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OUTER RIM

“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
– Qui-Gon Jinn


Fiach sat in her ship, a modern variant of the old YT-series light freighter. She liked it for a number of reasons. Firstly, it was a common vessel – used by cargo haulers, explorers and pirates alike. She also appreciated the fact that, on first glance, it was nothing special. Under the hood it was state of the art, with as much tech as the Jedi Order could access – but you’d have to take it apart to see all of the upgrades it had received.

What was less obvious was the fact that the newly appointed Knight simply liked it. She’d flown in it a few times as a Padawan and had asked for it to be assigned to her permanently when she’d passed her Trials. Liking was something she was getting used to – as her recent meditations had started to put her in connection with her feelings. She was learning how to lower the defensive wall her mind had put up (with the aid of the Force) to allow her natural emotions to be felt, but without being overwhelmed by those of others.

Oh, and she’d even named the ship, in keeping with the TIE fighter she’d been gifted many years ago.
 

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The Kiire Vares rode the shifting currents of colour and light through hyperspace, covering vast distances with each click of its onboard chronometer. Fiach Dubh sat rigid in her chair, using every meditative exercise she knew to remain calm and in control. She wasn’t sure how so many Jedi Masters did it. They always looked so serene, so at peace. Perhaps she would eventually achieve such a constant state of quiet reflection and confidence, the conditions that she believed separated a Jedi Knight from a Jedi Master. But those were thoughts for another day. Now she had to prepare herself for the tests that lay ahead of her, while she tried to come to grips with the horror she had left behind.

Fiach Dubh and had landed the Kiire Vares. What was supposed to be a bustling colony was silent and still. No one had come to greet her. The town square had been deserted. When Fiach reached into the Force, all she sensed was sadness. All she felt was emptiness.

And behind this emptiness lurked darkness.
 

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Her ship shuddered, and with a sudden shift in the stars, the journey through hyperspace came to an end, Fiach tried to block out the images of the planet she’d left. Slaughtered civilians adorned with the unmistakable wounds of a lightsaber. Men, women, and children massacred to appease the dark hunger and churning anger of what she believed to be a single man.

With a deep, calming breath, the Jedi Knight banished the haunting images, at least for the moment. It was time to finish the job she had set out to do. She had to face the darkness. He was close, her quarry. Within this star system. Fiach could feel his sinister presence in the Force. It was not a feeling she appreciated.

She glanced down at the nav computer display. Still in the Outer Rim, she confirmed to herself. The radar showed nothing.

“He’s here,” Fiach said out loud, adjusting the controls and engaging the ship’s sub-light thrusters. She made a mental note to keep checking on the sensors, but would be more mindful for vibrations in the Force. She knew it would tell her more than any machine and computer ever would.

You just had to listen in the right way.
 

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For Fiach, the Force was now like a constant melody that she was only now aware had been with her for as long as she could remember. It washed over the Jedi Knight like waves of sensation that non-sensitives could not feel, an omnipresent hum that was at once grand and complex, simple and comforting, full of movement yet totally still. When she was at peace, she could feel the Force resonate within her. Like the echoes of a familiar song. That was how Fiach perceived it at least. Other Jedi explained it differently. Her meditation instructor had once described it as an omnipresent mist that swirled and drifted constantly around him. Another described it as a still pond; when it rippled, it told you things.

But one thing was for certain, whereas once she sensed little more than the Force was trying to tell her something, her development and associated control meant she could now at least follow the melody.

So, Fiach closed her eyes, letting the Force guide her hands as they moved over the ship’s controls. The song reverberated within her, changing, building. Now it was thunderous and cacophonous. Fiach could sense the darkness in the Force, could hear the terrible rhythm that made the one she sought tangible to her Jedi senses. His presence was full of anger. It vibrated with barely controlled rage.
 

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The Dark Jedi’s vessel slipped into the freighter’s wake, riding the thrust of its sub-light drive like some sleek ocean predator angling for the kill. He was Jasih Paxt, proud warrior of a cult that would one day expose the Jedi for what they were – misguided. His cult believed a great war was about to erupt, pitting the followers of the Dark side of the Force against the weak-willed Jedi who preached the hypocrisy of peace and tranquillity. The Jedi claimed they never felt the raw wind of rage as it screamed through their blood.

Liars!

They denied the dark side, refused to harness its power. They made rules to stop others from accepting that strength if they so desired. How Jasih hated the Jedi and the sanctimony they preached.

And this one, the human woman, had been hounding Jasih for more than a month. It was time to end their little game.
 

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The hunting freighter moved in a deliberate search pattern, sliding closer and closer to a small, uninhabited world. Jasih didn’t bother to check his nav computer; the Force told him that the unnamed planet teemed with life, none of it more advanced than a womp rat. There was nothing in this system to concern him. The Jedi was alone, without any possibility of assistance. Soon, Jasih thought, she would be dead.

