and Mace Windu. Your gaze does not drift to Master Trebor, though you know the consummate diplomat is more focused on keeping the will of the Council unanimous rather than trying to understand you. “We have all been forced to make sacrifices, these are troubled times.”

“And you have had long enough to contemplate the past, use the next seven days to contemplate the future, and refocus on the present,” Master Windu says with an air of finality, settling back into his seat.

For the first time since you arrived in the High Council Chamber, the Grand Master of the Order, Yoda, addresses you. “In dire straits, the Republic is. In high regard, by Master Trebor, you are held. A great diplomat, this Council knows you can be, knows that you are.”

You almost wonder if it was rehearsed. That Master Yoda would set you up, raise your hopes and your prospects of a future with the Order, only for your own former Master to dash it all away, and reassure you that hardening your heart in advance was the correct decision.

“The Council of Reconciliation has already assigned you a mission, Apprentice,” Master Trebor cracks the thin skein of hope that had begun to cool your discontent before shattering it. “Unless you wish it, you will not even have to visit them. You will be heading a diplomatic mission to Hollastin, along with a delegation from the Savareen Sector, it is likely there will be a delegation from Baktoid Automata there, perhaps on behalf of the Separatists.” Your former Master again shakes his head, though you know that this time, it is not on your behalf, but on the state of the Republic he can’t acknowledge as moribund. “That, however, is unclear as so much else is now.”

Master Yoda nods his head sagely, but refrains from speaking again.

“Hollastin? With a Senatorial delegation from the Savareen sector?” You cannot believe this, the Council is sending you into the heart of Hutt Space, with a gaggle of Rodians, to make a deal with the t’landa Til! You cannot believe this, it—

“I believe we are done here,” Mace Windu states forcefully, his face unchanging. Perhaps he senses the shift in the tumult that is your mind, or perhaps he simply wishes to subject another Jedi to undeserved castigation. “You will retrieve Rynon Valta’s lightsaber for internment, and you will report for your mission within a week’s time. Dismissed.”

>Bow, thank the Council for their time and consideration, and leave. Leave the Temple, leave Coruscant, leave the Republic. Don’t speak to anyone, not other Jedi, not the workers in the Temple, nobody. You have no place here anymore.

>Bow, thank the Council for their time and consideration, and leave. Spend some time doing as the Council suggested, meditating on the present and the future. But you will not return your Padawan’s lightsaber, nor will you undertake the mission. No, you will abscond in the night, before you are due to depart.

>Bow, but do not say anything else. You will leave today. Before they come to take your Padawan’s lightsaber. You will find other Jedi to talk to, closer in age and experience to you, or with differing viewpoints to the Council, but you will still go. Perhaps the Will of the Force will bring you back to the Order, but for now, it is guiding you away from the Republic.

>Leave without a bow, without a word. You will make your grievances known to whoever you encounter as you depart. The shortsightedness and pomposity of the Council have become untenable, and the relationship with the foundering Republic far too close, but it seems the only ones who can see that are yourself and— Perhaps that is where you will go. To the Separatists, to Master Dooku.

>Snap at the Council. You will not reiterate your points, you will simply spit back what they had heaped upon you before leaving. At worst you’ll be censured and confined to the Temple, but that’s fine, you will be off of Coruscant within the hour, but not before sharing your opinions with more than the Council.

>Snap at the Council, how can they be so blind as to send envoys to the Hutts? Chancellor Palpatine was supposed to cut out the corruption in the Republic, but now the Judicial Corps are being sent to make deals with the Hutts so that they may be used as a cudgel against worlds that feel neglected or forgotten by the Republic, and the Jedi Order is cosigning that. You refuse to be a part of this system anymore.

>Rebuke the Council, Masters Windu, Rancisis, and Trebor specifically. The Order’s and, more specifically, the Council’s dogmatism and its deference to the Republic are slowly strangling it. If the Jedi were to listen to the people, to listen to the Force, instead of listening to the Republic, perhaps their vision wouldn’t be clouded, and perhaps a half-million systems wouldn’t be drafting documents of secession. Storm out afterwards. Like Master Windu said, you were done here.

>Bow, thank the Council for their time and consideration, and leave. Leave the Temple, leave Coruscant, leave the Republic. Don’t speak to anyone, not other Jedi, not the workers in the Temple, nobody. You have no place here anymore.

>>5853077

>Bow, but do not say anything else. You will leave today. Before they come to take your Padawan’s lightsaber. You will find other Jedi to talk to, closer in age and experience to you, or with differing viewpoints to the Council, but you will still go. Perhaps the Will of the Force will bring you back to the Order, but for now, it is guiding you away from the Republic.

Their vision is clouded, distorted, but the Jedi still do have hearts, even if it is buried under dogma. It’s regrettable.

>>5853077
>Leave without a bow, without a word. You will make your grievances known to whoever you encounter as you depart. The shortsightedness and pomposity of the Council have become untenable, and the relationship with the foundering Republic far too close, but it seems the only ones who can see that are yourself and— Perhaps that is where you will go. To the Separatists, to Master Dooku

Fuck em all

>>5853077
>Rebuke the Council, Masters Windu, Rancisis, and Trebor specifically. The Order’s and, more specifically, the Council’s dogmatism and its deference to the Republic are slowly strangling it. If the Jedi were to listen to the people, to listen to the Force, instead of listening to the Republic, perhaps their vision wouldn’t be clouded, and perhaps a half-million systems wouldn’t be drafting documents of secession. Storm out afterwards. Like Master Windu said, you were done here.
Fuck em all indeed

I don’t care for dooku either, to be honest. He went in the complete opposite direction of the Jedi. So bitter and weary that he resorted to creating grief and misery wherever he stepped. We’re against the republic, but the confederacy can go suck it as well. That’s what I’m aiming for with my vote at least.

>>5853077
>Leave without a bow, without a word. You will make your grievances known to whoever you encounter as you depart. The shortsightedness and pomposity of the Council have become untenable, and the relationship with the foundering Republic far too close, but it seems the only ones who can see that are yourself and— Perhaps that is where you will go. To the Separatists, to Master Dooku
Long live the CIS!

>>5853077
>Snap at the Council, how can they be so blind as to send envoys to the Hutts? Chancellor Palpatine was supposed to cut out the corruption in the Republic, but now the Judicial Corps are being sent to make deals with the Hutts so that they may be used as a cudgel against worlds that feel neglected or forgotten by the Republic, and the Jedi Order is cosigning that. You refuse to be a part of this system anymore.

Might also be good to use our seven days free of any duties to plan some more and prepare before we depart immediately.

>>5853077
Quick question QM, will we be forced to join the Confederacy? Or will our Jedi be able to do his own thing? I want to know what you intend for this quest beyond being against the Republic.

>>5853077
An interesting concept, should be good. Got that mild Revan / exile returning vibe to it.
>Bow, but do not say anything else. You will leave today. Before they come to take your Padawan’s lightsaber. You will find other Jedi to talk to, closer in age and experience to you, or with differing viewpoints to the Council, but you will still go. Perhaps the Will of the Force will bring you back to the Order, but for now, it is guiding you away from the Republic.

I'm not sure about the phrasing but the gist of it is, hold tongue and prepare exit. Even if nobody agrees, I feel like it would be realistic to talk to jedi of your own generation. And make some copies from the jedi library if we are about to gtfo...

Though it would be extremely satisfying to call them out

>>5853112
No, I intend for this to be a Confederate Quest. I know there have been a few, but they never took off and they never showed the upper levels of the Separatists. I will add that from an outside perspective, especially before Geonosis, Dooku seemed like someone for those who had grievances with the Republic to rally behind, nobody in the Order even really suspected him of going over to the Dark Side. A lot of Separatists outside of the corporate sphere even saw him as someone able to cow the megacorporations where the Republic couldn't, at least the ones that were aligned to the cause before Geonosis.

>>5853077
>>Snap at the Council. You will not reiterate your points, you will simply spit back what they had heaped upon you before leaving. At worst you’ll be censured and confined to the Temple, but that’s fine, you will be off of Coruscant within the hour, but not before sharing your opinions with more than the Council.

>>5853077

>Bow, but do not say anything else. You will leave today. Before they come to take your Padawan’s lightsaber. You will find other Jedi to talk to, closer in age and experience to you, or with differing viewpoints to the Council, but you will still go. Perhaps the Will of the Force will bring you back to the Order, but for now, it is guiding you away from the Republic.

I'm curious as to what we encountered in the unknown regions & how our Padawan died, though I presume we'll find out in due course.

The Chad Idealist Dooku vs The Virgin Status-Quo Windu

>>5853081
Respectfully leave without a word.

>>5853084
>>5853120
>>5853140
Be respectful but leave quickly.

>>5853088
>>5853098
Leave the Jedi without a word, it's not like they would listen anyway.

>>5853089
It doesn't matter if the council doesn't listen, they need to be told that they're wrong regardless.

>>5853100
It's not that the Council is wrong, it's the Republic, the whole system. Leave, one Knight isn't enough to fix such a deep-seated rot.

>>5853135
I'm out of order? You're out of order! Really though, they are, and that's not your problem anymore.

The vote is close, I think I'll give it another 15 minutes to see if it moves, otherwise we'll keep going.

>>5853077

>Bow, but do not say anything else. You will leave today. Before they come to take your Padawan’s lightsaber. You will find other Jedi to talk to, closer in age and experience to you, or with differing viewpoints to the Council, but you will still go. Perhaps the Will of the Force will bring you back to the Order, but for now, it is guiding you away from the Republic.


Don’t give em any satisfaction

>>5853164
>>5853140
>>5853120
>>5853084
Voting is closed, writing.

I guess we're going down the 'light' route while still getting tempted back into the 'good guys faction'. Oh well, hope we can at least lead some droids and collaborate with the CIS.

>>5853171

I’ll be pushing to go renegade with a droid division as soon as we have the chance, I’m not going down with Dooku

>>5853171
We’re going to be part of the CIS, no doubt about that, per QM’s words. That said, becoming a dark side lackey is out of question in my books. Hopefully we can’t rally our own sub faction in the confederacy.

>>5853174
>not wanting to replace Dooku and guide the glorious Trade Federation to victory

>>5853176
The Dark Side may be bad, but the Force can be just as corrupt sometimes. I don't want to just submit to the other side of the spectrum with high-ground moralfagging if you get my drift.

>>5853215
Per George Lucas’ ideas, the Force is a force for good, while the Dark Side is a corruption of it. There is a moral high ground to it, but I don’t see why that’s bad. The Jedi Order isn’t bad because they’re using the “light side” they’re bad because they’ve lost sight of their purpose. That’s why our Jedi is leaving the order. Not because “force bad”. You catch my drift?

>>5853227
George Lucas is a hack and doesn't even own the series anymore, that's the drift I catch, you catch my drift?
On a meta level I've learned the hard way that moralfagging is a huge quest killer that leads to pretentiousness and passive aggressiveness.
Have you heard about the tragedy of the Trojan War Quest? I thought not. It's not a quest the players would tell you.

>>5853227
The Force is evil. Kreia was right.

>>5853300
Quite frankly I don’t care if some other quest failed because of “morals”. Besides, this is a Star Wars quest. Morality is inextricably entertwined with it. You’re just self-inserting your own biases into this quest. Calling Lucas a hack is also just a brain dead take. No one cares about the opinion of some rando on 4chan.

>>5853355

>You’re just self-inserting your own biases into this quest.

Anon, i am a neutral party in this debate, but it is quite clear that you are also strongly biased here, and you are also a “rando on 4chan”.

>>5853362
Everyone has biases, but I’m not the one bringing in an entirely unrelated subject (another quest about an entirely different setting) to support my argument. The success of Star Wars I think says more than I ever could about George being a “hack”.

>>5853300
The death of Trojan War Quest had nothing to do with "moralfagging" anyway, and everything to do with shitty mechanics and a shitty build that doomed the protagonist to constant, unrelenting failure.

>>5853066
>Yes, this includes the 2008 The Clone Wars cartoon, which is impossible to fit into the Legends continuity. Darth Maul is dead, barring anything unforeseen, Anakin Skywalker will remain a Padawan until the middle of the war, Mandalore is CIS-aligned and is not a pacifist monarchy, Nightsisters are a minority on Dathomir which as minimal contact with the Galaxy at large, Asajj Ventress is a Rattataki, and General Grievous is both a master strategist and a serious personal threat
My brother. A Clone Wars quest not immediately dominated by Filonishit is a rare and precious thing.

Mouth set in a hard line, you simply bow to the Council before turning on your heels and walking out. It seems that Master Trebor expects you to say more, and Master Gallia watches you curiously, but aside from the glimpse you get when turning around, and seeing the various Masters in your peripheral vision, that’s all you can see.

It seems that you were with the Council for longer than they had intended, as there are three Jedi waiting in the atrium that leads out of the High Council Chambers. Master Agen Kolar, one of the Order’s preeminent guardians and on the short list of Masters in consideration to join the Council; you had once hoped he would take notice of you in the Apprentice Tournament, when you were still an Initiate in the Temple. With him is his new apprentice, a human teenager; you don’t know his name, but he’s in a lotus position next to his master, trying his best to meditate, despite the distraction that is the third Jedi in the room. The third you do recognize, a pale-faced Bpfasshi knight only a few years older than you, Mira Al-Zaj, former apprentice to the famous battlemaster Sora Bulq. The pale-skinned near-human does cut a striking figure, but she’s doing her best to meditate standing, still, you can sense her unease as you pass into the lift that leads down into the rest of the Temple. Likely a failed mission.

You try not to reflect on yourself at that thought, and nearly fail. No doubt the Council, both the High Council and the Council of Reassignment see your years-long mission into the Unknown Regions as a failure, especially with the death— with what happened before you turned back and reached— before you turned back and blazed an ill-judged route through the Deep Core. While parts of your journey will remain off of the Order’s records, the explanation you got as to why one should not attempt a departure from or a return to civilized space via the Metellos Trade Route has already been submitted to the Archives.

