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Post by Schph Gochi on Oct 17, 2002 15:04:06 GMT -5
Well, I thought I would give writing a try....don't know the whole story yet...but I will post to this saga as the story comes to my mind....here goes nothing
Timeline reference point.....this chapter takes place right before "Jedi Requested"...
....ooops....continuity issue....since I have Blink in this story..it would have to be AFTER Jedi Requested ..
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
The Jedi Assembly
Schph Gochi..................Jedi Knight Ryss Fal-Orran..............Padawan to Schph Gochi Syn-Kai Jinn..................Jedi Knight Lyt-Jio Dodowi..............Padawan to Syn-Kai Jinn Yoda.............................Jedi Master Mace Windu..................Jedi Master Rubvic Dychi.................Jedi Knight Manje Sceve.................Jeid Knight (retired) Blink.............................Schph's Astromech
Sluis Van
Fasgar Boeve Miele......Former Master to Schph Gochi Jahn Boeve Miele.........Fasgar's son Atril Boeve Miele..........Fasgar's daughter Listianne Miele............Fasgar's wife (deceased)
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Post by Schph Gochi on Oct 17, 2002 15:20:52 GMT -5
The hollow and sunken eyes, the mouth turned down in a scream and the face twisted from the dark side. Schph bolts upright, lightsaber already in hand and ignites it. Summoning the Force around her she stares at the blank place where the face was only a second before. Looking around in the darkness that is cut only by the emerald glow of her blade, Schph realizes where she is. She is in her quarters in the sub-basement of the Jedi Assembly Temple.
"Not again, that is the third night in a row!"
Shutting off her lightsaber, she stands and looks around her room. Soaking wet with sweat and shaking, this has been another night where the terrifying face has ripped her out of a deep sleep. Getting her bearings back she sits down at the end of her sleep couch.
"Why is this happening now, after all these years?" She starts musing to herself. The face she sees is like most faces in dreams and nightmares, more like a characature rather than a real face. "Why do dreams do that to you?" Though she can't be sure, the face that haunts her does look suspiciously like someone from her past. "Is the Force trying to tell me something?" "I know I will not run into the owner of that face, he is supposed to be dead....but anything is possible when it comes to the Force".
Shaking it off for now, and wide awake Schph Gochi wonders if she is losing her mind, or is just bored. Her last mission ended a standard 10 days ago, and she has been at the Temple since, awaiting re-assignment. Grabbing her com-link, she is about to punch up the code of her Padawan, Ryss Fal-Orran, to see if she would be up for a little lightsaber sparring. Laughing to herself, she remembers that it is, first of all, one o'clock in the morning, and secondly, Ryss is off on Yavin 4 with Yoda and some of the other Padawans. Ryss is on one of those rare trips when the Padawans get Yoda's full attention, and it is rather a test of the Padawan's Master....kind of like a "let's see what your master has been teaching you".
"Well, I am up now, so I might as well do something productive this morning." Schph powers up her astromech Blink and give him his first command of the morning. "Morning Blink...." Blink tootles back..... Schph shoots Blink "the look"...."ok smart guy...so it isn't morning just yet....."
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Post by Schph Gochi on Oct 18, 2002 5:51:45 GMT -5
"Blink...for some unknown reason, the face of my former master keeps pulling me out of a deep sleep." I can not imagine why the Force is working overtime to alert me to this, or maybe it is Fasgar's spirit, or essence, or what, I simply don't know." "But I don't think I can ignore this further". "I want you to start to scan the archives.....start your search at Sluis Van....Fasgar's home planet and see what is going on in that sector." "Perhaps, current events on that planet can give me a clue".
Schph enters the refresher to shake off the night's terrors and puts on a fresh tunic. She notes that Blink has his computer arm in the terminal and is already running down current events on Sluis Van.
"I am going to go to the training room, there is always someone wandering the halls here at the Temple, and perhaps someone will be down there and want to do a little lightsaber practice, I can sure use the distraction."
