USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE VI (LIGHT SIDE)- Missing Links

"When did you first hear of Kuylen?" Denzral asks.

"I hadn't heard of him- very few had- when I first met him on the Outer Rim. Kuylen had a knack for finding people he ended, one of his many instinctual gifts. His instincts were always stronger than his studies when it came to the Force."

"When did you first meet him and how?" Gallagher asks.

"What I just said sums up all you need to know there," says Saar.

"Adelmo and Kuylen," Xeth says. "What's the relationship there? How'd those two meet?"

"I don't think how they met is particularly important; what I said already applies to both sides there. Suffice to say, Kuylen had two sides to his organisation. One was about power, the other knowledge."

I don;t know enough about the situation to ask relevent questions, so it's in your guys hands. Gonna have to read back through when I have time.

"His power-based operation was what the Jedi exposed at Damagran, and followed to the Mausoleum, yes?" Jelena says. "So we are after the knowledge portion of his work."

"Whilst you have the right idea, by the end it had all cone together. His power operation was about money and men. You saw the end result of that at Damagran, but the Confederacy also included Avalar, so there was no coincidence in where he built his power base.

"But by that point the search for knowledge had come to an end- he had found Avalar and had the leads he needed for Zeiton. The only reason I was not there is that I was needed to help subjugate Belseraphon to keep their warriors loyal; I rejoined him for the final run to Zeiton.

"So, for the knowledge part of his organisation you have to look back further, before the Jedi knew he had returned. Kuylen left his heavies, like Chion and Galder, to do all the straightforward work. The more... capable associates his made worked on all the important things. That is where I came in... and also Adelmo."

"You make it sound as if Adelmo worked for Kuylen," Gallagher says.

"I think both were of the temperament where they thought they were the more senior," says Saar. "But you're right- this was more an alliance than anything else. Adelmo had her people and Kuylen had his. Both, at that point, shared an interest in the possibilities of the Syphar n Kalar."

"Which I seem to remember being a children's story they told to the Hopefuls," Gallagher says.

"You've not come here for a children's story."

"Indeed not," Gallagher says. "Meaning Kuylen and Adelmo had reason to believe that the Syphar N Kalar was a real thing that could be pursued and used."

"Are you sure of that?"

"Why would they pursue something that doesn't exist?" Gallagher asks.

Xeth tries to conceal shiver when Chion and Galder are mentioned. He still remembers Kuylen's ferocious thugs well, even if he never fought them directly. He had seen them in action and they were vicious and blood-thirsty idiots.

"Even the Mausoleum of Demnos was an actual place," Xeth says. "Not that there was anything there when we all reached it."

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"Why would they pursue something that doesn't exist?" Gallagher asks.

"Are those the only two options? That they knew one way or the other?

"It is harder for me to speak for Adelmo, but I know she was desperate to find any information about it. Kuylen was interested in Sith myths. The Mausoleum was not a myth of course- it was well documented- but Avalar was, and he was on the verge of finding that. Who wouldn't at least want to look into something like the Syphar n Kalar, if he had an interest in such things? That's very different from knowing it exists."

"I suppose so," Gallagher says. "And we know that Kuylen's father was beyond obsessed with the Syphar N Kalar himself. Did that have any relation to Kuylen's search for these myths?"

"Of course. Geron's obsession with the Sith fuelled the same in his son. The Kuylen family has a certain collection of Sith memorabilia- artefacts of several wars in their history, particularly the Malphan wars. Darth Malphas himself was a compulsive collector of Sith artefacts that were ancient even in his time, which is in turn ancient to us.

"I suspect there was something Geron;s collection that gave Larios Kuylen a lead on Avalar. That's an intriguing thought because the Monastery dates far later than anything in the collection; I think the leap Kuylen made that no-one else had was that Avalar was something to the Sith before the Monastery was built there. No-one was looking in the oldest histories to find it because it didn't exist then. Kuylen had reason to look anyway and it worked. That's all just theory on my part, though.

"So. To focus on what you mean- neither Kuylen nor Adelmo had any direct leads on the Syphar n Kalar that I know of. But they were looking for some; Adelmo because she seemed convinced it was real, Kuylen because it was inconceivable that he did not at least check; he'd have felt pretty stupid if Adelmo had found it and he hadn't tried. This is where I came in. Kuylen tried to keep his people as far away from Adelmo as possible, and indeed I barely saw her, but I did meetr her once or twice. I was Kuylen;s expert in identifying Sith artefacts and I was very relevant in this pursuit. And so it was that I was able to provide him with a possible lead- The Scrolls of Bandomino."