Star wars

Chapter one – Solving the Riddle

Jedi are thriving, The Temple on Coruscant has been rebuilt, and Jedi Enclaves are sprouting up through out the galaxy. The Sith have died out. A High Council again sits. There is peace in the galaxy.

Wanting to learn from past history, Jedi are dispatched to many worlds to uncover ancient secrets. Dantooine, Yavin, Ossus, Utapau, Telos…….and Korriban.

Coruscant – 356 ABY

Mezu Dy walked lazily through the Jedi temple, letting his mind wander in silence. He ran his fingers through his short, blonde hair, a bronze ring flashed in the setting sun, his sharp metal blue eyes scanned the Coruscant skyline horizon. He was idly moving toward the council chamber, for he had been summoned to meet with the council. He knew this could mean one of two things. One, he was in trouble again, or two, they were sending him on some difficult, pointless mission.

He really preferred the first option, not because he was lazy, he just believed in saving his strength for something useful. Even as he considered this, he knew he couldn't be in trouble, he and his good friend Kai'saan hadn't seen each other in weeks and those were the only times he ever got in any kind of trouble.

What he really loved over action or excitement, was knowledge, the Jedi's past. He couldn't get enough of the history of the order, but alas, everything the Jedi had found about their past was nothing more than a few data pads, and maybe a broken holocron. Any big finds they had uncovered he had already poured over to find any scrap of knowledge.

Heading down the hall, he was froze at the sound of a familiar voice. "I was afraid to see you here."

Mezu let a small smile slowly slide across his mouth as he looked over his shoulder to see his long time friend, Kai'saan walking out of the training room Mezu had just passed. A wry grin lit up his striking features, his straight sandy blonde hair fell around his ears.

"The question is what we did this time." Mezu responded.

The two had been best of friends since meeting as children at the temple; both being accepted into the Jedi Shadows, a group dedicated to the prevention of sith rising. The two Jedi had been on countless missions together and always found a way to get in some kind of trouble, with Mezu's laid back attitude and Saan's thrill seeking hunger, they were a dangerous pair.

"I'm guessing it's some kind of mission." Mezu stated.

"I hope we aren't getting assigned to another diplomatic mission." Saan said unhappily.

Mezu smiled as he remembered their last mission, when Kai'Saan was forced to sit at a debate for hours on end, only paying attention when the delegates began shouting or threatening each other.

The twin doors of the huge, oval, council room slid open with a slight hiss as the pair walked shoulder to shoulder into the view of the eleven members of the High council. They sat in a straight line across the room from the doors. In the center of the room sat a table with a small pyramid sitting on it.

The two Jedi strolled into the room, their dark robe, indicating members of the Shadows, trailed behind them.

Mezu sucked in his breath as he recognized what the object sitting on the table was. Unless he was mistaken, it was in fact a Holocron, and not one from his time, one from the old times. Maybe this summoning be so bad after all. Mezu thought. His normally lazy, dark blue eyes suddenly glowed with excitement as he stared hungrily at the ancient artifact.

Tearing his gaze away from the treasure, he stole a glance at his friend, whose bored expression revealed that he had not realized what it was. Saan's light blue eyes lazily slid from one council member to the next, Mezu wondered if he had even recognized the object as important. Their eyes were pulled to the council member in the middle, a large, strong man with broad shoulders, a man in his fifties with gray hair and a clean cut beard; he held a very commanding presence. This was Fleg Sorene, the head of the Jedi order. Mezu didn't like him much, he was too rigid.

"Master Dy… Master Kai'saan… greetings." Sorene's clear deep voice broke the silence. The two Jedi bowed. "As you know, the Jedi have been researching the past history of the Jedi Order, with out much luck. But three standard days ago, a team on Korriban uncovered this holocron in the tomb of the Sith, Marka Ragnos. This was originally thought to be a sith holocron, being found in a sith tomb, But it was quickly discovered that it is in fact the oldest Jedi holocron we have found, to date."

"That is Amazing!" Mezu exclaimed, almost unable to contain his excitement.

Saan's eyes flicked to the artifact, examining it closer. Even he had an idea of how important this find could be.

"Master Dy, Please turn it on." said the Master sitting to the left of Sorene.

Mezu stepped forward and quickly examined the artifact, taking in the details of the designs on the faces of the holocron. Mezu spotted a button on the side of the holocron, as he pushed it, the point of the pyramid sprang open. A holographic figure projected itself from the artifact. The Figure was dressed in Dark robe, clad in red and black armor, his face was hidden from view by a mask he wore. "My name is Revan, I am a Jedi Knight." The figure stated. "I have a warning for those who are able to solve my riddle. There is a Great threat."