Schph heads down the hall to the turbolift. The halls are unusually quiet this night The many souls and sentient beings that dwell here are sleeping peacefully. Her mind begins to wander off, to walking these same halls as a Padawan to Fasgar Boeve.
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Post by Schph Gochi on Oct 19, 2002 9:41:11 GMT -5
She muses to herself.... "It feels as though I have always walked these halls". "But then I really have always walked these halls."
Schph calls to mind the sketchy details of how she got to the Temple in the first place. According to the Temple records, she was left on the doorstep of the temple as an infant. Wrapped in a common linen cloth and placed in a duraplast box, she had nothing else with her as she entered this place. The only thing with her in that duraplast box was a note....left by her parents...or was it just a parent, in the singular. She doesn't know and probably never will. The words in the note still burn in the back of her mind. When she was old enough, Yoda let her view her only piece of history.
"This infant has strange ability." "She can levitate things even at one year old". "It frightens me and I don't think I can take care of her" "Perhaps she is strong in what you people call The Force". "Please don't try to find me....I can't take the child back".
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Post by Schph Gochi on Oct 20, 2002 10:47:27 GMT -5
"Not much of a history" Schph said aloud.
That lousy duraplast box was still in the archives at the Temple. Why the Council held onto such a thing was beyond her. I mean it wasn't like someone was going to knock on the Temple door and say..."excuse me, we left a duraplast box here some 50 years ago, and we would like it back, but you can keep the contents."
She took her last look at the box the day she completed her Jedi Trials and became a Jedi Knight. Whatever history the box would have held was over....graduation to full Knighthood meant that a new life was about to begin.
Schph continued her walk down the halls to the training room.....past the Padawan wing.
Padawan.....Schph wondered how Ryss was doing on Yavin 4 with Yoda and the rest of the Padawans.
Ryss Fal-Orran was extraordinarily gifted with the "living force", compasionate and dedicated. Yoda's match up of Gochi and Fal-Orran was probably one of the wiser things Yoda had ever done. This team had a lot to teach each other and Yoda, as always, knew this. He knew that Ryss would put a subtle edge on Schph's "bantha in a china market" personality and Schph could teach Ryss how to survive the rigors of missions that go sour. Schph had plenty of expierience in harnessing her more limited force capabilities and coupling them with "seat of the pants" common sense and reason......and of course....the occasional concussion grenade.
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Post by Schph Gochi on Oct 23, 2002 5:22:26 GMT -5
Schph arrives at the training room. The massive room of duracrete and duraplast has been a place of many hours spent. A bank of transparisteel windows lines the eastern exposure of the room. The view of Coruscant is breathtaking from this room. The spacelanes are still full of traffic, even at this hour of the morning.
As luck would have it, the training room is indeed occupied. Rubvic Dychi is working on his technique with a remote. Rubvic is a massive human from Fondor. He stands a full foot taller than Schph and has her by at least 75 pounds. They went through Temple training together and have been friends ever since.
"Greetings Rubvic, care to give up the remote and do a little lightsaber training with a sentient?"
Rubvic shuts off his training saber and powers down the remote.
"Sure Schph, this has been getting a little dull", he replies.
Schph grabs a training saber from the racks and soon the two Jedi are attacking and parrying at full blast. Schph lets the force flow through her and is soon absorbed in the match. The room drops away, and there is only the opponent. The two are pretty evenly matched but this day Schph is having no trouble letting the force flow. Rubvic is coming at her with everything he has and Schph has to force flip out of his way. When she turns around to parry his attack, Rubvic is no longer there....the opponent is Fasgar!
In horror, Schph swings from defensive to offensive moves as she stares into the hollow face of her former master. Her moves become fierce as she vows she will not let Fasgar get the upper hand. Sabers clash and the two bodies are flying across the entire room. Fasgar is getting the upper hand and has Schph backed into a corner. Struggling to try and re-gain the upper hand, Schph knows that Fasgar will be coming in for the kill. As his saber comes flying at her in moves she can barely deflect, Schph digs down to the one thing she is better at than almost anyone...telekenesis. An uncontrolled jolt from her brain sends the massive Fasgar slamming into a duraplast wall with such intensity that the body leaves a mark in the wall.