Pinching the bridge of your nose, you step out of the lift, head straight out, and turn right. Bearing left would have brought you to the Temple’s main entrance, along the southern wall; but the largest hangar, where your Incom A-19 Duskseer exploration ship is docked, is at the juncture of the northern and western walls, near the base of the Tower of First Knowledge.

Older Masters and their young Padawans, you doubt many of the latter can remember the Yinchorri Uprising, are all you pass by in the outer halls of the Temple, along with the sundry civilian workers. It’s not that any of them are beneath notice, or that their perspectives wouldn’t have value, but after such an interaction with the Council, your own Master included, you would only really feel comfortable venting to someone closer in age to you, preferably with similar experiences.

Luckily, or perhaps unluckily, heading towards you, you espy…

>Siri Tachi, six years your senior, lost her Padawan last year on a mission to the long-abandoned Sith tomb-world of Korriban. Like you, she’s the former apprentice of a High Councillor, in her case, Adi Gallia. Tachi is patient and calculating, and most often uses the diplomatic training afforded to her by Master Gallia in the role of a spy; though she’s known to have a passionate streak, evidenced by her chosen lightsaber form of Djem So.

>Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker. Kenobi came into a Padawan learner practically before he himself was a Knight, when Skywalker was thrust upon him after his own Master’s death. Kenobi is straight-laced and a far more typical Jedi than his late Master, Qui-Gon Jinn was, but his nearly twenty year old Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, already has a reputation as a maverick. Something that entering the Order as late as he did not help with.

> Garen Muln, a near-contemporary of yours, though following him is his master, famous Jedi Ace Clee Rhara. Muln is good-natured and jocular, though he can be a bit of a hothead, perhaps that’s what makes him such an effective starfighter pilot, though it’s also what likely why it took so long for him to be knighted. Master Rhara, despite being in her fifties and despite recently running afoul of the Republic’s dreaded bureaucracy, has always been level headed and open minded.

>Knight Aure and her apprentice, a slip of a girl you don’t recognize. Aure is another Jedi diplomat, though her radical attitude and oftimes borderline-unsanctioned methods have gotten her in trouble more than once with the Council of Reconciliation. You’d seen her Padawan before, though never worked with her, she’s probably five years younger than you, and would be getting ready for her trials under a more traditional Master. Aure was a strange one, you figure you may have gotten along, though because of her nature, she was never given missions as important as the ones you went on with Master Trebor.

>Aayla Secura, who you can remember being brought into the Temple. You can’t say you’re the biggest fan of her Master, but Aayla, especially after her trial on Kiffex and her knighting shortly before your own, has given you a certain appreciation of the Twi’Lek. Despite the… eccentricities of both Quinlan Vos and Master Tholme, Secura herself is a well-rounded Knight who only rarely operates in the Shadows. It might be that she won’t understand your problems with the Council, having been rehabilitated by Plo Koon and Adi Gallia, but her brush with the Dark Side may give her a deeper understanding.

>>5853441

>Siri Tachi, six years your senior, lost her Padawan last year on a mission to the long-abandoned Sith tomb-world of Korriban. Like you, she’s the former apprentice of a High Councillor, in her case, Adi Gallia. Tachi is patient and calculating, and most often uses the diplomatic training afforded to her by Master Gallia in the role of a spy; though she’s known to have a passionate streak, evidenced by her chosen lightsaber form of Djem So.

Maybe a useful person to talk to and fellow member of the “Oops I killed my padawan” club

>>5853441
>Knight Aure and her apprentice, a slip of a girl you don’t recognize. Aure is another Jedi diplomat, though her radical attitude and oftimes borderline-unsanctioned methods have gotten her in trouble more than once with the Council of Reconciliation. You’d seen her Padawan before, though never worked with her, she’s probably five years younger than you, and would be getting ready for her trials under a more traditional Master. Aure was a strange one, you figure you may have gotten along, though because of her nature, she was never given missions as important as the ones you went on with Master Trebor.

>>5853441
>>Knight Aure and her apprentice, a slip of a girl you don’t recognize. Aure is another Jedi diplomat, though her radical attitude and oftimes borderline-unsanctioned methods have gotten her in trouble more than once with the Council of Reconciliation. You’d seen her Padawan before, though never worked with her, she’s probably five years younger than you, and would be getting ready for her trials under a more traditional Master. Aure was a strange one, you figure you may have gotten along, though because of her nature, she was never given missions as important as the ones you went on with Master Trebor.

>>5853441
>Siri Tachi, six years your senior, lost her Padawan last year on a mission to the long-abandoned Sith tomb-world of Korriban. Like you, she’s the former apprentice of a High Councillor, in her case, Adi Gallia. Tachi is patient and calculating, and most often uses the diplomatic training afforded to her by Master Gallia in the role of a spy; though she’s known to have a passionate streak, evidenced by her chosen lightsaber form of Djem So.
Admittedly at least half of why I'm voting for this is that she's a fun character who's massively underutilized because Satine Kryze barged into her narrative role like the Kool-Aid man.

>>5853441
>Siri Tachi, six years your senior, lost her Padawan last year on a mission to the long-abandoned Sith tomb-world of Korriban. Like you, she’s the former apprentice of a High Councillor, in her case, Adi Gallia. Tachi is patient and calculating, and most often uses the diplomatic training afforded to her by Master Gallia in the role of a spy; though she’s known to have a passionate streak, evidenced by her chosen lightsaber form of Djem So.

I think our Jedi will relate best to someone who lost their padawan as well.

>>5853441
>Knight Aure and her apprentice, a slip of a girl you don’t recognize. Aure is another Jedi diplomat, though her radical attitude and oftimes borderline-unsanctioned methods have gotten her in trouble more than once with the Council of Reconciliation. You’d seen her Padawan before, though never worked with her, she’s probably five years younger than you, and would be getting ready for her trials under a more traditional Master. Aure was a strange one, you figure you may have gotten along, though because of her nature, she was never given missions as important as the ones you went on with Master Trebor.

That too longer than expected. Oops I forgot my name. Holy fuck third time's the charm.
>>5853387
My tism is hating Filonislop.
>>5853355
>>5853325
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>>5853227
George had some bad takes on the Force, but Avellone's take on the Force is genuinely braindead. That's all I'll say about that for now. Well besides the TCW/Canon take on the Force is the absolute worst and Troy Denning helped Hidalgo lube up Star Wars so that Disney could rape it.
>>5853444
I meant to rephrase that but ended up wiki-crawling for other stuff, fuck. Tachi's padawan isn't the one who died, he left the Order after one of his friends got killed on that botched mission. Her apprentice was Ferrus Olin, a name you might recognize if you were a young reader in the early 2000s.

>>5853457
Well that's fair. I'm just glad you don't see Lucas' or Avellone's definitions about things like the Force as the absolute truth.
I'm looking forward to what you're gonna do with the setting QM!

>>5853441
>Knight Aure and her apprentice, a slip of a girl you don’t recognize. Aure is another Jedi diplomat, though her radical attitude and oftimes borderline-unsanctioned methods have gotten her in trouble more than once with the Council of Reconciliation. You’d seen her Padawan before, though never worked with her, she’s probably five years younger than you, and would be getting ready for her trials under a more traditional Master. Aure was a strange one, you figure you may have gotten along, though because of her nature, she was never given missions as important as the ones you went on with Master Trebor.

>>5853441
>Siri Tachi, six years your senior, lost her Padawan last year on a mission to the long-abandoned Sith tomb-world of Korriban. Like you, she’s the former apprentice of a High Councillor, in her case, Adi Gallia. Tachi is patient and calculating, and most often uses the diplomatic training afforded to her by Master Gallia in the role of a spy; though she’s known to have a passionate streak, evidenced by her chosen lightsaber form of Djem So.

>Siri Tachi, six years your senior, lost her Padawan last year on a mission to the long-abandoned Sith tomb-world of Korriban. Like you, she’s the former apprentice of a High Councillor, in her case, Adi Gallia. Tachi is patient and calculating, and most often uses the diplomatic training afforded to her by Master Gallia in the role of a spy; though she’s known to have a passionate streak, evidenced by her chosen lightsaber form of Djem So.

>>5853458
The force has been portrayed so inconsistently that arguing over which interpretation is "right" is a fool's errand. It was vaguely defined "go-with-the-flow" New Age mumbo jumbo space magic, and hundreds of different writers took it in a thousand different directions. The best thing a writer can do at this point is to just decide what kind of interpretation they like best, then stick to it. Or keep it vague.

>>5853441
>>Knight Aure
Seems more likely to not get uppity about our views on the council's leadership.

>>5853444
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>>5853474
Siri Tachi.

>>5853447
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>>5853487
O̶C̶ ̶D̶o̶n̶u̶t̶ ̶S̶t̶e̶e̶l̶ Aure and Kristen Corrho.

That was way closer than I expected. I agree that Siri is underutilized and underappreciated, but any of these would have been interesting. Surprised nobody voted for Aayla.

Aaaand as I was typing that it tied. Gonna give it 15 minutes for a tiebreaker.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

The very same original characters from SW: Interregnum Qst? Based crossover, & I also appreciate a fellow man of culture (who shits on Filoni Wars).

I'll vote via the Will of the Force.

1 Siri Tachi
2 Aure

Is there a reason why some people dislike the clone wars series by Filoni? I personally think it was pretty good, all things considered, but I’m curious about other people’s thoughts. I’ll admit I haven’t payed too much attention to it’s reception.

>>5853498
>Aayla
Fine character but I'm sick of the tailheads.
>>5853515
It was basically the test run for Disney canon. Barged in, retconned and/or deleted large swathes of existing material, usually for the worse. Essentially replaced several fun characters with its OCs, engaged in some bizarre characterization choices with others. Introduced Filoni's obsession Ahsoka, ushering in an age of cringe Togruta waifus to go alongside the cringe Twilek waifus. It's extremely popular, especially since it brought so many kids in who are now adults and most of the people buttblasted about it (like me) have left the fandom many years ago at this point.
>>5853507
I take back everything I've ever said bad about Avellone, the force is evil.

>>5853521
Ah, gotcha. That’s fair enough honestly. I am one of those kids who became adults, unsurprisingly, so that explains the difference in perception.

>>5853447
>>5853449
>>5853454
>>5853463
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>>5853507
Well, that's the vote decided. Writing, though I'm not sure it'll be out tonight. If it's not, expect it tomorrow afternoon.
>>5853521
That's a good way to sum it up succinctly.
>>5853523
If you read some of the comics (not the Disney compilations, those are out of order and add in TCW comics), and watch the 2003 Clone Wars microseries. I would also suggest reading Labyrinth of Evil.

>>5853521
LMAO
Well said, it also introduced inhibitor chips which cheapened the entire narrative of the clone army, turned Grievous into a Saturday morning cartoon villain, reduced the impact of Dooku, & threw in random fanfiction-esque bits such as Mortis that are impossible to reconcile with the rest of the universe. Not to mention changing the bounty hunters from TESB from a group of ruthless killers to a dysfunctional yet happy family, which also did away with their established backstories.

>>5853528
I remember reading a couple of those pre-Disney comics when I was very young, but i hardly Remember them now. Still, thanks for the recommendations. I’ll check em out.

>>5853531
>such as Mortis that are impossible to reconcile with the rest of the universe
Oh you poor, ignorant anon. Mortis connects very well with Legacy of the Force and Crucible...
>Not to mention changing the bounty hunters from TESB from a group of ruthless killers to a dysfunctional yet happy family, which also did away with their established backstories.
And made them all worse than and bow to the worst mary sue in the entire franchise.

>>5853535
Also check out Yoda: Dark Rendezvous.

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>>5853481
Well said anon. The Force and the Dark Side shouldn't be seen through the lenses of either George, Avellone, or Filoni.
I'm inclined to agree with the other anon. Kreia was right.

>>5853528
>watch the 2003 Clone Wars microseries
I kneel.

>>5853535
The 2003 Clone Wars series is true kino and much better than the more recent interpretations in my opinion, you won't regret watching it.

>>5853536
In those cases the deity in question was locked away amongst an array of black holes & such in ancient times to prevent its release & the devastation it would cause the galaxy. It had to be defeated by multiple of the strongest Force wielders of the era coming together to battle it on a metaphysical level. Contrast that with Filoniwars in which Anakin just straight up stabs one with his lightsaber.

>>5853733
Well said.
QM, did you read the recent Qst that fizzled out, Shadows of Order 66? It plays up Dooku's noble nature & intentions somewhat subtly, but ultimately went nowhere. Might be worth a skim for inspiration.

>>5853793
I haven't read Shadows of Order 66. Is it worth reading? I'm hesitant since it died.

>>5853844
Nothing spectacular due to an overabundance of caution among anons, but it seemed to be building towards something & the QM gave choices actual consequences.

>>5853528
>2003 Clone Wars
I will now read your quest.

>>5853531
>turned Grievous into a Saturday morning cartoon villain
I'm still mad about this one.

Hey folks, not dead, just not done with the update in the time I had after work. Close though, it should be out before midnight cause I'm busy tonight.

>>5853733
>The Force and the Dark Side shouldn't be seen through the lenses of either George, Avellone, or Filoni. I'm inclined to agree with the other anon. Kreia was right.
I hate to break it to you I don't lol, but Avellone was the one who wrote Kreia.
>The 2003 Clone Wars series is true kino
It's 2 hours long and Anakin has an actual character arc, unlike 2008's seven seasons.

>>5853789
Yeah. Legacy of the Force is still dogshit though, and Luke is supposed to have the same potential as Anakin (but realized) so either Anakin should have got clowned on by the Father or Luke should have dabbed on Abeloth worse than he did to her avatar. But that's enough about that, let's stick to talking about the good parts of Star Wars.

>>5853793
I started it but something about it just didn't really grab me. Maybe it was how easily the MC evaded Order 66. Palpatine would have any property ever owned by Dooku on lockdown immediately. Dooku's castle on Vjun, for example, became Vader's.

>>5854143
Like Clankers say : Roger roger

To the good parts..... i recon you like the clone legions more has faceless warriors than the differences/personality.
The 501st had gained a small flavor with the battlefront journal. Otherwise it was the whos, that did operation knightfall when the III film was out.
Something easier though.
What kind of war droids you like the most ? Tri fighters are pretty cool for me.

