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| Jaden_Emmangan | Date: Wednesday, 04 Nov 2009, 8:14 PM | Message # 1 |
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| The Jedi Knight was on such a long journey from Yavin 4, where the Jedi Academy resides. He had recently requested to take some time off to be able to visit an old friend that lives deep within the edges of the Outer Rim. It had sounded urgent, and personal. Indeed, it was a really long trip. It was a good thing that he had abandoned his longtime personal starfighter in T-Wing interceptor. It had been over a year now since the Jedi had assigned him a x-wing starfighter, along with R2-D9, his droid partner. "Dwooo. Dwoooo." The astromech droid chirped. The Jedi would look at the charts, "Oh, alright. I guess we're going to have to refuel somewhere nearby." The astromech had informed him through the computer within the x-wing that they would have to drop out of hyperspace into Suarbi System, the planet with the capability of refueling is Susevfi. "I've never met a Caamasi before, let alone the territory that belong to the Caamasi Remnant. Cool, let's get going." The x-wing dropped out of hyperspace, flying toward Susevfi but was approaching steadily. "Request landing clearance." The Jedi had spoken through the general frequency. After waiting a while, he was granted the landing clearance. "Get the ship to land." He ordered the droid, as the x-wing was set on the autopilot and descending into the atmosphere. Once the x-wing made its way toward the landing bay and landed, Jaden made sure to check that his blaster pistol was placed under the seat. It was only to be in use for emergency. After all, he has always used his lightsaber and never lost it before. Still, it's just the precautions. He climbed down the ladder, only to have himself greeted by a Caamasi. He'd bow down, and then spoke in a polite tone. "I need a refuel for my ship." The Caamasi seems to reply in a polite tone as well and allowed him to have a refuel. Jaden looked up to the astromech droid, "I have the comlink with me should there be any problems." The droid responded with a beep, it sounded disappointed. His droid friend always liked going on adventures with Jaden, but this time the Jedi wanted to explore the planet by himself. He would walk out of the hangar bay with the Caamasi, showing him with the respect that should be given to any sentient being even though he had never encountered the species before. That was when he began hearing some commentary among the other Caamasis about a guy using some kind of magic on some remote village somewhere on the planet. The Jedi raised his eyebrows, and looked at the Caamasi escorting him. "Who is this man that performs magic? Could you bring me to him?" Jaden spoke with a firm, but gently tone. It was probably not his business and all, but he had read some files about a few individuals trying to scam their ways into telling people they could perform magic. Either way, it had made him curious enough to check out. The Caamasi nodded, and agreed to take him to the magician. The Jedi and the Caamasi escort had gotten on a speeder in front of the landing bay, which apparently made him think maybe the Caamasi that was with him is of some importance. They would now be traveling toward whatever it is that would lead him to the magician.
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Friday, 06 Nov 2009, 8:29 PM | Message # 2 |
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| Caamasi was a difficult language to translate; the word atak'la had multiple meanings, but it was commonly translated into Basic as "magician." However, the more correct meaning would be "miracler" or, with proper grammar, "miracle worker." It was the latter definition that better described Jace Varitek. A magician did cheap tricks for amusement, but Varitek healed wounds, saw into the past and future, made the crops grow, and—according to some—he even brought the rains. On this world, he was legend. He had appeared on Susevfi almost a decade ago, and resided in a hut that he'd built for himself in the foothills outside the secluded village of Mrlassi. Occasionally, he would be seen alone on a grassy plain, meditating or writing intently. Sometimes, lightsabers could be heard clashing somewhere in the hills, their brilliant green, blue or orange glows illuminating the hillsides in the night as he did battle with the "demons" that were rumored to live there. The Caamasi, at this point, had only recently settled on Susevfi themselves, and they were plagued with new diseases that they weren't accustomed to. It was then that he went into the village and said only one thing: "Atho'il linnalee elek'la" ("Take me to your sick"). Within a week, they had all recovered. Since then, they would bring the wounded and sick, young and old, to his hut and he would always help them without a word; he never accepted their thanks, or their gifts. Sometimes—somehow—he would be at the scene of an accident, or a fight, or an animal attack or natural disaster moments before it occurred, and prevent or otherwise mitigate it. Since then, the Caamasi would ask him about events yet to come and he would answer them, often with stunning accuracy. When he worked the fields, they would have a bountiful harvest. When they needed rain, it rained. And though he said nothing to them, somehow they knew that he wanted only one thing in return: Tell no one. Thus, his presence on Susevfi had remained largely a secret. Most of the Caamasi didn't know who he was, but some of them did remember Varitek from their shared youth on