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Very nice. smile

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Ok... I'm ready then... smile

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Is this ever going to start?  sad

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I was hoping for a few more people to join. If no one does then yeah, we'll get started.

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I've got to think of how to really begin this in a chick ass way but my mind is on two thousand different things right now so you'll have to give me a little more time. Be back... maybe tomorrow.
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Okay, I really do hope that this makes up for the attention this topic has been lacking. Beginning post will be after this one. This post is simply a new character APP and an updated older one (for Mikaela).
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Name: Mikaela Salvati

Gender: Female

Species: Human

Homeworld: Undetermined

Age: 24

Alliance: Jedi; Republic

Rank: Jedi Knight

History: [PULLED FROM VARIOUS RECORDS] Brought back  from the Unknown Regions by Jedi Master Orcor, who had been -at the Council's behest -searching for disturbances in the Force which had originated from the area. The Jedi Master rescued Force-senstivie Mikaela from pirates sacking a ship she was aboard. The ship belonged to her Force-senstive "master" who had, unfortunately, met a gruesome fate at the hands of the pirate Captain.

Orcor managed to rescue the girl but not without extreme opposition from the pirates. In a skirmish aboard the small confines of the ship, Mikaela hit her head. She was knocked unconscious. When Orcor finally revieved her he realized she now suffered from long term memory loss. Orcor immediately fled to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant where he persuaded the Council to take on Mikaela as a student.


Name: Lucian Keir

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Homeworld: Coruscant

Age: 27

Alliance: Republic

Rank: Ensign (demoted)

History: Nothing of interest to note. Was court marshalled and demoted numerous times for insubordination and assaulting the same superior officer... twice.

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Don't know how much the biggest ship in the Star Wars universe weighs so I'm... winging it with my "guesstimation" of seventy thousand tons being much bigger.  big_smile And please, excuse my language... this is the military we're talking about, however.  tongue  Also, I occassionally have issues with keeping my story present tense so do forgive me. It just gets so confusing sometimes.
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...Republic Scanning Outpost Redline...
...on the fringes of the Coruscant Star System...

Ensign Lucian Keir yawns and stretches, plopping down in his seat and ruffling what is left of his brown hair. He hadn't cut it in months. Might be over regulation length now. He gives an uncaring shrug and touches the warparound viewscreen. It comes to life at his touch. A message flashes across the computer's main screen.

Good morning, Ensign.

"Morning, beautiful," he chimes, his voice thick with charm.

"Voice pattern match," the computer confirms in a cold, female voice. "Please enter password."

He types: NorestForThewicked

Keir had been stuck on this damned station for the last year, demoted all the way back to Ensign becuase of that f**king Captain Soran. Bastard had earned his way to the top by kissing ass. Keir had worked for his rank and then that man thought he could wave his ill-gotten success in Keir's face.

Keir laughs. Oh, he'd showed Soran. It had been worth the court marshall. Second time too. He didn't know if it was worth being in this shithole though. He sighs.

The computer sounds an alert. "Please reenter password."

He types more carefully: NoRestForTheWicked

He should be on the frontlines somewhere. Fighting...dying. He was born to be a soldier. He shouldn't be cooped up in this damn hole scanning for non-existing threats. But that is just it. There is nothing to fight anymore. No more dying. No more threats to the Republic. Hell, there'd been no kind of war for ages. Even pirates, smugglers, assassins, and Mandalorians seemed to be lying low.

Couldn't get a decent fight if you went looking for one. It was all so... boring. He closes his eyes, frustrated and the computer immediately sounds another arror alert.

"Please keep your eyes open. Processing retinal scan."

All these securities when there is nothing. He shakes his head. "Login complete," the computer announces.

His scanning windows appear on the view screen, full of the everyday crap he had to deal with. His job is... mostly pointless. If an invading force got this far into the Core without the Republic knowing in advance... they were s**t out of luck. Still... it had to be done.

Redline station cycled probes in and out of lightspeed. Checking the stream but also sister systems. The lightspeed stream had to be watched carefully, however. An enemy fleet -with the right jumping trajectory -could show up on Coruscant's doorstep in a second. All Keir had found while he'd been stuck here was junk though. Trash dumps from numerous vessels, clouds of various substances, and the occasional comet or asteroid.

Keir yawns again and closes his eyes. He nearly falls out of his chair when the contact alert pings.

"Oh, s**t," he whispers. He quickly activates the controls and traces the contact signal back to Alpha probe in the lightspeed stream.