Suddenly there is a voice screaming at her....the body slumped on the floor is Rubvic! Schph is now shaking and running over to Rubvic.
"What the hell is the matter with you Gochi!" "Are you trying to kill me?" "What was that?"
"I am so sorry Rubvic! Are you hurt?"
Bending down, Schph helps him get back to his feet and Rubvic stares into her eyes. He sees in those eyes a most visible terror.
"Schph....what is going on?"
"I no longer saw you Rubvic, you turned into my former Master, Fasgar. I know you are one person who remembers the last day I saw him as you were right here in the training room when it all happened. I don't know what has been going on the last couple of days, but his spirit has come back to claim me. The force has been working overtime to alert me to this but I am not sure why. It looks like I better find out quickly before I kill someone."
Rubvic once again looks into Schph's eyes.
"I can see the terror there, I believe that you no longer thought you were fighting me, but were indeed up against Fasgar again." "I remember that day vividly"....
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Post by Schph Gochi on Oct 25, 2002 16:07:34 GMT -5
As though it was cued, while Schph and Rubvic stood composing themselves, Coruscant's sun began to make its journey into the sky. The training room was being bathed in the first glow of the morning. Schph glanced at the now reinforced transparisteel windows and her mind once again shot her the vision of her former master. The scene that had replayed in her head so many times, played once more. Fasgar's face, locked in the grip of the Dark Side, and Fasgar's body being hurled through the window from a sudden blast from the mind of his Padawan.
Schph glanced at the transparisteel that now rested in the same spot that once gaped open from the impact of a body sent slamming through it.
Schph looked past the transparisteel out to the spacelanes of Coruscant in the distance. The spacelanes that even at this still early hour were filling up with ships, gravsleds and shuttles......life always goes on.
Rubvic's voice brought Schph's mind back to her body, and to the training room.
"I think you ought to tell the Council what has been happening to you Schph".
Studying Rubvics face..."and what do I have to tell them at this point?" "They would probably think I am crazy." "They know that final day with Fasgar had forever changed me, and they may think I finally have lost my grip".
Rubvic shifted uneasily in his spot. "Well, I am sure I don't have to remind you that Fasgar's body was never located." "Some thought his body was consumed by the Dark Side, some thought he managed to somehow cushion his fall".
"Theories" Schph answered. "I have felt nothing through the force of Fasgar's existence since that day.....still......he was powerfull."
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Post by Schph Gochi on Oct 28, 2002 17:04:39 GMT -5
"One other thing has always puzzled me, and that is why I didn't see his dabbling in the dark side, what in the galaxy did I think he was teaching me?"
"Good question", Rubvic replied. "But the important thing is that you DID in fact figure it out before you became sithspawn too". "Fasgar kept you out of the Temple as much as possible after you were chosen as his padawan."
"True", Schph answered. "We went from one mission to another. If we weren't out on a mission for the Council, he would take me to remote planets for training. The lessons in the dark side were subtle at first, and what did I know....I was a 13 year old padawan. But as the years began to unfold, I began to get an uneasy feeling about some of the things he would teach me. I would often say to him....doesn't that lead to the dark side? But he would always have a good explanation and seem to wrap up our conversations very tidily. The other thing that I don't understand is why he chose me as the padawan that he wanted for his Sith apprentice?There are many students that are better than me."
"Schph, you are forgetting something", Rubvic broke in. "As a student, you were formidable, you were at the top of the class". "It was the incident in the training room that forever changed your assosciation with the force". "Your ability with telekenisis is still legendary".
"Maybe, but I can't control those blasts of telekenisis." "I had better control over that skill before Fasgar's decent to the dark side....I have had difficulty with it ever since".
Rubvic rubbed the back side of his head. "Well, looks like you had control over it today when you sent my body flying at the duraplast!"
"I am sorry about that Rubvic. I gotta tell you, that was the most intense connection to that skill that I have felt in a very long time."