Morymento; among them Senator Elegos Ak'la, the Trustant of the Caamasi Remnant and the representative of Susevfi in the Senate, who was occasionally seen visiting the healer but who also seemed not to mention it to anyone else. It was fortuitous (or fateful, perhaps?) that Jaden should happen to overhear mentions of the healer during his brief visit. The speeder ride might have been an uncomfortable one for the Jedi; there was not much conversation, since the Caamasi who drove him did not speak much Basic. But there was something more unusual than that, as Jaden would sense. This particularly Caamasi seemed almost to know Jaden personally, as if he'd met him before even though, of course, he hadn't. Nonetheless, this feeling would probably haunt him as he approached Mrlassi—a beautiful village with earthen streets, consisting mostly of low-roofed, wooden huts intermixed with more common duracrete structures. As the speeder pulled into the village and eventually came to a stop on its outskirts, Caamasi children swarmed around it until shooed away by the driver. He would point the Jedi toward the foothills, but would himself go no further. As Jaden walked the ten or so minutes to the healer's hut, he would pass by modest farms and fields tended by Caamasi who would give him brief, quizzical glances, and then return to their work. Varitek's hut was as humble as the others, built out of wood with a thatched roof and no windows, and a small vegetable garden beside it. It was an inauspicious vanguard against the hills that began here and stretched into the distance. Something was cooking inside the hut—it could be heard simmering a good distance away, but Varitek was not there. He was outside, seated on a rock with his eyes closed, facing away from Jaden. He showed no sign that he was aware of his old friend, though of course he must have sensed his presence.
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| Jaden_Emmangan | Date: Saturday, 07 Nov 2009, 3:56 PM | Message # 3 |
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| It's probably not wise for Jaden to divert from his mission to see an old friend that's probably going to need some more riding in hyperspace in order to reach him. The Jedi Council would probably want to check on him sometime soon. If they find out the tracking signal isn't where it's supposed to be, no doubts they would track down the signal and tries to contact the holotransmitter installed within the x-wing system. That would lead Jaden's astromech friend to contact the Jedi through the comlink, and that hasn't happened just yet. He should be relieved about that, yet a chill went up his spine. Actually, not so much the chills but simply making Jaden feel uneasy for the time being. It was the Caamasi that was driving him toward the village called Mrlassi, or maybe it was named something else. The Caamasi doesn't speak much Basic, so the Jedi wasn't sure if Mrlassi was simply the name of the village or that the driver was trying to tell him something in their native tongues. The interaction with the driver seems as if they have met each other before. However, Jaden have never met a Caamasi before. If he did, he would have remembered that. He doesn't have much knowledge of the Caamasi or the faction that's also known as the Caamasi Remnant, but from the public knowledge...when a Caamasi is with members of other species they tend to be an important figure. Perhaps something else is at work here. At the moment, there's nothing Jaden could do until either time passes or when he finds the answer to this uneasy feeling. For the time being, he decided to brush it off and keep a cool head. The speeder had finally come to a stop, the Caamasi children were coming to the speeder. Jaden would chuckle softly, the curiosity of children will never cease to amaze him. Even if it wasn't children of the Caamasi, it would still amaze him. Jaden had gotten off the speeder after the driver shooed the children away. The Caamasi had pointed the Jedi toward the foothills, but had gestured to him that Jaden would have to go alone. The Jedi would have his lightsaber ready attached to his belt, should he need it. But something tells him he wouldn't need it. Perhaps it was the Force, or merely his instincts. He had to walk for ten minutes toward the healer's hut, but in those times, he received a lot of glances by the Caamasi. Perhaps it was simply because he was a human or the fact that it's a wonder a Jedi was all the way deep into the Outer Rim. From the ten-minute walk, he could probably safely assume that the Caamasi doesn't like to attract attention. After the walk took ten minutes, a hut was in the sight. He had assumed that it has to be the "magician's" hut. There was a noise coming from the hut, like it was cooking something up. Jaden had ignored the hut, because this magician was sitting on a rock with his eyes closed. The Jedi would be little bit shocked to see that it was someone that he had admired more than any Jedi. It was Jace Varitek. What made it even more strange was that he had written a personal journal on Jace Varitek that only friends and family is able to read about it. It had stated that Jaden was hoping to find an answer to why Jace had disappeared. The Force surely does have a sense of humor. Jaden would slowly walking up to Jace, but kept himself from a distance. There's no telling what Jace had turned into, despites the Caamasi's claims. No doubt the former Jedi would have detected his presence in the Force. Jaden decided not to distrub the mediation, but simply standing by to wait for a response from the former Jedi.