The probe had detected an incoming mass. It was large. A cloud of dust, perhaps? If it was, it would soon distort and scatter. Keir straightens in his chair. Beta probe cycles in. The mass is still there and as solid as before. It is the largest reading Keir has ever seen: seventy thousand tons. Ships didn't get that big? Did they? What if they did?

Gamma probe appears. The mass readings are unchanged. The mass was an hour out at its present velocity. Its projected trajectory put it at a quick swing near Coruscant, and then it would pass invisbily out of the system and be forever gone. In the lightspeed stream the mass would simply pass "through" Redline and the planet. No one would notice.

Keir relaxes and sends the retrieval drones after the probes. By the time they got the probes back, the mass would be long gone. Keir stares at the last image on screen. There was no need to bother anyone over this. He logs the anomaly and attaches it to his hourly update. Ensign Keir kicks up his boots and reclines, once again feeling perfectly safe.

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Planet Coruscant
Merchant Square

George Kwei was walking down the street alone, enjoying in the crowd of people. He had a short black hair, and barely visible beard. If you could get close enough you could see that he had a small scar above his right eyebrow. He followed for a while a girl with a big butt with a satisfying smile. But suddenly he stopped. He felt something at the back of his mind. Something strange, he felt like he should remember this feeling but he just shook his head and started to look again for that girl he was following. But she was long gone.
"Damn, I should get back to my apartment", he thought in himself. He looked around and saw a commercial for a Strip Club. he thought about going in but he went towards home anyway. A little down the street he saw a strange alien guy going with this very hot blonde "What she sees in him anyway?" Then he saw a female Jedi Knight chasing a young human. She just screamed: "Stop you idiot!" George finds that very amusing and allows himself a little smile.
He arrived at the front of his building and looked up. Who knows how many kilometers there is to the top. Luckily, it had turbolifts. He passed through the door and there was this strange Zabrak smoking something. George just glanced at him and went into the turbolift, with him entered this hot girl. She had light brown long hair and... oh my, look at that body. George couldn't resist to take a look at her ass. She noticed that and tried with her hand but she couldn't so she raised an eyebrow looking at him. He turned his head around blushed, and cleared his throat: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."
She just waved her head in disaprovement and pressed "top floor" button.
So did George. She looked like she didn't care.
He just shrugged his shoulders and stood there in silence. It took about 2 minutes to get to the top floor. The silence was killing him
-"So... You live here" he smiled but she looked like she wasn't in the mood to talk so she just said yes. And it was all conversation. Turbolift stopped, and George went left and turned around to see where did the girl go. She was behind him! he turned back. He thought about her bright blue eyes, but he couldn't turn around again. It was at that moment that he arrived at the front of his apartment. He had to type in the password to get in. She passed by him, and he couldn't resist but the look again at her ass. But she turned and started to type in the password on the next door. She was in the apartment next to his! He couldn't believe he was that lucky. Shy typed in the password, the door beeped and she went in. George smiled again and typed in his password and went into the apartment.
It was all the way he left it, so he took the lightsaber he kept in his pants and put it on the table in the middle of the room, and sat on the sofa. He was a Jedi Knight once, then he turned to Se'en Khalar. An Ancient secret order. Their sign was a red eagle holding a planet in its claws. Strange. They called him a Silver Knight. They said his soul was as old as their order was and that he lived many lives. But he couldn't remember any of it. They just said it would come to him in time. In some things they are worse than Jedi. He remembered that feeling... He had it before that battle of Mon Calamari. But he chose to ignore it. That battle was a disaster. they barely got out.
Instead, he went to bed to take a rest. He put his lightsaber bellow his pillow he thought he might need it. He didn't know why. and then he fall asleep... ZzZzZzZzZzZzZz

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I love it. big_smile
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...Jedi Temple, Coruscant...
...one hour following the events on Redline Station...

The sky suddenly darkens as if the sun itself is blocked out by the large planet-size ship which exits hyperspace directly above Coruscant. The ground shakes as the force from the ship's jump so close to the planet wreaks havoc on Coruscant's towering buildings. The planet loses more than two-thirds of its power to some sort of EMP blast emitted from the colossal ship.

The walls of the Jedi Temple tremble, forcing the two Jedi Knights suspended in the air on the dueling platform to struggle to keep their balance. The loss of power causes the platform to immediately lower, an emergency mechanism.

Mikaela stands, deactivating her lightsaber. "What was that?"

Jedi Knight Lsugi gets to his feet. "A mere power outage wouldn't have caused a shockwave. Something doesn't feel right."

