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Oren Zapan

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A thick fog rolled in from the mountains in the north, bringing with it a cool chill that seemed to cling to the air, as a soft rain fell from within the shrouded depths of the mist. The morning was quiet, with little traffic coming down the cobbled mountain road, it would most likely remain that way for some time. This planet was nothing significant, it was one of the many random small planets and moons forgotten near the edges of Unknown space.

It was planets like this that needed the most help, and it was where Oren had traveled to, to live out his days. What had happened between the Jedi and the Sith, their wars -- none of it seemed to reach these remote locations. Their war was their own, his ties to that life had died long ago. His hair was grown out a bit, and a thick beard lined his jaw.

He had only been on this planet for a few weeks, assessing the situation. Even in the smallest of places there was trouble and help to be had. The village's water system had been destroyed in a heavy rainstorm weeks prior, leaving the people with a shortage of water. It needed repaired, but the trip was difficult enough, and dangerous. Who knew what dangers lurked along the path that lead to the only known trading center on this planet, but someone had to do it.

Oren sat quietly along a small rock side which sat outside of the city, washing his face with a bit of water. These were the last moments before the Journey began.
 

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It wasn’t any sense of duty that had drawn the Jedi to this particular planet. Oh, she was not one to overlook the plights of the needy, it’s just that she herself had found herself to be the one in need. Power core? Fuel distributor? Coolant pump? Ion flux stabilizer? Eh, Vayla perhaps ought to be more brushed up on starships than she was but, then again, that’s what mechanics were for, right? The real question was...where were they? On this humble planet, perhaps they were far away…

The Star’s Sanctum was nestled safely on the mountainside, letting a gentle rain lap at its hull while its pilot wandered the vicinity with her B-G astromech. The two had stumbled on more mist than they could reckon with, trekking across sharp rock and hard grass before they found smooth cobblestones that had not come about by nature. Life! Vayla clapped her hands as she reached the trail. Hope!

The Jedi Knight had donned her white robes streaked in blue and was thankful for them given the downpour that might follow the pitter-patter any moment from now. Marching along, she greeted one passerby after the other. “Hello! I’m looking for a mechanic!” She got a shrug from some elderly lady. “My ship. It needs repairs. Can you help?” The man shook his head. “I’m a Jedi. I have urgent business. Need help.” The little girl just stood there blinking up at the woman.

In the end, Vayla had sighed out her misfortune as she arrived at what appeared to be the planet’s trading center. At the edge, the first sight she took in beyond the locale itself was a man washing himself. He seemed as useful as the others. Or useless, as the trend goes… Nevertheless, Vayla approached from behind, her hood up.

“Excuse me!” She expressed while Panda, her droid, beep-booped beside her as though chiming in on the greeting. “Hello, yes, I am sorry to disturb you, Mister Person, but I am in grave need of assistance with my ship and I don’t really know where I am and I have asked for help but have received none and if I were to be asked I would answer that I am a tad hungry come to think of it and—” she would continue to ramble unless interrupted.





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Lorcan

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What was the best way to recruit cannon fodder?

The best way to find meat for the grinder?

You find the dumbest karks you can, convince them you give a shite about them and march them off to basic training. Sith had figured that out thousands of years ago and it was still true now. Only difference was that they didn't recruit from the undercities of Coruscant and other hell-holes so much as they kind of just stepped up to local savages and got them in armour before they realized they were being indoctrinated.

Ah the system worked.

He had landed a few days prior and was beginning to try and wrap his head around what it would take for these people to actually sign up. Brass liked to have a squiggle on the dotted line even if the locals couldn't actually read. Whatever - he had figured out that they needed help with their water supply and that was fine with him. He'd offered to help them even as he was already thinking of other solutions.

The blue chick openly wandering around and calling herself a Jedi was... well it was weird as shrak but the kark did he care? Two birds with one stone. Dressed in his Freelancer Armor, he wouldn't have anything on him to make anyone think he worked for the Sith (as was the whole karking point in getting a second set of armor fitted since it had been a pain in his arse otherwise). As he wandered over he blinked underneath his helmet slowly.

"Oh you have got to be karking kidding me..."
he groaned out, wanting to slap his own face through the helmet, "Blueberry, get some of your karking neurons firing in the same direction for longer than five seconds and take an actual look at the dude."

He pointed to the man, someone who had been in the public eye enough to be publicly known to... well pretty much anyone with a holonet connection.

"He might look like a homeless shite now but there's no way I'd ever forget his ugly mug."
he chuckled a little bit, "Hell, I got given a copy of your mugshot as a Ranger... Oren Zapan. So this is the corner of the Galaxy your crawled into to die?"


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R5-9A was quite aware of why the locals were having trouble with their water as he had been the one to sabotage it. The lack of a functioning water supply had led the villagers to a farther away watering hole where R5 had released a new strain of virus that he'd helped cultivate. It was part of the demented doctor droid's new experimental efforts into the realm of microbiology and he was having an absolute ball poisoning people with it. That being said, pleasure had to be mixed with business as he had convinced the Sith that funding this experiment would help drive locals into joining the Sith ranks so long as they had clean water.

But as R5 busied himself collecting data reports from the local hospitals who had patients infected by the virus, he had heard rumors that some guy was trying to fix the water supply? That wouldn't do at all and the sadistic droid was grateful that Lorcan was with him. If the droid found out who this do-gooder was, he'd have no doubt that Lorcan would be able to take him out.

