What you recognize I don't own and this is the sequel to Starfleet Jedi. As with the last disclaimer asterisks denote sign language, alien language, and mental contact. When it denotes her going at a speed that practically makes her like a blur that's ninja speed like in Naruto and she also still has the abilities that are like from Avatar the last airbender but there are differences

Seventy years had passed since anyone had seen the New Hope and things had become routine in both the Republic and Federation. Six years after the refugees escaped from the Federation the Republic started to fight back along with a fledgling rebellion but they didn't make as much progress as they thought they would. Instead what had happened was a sort of back and forth situation where the Republic would win a few battles and then those in control of the Federation would win a few battles, a Federation base would be blown up so they blew up a rebel base which was essentially a Republic base. By the time seventy years had passed most people had grown up in a war era and remembered nothing else, those few who did remember the time before that were too old to help and their memories were either very foggy due to decreased mental status or considered as part of history and the people who remembered couldn't have been that old. The only reason why anyone even remembered what the fighting was about was because it was remembered annually and also in history classes. The Republic had also been invaded twice in that time period both times pushing back the invaders but each time the Federation came closer to Coruscant which was the capitol of the Republic. Many people had also given up hope that the war would ever end because of the fact that they had lived their entire lives in a constant state of vigilance due to war, not knowing that a trump card was hidden away. Both the Republic Senate and Jedi Council were also pretty tired but they had greater trust in one another than in the years before the war and the Jedi trusted the clones implicitly and led them in battles both in the Republic and Federation. The Jedi also at times were in low spirits because they occasionally sent out search units for a rumored Starfleet officer known as a Sentinel who might still be alive but they had never found them, the Jedi did that in concert with the Republic born Starfleet officers who had developed in very interesting ways due to the fact that not many teachers escaped from the Federation and after a year all contact was essentially lost, but the Starfleet officers who took up teaching roles did their best but there would always be a slight difference between the Republic taught Starfleet and the Federation taught Starfleet. Or so they thought because the Federation Starfleet Academy had developed in the same way under war conditions so the training was actually the same they just didn't know it yet. In the Senate building at the seventy year anniversary there was a meeting being held about the current situation they were in

"Does anyone have any better ideas then to see if we can't get the Dominion free?"

"None at the moment, and the Jedi are still looking for that mythical officer that may or may not be alive I believe the race was called Vulcan which are long lived, at least according to the records we have seeing as how there aren't any Vulcans currently in the Republic alive as far as we know of"

"I see, what was the latest result?"

"They've lost communications with them and they are considered missing and presumed dead, just like the last team sent out...five years ago"

"Don't they have a pattern of some sort?"

"Yes they do, every five years the Jedi search and then have to declare the team missing and presumed dead at a certain area of space but due to the fact that we occasionally get Separatist activity in that area it's not all that surprising"

"Yes the Separatists, it's surprising they've lasted these past seventy years as well"

Indeed it was because initially the fighting against the Separatists only lasted two years and that's because no one really wanted another civil war but as the years passed there were times when some planets wanted to secede from the Republic for a time because they were tired of war and they fought for that right and then there were times when everyone was united and wanted to free the Federation. It was essentially a very confusing situation when there were Separatists because the fighting was mostly political battles with very few actual battle sights mainly because they didn't want to kill fellow Republic citizens they just wanted a break from all the fighting so when there were actual battlefields there wasn't a lot of damage or death on either side and by mutual consent villages were kept out of the fighting as much as possible. It didn't always work out that ways but if there was damage to the villages both sides would halt their battles long enough to help repair the damage and then make sure to take the fighting away from occupied areas unless they simply declared that the fighting on that planet was over and either there was no victor or depending on who had the most equipment at the time of the truce that side was declared the victor. Both sides also had a mutual agreement that the planets they fought on were not to be battles for the planets allegiance and that the battles on those planets simply happened due to resources or sometimes they happened on neutral planets because both sides wanted to take a vacation and there were people from both sides on the same planet, though when that happened the battles were smaller scale and didn't last as long as other battles. All of this came about because none of the planets could declare neutrality this time around due to the fact that they never knew if the Federation would succeed in invading Republic space so during the periods that planets were considered Separatists they had to take care of themselves and not rely on the protection being part of the Republic gave the other planets. There was also always a pattern to the Separatist movement as well, the movement was always in about the same area of space and the planets that ceded from the Republic had strong armies at the time but then were weaker by the time they returned to the Republic why that was no one knew but it was what it was

"Yes, but at the moment as far as I know there aren't any Separatist movements so why they've gone missing at this point in time is a mystery"

Meanwhile on a planet in that exact space which neither side ever battled on because of the unique atmospheric conditions there was a group of people simply training to fight, all under the leadership of one person. That person led because they were the oldest by a lot due to the fact that they were a different race from most of the people there, and they could tell that the person had experience. It also helped that they were the only ones who wore a uniform that only those that joined from the outside truly recognized, those born on the planet were so used to seeing it that they never questioned what it was or what it stood for

"Soketh can we please fight back now?"