He tries to use the Force to pull his lightsaber to him. It doesn't move. "My... my connection to the Force. What's happening?"

Mikaela feels through the Force. Her connection is stronger than ever. She shakes her head. "What do you mean?"

Lsugi tries again but still nothing happens. He grabs his head as if in some kind of pain. "My connection... it's... it's gone."

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George waked up, when the building shook. He took the lightsaber from beneath the pillow and went to the window... Outside it was almost dark looks like there wasn't even electricity. He heard people screaming down in the streets. Suddenly he heard a window breaking. It was from the appartment beside his. And then someone jumped down... It was that girl he saw in the lift! She was a Jedi! But why would she jump like that?
George though about it and went into the hall. That girls door were broken and there was this man standing in the hall with dark robes and wearing a black helmet. That man immediately activated his lightsaber... It was red! George heard another lightsaber activating behind him. So he forced pushed the men in front him away and activated his silver lightsaber just in time to block the incoming blow from behind. Lighsabers clashed filing the room with light. This man didn't wear the mask, but he was so pale, ugly with his messed up and scarred face that George screamed: "Holy, s**t! You ugly madafucka!" George kicked the man between the legs, the man backed off, and he used that time to get away. He started running like never in his life, he heard many lightsabers activating. He didn't want to look back, but those men were chasing him. He arrived at the stairwell and turned around. he saw dozen of those lightsaber wielders getting towards him.
"s**t!" he said and went up the the stairs. At the top he saw one of those people killing civilians with Force Lightning. They were all dead. The man activated his weapon, but George didn't have time for a duel, he had to think fast. He saw some kind of barrel and force throwed  it at the man. But he was evidently stupid, as he tried to use Lightning to throw it back at George, but it exploded pushing the man over the edge...
-"Have a nice trip", George said. But he didn't have time for laughing. He looked once more at the dead civilians. dozen of them. All died for nothing. He regretted that he couldn't do anything to stop this.
He jumped into one of the flying cars and turned it on. Engine roared. Good it works. He saw those men who were chasing him just arriving, but he punched the gas and went away.
George:"I must get to the Jedi Temple. They will know what to do. I'll be safe there"

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ok I'll try to join...I'll have to catch up tho.

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Sith... interesting George. I like it. Feel free to continue. Only they can't be connected to the "ship". Or the power outage. It all has a meaning which I will get to posting very soon. big_smile Maybe a secret cult which uses the sudden chaos as the perfect opportunity to strike? Eh? Eh? ~_^

Also... you may notice that its not really my "end of the world" scenario yet. It's coming! OMG the suspense! lol I limited character species early on so no one would have a character who is like the last of their kind. Cause a lot of species get totally wiped out.

And I'm glad you decided to join, LSM. It'll be fun. You'll see. big_smile
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Mikaela uses the Force to lift portions of the rubble off Lsugi before pulling his body out from underneath the rest of it. She immediately checks for a pulse. There! A pulse! It was faint but it was still there.

She had to get him to a healer. She also needed to find someone who knew what was going on. Orcor! He might know. She calls another Jedi Knight over to attend to Lsugi. She had to find Orcor. Another shockwave causing the Jedi Temple to shake again. More walls crumble.

It was like the end of the world...

...Above Coruscant...

Nothing like it had ever been seen before. The massive dull black warship overshadows Coruscant, taking up more space than half the Republic fleet. For a moment after it emits its latest shockwave the mighty ship seems dead in space.

suddenly silver-blue light flashes hot beneath its belly, building up in a circular formation at its underside's center. They were charging a weapon! The first sign to the people below on Corsucant... that their world would burn...
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Don't worry, your character(s) will get off Corsucant alive. Just continue and watch everything unfold. big_smile

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George was in his skycar driving when suddenly there was beeping from the console. George looked down and...
-"Whata f**k?! No fuel! Damn!" he looked pissed off, but he saw Jedi Temple in the distance.
- "There it is we're getting close. Hold on baby." he tapped the controls like that's going to work...
Then, the car started to slow down "C'mon, c'mon, we're so close..." The car was a few kilometers from the temple... So he prepared to jump out... the car got to a few hundred meters and the engine turned off completely, so George opened the cabin and jumped off so high and it looked almost like he was going to start falling but he catched onto a side of a landing pad. He jumped up again and landed on his feet. So he just continued to walk...

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Bao shook his head as he ran over. This day was going from bad to worse. First he had been summoned before the council and reprimanded for his actions on Raxus Prime. Of course the council had taken the situation completely out of context and relied on the testimony of that worthless Duros pilot. Every one of those Jedi Masters would have done the same thing in his position.