>>5854143
No worries QM.

>>5854211
>operation knightfall
kino

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>>5854143
>I hate to break it to you I don't lol, but Avellone was the one who wrote Kreia.
Avellone was based??? Kreita bros, how can we cope?

>>5854211
>Like Clankers say : Roger roger

>>5853498
>Interregnum Reference
Holy based

“Taen-Qyl Tarrag, finally back from the Unknown Regions,” the older Knight greets you with a half grin, her Padawan bowing deeper than she should to a Knight. “I figured that Master Trebor would stick you back under the Council of Reconciliation. It’ll be nice to have someone who can put the screws to the Seps.”

Your tongue runs over the back of your teeth before you address her, she didn’t even notice the emptiness at your side where your Padawan should be. “Unfortunately, that isn’t what the Council had in mind,” your tone is clipped, but more even than it was with the Council. “They’re sending me to Hollastin, in Hutt Space. After that—” you have no intention of staying long enough to even be sent to Hollastin, but for all Aure’s fieriness, you know her devotion to the Order wouldn’t let her not inform the Council of your intentions “—they likely plan for me to stay with the Hutts even longer, or to send me to a posting on Sy Myrth or Alliga.” Both planets possess Separatists leanings and lead considerable coalitions, and both hold long-standing grudges against the Republic that you’d dealt with when you were still an apprentice. Murkhana and Felucia may be lost to the Senate, but they still believe they can stem the tide with the more independent worlds. You know that’s not true.

“Master,” the human girl, brown haired and blue eyed, says in a tone that makes it sound like she’s tugging on her master’s sleeve. Despite all her evident discipline, the Force rolls off of her, strong but gentle. You don’t doubt that she can conceal her connection when she wants to, but there’s no reason to do that in the Temple.

At her Padawan’s prodding, Aure’s eyes lock onto the hole at your side, feeling the hole in your connection to the Force, for the first time. “Oh, your apprentice, are—”

“She,” Aure’s Padawan corrects, “the near-human girl, I’m sorry master Tarrag, I only met her once.” Even though she’s human and has a calmer demeanor, there is something about the Padawan that reminds you of Rynon.

“It’s fine,” you tell the girl, holding up a hand, “she was—” you search for the right word, only to come up short “—lost, in the Unknown Regions.” You shake your head, “It would take me too long to explain what happened, and I haven’t entered it into the Archives yet.” It’s not technically a lie, so Aure doesn’t pick up on your intention to not enter your experiences (or route) in the Unknown Regions in the archives, though you catch her apprentice’s nose scrunching up before her expression reverts to a neutral one.

>(1/4)

“I’m- I’m sorry to hear that, Taen-Qyl, I truly am,” the Zabrak’s eyes dart to the human girl at her side, clearly thinking about losing her own apprentice. “But the Council is right, the Republic needs all the diplomats it can get, and no one’s better at that than a Jedi. Maybe you can talk to your Master about getting reassigned.”

You resist the urge to roll your eyes and scoff, “The Council’s decision is final,” you simply state instead. “Besides, I did spend a lot of time in the rougher parts of the Galaxy when I was Master Trebor’s apprentice,” you’re loathe to admit it, but, “I do understand why the Masters would chose to send someone like me over a Shadow like Master Tholme.” You shake your head again, harder this time, and let some of your emotions seep out into the Force, “I understand, but that doesn’t make it right. To use the t’landa Til as a means to get the Hutts to step in and deal with the worlds on the Rim? The Republic shouldn’t need that, and the Jedi shouldn’t be enabling that.”

“It’s our duty to keep the Republic together,” Aure doesn’t try to suppress her own scoff, “the Order’s always had to get its hands dirty, going all the way back to Palawa.”

“The Great Schisms were internal, and it was the Jedi who advocated for scrubbing Korriban and Ziost clean of sentient life,” you head off that unpleasant reality, matching the more experienced Knight’s knowledge of the Order’s history thanks to many long days spent studying while Master Trebor negotiated sensitive deals. “But it’s just that, they were internal. The Jedi refused to be part of the Pius Dea Crusades.”

“The Jedi also led the Republic during the Dark Age, probably saved it from the Sith,” Aure counters, though unwittingly makes your own point for you.

“Exactly, the Jedi led the Republic, the Republic didn’t lead the Jedi. The mistake Tarsus Valorum—” you have to specify, as his descendant and fellow Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, made a great many lesser mistakes “—made was making the Jedi another arm of the Republic. And doing away with the military. Tell me Aure, do you think that ten thousand Jedi, fifteen if you include the Service Corps, will be enough to stand up to the Trade Federation and Commerce Guild together?”

The other Knight looks at you with mild shock, as her apprentice’s own gaze flits between her master and yourself. “You’ve been doing some reading after getting back to civilized space. So you have to know that the Rim Faction is trying to push through a bill to centralize command of the Sector Defense Forces. That would surely be enough.”

>(2/4)

“Not enough to stand against the bulk of the Rims, backed by the might of the Techno Union and Banking Clan as well, if the predictions on the holonet are true,” she shrugs in response to that, a minor concession. “Besides, the Core will never agree to giving up its own defense, even worlds like Eriadu and Ord Mantell are too independent, they don’t want Coruscant telling them where to send their men and ships.”

“So what’s your point?” Her arms are crossed now, her tone more standoffish. “We all swear an oath to the Republic when we’re made Knights, and we’re all made to follow the will of the Council.”

You nod in response, “Exactly, the will of the Council. The Council who follows the will of the Republic, not the will of the Force.”

“Now you sound like old Master Jinn,” Aure says, rolling her eyes.

“Master Jinn?” Her Padawan inquires, interrupting for the first time.

Aure waves the question down, “He died on Naboo, almost never visited the Temple.” A wistful look passes over her face before it resets into her natural resting face, largely neutral but somewhat displeased. “He was respected, but he was a renegade, only listened to the Council when he wanted to. I looked up to him.”

“But master Aure, you—”

“Nope,” the Zabrak shakes her head before fixing her Padawan with a look that instantly quiets her, “I know what you’re going to say Kristen, and it’s different. Masters are afforded a lot more freedom than Knights, especially when they’re…” she trails off, rolling one hand around as if to inform her apprentice by insinuation.

“Especially when they’re as close to members of the Council as Master Qui-Gon was,” you finish for the other Knight. “A senior to some of them, even.”

“Right,” Aure nods, in agreement, clearly uncomfortable.

“But master Tarrag, you said you were Master Trebor’s apprentice, that must mean something to the Council of Reconciliation?” The Padawan, Kristen asks.

This time, you can’t stop the corner of your mouth from twitching, though you quickly still it.

The other Knight is the one who answers the seemingly-innocent question, “That’s not quite how it works. Especially when you’re stubborn and prideful.”

>(3/4)

That one makes your eyes narrow. It was a criticism Master Trebor was sparing with, though when he brought it up he always meant it, and it was always after something serious had happened. The last time you were chastised in that particular way it was about selecting a Padawan so soon after you had become a Knight yourself. But Rynon had been in need of a master, and you could feel the Force calling you together. Not only that, but your circumstances had been similar; though she had placed a close second in her Apprentice Tournament and you were the victor in your year, neither of you were seriously considered by the Masters everyone wanted to apprentice under, high placers with strong connections to the Force who found themselves facing a future in the AgriCorps. Master Trebor, as it turned out, and to Aure’s point, did take you as a Padawan to temper you, but even at the time he was the preeminent practitioner of Soresu, the third form of lightsaber combat. But nobody had stepped forward for the near-human girl, who would not have seen another tournament, the event being so close to her birthday.

She wouldn’t have been content in the AgriCorps, shunted off among genuine failures and those who had been mistakenly taken in by the Order, their connection to the Force too weak to ever have a chance of knighthood.

Snapping out of the tumult of thoughts swirling in your head, you jab back at Aure. “Maybe you have a point, but tell me, Aure; have you ever been to the real fringes of the Galaxy?”

“Of course I—”

You hold up a finger, which is surprisingly enough to silence her, “Not Ryloth or Rodia or the Corporate Sector. The semi-independent worlds on the edges of Hutt Space, the poor worlds past the Moddell Sector, the Centrality.”

“We were on the same diplomatic mission to the Centrality,” she counters, annoyance building in her tone. “It was the last mission I took on my own before picking up Kristen here.”

“So you know that Qui-Gon Jinn wouldn’t have, what was it you said? ‘Put the screws to them’, right?”

Aure’s mouth opens and closes, and Kristen looks between you and her, eyes wide in surprise that her master has been shut up. From what you know of the Consular, that’s likely not a common occurrence. Finally, she, though you can tell her frustration has peaked, “He would’ve solved their problems, kept them in the Republic.”

“From the sound of it, Master Dooku is solving their problems,” you fold your arms, sensing that the conversation is at an end.

The Zabrak clicks her tongue, “I guess you could say that, if you were off in the Unknown Regions through the whole crisis. But no, look into what Count Dooku is doing, and who he’s working with.” With that, she turns from you and continues on her way. Kristen, to her credit, bows before hurriedly following her master.

>(4/4)

Even before you returned to the Republic, after the chance encounter on long-forgotten Lehon, you began to be aware of the unfolding Separatist Crisis, and you learned more on the last leg of your journey, before returning to Coruscant. Without knowing that, and ignorant of the nature and extent of your… issues with the Republic, Aure can’t realize that you intend to follow up on her facetious advice.

>Depart the Temple, you’ve heard enough from both the Jedi Council and someone who is close to a peer. Return to your new home on the Rim and take Aure’s advice, and take a much closer look at the Separatist movement.

>Enter the Archives before you leave. You may or may not encounter other Jedi there, but you want to look into records relating to both the Separatists and the Unknown Regions. The latter of which you’ll have to subject to… alterations.

>Maybe hoping that a like-minded individual would bump into you out of sheer happenstance was a mistake, and it’s been a while since you sparred with a live opponent. Visit the training hall before departing,

>Visit the Room of a Thousand Fountains, perhaps for the last time. Sit and meditate, and let the Force guide you. Maybe you’ll come across somebody more level headed to share your views with.

>(5/4)

I was super sore last night when I got home, couldn't really focus on writing.

>>5855398
>Depart the Temple, you’ve heard enough from both the Jedi Council and someone who is close to a peer. Return to your new home on the Rim and take Aure’s advice, and take a much closer look at the Separatist movement.

>>5855398
>Enter the Archives before you leave. You may or may not encounter other Jedi there, but you want to look into records relating to both the Separatists and the Unknown Regions. The latter of which you’ll have to subject to… alterations.

We went to Lehon? Very interesting. Probably best to pull a Kamino then.

>>5855398

>Depart the Temple, you’ve heard enough from both the Jedi Council and someone who is close to a peer. Return to your new home on the Rim and take Aure’s advice, and take a much closer look at the Separatist movement.

We've wasted enough time as it is and our emotions can flare up, best not risk it and leave now while we are still calm.

>>5855398
>Depart the Temple, you’ve heard enough from both the Jedi Council and someone who is close to a peer. Return to your new home on the Rim and take Aure’s advice, and take a much closer look at the Separatist movement.

>>5855398
>Depart the Temple, you’ve heard enough from both the Jedi Council and someone who is close to a peer. Return to your new home on the Rim and take Aure’s advice, and take a much closer look at the Separatist movement.
We probably won't find many sympathizers amongst the Jedi and talking to mind-readers when you plan to betray them is a bad idea. Maybe, if we can, try to stock up on stuff we may need.

>>5855398

>Enter the Archives before you leave. You may or may not encounter other Jedi there, but you want to look into records relating to both the Separatists and the Unknown Regions. The latter of which you’ll have to subject to… alterations.

This seems prudent

>>5855398
>Enter the Archives before you leave. You may or may not encounter other Jedi there, but you want to look into records relating to both the Separatists and the Unknown Regions. The latter of which you’ll have to subject to… alterations.

>>5855412
>>5855430
>>5855436
>>5855442
Leave

>>5855413
>>5855449
>>5855469
Correct the record.
Just FYI: You didn't include Lehon in the brief you already submitted, and you have no intention of uploading the return leg of your journey.

Another close one, but it seems you know where you're not wanted. I'm shit with names and titles, especially for main characters and stories, I hope you like the one I went with.

>>5855398
>>Enter the Archives before you leave. You may or may not encounter other Jedi there, but you want to look into records relating to both the Separatists and the Unknown Regions. The latter of which you’ll have to subject to… alterations.

>>5855398
>Maybe hoping that a like-minded individual would bump into you out of sheer happenstance was a mistake, and it’s been a while since you sparred with a live opponent. Visit the training hall before departing,

>>5855552
>>5855560
Sorry gents, pool's closed.

I´m all for leading some spec.ops droid squad, I guess the most impact we make in the first year of the war the better off the CIS will be.

The only other encounters you have in the temple are short and genial, either a respectful nod and greeting, quick and kind condolences. Either you’re doing a worse job at concealing your emotions than you were when you first entered the Temple (which, actually, is rather likely) or word has gotten out of the Council’s reprimand and your failure in the Unknown Regions. It doesn’t matter though, not anymore. While you trust in the Force to return you to the Order, you know that that won’t happen unless the status quo between Jedi and Republic changes, and that can only happen with a major paradigm shift. As a student of history, you know that such changes are rarely painless, rather they’re long, and almost always bloody.

The Temple’s largest hangar, expanded in the wake of the Stark Hyperspace War, Yinchorri Crisis, and Blockade of Naboo, is an impressive sight. Eight levels protected by shutters and connected by lifts and stairs have been built into a recess on the Temple Ziggurat’s northwestern corner. The bottom two levels jut out the furthest, and, along with the topmost, smallest level, have entrances on both the northern and western walls.

