Come on my fellow Jedi! Don'T tell me non of you is interested in the Succession game
          
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#2883
by Citizen Exar Kuun - 6/3/2004 1:50:09 PM
Use of Force
Chapter 1 – An End of Sorts
[Scene starts with a view of space, slowly zooming in on a star not much different from any other, the star slowly becomes larger and larger until you can see that we are not zooming in on the star but a city-planet called Coruscant and a special building - the Jedi temple]
The Jedi forces were in tatters. They needed time to regroup. They were in retreat across the galaxy, soon there would be nowhere left to run. They had fought and won battle after battle across hundreds of worlds and the depths of space. Billions had died. Yet still the enemy came on, every division the Jedi destroyed they seemed to be replaced by ten dozen. Our enemy is limitless thought Arcilte.
He looked at the surviving council members around him, so many faces missing, so many friends lost in the senseless carnage of the past three years. Their faces were blank and impassive, the exhaustion of the small group was almost tangible, each had pushed themselves beyond their limits only to be defeated and outmaneuvered at every turn. They numbered only six where fourteen should have sat, Obi-wan, Icho-Tolot, Qui-Gonn, MBM, Admiral Sherbert and himself.
The figures on his datapad danced across the screen, he still couldn’t believe they were here defending coruscant. They were so few, they might repel the first assault but what about the second? The third? They were going to lose.
“A penny for your thoughts Arcilte?” enquired Obi-wan, “You wouldn’t want to hear them” replied Arcilte to his former master, “Dark times breed dark thoughts and I must rise above them” he continued. “Have we heard anything from our allies? Are they sending forces to help?” enquired Sherbert, his fleet had been battered to the brink of extinction and the few ships left were in orbit above them, where once the Jedi had commanded a fleet of over ten thousand ships they now commanded a thousand at best. Arcilte shook his head in reply. “The Halut? The Organians? The Mon-Calamari?” Sherbert sounded almost desperate but again Arcilte shook his head.
A deep voiced rumbled into life, it sounded and felt almost like a mountain was speaking, Icho Tolot began to speak “The Halut have withdrawn to defend the homeworld, our chances do not look good, soon I may be the only Halutian left in the alliance”. “That’s been the story from all our allies for the past few years” continued Obi-Wan “Key allies in every sector have either been destroyed or have defected to the enemy, if we had managed to hold the political situation together we might not be here now.”
Obi-Wan hung his head in thought for a moment, remembering the scenes on Tatooine where the Hutts had fought a desperate last ditch defence, bodies lay all around Mos-Eisley, not a soul left alive, the enemy massacred the inhabitants of every planet they took, there were now thousands of lifeless worlds where once you could hear the laughter of children playing. Their inhabitants had put their faith in the Jedi to protect them and the Jedi had failed.
“Where is Yoda?” said MBM almost pleading for some good news. “Master Yoda is still missing, you know that MBM, stop clutching at straws” said Qui-Gonn tersely, then realizing perhaps he had been a bit too harsh continued “ I admit we need his guidance now more than ever but he disappeared at the end of the war with the MWC and hasn’t been seen since.”
Qui-Gonn winced in pain as he felt the contact of an alien mind, “they’re here”, he didn’t need to say whom. This was one thing that troubled Qui-Gonn greatly, why could he feel the enemy when the others could not? They were just as sensitive to the force but only he feel them and it caused him great pain. Maybe it was because he was the first Jedi to encounter them? He cast his memory back to the dispute on Zagama where he had first found them at work five years ago, if only they had acted then! But why would that make a difference?
A warning Klaxon sounded, the viewscreen at the far end of the council chambers sparked into life and Captain Donos came into view “My lords the enemy have entered the system and we will be engaging them shortly”. “We are on our way” Arcilte responded and turned to address the council “Gentlemen to your ships. We have an enemy to destroy. May the force be with us”. “May the force be with us” the council replied.
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Sounds interesting.
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Sounds similar to some of the ideas i had for my Story
Sounds like you planed a great story line.
I could offer some ideas to you Exar, if you like. Maybe an "expansion", even if they may expand out of the "known uni(meta)verse
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Ohh you just inspired me to a "sideline" of the Quest
Ohh and GIVE US MORE of this interesting story.
I hope you'll post it at the usuall places too ( in more or less one pice)
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For beeing honest we all don't know how the Quest will end (am at the start of chapter five) and it has not even nearly reached the high tide
Even a trilogy 
Problem would be knowlegde about what is there.
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Nice story, Exar! Looks like I'm going to have to get Episode IV ready soon, or everyone is going to lose track of my plot (there's a plot?!?) with all of the prose being posted in here these days! 
| “A penny for your thoughts Arcilte?” enquired Obi-wan, “You wouldn’t want to hear them” replied Arcilte to his former master |
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Continuity note: Arcilte's actually been around longer than I have, and was the Jedi's leading scorer through about August of last year. Fortunately, he's stepped up to the plate and taken on the task of running the Empire in more recent months. Considering Yoda's absences, it's fair to say that the mighty Arcilte never had nor needed a master! 
   
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