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sticksofthejedi) wrote2013-10-14 03:05 am
sticksofthejedi) wrote2013-10-14 03:05 am
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Memory 76
Memory: Shadow Academy absconds with Zekk and the Lost Ones.
Received: Day 290, sunset
Form: Ballpoint pen. Uncap it to view the memory. Works twice, after which it is an ordinary pen.
Summary: The Shadow Academy nabs a bunch of orphans off of Coruscant to become Dark Jedi and stormtroopers. Including the boy young Jaina has a crush on.
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Jaina's volunteered to help old man Peckhum fix up the solar mirror station he works on as one of his many odd jobs. It orbits Coruscant, and she, Lowbacca (plus mini translator droid Em Teedee), Chewbacca and Peckhum have crammed themselves into the old, run-down station. They're worried about Zekk, how has gone missing, but there's work they've got to do, so Jaina tries to focus on that.
The wookies have got food systems working well enough to make a passable lunch, and Jaina's finishing getting communications up to being able to transmit, albeit with some static. Peckhum is doing his ordinary duties and being overly gracious. It gets awkward when he starts a joke that if he'd waited for the New Republic bureaucracy to get to it, Zekk would have been an old man by the time anything got done.
They get the "major and obvious" repairs done; Chewie continues poking around, Lowie and Jaina switch over to plotting orbital debris, a personal project they had been interested in furthering by working from the station. Jaina's mind wanders because engineering is more her speed than programming. She starts reviewing news of a recent Imperial raid on a supply cruiser -- it was carried out with the same assault shuttle that kidnapped the young jedi from Lando's GemDiver Station. That means it's the work of the Shadow Academy. Jaina's disappointed, because she and Jacen had nearly undone old Imperial pilot Qorl's Imperial brainwashing. There's just some detail in the vids of the raid that bothers her.
Jaina realizes the problem isn't Qorl's assault shuttle -- it's the ships with him. The fighters escorting the assault shuttle are short-range, so the Imperial base has to be hidden in the star system. It's when she explains this that Lowie points out, through his translator droid, that he's noticed an inconsistency in the orbital debris he's still been working on tracking. Jaina and Chewie come check it out. It's the opposite of what they expected; there's absolutely no debris in a sector that a small ship named Moon Dash recently collided with wreckage and was destroyed.
That's when Jacen calls. Jaina burns herself on a bad connection trying to answer, and has to fix a connection and fuse before she can answer. Jacen's found Zekk, but has bad news. Tamith Kai and a couple of troopers from the Shadow Academy knocked Jacen and Tenel Ka out when they found Zekk. The academy's recruited Zekk and the Lost Ones -- Zekk went with them willingly to learn to be a Dark Jedi.
Jaina: But how could they train Zekk? He's not a Jedi --
Jacen: Apparently he has the potential. Remember, Uncle Luke found lots of candidates who never knew they could use the Force. Zekk had a knack for finding things to salvage, even in places where other people have scavenged already. We just never noticed, never put the pieces together.
Jaina's guilty that she spent so much time with him and never thought he had the potential. There may be some tears here. Jacen notes that they're probably all off-planet by then. Jaina's super sad for a moment -- and then she meets Lowie's eyes and they have a eureka moment. The Shadow Academy has a cloaking device.
That hole in the orbital debris map must be the enemy station. She instructs Jacen to go to their mom and have her get Admiral Ackbar to mobilize the fleet. "We're going to shine a little light on the subject."
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
She directs Peckhum through rotating the station, adjusting where the mirrors are focusing light. The New Republic's scrambled ships and are closing in on the empty zone. Peckhum says with the focused light, "We'll really make them hot under the collar."
Jaina proclaims the obvious: they were hiding there all along, which is how short-range fighters attacked the supply cruiser, and how Tamith Kai could steal Zekk. The academy starts to move, and Jaina urges Peckhum to keep turning the station to keep them from getting somewhere the Imperials can reactivate their cloak. But the effort is damaging the ancient station, especially as the academy starts picking up momentum. Jaina realizes the Imperials must have been preparing to leave already -- they've got their recruits, and they've stolen the supply cruiser's shipment of hyperdrive cores and turbo laser batteries. A few ships get close enough to shoot, but the academy makes it into hyperdrive, escaping.
Everyone on the station is depressed by Zekk being gone, watching the empty space. That's when Jaina notices a movement out the window. Peckhum checks and finds there's an object transmitting a pickup signal -- it's a message canister, so they ask Ackbar to bring it in. Jaina's hopeful, and tells the other how Uncle Luke's student Kyp Durron managed to stow away in a message pod once. But when she and Lowie search with their senses, they can't find anything living in the pod.
They take Peckhum's beat up ship down to the planet to see what's inside. They join the military, the Solo family, and Tenel Ka. Ackbar confirms for them there's no explosives or other traps. He cautions them to play it safe, but Jaina pushes past guards to activate the pod. Inside is. . . a central multitasking unit, a part they'd been looking for for Peckhum before. Peckhum mutters about how the kid never breaks a promise to him. Finally, a holoprojector activates, displaying Zekk.
Jaina cries.
Received: Day 290, sunset
Form: Ballpoint pen. Uncap it to view the memory. Works twice, after which it is an ordinary pen.
Summary: The Shadow Academy nabs a bunch of orphans off of Coruscant to become Dark Jedi and stormtroopers. Including the boy young Jaina has a crush on.