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009, 3:18 AM | Message # 4 |
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| "Did they send you here to find me?" Jace called out to him sternly, after a moment's pause. His voice sounded the same even after all these years. "No," he said, distantly, before Jaden could answer. He opened his eyes, stood deliberately and turned to face his old friend. He may have sounded the same, but he looked decidedly different; he appeared weathered, not so much by age as by experience, or perhaps wisdom (they had always said at the Academy that he was "wise beyond his years"). His hands were rough from labor—and from combat, though Jaden wouldn't know this—he sported an unfamiliar beard, and his smile at his old friend seemed genuine, but somehow difficult for him. His eyes looked tired, as he walked closer. It was odd that a man so clearly human, and so intimately known to Jaden, would be the object of such reverence on this world. "Hello, old friend," he said, approaching Jaden and placing a hand on his shoulder as he offered his other to shake, "It's been years." Jaden had never known Varitek well, although this was through no fault of his own; no one at the Academy had ever truly known him well. He had always been something of a reclusive figure, his dedication to his studies often having been mistaken for disinterest in his peers. Well, truth be told he'd always been somewhat ornery as well, and spent most of his time immersed in the Academy's archives which—at that time—he had spent literally half of his life trying to find, and study. This might have been all that he'd have been remembered for, were it not for the unpleasant events that precipitated his departure from the Academy. It began with the murder of Darwin Sky ("Darth Acheron"). Not the killing of Darwin Sky in self defense, mind you, but the murder. Jace refused to decieve himself, and thus he called it what it was. In violation of the rule of law and everything else that he stood for, the Jedi Knight had come to understand that Darwin was beyond redemption and, accordingly, cut him down right there on Nar Shaddaa after the boy had already been beaten and bloodied in their duel. Mere days later, he tracked down another Jedi-turned-fugitive Sith Lord—Echuu Shinzon—and cut him down as well. When he returned to the Academy, all of his peers looked at him strangely when he entered a room and spoke about him in hushed tones when he left it. He had never been regarded as an exceptional swordsman (his emphasis was on mediation and empathy), and even Varitek wasn't sure how he'd mustered the power—or was it the desire for power, in the form of judgment, that had driven him?—to best a Sith that was considered dangerous even to the most learned Jedi Masters. The Council assured him that slaying Shinzon was necessary, and they forgave him for Darwin. But he did not forgive himself. Troubled that he had violated his principles, that he might do so again, and worse, that he might do so for reasons that he didn't understand, and which frightened him, Jace had resigned from the Academy and disappeared. Until now. "How are you?" he asked, "Is it truly a coincidence that you've happened upon me? I'm glad, in any event. It's good to see you."
Jace Varitek
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"When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?"
—John Maynard Keynes
Furthermore, a dancing Wookiee:
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| Jaden_Emmangan | Date: Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009, 4:18 AM | Message # 5 |
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| When the Jedi stood by to wait for Jace to finish his mediation, it was noted that Jace had broken his mediation to speak with Jaden. He was about to speak when Jace kept on talking. The Jedi decided to allow Jace to speak, because he had truly respected Jace during his tenure at the Academy. There is no reason he should stop doing that when he had noticed that Jace had appeared somewhat different. It must be the beard, or maybe his hands were more rough. From the looks of the things Jaden had seen on the planet, it must be from the labor. He raised his eyebrows when the former Jedi had come upon to put a hand on his shoulder. Jaden decided to nod slowly out of respect, "Indeed. It has been years." They weren't good friends, but merely acquaintances. However, he would accept the gestures from Jace that they were old friends. Jaden had assumed from Jace's perspective that since he didn't have many friends in the Order due to his reclusive nature, he was considered a friend to him. "It is good to see you're alive and well, Varitek." The Jedi would simply tell Jace, though it was unnecessary to do so. It was due to Jaden's admiration of Jace that he had only begun to ask around the Order of Jace's whereabouts. It was merely a coincidence when he had recently wrote a Journal. A part of it contains Jace Varitek. "I'm good. A lot of travelling, but otherwise, good." Jaden had found Jace after this whole time. The Council deserve to hear that he had found Jace, but he wasn't sure if he should do that or not. There was a reason to why Jace left the Order. Jaden would dismiss that for now. "Yes, it must be a coincidence. Either that, or the Force has a sense of humor."
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