Then he had been reassigned to some back water outpost in the Outer Rim. This was obviously continued punishment for his secret "alliance".

Then, to top it all off, there was this attack on Coruscant.

"My life is just falling apart!"

He had been walking by the dueling center when the explosions started. Bao had created a force shield around him that warded off most of the debris, but had been unable to reach Mikaela or Lsugi when the platform crashed down. He runs over when Mikaela gestured for help and kneels over Lsugi.

"I have a medpak," he says. "Are you ok, Mikaela?"

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Tran Skywalker's shuttle was nearing the Yavin Academy when he received the holo message. He hadn't been expecting anything like an attack on the capitol planet. It was true that he had been reluctant to leave the Temple for the ceremony on Yavin; but that was because of his growing mistrust of the ambitious young pair of Masters, Ti'gla and Grom Talen. Since they had been appointed the the Council they had changed greatly, and were seemingly trying to take over the whole Jedi Order.

But now something was happening that was greater than Jedi politics.

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Mikaela nods slightly, looking around in horror as Jedi pull younglings out from underneath piles of rubble which had been the walls of their trusted Jedi Temple just moments ago. Masters greive over the dead children. If they would have reached them in time; if they would have been there to protect them.

"I'm fine," she replies shortly. She looks back at Bao hovering over the Twi'lek. "I don't know about Lsugi though," she continues. "His connection to the Force..." she trails off. "He's got a pulse but its faint. A medpack might not do the trick."

She touches Bao's shoulder slightly, leaning over him to get a better look at Lsugi's broken body. She immediately pulls back when her fingers tingle at the slight contact, her body shuddering with a rush of power, the Force singing to her like never before. Bao suddenly feels light-headed and his connection to the Force is weakened as if he'd been drained of his power.

He shakes his head, ignoring the sensation and begins to tend to Lsugi.

"Do you know what's going on?" Mikaela asks. "Or perhaps where Master Orcor is? I need to speak with him. Something... doesn't feel right..."

...Near the Jedi Temple, Coruscant...

Keir regains consciousness, gasping for breath in the escape pod which suddenly seems entirely too small. He archs his back, his bones popping in unison as he rubs the back of his neck. This... this couldn't be happening. An attack? On Coruscant?! Of all the damned places.

He pushes against the door to his escape pod. It is jammed shut. He manages to get his feet up against it and kicks. It budges. A few kicks later and the door flies off, air hissing out of the escape pod. Keir pulls himself out and onto the ground. He lies there for a moment, staring up at the darkened sky.

Wait... in the distant... light! Silver-blue light gathering underneath the belly of the monstrous ship which looms over Coruscant. No... it couldn't be! A weapon?! Did the attackers intend to burn Coruscant? Just destroy the entire planet?! What were they after...?

After a few attempts Keir finally manages to get to his feet. He had to get to a ship. Had to get off Coruscant before the masacre began. The Jedi Temple is his closest option... without heading towards the area over which the silver-blue light is building. So to the Temple...

...Above Coruscant...

The light grows brighter and brighter, continuing to build beneath the belly of the beast. The light pulses, sending darker waves through the streams of light towards the center building mass. Then the streams of light fade from view, the center circular canon's light dims and turns dark red.

A moment later it emits a tremendously powerful beam, raining an enormous stream of dark red fire down on Coruscant. It burns away everything in it's path without pause, consuming the thousands who try to flee -too late- in terror. The ship begins to slowly move, destroying the planet in a path which heads directly for the Jedi Temple.

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Okay so my monstrous ship.... It's basically "glassing" Coruscant. Like the Covenant does to human planets in Halo. ~_^

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George entered the main hall of the Jedi Temple, and saw people running disorganized in u hurry. He stopped a young female Jedi. "Who's in charge here?" She just looked at him for a moment and left. George looked her way for a second saying "Why do women always ignore me?", and continued asking passing people... But no one could tell him who's in charge, and he needed to tell someone for those black hooded people and about that ship.
Finnaly, he arrived at the place where Mikaela and Bao are... He noticed the destruction of it, and waved off his head, because he remembered thath black hooded man killing civilians. Terrible... He approached Mikaela thinking maybe he'll have some luck with her. And just as he opened his mouth to speak when the tremendous beam hit the planet. George just stood there looking at the beam...

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i guess i have to get on more often.... what's an rpg with 3 people?

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The ones like we used to do?  wink

Oh, I'm on a roll.  tongue  smile
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