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This story is set in the same universe and time period as the other stories in the Reflections Arc described by Callista Gseran. This story is set roughly a decade after the conclusion of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion
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Star Wars: Beginning the Path
It has been several years since the ending of the invasion by the extra-galactic race called the Yuuzhan Vong. Discovered to be devoid of any kind of presence in the Force, even the Jedi with all their abilities lost many knights and masters.
It seemed at first like nothing could stop them.
Joining forces with their old enemies in the Imperial Remnant, the New Republic continued to lose to the invaders. Matters became worse with internal dissent and fighting among different members of the New Republic leadership, at all levels. Blame was continually shifted to the Jedi for the losses and even the Jedi were segmented in their own way as they tried to combat this new threat. Groups of people, calling themselves the Peace Brigade, betrayed their own people to the invaders and began hunting down the Jedi to capture and deliver to their new masters as prizes.
When the Yuuzhan Vong captured Coruscant, it seemed to many that all hope was gone.
But slowly, new alliances were forged between enemies and the heroic commanders of the Rebellion rose once again to fight. The Jedi found new strengths with a newer generation coming forward into their own to fight alongside the masters of the new order. The Yuuzhan Vong started facing tougher battles. Eventually, the invaders were defeated, but the story didn't end there.
When the fighting was finally over, the galaxy had suffered massive loss of life. Whole worlds destroyed or assimilated through bio-technical methods to serve as new homes for the invaders. Even though it had been many years, there was much to be done to rebuild what was possible to rebuild after all of the destruction. New colonies were built, worlds opened to help the refugees as best as they could. Explorers were out to discover new worlds to settled the displaced people.
Located on the borders of the Inner Rim and the Expansion Region, trailward of the Corellian Trade Spine was a group of systems that was almost forgotten by many. A series of colony systems centered around the home system of a planet called Cataan. Hundreds of years before the invasion, Cataan and her colonies withdrew from the Republic. Remaining separated from the rest of galactic politics, they thrived as an independent hegemony.
A Jedi Master, Baal Legato, remembered accounts and stories that he had discovered and read of the people there, taking notice that there had even been a few Jedi of some renown that had come from there. He shared that information with the Jedi Council, knowing that the Order needed to rebuild alongside the Republic. After much talk and deliberation, it was decided that Legato should travel to Cataan. He hoped to talk with their leaders, see if they would want to rejoin and help in this time of rebuilding. Also, he hoped that he would find some that could take the first steps down the path of the order.
All that he had hoped for was able to be accomplished, especially in his desire to find at least someone with strength in the Force. Visiting with locale noblemen in one of the provinces of Cataan's homeworld, he found that person. A young boy, the son of a retainer to the family he was meeting with, was discovered by accident. Legato was surprised at the level that felt radiating from this boy and talked with his family about the possibility of him training as a Jedi.
This is how his story began...