While some of the hangars, the ones on the spires and closer to the Temple’s “ground” level especially, are rarely used and are optimal for solitary meditation, the main hangar is always a hive of activity. The sixth level, the third lowest, is where Jedi dock their larger personal starships. Shadow’s Sojourners, transports and freighters used by Knights and Masters who often take on irregular missions which require them to transport others, couriers officially operated by the Republic’s Diplomatic Corps but unofficially left for Jedi in need of fast, high-performance ships bearing official markings and codes, and scout ships used by the nowadays rare Jedi Explorer like yourself are what can be found on this level. Despite the size and role of these ships, the sixth level is rarely crowded, thanks to the busy nature of their owners.

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The Heart of the Mists, your own A-19 Duskseeker Long-Range Scoutship, sits to the western side of the hangar, untouched by all but the crew who had guided it in. Despite being several decades old, the Incom Corporation scoutship is in extremely good shape, any damage done on your expedition having been repaired before your return to Coruscant. The name hadn’t been your choice, you were content to keep its previous name, but when Rynon first saw it, and when you told it where you had purchased it (the Inner Rim agri-world of Taanab, at the junction of the Perlemian Trade Route and Lorrell Run) she insisted on the name it carries now. It wasn’t until you had departed Cerea on the last leg of your journey through civilized space before reaching Bakura at the edge of Wild Space that your Padawan had told you of her first memories, of the shimmering Transitory Mists of the Hapes Cluster. They were fuzzy though, and her only other formative memories were at the Jedi Temple; still, you were happy that she could remember a time before she was taken in by the Order, you couldn’t. It did raise a question you knew that she didn’t have the answer to, because while your apprentice was near-human, she definitely wasn’t a Hapan.

The A-19 is a relatively unpopular long-range scoutship, first introduced by the Incom Corporation around forty years ago. Its 21 meter body is long and thin, with a long box wing ensconcing the rear third of the fuselage, a bulbous cockpit with curved windows to allow the pilot a panoramic view, and a sensor suite borne on a finned hump just behind the cockpit. The production model came with a single chin-mounted laser cannon, but the Heart of the Mists’s had been removed before you came into it, replaced with a pair of laser cannons on either side of the hull, just under the shroud, and a swivel-mounted missile rack on the belly, which can fire forward or rear. It’s hard not being proud of the vessel that carried you into and out of the Unknown Regions, after all, what happened there wasn’t the ship’s fault.

>(2/4)

Thoughts of the Council and your fallen Padawan occupy your mind as you go through the motions of starting your ship and warming it up. The only reaction you get from the gaggle of workers and handful of Jedi in the hangar is movement out of the path of your ship, one of the workers even gives you a wave and indicates the northern shutter is open more than wide enough for the Heart to pass through.

Nobody moves to stop you until the Heart’s repulsorlifts are already activated, and the ship is taxiing through the hangar doors. You ignore the motion below, the patrol craft which perpetually circle the Temple and Senate Districts, and the hails from the Temple behind you, and direct the Heart into orbit.

Once past Coruscant’s orbital defenses, you enter a series of jumps, certain that you won’t be tracked, but unwilling to take the chance. Once the cockpit has dimmed to shut out the visual cacophony of hyperspace, you give yourself into introspection.

>(3/4)

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-Jerne-
-Ten Days Before the Battle of Geonosis-

Jerne is a dead world between hyperlanes on the edge of one of the largest voids in the known Galaxy. The native sentients were extinct before the New Sith Wars, and the later colonists, seeking economic freedom from the Republic, had destroyed the planet’s fragile ecosystem with runaway industry and uncontrolled culls of the native wildlife. Because of their independent nature, the colonists hadn’t even introduced species which had gone feral and colonized the planet after the environmental collapse, rather they had used the planet until it became a sparse dustball, the only living things on its surface being a sprawling, soft and leafy plant which covered large swathes of the surface, a hard and horny fungus which parasitizes the plant, and small, six-legged rodents which feed on the fungus.

Yet you never wondered why your recent benefactor had chosen the world to settle on. Land claims were cheap on Jerne, legally sold by the Commerce Guild and handled on the nearby industrial world of Ciutric. Not only that, but it was hidden, out of the way, and not legally part of the Republic, despite theoretically being within the sprawling Kanz Sector. The perfect place for someone who would want to remain hidden from not only the Jedi and the Republic, but their enemies as well.


The compound on Jerne consists of a low building of golden adobe brick sealed with a glossy, resinous clear coat, with a landing pad more than large enough for the Heart off to one side, several smaller buildings which act as (as yet unused) guest houses, storage, and cover for the subterranean storage of the more sensitive materials, communications array, and shield generator, and a yard of short, non-native grasses and bushes that serve to contrast up the world’s bleak atmosphere. The compound is completely surrounded by a several-meter high wall of the same material, which is itself edged on both sides by a thicket of hardy brambles.

The view of Yernu, Jerne’s single, pale sun, setting from the main building’s third floor study is a sight you have not yet tired of. There is something simple about the nearly-monochromatic panorama of the desert and distant buttes disappearing into shadow as the yellow disc disappears below the horizon.

“Master Tarrag,” the accented, tinny voice of the compound's steward, a chrome-plated 3D-4X Administrative Droid, addresses you as it shuffles into the room. You set down the sweet cup of Onderonian malt you had been nursing and rise to turn away from the sunset to regard the droid. “It seems your inquiry has been answered, I have received…”

>(4/4)

>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.

>An invitation to Innovation’s Reach, the massive skyhook/spaceport which services the Techno Union’s homeworld of Skako. While the Techno Union and the Banking Clan have yet to officially back the Separatist movement the way the Trade Federation and Commerce Guild have, the leanings of all of the megacorporations are clear. While still guilty of some crimes, the Techno Union is relatively clean for a megacorporation, and with them being on the fence you may find something in common with them.

>A formal offer to attend a contract discussion on Murkhana, at the headquarters of the Corporate Alliance. While you had not intended the feelers you sent out to yield that result, it was nonetheless one you intended to follow up on. Though you’re certain that contract work for the Corporate Alliance would be less than scrupulous.

>A private missive from Gib Soth-Sar, an undersecretary for the Body Calculus, the ruling council of Yag’Dhul, the Givin homeworld and one of the most prominent Separatist worlds independent of the megacorporations. The Givin are almost monolithically logic-driven, so visiting them might give you the clearest perspective on the Separatists.

>“This…” the droid hands you a datapad after unplugging it from one of the ports in the back of its head. It’s a rather poorly written invitation to a showcase at MandalMotors, a starship and heavy weapons manufacturer based on Mandalore. The gist of the missive is that someone in management, as well as a group of… civil? Leaders of Mandalore want to meet with someone similarly skeptical of the Republic, but without ties to Dooku. It makes sense from the Mandalorian perspective, given the former Jedi Master’s history with them.

>(5/4)
Probably the last update for tonight, feels like it kind of spiraled.

>>5855940
>>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.
I want to meet Him.

>>5855941
>An invitation to Innovation’s Reach, the massive skyhook/spaceport which services the Techno Union’s homeworld of Skako. While the Techno Union and the Banking Clan have yet to officially back the Separatist movement the way the Trade Federation and Commerce Guild have, the leanings of all of the megacorporations are clear. While still guilty of some crimes, the Techno Union is relatively clean for a megacorporation, and with them being on the fence you may find something in common with them.
Tough choice, might change my vote later.

>>5855941
>“This…”
...is the way?

>>5855941
>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.

M’count

>>5855941
>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.

How can I pass up the oppertunity for a chat with this man.

>>5855941
>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.
Watch as it's Archduke Poggle and not Dooku lol. But honestly I'll be happy with basically anything that isn't Mandos for the ten thousandth time.

>>5855941
>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.
Tbh I'd love to do some Dueling

>>5855997
That would be a great fake-out kek

>>5855941
>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.
My Count!

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>>5856004
quest voters don't realize they're gonna be Schwoggled by the Poggle

>>5856041
Listen if we get schwoggled then it'd be funny. Poggle the GOAT.

>The existence of a Poggle the Lesser implies the existence of a far greater being...

>>5856041
>Poggle with the swagger

>>5855941
>>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.

>>5855941>An invitation to Innovation’s Reach, the massive skyhook/spaceport which services the Techno Union’s homeworld of Skako. While the Techno Union and the Banking Clan have yet to officially back the Separatist movement the way the Trade Federation and Commerce Guild have, the leanings of all of the megacorporations are clear. While still guilty of some crimes, the Techno Union is relatively clean for a megacorporation, and with them being on the fence you may find something in common with them.
yo my fellow techno union bros

>>5855941

>A private missive from Gib Soth-Sar, an undersecretary for the Body Calculus, the ruling council of Yag’Dhul, the Givin homeworld and one of the most prominent Separatist worlds independent of the megacorporations. The Givin are almost monolithically logic-driven, so visiting them might give you the clearest perspective on the Separatists.

Its becoming clear that my Star Wars lore knowledge is weak compared to the others present

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>5856313
I thought I was savvy too, but some of these are beyond me.

QM, what species are we?

Once again, the Force will decide my vote.
1: HIM
2: Givins

>>5855941
>>“This…” the droid hands you a datapad after unplugging it from one of the ports in the back of its head. It’s a rather poorly written invitation to a showcase at MandalMotors, a starship and heavy weapons manufacturer based on Mandalore. The gist of the missive is that someone in management, as well as a group of… civil? Leaders of Mandalore want to meet with someone similarly skeptical of the Republic, but without ties to Dooku. It makes sense from the Mandalorian perspective, given the former Jedi Master’s history with them.
Mandalorians are based.

>>5855941
>>“This…” the droid hands you a datapad after unplugging it from one of the ports in the back of its head. It’s a rather poorly written invitation to a showcase at MandalMotors, a starship and heavy weapons manufacturer based on Mandalore. The gist of the missive is that someone in management, as well as a group of… civil? Leaders of Mandalore want to meet with someone similarly skeptical of the Republic, but without ties to Dooku. It makes sense from the Mandalorian perspective, given the former Jedi Master’s history with them.

Listen, I'm all onboard with chatting up the big D himself, but let's build up to it yea? Besides I'd love to see some based, proper, mandalorians.

>>5855941
>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.
Let's talk to a visitor before we head off

>>5855941
>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.

>>5855947
>>5855994
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>>5855997
>>5856000
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>>5856778
Meeting with the honored Archduke Poggle the Lesser of Geonosis, who else would it be? No really though it is actually Dooku.

>>5855961
>>5856304
Don't ask me why but I've always thought the Skakoans were neat.

>>5855983
>>5856617
>>5856623
>This...
Counts as your vote. And don't worry if you're tired/skeptical of the Mandalorians, my depiction of them will be more in-line with EU sources that predate/ignore Traviss' contributions, even if some of her work will be present. Republic Commando wasn't all bad, after all.

>>5856313
>>5856601
It's time to own the Loyalists with FACTS and (mathematically sound) LOGIC. The Givin are also pretty cool; did you know that they sided with the "evil" faction basically every single time? Really makes you think.

And don't worry if you don't have an autistic knowledge of Star Wars, you won't need it to enjoy/play the quest. All shall be exposited. And feel free to ask questions or for clarification if you have to, especially for the deep cuts.

Also Poggle is called the Lesser because he's a low-caste Geonosian who led a revolt against the old system. Because not all insects are eusocial, especially ones that develop spaceflight.

Post ate my trip. Also voting's closed.

>>5856795
>And don't worry if you're tired/skeptical of the Mandalorians, my depiction of them will be more in-line with EU sources that predate/ignore Traviss' contributions, even if some of her work will be present. Republic Commando wasn't all bad, after all.
I have 0 knowledge about EU. So I'm in for an surprise either way.

>>5856795
>don't worry if you're tired/skeptical of the Mandalorians, my depiction of them will be more in-line with EU sources that predate/ignore Traviss' contributions, even if some of her work will be present.
Rapidly approaching the point where I need to check if I'm a schizo and voting in my own quest.

>>5856795
I never knew the origins of Poggle's title, I thought it was the bug equivalent of having a Pliny the elder vrs Pliny the younger

>>5856601
>QM, what species are we?
Meant to answer this too. Human because I'm a m̶a̶s̶s̶i̶v̶e̶,̶ ̶C̶O̶M̶P̶N̶O̶R̶-̶s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶r̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶ boring racist.

>>5856814
Kek. Well either way it's nice to be able to give like-minded people the Star Wars content they've been starved of for so long. Especially now that all the TCWbots have been forced to eat shit over and over.

>>5856805
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

>>5856834
I think you mean basado y HuManocentrist-pilled.

>>5856795
>And don't worry if you're tired/skeptical of the Mandalorians, my depiction of them will be more in-line with EU sources that predate/ignore Traviss' contributions, even if some of her work will be present. Republic Commando wasn't all bad, after all.

I thought the Republic Commando was pretty good

>>5856879
There was a book series released alongside it. Started off alright but increasingly became about the author's dislike of Jedi and desperate desire to be swept off her feet by a soldierman and turned into a rural tradwife. Seriously, the commando-ing part of the books got increasingly little focus, replaced with cringe Sue Mandos and various women getting to live out that fantasy.

>>5855941
>A landing notice, the sender of which was thoughtful enough to post, but not thoughtful enough to wait for a response. A small personal transport of Huppla Pasa Tisc make has landed a short distance outside of the compound, with hardly any warning. You feel honored that the owner of that ship would choose to visit you personally, if it is who you suspect.

>>5856995
Ah I knew the book series existed but I never read it only heard about the mando lore it added.

“Fourex, go to the front gate, I’ll…” you roll your tongue along the roof of your mouth considering how best to meet the man at the forefront of the Separatist movement, one of the most renowned Jedi Masters in the history of the Order, “I’ll stay here, in the study.” You might as well, the small library isn’t ready to receive guests and has too many questionable relics held within, and the dining room would be barren with just a single guest, not to mention you have no food prepared. Greeting the Count in the entryway would just appear desperate.

The droid is scarcely gone for three minutes before you feel a presence in the doorway. Feel meaning more than just noticing how the light or air changes when the droid enters the room, which is still there, but there’s a ripple in the Force as well. Even before you turn to face the door, you can see by the shadow that the new arrival is at least 20 centimeters taller than the droid steward.