The Dark Jedi pushed his starfighter into an attack vector and powered up his weapons system. The freighter was in his sights – a slow, lumbering creature about to be ripped asunder by the fast predator swooping up behind it. He would have preferred to kill the Jedi in close combat, lightsaber against lightsaber, but the time for such contests had passed. He reached into the Force, pictured the freighter exploding into a thousand fiery shards. He let his anger rise within him, filling him with rage and power. Now the Force was a crimson sheen before his eyes, bathing the freighter in a targeting haze that would increase his accuracy and ensure the killing shot.

Jasih triggered the starfighter’s laser cannons, and bolts of energized death streaked toward the unsuspecting prey.
 

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The Dark Jedi had slipped behind her like a shadow. She felt his savage presence and her hands danced over the controls, coaxing the freighter to veer from its current course before the Dark Jedi’s lasers burned through her hull or sliced open her sub-light engines. Fiach did not want to give up her ship’s secrets just yet, and so did just enough to avoid the first volley of fire. Being underestimated was a tactic Fiach liked to use as often as she could.

The Kiire Vares rolled slowly to one side. Too slowly, for the following ship was closer than she initially realised.

An explosion ripped through the freighter. Blaring alarms that warned her of a dozen imminent systems failures. The Kiire Vares was locked in a spin. As smoke poured into the cockpit, Fiach frowned and fought the controls. Then, with a crash and a powerful jolt, the lights snapped out, leaving the Jedi Knight in total darkness.
 

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Jasih Paxt felt his starfighter shudder as lances of laser fire erupted from its forward-mounted cannons. He used the dark side to aim true, pinpointing the precise spot where the lasers would rip through the transport’s engines. His elation was momentary at best, however, because the transport had dodged the fatal fire. The insipid Jedi had sensed his presence!

There could be no other answer. His prey slid to the right, a manoeuvre far too ambitious and daring for such a lumbering craft. The Dark Jedi’s lasers sliced into the belly of the freighter, carving a wound that bled atmosphere from the left ventral portion of its hull. Jasih leered. It wasn’t the killing blow he had foreseen, but it was damaging nonetheless.

As the freighter fell into an uncontrolled spin, Jasih realized with some alarm that his starfighter was too close. He had wanted to fly through the explosion, scattering the remaining shards of the transport in his passing as he sent the Jedi back to the Force. But there was no explosion, and the spinning transport’s nose struck the starfighter a solid blow. The Jedi’s ship hit the Dark Jedi like a charging nerf plowing into a ripclaw.

Jasih’s consciousness fled as the starfighter bounced away and fell toward the small planet below.
 

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The freighter tumbled end over end.

While Fiach hoped that fate had spelled the end of the Dark Jedi, she didn’t believe that Jasih Paxt could be dispatched so easily. The darkness was still out there. Regardless, she had more immediate problems. The Kiire Vares spiralled toward the small planet that had greeted the Jedi shortly after she had emerged from hyperspace. Now it filled the viewport as Fiach struggled to regain control of the vessel.

Fiach dredged her memory for what she knew of the planet.

The Kiire Vares hit the planet’s atmosphere hard. Fiach could feel the ship breaking apart around her. “A little help here,” Fiach whispered, willing the stabilisers to come back on line or the repulsorlift engine to kick in. She hit the repulsor toggle again. Nothing. Once more.

There was a recalcitrant groan from somewhere deep in the ship. Suddenly, it was slowing, trying to level out. The repulsors were working! That was something, anyway she might not be able to get the Kiire Vares up into space again, but maybe she could lead it relatively gently to the surface of the planet.
 

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It wasn’t going to be a pretty landing, Fiach knew. The transport rocked back and forth as the repulsors pushed against the planet’s surface. With great trepidation, the ship fought the clutches of gravity as it punched through the exosphere into the ionosphere, sliced across the stratosphere, and plunged into the sky. A weird realization came to Fiach as she imagined the ship confronting its own destiny with a mixture of trepidation and valour, and it made her sad.

The Kiire Vares had made its maiden outing its last journey. Her beautiful ship was diving to its death.

It raked the treetops, cutting a swath through the leafy canopy before plunging into the sea of dense foliage. It hit the ground, bounced off its repulsorfield, and bounced again. Through the cracked viewport, Fiach saw impenetrable forest. The ship slid across a clearing and ploughed into the base of a massive tree trunk, and then Fiach saw nothing at all.
 

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Jasih’s senses cleared as his starfighter skimmed across the planet’s atmosphere. He struggled to attain a vector that would allow the ship to glide toward the planet’s surface in a more or less controlled fall. He caught sight of the Jedi’s ship as it plunged toward the dense forest canopy, then focused his attention on saving his own craft. The starfighter’s nose had been crushed, rendering its sensor array useless. Jasih was certain that other systems had been damaged as well, perhaps beyond repair, but he had engines and steering. He flew the starfighter toward the surface, looking for a place to set down.

