Telos IV: Home of the Hidden

[Garyn Fett™]

*Avarick Maliss sat. Simply sat, no meditation, no thought, just sitting. As always, the Force touched him, and he rode its crest, simply watching the areas that it took him. Subtle currents took him to various planets, spots where violence was imminent, or where the Force was particularly strong. An extremely strong current forced him to the Dathomir system, where - as a bystander who couldn't do anything at the present - he saw forces on the ground and in space. There was to be a battle, then.

From where he waited, watching, he could sense power, vast amounts of power. There was a stain on the planet, more so than the normal one. The Sith were there. A brightness moved down towards the planet. The Jedi, then, descending from space. These 'currents' that showed him who was where were nearly impossible to 'see', and it was only the colors of the Force that allowed him to do so. The narrow-minded Jedi and Sith would see nothing of what he saw, and he would help neither.

A subtle ripple drew his attention. It was nowhere near him, nor was it a danger to him. It was seeking him, and it had the power of the Force behind it, but totally untrained. A thin smile creased his hard, bearded face...the first task of this potential apprentice was to find him, and that was no small task.

Maliss had been gifted with a few things: curiosity, skills with the Force and the blade, a hidden power nearly unmatched by those Force-Sensitives in the galaxy, and the ability to sense the Force in two ways. He could ride the waves of the Force, both the vast and the subtle, and he could see the threads that connected things together, drawing past, present, and future into one. It would be interesting, training this one - if he found him - to say the least.*

[jedi2master]

*Dlo Koon made his way to the landing pad on Dorin as he approached his Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor and his Astromech droid R4-P17 to begin his find for the grey jedi temple on Telos IV as he checked over his Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor and jumped in to the cockpit and ploted a course from his home planet Dorin to Telos IV as he lifted off the landing pad and out in to space.*

Dlo Koon said " R4-P17 how stabilized is the hyperspace, Engine R4-P17 beeped and buzzed at Dlo Koon as he knod to his Astromech droid."


As he made the last calculations for the jump to hyper space to head twowards Telos IV to find the Gray Jedi Temple, Dlo Koon had a funny feeling it would not be easy to find him on Telos IV be cause he had not the first clue to look for him as his Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor jumped in to hyperspace from Dorin. as he piloted his Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor through Hyperspace toward's Telos IV to search for the grey jedi temple.

*Dlo Koon droped out of hyperspace over the planet Telos IV and made his landing Approach to the landing pad for the lush surface of Telos IV as He touched down and disembarked from his Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor and stood on the surface of the Telos IV landing pad as he made his way in to the, Cityscape to inquire about the grey jedi here on Telos IV and the location of were to find the Gray Jedi Temple here onTelos IV .*

[jedi2master]

*Dlo Koon felt a strong presence of the force in the polar region of Telos IV,He decide to check out were this force signature was, coming from in the polar region of Telos IV as he made his way to, purchase transportation to the polar region of Telos IV, to find this force signature what ever it was and who ever it belong to prehapes it was spotty at best for the location of the Gray Jedi Temple who ever it was.

Dlo Koon said" i would like to purchase a FC-20 speeder bike, to use for travel to the polar region of Telos IV, to the Ithorian as Dlo Koon handed him the credit's as payment."

Dlo Koon mounted the FC-20 speeder bike and Activated the repulsorlift and head out of the Cityscape on the FC-20 speeder bike twowards the polar region of Telos IV as he speeded a cross the Cityscape of Telos IV twowards the polar region of Telos IV to search for the force signature he felt coming from there hoping he would find who ever was there as his FC-20 speeder bike speeded across the surface of Telos IV twowards the polar region of Telos IV .

[jedi2master]

*Dlo Koon speeded across the Plains and Grasslands heading, twowards the polar region of Telos IV to find out what this,spotty force signature was and where ever it was,located with in the polar region of Telos IV as he Continued to speed, through the Plains and Grasslands upon his FC-20 speeder bike, heading twowards the spotty force signature that was there.

