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Note: I have not yet decided that I have finalized this prologue. There may be some minor edits that have to be made in regards to commas and quotes.

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Prologue:


The boy's companion paused, it turned to face another direction: right at the reader/audience. As it turned, the boy froze stiff. The viewer could now see that the boy's companion appeared to be a man. However, this was only a guess since the person in question almost always wore a mask. Most of the adults who had been permitted to seen his face started having horrible nightmares the next following night. For any person who was above the age of 9, if they saw his face, they were dead in a week. The only thing that those adults said before they died was that the person appeared to look like a male who was 23. However, whenever a child who was younger than 10 saw this person's face, they always sorrowfully told their parents: "What a poor guy. I feel so sorry for him. I can see his entire life in his face... a life of inward turmoil and torture... no friends...no family... one who lives without even a floor to sleep on. Always wandering, never resting, never eating, without joy. He truly is a 'dead man walking.'"

This mysterious man had lingered on Tatooine for 3 months. Not very many people had known much about this loner, no one had learned much about his past either. The first person that this person had said anything to, was a boy named Oliver. Oliver was a Twi'lek who lived on the ground floor of the planet Coruscant. He had been teased and bullied by some humans, who had taken as many opportunities as they could to pull on his lekku. Those prehensile head-tail organs actually housed a part of Oliver's brain. (See wiki/Twi%27lek) Oliver had to learn the bottom levels of Coruscant like the back of his hand, in order to learn how to avoid those bullies. When he was finally 10, he had learned enough about the Coruscant underworld, that he was able to get away from virtually any pursuer. He had learned the hard way that he needed to be able to pick his fights, and that if he did have to pick a fight, it was a lot more rewarding when he won against foes that had never been beaten before. There was something about it: the idea that the underdog, with the right motivation, can conquer his foe, was not entirely a new concept, but it still sounded nice to him. Any positive ideas that could distract him from his real situation were greatly treasured, and held in his head, and, for that matter, his lekku.

That first meeting between these 2 unloved characters, was, as was later told in the Jedi archives, "a work of some force." Whether or not this power was the famous 'The Force', 'fate', 'luck', or 'divine providence' has been debated ever since the record of that meeting was made. Supposedly, the record was made 100 years after the event, though it was not known at the time what had happened to these 2 characters after the meeting. According to the official records, which were read only once, they both meet on Alderaan, but according to the rumors and whisperings of the underground of Coruscant, they meet on the planet Kamino. After they met, they decided to travel the galaxy. They traveled on, and on, and on. During their journey, Oliver met a Jedi called Revan. After meeting Revan, Oliver started his training to become a Jedi. The mysterious man and Oliver decided that no matter where they went in the galaxy, they just would not find the unquenchable, satisfying, unconditional love they sought. When Oliver became 14, he and his mysterious fellow traveler decided to leave the galaxy. For 10 years they traveled with each other, the mysterious man never said a word.

The 10 years of travel had greatly changed Oliver. He learned how to read the slightest dips, nods, shakes, and body posture of his male companion. He knew how to tell where and when to steer the ship in for a landing. He learned how to do the tedious work of prepping the spaceship up for flight, and also for dog-fighting. The hardest part of being a Jedi was applying the practices of restraint and patience. The mysterious masked man had not been idle during the trip. The mysterious man spent all his time doing a few things: reading, standing, exercising, "meditating", fencing, hitting air with his fists and feet, and cooking for Oliver. Even though Oliver enjoyed that man's cooking with great delight, it bothered him that he never saw the man eat the food he cooked up. The inside of the spaceship was large and had a lot of storage space, but other than that, it was empty. The only chair in the entire ship was in the cockpit. Whoever this mysterious person was, he sure knew how to keep only the basics, and how to keep his ship clean and organized. Oliver had not decided yet if he liked the man's apparent ability to never smile. The only words that he had heard from the mysterious man was when he wrote down 3 words: "I am training. " That changed on the last day of their 10-year journey.

Oliver had woken up extra early that day. He was genuinely surprised when he found the mysterious man outside his room. He had a "cardboard box" in his hands, and a bowl of food that he called "Rice Krispies cereal." Oliver was greatly shocked. He had never heard the mysterious man speak this way before. At first, Oliver thought that he had just misheard himself speaking. Then he realized that the voice he had heard was too deep to be his. Oliver had noticed that he could barely hit the bottom notes of a baritone. The voice he heard had been very deep, resonating, and clear voice, which was unlike Oliver. Oliver, who was in a state of confusion, mistakenly thought the mysterious man had harvested milk from a human. Oliver sighed with relief when the masked man told him it was goat milk.