"Holocron, what is your warning?" Fleg boomed.

"I have a Warning for those who are able to solve my riddle. There is a Great threat." The message played again.

"Holocron, what is your riddle?" Fleg asked.

Revan's response was the same as before..

"That is all we can get out of this. He repeats that over and over again." Fleg told them. "We need to gain access to the holocron, but we fear it is broken. We need you to study it and find what mysteries it reveals."

"I see." Mezu pondered, lost in thought. "Kai'saan and I will get on it right away."

"One more thing, until we can make sure this threat is irrelevant; no one is to know of this holocron, not even your padawans. No exceptions."

"As is commanded." Kai'saan answered, both Jedi bowed in reverence. Mezu scooped up the holocron and carefully slipped it in to his robe pocket. Once out of the room Saan ask. "Why did the council call me here? The history is your department, I understand why we need to assess this threat, but as for me, it puts me to sleep."

"Two minds working on a riddle is better then one, and besides, if this threat turns out to be sith they probably want more than one shadow working on it."

"I guess it makes sense, but this is still going to be boring."

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Four Days later, Mezu had slept only a few hours, spending long nights awake examining every micro-inch of the artifact, the pair still hadn't cracked the code. Mezu found it difficult several times to control his annoyance at Kai'Saan, he had contributed next to nothing in the investigation of the pyramid, simply watching Mezu trying code words and combinations of code words. He knew it was stupid to expect excitement from Saan on matters like this, but he could not understand how anyone could find this kind of discovery anything less than life-changing.

"I told you this would be boring. The Stupid this must be broken." Saan sat on a chair in the laboratory, spinning one of his twin lightsabers between the fingers of his right hand. Each time the saber spun it clinked on his bronze Shadow ring, adding to Mezu's annoyance

"Do you even know how Holocrons work?" Mezu sighed, dropping his multi-tool.

"That the Jedi historians job, I'm a guardian."

"A holocron is basically an extended part of a personality, it almost as if the person is still here. The Holocron can store an entire lifetime of information. It can also be set up to be encoded so only certain people can access it, like this one."

"But it doesn't give us any information on the code to break, the only person who can crack the code it this Revan."

"I know, I know…," Mezu was getting frustrated, he never had trouble solving riddles before, but this Revan hadn't even given him the riddle, only the fact that he needed to solve it. "Let's go get some sleep, Maybe we can figure it out on a fresh mind."

"Ok, I'll come by tomorrow." Saan left the room, wearily, rubbing his eyes.

Mezu sat staring at the glowing in front of him, it stared back at him. "What do I know about you Revan?" Mezu stood up walking out into the corridor, carrying the holocron in his left hand. "THINK, THINK, Let's assume you know what you're doing, and everything is planed out. You meant for the Jedi to find this. Then why Korriban, why the sith world?" Mezu strolled down the corridor, lost in thought.

"Unless you didn't want the Jedi to find it, at least not then. Maybe you didn't want the Jedi of your time to find it." Mezu stepped into his quarters, "But why? Why didn't you want the Jedi to know about this threat?" He grabbed a cylinder on his table and took a long gulp of Bribb Juice. He rubbed his temples staring down at the figure projecting from the holocron on the table. Then it came to him, "Because you wanted to face it yourself, and you didn't want the Jedi to find you." The figure stared at him. "But if you didn't want the Jedi to find you, and if the Jedi didn't know about this threat, then where is it coming from?" His mind was reeling, His adrenaline had started pumping. "There can only be one answer…The Unknown Region. Is that the Code, Revan? Is that the answer? The unknown Region?"

"Access……Denied." Th all too familiar voice droned again.

Mezu's heart sank. What could it be?

"Wait… Holocrons sometimes respond to a phrase. Revan Access Unknown Region files."

"Access……Denied."

Frustration exploded in Mezu. He threw his unit of Bribb Juice at the wall, angrily banging the table with his fist. He stared at the holocron. Then something caught his eye.

Rushing to his sleeping couch, he pulls a box out from under it. A box filled with datapads, all the knowledge he had, every note he had ever written was in these datapads. Where is it, where is it? There! He pulled out the one he was looking for. All info on Holocrons, He read to himself.

He scanned the data till he came to what he was looking for and read it out loud, "entry 136- all Jedi holocrons I've found are designed as a Square. This data may not be of value, but it's interesting. Entry 137" Rushing back to the holocron, he stared in shock. "All Jedi holocrons are SQUARES, this is a Pyramid." He smiled, "Isn't that right, DARTH Revan? Darth Revan access Unknown region files."

"Access……Granted."