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Post by Schph Gochi on Oct 29, 2002 6:05:08 GMT -5
Schph's comlink begins to buzz.....punching the button...it is the protocol droid from the Council chambers.
"Greetings Jedi Knight Schph Gochi", the droid announces.
"Yes 3PO....what's up?"
"The Council wishes you to come tomorrow at daybreak to discuss a most important matter....a tremor has felt in the force that seems to center around you".
Schph looks at Rubvic and responds sarcastically.....
"Gee....I wonder what that tremor could possibly be?" "Tell the Council that I will be in the chambers tomorrow at daybreak as requested.....Gochi out".
Taking the strain out of the moment, Rubvic slaps Schph on the back. "Looks like the jig is up!"
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Post by Schph Gochi on Oct 30, 2002 6:51:40 GMT -5
Meanwhile on Yavin 4......
The gas giant Yavin hangs in the sky over its' fourth moon. Yoda has taken a group of padawans to this planet of great significance to both the Jedi and the Sith. Ryss Fal-Orran, Padawan Learner to Schph Gochi, is among the padawan's present for this rare opportunity to spend time with the Jedi Master. Today Yoda is taking the students through exercises that will enhance their ability to see things through the Force. All of the students have been hard at it all morning and now it is Ryss' turn.
The padawans have formed a circle in the soft grasses that surround one of the old Sith temples that dot the landscape on Yavin 4.
"Feel the force flow...." Yoda intructs Ryss, who is in deep meditation at the center of the circle. Ryss has levitated several large boulders and a quantity of small pebbles in the air above her. She concentrates harder and Rhana, one of the padawans, begins to float above the grass floor.
"Feel it, you can, the space between the boulder and you...". Yoda is amazed at the level of Ryss' concentration as the boulders begin to spin above her head.
Then it comes.....the Force tears through Ryss....boulders go flying, pebbles streak everywhere, and Rhana lands down hard. Her eyes fly open, and she struggles to figure out what has happened. Her eyes scan the other Padawans who are just staring back at her in amazement....but one look at Yoda, and Ryss knows he has felt it as well.
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Post by Schph Gochi on Nov 2, 2002 5:46:45 GMT -5
Yoda quickly scans the group of padawans that are circled around him. He is looking into their eyes to see which, if any, of the other padawans sense what he and Ryss had felt. For the most part, he is just getting blank stares back from the others.
"To your quarters go and review what you have learned today. Ryss, stay behind you must, I have to speak to you of an urgent matter."
The other padawans begin their journey back to the old Rebel Base on Yavin 4 that has been turned into the new Jedi Academy. As they walk along, the conversation turns to what they had play out in front of their eyes.
"Did you feel anything?" padawan Targ asks the group.
Rhana replied, "all I felt was my butt hitting the ground when Ryss' concentration broke!"
"Well, I didn't feel anything, and I am reasoning it is because it must be about Ryss' master. They would have a stronger connection than we would. I have heard many rumors around the Temple about Schph. I would love to be a sandflea on the ground to hear what is going on back there."
Yoda and Ryss sat facing each other.
"Master Yoda, what was that?"
"In trouble, your master is. I have felt this disturbance for many days now. Tell you, has she, about her former Master?"
Ryss thought for a moment....."No, she never speaks of him, but I have heard the rumors at the Temple. I have asked her several times, but she always says that we will talk later.....and later never seems to come".
Yoda ponders for a moment, wondering if he should be the one to tell Schph's padawan the truth. Deciding that maybe the story should come from a source that was there the day it happened. Ryss needed to know what was going on and perhaps, a third party perspective was best.....Schph could always fill in the details from the first party perspective later.
"Tell you, I will, the story of Fasgar Boeve and his padawan, Schph Gochi"......and Yoda begins the story...
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Post by Schph Gochi on Nov 3, 2002 7:45:34 GMT -5
Translated from Yoda-speak.
