A Jedi Among Friends -Prologue-

[Vax Kote™]

((This is the story of my myspace RP character during the Clone Wars. Lets just say when Order 66 was issued and the Clone Commanders turned against their jedi generals. This will show what he did before and after the execution of Order 66.))

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~~~Prologue~~~

From the dusty skies of Geonosis; only about seven LAAT/i gunships lowered down to the ground where jedi survivors and confederate droids fought. Luckily, with the arrival of Jedi Master Mace Windu; Senator Amidala, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker would of been killed. But luckily they had arrived in time and so had Master Yoda with the helping guidance of the new Grand Army of the Republic. The war was on....Clone Soldiers of the Republic against the Battle Droids of the Separatist Alliance.

Three years later

Jedi Master Tal Kar'ta Kote stood quietly inside the jedi temple of Coruscant. Under a strict rule the jedi council had no other choice but to grant Tal the rank of Jedi Master in the order. Some did not trust him because of his mandalorian background or the fact that he had the blood of a mandalorian. It left some people wondering if a mandalorian was fit to become a jedi master in the order. Time and time again Tal had proved himself not only as a jedi but as a mandalorian that he could stand up to anyone even if the odds where against him.

Standing up tall; a mear 6'2'' he moved his way out of the temple. The jedi council meeting had already ended with a number of jedi going to different planets because of the separatist gaining a strong hold or enslaving inhabitants of the certain planet. Tal's mission required him on the forest moon of Endor. Walking in a slow steady pace to the outskirts of the jedi temple Tal was approached by his clone commander....Commander Fynn.

[glow=green,4,000]"We are prepared to leave for Endor whenever you are ready, general."[/glow]
Tal gave a quick nod to the clone commander. Turning around the clone and several other troops waiting for departure entered into a LAAT/i gunship. Tal followed behind joining the clones in the gunship. The hatch doors shut tightly upon boarding and the gunship lifted into the sky towards a Venator-class star destroyer. Once the gunships where in the destroyer it moved out of the atmosphere of Coruscant into the darkness of space. There it made the jump to hyperspace.

Lightspeed travel was always soothing to the Jedi Master; it gave him the opportunity to meditate on the happenings that occured in the past and what was currently happening now. Memories from when he was a child training as a mandalorian flashed before him, his close brother Concer....and even his mandalorian brother Tracyn Kote. They all came to him. Then the images became more clear; one flashed before Tal's eyes then disappeared. His eyes shot open looking about the room he was in. He sensed something wrong of the future.

[glow=purple,4,000]"I have a bad feeling about this."[/glow]
He stood from a sitting position and walked out of his personal room; a room from which he had the chance of peace and quiet from his clones and others. He walked out of the room towards the bridge. Entering the bridge one of the clones turned calling attention on deck. Tal waved it down allowing the clones to go back to work.

[glow=purple,4,000]"How much farther until we reach Endor?"[/glow]
The admiral of the ship turned to the jedi general who stood there awaiting a result. A firm neatly pressed white and black uniform covered the admirals skin. A clean hair cut with a shaved face.

[glow=white,4,000]"Ten more minutes, sir."[/glow]
He looked up at the man in a white and black uniform. The man was one who was familiar in the mandalorian ways but had no clue as to who or what the Kotes where or how they even fought. All that could be shown was a look of pride and honor within him.

Ten minutes was enough time to prepare LAAT/i gunships for departure. Though Tal did not have Platoon Blue Wolf to assist him in this mission he had the loyal bound of Commander Fynn and the 20th Elite Batallion. Walking in silence he moved his way into the hanger bay where clones where hard at work in getting the gunships prepared for departure and landing on the planet. Like the 41st Elite clones the 20th Batallion clones wore the same clone swamptrooper armor for jungle-style missions such as these. Stretching his senses outward Tal felt Endor coming in close; the Venator-class destroyer had come out of hyperspace. From the top the destroyers hanger door bays opened up.

[glow=purple,4,000]"Now we leave."[/glow]
Tal along with many other clones of the 20th Elite Batallion boarded into LAAT/i gunships. One-by-one the exited the hanger into the darkness of space and moved slowly down to the planet of Endor. The flight took no more then five minutes. In those five minutes every clone prepared for what was to come on this unknown planet.

