2 Chapter 2
After several minutes of sitting there in shock, I slowly came out of it. Pressing two fingers to each temple, beginning to massage my head to try and clear it while muttering to myself "Oh god."
I reach up and click the button again to make sure I heard right. Watching it again cleared my head up a little bit. Looking further into the terminal showed the last time it was used, fourteen years ago, half a day before the ship was reported to of crash according to the terminal. Pulling up the ship logs this terminal could access, I saw that the Venators name was the Vigilance.
That name rang a bell for some reason, like I read it somewhere. Using the neutral interface to recall where I read this came back as a page from the Fandom wiki that I've read a few times and now appear to have a perfect remembrance of it.
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Description:
The Vigilance was a Venator-class Star Destroyer in the Republic Navy and a part of the Open Circle Fleet during the final year of the Clone Wars. It served as a flagship of High Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi during the final year of the Clone Wars. The Vigilance had eight heavy turbolaser turrets, two medium dual turbolaser cannons, fifty-two point-defense laser cannons, four proton torpedo tubes, and six tractor beam projectors.
History:
The Vigilance served as Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi's flagship during the final days of the Clone Wars. When given the task of pursuing the CIS ringleader General Grievous on Utapau, Kenobi transferred to the Vigilance over Coruscant, where he was briefed on the situation by his clone commander and dispatched to Utapau in his interceptor.
The Vigilance later arrived at Utapau to provide back-up for Kenobi as he battled Grievous amid the sinkhole cities of Utapau. When Order 66 was initiated, the Vigilance was instructed to scramble fighters to pursue and kill Kenobi. However, Kenobi, who had escaped in Grievous's fighter, was too fast, and the fighters were not able to catch up to him.
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"This was Obi-Wan Kenobi's last flagship and it also carried the 7th Sky Corps," Looking around the room with the new found knowledge. "This was his room." Getting up from the chair I head on over to the dresser on the opposite side of the bed. Pulling the doors open showed his clothes, such as multiple copies of the one outfit he wore during the clone wars show, with parts of clone armor that covered his feet, legs, hands, arms, shoulders and upper chest. With them the black undersuit and the beige tunic with the brown belt holding it together, there were also a few brown cloaks too.
Getting a weird feeling that urged me to feel along the bottom on the dresser, feeling along the bottom where it and the back wall meet in the left corner I felt a small button that blended into the dresser.
Pushing it in and a small drawer popped out of the back wall. What was inside surprised the druk out of me. Inside was a lightsaber, a exact copy of Obi-Wan's and next to that was a blue Kyber crystal with what looks to be enough parts to make a second one. The lightsaber hilt shape was cylindrical and it's length was 29 centimeters. 'I guess this was his spare and a backup if he lost his. Guess he took a lesson from Anakin always losing his lightsaber all the time in the clone wars to heart.'
Picking up the lightsaber delicately and feeling around, I got it in the proper hold of Form III or also known as Soresu, the Way of the Mynock or the Resilience Form. Pushing the Activation stud or in simpler terms the button, the blade light up a nice shade of blue with it being a three foot six inches long. Going through a few of the forms for a few minutes such as the blocks and slowly speeding up till the blade and my arms were almost a blur using my new robotic arm, stopping suddenly in the stance that Obi-Wan used after deflecting the shot that would of ended commander Cody in season seven, with my legs spread out and arms held out in front of me with the lightsaber facing the left a little bit.
Pressing the button again to turn it off, I turn and set the lightsaber down on the bed. Peeling off my sweat covered shirt, other then that, I take a seat on the bed and look at the lightsaber. "How did I know you were there?" Taking a few seconds to think led to the most likely out come. "The Force."
While excited about access to the force, there was also the dark side to think about too. Thinking of the force brought the fandom page of it to the front of my mind. With it also bringing up the Light side and Dark side of the Force page.
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"The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together."―Obi-Wan Kenobi —
The Force was an energy field created by all life that connected everything in the universe, and was known by a variety of names throughout galactic history. It was called the Ashla by Lasats, It by the dianoga Omi, the Life Current by Mustafarians, the Tide by the Lew'elans, the Sight by the Chiss, the Life Wind by the Zeffo, the Great Presence by the people of the Chaos, and the Luminous Mist by the Mist-Weavers. The Force was created by life, and therefore, resided in all lifeforms. It was especially powerful in a select group of individuals who were born with a high concentration of midi-chlorians—microscopic, intelligent lifeforms that formed a symbiotic relationship with and communicated the will of the Force to their host—in their blood. These people were deemed Force-sensitive, and were capable of consciously sensing the Force. With this conscious sense of the Force came the ability to harness it, accessing various Force powers. Unlike organic beings, droids and other artificial constructs existed outside of the Force. As such, they possessed no connection to the energy field that was created and sustained by life. Apart from its scientific aspect, the Force was the basis of various religious organizations such as the Church of the Force, the Guardians of the Whills, and most notably the Jedi Order and the Sith Order. In addition, the Lasats believed that the Force was the "spirit" of the galaxy.
