A New Power

[Angcuru]

"A good choice, and expected. Although the color of a blade may seem trivial, it should mark the path you follow. Just as our teachings encompass the entirity of the Force, the white light encompasses all other colors. It is only when one of these is broken that the others can be found."

Meira took the white crystal and inserted it between the two halves of the incomplete lightsaber. She spoke as she completed the assembly

"Notice that there is no ignition switch on the handle. This is for several reasons, but primarily to improve the quality of the blade. This lightsaber can only be activated by one who has sufficient control of the entire force, and even then it is not that simple. The crystal you selected is the only type which our order uses, and can only be used by those of our order. As it is formed from the whole force and not simply one extreme, it has capabilities exceeding those of normal blades, as you will find out as you wield it."

Miera handed the blade to Jorran, and gestured for him to activate it. Being accustomed to an ignition button, he is at first puzzled. They can only be used by those who control the entire force. Jorran concentrated on the Force, trying to find the perfect point of balance. After a few moments of meditation, forcusing on the light, then the dark, he found it. Strangely enough, he felt a sense of wholeness that he had never concieved of before.

Jorran looked down at the lightsaber blade in his hand, and willed it to activate.

SNAP-hisss...

A blade of pure white light shone between Jorran and Miera.

"Now you are on the path that is niether Jedi nor Sith, but Sethi."

***

 

[Super Girl]

"Sithspawn!" Kia curses as she examines the ruined pile of slag that is they hyper-drive. Without a Hyper-drive, she isn't getting the ship out of the system and back to civilization, and its not like they grown on trees either. She curses again and punches her fist into an innoculous grating in anger, her in-experience with the force and anger fueling the blow, causing the grating to bend and warp. She looks up startled when Aasan leans over her and the hyper-drive.

"Replacements don't grow on trees, its not like I have a back up or anything. Unless the original survivors have one, or we can find that other guy's ship...if it didn't break up on impact...we're stuck here, and I have no interest in being here any longer then I have to." she says, almost in a growl. Then Kia sighs and shakes her head softly, rubbing at her hand, "Its not you fault, now that your up, we can head over to the settlement, I figure, once where there, we can see about getting the ship more charge or something...work with what we actually have."
Looking at the grate with a hollow feeling in her stomach, the wannabe-cop turned smuggler gets up and heads up to the cockpitt. "I'm going to run 1 last diagnostic then get us out of here." she tells the Kel-Dor, and then suits actions to words. She runs the main diagnostic again, and then if she finds nothing wrong, she'll cut in the repulsor lifts, bouncing the ship up off the ground, climbing up till they hover 100 meters off the ground, and then she punches in the sub-lights, giving them forward momentum on a course that would take them to the transponder signal.

 

[Angcuru]

Other than the wrecked hyperdrive and low power to the engines, all systems are go. Within minutes the Dawnsprinter is cruising above the trees. According the diagnostic, the engines are running at 2% capacity. ETA...approximately 6 hours.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

While the ship is moving, Aasan will continue to attempt getting more power out of the engines and making sure to keep things from exploding. That is, of course, always the best thing to do.

 

[Angcuru]

Aasan's attempts to bring more power to the engines at first seem to be having no effect. Although he pushes the throttle to 50%, there is no response. The ship's power generator is functioning correctly, so there's probably a faulty power conduit somewhere. However, a little voice in his head told him that messing with the engines while they were 100 meters in the air about unscouted and very likely hostile territory was a bad idea. If the engines gave out now, they would be stuck up in the air or on the ground(if they were feeling a bit masochistic) until they could get the engines running again. That possibly meant external repairs. Yep. Bad idea.

Aasan knew that he could get he engines back to full functionality, but that is best done once the Dawnsprinter has reached the settlement.

 

[Super Girl]

"I don't think there is anything for it but to let the engines be til we get to the Settlement, I assume they have someway of keeping away the local predators, and fiddling with the engines while we ae moving ain't so hot. We could still get there, eventually if they went out, but, I doubt we want to spend a week getting there, when we can be there in a few hours if we leave em alone for now." the ship's pilot suggests, locking in the course, and hiting the auto-pilot to make any minor course corrections that would come up from the wind.

Figuring that it had been 3 hours or so, and it would only take another few to get there, she figured it qualified for that woman's restriction, even if she thought the woman had been rude, there hadn't been any pressing need to contact her, so she left it well enough alone. "This is the Dawnsprinter, we are halfway to your settlement, moving at something like 2% engine power, which'll put us there in 3 hours give or take...Mierra, out of curiosity, do you need any meat? Last night, we got swarmed by 50 or so things almost twice the size of Masliths, and they climbed on top of the ship to avoid my anti-personnel weapons. I used ship power to fry the pack, and they are still up on top of the ship. If you want em, ok, otherwise, I'm gonna roll and drop them off the top."

 

[Angcuru]

Having sent Jorran to his room to meditate on what he had learned until Arias was awake, Miera was relaxing on a pile of cushions when Kia called.

"I hear you, Kia. There should more than enough room near the center of out settlement for you to land your ship. I apologize for being so abrupt earlier. I was in the middle of explaining something very important to Jorran. Anyway, those creatures are commonly called vornskrs in some systems, despite their rarity. They usually hunt in small family packs, but they go absolutely mad when they detect a force sensitive being. You must have someone who is force sensitive on board your ship if they attacked in such numbers...interesting. Go ahead and get rid of their remains, they aren't good to eat."

 

[Super Girl]

"Great, first I have to watch out for Jedi Hunters, now its Jedi Dogs...whats next Jedi fish?" she asks sarcastically, more out of reflex then anything else. Kia blows out a sigh of irritation that pushes her hair out of her eyes, though the sigh was more for the news. "I'm the one who's force sensitive, Aasan, used to be partnered with a Jedi Master back in the Clone Wars, like ancient history, so maybe it rubbed off on him too, though he said he isn't. I take it you or someone in the settlement can use the force if you know so much about those vornsky things huh?" she asks, pitching the ship up, 45 degrees to first one side, and then 45 degrees to the other figuring that would be better then a barrel role while surrounded by a planets gravity at least.

 

[Angcuru]

"I never said anything about Jedi, only that they attack force sensitives." Miera said, "So you're force sensitive, are you...have you had any formal training? There are quite a few of us here in our village who can feel the Force, myself included. But...did you say that Aasan had a Jedi partner? That must mean that he was an Antarian Ranger...interesting."

 

[Super Girl]

"If they attack Force Sensitives, meaning they can sense the ability, Palpatine would have been using them with his Stormie's to hunt us all down, and he wasn't, are you really sure about them hunting Force Sensitives, I don't remember anything about them going on with the Jedi Purge when the Emporer and Vader hunted down all the Jedi." Kia said dubiously. She raises an eyebrow at the question of formal training, she had been born after the purge, if anyone had been teaching force sensitives they would have been slaughtered.

"No, I was born during the purge, if anyone had been around to teach, they would have been tortured then murdered, me with them. I didn't figure it out til a few months ago, I can move things with my mind, and do the whole mindtrick thing. I don't even think I could find anyone who survived the purge and was willing to teach me, maybe I could convince Luke Skywalker to do it, he's a Jedi Knight now, for the last few years, maybe he'll restart an Academy like people were saying he was gonna do, I don't know."