Then he would head out on foot, locate the Jedi, and either dance on her dead body or finish the job – up close, where he could carve her into small chunks.
 

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Fiach knew she was alive because she hurt all over. Nowhere more so than a bruise the size of a shell-fruit on the side of its head.

The Knight pushed aside the debris and stood up. The Kiire Vares was a ruin of shredded durasteel, melted plasteel, and exposed wiring. She loved this ship, but it was painfully obvious that it had flown its last mission. Thankfully, it hadn’t been Fiach’s last mission as well. Not yet at least.

“Just wait, Fiach,” she muttered to herself, “the day isn’t over yet.”

She took a moment to assess the damage. it looked bad from the inside, but she didn’t see anything that led her to believe she was in immediate danger. There was no fire, no sparking wires, no warning hum signalling a power cell overload. She stepped into a relatively clear spot on the tilted deck and checked that her lightsaber was still clipped to her belt.

The she reached out with the Force. She probed the area, searching for any sign of any presence in the Force.

Nothing.

No, wait. There was something. Fiach had a sense of impending doom. Death. The Dark-side. It almost made her convulse.

“I guess I’m now the prey.”

Her usual smile came back to her lips. “For the moment,” Fiach said to nobody in particular. “I should let him think of me that way for a while longer.”
 

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Jasih Paxt skulked through the forest stealthily. His senses stretched before him, making him aware of every insect, plant and flower, every small creature that cowered in its burrow or fled as he approached. This world, its bountiful lower life forms, had never seen the likes of the Dark Jedi, and he fed upon the fear that his presence garnered. He was still too far away to get an accurate feeling, but Jasih imagined that the Jedi was experiencing the same kind of fear as the fur-covered burrowers and the small leaf-eaters. That fear would grow as he got closer, and he would draw strength from her dread.

He would relish it.

He kept a steady pace. He didn’t worry that he would misstep or stumble. Such were the concerns of lesser beings. Stealth fell away like a tattered cloak, a serpent’s skin. He envisioned his prey shuddering under thick blankets of fear.

He wore black body armour. It consisted of protective padding and composite plates crafted into an intricate pattern that glorified the Dark-side and paid homage to various Sith incarnations. He had also used alchemy to imbue the armour with Dark side energy, creating a barrier that provided some protection against the abilities of the Jedi. He was proud of the work he had done and he wore the armour as a symbol of his faith in the Dark-side of the Force.

At his side, clipped to his belt, hung the lightsaber that he had used to kill more than a hundred foes. Jasih hadn’t constructed the weapon. He had earned the lightsaber, taking it from the still-grasping hand of the first Jedi he had killed in personal combat. He diminished the Jedi every time he used the weapon to strike down an innocent – such as the people he slaughtered at the colony – or a despised foe. The weapon, cleansed in blood and used as an instrument of the Dark side, was completely Jasih’s now. Barely none of the Jedi taint remained.
 

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Jasih would use this weapon to kill the Jedi woman. He saw the battle to come in his mind. He would start by testing her, allowing her to reveal the cowardice that typified the Jedi. Then he would break away, give her time to wallow in her fear as she contemplated his greater strength and power. When he struck again, he would kill. It wouldn’t be a clean, swift kill. He wanted her to experience agony, to intensify her fear. When she knew that death had set upon her to feast, he would end her life.

When it was over and his lightsaber’s blade was powered down, Jasih Paxt would return to his cult, triumphant and ready to carry on the next phase of their rise to glory. The Jedi was simply an appetiser before the bountiful feast of darkness to come.

The Dark Jedi was hungry. He increased his pace, letting the Dark-side flow through him and increase his endurance. He replayed the scene he had imagined as he ran. He was very, very hungry.
 

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Fiach Dubh leaped down from the crumpled ship, a survival kit slung over her left shoulder and landed in the moist grass. She contemplated simply going to face him. To get it over with. But she knew he was powerful, and should not be underestimated. He clearly knew that she’d been following him and felt his hatred – his darkness – through the Force. Something told her that this wasn’t the place to confront him. As she had grown in her control of the Force, so she had a better understanding of what it was telling her. And, as ever, she trusted it implicitly.

She circled around to the cargo bay door and shook her head. The servomotors wouldn’t open the door. It was too badly mangled.

“Time to improvise,” Fiach said, drawing her lightsaber and igniting it with a practiced motion and a snap-hiss. Gripping the lightsaber with both hands, Fiach sketched a large, rough circle in the durasteel door. The metal glowed white hot as the lightsaber sliced through it, then the portion Fiach had cut away fell inward, granting access to the cargo compartment.