The Force as a recorded concept existed for well over twenty-five thousand years. There were two, overarching and symbiotic aspects of the Force. The Living Force was the energy of all life, which, in turn, fed into the Cosmic Force—that which bound everything together and communicated the will of the Force through midi-chlorians that resided in all lifeforms. The Jedi Order followed a code of selflessness and service to others; therefore, they adhered to the light side of the Force, one of two methods of using the all-encompassing energy field. The Jedi's adversaries, the Sith, coveted strength and power through the dark side of the Force. Their opposing philosophies led to millennia of cyclical conflict between the two orders, and resulted in both the extinction of the Sith and the near annihilation of the Jedi.
"How am I to know the good side from the bad?"
"You will know, when you are calm. At peace, passive."―Luke Skywalker and Yoda—
The light side of the Force, also known as Ashla, was one of two methods of using the Force. The light side was aligned with calmness, peace, and passiveness, and was used only for knowledge and defense. The Jedi were notable practitioners of the light, being selfless servants of the will of the Force, and the mortal enemies of the Sith, who followed the dark side of the Force.
"But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression…the dark side of the Force are they, easily they flow… If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will…"―Yoda —
The dark side of the Force, also known as Bogan, was one of two methods of using the Force. To tap into the power of the dark side was to indulge in raw emotions such as aggression, fear, anger, hatred, and passion. The Sith were well known practitioners of the dark side, and were the mortal enemies of the Jedi, who served the will of the Force and thus the light side. The power of the dark side was not greater than that of the light side, although it was comparitively quicker and easier to reach for individuals who yielded to their emotions, such as Anakin Skywalker, who was emotionally attached to his mother and his wife and fell to the temptation of achieving immortality through the dark side in his inablility to let go despite the inevitable change of death. The power of the dark side was channeled by Force-sensitives who twisted their gifted ability to use the Force to acquire power for themselves, in return for allowing the dark side to override their character and consume their soul.
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Reading all that led to be sitting in a meditative position, with my left leg crossed in front of my right leg and the back of my hands on my knees, head dipped downward. Clearing my conscious mind, putting aside all distractions and irrelevant thoughts and only focusing on trying to form a connection to the Force.
Imagining a cloud, a mist that drifts from living creature to living creature. Set in motion by currents and eddies... It is more than me. It is more than a planet or a star. It is the passions of all living things turned into energy. Into a chorus...
My breathing started slowing.
It is the underlying flow of life and death in the galaxy. It is truth, consistency, and so much more all at once.
There was something I could feel, something I've never felt before in my life. A pressure in the back of my mind, it was soothing. As though I was opening my senses for the first time in my life, I suddenly felt a whole new form of perception filled my mind. The durasteel of the room and the hull of the Venator was stripped away, becoming as almost nothing to my perceptions as I was wholly focused on something else. I could feel the echoes of the clones that worked on the Vigilance all those years ago.
Amidst my marveling at the new sensation, I felt it beginning to slip way from me. I tried to pull it back, to submerge myself in the feeling again but it was too late. My eyes snapped open and I released a breath I hadn't even realized I'd been holding in. Also surprised that I felt somewhat tired from the effort, like I'd just finished a long workout. It wasn't much but I could definitely feel it.
Now that it calmed down though I felt myself subconsciously using it around me.
Opening my eyes revealed all three cloaks and the lightsaber floating in front of me in a circle. Seeing that surprised me enough that I lost my concentration and they dropped out of the air onto the floor. "Oh wow." Getting up from the bed, picking the cloaks and lightsaber from the ground and setting them on the bed, I start stretching out my body.
Going to walk around the bed to get my datapad, I had a thought that I could try something out. Getting in a comfortable stance with my right arm extended out toward the datapad, I close my eyes and empty my mind. Just the thought of the datapad rising off the desk and floating over to my hand. Peaking my eyes open a few minutes later showed the datapad right where I left it. Closing my eyes again and this time instead of just picturing it coming to me, I sucked in a breath and getting a hold of the force I pictured myself shaping a part of it to rap around the datapad and to slowly bring it to me.
Feeling a weight settle on my robotic arm I open my eyes to reveal the datapad sitting on my hand. Smiling and releasing the piece of the force that I shaped to merge back with force in the background, I check how long I've been gone. The screen showed that I entered the wreck four hours ago.
Seeing that, I decide that I spent long enough out and to head back to the Lucrehulk to check in on the droids. Looking around the room, I head toward the dresser and pick up one of the outfits. Laying it down on the bed and slowly putting it on first the beige tunic then slipping on the clone armor parts and finishing by putting the belt on. Doing a few experimental stretch's revealed that the fit me perfectly. Picking up the lightsaber I hook it onto the belt along with the datapad, after that I slide on one of the cloaks. "Hmm, these are actually pretty nice."