Though he’s shaded by the brighter lights of the hallway leading into the study, Master Dooku is instantly recognizable, likely to anybody in the known Galaxy. The Separatist leader cuts an imposing figure, close to two meters in height and unbent by age, despite having recently turned 80, and dressed in a fine outfit of blacks and browns covered by a silver-clasped cape of deep burgundy. Even after leaving the Order, he keeps the curved lightsaber he’s known for clipped to the left side of his belt.

“Taen-Qyl Tarrag. You should consider yourself lucky,” the Count’s baritone carries authority even while speaking relatively casually, “I receive many entreaties, requesting an audience with me on Serenno.” You give the former Master a shallow bow, but remain silent. “I rarely find myself on my homeworld these days,” he continues, making his way into the study and its proper lighting. “But perhaps I should not speak of luck to one so freshly free of the Order,” he gives you a knowing grin, before seemingly giving you permission to speak for the first time, “tell me, Tarrag, what was it that finally opened your eyes?”

“Master Dooku—” you begin, but the Separatist leader shakes his head.

“Like you, I left the Order, that title is no longer one I claim,” his tone is flat, not a hint of nostalgia or wistfulness in it.

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It appears the Separatist leader’s separation from the Order is more final than your own. “The Council, they see everything through a dogmatic lens, and ignore the reality of what goes on in the Galaxy. And it’s not just them, most of the Order are content to remain the Republic’s dogs. I saw enough of the Republic’s underbelly when I was a Padawan, I was not going to help the Senate convince the Hutts to quell Separatist sympathies along the Rim for them.”

The elder statesman chuckles, sensing your buried shame, “What you did was not cowardly. You know what talks with the Hutts look like, especially from a position of weakness. Do you think, had I known what would happen on Galidraan, that I would have led twenty of my fellow Jedi against the Supercommandos?”

It’s a salient point, “That, that is true. Thank you, Count.”

That gets you another smile, though it’s one without warmth. “Tell me, Tarrag, where do you see yourself in the Separatist movement?” Before you can ask for time to consider, the Count holds up a hand, “I am expected on Muunilinst, your answer cannot wait.”

“What positions does the Separatist movement have for me?”

The Count turns his palm up, as if he’s offering you a place with the Separatists, “For a Jedi Knight such as yourself, I can see many futures with the Confederacy. One trained as a diplomat, a warrior, and a commander, and seasoned as the former two as well as an explorer would do well as a general.” Preempting your (admittedly weak) objections, Dooku continues, “conflict with the Republic cannot be avoided, be it tomorrow or in a decade, the Senate cannot stomach its dear, tax-paying citizens declaring their worlds independent, and it will not change its ways. Even ignoring that, many systems with Separatist leanings are in the Outer Rim, and require much stricter policing than the Republic was willing to commit to. Naturally, you would have more than just military authority should you accept a command. If you are simply skeptical of the Republic, and wish to see more of the Separatist cause before truly committing, a contract between yourself and one of our corporate associates could be drawn up, with similar powers, albeit outside of any direct command structures, naturally this would be more fragile.” Dooku regards the pair of lightsabers on the table next to your chair, your own and your Padawan’s, before continuing. “Or, I have been…” the Count mulls for a moment, “assembling several like-minded individuals, strong in the Force. All of them have grievances with the Republic, and a Jedi would be a most valuable addition.”

>(2/3) forgot the image in the first post

>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age.

>Take up the offer of a Contract. The choice of sponsor will be yours, though there are only two or three you would realistically consider. While you believe that the Count can keep the megacorporations in line, being legally beholden to any of them might raise the same issues as you had with the Republic. But the contract could always be traded in for a more concrete place in the Separatist cause.

>Dooku is gathering together those strong in the Force, without the Jedi Order knowing? That certainly seems like a threat to the Order, but it is intriguing. You will accept a spot among these… Acolytes? Acolytes seems like a fitting name.

>Stake your place among the Separatists in a duel. If you can get off one clean hit on the old Jedi Master, you’ll accept the offer of a command, but with more autonomy. If not, you’ll join his other Acolytes, in whatever position is chosen for you.

Don't ask me how this took all night.

>>5857418
>>Stake your place among the Separatists in a duel. If you can get off one clean hit on the old Jedi Master, you’ll accept the offer of a command, but with more autonomy. If not, you’ll join his other Acolytes, in whatever position is chosen for you.
Fortune favours the bold. And further more, perhaps Lord Tyranus would appreciate an opportunity to fight, instead of speak.

>Suggest a central role in laying the groundwork for a new jedi order, in which autonomy, reason, & justice are the central tenets. (Fifth Great Schism)

>>5857418
>Stake your place among the Separatists in a duel. If you can get off one clean hit on the old Jedi Master, you’ll accept the offer of a command, but with more autonomy. If not, you’ll join his other Acolytes, in whatever position is chosen for you.

We will show him our worth through martial skill plus the old man likely needs the exercise

>Stake your place among the Separatists in a duel. If you can get off one clean hit on the old Jedi Master, you’ll accept the offer of a command, but with more autonomy. If not, you’ll join his other Acolytes, in whatever position is chosen for you.

>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age.

>>5857418
>Dooku is gathering together those strong in the Force, without the Jedi Order knowing? That certainly seems like a threat to the Order, but it is intriguing. You will accept a spot among these… Acolytes? Acolytes seems like a fitting name.

>>5857430
>This sounds promising.

Maybe a natural progression from this:
>>5857418
>>Dooku is gathering together those strong in the Force, without the Jedi Order knowing? That certainly seems like a threat to the Order, but it is intriguing. You will accept a spot among these… Acolytes? Acolytes seems like a fitting name.

>>5857430
+1

>>5857418
>>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age

>Stake your place among the Separatists in a duel. If you can get off one clean hit on the old Jedi Master, you’ll accept the offer of a command, but with more autonomy. If not, you’ll join his other Acolytes, in whatever position is chosen for you.

>>5857418

>Dooku is gathering together those strong in the Force, without the Jedi Order knowing? That certainly seems like a threat to the Order, but it is intriguing. You will accept a spot among these… Acolytes? Acolytes seems like a fitting name.

Would be perfectly okay if we fell to the dark side a lil bit

>>5857560
Nah dude. Miss me with that dark jedi kush. And don't even try to bring around that gray jedi reefer. 100% genuine light side dank despite being surrounded by all the wibbley wobblies and partakers of the small corruptions. We should be like a shining diamond stuck in the mire.

Now let's go kill an entire orphanage because they've got a few kids destined to be super evil and stuff. We're the good guy I promise.

>>5857418
>>Stake your place among the Separatists in a duel. If you can get off one clean hit on the old Jedi Master, you’ll accept the offer of a command, but with more autonomy. If not, you’ll join his other Acolytes, in whatever position is chosen for you.
We will not be a corporate lapdog.

>>5857418
>Stake your place among the Separatists in a duel. If you can get off one clean hit on the old Jedi Master, you’ll accept the offer of a command, but with more autonomy. If not, you’ll join his other Acolytes, in whatever position is chosen for you.
Gotta risk it for the biscuit.

>>5857585
I had a similar idea, a lotus in the mud type of deal.
While he's not a Jedi anymore, he's still Taen-Qyl. People don't just flip from Light to Dark at the drop of a hat like the Order seems to think they do.

robots under our command yes....

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>>5857418
>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age.
Give me a droid army.

>>5857418
>Stake your place among the Separatists in a duel. If you can get off one clean hit on the old Jedi Master, you’ll accept the offer of a command, but with more autonomy. If not, you’ll join his other Acolytes, in whatever position is chosen for you.

>>5857418
>>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age.

>>5857418
>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age

Give me waaaarghh

>>5857430
+1

>>5857418
>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age.

I dunno if abandoning one hierarchical order for another is the best option. Let us be free, we seem to value freedom and not having to deal with masters and councils.
let the fall to the dark side take some time, let it build and be satisfying if it does come. Or let us remain a genuinely good person trying to inspire the rest to be better.

>>5857808

Maybe we could start a non-idiotic light side force user sect?

>>5857813
That seems like quite the stretch.
And certainly nothing we can do without some serious pull with basically everyone.

>>5857813
>>5857813
Eh i doubt it, at least not anytime soon. Our boy has some experience but he is not qualified for a task of that size and he has not much reason for do so, because he would naturally ask Dooku to take such role.
We are about to enter a war that the galaxy couldn't even imagine after so much peace.
The small conflicts and skirmishes it had seen in this centuries, or even the actual wars in the unknown regions are nothing in comparison.

A lot of hate, fear and rage are going to naturally develop through the force. With the subtle influence of Dooku, having some dark side wouldn't be strange.

>>5857416
>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age.
Oh shit, an interesting SW quest. This seems like the best option of creating our own power base in the Confederacy to actually bring on change and oppose the megacorporations and other nefarious forces. Then again, it seems we will simply confirm the Council's suspicion that we were power hungry as we took on a leading role the second it was offered kek

>>5857418
>Stake your place among the Separatists in a duel. If you can get off one clean hit on the old Jedi Master, you’ll accept the offer of a command, but with more autonomy. If not, you’ll join his other Acolytes, in whatever position is chosen for you.
It's retarded to do this, we're some guy and Dooku is an absolute top tier duelist. Even the "just one hit" thing means basically nothing because most lightsaber duels are over after one clean hit regardless. But I want to see it anyway.

>>5857418
>>Dooku is gathering together those strong in the Force, without the Jedi Order knowing? That certainly seems like a threat to the Order, but it is intriguing. You will accept a spot among these… Acolytes? Acolytes seems like a fitting name.

Switching my vote for this. My ID changed yet again, for some godawful reason, so I don’t know which one I voted for beyond choosing the Duel option.

>>5857418
>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age.

>Don't ask me how this took all night.
I'd imagine that writing a character like Dooku must be hard as shit

>>5857985
did a damn solid job of it tho

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>>5857975
>Now I'm not a betting man, but I once heard Master Giiett say that a Jedi could make one hell of a living as a gambler
Not sure how safe of a bet wagering your future against the skills of one of the greatest l̶i̶v̶i̶n̶g lightsaber duelists of all time is, however. But it's your future to bet.

>>5857430
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>>5857792
This is a bit too much for the moment, you're still just a Jedi Knight and you're only in your 20s. Just for comparison's sake, the only one Dooku trusted to cause a schism in the Order was Sora Bulq, another famous and venerable Master.

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>>5857985
A Jedi... general? What a novel idea! Better copyright it.

>>5857454
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>>5857982
Time to join up with the Dark Acolytes! Did I say Dark? I just meant Acolytes, just a gaggle of Force sensitives who have chosen to follow Count Dooku. They do wear a lot of black though.

If this vote was any more tied it would be in the market square of a Phrygian stronghold. I'll leave it open for a bit more because it is tied and it is not open for write-ins.

>>5857418
>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age.

This seems like the best option. Power, influence and reputation, as opposed to getting in some order that will be even worse than the one we just deserted or working for some corpo.

>>5858044
Fuck I was late.

>>5857418
>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age.

>>5858038
It's not an unsafe bet, it's Trusting In The Will Of The Force™

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>>5858038
>They do wear a lot of black though.

>Taen showing up wearing drag browns and beige to the meeting of everyone wearing their goth chic

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>>5858073
>"Careful now with those strong emotions, the dark side of the force is bad!"

>>5857418
>>Take up the offer of a Contract. The choice of sponsor will be yours, though there are only two or three you would realistically consider. While you believe that the Count can keep the megacorporations in line, being legally beholden to any of them might raise the same issues as you had with the Republic. But the contract could always be traded in for a more concrete place in the Separatist cause.
I for one am fine with being a corporate stooge.

>>5858073
>>5858076
>Taen is the one suburban dad at the punk/goth concert
>And somehow, despite being dressed like the embodiment of the "Man", he gets along famously with everyone there, even the living embodiment of teenage angst/ rebellion

>>5858044
>>5858053
And that's the vote, don't worry about crossing blades with Dooku, I'm sure you'll have the chance to spar with him in the future. And uh, if you want to interact with the Dark Acolytes there can be chances for that to, Sev'rance could be interesting, even if she's kind of a sadistic bitch.
Mass reply incoming.

>>5857418
>Stake your place among the Separatists in a duel. If you can get off one clean hit on the old Jedi Master, you’ll accept the offer of a command, but with more autonomy. If not, you’ll join his other Acolytes, in whatever position is chosen for you.

>>5858154
Looks like I was too late lmao

>>5858076
>>5858137
>"Woah buddy was that LIGHTNING? That's really cool but maybe slow down. You wouldn't want to fry your eyes out would ya? Next time you should just stab him in the heart, it's way more instantaneously lethal."

>>5858158
>have you ever heard of Trakata? Now that's a real lightsaber form for real combat scenarios *Sip*

>>5858152
>Sev'rance
Neat.

>>5858158
Kek

>>5858170
The funniest thing I can think of is that the Acolytes mistake Taen's restrained measure and advocating for him putting on a front because he's actually a truly unhinged killer and he's just practicing for fitting in with polite society so he can get close to butcher people without raising alarm. Making him seem like the most insidious and dangerous person in the room. Aside from the raw MAN energy that Dooku exudes at all times.

>>5858224
>>5858224
>Taen goes quiet during an important meeting
>Dooku's acolytes think he's plotting how to murder the business magnate they're meeting with whose been double dealing
>he actually just became bored with the political bullshit and started wondering about dinner plans while tuning out most of the convo
>including the overt threats the acolytes have been giving to the magnate

>>5858236
>"He can even hide his connection to the dark side with a mask of brilliant light? I can sense no anger or hate within him, only tranquility. This man is a master assassin."
>meanwhile taen is trying to remember the name of a holobook he read a while ago

>>5857418
>Accept the Command, it sounds like the simplest of the options laid out before you, and, despite the amount of oversight, also appears to have the least strings attached. While you’re not a strategist, because of your diplomatic training and research you did before and while on your expedition into the Unknown Regions, you do possess more military knowledge than most Jedi, especially ones your age.

>>5858252
>"Have you seen him stare at the two Acolytes bickering? He cut off their foolish arguments with nothing but a cool gaze and deafening silence. Terrifying..."
>i got lost in my thoughts about playing boardgames with Grievous, what the hell were those two talking about, oh god, I didn't follow up and now i'm just staring, how akward...