[glow=purple,4,000]"Prepare yourselves boys."[/glow]
The ship rocked about from fire. As they entered into the clean air atmosphere the hatch doors slid open. Somehow, the blaster fire had stopped on the gunships. They slowed down landing in an open area. The clones off loaded setting up a command center and securing a well position in case the separatist had a plan of attack. Tal jumped off of the gunship; a gold and black lightsaber on his side with him dressed in modified clone armor. Whatever the separatist wanted this planet for it was clearly not a good sign.

Clone Commander Fynn's armor


20th Elite Batallion's armor

[Darth Angelus™]

Well Done Vax! Keep it up, I can see this extending to a lot more. Can't wait for part 2.

[Vax Kote™]

~~~Prologue Cont.~~~

It was to quiet on the planet. The only sounds that could be heard where the creatures that where nearby. Different assortments of creatures making noises bugs moving about the ground. Tal only wondered if this was some sort of trick played by the Separatist to gain a lead in the war.

Maybe General Grievous was planing something; something that would take out one of many of the Jedi Order's most trusted Jedi Master. Tal walked over to the edge of the command base that the clones had set up. He looked out in the darkness of the forest; the forest that went on and on with what seemed to be no end. He lifted his left hand up rubbing it across his chin. His senses spread far and wide around many areas of the planet.

Behind the Mandalorian Jedi Master; Clone Commander Fynn watched the general with his arms crossed. Of all the jedi in the republic and even in the jedi order he never met one who held so much confidence and honor. He believed that most jedi did not care for no one except themselves. But from experience with Master Yoda he saw more honor and courage in a jedi then what he had normally saw with the sith who wanted more in the galaxy. But it was not his place to know what a jedi or a sith wanted in the galaxy.

[glow=purple,4,000]"This world looks to much like Kashyyyk."[/glow]
Tal turned back over to the clones who where hard at work except for Fynn who stood looking over the mandalorian jedi. Just like Fynn; Tal had some doubts about this clone commander. Never before had he seen such a clone that would follow orders to the brink of death. But that was what gave this clone his title of clone commander of the 20th Elite Batallion.

Deciding that it was not the time for waiting Tal walked over to the clone commander who stood with his arms crossed. Other clones passed by checking data and keeping everything in check.

[glow=green,4,000]"General, the separatist should of tracked our movements when we landed here. This does not seem right at all."[/glow]
Fynn had a point; the separatist should of gotten some sort of read on their movements or even the gunships when they came down. It seemed that these republic forces where walking straight into a trap. So far Tal had not sensed anything that came close to a separatist battle droid. Maybe they where hidding them somehow. Looking back at the clone commander Tal let out a small breath of air.

[glow=purple,4,000]"Without a doubt the separatist are planing something. Commander get me a small squad of Barc troopers. We are going to go see if we can find anything that draws close to separatist droids or close to that."[/glow]
The clone commander nodded turning away issuing a number of orders to the clones around the base. Only a set number of clones where trained to use BARC speeders so only a set number would acompany Tal on this search.

In the short amount of time that Tal had spoke to his commander a group of four BARC troopers where ready and waiting on their BARC speeders. Tal moved over to one of the BARC speeders and jumped onto it. He looked over at Commander Fynn who stood by with a DC-15S blaster in his hand. Tal gave a nod securing a red and black modified clone helmet on his head. Looking at the BARC troops in camoflauge armor he gave the nod of approval and off they sped into the deap darkness of the Endor forest. No more then twenty minutes after Tal and the group left they had returned. Tal jumped off of the BARC speeder removing the red and black clone helmet. There he held it in his left arm.

This was turning out to be real nerve racking for the mandalorian jedi. As far as he could tell there where no separatist droids out this way. There had to be some sort of trap in the bundle of it all. Walking into the area he moved over to a holo table. Approaching it he activate the link between himself and Jedi Master Mace Windu.

[glow=yellow,4,000]"Master Kote; have you made it to Endor saftely?"[/glow]
