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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nonamazing" data-source="post: 3253644" data-attributes="member: 12118">Tolark taps into the Force in an instant.  As his senses spread outward, he senses first Jilian's iirgular heartbeat, then life essence of Gimto heading down in the lift, and finally Hale and Treela, frightened but slowly being cooled and calmed by Jett's quiet words.  Beyond even that, the ever-flowing currents of the endless ocean, the teeming life that surrounds and envelops the Academy at all times.  And even further, Master Atharias and the other instructors, out in the storm, cold and tense.At first, all seems right with the Force.  The web of life is connected--all energy flows into the Force, and all life flows from it.  But after a few seconds...the disturbance is very subtle, merely a series of tiny cracks where the Force appears to be absent.  No, not cracks--wounds.  The scars in the Force throb with pain that echoes across the minds and emotions of almost everyone.Tolark strains his senses to their very limit, reaching out to try and find the source of this attack.  Beyond the water, beyond the air and the clouds, beyond the planet itself...something out there, twisting in alien pain, rushing toward the tiny jewel of life below it--At just that moment, Jilian's communicator springs to life, disrupting Tolark's trance:Jilian's eyes grow wide and she fumbles with her wrist communicator for a couple of seconds before regaining her composure.  "Uh...master.  We are getting things under control here.  I apologize for the delay.  Do you still wish for me to go to Deck twelve?"Jilian then passes the communicator to Tolark.  "Perhaps you should speak to him, Master Tolark...I'm not entirely sure what's going on..."* * *Sylara walks carefully up the inclined ramp leading into Rak's massive grey and red ship.  The ship's main lighting has been disabled somehow.  Soft orange emergency lights give the ship an eerie, unearthly appearance.  Rak's astromech droid lays on its side nearby, its legs twitching back and forth as it emits a number of disturbing screeching noises.As Sylara makes his way through the ship, he notices that the central systems have been damaged in several ways: the main computer is off-line, the power core is heavily drained, and the life support systems are nearly non-existent.The most disturbing part of all this, however, is that the ship has no external damage whatsoever--the hull is completely whole and unbroken (though it does have some scorch marks and scars from earlier conflicts).  There's no clear indicator of what caused the severe damage the ship is suffering from.* * *Roos and Derryl begin carefully searching the War Pig under Nor's orders.  Vassa arrives with a handful of lightsabers and two virbro axes from Sylara's office.  She tells Nor that Bri took the rest of the weapons down to Deck 12, having been told to do so by Master Sylara.When Threesa arrives, she finds a small toolkit and begins opening up Timone's casing, much to the irritation of the little droid.  "Master Nor?," she says, after a few moments of work.  "You'd better have a look at this..."Timone's central processors have been heavily and messily re-wired, and his sensors have been bizarrely modified: what appears to be a large chunk of black glass has been fused directly into his system.* * *Atharias seems startled when Milius' thoughts reach him.  He shakes his head.  "That...that can not be, young instructor."  Atharias says, speaking softly so that only Milius can hear him.  "At least..."  Atharias breaks off, looking up into the sky.  "...not here.""Milius...I am worried.  Something is blocking my senses, my perceptions."* * *Rai and Tai, now quite a bit calmer, do their best to explain things to Nor.  "Bri said that he had an idea for an experiment he wanted to try."  "But he needed to get to Timone," Tai continues, "and since Rai and I are good at getting into places..."  "...we decided to help him out."  "This was all about twenty or so minutes ago, I guess..."  "...and that other ship wasn't there when we broke...er went into the War Pig," Rai finishes."Where did Bri get that black crystal?"  The twins look at one another and shrug.  "We dunno."OOC (Nor): [SPOILER]When you check your ship's sensors, you detect no asteroids at all heading toward the planet.[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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