Mission Report 3949 Q4
Mission 1 (Bao-Dur, Mira, and 6 Initiates, The Core)
-Master Mira-
24 hours ago, one of the chief witnesses in the case linking Czerka with Outer Rim slaving disappeared. I imagine they expect one Twi'lek to disappear on the mean streets of Coruscant, one life to be snuffed out without pause.
Maybe 3 years ago, they could've gotten away with that.
But now we're around. And things are going to be different. I swear.
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Mission 2 (Juhani, Visas, Atton Rand, Kador, and 1 Initiate, Mid-Rim)
-Padawan Kador-
The Dantooine Enclave recently reported a transmission burst from Jedha.
As Jedha was the second Jedi Enclave to fall to Revan and Malak, that should probably not be happening.
We're heading to investigate-- hopefully it was nothing. At worst, we're about to meet some very angry ghosts. Sith and Jedi alike.
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Mission 3 (Mical, Bastila, Brianna, Breda, and 1 Initiate, The Outer Rim)
-Padawan Breda-
Good news, bad news time. The Hutts are trying to steal a number of Jedi artifacts from the Great Library on Ossus. It seems they want leverage over us, so that we don't end up helping the Supreme Chancellor, should his promise to help stop the Hutt's corruption become a real issue.
But they have not stolen them yet; and I expect, they will not find Ossus as pleasant a trip as they expect. The Spirits of Jedi, and of Sith, quite things, all told-- but neither loves thieves. We will be making planetfall shortly; I can sense a disturbance, already.
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Mission 1 (Bao-Dur, Mira, and 6 Initiates, The Core)
-Master Mira-
[Metal hissing, as though something is melting very quickly]
"...Now, a little girl and her mother are missing. Conveniently for Czerka, they happen to have been some of the key witnesses linking them and the Outer Rim slave trade together. Also conveniently, this bar happens to be a known stomping ground for Czerka mercs on Coruscant."
[short, sharp bark noise, followed by constant thumming]
"All we want is information. We will leave, once we get information. But until we do, no-one is leaving."
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Mission 2 (Juhani, Visas, Atton Rand, Kador, and 1 Initiate, Mid-Rim)
-Padawan Kador-
The dead are restless, but not enraged. The constant wars, the endless strife, the mindless bloodshed, has convinced the warriors of Jedha, those Jedi Knights, that the Galaxy has need of their wisdom; and "thunder in the Force" has allowed the spirits of Ajunta Pall, Ters Sendon, and Vandare Tokare, to come among us and share their wisdom, for a brief time.
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Mission 3 (Mical, Bastila, Brianna, Breda, and 1 Initiate, The Outer Rim)
-Padawan Breda-
The spirits here are more coherent, more calm, than the ones of Korriban-- they seem, at least, to have realized that we are Jedi. Master Bastila's worry that the spirits would attack her for her past seems to have been unfounded.
No, the bigger issue is that spirits are about to kill the poor bastards the Hutts roped into this. They have them hung up in the Force, suspended in stasis.
Like I said, neither seem very fond of thieves. The current plan is to try and talk the spirits down, see if we can't convince them to show mercy.
It's hard to tell who is who in this sea of hoods; I almost think some of them are still alive, they're so animated. They seem to be congregating around one spirit in particular; we can't tell who he is, but at least he has a cybernetic arm-- that should pin it down a little.
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Mission 1 (Bao-Dur, Mira, and 6 Initiates, The Core)
-Master Mira-
36 hours after their original disappearance, Mal and Kolo Wanal are back, safe and sound, and Czerka has been left short a few mercenaries. With this we proved they can be fought, they can lose, are losing, that despite everything money is not power, and it certainly does not make what is wrong right.
(+5 PP)
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Mission 2 (Juhani, Visas, Atton Rand, Kador, and 1 Initiate, Mid-Rim)
-Padawan Kador-
The moment has passed. The Jedi of old have returned to their slumber, having taught us what they could. Master Jeth passed on much knowledge of Lightsaber combat, of the training techniques which are most important to the Jedi, of where the finest Lightsaber crystals can be found. Master Tokare gave us knowledge of the healing arts, how one may meld together mundane medicine with the power of the Force to heal the body and mind alike-- indeed, he edged unto the techniques which first allowed them to rebuild the mind of Revan.
But it was Ajunta who taught you all the most, for that founder of the Sith, returned to good in death, answered a question he first asked in life-- but gave a very different answer:
"What is strength? The Jedi believe it is to turn away from what tempts you.
I believed it was to take what tempts you, what you desire, regardless of others.
Now I know better.
I believe it is to face what tempts you-- and to deny it."
(+10 Knowledge)
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Mission 3 (Mical, Bastila, Brianna, Breda, and 1 Initiate, The Outer Rim)
-Padawan Breda-
Trapped on Ossus? Prosthetic? Wavey hair?
It was Cay Qel-Droma leading these spirits to protect his final resting place. We had put together a brilliant speech when that was all made really rather irrelevant when one of the mercenaries had her helmet knocked off. The stasis wore off of her on that moment, and Qel-Droma's spirit wielded the Force to catch her.
Which is when he revealed she was his grandaughter. It seems both Qel-Droma brothers broke the code in their own way, though his was the less terrible, I think. The spirits dissipated at that, and she ran off. I expect we will see her around soon enough, however; the Qel-Dromas have never been a family of apathy-- more importantly, the hutts have never tolerated failure.
On a different note, we got a few cursory scans of Ossus, and have some records of its atmospheric composition now. It might be helpful.
(+20 Knowledge, Akila Qel-Droma Met, +1 Ossus???)