>>5858268
> RepublicJedi gets scared, shaken to their core and thinks Taen is toying with them cause they escaped a fight with him where he flicked his tongue across his teeth mid Saber clash
>Taen didn't even realize the other Jedi was trying to kill him, and did the tongue thing cause he noticed they had a piece of lettuce stuck to their teeth and he thought it'd be rude to vocally point it out to them

>>5858158
>Next time you should just stab him in the heart, it's way more instantaneously lethal."
I now know our preferred method of assassination.
>put on a wide grin
>go for a handshake
>wait for them to walk up
>Force shimmy the lightsaber in our sleeve into our hand
>ignite it and instantly put a hole in their heart before they can react

>>5858555
Honestly, that isn't a half bad idea. If we pick up some rapier fencing Makashi from Dooku we could even work it into a lunging thrust even from a fair distance away from the target. Juice it with some extra speed and you literally have a Stinger from Devil May Cry or some shit.

Sudden assaults are badass.

>>5858560
You know that trope where two dudes are fighting and one of them casually starts walking forwards before instantly zipping right in front of the other?
I wanna do that and make somebody shit their pants.

>>5858565
I am quite a fan of the
>teleports in front of you into chokeslam combo

It'd be awesome to surprise one of the acolytes with less mastery of the Force by being able to utilize it without as many tells as a dark side user has thank you light side for being slightly less tumultuous when in use. Just instantly dash within hugging distance and watch them trip over themselves to make distance while Taen stands there menacingly. We'll see how everything turns out. I am looking forward to the future.

Deciding to follow your instincts and take the simplest, safest path, you answer after a few moments’ consideration. “A place in the normal command structure is more than enough for me,” you inform the Count, who takes your answer in stride, “I don’t think the Force would bring me into another group so soon after leaving the Order anyway.”

“I see,” a very slight smile crosses the former Jedi’s face as he strokes his beard, “a sensible decision. Though you should consider where the Force is leading you before following, many adherents to the Living Force have been swept away by its current.” While, like most Jedi, you aren’t don’t strictly believe in the Living Force, the High Council’s perceived disregard of it has given you an appreciation of some of those adherents. “You will be contacted soon,” your visitor interrupts your thoughts, “the Separatist cause is in need of able commanders, especially now.” As he goes to leave, Dooku reaches into one of his trouser pockets and withdraws something small enough to fit in his loosely closed fist. “A gift, should you choose to accept it,” he sets it down on one of the study’s shelves with a soft clink, before turning with a swish of his cape and disappearing with hardly a sound.

The Count’s ‘gift’, which you inspect when the dim engines of his ship fade into the sky, is a jagged red lightsaber crystal, precariously balanced on one of its pointed faces.

Vote for both [A] and [B] or [B] and [C]. Every option is dual-phase, even if not specified.

[A]
>[A1] Don’t replace your lightsaber crystal with the red one. While you will keep it, as it may have historical significance and it seems unwise to throw away something given to you by Count Dooku, red lightsabers do have a certain connotation to them.

>[A2] Accept the Count’s gift. While the choice of red is concerning, it is a direct statement that you stand opposed to the Republic.

[B]
>[B1] Ever since you first constructed it while on one of your first missions with Master Trebor, which saw you sent to Mygeeto, your lightsaber has contained the same set of crystals. Indigo and magenta crystals which work together to form a blade of deep purple. While it isn’t the traditional blue, the color signifies your choice of Guardian as the Jedi path. The weapon is based on your Master’s, and as such is a large weapon for a human, while the width of the hilt is standard, it’s more than three hands long with a weighted secondary battery along the bottom third.
(Jedi Guardians are focused on the physical and combat aspects of the Order and the Force, while still willing and able to use the Force in combat, it is not generally how they chose to fight. Because of their greater focus on combat, it’s often one of the first things a Guardian will go to when in a rough spot.)

>[B2] The fiery orange crystals in your lightsaber were gifted to you on Rinn after you helped Master Trebor resolve a mining rights dispute in favor of the Tintinna, the inhabitants of the fringe world. While not wielding the Sentinel’s traditional yellow blade, that is nonetheless the discipline you chose. Your weapon is possesses a long pommel and emitter shroud, as well as nonstandard grips, and is a far cry from that of your Master, though it is slightly longer than typical of a Jedi of standard size.
(Jedi Sentinels tread the middle ground between Guardians and Consulars, while the (ironically) most well known sub-path of the Sentinel is the Shadow, most Sentinels are more of a blend of the other two disciplines. Sentinels make use of a wider variety of equipment than Guardians or Consulars, and trend towards more balanced styles of combat, utilizing their lightsaber and the Force with similar levels of prowess.)

>[B3] The heart of your lightsaber is an ancient, forest green kunda stone. It was part of an ancient cache that Master Trebor had come into possession of, and he gave you the crystal shortly after you became his apprentice. Your weapon, despite appearing to be constructed for a two-handed grip, is weighted for a one-handed grip, the added length is both for extra leverage as well as to provide enough space for a dual-phase mechanism. Green is the traditional color of the Jedi Consular, your chosen path.
(Jedi Consulars focus on both the more mundane as well as the more esoteric aspects of the Force. While many serve as simple diplomats and archivists, others are healers, or researchers into the deeper mysteries of the Force. Conflict is the typical Consular’s last option, and in combat they tend to focus more on using the Force than using their lightsabers.)

>[C] Though you have only used it in running through katas to keep yourself sharp, ever since leaving Lehon, your Padawan’s lightsaber is the one that’s filled your hand. Though, you do feel a pang in your heart every time you see the ice-blue blade emerge from its emitter. The weapon is small in your hands, as Rynon perfered a one-handed stance, though that does make focusing on using the Force easier while wielding the blade. Replace the crystal inside the blade with the Count’s gift, and replace your own lightsaber with your Padawan’s.

No Jar’Kai, I hate Jar’Kai.
Also somehow this one was even worse, go figure. Probably not going to set a trend though, should be smoother after this.

>>5858618
>[B2] The fiery orange crystals in your lightsaber were gifted to you on Rinn after you helped Master Trebor resolve a mining rights dispute in favor of the Tintinna, the inhabitants of the fringe world. While not wielding the Sentinel’s traditional yellow blade, that is nonetheless the discipline you chose. Your weapon is possesses a long pommel and emitter shroud, as well as nonstandard grips, and is a far cry from that of your Master, though it is slightly longer than typical of a Jedi of standard size.
>[C] Though you have only used it in running through katas to keep yourself sharp, ever since leaving Lehon, your Padawan’s lightsaber is the one that’s filled your hand. Though, you do feel a pang in your heart every time you see the ice-blue blade emerge from its emitter. The weapon is small in your hands, as Rynon perfered a one-handed stance, though that does make focusing on using the Force easier while wielding the blade. Replace the crystal inside the blade with the Count’s gift, and replace your own lightsaber with your Padawan’s.

Am I voting for B and C right?

>>5858615
>[A1] Don’t replace your lightsaber crystal with the red one. While you will keep it, as it may have historical significance and it seems unwise to throw away something given to you by Count Dooku, red lightsabers do have a certain connotation to them.

>[B2] The fiery orange crystals in your lightsaber were gifted to you on Rinn after you helped Master Trebor resolve a mining rights dispute in favor of the Tintinna, the inhabitants of the fringe world. While not wielding the Sentinel’s traditional yellow blade, that is nonetheless the discipline you chose. Your weapon is possesses a long pommel and emitter shroud, as well as nonstandard grips, and is a far cry from that of your Master, though it is slightly longer than typical of a Jedi of standard size.

>>5858615
>>[A1] Don’t replace your lightsaber crystal with the red one
I like you, Dooku, but our lightsaber is ours. It is rude to spurn a gift, especially one such as this. We should keep it safe and in a decent place. Perhaps we will have need of it some day. For now though, it is a fantastic thing and should be honored as such.

>>5858618
>>[B2] The fiery orange crystals in your lightsaber were gifted to you on Rinn after you helped Master Trebor resolve a mining rights dispute in favor of the Tintinna
I feel like since Taen already had been regularly sent on the shitty "out there diplomacy" missions, he'd have to be a fair blend between talk no jutsu and SMASH. Can't be caught in a bad neighborhood with just kind words, and you can't talk to the boss of said hood with just your gat. It just makes sense to me. Even though guardians are my favorite. Hit things first, don't think, yeah.

>No Jar’Kai, I hate Jar’Kai.
What, you don't like being like one of the every single other notable character that uses a lightsaber in the past ten years? Understandable. Sir Christopher Lee's smoothness in the prequels truly sold me on solo-saber-supremacy.

>>5858615
>[B2] The fiery orange crystals in your lightsaber were gifted to you on Rinn after you helped Master Trebor resolve a mining rights dispute in favor of the Tintinna, the inhabitants of the fringe world. While not wielding the Sentinel’s traditional yellow blade, that is nonetheless the discipline you chose. Your weapon is possesses a long pommel and emitter shroud, as well as nonstandard grips, and is a far cry from that of your Master, though it is slightly longer than typical of a Jedi of standard size.

>[C] Though you have only used it in running through katas to keep yourself sharp, ever since leaving Lehon, your Padawan’s lightsaber is the one that’s filled your hand. Though, you do feel a pang in your heart every time you see the ice-blue blade emerge from its emitter. The weapon is small in your hands, as Rynon perfered a one-handed stance, though that does make focusing on using the Force easier while wielding the blade. Replace the crystal inside the blade with the Count’s gift, and replace your own lightsaber with your Padawan’s.

Dual wield city bitch.

Taen will be one of the few good boys wielding an artificial crystal.

But keep our original crystal

>>5858634
Also, while we may not be able to go the basic bitch path of dual wielding every other force user seems to use

We can still use our padawan's light saber to shank motherfuckers in blade locks if we're too honorable to use Trakata, and having a spare lightsaber is always handy

>>5858615
>[A1]
>[B2]
While I don't want to replace our crystal with Dooku's gift, I don't want to throw it away either. Surely there's something we can do with a synthetic crystal besides stick it in a saber.
Following established conventions in crystal usage is for pussies anyways. Let's think outside of the box and fuck with our peers and enemies alike.

>>5858635
>if we're too honorable to use Trakata
Does using a dual phase mechanism to make your saber 3 times as long during a clash count as Trakata?

>>5858648
What we should really do is apply longsword concepts to our style in a clash. Specifically angling while in a bind to leverage your weapon into touching your opponent. While this is only really useful for draw cuts or thrusts in real life (which don't work with how lightsabers are so sticky with each other, you can't slide them along each other at all) contact burns would be extremely dangerous if not fatal. And all you have to do is tilt your blade just right. Or break their posture. Use the Force to fling something at the back of their knee mid-struggle. Yes, quite clever.

Too bad it's never so simple or easy. Sounds cool, but never feasible for some reason or another. Like "balance". Alas.

>>5858618
>[A1]
>[B2]

>>5858655
>contact burns would be extremely dangerous if not fatal
Imagine lighting somebody's big ass robe on fire during a clash and they don't realize it till they smell the smoke. I'd be laughing.
On that note, I suggest we keep our robes in storage and opt for a proper Officer's Uniform. If we're going to lead, we gotta look the part.

>>5858662
Robes are quite useful for concealing things, though. But I agree. Our garb should be as unobtrusive as possible. I wonder if we should get some armor. Sure it probably won't stop a concerted assault or a lightsaber, but it might help with shrapnel and blast waves. Or just getting thrown against a wall. Or are those unfun and autistic details to think about?

All of Obi-Wan's fits are iconic. I can't help but like them.

>>5858666
>Robes are quite useful for concealing things, though. But I agree.
You have a point, but I'd argue you could achieve much of the same with a good jacket or trench coat. While that may not be unobtrusive, that type of outerwear is still easy to throw off at a moment's notice and is very much less prone to getting lit on fire or snagged on all manner of things.
And as far as armor goes, I wouldn't be opposed to a low-profile flak vest or breast plate we could slip under our uniform. If shit gets real though, you best believe I'd be slipping on some proper armor.
This is probably never gonna happen, but if we ever get the chance to score a suit of beskar'gam, I'm gonna go for it. Too good to pass up.

>>5858670
>you could achieve much of the same with a good jacket or trench coat.
Very true. And it doesn't come with the risk of getting snagged by a train passing by.
The only problem with that is dealing with the guy inside of it. And the extreme prejudice he's gonna give to a jedi kek

>>5858673
"Repossessing" a set of armor is definitely an option, but why not go for the raw materials? If we have the facilities to build armies of droids, surely they'd be able work enough Beskar to outfit a single man.

>>5858615
>>[A2] Accept the Count’s gift. While the choice of red is concerning, it is a direct statement that you stand opposed to the Republic.
>[B2] The fiery orange crystals in your lightsaber were gifted to you on Rinn after you helped Master Trebor resolve a mining rights dispute in favor of the Tintinna, the inhabitants of the fringe world. While not wielding the Sentinel’s traditional yellow blade, that is nonetheless the discipline you chose. Your weapon is possesses a long pommel and emitter shroud, as well as nonstandard grips, and is a far cry from that of your Master, though it is slightly longer than typical of a Jedi of standard size.
Yes make that statement..... i just think is cool honestly

>>5858615
>[A2]
That gift most certainly isn't one, it's a test. The count made it clear that he has renounced the Order and wants to see if we capable of doing the same, publicly and permanently.

>[B2]
We won a lightsabre tournament, but our master was a diplomat. This seems a reasonable merging of the two.

>>5858666
Armor starts appearing again across the galaxy during the clone wars among force users.
Though some don't use it for their own reasons (like personal image [Dooku doesn't need it when is whole role is being a top political figure, Master tactician, and great duelist and force user], comfort, feel like not needing it and so on), there is a general return. Light, medium, heavy, partial, combined with some clothing or not etc....

Jedi and Sith, very much expect direct combat, so there is a tendency of wearing it among them.