Dlo Koon said " to his Astromech droid R4-P17 give me a upload of the polar region's of Telos IV and send it directly to my FC-20 speeder bike R4-P17."

R4-P17 sent the holo image to Dlo Koon's FC-20 speeder bike as,he left the Plains and Grasslands behind and started to make his way into the polar region's of Telos IV to begin his search for the strange spotty force signature that was coming from here and were ever it was at and if he could find and who it belonged to, it was spotty at best for a guess to find a force signature in, the polar region's of Telos IV.

*Dlo Koon speeded through the polar region's of Telos IV trying to pick up a stronger feeling of the force signature as his holo, image of the polar region's of Telos IV tryed to triangulate it's exact position were it would be as he felt he was drawing nearer to the force signature and wondered if he was any much closer to finding the home of the force signature and who it might belonged to it was spotty at best if he was.*

[jedi2master]

*Dlo Koon deactivated the repulsorlift on his FC-20 speeder bike and dismounted the FC-20 speeder bike to begin his search, on foot for the Gray Jedi Temple hoping to soon find,it's hidden location and to find the force signature that has lead him here to the polar region's of Telos IV hoping his search was over soon for the Gray Jedi Temple and the location of the force signature as well and who it might belong to and why did it lead him here.*

Dlo Koon said " to his Astromech droid R4-P17 have you, triangulated the locatoin using the ship scaner's as R4-P17,beeped and buzzed a reply back through the com link to Dlo Koon as his Astromech droid R4-P17 said no to him."

Dlo Koon started to travel across the polar region's of Telos IV on, foot looking for any structure that resembled the Telosian Jedi Academy that could be the home of the hidden Imperial Knight and the Gray Jedi Temple hoping it was the location of the gray jedi here on Telos IV it was spotty at best for the location to be there and the force signature to be here as well.

*Dlo Koon moved through the polar region's of Telos IV until he saw a snow hill bunker with Metal door's set in to it and a, massive structure which had to be the Gray Jedi temple and,smaller structures that might served as cantinas, and living quarters for the Gray Jedi past the snow hill bunker with Metal door's set in to it as he aproached with caution to the Gray Jedi Temple and the snow hill bunker with Metal door's set in to it, hoping this was the home of the hidden Imperial Knight's and the Gray Jedi Temple and the force signature as well.*

[jedi2master]

*Dlo Koon looked at the snow hill bunker with Metal door's set in to it and the, massive structure behind which had to be the Gray Jedi temple and the,smaller structures that might served as cantinas, and living quarters for the Gray Jedi past the snow hill bunker with the Metal door's set in to it trying to figure a way past the,sentry station snow hill bunker with the Metal door's set in to, it if he should go straight past it or around the other side of it,were Dlo Koon would not be seen by the sentry station guard's,to make his way to the massive structure which had to be the Gray Jedi temple and the,smaller structures that might served as cantinas, and living quarters for the Gray Jedi.*

Dlo Koon decided to pass the sentry station snow hill bunker with the Metal door's set in to it , from the left hand side,to make his way to the massive structure which had to be the Gray Jedi temple and the,smaller structures that might served as cantinas, and living quarters for the Gray Jedi so he would not be seen by,the sentry guards approaching the massive structure which had to be the Gray Jedi temple and the,smaller structures that might served as cantinas, and living quarters for the Gray Jedi.

*Dlo Koon approached the sentry station snow hill bunker with the Metal door's set in to it,from the left as he made his way, to the massive structure which had to be the Gray Jedi temple and the,smaller structures that might served as cantinas, and living quarters for the Gray Jedi, as he continued to approach from the, left hand side of the sentry station snow hill bunker with the Metal door's set in to it,twoward's the massive structure which had to be the Gray Jedi temple and the,smaller structures that might served as cantinas, and living quarters for the Gray Jedi as he pressed onward twoward's the massive structure which had to be the Gray Jedi temple and the,smaller structures that might served as cantinas, and living quarters for the Gray Jedi unitl he was fully past the sentry station snow hill bunker with the Metal door's set in to it, and proceded to the massive structure which had to be the Gray Jedi temple and the,smaller structures that might served as cantinas, and living quarters for the Gray Jed.*

[Garyn Fett™]

*Maliss had long since sensed the hopeful approaching, and after a few hours had felt him in range of the holocams they had set up. The holocams at the outer sentry station were the first to pick him up: a Kel Dorian. The sentries also saw him, but Maliss had ordered them to stand down and let him pass...see what he did.