I roll the spare lightsaber parts into a cloak and do the same to the clothes, with the parts one also inside that one. "This should make it easier to carry and only doing one trip." Traversing the way back to my speeder bike in the hanger, as I was tying the bundle of clothes to the speeder bike I felt a spike from the Force coming from behind me.
Turning around and seeing nothing other then the locked section of the hanger. 'Hmm.' Walking up to locked doors I found a touchscreen that appeared to be the door controls.
Pulling this galaxy's version of the USB cable out of my datapad, then plugging it into the USB port of the touchscreen. I turn on the datapad and run a decryption program that was on it. Letting the program do it's work, once it was done I unplug it and hook it back on my belt. Tapping the open button on the screen, it lit up green and the doors started to slowly open.
Sitting in front of me in the middle of the room was a starfighter, but not any starfighter. With the cockpit canopy open and the Astromech in the fighters astromech socket on the left wing, with the grey paint job and red highlights, was Obi-Wan Kenobi's Eta-2 Actis class interceptor.
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The Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor, also known as the Jedi interceptor or Jedi starfighter due to its extensive use by Jedi pilots, was a Republic starfighter used late in the Clone Wars that shared design elements with the Republic's Delta-7 and Delta-7B starfighters, as well as the TIE fighters of the later Galactic Empire. The Galactic Alliance would later come to utilize a successor, the Eta-5 interceptor.
"You brought a one-person ship on a rescue mission?"
―Serra Keto, to Anakin Skywalker
Astromech droids could interface directly with the Eta-2 through a dorsal socket
At 5.47 meters in length, the Eta-2 was significantly shorter than the already diminutive Delta-7. The new fighter's mass was further reduced by removing much of the forward space-frame, leaving the front of the ship in a forked shape. Like its predecessor, it was also too small to hold an onboard hyperdrive. Because of this, the Eta-2 had to rely on carrier vessels or Syliure-45 hyperdrive modules for long-distance travel. However, the Actis did have a full astromech droid socket, instead of a truncated unit as was seen in the early models of Aethersprite starfighters.
Like the simultaneously developed ARC-170 and Alpha-3 Nimbus-class V-wing starfighters, the Eta-2 incorporated S-foils to radiate excess engine heat in the thick of combat, reducing the likelihood of damage to the craft. Occasionally, though not always, the lifting panels were opened during normal flight to further reduce stress on the engines.
Such a design element carried with it certain flaws, however; this area of the hull was lightly armored, and extremely vulnerable to laser fire and buzz droid sabotage. This design element would be carried on through the radiator panels of later TIE fighters which, unlike the Eta-2's foils, were locked in static positions but essentially served the same purpose.
Thanks mostly to the fact that its development occurred in the midst of a galactic civil war, the Eta-2 had more firepower at its disposal than the Delta-7 and Delta-7B—two large laser cannons and two ion cannons. While the size of its guns provided it with respectable firepower, the fighter's limited power systems restricted its ability to fire continuously. Raith Sienar's twin ion engine design allowed the Eta-2 to achieve a maximum acceleration of 5,200 g. Unlike the Delta-7 and Delta-7B, the standard Eta-2 was not equipped with shields, as Sienar reasoned that agility and speed were its best defense. However, a later variant did include shields, as well as slightly heavier armor and a stronger hull.
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"Holy Druk." Walking up and around it to get a better look at the whole thing. 'Hey where's the Hyperdrive docking ring?' Looking around and not finding it along all the clutter in here. 'The ship may have a miniature hyperdrive in it, like how Anakin did to his. Although it lowers the class of hyperdrive from a one to a class two if I remember right.'
Walking up to the ship and reaching out, I knock on the Astromech mechs dome and step back. The lights on it's head blink on and the head spins around, with it landing on me. +Who are you? Where am I? Why are you wearing my masters clothes?+
Although the astromech's words were in beeps and whistles, I could understand it as though it was talking in English. Guess binary was included in the Neutral Interface. "Slow down for a sec and allow me to explain, okay?" Getting a positive whistle I continue. "My name is Orion Rex and your still on the Vigilance. Why I'm wearing your masters clothes is because this ship and everything on it was abandoned and left to rust away over the years."
+How long has it been sense the ship was abandoned? What has happened to the galaxy sense then?+
Taking a deep breath to walk through all the galactic history that I know of, for the past fourteen years and such.
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After explaining what happened sense the last time R4-P17, the astromech's designation. I coaxed her, that was a surprise to learn she was programmed with Feminine programming, to allow me to pilot the starfighter back to the Lucrehulk. So I got the bundle of robes and lightsaber parts off the speeder bike and in the ship with me.
+Have you ever flown a ship like this before?+ Asked R4 as I answer back negative. +I'll pilot it back to your then, you just have to guide me there, okay?+ Nodding my head in agreement as she started up the Twin ion engines and lifted off the ground.
She took the side hanger door like I did and lifted up higher, over the Venator wreck. "You see that Lucrehulk," Getting a positive whistle I continue. "That's my ship. The hanger doors are open." She took a shallow dive in the air while heading to the ship.