--
Jaina's volunteered to help old man Peckhum fix up the solar mirror station he works on as one of his many odd jobs. It orbits Coruscant, and she, Lowbacca (plus mini translator droid Em Teedee), Chewbacca and Peckhum have crammed themselves into the old, run-down station. They're worried about Zekk, how has gone missing, but there's work they've got to do, so Jaina tries to focus on that.
The wookies have got food systems working well enough to make a passable lunch, and Jaina's finishing getting communications up to being able to transmit, albeit with some static. Peckhum is doing his ordinary duties and being overly gracious. It gets awkward when he starts a joke that if he'd waited for the New Republic bureaucracy to get to it, Zekk would have been an old man by the time anything got done.
They get the "major and obvious" repairs done; Chewie continues poking around, Lowie and Jaina switch over to plotting orbital debris, a personal project they had been interested in furthering by working from the station. Jaina's mind wanders because engineering is more her speed than programming. She starts reviewing news of a recent Imperial raid on a supply cruiser -- it was carried out with the same assault shuttle that kidnapped the young jedi from Lando's GemDiver Station. That means it's the work of the Shadow Academy. Jaina's disappointed, because she and Jacen had nearly undone old Imperial pilot Qorl's Imperial brainwashing. There's just some detail in the vids of the raid that bothers her.
Jaina realizes the problem isn't Qorl's assault shuttle -- it's the ships with him. The fighters escorting the assault shuttle are short-range, so the Imperial base has to be hidden in the star system. It's when she explains this that Lowie points out, through his translator droid, that he's noticed an inconsistency in the orbital debris he's still been working on tracking. Jaina and Chewie come check it out. It's the opposite of what they expected; there's absolutely no debris in a sector that a small ship named Moon Dash recently collided with wreckage and was destroyed.
That's when Jacen calls. Jaina burns herself on a bad connection trying to answer, and has to fix a connection and fuse before she can answer. Jacen's found Zekk, but has bad news. Tamith Kai and a couple of troopers from the Shadow Academy knocked Jacen and Tenel Ka out when they found Zekk. The academy's recruited Zekk and the Lost Ones -- Zekk went with them willingly to learn to be a Dark Jedi.
Jaina: But how could they train Zekk? He's not a Jedi --
Jacen: Apparently he has the potential. Remember, Uncle Luke found lots of candidates who never knew they could use the Force. Zekk had a knack for finding things to salvage, even in places where other people have scavenged already. We just never noticed, never put the pieces together.
Jaina's guilty that she spent so much time with him and never thought he had the potential. There may be some tears here. Jacen notes that they're probably all off-planet by then. Jaina's super sad for a moment -- and then she meets Lowie's eyes and they have a eureka moment. The Shadow Academy has a cloaking device.
That hole in the orbital debris map must be the enemy station. She instructs Jacen to go to their mom and have her get Admiral Ackbar to mobilize the fleet. "We're going to shine a little light on the subject."
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
She directs Peckhum through rotating the station, adjusting where the mirrors are focusing light. The New Republic's scrambled ships and are closing in on the empty zone. Peckhum says with the focused light, "We'll really make them hot under the collar."
The light should have kept flying across the solar system, but when it struck the empty coordinates, space itself seemed to shimmer like golden smoke. The high-intensity flood of sunlight continued to bombard the cloaked area, finally overwhelming the invisibility shields around the Shadow Academy.
Jaina proclaims the obvious: they were hiding there all along, which is how short-range fighters attacked the supply cruiser, and how Tamith Kai could steal Zekk. The academy starts to move, and Jaina urges Peckhum to keep turning the station to keep them from getting somewhere the Imperials can reactivate their cloak. But the effort is damaging the ancient station, especially as the academy starts picking up momentum. Jaina realizes the Imperials must have been preparing to leave already -- they've got their recruits, and they've stolen the supply cruiser's shipment of hyperdrive cores and turbo laser batteries. A few ships get close enough to shoot, but the academy makes it into hyperdrive, escaping.
Everyone on the station is depressed by Zekk being gone, watching the empty space. That's when Jaina notices a movement out the window. Peckhum checks and finds there's an object transmitting a pickup signal -- it's a message canister, so they ask Ackbar to bring it in. Jaina's hopeful, and tells the other how Uncle Luke's student Kyp Durron managed to stow away in a message pod once. But when she and Lowie search with their senses, they can't find anything living in the pod.
They take Peckhum's beat up ship down to the planet to see what's inside. They join the military, the Solo family, and Tenel Ka. Ackbar confirms for them there's no explosives or other traps. He cautions them to play it safe, but Jaina pushes past guards to activate the pod. Inside is. . . a central multitasking unit, a part they'd been looking for for Peckhum before. Peckhum mutters about how the kid never breaks a promise to him. Finally, a holoprojector activates, displaying Zekk.
I'm doing this against the better judgment of my teachers here, so I'll make this message brief. Pekchum, my friend, here's the central multitasking unit I promised you. You always expected only the best from me, and I always gave it. This must be hard for you, but I want you to know that no one has kidnapped me or brainwashed me.
To Jacen and Jaina, it turns out I do have Jedi potential after all. I'm going to make more out of myself than anyone imagined I could be. We were good friends, and I'd never want to hurt you. Sorry I messed up your mother's diplomatic banquet -- but that's one reason I'm doing this. I have the chance to become something better -- a chance that I was never given by anyone in the New Republic.
I know this is something you wouldn't approve of, but I'm doing it for myself. If I ever come back, I'll be someone you can all be proud of.
Don't worry Peckhum, I'll never let you down. You've been my truest friend, and if there's any way I can come back to you, I will.
Jaina cries.