>>5858662
They generally tend to just drop the mantle dark brown part of the robes prior to combat, because its mostly for comfort. It offers nothing else

The separatists seem to give a lot of freedom/personalization to their important commanders on how to look (usually they are expected to have some of the CIS colors like blue and white, and symbols), they could be covered head to toe in battle plate or be in clothing.
Minor commanders have a more standardized clothing

>>5858676
That army of Druids would probably be cheaper.
Also we did kinda snub the Mandalorians, but before and grabbing a command rather then a contract with, say, Mandal Motors

>>5858676
We could do a personal order is not impossible. We will be given a decent amount of resources, assets, fleet and troops at our disposal anyway.
The rest? Easy peasy.
Taking body measures, easy. Designing and building armor for an humanoid, easy. Like it would take time if we weren't humanoid.

Though i think Beskar is not so used around even for the people that could get it with cash, for several reasons. It must have some negatives, probably because it takes time to mine, make and replace in case of great battle damage if i had to guess.
When instead you can have high quality plasteel and durasteel far faster likely with cash. And war doesn't wait around so is sensible.

Personally i would prefer our personal war equipment (we can have a lot of clothing for political and diplomatic reasons too, the separatist have a fresh new political scene to enter for us), to be either made by Skakoans for that grey very clean industrial style (B2 are top notch) or by Geonosians for that copper and gold aristocratic style which is very very good looking.

>>5858768
Oh yea, there is going to be a lot of politicking attached to a command.
Just getting the various corpos to supply us instead of others will be an ongoing challenge.
And in so how we dress is going to be a message, it's going to show off alliances and leanings within the overall separatist movement

>>5858615
>[A1] Don’t replace your lightsaber crystal with the red one. While you will keep it, as it may have historical significance and it seems unwise to throw away something given to you by Count Dooku, red lightsabers do have a certain connotation to them.
>>5858618
>[B3] The heart of your lightsaber is an ancient, forest green kunda stone. It was part of an ancient cache that Master Trebor had come into possession of, and he gave you the crystal shortly after you became his apprentice. Your weapon, despite appearing to be constructed for a two-handed grip, is weighted for a one-handed grip, the added length is both for extra leverage as well as to provide enough space for a dual-phase mechanism. Green is the traditional color of the Jedi Consular, your chosen path.

>>5858779
Its natural with how fresh the confederacy is, commanders, generals and admirals are fundamental for ensure the existance and victory of the CIS. So we are going, to be important quite soon has a commander. A young jedi willingly joining the CIS before the war starts, and believing in their cause is perfect for propaganda already.

Yes there will be a lot of games there, i cant wait.
True, how we look in and out of the battlefield can send clear and direct messages to anyone we talk with.
I think I will go for one of the two i mentioned, they are very good races. Neimodians aren't bad either, but they are the main corpo usually shown around, Skaokoans and Geonosians deserve some exploration and space which can be done in this quest.

>>5858615
>[A1] Don’t replace your lightsaber crystal with the red one. While you will keep it, as it may have historical significance and it seems unwise to throw away something given to you by Count Dooku, red lightsabers do have a certain connotation to them.

>[B2] The fiery orange crystals in your lightsaber were gifted to you on Rinn after you helped Master Trebor resolve a mining rights dispute in favor of the Tintinna, the inhabitants of the fringe world. While not wielding the Sentinel’s traditional yellow blade, that is nonetheless the discipline you chose. Your weapon is possesses a long pommel and emitter shroud, as well as nonstandard grips, and is a far cry from that of your Master, though it is slightly longer than typical of a Jedi of standard size.

Cool lightsabre check
Now we need to get cool armour.

>>5858618
>[B2]
>[C]
Though I'd prefer not to dual wield.

What is Jar'Kai?

>>5858827
Dual wielding sabers style

The trakata I keep mentioning is a lightsaber form where you turn your lightsaber on and off mid swing, which makes it incredibly useful in fighting other lightsaber wielders and makes it considered cheap unfair bullshit by both the Jedi AND the sith cause like fighting game players, they never tried to adapt to it and instead whined until it was banned.

It isn't actually banned, by either side, but they look down on it, for being weak coward shit or for being unsporting.

In a life or death scenario, cause jedi and sith are stupid

>>5858615
>>5858618

>[A1] Don’t replace your lightsaber crystal with the red one. While you will keep it, as it may have historical significance and it seems unwise to throw away something given to you by Count Dooku, red lightsabers do have a certain connotation to them.

I don't think we're quite ready to go red lightsaber.

>[B3] The heart of your lightsaber is an ancient, forest green kunda stone. It was part of an ancient cache that Master Trebor had come into possession of, and he gave you the crystal shortly after you became his apprentice. Your weapon, despite appearing to be constructed for a two-handed grip, is weighted for a one-handed grip, the added length is both for extra leverage as well as to provide enough space for a dual-phase mechanism. Green is the traditional color of the Jedi Consular, your chosen path.

I think Consulars are under-played on /qst/

>B2
The balance between diplomacy, Force, & dueling makes sense based on our backstory thus far; consular training, trusting the Will of the Force, + placing high in our temple tourney bracket. Makes sense for all of these to lead us to a "greyer" path, a heterodox one away from the Council's views. Thematically an orange & purple saber showcase this as well, not that color should necessarily correlate to outlook. We need to have a diverse skillset as well to truly be a Sentinel, which piloting & tactics will somewhat account for.

>C
I like the single saber focus, but there's nothing wrong with having a backup. In this case both sabers will have two crystals, allowing for both to have dual-phase functionality. Blue + Red making Purple in our Padawan's saber, serving as a symbol of our grievances with the formal Jedi Order & hesitant, yet clear commitment to the Separatist cause.

I'd like to get some focus on the lesser known Mega-Xeno-Ethno-Corps as well, plus the other warriors of the galaxy: Echani Sunguard, Iridorian Berserkers (Iridonian was a typo/conflation I believe), Seryugi Dervishes, Kajain'sa'Nikto Morgukai, etc. Some Morgukai or Sunguard armor would be absolutely siiiick, maybe even a suit from the Gank Killers. Perhaps even some ancient Revanchist/Jedi Crusader Armor, or a recreation thereof.

>>5858615
>[A1] Don’t replace your lightsaber crystal with the red one. While you will keep it, as it may have historical significance and it seems unwise to throw away something given to you by Count Dooku, red lightsabers do have a certain connotation to them.
>[B2] The fiery orange crystals in your lightsaber were gifted to you on Rinn after you helped Master Trebor resolve a mining rights dispute in favor of the Tintinna, the inhabitants of the fringe world. While not wielding the Sentinel’s traditional yellow blade, that is nonetheless the discipline you chose. Your weapon is possesses a long pommel and emitter shroud, as well as nonstandard grips, and is a far cry from that of your Master, though it is slightly longer than typical of a Jedi of standard size.
My argument is that we still haven't done the leap to the Dark Side. We're a man who has seen the depth of the Council willinges to let Republic corruption slide, but we are still swept up by the promise of a better future, where the stubborness of the Council and the machinations of the lobbies won't hamper the good of the people.

But maybe, when we see who we truly serve and if they succeed in convincing us, maybe then we will change the crystals. Also, orange lightsabers are cool.

>>5858615
>[A2]
Throwing away a gift from one of the most important men in the Separatist movement is petty and unwise.
>]B2]
I just think this one looks cool.

>>5858615
>[A1] Don’t replace your lightsaber crystal with the red one. While you will keep it, as it may have historical significance and it seems unwise to throw away something given to you by Count Dooku, red lightsabers do have a certain connotation to them.
>[B3] The heart of your lightsaber is an ancient, forest green kunda stone. It was part of an ancient cache that Master Trebor had come into possession of, and he gave you the crystal shortly after you became his apprentice. Your weapon, despite appearing to be constructed for a two-handed grip, is weighted for a one-handed grip, the added length is both for extra leverage as well as to provide enough space for a dual-phase mechanism. Green is the traditional color of the Jedi Consular, your chosen path.

Green is classic for a reason, and damn near every Star Wars quest I've been part of goes for yellow.

>>5858885
Neither option is throwing it away, A2 is just the one of immediately switching out the crystal in our own lightsaber for the red one.

>>5858615
A2
B2

If we replace just one of the orange crystals, does the blade become a sort of reddish orange? More attractive color than bright orange anyway.

Also KOTOR's rpg class-based lightsaber color coding is bad and gay.

>>5858615
>>[A2] Accept the Count’s gift. While the choice of red is concerning, it is a direct statement that you stand opposed to the Republic.
>[B2] The fiery orange crystals in your lightsaber were gifted to you on Rinn after you helped Master Trebor resolve a mining rights dispute in favor of the Tintinna, the inhabitants of the fringe world. While not wielding the Sentinel’s traditional yellow blade, that is nonetheless the discipline you chose. Your weapon is possesses a long pommel and emitter shroud, as well as nonstandard grips, and is a far cry from that of your Master, though it is slightly longer than typical of a Jedi of standard size.

>>5859000
I am very curious if this includes quests which treat lightsaber color as entirely separate from speciality (like literally everything pre-KOTOR). Yellow is an ugly lightsaber color, but when it's paired with the "actually be decent at everything you'd expect a Jedi to be decent at, rather than a sword autist or a Force autist" rpg class, it's obviously going to win more often than not. Force autist route only ever wins if you're playing a darksider, because they at least have a bunch of well known sorcery type shit. On the light end it basically requires blind trust in QM's creativity in what's typically a very early vote.

>>5858618
>[A1] Don’t replace your lightsaber crystal with the red one. While you will keep it, as it may have historical significance and it seems unwise to throw away something given to you by Count Dooku, red lightsabers do have a certain connotation to them.
>>5858618
>[B3] The heart of your lightsaber is an ancient, forest green kunda stone. It was part of an ancient cache that Master Trebor had come into possession of, and he gave you the crystal shortly after you became his apprentice. Your weapon, despite appearing to be constructed for a two-handed grip, is weighted for a one-handed grip, the added length is both for extra leverage as well as to provide enough space for a dual-phase mechanism. Green is the traditional color of the Jedi Consular, your chosen path.

Luv’ me green lightsabers. Simple as. A shame we can’t dual wield the Christmas lightsabers.

>>5858615
>[A1] Don’t replace your lightsaber crystal with the red one. While you will keep it, as it may have historical significance and it seems unwise to throw away something given to you by Count Dooku, red lightsabers do have a certain connotation to them.
>>5858618
>[B3] The heart of your lightsaber is an ancient, forest green kunda stone. It was part of an ancient cache that Master Trebor had come into possession of, and he gave you the crystal shortly after you became his apprentice. Your weapon, despite appearing to be constructed for a two-handed grip, is weighted for a one-handed grip, the added length is both for extra leverage as well as to provide enough space for a dual-phase mechanism. Green is the traditional color of the Jedi Consular, your chosen path.

Hope we can still keep our padawan's saber for sentimental and practical reasons

>>5859003
Ah I read the last part of A1 wrong, my bad.

>>5858626
>>5858634
>>5858827
>>5858864
>[B2]
>[C]
>You trained as a Sentinel, but decided to use your apprentice's saber after her death. You'll use the red crystal in that weapon going forward, and wear it at your side in place of your original saber.

>>5858630
>>5858632
>>5858646
>>5858656
>>5858821
>>5858875
>[A1]
>[B2]
>You trained as a Sentinel, and still use the orange-bladed weapon you constructed in your youth. Though you won't dispose of the red crystal gifted to you by Count Dooku, it won't be replacing your saber's original crystal.

>>5858740
>>5858747
>>5858885
>>5859022
>>5859025
>[A2]
>[B2]
>You trained as a Sentinel, and still use the orange-bladed weapon you constructed in your youth. You'll accept the Count's gift, and replace the original crystal array with the red one, to show your opposition to the Republic.

>>5858786
>>5858839
>>5859000
>>5859076
>>5859095
>[A1]
>[B3]
>You trained as a Consular, and still use the green-bladed weapon you constructed when you were 13. While you're not going to get rid of the crystal gifted to you by the Count, you're not ready to commit to such a drastic change just yet.

The combinations are pretty close, but A1 and B2 independently have a pretty clear majority. I'm going to leave it open for another hour or so in case anyone changes their mind or trickles in.

Sorry Consular bros, it could've been fun but I get why people want to play Sentinels. I tried to give some nonstandard lightsaber color options based on other quests, which is why blue and yellow didn't show up (and of course silver was off the table, when has a white/silver lightsaber ever not looked like total shit?), but I was surprised to see that quests almost never have the option to have a green saber, and if they do it's never been voted for.

I know tying lightsaber color to discipline is overdone, but it's simpler than having 2 different votes. Maybe I should have left this till after the esoteric power vote, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Also none of these options are dual wielding. I never liked dual wielding when it game to lightsabers (with a few exceptions) but Canon has ran it into the dirt. Taen is also going to be a snob about being above dual wielding, deal with it.

>>5859196
>when has a white/silver lightsaber ever not looked like total shit?)
When it was turned off and you're describing the hilt.

>>5859196
Duel wielding is gay, I'm glad it's been banned. It's a shame that using our padawan's saber wasn't more popular. I like her death and it's effect on Taen being the flashpoint for him leaving the order, it has nice symbolism.

>>5859196
Sentinel and not replacing your lightsaber crystal wins. Update at some point tonight, possibly daytime tomorrow when I get done doing IRL things.

>>5858618
>[B3] The heart of your lightsaber is an ancient, forest green kunda stone. It was part of an ancient cache that Master Trebor had come into possession of, and he gave you the crystal shortly after you became his apprentice. Your weapon, despite appearing to be constructed for a two-handed grip, is weighted for a one-handed grip, the added length is both for extra leverage as well as to provide enough space for a dual-phase mechanism. Green is the traditional color of the Jedi Consular, your chosen path.
(Jedi Consulars focus on both the more mundane as well as the more esoteric aspects of the Force. While many serve as simple diplomats and archivists, others are healers, or researchers into the deeper mysteries of the Force. Conflict is the typical Consular’s last option, and in combat they tend to focus more on using the Force than using their lightsabers.)

