Turn 4
53 ABY
The Council Meeting has proven itself blessedly short this year, so you decide to do a little research. Rather than the eponymous holocrons, which so many thirst for without understanding, you have claimed true texts, inscribed on flimsi and even paper, scrawled in a thousand languages. There is wisdom and strength in these pages, and hope as well--their very existence speaks, indeed, to hope. For Palpatine has not destroyed this, nor a thousand Sith before him, nor a thousand Sith after him. Indeed, even the dread Vader could not claim these pages, yellowed with age as they are.
Which brings you to a new problem. Ben Skywalker has, according to an all too paranoid Galactic Alliance Media, fallen to the Dark Side. Pure tosh, of course-- when Skywalkers fall to the Dark Side, they fall hard. There would be no question if Ben had fallen-- you would certainly not be calmly reading if it were.
You would be one with the Force.
But that has not kept annoying reporters from harassing your Jedi, asking their opinion on the whole matter, most of whom seem to share your opinion on the matter. The only ones saying otherwise are senior Padawans, trying to project an air of confidence to the younglings.
And of course, the relative unanimity of your response has only led to lurid accusations of censorship, brainwashing, and mindreading to keep everyone on message-- as if the idea of a clear truth is absolutely foreign to the cretins peddling this garbage.
Like the cretin you can feel inside the library. More importantly, you can hear her...light recorder? Flashing?
Swiftly spinning, you reach out with the Force. It is a little protuberance of energy, possibility leaking from nothing that lives. An invisible hand reaches out, rips it from her hand, and crushes it in a single, brilliant moment, letting the pieces crumple to the ground. "Hey! The people have a right--"
"As far as I can tell, this isn't the people." You reach out with an open palm and lift the journalist, a Zeltron, from her seat with the Force. "This is you and your friends slandering the good name of a Jedi who is risking his life. More immediately, you are risking irreparable damage to texts that have survived since before either of our species gained hyperdrive capability. Imagine surviving Sidious, only to be destroyed because you don't understand no flash! And another thing, how did you get in here anyway?"
"Credits make the world go 'round, Master Jedi."
Martial: Jaina Solo presents a number of options to you, representing a few different ways to patrol the galaxy-- for now, there is little improvement you can make. With your entrance into the Corporate Sector War, she has presented a number of places where Jedi help is most necessary.
Campaign-The Anaconda Plan: To help end the war with less bloodshed, the Galactic Alliance Navy is moving to blockade a number of worlds vital to the continued wealth of the CSA-- wealth is, after all, their life's purpose. Deploy knights to help strengthen the blockade-- an X-Wing killed the Death Star, you'd hope squads of them could dissuade freighters.
Needed:30, 3 Successes Rolled:41, 69, 98
- Aces are made in days, as the CSA's ports are strangled, their supply lines cut like marionette strings, freighters confiscated. Jaina Solo is a hell of a pilot on her own, apparently, not that you are much of an expert in the matter-- never mind as she gathers together your fighters into a fine force of its own. She takes initiative and expands the mission one step beyond your explicit orders, helping lead raids on the CSA's frigates and corvettes-- dangerous work, but the Jedi prove more than equal to the task. The two in unison prove quite effective in dissuading efforts to enter the CSA on the part of independent traders, smugglers, and merchants alike.
You can't stop everything, but you stop the vast majority. And that is enough.
Reward: Damage CSA War effort
Diplomacy: The way of the Jedi is to keep peace-- and what better way is there to do that, than to ensure no war begins?
Training: You might bemoan the heavily military history of much of the New Order, but it has its uses-- for instance, right now, it can allow you to train the Evocii without having to request that the Alliance sends in soldiers it has more important things to do with, at the moment.
Needed:20, 2 Successes Rolled:78, 100
- The Evocii take to your training with a fervor. Since time immemorial, it seems they have been stuck in the shackles of the hutts-- and it has devoured them, become a curling dragon wrapped around their spine, burned into their hearts and souls and minds and everything else. They have dedicated themselves, at this point, to one proposition-- the dismantling of the social-system that allows the hutts to leave trillions in bondage, slaves to their whims, on so many worlds.