[glow=purple,4,000]"Master, we have a problem....we have done extensive searches and there seems to be no bases of the Separatist here. We have even scoured the area in a twenty mile radius and nothing has come."[/glow]
[glow=yellow,4,000]"Are you sure?"[/glow]
Tal's face remained the same while Master Windu's face went into a more serious mode.

[glow=purple,4,000]"I am positive Master. It feels like the separatist are pulling us into a trap on this planet."[/glow]
[glow=yellow,4,000]"Keep searching Master Kote and call back when you have found something. Republic intelligance picked something up on Endor. We are not about to let it to go un-noticed. Remain alert and stay focused Master Kote. And may the force be with you."[/glow]
[glow=purple,4,000]"Yes master, and may the force be with you as well."[/glow]
The holographic image flickered off. This was growing more and more disturbing. The separatist had something planned. Something that would lead the republic forces into a trap and possibly kill them if anything. Tal was already on the planet and had done many searches over a set mile stone. There was a possibility that they where hidding somewhere else. It was now in Tal's best interest to find out and stop whatever it was that the Separatist where doing.

[Darth Angelus™]

Lookin good Vax! this is gonna be good. I can sense it.

[Vax Kote™]

Well I'm waiting to see what you put up there vod. Your fanfiction is really catching my interest.

[Darth Angelus™]

My mind as gone to mush. Put yours up and I'll se what I come up with.

[Vax Kote™]

Same here....I'll more then likely have mine up tomorrow after I do some working on my costume

[Darth Angelus™]

I finally got something, not much, but this is key for this Ronok Vang. Or should I say Feroc Canos?

[Vax Kote™]

{Some info on Tal Ka'rta Kote}

Jedi Master Tal Ka'rta Kote was not like any other jedi in the order. He was much different then what many had seen him to be. During his childhood years Tal had spent most of his time on Mandalore training to become a well respect mandalorian warrior. However, his father had different priorties for Tal and his blood brother Concer Kote. Because their mother had the royalty blood and was a senator in the republic the brothers father wanted them to become the elite in mandalorian royal guardsmen. It was a long tradition of royal born mandalorians to be raised as mandalorian guards for senator or ambassador trained mandalorians. But like many people in the galaxy Tal and Concer had the attention of the Jedi Order of the Republic. A few of the well respected jedi had come to Mandalore and requested that Tal and Concer in turn head to Coruscant to train as jedi for the order of the republic.

But Kar'ta being the Kote brothers father had other plans. Kar'ta had a long hateful relationship to the Jedi Order and never wanted to see his children carried off to Coruscant to train as jedi. Master Yoda and Jedi Master Mace Windu tried at their best that it was for the better good that they go and train as Jedi for the order of the republic.

[glow=red,4,000]"“My sons are mandalorian born; they have the blood of a mandalorian warrior not the blood to become a jedi in the galaxy. I will not allow them to go with you to train as a jedi when they are training to become true warriors of the galaxy.”[/glow]
In return however, Tal's and Concer's mother believed it was in Kar'ta's best interest to let Tal and Concer decide on what they would be able to do in the galaxy. After some convincing to their father Tal and Concer left in the republic transport to the jedi temple of Coruscant where they began long and hard training to become Jedi Knights and possibly masters of the republic.

[Darth Angelus™]

This is great stuff Vax! Keep it up!

[Vax Kote™]

{Info on Clone Commander Fynn}

Fynn was not like any of the other clones in the Army of the Republic. True he had gone through training with Alpha 7 to get his commander rank but one thing that Fynn did not like was how the jedi had a high command over his brothers. He believed jedi where nothing but fools in the republic and they should die just like the clones were bred to fight and die. However, Fynn had no information on Tal. The clone did not know how Tal worked or how he fought. He didn't even know that Tal was a mandalorian but also served in as a jedi master in the Republic.

Either way Fynn had a long battled hatred towards the jedi and wanted to put a bullet through one of their heads even if they where on the same sides. It was something that he had been fighting off ever since the Battle of Geonosis and the start of the Clone Wars. For now he just followed orders and kept a close eye on any jedi commander he was assigned to.