USH'S GAME EPISODE V- 'MAUSOLEUM'- LIGHT SIDE AREA

Gundark's team is worried about fuel but you are far from critically low on it! You just don't have enough to make the co-ordinates Ascar gave you.

As Gundark's team's engines are still cooling it makes far more sense for Sky and Roan to go to the rest of you.

"It's at times like this," says the pilot, "that it is hard not to believe in the Force... I don't want to even THINK about the chances of us having found a full-strength Jedi mission out here!"

About two hours later your ships are in close proximity to each other. That Diplomatic Cruiser is pretty fried but it can still move. You guys certainly reckon that it could make the co-ordinates you tentatively have for the Dark Sider's destination. Problem is that you have no idea what you will find there.

Sky and Roan- this appears to be two Jedi Masters (one apparently resting in her room) backed by three fully ranking Knights (even if the official status of some of them seems a little dodgy to you)- this must be a damn important mission they are on!

No need for secrets between Jedi, guys- I suggest it might be a good idea to update the new arrivals on what is going on. Unless you want me to explain?

(BTW... Korriban is pretty safe these days... I wouldn't be surprised if it was a tourist attraction...)

(yes, Im with ush, fill me in!!, I kinda know whats goin on but i could stand to know where we are going, details would be nice to.)

"Greetings, my friends you are very lucky we found you. You must excuse Master Gundark, she'll be coming to talk to you shortly. What I can tell you is that we are on the way to the Mausoleum, but one of my accompaning knights can probably tell you more about that. But for the moment we are gonna head to Korriban to refule our ship"

"Sounds good to me. Fuel is always nice."

Korriban... ancestral homeworld of the Sith... doubtful!

You aren't going to the first set of co-ordinates to refuel your ship either. You are doing it because, out of the two sets of co-ordinates to HAVE, it is the only one you can make!

To fill in the new players on the basics of this mission:

- It is under the command of Master Kellan Gundark

- It has been approved- personally- by the Supreme Chancellor

- The basics of the mission are to stop an ex-Jedi named Kuylen. Kuylen is a swordmaster and once valuable Jedi agent who was assumed dead years ago. It seems he faked his own death, the actual cause for his fall to the Dark Side is unknown but now he seems to have found a worrying number (about half a dozen, that means, not hundreds) of untrained Force adepts out beyond the Republic and taught htem both the ways of the Force and how to use a sabre (quite how he has done that to Jedi standards is unknown- but Kuylen has a military background and instructs well, with two Padawans to his name in his Jedi days). This group has been causing a lot of trouble!

- Kuylen's main objective seems to be to 'pillage' ancient Sith sites in an attempt to steal the secrets and knowledge of that long extinct order. His objective does not seem to be to literally re-found the Sith, but to learn their secrets and take their power and begin a new Order with himself at the head.

- Kuylen has already excavated one site- the mythical Sith Archive at Avalar, site of a failed (as rival Sith factions destroyed it) attempt to codify the tenets of the Sith as part of a sort of 'Sith School' to rival the Jedi temple. Gundark prevented Kuylen from recovering the whole Archive but they got some of it. (You two heard a rumour that Avalar had been discovered- you hadn't realised how much of a bad thing it was though)

- The new supposition of this team is that Kuylen is aiming to discover the legendary Mausoluem of Demnos. For details of that, please see the top thread of the SW RP area (and please leave your thoughts!)

- They have two co-ordinates they are heading two. The first is supposedly the location of the Mausoluem itself- something only Kuylen's team, this team, and one other guy (who can be discounted but don't ask about him or Gundark will get a headache) know. However, it is a VERY long way out, They do not have the fuel to reach it. The second is where they suspect Kuylen and his team have gone. That is far nearer.

- Kuylen is incredibly dangerous- superior to any of you in a fight, cunning and resourceful. His team are as competent as you, dangerous, violent, unafraid to kill. The mission is VERY hazardous and they could use all the help they can get,

Any questions?

(nope got it, soo we are flying to the nearer planet now, to refuel and look around. when are we gonna get there? <I feel like a little kid in the back seat of a car 'are we there yet??> lol)

"Patience we will be there soon, I suggest you use this time to meditate and get your head straight cause you'll need it down there."

"right"
heads into room and begins meditation

I need to stress, re-fuelling is not necessarily on your agenda. You would LIKE more fuel in order to get to the Mausoleum but frankly you doubt if your ships even have the capacity- Kuylen's team were using specially designed long-range hyperdrives and, when that plan was foiled by you guys, they are instead now using a VERY large freighter ship. Your ships may be small and hi-tech but they don't have that range. It is a worry, for sure.

These guys have been in continuous hyperspace operation for several days- they are stopping for 12 hours to cool the drives. You should be able to make the nearer co-ordinates inside two days.

"What is the nearest planet we can go to?"
"When we get there I wish to purchase a few things while you refuel."
*Says Kosta, clutching his broken saber in his hand.*

(What is the nearest planet's name?)

noticing the broken sabre I ask: "How did your sabre break?"

Purchase? You are out on the rim, there is no civilisation here. As the pilot of the diplomatic crusier can tell you, their only hope (before they found you) was to find a smuggler or pirate's base- unpleasant as that may be it was better than dying. But there weren't any around at all. These stellar systems are not named.

The communication system on the Nexu's Grin pings into life, suddenly. But all you get is a load of garbled static.

(BAH!! Is there anyway for me to aquire a new saber or to fix mmy existing one? 🙁)

"Kosta how did you break your sabre?"

Acquire a new one, no. Fix the existing one, maybe... you could do with more parts though.

"In a duel. A dark sider sliced it in half, I should have taken more care!"
*Says Kosta, while trying suppresing the white hot rage rage*

(Thats waht I actually wanted to do, problem is, am I going to get the chance to get new parts before the poo really hits the fan. If we make a stop off on a charted planet I might be able to go and find something. And are the chrystals intact?)

The crystals are damaged. There is absolutely no chance at all of going to a known planet in this story. You are beyond help now.

*sensing Kosta is supressing something*
"Be mind full of your emotions young jedi not let them controle you did Lance or Xeth have a look"

"what is your field of expertise": I ask the new knights

"Thats just it master, I consider myyself to be good at saber building and repair. And this is not looking good."