>[C] Though you have only used it in running through katas to keep yourself sharp, ever since leaving Lehon, your Padawan’s lightsaber is the one that’s filled your hand. Though, you do feel a pang in your heart every time you see the ice-blue blade emerge from its emitter. The weapon is small in your hands, as Rynon perfered a one-handed stance, though that does make focusing on using the Force easier while wielding the blade. Replace the crystal inside the blade with the Count’s gift, and replace your own lightsaber with your Padawan’s.

>>5859304
Sadly, your vote has come in too late.

>>5859325
I work Niggah, I vote when I can.

>>5859336
>I work Niggah
I thought slavery was illegal in the republic?

>>5859206
It's not like we're throwing it out. Plenty of room for it to come into play as a backup or something used in an especially fitting moment. Though the shitpost part of my brain is instantly jumping to "Senator Armstrong! My lightsaber is a tool of justice... but this isn't my lightsaber."

>>5859472
Kek and fair enough, maybe in the future.

>>5859206
It kinda is, or at the very least violently overdone. But hey, for all the consular voters I'm willing to bet we're going to be leaning in that direction in the end simply because having a job (leading an army) where very few problems can actually be solved with a lightsaber will force creativity upon us.

Force Creativity you say? New ability unlocked.

In all seriousness though, what do you think the most core abilities are from which everything else is an extension or advanced application of? I'm thinking telepathy, telekinesis, & alter.

>>5860023
>what do you think the most core abilities are from which everything else is an extension or advanced application of?
I know this is a very boring answer, but...
>https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Force_power/Legends

Just popping in to say I'm not dead, just was a little busy and bad with my time management today. Update tomorrow, with the last vote of this sort of kind of chargen.

>>5860611
Sounds a lot like what a corpse being puppeted by a sith would say.

>>5860631
There are no more sith you silly.
the Order wiped them all out ages ago

>>5860611
much obliged

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>>5860658
>There are no more sith you silly.
You're right, I'm just making up fantasies in my head again. Whoops. But I guess that's a good thing. At least we know that the Acolytes we're primed to meet are just misinformed and need to practice their self control a little and aren't some sinister faction that doesn't exist any more. Ah the egg is upon my face.

>>5860667
For real though, a red lightsaber and bend towards the Dark Side make you as much of a Sith as a brown robe and a stick up your ass makes you a Jedi.

>>5860676
The stick definitely is what makes you a jedi.

>>5860702
>The stick definitely is what makes you a jedi.
No, it's what makes you a member of the High Council.

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>>5860706
Fair

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>>5860706

>>5860706
KEK

I don't think Control, Sense, & Alter really work to describe the most innate usages of the Force, official lore or not. Seems more like:
Telepathy- empathy, mind trick, stealth, mind probe, precognition, battle meditation, force bond, sense, sight, psychometry/force echoes, foresight/visions, etc.
Telekinesis- push, pull, throw, levitate, choke/grip/crush, morichro, drain, slow/stasis, repulse/bubble, etc.
Alter- strength, speed, heal, tutaminis, lightning, flame, force weapon, etc.

>>5860706
Hehe

>>5860706
Based

The crimson crystal is placed into a lockbox fetched for you by 3D-4X, which is then placed into the compound’s underground archives. You’re not sure if you’re going to use the crystal in your lightsaber, but it would be most unwise to dispose of a gift from the former Jedi Master.

Two days later, the compound receives a message via narrow-band transmission not from Ciutric IV, but from the shipbuilding world of Ord Trasi, on the opposite end of the Veragi Trade Route. The information packet it contains is long and in-depth, highly confidential information that was and could only be sent over a confidential channel. You spend the next three days poring over the contents of the missive, familiarizing yourself with the protocol, organizations, and operations you’ll need to know.

Part of the instructions in the message are to be present on the Banking Clan stronghold of Mygeeto a week for your command assignment, and Jerne is less than a day’s travel from Mygeeto, so you choose to spend the day before your departure meditating.

While meditation and self-reflection are valuable tools of a Jedi not questioning their entire life and their place in the Galaxy, when one’s mind is clouded and stormy, they can have the opposite effect. And in your case, they do.

>(1/6)

As soon as you close your eyes, flashes of your voyage through the Unknown Regions play themselves across your memory. The early months in the sparse and tangled hyperlanes of Wild Space and the Unknown Regions beyond the Western Reaches, full of misplaced hope but also frustrations come first, instead of last, as they usually do. After that, the weeks of travel through uninhabited systems, along pointless hyperlanes you may have been the first to travel down; the wonder of ringed gas giants and protoplanetary disks quickly fading into a bland milieu as time ticked on. The moment the Heart of the Mists jumped into a system settled by the Ssi-ruuk, and the chill that passed through the small scout ship when it did stands out to you; though even then you knew you couldn’t turn back, somehow both you and your Padawan knew that you had long since passed into their territory. Several jumps later, when the reptilians finally took notice of your presence in their territory. The Heart could travel through hyperspace faster than any of their strange, outdated ships, but was massively outgunned by their capital ships and far less agile than their diminutive droid fighters, which you would some come to realize were not truly droids. The humiliation and fear at being captured by the aliens, after you and Rynon had cut down as many as you were able to. Tapping into the Force more deeply than you ever had before to escape captivity after losing track of time, the Ssi-ruuk (rightly) viewed you as a threat, but they had no such apprehensions toward your Padawan. Grim as it is to admit, feeling her suffering through the Force strengthened your own connection and resolve, it let you focus while shutting out the suffering of the thousands of other sentients that you were able to feel on the world. When you were able to escape, not a single one of the aliens survived, it was a sealed military base on a moon orbiting a planet the reptilians were using to harvest their sentient livestock, which made the task an easy one to accomplish, especially after you retrieved your lightsaber.

Vote for an A option and a B option.

Both before and after reclaiming your weapon, you…
>[A1] Used your natural proclivity towards Mind Tricks to perform Illusions to trick the Ssi-Ruuk into fighting one another and missing you with their strange weapons you couldn’t deflect with your lightsaber. Your new-found ability to create potent Illusions with the Force also assisted in your ultimate return to the Republic, as you were able to escape from a Vagaari trap before making the final jump into the fringes of known space.

>[A2] Turned your innate and exceptional ability to Heal with the Force outward after observing the reptilians’ own alien technology. While it is often said that Force Drain is an intoxicating power, it didn’t feel that way when you were using it, just invigorating as you sapped the life from the Ssi-ruuk, giving them a taste of what they inflict on other sentients. Naturally, you did not report on this ability to the Council.

>[A3] Reached a deeper understanding of your natural talent with Tutaminis, Force Absorb, and you were able to project energy from your hands to fry the aliens in droves. While many in the Order would split hairs and refer to the ability as Electrical Judgment, you had no such pretensions, and knew it for what it was when you first utilized it. Force Lightning. Though you did make inquiries into Electrical Judgment when you returned to the Temple.

>[A4] Used your rare ability to see Shatterpoints to pick the Ssi-ruuk apart, and make a ruin of their base while you were at it. While you’ve always been able to see the critical points in the Force, they were almost always unclear before venturing into the Unknown Regions, and you were only successful in manipulating them once. However, your new understanding of the ability was a great help in your subsequent future travels.

>(3/6)

Once reunited with your saber, you used your exceptional skill with Niman coupled with your secondary specialization of…
>[B1] Makashi, the Contention Form. Makashi is the least popular of the seven forms of lightsaber combat taught in the Jedi Temple, as its focus on lightsaber combat and lack of blaster deflection training rendered it somewhat obsolete in the wake of the Ruusan Reformation. However, the Moderation Form is able to fill in many of the weaknesses of Makashi, and Makashi is able to fill in many of the weaknesses with Niman. The forms also compliment one another in that both have an emphasis on one-handed bladework.

>[B2] Soresu, the Resilience Form. Soresu is, in this era of blaster combat, the most commonly used of the seven forms of lightsaber combat within the Jedi Order, after Niman itself. Though the latter is used by most Jedi in a foolish show of complacency, even basic Soresu has many practical applications, thanks to its development being a response to the proliferation of energy weapons. Many of the lesser practitioners of Niman in the Order find themselves lacking in a practical form of defense, and Soresu is able to fill in those gaps. While you have no such deficiency, the integration of your Master’s favored form makes your defense exceptionally sturdy and fluid.

>[B3] Ataru, the Aggression Form. Ataru is somewhat paradoxically named, as despite its reputation for aggression, it has historically been favored by the Jedi Order rather than their enemies. Despite its lack of affiliation with the Dark Side, Ataru’s reputation is more than earned, as it is offense-oriented, dynamic, and acrobatic. Fallen to the wayside for centuries, Ataru has seen a renaissance in the past few decades thanks to its use by a number of famous Jedi Masters, and the number of Jedi who use it rival Form V. While the Aggression Form and the Moderation Form would seem to be at odds with one another, they actually compliment one another rather well; Ataru’s doctrine of the entire body being a weapon is useful in creating windows for both the rather relaxed bladework of Niman, and the two styles both encourage the use of the Force in combat.

>[B4] Shien, the Perseverance Form. Shien was developed alongside Ataru as an answer to the purely defensive nature of Soresu, while the Aggression Form is a purely offensive discipline that is relatively weak to multiple blaster-wielding opponents, the Perseverance Form is a defense-oriented style which conversely finds its weakness in one-on-one melee combat. While both Niman and Shien are dextrous forms, the motions of Form V are clipped and frenetic in comparison. Shien’s complementation of Form VI is rather limited, while it does provide an advantage in combat against blaster-wielding opponents and groups, and Niman’s encouragement of using the Force in battle meshes well with Form V, its lack of an answer for duelists is shared by standard Niman.

>(4/5)

>[B5] Djem So, the Strength Form. Djem So is the barely-younger twin of Shien, developed at roughly the same time by a group of Knights and Masters who were frustrated by the Perseverance Form’s relative weakness in lightsaber combat. Djem So is the most strength-based form, commonly referred to as the Way of the Krayt Dragon because of its emphasis on a quick, powerful offense. Djem So is more offensive than Shien, though like its twin, it favors a defensive opening flowing into a strong counterattack. Djem So is geared towards lightsaber-wielding opponents, similar to Makashi or Ataru, though it does not share those form’s weakness towards blaster-wielding opponents. It is, however, less effective against groups of opponents than Soresu or Shien. While the philosophies of Djem So and Niman seem at odds, they can actually be complementary, as few who wield a lightsaber will wield it with the strength of Form V while weaving in the Force offensive of Form VI.

>[B6] More Niman. Niman is the Moderation Form, also called the Way of the Ysalamiri or the Diplomat’s Form. While many who use Niman are Consulars and diplomats who rarely see or seek out direct combat and who merely use their sabers as a fallback, Niman, in theory, has none of the weaknesses of the other forms. However, the strengths of Form VI, more so than any of the other styles of lightsaber combat, rely heavily on the user. While you do utilize the Force in combat as dictated by the doctrines of Niman, you took great pains in your training to integrate powerful physical attacks, domineering saber techniques, and tight defensive maneuvers into the highly malleable form. While what you use can be identified as Niman, most duelists, even those at a slightly higher level than you, would be confounded by the intricacies of your form.

Again, my tism has gotten in the way so Taen’s primary form is locked in at Niman, mostly because I feel that it’s massively underutilized, especially the single-blade variant. And I know it was the most common in the Order at the time, but nobody outside of Cin Drallig could actually use it on the battlefield, and that guy stayed cooped up in the temple 24/7. Also the Temple doesn’t teach Juyo (normally), and Shii-Cho and Niman seem mutually exclusive; you’re either using one of the other four (again, not Juyo with Shii-Cho) forms with Shii-Cho movements, or you’re incorporating one of Forms II-V into Niman.

>(5/5 I can't do math)

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>>5861742
Heart of the Mists' voyage.

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>>5861744
A Ssi-ruu.

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>>5861745
Force Powers.

>>5861745
>>5861749


>[A4] Used your rare ability to see Shatterpoints to pick the Ssi-ruuk apart, and make a ruin of their base while you were at it. While you’ve always been able to see the critical points in the Force, they were almost always unclear before venturing into the Unknown Regions, and you were only successful in manipulating them once. However, your new understanding of the ability was a great help in your subsequent future travels.

>[B6] More Niman. Niman is the Moderation Form, also called the Way of the Ysalamiri or the Diplomat’s Form. While many who use Niman are Consulars and diplomats who rarely see or seek out direct combat and who merely use their sabers as a fallback, Niman, in theory, has none of the weaknesses of the other forms. However, the strengths of Form VI, more so than any of the other styles of lightsaber combat, rely heavily on the user. While you do utilize the Force in combat as dictated by the doctrines of Niman, you took great pains in your training to integrate powerful physical attacks, domineering saber techniques, and tight defensive maneuvers into the highly malleable form. While what you use can be identified as Niman, most duelists, even those at a slightly higher level than you, would be confounded by the intricacies of your form.

>>5861749

>[A3] Reached a deeper understanding of your natural talent with Tutaminis, Force Absorb, and you were able to project energy from your hands to fry the aliens in droves. While many in the Order would split hairs and refer to the ability as Electrical Judgment, you had no such pretensions, and knew it for what it was when you first utilized it. Force Lightning. Though you did make inquiries into Electrical Judgment when you returned to the Temple.


>[B6] More Niman. Niman is the Moderation Form, also called the Way of the Ysalamiri or the Diplomat’s Form. While many who use Niman are Consulars and diplomats who rarely see or seek out direct combat and who merely use their sabers as a fallback, Niman, in theory, has none of the weaknesses of the other forms. However, the strengths of Form VI, more so than any of the other styles of lightsaber combat, rely heavily on the user. While you do utilize the Force in combat as dictated by the doctrines of Niman, you took great pains in your training to integrate powerful physical attacks, domineering saber techniques, and tight defensive maneuvers into the highly malleable form. While what you use can be identified as Niman, most duelists, even those at a slightly higher level than you, would be confounded by the intricacies of your form.

Niman is a form that’s good if you put the proper effort into making it the focus of your lightsaber play. Exar Kun and Krayt exemplify that well. Force lightning because it’s UNLIMITED POWER. Like it’s the obvious choice.