"No, it's not yet time for us to truly reveal ourselves"

"You always say that whenever someone goes off planet including this last time are you ever going to decide it's time"

"When I say it's time to fight back it will be time to fight back until then you are to obey my orders"

"Which don't make any sense except to the group that use the same weird weapon you use"

"And speaking of which do I need to remind people of that standing rule I have in regards to the weapon?"

"No you don't, the last time someone was stupid enough to ignore that rule they regretted it for the rest of their life if I recall the story correctly"

Soketh stares out at the group he had been in charge of for just over fifty years and sighs heavily thinking of not only how to answer the person but also what he'd been through for seventy years and more so in the last fifty being in charge of the group that the survivors of the New Hope had started after they had landed on the planet and been forced to stay put until the time was right, which was basically up to the Force though no one now except the Jedi that had joined knew that

"I know you don't understand what's going on but our visitors do and thus the reason why they don't question me and are also doing their best to teach you what they can until the time is right"

"When will you know the time is right?"

"Trust me I'll know, now then tell John he's in charge until I get back"

"You're making your annual trip again aren't you?"

"Yes I am"

"That's something else that has never been explained to us, why you simply disappear for two weeks and then show up again a little more tired then before but otherwise nothing's changed...wait I take that back, you're physically tired but mentally and emotionally you seem to heal for lack of a better word, and the physical exhaustion is the travel I'm pretty sure of it"

"There are reasons behind that which you will find out in time I hope"

"Fine, I'll let John know, by the way is this trip different somehow because you've been restless recently as have our guests"

"I'm afraid I don't quite know that yet"

"Well we'll be alert just in case, see you in two weeks"

"See you in two weeks"

Soketh leaves what was essentially a town now while the person she was talking to alerted the rest of the people to the fact that he had left for his annual pilgrimage and that John was in charge

"Pilgrimage?"

"Yes, once a year for two weeks he simply leaves and doesn't tell anyone where he's going, he shows up after the two weeks as healthy as ever pretty much and we go back to the same routine for another year. When he leaves varies depending on several factors here but he tries to make her trip during what counts as summer here because the winters are extremely harsh"

"Is there anything we should expect while he's gone?"

"No not really, but he's been edgy lately, as have several others you guys haven't but then you don't carry the weird weapons like the people who came with you"

"And they're extremely edgy, though we have an idea why so we'll ask them"

So the people split up pretty much into newcomers and people who know the routine except for a few, but then all of them were either Jedi or knew about what Jedi could do

"Have you guys been getting feelings in the Force? I ask because you guys including the leader of this place are getting edgy and edgy Jedi doesn't make for a good situation in the end"

"Yeah the Force is trying to tell us something but what we have no clue, even Soketh doesn't really know what the Force is trying to tell him and he has years of experience more then us because of how old he is"

"Just how old is he?"

"I think he mentioned he's around ninety, though we can't be too sure about that because even he's lost track of time on occasion, though he knows it's been seventy years since the whole war started he sometimes forgets exactly when he joined Starfleet"

"Isn't that a sign of trouble in his species?"

"There is a disease yes but this time the memory trouble is caused by something else"

"Like what?"

"He moved around way too frequently in his early years to be able to properly keep track of the time, according to him they didn't settle down permanently until a year before he tried to enter the Academy at about age twenty, seeing as how he decided to wait until then even if he could legally join at eighteen so that he had a little more time to mature and have a stable life first"

"That would do it then, constantly moving around does make one lose track of time I should know I was on missions often enough with different time schedules that sometimes I would forget if it was day or night on Coruscant"

"Well like I said he'll be back in two weeks and things will be back to the same old routine which most people are tired of"

"He has his reasons for not acting decisively though they don't know it yet"

"Exactly, they're starting to lose trust"

"Well we all have work to do in the meantime"

The town gets back to work while Soketh goes to an area that no one knew about. Soketh had kept his silent promise seventy years earlier when he vowed no one but he would ever know where Ashland was hidden away to heal, not even their Captain had known even though he wanted to. After a two day journey Soketh made it to the location Ashland was hidden and started his routine. He would simply meditate for several days and also use that time to keep his Sentinel's Defense training up because he couldn't really do that much training being in charge of the group. After a week was up he simply kept watch over Ashland updating her on everything that had happened in the past year and also seeing if she was ready to finally be released from carbonite