Xorn keeps his pistol trained on you for a moment more before lowering both of them.
"Just let me onto your ship," Xorn says. "We need to get out of here before the Republic sends more people after us. I do sense a mark of darkness about you, finally."
Trax looks to you, obviously concerned by your statement and waiting to see what you decide for Xorn.
Xavier looks at Trax while speaking Xavier's face probably would tired if it could, "You may do so Xorn, but it would probably be best for you to get off it as soon as possible."
He then speaks to Trax, "Help me take my Master's body on board. We need to find a ship with good auto piloting. 'I have one last thing to do."
Trax nods and moves to take Cabas from you. You sense fear in him as he does so.
Xorn smiles and limps up the ramp, holstering his pistols.
"No guarantees," Xorn says. "One thing I learned from Friste- us Darkies gotta stick together to survive. Welcome to the team, kid."
He ducks inside.
"Are you going to kill him?" Trax asks as he lifts Cabas' body over his shoulder.
"Its what he deserves," Xavier says and doesn't speak another word of it to Trax.
He takes out Master Cabas' lightsaber and feels over every inch of it. This blade should have killed Xavier. Then he takes out the red blade. This blade should have never found its mark.
Yet here he was at point in his life that didn't make sense.
Making sure that Cabas makes his final journey home is only a short term goal for you at this point. After that... you no longer have the life-long goal of becoming a Jedi Knight to work towards, and you have put an end to the antics and scheming of the Dark Jedi Friste Tem, as well as the pirates he worked with. You are completely free with the exception of the gnawing hunger for glory that your alter ego keeps nagging for...
With that, Trax sets course for Hutt Space, leaving the dead world of Zrik far behind.
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Coruscant, one week later
The junked escape pod had rocketed through Coruscant's atmosphere with great speed, having come out of hyperspace just outside of the atmosphere without deceleration. The impact of it striking the atmosphere caused a sonic boom before it dropped directly down before the Jedi Temple with a mighty crash. The site was secured rapidly by Coruscanti law enforcement, but it was Master Windu that approached the escape pod.
He noticed right away that the engines had been tampered with; most escape pods did not feature hyperspace capabilities. With his lightsaber unlit in his hand, the Jedi Master stepped down into the crater and opened the hatch.
Within, the body of Ko Cabas, wrapped in a white sheet but for his face, lay propped up in the single seat. Looking at the body for a moment, Windu lowered his head, partially out of relief that it was not some strange threat from above, more out of grief... but in doing so noticed the comm device on the ground. Using the Force to call it to his hand, he turned it on.
A image of Xavier Kolarn appeared before him, crackling slightly as he speaks.
"This is a message to the Jedi Council," he says. "We have returned to you the body of Ko Cabas, Jedi Master. He fell in combat... to us. We managed to stop the tyranny caused by Friste Tem... but at great cost. We request that... the Jedi Council make sure that the planet Zrik is secure, as it once posed a great threat to the Galaxy because it held dark secrets. And... do not follow us. We would not appreciate that..."
The message ended, and Windu closed his hand around the device. He shakes his head and puts it on his belt before reaching in to recover the body of Ko Cabas- a traveler, a warrior, a Jedi Master, a corpse. He carries it into the Temple without a word to anyone.
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Tranuus, one year later
Without an objective, you found yourself open to suggestion- unfortunately, that suggestion came from Xorn. The Dark Jedi you once duelled you now find yourself disgustingly allied with, for the sake of survival in this tough Galaxy. His suggestion, of course, was to join his profession- that of the mercenary.
On Tranuus, the second planet of the Balidruus system, you found work. Tranuus is a tropical world with sparkling seas, dotted with dome-like porous coral structures. The Corellians colonized these structures long ago, but it remains outside of Republic influence and under the leadership of the drug baron Bartus Cralt.
It is this drug baron that hired you and Xorn as heavies to guard to his court and fight any rival factions that want to control Tranuus. Cralt particularly enjoys putting Xavier into the fighting rings, where his bets usually succeed because Xavier is a fine specimen of a warrior.
At the moment, you are watching a fight going on in the ring, with Trax at your side, inside Bartus Cralt's court at Ki'rush. A drunken Trandoshan is attempting to fist-fight an IG assassin droid; it is not going particularly well for him.
"What a fool," Trax comments to you. "I hope Cralt doesn't think you'll want to show up the Trandoshan."
(From this point on, we will be using the new dice rules...)
Cralt is a very stereotypical dictator; he wears a military uniform with a superfluous number of medals and awards pinned to it, most of which you are sure he made up just to give himself some status. He has a thin waxed mustache that he toys with idly as he watches the Trandoshan try its best to smash into the IG assassin droid, but even with its hardened claws, the metal chasis is harder still.
"Yes, Xavier?" he asks, not taking his eyes away from the fight. He chortles when the Trandoshan takes a particularly nasty hit to the face.
Cralt approves your decision to fight with a mere nod, then.
It is shortly after this that the IG series assassin droid rams its metal fist directly through the chest of the Trandoshan and tears out its heart. The reptilian gurgles and falls flat, and the referees drag his corpse out of the ring, leaving the blood splattered droid standing silently amidst the applause.
"Sure you want to do this?" Trax asks you, as Cralt announces that his 'champion' is going to fight the assassin droid.
(Go ahead and pick your three Combat schticks to have in.)
And so Xavier enters the ring to much applause as Cralt announces that you will be fighting the robot bare-handed.
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FIGHTING RING MATCH, START OF TURN 1
IG-56 (C 8): 2(3A)/2(3A)/0
Xavier (C 7 / FP 5): 2/2/0 [Focused Blow/Street Fighter/Dodge and Weave]
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A referee fires a gun into the ceiling, marking the start of the fight.
Xavier volunteers initiative to the IG-56, who hums as its sensors analyze the Dark Jedi, beeps to itself, then strides forwards with its attack. It launches a very solid straight punch with its mechanical fist, which glances off of Xavier for six damage.
Responding in kind, Xavier punches back. With Focused Blow, he is able to ignore the battle droid's dense armor, picking a spot on its form to punch solidly. Two successes is five damage to the droid.
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FIGHTING RING MATCH, START OF TURN 2
IG-56 (C 8): 2(3A)/2(3A)/5
Xavier (C 7 / FP 5): 2/2/6 [Focused Blow/Street Fighter/Dodge and Weave]
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