Oddly, he completely bypassed the sentry station, and kept going towards the storage sheds. If he thought the Temple was built on the surface, he was an idiot...the Gray Jedi were hidden, the quick-launch storage sheds and sentry stations the only things showing on the surface. The particular one the Kel Dorian was heading for was full of explosives; they were unarmed, but still dangerous. So Maliss headed out to meet him...this hopeful was a fool, and would need a lot of training.

By the time the Kel Dor nearly gotten to the building, Maliss had surfaced. Thanks to the miracles of modern engineering, he'd come out close to the building itself, but from a place that the Kel Dor couldn't see. The snow wasn't deep, but it was flying around in flurries, which masked Maliss's light-gray robes. The wind covered the sounds of the cloak flapping around.

Just as the Kel Dor was about to press the button to open the door, Maliss spoke, his voice cutting through the wind, and only his outline visible through the snow.*

Stop, Kel Dor, and explain yourself. What are you doing here?

*Maliss had only his lightsabers on his person, but with those, as well as the Force, he was far more dangerous than he looked.*

[jedi2master]

*Dlo Koon stoped as he was about to press the button to open the door to the storage shed,and turned to see where the voice had come from and saw, a visible outline through the snow as the snow was flying around them both in flurries as he stood there facing the visible outline through the snow trying to make out who it was that, had stoped him from pressing the button to open the door to the storage shed,as he looked at the visible outline in the snow.*

Dlo Koon said " To the visible outline in the snow who ever it belonged to, i have come to seek training in the ways of the gray jedi and learn the way's of the force both the light side and dark side,and train in lightsaber combat form to master as well."

Dlo Koon stood there and looked at the visible outline in the snow, showing who ever it was that he ment no harm and was not a threat, to who ever the visible outline in the snow belonged to as, the snow was flying around them both in flurries, as he waited to see who ever the visible outline in the snow belonged to as,He waited for the visible outline in the snow, to answer with a reply to what he said,to what ever this visible outline in the snow belonged to not knowing who or what it was.

*Dlo Koon started to approach the visible outline in the snow with caution,as who ever it was looked far more dangerous than they looked,Dlo Koon uncliped his electrum lightsaber from his belt and held it extened out to his side letting the visible outline in the snow who ever or what it belonged to that he was not a threat and only came seeking training in the way's of the gray jedi,hoping the visible outline in the snow would take him on for training.*

[Garyn Fett™]

*Maliss allowed a minute grin to cross his face. It was not truly a grin of amusement, though he was amused. Rather, it was the sharp grin of imminent violence. The hopeful thought he could threaten any of those here, and he was dead wrong.

Avarick didn't even need to hold out his hand or flick his fingers. The Ilum crystal inside the lightsaber was easily able to be sensed, and his command of the Force was such that he needed no gestures to focus his mind. A single thread of the Force whipped out, quickly grasping the lightsaber hilt the Kel Dor held, and yanked it towards Avarick. With perfect timing, Avarick brought his hand up and caught it, then turned it around, looking at it.*

You did not make this. Follow me, hopeful, and you may just find what you seek. If not, you will die.

*Maliss turned and walked away, Dlo Koon following. He entered the Temple through the same opening he'd exited, and walked down the dull gray paths, heading to the nearest open training room.*

((Your training thread will be posted shortly.))