After the milk incident, Oliver managed to eat the food the masked mysterious man showed Oliver, though he thought that it was a very strange food. Oliver asked after he was done where the mysterious man had gotten it. The mysterious man slowly bent down and put his lips next to Oliver's ear and whispered: "You'll see. Oh yes, you will see." (Gollem reference) Oliver was too shocked by the mysterious man's strange behavior to notice anything else out of the ordinary. If someone had looked behind the mask, they might have noticed one tiny little detail: the slightest upward curve of a smile on the left side of the mysterious man's mouth.

Oliver was stuck in a state of stupor for several seconds before he was lurched to his senses when the ship was all of a sudden jolted. He was thrown 10 feet before he hit the ground. As he hit the ground, he tucked into a ball, rolled forward, and used The Force to right himself up. The unknown man, though, stayed attached to the floor, because of the magnetic boots he was wearing. Oliver scrambled over to the cockpit, and stopped the hyperdrive. What Oliver saw next after he checked the ships scanners, took his breath away.

In front of him was a red star. The scanners were picking up some strange transmissions that were coming from somewhere close by. It took Oliver a whole minute before he could focus back on the instruments on the panel. It did not take him very long to find out some interesting information about the star system: there were... 8 planets, one dwarf planet, an asteroid belt, a star, and a... transmission!? They were getting an electromagnetic signal from something. Was it a sign of intelligent life? He monitored the transmission as he flew the ship closer to the sun. As he got closer, the signal he was getting got stronger. The scanners were starting to pick up something else. Were they signs that showed that this planet had multicellular organisms on it? Out here in the middle of an unexplored galaxy? It couldn't be. And yet, using the force, he felt them: sentient beings. Using The Force as a guide, and not the sensors, Oliver guided the ship through the atmosphere of a planet that should not have been forgotten. Even though Oliver did not recognize the planet as anything special, they decided to investigate the newly found planet, and to find out what was on it. (By the time the Jedi archives had been created, every human had forgotten their original planet)

As Oliver steered the space ship into a gradual decent through the planet's atmosphere, he noticed that there was one major land mass that he could see on this side of the planet. He saw another land mass was near the bottom of the planet. He also noticed that there appeared to be patches of cloud that covered over the planet. He aimed the ship toward the upper half of the bigger land mass. When the ship's scanners revealed they were 1000 m above the land, Oliver started looking for a place to land. He knew that this spaceship was basically a cylinder that occupied a volume of about 3,400 m^3, and was 3.048 m high, so he would need to find at least 355 m^2 of flat terrain. He did not have to search for very long to find a good place to land. This particular region of the planet did not have many trees, but it did have some flat ground with a bunch of sage bushes next to a canyon. He carefully landed the ship because he did not want a stray spark to cause a wildfire.

After Oliver had landed the ship, he started trying to locate the source of the transmission that had gotten him interested about this planet. After some computations, he discovered the transmission was coming from an area that was about 140 km southeast. He started thinking about whether or not his companion's ship had been sighted by the locals yet, or if they had entered undetected. He also started to consider that he did not know what kinds of life lived on this planet. They were in completely unknown space. The sensors showed that the air was not toxic to humans and Twi'leks, so they could at least be able to breath out here. He might need to wear a mask and a hood to disguise the fact that he was a Twi'lek. The mysterious man, not surprisingly, had a lot of disguises on the ship that could be utilized if they needed to. They were on a planet that was outside their own galaxy, and Oliver did not know how the native life felt against Twi'lek or humans. They would have to observe the inhabitants from afar, and learn about this place stealthily.

Even though Oliver had noticed the canyon, and the presence of multi-cellular organisms, he had not noticed the remains of a sign that was mostly buried in the dirt. The audience though, could have gasped if they had seen the sign Oliver had missed. It had read: The Grand Canyon.


Announcement: This is the end of the prologue for now. The next chapter is going to be really interesting. Please review this story, and keep in mind that as the author of this story, I get to decide the way this story goes. If you would like to make a request for a character, I will take it into consideration.