If that requires killing no hutts, then no hutts will die. If that requires killing every Hutt in the galaxy? Then their days are short indeed. It's looking to be closer to that second option, in your estimation-- hyperbole, you don't think the Evocii will kill all the hutts, just the ones that refuse to surrenders-- and you have given them the tools to fight that fight, as well as the training.
In short, you have made rebels of them-- in particular a leader has risen from the ranks, Kartor, formerly a house servant to the hutts who slew his master in the bath and has taken to the blade.
Reward: Forge Evocii army, +1 Force Die
Knowledge: It is the way of a Jedi to learn and to teach-- to be, in their time, both student and master.
Expand the Enclave: The Witches of Dathomir are already trained to wield the Force, to serve what is right, to never concede to evil. They require some training, but they would make fine Jedi.
Needed: 40, 2 Success Rolled:96, 43
- So, the problem was not, per se, expanding the physical building. While there are challenges to building anything on Dathomir-- the planet is all swamp, and it eats greedily of all things, but those are solved problems.
No, the real issue was finding students. Proper Dathomiri witches, who would be willing to give up a relatively luxurious life to be servants to the whole galaxy-- but for one reason or another, there seems to have been a minor baby boom, just back a bit before the Second GCW, so there are plenty of Dathomiri with less than impressive prospects of anything on Dathomir. They toss in the dice with you, a class taking up training in the Jedi arts.
Mostly, you need to teach them the Jedi philosophy-- and so by in large, they learn quickly, and are soon enough ready to take on their duties.
Reward: +3 Padawan Dice, +2 Jedi Knight Dice, +1 Jedi Master Dice
Intrigue: It is not the way of the Jedi to slink about in secret-- but you may, on occasion, prefer a strategy of some subtlety.
Where Are They?: As surely as do the Jedi, the SIth have their places of power. Korriban, Dromund Kaas, Ziost, -- all places the Sith have longly walked, have marked as their own, like some beast claiming its territory in the jungle. It is where they will go, to hide and to hunt. Find their location, hunt them down, and bring this to an end. Insomuch as you can, anyway.
Needed:30, 3 Successes Rolled:8
-The Sith hide themselves well-- the darkness of the war in the Corporate Sector, while only a little shadow compared to the absolute slaughter of the Clone Wars, or the Yuuzhan Vong War, or the Galactic Civil War, is enough to shroud their trail in mist and rumor that goes nowhere and gives you nothing except sand in your hand.
-Failure-
Where is Ben Skywalker: Bluntly, you're pretty sure he's off with his new Padawan, killing CSA slavers, and good on him for it-- if you had your druthers, well. On the off chance you're wrong, though, you might want to try and find him-- the next few decades are going to be difficult enough with him around, there aren't enough Jedi around to risk losing even one, never mind this one in particular. Well that, and Master Jade might return from the Force to kill you if you lose him. (70%, 1 Success)
Needed:30 Rolled:51
- Ben finally decides to contact the Galactic Alliance soldiers on Bonadan-- it seems word of the rumors he had fallen to the Dark Side had reached him, and so he decided to clear the matter personally. No, he is not a Sith. He did not fall to the Dark Side, and does not serve evil. He has, however, been working against the CSA, as expected, with a free agent by the name of Vestara Khai.
He returns to the Ossus temple among umbrage and fury, in hopes of asking you a question, or it is said. For your part, you are just glad to receive a holo transmission of him, showing his eyes are quite blue, still, without any sort of corruption.
Personal: Insomuch as any Jedi Master can have free time, this represents yours.
Find a Padawan: It is the way of the Jedi to teach. Try and find an apprentice, to learn what you would teach. (100%, 1 Success)
Needed:1 Rolled:95
- The students this year are all quite impressive, quite impressive indeed. As you watch them duel each other in the great tournament, you are shocked at the skill of some of them, in particular a student you are not quite familiar with.
Reward: Vote for Padawan
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Oh boy
Also sort of surprised you did not kill me for forgetting to put Administration up
