Knights of the Old Republic
This is a written, slightly edited version of the videogame Knights of the Old Republic. Hope you enjoy it. I've added a few extra characters here and there and what not.
Dramatis Personae
Bastila Shan
Canderous Ordo
Carth Onasi
HK-47
Jolee Bindo
Juhani
Mission Vao
Revan/ Ladon
Saul Karath
T3-M4
Zaalbar
Opening Crawl
Four thousand years before
the rise of the Galactic
Empire, the Republic verges
on collapse. DARTH MALAK,
last surviving apprentice of
the DARK LORD REVAN, has
unleashed an invincible
Sith armada upon an
unsuspecting galaxy.
Crushing all resistance,
Malak's war of conquest
has left the Jedi Order
scattered and vulnerable
as countless Knights fall in
battle, and many more
swear allegiance to the new
Sith Master.
In the skies above the Outer
Rim world of Taris, a Jedi
battle fleet engages the
forces of Darth Malak in a
desperate effort to halt the
Sith's galactic domination.
Chapter 1 The Attack on the Endar Spire
The Hammerhead Class Capital ship known as the Endar Spire was on a mission for the Republic, it was carrying numerous republic soldiers and Jedi, including Bastila Shan. Bastila was a very important Jedi as she was crucial in the war against the Sith Empire, as she was known for her Battle Meditation techniques that can change the entire mindset of their allies and enemies. It had left Coruscant many hours ago.
Commander Vonn Helb was stood on the bridge of the Endar Spire, stood with Bastila Shan and a few of her Jedi companions. Vonn Helb was slightly concerned as this was an important mission but the Republic could only spare one ship for this mission, as the Republic was already rather stretched in terms of ships.
As the Endar Spire came into the Taris system, the alarms suddenly went off. The Endar Spire had dropped out of hyperspace prematurely. Vonn Helb looked around the bridge at his crew.
"What's going on?" Vonn Helb demanded of his crew, his voice full of anger. Before anyone could answer the whole cruiser rocked violently.
"We're under attack!" One of the crew on the bridge called out.
The Endar Spire rocked violently again, as lasers slammed against the hull and side of the Republic Cruiser. The alarms across the ship continued to ring. "Everybody get to your stations!"
"Their sending a boarding party," One of the crew said from their computer screens.
Vonn Helb turned to look at Bastila and the Jedi. "You must get to the Escape Pods immediately."
"As you wish," Bastila replied.
There was a man dressed in black armour, his face or even her face covered by a mask, in his right hand was a red lightsaber. Suddenly everything went dark.
Kanaan woke up suddenly; his head was pounding with a headache. There was a sound of an alarm ringing through his ears, which meant there was some sort of emergency. As he finally opened his eyes, he realised he was in a dormitory as there were other beds in the room. As Kanaan climbed out of the hard bed, he saw there was a small footlocker by the side of the bed but before he could reach it, he heard the doors behind him slide open. He turned around and saw a man dressed in uniform come into the room, the doors closed behind him. The man had a viroblade and a blaster pistol strapped to his waist.
"Who are you?" Kanaan spoke first.
"I'm Trask Ulgo," The man introduced himself. "I work opposite shifts to you, which is probably why you don't recognise Me."
"Where are we again?" Kanaan asked, rubbing his forehead—the headache was still there.
"On board the Endar Spire, a republic cruiser that is on an important mission, until we got ambushed by the Sith." Trask said.
"What do we have to do now then?" Kanaan asked.
"We have to make sure the Sith don't get Bastila Shan, and make sure she escapes of this ship alive." Trask explained to him.
"Right," Kanaan said, taking it all in.
"You need to get your uniform on soldier," Trask said, trying to hurry him up.
Kanaan turned around and dashed over to the footlocker. He opened the footlocker, and inside were a set of folded clothes. Kanaan took the clothes out and quickly put them on. After that he saw that there was a medpac and a blaster pistol.
"Let's get moving." Trask said and he turned around, headed over to the door and opened it up, revealing a corridor in front of Kanaan with another door at the end of it. In the corridor there was one Plasteel cylinders that sometimes held useful items. Both Trask and Kanaan hurried down the corridor, Kanaan opened the first Plasteel Cylinder finding another medpac inside it, as well as a computer spike that was used for electronic devices.
They kept on hurrying down the corridor, until Trask suddenly came to a halt. He took out his commlink from his pocket, it was beeping. Somebody was contacting him. Trask pressed a button and a blue and black image of a man dressed in military uniform.
"This is Carth Onasi, the Sith are threatening to overrun our position! We can't hold out long against their firepower! All hands to the bridge!" The man said sounding rather urgent, and then it went blank.
"That was Carth Onasi contacting us on the commlink, which are portable communicators. He's seen more combat than the rest of the Endar Spire crew put together." Trask explained to Kanaan.
They kept on moving until they reached the end of the corridor. Trask opened the corridor revealing a republic soldier a few feet in front of them, firing up the corridor, what were probably Sith Troopers. Both Carth and Trask joined the battle. They could see there were two Sith Troopers firing at them. The other Republic soldier went down to the ground, leaving just Trask and Kanaan to fight.
Kanaan ducked as lasers came at him, he fired several shots back at one of the Sith Troopers, while Trask fired down the other trooper.
After they had finished killing the two Sith Troopers, they both continued to make their way down this corridor. They searched over the dead bodies of the Sith Troopers along the way, not finding anything useful. They opened the next door in front of them, revealing a smaller room with a Sith Trooper stood in front of the door on the opposite side of the room. As soon as Trask Ulgo and Kanaan had stepped through the doorway the Sith Trooper had started firing at them. Trask returned the fire first, with Kanaan joining in. Kanaan saw a laser hit Trask straight in the arm, Trask dropped his blaster pistol. Trask ducked right down to pick up his blaster pistol, while Kanaan shot the Sith Trooper and it went straight for his head. Kanaan fired several more shots to finish him off. The Sith Trooper went down to the ground.