Fiach jumped easily through the opening.
 

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The Darksider had watched Fiach from his perch among the trees. He let the Dark-side swell inside him, using it to mask his own presence while simultaneously enhancing his senses to stay alert.

He glanced to each side, even though the Force revealed that he was alone in the trees. Then he unhooked his lightsaber from his belt and held it at the ready. He didn’t like that he had lost sight of the Jedi. It made him uneasy. Had she anticipated his arrival? Was she more powerful than he had dared imagine? No matter. The Dark-side was his ally. Jasih would strike fast and strike hard, He would take no chances.
 

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Her intuition told her that there was a storm coming. A literal open-the-sky-and-let-loose-the-flood storm, full of lightning and wind and thunder. It would crawl across the sky like a great beast. She knew that before the first drop of rain hit the ground, the Darksider would be upon her. In a sense this was a blessing, for Fiach hated thunder. And for someone that didn't do emotions, it was fair to say she hated it with a passion!

Fiach had taken a position under the vessel. She’d realised that there was not time to travel to a more advantageous position, so had exited the ship silently and surreptitiously and was waiting in its shadows. She needed a plan and she needed one fast.

She caught movement out of the corner of her eye. It was as though a shadow had disengaged itself from the forest and was moving toward her at lightspeed. She moved from her hiding positon toward the dark blur, reacting with Jedi reflexes but still feeling like she was standing still by comparison. There was a loud hum as the shadow’s lightsaber flared to life. Fiach brought her own lightsaber up in a defensive position while extending its energy blade. She didn’t think. She didn’t run. She stood her ground, held her lightsaber before her and trusted in the Force.

The blur took shape. It was a large man covered in black padded armour that stung her eyes when she looked at it. The symbols etched into the armour resonated with the Dark-side.
 

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His hatred screamed at her – almost overwhelming her senses. It clung to him like a shroud. Fiach was aware that somewhere, in the distance, a dagger of lightning cut the sky. Her eyes, however, were locked upon his lightsaber’s crimson blade. He held it high, its hilt almost too small for his huge hand. The blade cut a rainbow through the air as it arced toward her.

Fiach was dead.

For a moment, she was as sure of that fact as she was of her own name. But then the Force took over and she surrendered her conscious mind to its keeping. She caught the Darksider’s energy blade on her own, sending sparks flying in all directions. Then, before he could counter her defence, Fiach tumbled to the side, closer to the open cargo compartment and momentarily out of the Darksider’s reach. She regained her feet in one fluid motion, drawing on the Force to lend strength to her arms and legs.

“Jedi sometimes surprise me,” Jasih growled, taking a cautious step toward her. “But in the end, it’s always the same. The Jedi is dead, and I score another kill.”

“You have a lot of deaths to answer for,”
she said, keeping her lightsaber’s blade in front of her.

“Perhaps, Jedi, perhaps.” He took another step toward her. “But I won’t be answering to you.”
 

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Fiach pressed a button on her belt and her repulsorlift speeder bike exploded from the cargo compartment, bounced across the open field, and made a sharp turn back toward the combatants.

Jasih Paxt watched the speeder bike race toward him and frowned.

As soon as the Darksider turned his attention to the speeder bike, Fiach began to move. She leaped. Her jump carried her past the Darksider’s exposed back. She slashed with the lightsaber, hoping to at least wound the Darksider. Jasih Paxt responded quickly and perceptively. Instead of slicing into the dark armour, Fiach’s blade bounced off the Darksider’s ignited lightsaber.

The Darksider had to spin around to protect himself, so he wasn’t able to avoid the speeder bike. It sideswiped him, knocking him prone.

Fiach finished her leap, landing perfectly on the seat of the moving vehicle.

She turned the speeder away from the wreck of the Kiire Vares and pushed the thrusters to full. As she raced toward the forest, away from the Darksider, she knew she had to seek out every advantage. She, not the Darkside warrior, would choose the battleground. She would dictate how the conflict would be waged. Success would only come if she could frustrate her adversary at every turn.

Fiach hoped that was enough of an edge.
 

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Jasih Paxt rolled with the impact, rising instantly to his feet. He glanced around, saw that his lightsaber had fallen near the wrecked ship, and reached into the Force. With a small hand gesture, the lightsaber returned to him. Only a matter of seconds had passed, but when he looked up the speeder bike was already disappearing into the forest.

“No!” he shouted, his rage building. “I will not be denied this kill!”

Gathering the Force around him, the Darksider ran. Like a stroke of black lightning, he dashed across the clearing and into the depths of the forest, following the speeder’s path. The Force-powered burst of speed might not catch the Jedi’s vehicle, but it would keep him close.

He opened himself to the Dark side, impossibly increasing his speed even more.
 
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