There is no emotion... (A Jedi Order Quest)

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The Jedi of Telos watch the image of the holocron. Nomi, lightsaber in hand, stands, moving, flowing, faster than fast and quicker than quick.

"The Sith ravage their bodies with drugs and chemicals to claim strength. In the end it ruins them, but in the moment it makes them powerful. You may not be stronger of body...but you are quicker, faster, better, more classically trained. The stamina, the long term, is on your side: Claim it!"

(+5 Luke Drew First, +10 Knowledge)
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Iolete tosses and turns on the simple bed that the temple has given him. Occasionally he murmurs names, some Kador knows and others he doesn't.

His brother, cloaked in the shadows, watches with his companion. "Six years. He was stuck with that beast for six years." He looks away, out of the small viewscreen to the Dantooine plains.

"You couldn't have known." A feminine voice answers him.

"I should have. He's taken plenty of beatings before. You know, when we-"

His brother jerks and in a second Kador is there, hand on his shoulder. "Brother! Brother! You're alright, you're alright I promise. I am here. Nothing will harm you in this place."

His brother's red eyes, jerked wide open, slowly relax to a calmer position; his breathing calms. Kador wraps his arms around his brother, and lets the emotions flow from him through the Force.

"I'm...alright. Just bad dreams."

Kador looks his brother in the eyes. A once round face has thinned, arms that had been soft have grown wire taut and hard; every bit of him has been sharpened in the hellfurnace of the galactic underground. Scars, still fresh and raw, line his face.

Jawna is lucky to be dead.

"The Council has not agreed to my request. However, they have promised that every step of the way I will be involved in your training. And furthermore, they have placed you under the care of a Jedi of no small wisdom."

Atris.

(Iolete Shirote joins the Jedi Order as a Padawan; Atris reclaims the title of Jedi Knight)

Mission 1 (Grandmaster Bao-Dur, 1 Jedi Sentinel, 1 Jedi Consular, 3 Padawans, The Core)
-Grandmaster Bao-Dur-

One of the Yuuzhan Vong Shaper Executives, the leaders of their society; the executioners of their legislature; has requested our help with a fact-finding mission to a pre-Hyperspace society within their borders. They are, apparently, not overly far from the leap. While the Vong usually use their incredible prowess in shaping flesh to do as such, implanting agents within their society, the last few dozen they have sent have disappeared.
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Mission 2 (Councilor Juhani, 1 Jedi Guardian, 2 Jedi Sentinels, 4 Padawans, The Mid-Rim)
-Councilor Juhani-

We are heading to Canto Kadra to pick up Kador's replacement in our group.
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Mission 3 (Councilor Mira, 1 Jedi Sentinel, 1 Jedi Consular, 3 Padawans, The Outer Rim)
-Councilor Mira-

GO-TO droids helping in the reconstruction of the Lothal Sector have started behaving...oddly. While, by and large, they are within what would be normal for droids, considering what Go-To was like, I feel the need to keep watch.
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Mission 4 (Councilor Atton Rand, 1 Jedi Sentinel, 1 Jedi Guardian, 3 Padawans, The Colonies)
-Councilor Atton Rand-

The planetary government of Nemoidia has found something: an ancient droid factory, dating back to the Rakatans and the Infinite Empire.

They have asked us to help ensure the safety of their workers. Unfortunately, they didn't take my advice and just nuke the site from orbit.

Although, to be fair, I suppose having Kiwaga city blown to bits might be a bit of a hard-sell...
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Mission 5 (Councilor Visas Marr, Knight Atris, 3 Jedi Sentinels, 2 Jedi Guardians, 1 Jedi Consular, 7 Padawans, the Expansion Regions)
-Knight Atris-

While the others are off gallivanting about killing pirates, my apprentice and I have wandered into the desert for training. It is not as dangerous as it sounds, but the solitude should be helpful in developing his-- and my-- skills.

Kador has agreed to follow only a day behind in his speeder.
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Mission 1 (Grandmaster Bao-Dur, 1 Jedi Sentinel, 1 Jedi Consular, 3 Padawans, The Core)
-Grandmaster Bao-Dur-

We have landed on Aoba, and are currently performing study of the Obans. At the same time, myself and the Shaper have been discussing why the Vong are so leery to involve themselves in the matter of less technologically advanced species. According to them, the Vong are afraid. They, who shape life so easily to make it a tool, are afraid that they might make a whole species, a people, tools; manipulate them, use them, without ever having any intent to do as much.