"Nice shooting," Trask commented as he holstered his blaster pistol.
The two of them came into the room properly now, there were two more footlockers over to the side of the room. Kanaan opened one after the other finding a small short sword and there was about twenty republic credits that would probably come in use some other time. They then continued to move to the door, revealing yet another corridor that went around to their left. They heard yet more blaster fire.
As they came dashing around the corner they saw two Republic soldiers being killed by two Sith Troopers, though not without taking one of the Sith with them, leaving just one Sith Trooper remaining. Trask fired several shots at the remaining Sith Trooper, and he returned the fire. This trooper went down with relative ease. As they continued to move they checked over the dead bodies finding an extra fifty republic credits and they also could see that the corridor split into three directions, straight ahead, to the left and to the right.
"Head right," Trask said. The both of them headed down the right corridor. There were a few more corpses littering the floor. Kanaan checked over the bodies and found yet another ten republic credits.
As soon as the door opened, in front of them was a female Jedi taking on a dark Jedi.
"It's a dark Jedi, this fight is too much for us, and we better stay back and let them get on with it." Trask said. As they stood watching, the blue and red lightsabers clashed against each other for a few moments. The Jedi eventually took the edge as the Endar Spire shook violently, making the dark Jedi lose their concentration for a split second allowing the Jedi to kill the dark Jedi. The Jedi deactivated her lightsaber.
"We need to get moving," The female Jedi said turning to look at the two Republic soldiers.
"Right away," Trask agreed. They continued to make their way down the corridor, with a door at the far end.
"The name's Nayla," The Jedi introduced herself.
"Trask Ulgo," Trask replied.
"Kanaan," Kanaan said.
As they reached the door, Nayla stopped in front of Kanaan.
"Behind this door is the bridge, you should use your short sword as we will be fighting in close quarters on the bridge." Nayla said.
Both Trask and Kanaan unclipped their melee weapons from their waists. Nayla opened the bridge door. The bridge was dimly lit, and as soon as they stepped through the door, two Sith Troopers holding a viroblade each came charging at them. There were two other Sith Troopers stood further back. Nayla activated her lightsaber; she rushed to engage them first.
Kanaan saw one of the troopers launch a sonic grenade towards the Jedi and the other two troopers. "Watch out!" Trask shouted as Nayla sliced one of the troopers across the waist. But it was too late the sonic grenade exploded, both Nayla and the trooper went down to the ground, leaving just Trask, Kanaan and the other two slightly further away troopers. Trask and Kanaan charged towards the two last troopers and engaged them both. They continued to fight for several moments, but soon enough Trask and Kanaan came victorious.
"Bastila's not here on the bridge, they must have retreated to the escape pods, we better head that way now." Trask said. They both head further up the bridge, and walked around the station in the middle of the bridge, and went through the door, revealing a small corridor.
"We've got to keep moving," Trask said, as he rushed slightly ahead of Kanaan. The two of them approached the next door. Trask opened it up revealing a slightly larger room. There was a door to their left and a door on the opposite side of the room. That door opened revealing another dark Jedi in that corridor.
"Another dark Jedi, I'll head him off." Trask said. He handed Kanaan the commlink. "Take this to keep in contact with Carth." Trask holding his viroblade ran into the next room to engage the Dark Jedi, who was wielding a double red lightsaber. Behind him the door closed, and a minor explosion.
Kanaan took the door left, as it was his only choice now. He opened the door and stepped through the doorway. As he came into the room, the commlink beeped, and he answered it. That man called Carth appeared again.
"I'm tracking your position through the Endar Spire's life support systems. Bastila's escape pod is away, you're the last surviving crew member of the Endar Spire, I can't wait for you too much longer, you have to get to the Escape pods." Carth said, speaking rather urgently.
Kanaan kept moving, the corridor went around to the right, and there were more corpses of both republic soldiers and Sith troopers. He kept on searching over the dead bodies, finding more republic credits. The corridor ahead then left him with a choice, of either heading straight on or going around to the left. His instincts told him to head to go round to the left door. He held his blaster pistol in his right hand, he opened the door. Once the door opened, it revealed a small room with a single Sith trooper. Kanaan fired several shots, some of them going wide of his target, but again it was likewise for the Sith trooper. He soon finished off the Sith Trooper. Behind him was the door to the next room, of to the side was a droid that wasn't functioning at the moment. In the room there were several footlockers and two Plasteel cylinders. Kanaan opened each of them finding several spikes, another thirty republic credits, a medpac and two sonic grenades.
Leaving the droid alone, Kanaan went into the next room, revealing another large room. There were four Sith Troopers in the room. Using his spare hand, Kanaan tossed one of the sonic grenades at the nearest two Sith troopers. The two troopers tried to dive out of the way, but the explosion still got to them, killing them in the blast. The other two troopers started firing at the republic soldier. Kanaan threw his last sonic grenade and killed the last two troopers. Kanaan then dashed across the room. The door opened automatically, revealing the man called Carth Onasi, and the escape pod launch bay.
"You made it just in time," Carth said looking up from his station. "There is only one active escape pod left. Come on, we can hide out on the planet below." Both Carth and Kanaan stepped into the last escape pod.
The escape pod fired out of the launch bay, down onto the planet of Taris below. The Endar Spire exploded into a ball of flames.