[Alena Vader]

Several months had passed since Do Kloon's arrival to the Gray Jedi Temple. Maliss and the other Grays would be greeted by yet another visitor. But unlike Kloon and the other new trainees, this visitor was not seeking the Gray Jedi or their ways. Alena was simply lost - more lost than she had ever felt during her lifetime. Those force sensitives who had encountered her in the past had spoken of Alena's potential. Alena was not oblivious to their meaning, and did not intentionally ignore their foresight; she simply had no desire to pursue such potential. Her obligations were to her family and Empire, and her duties did not surpass that of a mother, wife, and soldier. Pursuing a fabled religion that would bring her unfathomable power did not interest her. This would soon change, however. It was not that Alena did not believe in the Force - she had witnessed the Force's influence enough to accept its reality. She had even felt it, at times, but did not know how to respond to it.

Thus Alena wandered from the Core Worlds and traveled towards the Outer Rim in the tattered ship she had traded for her infiltrator. Leaving her children and husband behind, she wanted to escape the memories of her past. The center of the galaxy was too familiar to her. Perhaps if she wandered into the scattered depths of nothingness, the memories would become less clear. As Alena lost track of the time elapsed, days passed, and light-years traveled, she found the planets and systems to be sparse and few as she entered into the Kwymar sector. Alena gazed blankly across the controls aligning her cockpit, suddenly realizing she was nearly out of fuel. Smacking the control system violently while cursing in frustration, Alena asked herself why system had not warned her. Before Alena could respond to her own question with, "Old, good-for-nothing ship..." signals began to flash across the board, warning of a system failure.

"Kark!" Alena exclaimed, as her restless fingers searched for the appropriate controls. It was no use, however. Alena realized this as the engines sputtered weakly and her ship started to shake. Staring out the viewport window in desperation, Alena caught sight of a nearby system. Alena gasped in disbelief at the sight of it. She was close enough to its atmosphere to land on what little fuel she had left. Guiding the ship towards Telos IV, Alena took noticed the outer rim world's features and its distinct polar regions. While entering the planet's atmosphere, flakes of snow began to beat against the already trembling viewport. Alena quickly asserted that she had entered a snowstorm. Great, she thought as final tank of fuel was emptied.

Alena lost control of her spacecraft completely as it tumulted through the white sky, falling closer and closer to the blanket of snow that masked the surface. The lights of her ship shut off one by one, until she was surrounded by darkness. Alena had miscalculated the blurry distance between her ship and the snowy floor. But in reality, she was much closer than she had estimated. It seemed as if only seconds had passed before her left wing scratched against the surface. The ship skidded across the snow a few times before it flipped into the air and crash-landed on its backside. Alena felt her body jolt back and forth even though she had been strapped into her seat. During the final crash, Alena's head knocked against the control board. The woman moaned weakly as she tried to lift her head. Her eyelids felt heavy as she tried to force them open. As her vision began to blur, Alena caught a glimpse of what lied before her. Through the cracks in the viewport, snow gently fluttered into the ship. Beyond was an endless haze of white. Then all went black.

((I will add the rest tomorrow))

[Marsto Danze]

*I stand on a landing pad outside of the Jedi Temple thinking to myself. With my hands tucked into the sleeves of my robes, I look up at the sky. It is night now and I try to see at least one star in the sky. It is impossible though, the ambient light that is thrown into the night air from the perpetual planetary city strangles the simple beauty of a star filled sky. Air speeders stretch out in every direction like the web of an arachnid and choke whatever light is given of from other systems. A simple pleasure perhaps, looking at the stars, but a pleasure none-the-less.*

*I think about what I have learned at the Temple over the past years. The Jedi Code comes to mind:

There is no emotion; there is peace.
There is no ignorance; there is knowledge.
There is no passion; there is serenity.
There is no death; there is the Force.

Emotion. There is emotion, all sorts of emotions. To deny emotion is to be dead. Without it how could Jedi be selfless and serene? Emotion is connected to everything we do so I say it is unwise to discount emotion. There is Emotion.

Peace. There is no peace. Wars wage on all the time, interior and exterior wars. Some fight for land, some fight for credits and some fight for power. The Jedi them selves fight a battle within them selves on a daily basis. The war against the allure of the dark side. Jedi are always tested, some succeed and some fail, but all fight. There is No Peace.