Of course, the argument falls a little flat when you consider that, according to scans we are discreetly performing, somebody, from among the Aoba, has been manipulating the species themselves.
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Mission 2 (Councilor Juhani, 1 Jedi Guardian, 2 Jedi Sentinels, 4 Padawans, The Mid-Rim)
-Councilor Juhani-

We have picked him up, but found nothing on the way there of interest.
(Missed event)
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Mission 3 (Councilor Mira, 1 Jedi Sentinel, 1 Jedi Consular, 3 Padawans, The Outer Rim)
-Councilor Mira-

We did not see anything too unusual.
(+2 PP)
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Mission 4 (Councilor Atton Rand, 1 Jedi Sentinel, 1 Jedi Guardian, 3 Padawans, The Colonies)
-Councilor Atton Rand-

We have restored power to ten percent of the facility.

I have a real bad feeling about this...
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Mission 5 (Councilor Visas Marr, Knight Atris, 3 Jedi Sentinels, 2 Jedi Guardians, 1 Jedi Consular, 7 Padawans, the Expansion Regions)
-Knight Atris-

We have wandered into a...difficult, situation. One of the slave-catchers that originally kidnapped my Padawan in the first place is on planet, and we have stumbled onto their camp.

The man claims to have left the business behind, but on the off chance he is lying we are examining his star-ship thoroughly. Hopefully before Kador arrives.
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Atris log, continued.

The past is here; and it must be confronted, if he is to grow.
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Mission 1 (Grandmaster Bao-Dur, 1 Jedi Sentinel, 1 Jedi Consular, 3 Padawans, The Core)
-Grandmaster Bao-Dur-

Way back, a hundred or so years ago, a wandering band of pirates secretly crashed in the middle of a desolate scratch of desert, pummeled by the absolute ferocity of the Antalderi Nebula. Using that technology and with other visiting aliens near-constant, a capital-fascist conspiracy seized power in an invisible coup, deeming themselves guardians of their species without consent of the guarded, hiding knowledge and claiming all practical political power.

Unfortunately for them, a Jedi is not so easily dispatched. Nor, for that matter, a Shaper.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't, in a certain sense, glad that it will be the Vong defusing that mess and not the Republic.

Of course, with my luck I'll be back here in six months.
(+15 PP, in the background Vong Republic Border Protocol formalized)
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Mission 4 (Councilor Atton Rand, 1 Jedi Sentinel, 1 Jedi Guardian, 3 Padawans, The Colonies)
-Councilor Atton Rand-

Protocol droids.

Villains beware, we have fussbuckets.

Still, what isn't soaked in evil could be helpful for future artisans of the Order.

(+15 Knowledge)
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Mission 5 (Councilor Visas Marr, Knight Atris, 3 Jedi Sentinels, 2 Jedi Guardians, 1 Jedi Consular, 7 Padawans, the Expansion Regions)
-Knight Atris-

The two of them and the slave-shipper made a deal. They would look in the man's cargo bay.

If they found a sapient being in bondage, they'd kill the slaver. Then and there. And give his wealth and ship to the freeman.

If not, he'd be free. Not an hour later, the ship was off.

I sense the thing is finished, whatever the case may be in its conclusion.
(+5 Knowledge)
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Mission 6 (Dantooine)
-Padawan Akila Qel-Droma-

Master Sunguard has me helping construct the further wings of the Temple on Dantooine as part of my training. Apparently it's to help teach me how to concentrate on fine details.

Personally I think she just doesn't want to spend more on workers.
(+15 Dantooine)
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Mission 7 (Telos)
-Consular Gonan-

I've finally done it! The back-up archives the Council established after Ossus are now freely accessible to anyone with "our" credentials. I still need to collate, analyze, and so on the various computers, but it represents a serious leap forward in our infrastructure here!
(+15 Telos)
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Mission 8 (Ossus)
-Councilor Bastila-

We have sewn massive gardens all around the ruins of the Ossus Temple. This place will be lush and verdant once more; I swear it.
(+50 Ossus)
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Mission 9 (Ilum)
-Knight Gayel Ducte-

I don't know what genius decided to send a cold-blooded sapient to Ilum, but if I find him in a dark alley, you're going to have to exile me.

If it wasn't for the heaters one of Penraya set up, you'd have a Jedicile.
(+15 Ilum)
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Mission 10 (Coruscant)
-Knight Atias-

The Initiates are currently practicing their control by clearing rubble from-

GAH!

Who dropped that on me?!

(+5 Coruscant)