2 Tatooine-Taking Charge

Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo.

While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict...

Negotiations broke down before they could even begin, forcing Jedi Master Qui Gon Jin and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi to the planet surface of Naboo! With the help of a lone Gungan, Jar Jar, they obtained a submarine, traversing underwater passages to Naboo's capital, Theed.

Finding that the Queen has been captured, the Jedi were able to free her but were forced to route off-world in the Naboo Royal Starship. In turn, the J-type 327 Nubian Royal Starship's hyperdrive was damaged and they could only afford one continuous jump.

Their destination, Tatooine.

-Onboard the Royal Starship-

Master Qui-Gon Jinn was meditating with his padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi. He could sense that the force was in slight turmoil but almost as soon as it was it became calm, he could sense something huge was going to happen, but he could not tell if this was bad or good in the grand scheme of things.. He was brought out of his thoughts by a small force signature approaching his location, looking up as the handmaiden Padme entered the room, she gave a small smile before speaking, "Master Jinn, we should be leaving hyperspace shortly, what are our plans once we are planetside?" Jinn gave a smile of his own before responding, "I believe we will have to play it by ear, the force will guide us." Padme, being non-sensitive, didn't know much about what he was able to sense, but gave a small nod before stating, "The queen wishes me to accompany you when we land, she wishes to know the state of the people living here, she won't take no for an answer." She said, adding on the last bit when she noticed he was going to object, Jinn just gave a small shake of his head before agreeing and sending her on her way and getting back to his meditation, however, once he immersed himself in the force, he saw a strange vision.

He saw a humanoid with two lightsabers and a blaster approaching the landed spacecraft, with a huge ship behind him of alien design, he could feel how the force seemed to be excited.. It was strange, but the force had never lied to him before, so he mentally prepared himself to meet this person on arrival.

-Onboard the Gravestone-

The sound of metal resounded through the whole ship as Wolfe sang along to the song by Powerwolf. "We drink your blood! And the midnight sky is red!" For all his power, he couldn't hold a tune for the life of him, Alpha's voice soon paused the music and dryly stated to his idiotic master, "We will be arriving momentarily, have you decided how to approach them?"

I never like being interrupted but Alpha had a point, I haven't thought about that at all!

"Uhhh, land next to them and walk up to the ship?" I responded, slightly guilty.

I could almost imagine Alpha making a face and pinching the bridge of his nose as he responded dryly, "Yes my master, so wise my master, do whatever you want." I didn't have a chance to mention his blatant disrespect as I was jerked around as the frigate left hyperspace, walking to the controls and telling the Skytrooper droid to locate the Nubian yacht and land nearby after sending a peaceful hail. Getting an affirmative from the droid he walked toward the exit as he heard the droids very human-like voice send his hail, and receive an affirmative.

The pilot of the space yacht did not expect a hail almost as soon as he sat down, however, due to the ship having an IFF of a republic PDF, the fake Queen, and Panaka decided to answer the hail, after hearing it was a republic military frigate, they quickly gave it permission to land nearby, after informing them that their Nubian starship was damaged.

Not waiting for the ramp to finish lowering, Wolfe jumped down the 20 or so feet to the sand ground, his armor negating most of the force. Looking at the sleek and chromed ship, I couldn't help but appreciate its beauty, though very impractical in terms of protection. Noticing the ramp opening and seeing a young man with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a tiny braided ponytail in pale earth tones and an older man with long dark brown hair and an intimidating yet friendly face step down the ramp, followed by a young teenage girl and a dark-skinned man. Deciding to take off my helmet as to seem less threatening, and holding in the bent of my left arm, I walked over to meet the two Jedi halfway.

Jinn and Obiwan were both confused, this person's ship had a republic IFF but was clearly not anything used by local republic PDFs. Even more confusing was the man walking towards them, he seemed as if he wasn't even there, in the force that is. They couldn't even tell what direction he leaned on the proverbial stab or don't stab force side list. Once they got close enough to get a good look at him, they noticed his electric blue eyes and seemingly chiseled face and tanned but white, skin. Dirty blond hair cut short but still wild and what they assumed was some type of body armor based off the helmet in his hand. Jinn just barely caught a glance of one of his sabers and blaster as they finally got close enough to talk. Jinn, trusting in the force, initiated the conversation.

"Well, quite the entrance my friend, I don't believe I've seen a ship like that in our republics forces, nor a force-sensitive such as yourself. Let's are frank here, what is it you want?" I gave a mental chuckle at the maverick of the order, very down to earth dude.

"Well, honorable Jedi, let's just say the force led me here, I saw a vision of a dark Jedi attacking two Jedi here and this dustball, and I felt like I needed to come. I've never been one to doubt the force and it not only brought me here to you, but I also sensed the dark Jedi from my vision as well. So in essence, you could consider me backup, I can also send some droids over here to check your ship?"

Jinn seemed to be convinced as the force didn't hint he was lying, though he couldn't see much of him in the force anyway. However, as this mission was extremely sensitive, he had to be doubly sure of this man's trustworthiness. "I would be glad to accept your help, however, I need to be sure of your identity first." He said almost boredly while throwing in a subtle hand movement and a little force persuasion, which didn't work.

"Well, isn't it rude to not introduce yourself first? Well, I've never really cared about all that nonsense anyway. You can call me Wolfe. I come from a planet called Terra. I'm what you would consider a Jedi but more like the Green Jedi with more lax rules. But still light side like you." I spoke truthfully, I was 'technically' from earth aka. Terra, and was 'technically' light side, merely based on the fact both sides cant really influence my mind since it works differently from normal people.

Both Jinn and Obi-wan were searching the force for falsehoods in his statements, finding none, they decided to not look their gift horse in the mouth and agreed to team up in this endeavor. After a few minutes of talking and giving a very basic description of the 'Dark Jedi' Maul and sending over some repair droids to look at the ship, Wolfe told the two Jedi to wait for the droids to check if they can fix the damage while he went to Mos Espa to look for a replacement and to investigate something he felt in the force. The two Jedi surprisingly agreed to his request, it seems neither had sensed Anakin, strange. Giving a casual wave to the two Jedi, he called down the especially 'crafted' droid made to look like his wife, the Empress.

Seeing the 5'6 pale-skinned Femme Fatale come down the ramp of the Gravestone in what looked like Mandalorian style armor caused slight melancholy to overcome him. Those emerald green eyes and silky black hair bringing his love to his mind. Though he knew she would not even notice a second had passed before he eventually returned, he still hated that only he and the sassy brain chip could travel between universes. Coming back to his senses seeing the realistic droid in front of him smiling, he wrapped his arm around the waist of the imitation and set off towards Mos Espa while conversing with the sentient droid.

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