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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 1043656" data-attributes="member: 5948">Tai-San KwaiJedi Knight Tai-San Kwai.  Your training was long, and at times you felt it would never end, but at a ceremony in the Jedi Temple a mere month ago the full Jedi Council granted you the title of Knight.  Your master Chow-Kar, oddly, did not attend.  Perhaps he has been sent on a new mission, although the confusing, ambiguous conclusion to your final practise duel with him still concerns you.  There is something else that has been in his thoughts.  You do not have the skill to sense his feelings throught the Force as you have seen Master Yoda and the other senior Jedi do, but you have seen it in his body language, in the ferocity of the lightsaber style that was once cool and clinical, and in his fits of silent distraction and contemplation.  Perhaps he had seen in the Force some inkling of the death of Qui-Gonn Jinn, an event that shocked the entire Order.  Master Qui-Gon was known for his strength in battle, and to hear that he has been defeated in combat by a lightsaber-armed warrior, steeped in the Dark Side, was to many an ominous sign.  Qui-Gon's slayer was cut in half by Padawan Kenobi and cast down a plasma shaft in Theed Palace's generator room, yet there is still much unease.  You too, feel it.  You never had much to do with Obi-Wan Kenobi during your training, but you were somewhat more familiar with Master Qui-Gon.  His previous Padawan, Xanatos, had been assigned to your class in the occasional training in which the more senior Padawans, under the watchful eyes of their Masters, would instruct the child students who had not yet attained the status of Padawan learner.  You still remember the tall, imposing master with the flowing brown hair and his intense, aristocratic Padawan.  It seems strange to you, to think now that both are dead, not before one had embraced the Dark Side.  So it was that when you heard of events on Naboo, you volunteered to accompany the Jedi dispatched to investigate the death of Master Jinn, and to try to identify his savage, tattooed killer.  The Council accepted your offer gladly, perhaps glad that your first mission as a full Jedi would be under the watchful eyes of respected Masters and Knights such as Yoda and Mace Windu, who were to accompany the mission in its early stages to attend the memorial service for Qui-Gon.  On the same Republic heavy cruiser heading to Naboo were also the Senatorial Committee formed to investigate the blockade, invasion and brief war.  None of the three Senators (Lur Oped of the Dupa Cluster, Aks Moe of Malastare and Passel Argente of Kooriva) are particularly familiar to you, but they have spent much of the time arguing over terms of reference for the inquiry, diplomatic protocols and so on.  From the tone of their bickering, you have no particular hope that the inquiry will table a united, decisive report any time soon.Yet you have bigger problems, or so you are beginning to suspect.  For you have been dreaming.  Xanatos has been appearing to you as you sleep, midnight hair, dark blue eyes and noble, pale features marred only by a livid, semi-circular scar below his left eye.  In life, you never saw Xanatos with this scar.  From the records, you have learnt that he inflicted it upon himself, burning the mark into his flesh with half of his father's royal ring of office, cut through and heated red-hot by the lightsaber of Qui-Gon Jinn during the civil war on Telos in which family loyalties pitted Padawan against Master.  Only after he had chosen the Dark Side, did Xanatos bear this scar - but thus does he appear in your dream.  And for some reason that lies beyond your comprehension, when in your dreams, Xanatos wears your Master's distinctive geometrically embroidered robes.  You checked Chow-Kar's quarters before leaving, and all his travelling gear was gone.  Nobody has seen him for weeks.  Jedi Knight Tai-San Kwai has not been sleeping well at all, on the ship to Naboo?-----------------------Tai-San started out as a Jedi Guardian 7, with almost all his skills and abilites combat-related.  He makes it absolute hell trying to balance combat encounters...</blockquote>

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