Ignorance. Ignorance is every where in every living thing. To have no ignorance is to be omnipotent and no Jedi has ever been or will ever be omnipotent. It is foolish and self absorbed to think that you will know all things all the time. Foolish and dangerous. There is Ignorance.

However, it is also foolish and dangerous to have raw untrained power. This is why knowledge is needed. A balance of knowledge and the realization that not all things can be known is good because it keeps an individual from becoming arrogant. There is Knowledge.

Passion. There must be passion. Without it how would any of us draw upon the Force to do spectacular feats of strength or speed? There is Passion.

Serenity. Without it we would succumb to the Dark Side of the Force. It is that quiet, meditative state that allows us to fight off the urges of the quest for more power. No one being should be all powerful. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. There is Serenity.

Death. There is death, every living being must die. It is inevitable, to believe there is no death is to believe that life is not sacred. If life is not sacred than why bother helping any one, or doing anything?

I have come up with my own mantra over the years, that is much different than the Jedi Code and incorporates all these things. It is:

There is emotion; there is no peace.
There is ignorance and there is knowledge.
There is passion and there is serenity.
With these teachings, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.

This is why I have decided to leave the Jedi Temple. I know when I am not wanted and I don’t believe that there is a master here that can properly train me.*

*As I take one more look into the night sky, I bid my last good bye to Coruscant and the Jedi Temple. I turn and step into the small shuttle that awaits me on the landing pad. As the door closes I feel a relief that I have not felt in a long time. I also feel as though I am beginning anew. I know that the journey ahead will be hard but rewarding. I sit down in the pilots seat and grab the yoke. I pilot the shuttle up off the landing pad and into space. Once I am far enough away from Coruscant’s gravitational pull, I engage the Hyperdrive and blast into hyperspace.*

*I meditate for a long time. I have lost track of how long I have been traveling through Hyperspace. Suddenly I feel a nudge from the Force. I have never been one to deny the will of the Force so I listen. I take the ship out of hyperspace to see that I am in the Telos system. If memory of ancient history serves me correctly, there was once a Jedi Temple on Telos IV. Perhaps that is where the Force is pushing me to go.*

*I close my eyes and set no course, letting the Force guide me to where ever I may land. This is where I must go, I can feel it with every inch of my body. I can feel my destination getting closer and closer. In my mind I can almost make out the image of the top of a snow dusted plateau. I open my eyes and see that it is a snow dusted plateau that I fly towards, only I am much closer than I thought.*

*Before I have time to react the shuttle slams into the snowy rock surface. With a loud explosion and a flash of light I black out. It only seems like a moment, but when unconscious a moment can seem like hours. My eyes flutter open and I see a small door half hidden under a snow covered canopy of stone. My eyes flutter again, and again I lose consciousness.*

OOC: Alena, sorry about using the crashing ship idea, but I had already written this by the time I read your post.

[Garyn Fett™]

((Alena, you never finished yours up, so I'm going to simply say IC that you did and make you a thread.))

*Maliss sighed, irritable. Two crashes on Telos IV within four days...a new record, to be certain. That both of these had landed extremely near the Gray's Temple was something of a miracle, especially for the two involved in the crashes. Both had been moderately injured, and though their bodies would have healed, if there had been nobody around they would have been lost on the pole forever...their ship's systems had been irrevocably damaged.

They'd both been taken to the infirmary and healed somewhat, enough to allow them to stand, walk, and maybe even fight. They would have to let their bodies heal themselves, or learn to allow the Force to heal their bodies. Either way, they would be useful to Avarick and the Grays.

When they had healed sufficiently, Avarick had the medics take them to training rooms and deposit them on the floors. Gently, so as to not aggravate injuries, but they would no longer have the comfort of the medics beds. Soon enough, they would awake, on cold floors and lacking every weapon they'd come with...in fact, he'd left them with only the clothes on their backs.*

((Marsto, your training thread is here. Alena, yours is here