And by the sounds of things, Lorcan had already found himself a do-gooder that was annoying him. R5 ran through his databanks at the mention of the name Oren Zapan and found out all he needed to know. If he had hands, he'd be rubbing them together gleefully. If this went the way R5 thought it was going to go, the probability of him having a Force Sensitive to experiment on had just increased exponentially.

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Wurfuhlla

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What a planet. Wurfuhlla had been admiring it’s sights from the inside of the ship. He was awaiting his master until he could hear another voice. Could something be going on? They seemed intense. Well only one way to find out!

Wurfuhlla came out of the ship and turned the corner to see not just his master and the person she had been speaking to, but a man with a droid. They weren’t familiar to the Wookiee but surely they didn’t intend to do any good.

“Uh what’s going on here?”

The Wookiee let out in Shyriiwook. His master was able to decipher bits and pieces of what he says now that she’s been with him a while. She’s picked up in the language.

Wurfuhlla thought it best to just sit back and wait for any sort of trouble to occur. Still only worry js that his master would need the help. He doubted that these individuals could take her on but, never know. Especially in this galaxy.

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There were a lot of languages out there in the Galaxy and many of them, Lorcan didn't give the slightest, solitary, kark about. But one language he had made sure to learn? The Wookiee speak/screaming - even if he didn't quite remember the Politically Correct name for the damn thing. Rolling his eyes underneath his helmet a little bit, Lorcan let out an audible sigh before replying.

"Apparently this Jedi chick here doesn't recognize Oren Zapan, one time grandmaster of the Jedi Order, convicted felon and, now, weird jungle hobo." he replied for the sake of the Wookiee, turning to look at him and tilting his head to the side slightly, "Aaaaaand you're a Jedi too. What, being able to pull people's arms off with your bare hands wasn't enough? Needed to learn how to do with with your mind?"

Ugh more Jedi.

Spotting the droid he was escorting, he gave R5 a jaunty little wave.

"Finally, someone around here that knows which way is up. You find out anything from the samples, R5?"


With their work on the virus, it was better that people believed they were here to stop it. People who believed they were doing the Right Thing tended to react badly when they realized your version of that same bloody thing wasn't exactly in line with theirs.

So intolerant really.


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Vayla Mirana

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Upon Vayla’s approach, another figure emerged from the other side of the man cleaning himself, given that this other figure had been able to make out a face instead of the back of a head like she had. Oren Zapan… Her breath caught in her throat.

That was a name she was more familiar with based on report than receipt as far as it came to communicating with the man in person over the years that had gone by. The last time...it was in temple, in meeting, in union and unison with the Jedi of before, when the dark side had reemerged and thrust its blade upon the galaxy. A red blade of hate…

Vayla pulled her hood down as though Oren might recognize the Pantoran’s face from years ago. Her robes did not preach ‘Jedi Order’ any more or less than a priest’s robes did, and she had mentioned her career choice only to a little girl on the road into town, but if Oren did not remember her he would at least realize what she was; for the knight was not masking her Force signature before the outcast.

The armored figure was more of an unknown, a man whom may pose a threat as much as not. The same went for the droid. It did not apply to the Wookiee. Vayla had not been alone in her descent upon this planet, although the misfortune beyond the sky had yet resulted in drifting away from her fellow pilot and his ship until the two reunited just then. The Knight acknowledged the Padawan with a nod.

Another voice just then. It was the armored figure’s. He had apparently interpreted the Pantoran’s robes for a Jedi’s. Well...okay...I’ll give him that one. His mistake was in assuming she could recognize the back of someone’s head for a one time grandmaster of the Jedi Order, whether felon, hobo or jungle whozitwhatzit.

“If we are Jedi…”
Vayla tilted her head to the clever if crude man without admitting anything directly. “...What does that make you?”




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"A terrible thing really. It seems that this virus is extraordinarily effective and resiliently, far more so than we feared." R5 beeped to Lorcan. While to an onlooker it may have sounded like the droid regretted the lives lost and pain caused by such a virus, he was actually hyping himself up. He was proud of the virus he'd helped develop and wanted others around him to know just how deadly the thing was.

While inwardly, R5's circuits were firing like crazy at the thought of adding a Force Sensitive to his list of experiment subjects, for now he kept quiet in the presence of the Jedi. When Legionnaires and Jedi met, it tended to get violent and R5 preferred to be seen as not a physical threat; preferring to strike while targets weren't expecting it.

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So much going on. Wurfuhlla was connecting all the words being said by both parties. Then his masters comment rang in his head like a horseshoe on the pole. Could they have actually come across Sith? The padawan was unsure of this but his master seemed quite sure.

The Wookiee stepped forward to his master’s side and stared down both the droid and the man. A fight was unwanted in the moment. At least for Wurfuhlla. No one needed to die, or lose any arms.

The droid began beeping and bopping. Unfortunately the Wookiee hadn’t known how to understand droids. All it was was beeps and boops. His master surely knew of the answers to any question he had in the moment but the only thing on his mind would be how to make this a good outcome for he and his master.

“What do you mean samples? Why are you out here?”

Wurfuhlla continued in Shyriiwook, it was just easier for him to speak. And it was far louder so everyone could hear him. The Wookiee was mentally prepared for anything to occur. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

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