"When Schph was 13 and eligible for pairing, Fasgar Boeve had just completed his Trials. He was one of the youngest Knights to ever complete Trials and was a most powerful Knight. He had been watching Schph since she was 10. Obviously, he was awed by her one remarkable talent....telekenesis. Schph could launch an X-Wing if her concentration was locked in that day, but she was having trouble with control of that talent."
Ryss interrupts Yoda. "Master Yoda, I have been paired with Schph now for over a standard year and I never see her use telekenisis."
"After I finish, I think you will understand Schph's reluctance to use this gift", Yoda responded.
Yoda continues..... "As soon as the pairing was approved, Fasgar took every mission he could. He and Schph were continually out in all corners of the known galaxy. If they were not out on a mission, he would drag her to remote worlds for "training". I had tried to keep as much of a watch on their activities as I could, but unrest in the galaxies always would take precedence. I began to get very suspicious of Fasgar and called the team back from a training session on Ragoon-6. "
A far off look comes to Yoda's eyes as he begins to put Fasgar's final chapter into focus.
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Post by Schph Gochi on Nov 5, 2002 6:36:07 GMT -5
"Several of the Jedi Master/Padawan teams were giving demonstrations in the training room for the new group of Padawan's that were coming of age. The intent was so that the padawans could see how the two sentient beings begin to act as one. My intent was to watch Fasgar."
"Fasgar and Schph began a training lightsaber duel that quickly accelerated in intensity. The two of them were lost in the duel, and their focus was complete to the task at hand. Schph had started to force Fasgar's hand and had him backed up to the window wall of the training room. Fasgar knew he was being bested by his padawan in this particular match. I could feel the anger mounting in Fasgar, but in Schph.....only concentration on her attacks and parries. Just as I was about to call an end to the match, Fasgar let loose with a bolt of force lightening."
"Before I, nor anyone else could react, Schph's mind did. A telekenetic blast from his padawan's mind sent Fasgar and his bolts slamming through the flimsiplate glass. It was immediate, intense, and Fasgar could not block it."
"Fasgar's body was not located. We found traces of blood and skin on the surfaces below, but could find nothing further. His "essence" was gone. We assumed at that point that he may have been consumed by the dark side, but, that is just one of many theories."
Ryss studied Yoda intently.
"And what is your theory, Master Yoda?"
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Post by Schph Gochi on Nov 5, 2002 6:43:02 GMT -5
"Indeed, Rubvic, it does look like the jig is up. At least I know that Master Yoda is on Yavin 4, so he will not be in the Council Chambers tomorrow when I have to appear before them." "I have a lot of mental preparation to do before then, and I have a feeling that I need to get the "Galactic GTO" ready for flight."
Schph takes a last look at the training room and turns to Rubvic.
"This place holds both the good and the bad memories. I can only hope that the next time I visit this room, the worst memory of all will be put to an end."
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Post by Schph Gochi on Nov 7, 2002 5:15:57 GMT -5
Schph makes her way back to her quarters and finds Blink has finished searching the holovids and memory banks for events on Sluis Van.
"Let's see what you may have come up with, Blink". Bending down, she attaches Blink to her data terminal and begins to scan events on Fasgar's home planet.
Sluis Van is a large planet located between Dagobah and Clak'Dor VII out on the Outer Rim. As with many of the Outer Rim homeworlds, slavery is still tolerated on this planet. Sluis Van, also like most worlds, consists of the have and the have nots. Large cities are inhabited by the "haves", mostly industrialists that have made their fortunes in mineral and gas mining. Searching for something out of the ordinary or just plain ominous, Schph stumbles upon a newsvid on one of Sluis Van's most reclusive, but wealthy inhabitants.
"Now this looks promising", Schph selects a newsvid on one mining company called "Vaandark" and it's owner. "This company started out around 35 years ago, which would be right around the time that Fasgar disappeared."
Reading on, she discovers that this company rose from nothing to almost complete domination of the planet's most important resource-Flordian. Flordian, the gas needed by the entire galaxy for use in holograms, is found only on Sluis Van and a few select smaller planets....and one company controls just about all of it....Vaandark!
"I have a bad feeling about this", Schph mumbles as she looks intently at that last statement.
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