This is a story, based on a character sketch for a Star Wars tabletop RPG. The scenario is"what if Luke and Leia did not happen to be the main characters?". The time frame is BBY -4. FANFICTION on a character sketch, gotta love it! Enjoy or do not Enjoy, but do not Try to enjoy.

Shanev

1.8 BBY

Jannma watched the blossoming explosion in the sky with an intense bad feeling that she was needed at the warren entrance they left.

"DANGER! DISPAIR! HORROR!" the words in Shanev rang out from the direction they came from as well as a claxon. The hunting party needed no further motivation to begin a stealthy advance toward the warren with her in the lead. She heard the scream of "Horror Hawks" in the distance and the Force showed her a huge battle on the ground hundreds of kilometers away where Darrin was. As she ran she said a quick prayer for his safety.

When she reached the rear guard of the assault force she realized that numbers were going to be a problem as they had just finished setting up a bombardment heavy canon with nearly a battalion of storm troopers on the ground just out of blaster range before her.

"That sucks hard vac!" she spit as the hunters and she came to a halt.

In the skies above Shanev, Kae'Shan took a damage report, two off their bombers were damaged in the main blast that took out the assault ship which left them with four fully combat ready.

"Intruder Four and Six take out the satellites and then get down here for phase 2 close air support with Puffy on the assault force attacking the warren once we find it. Supposed to be grid 36.9167° N, 76.2000° W by our best guess, Anti air capability probably minimum, good luck! Good hunting! And May the Force be with us." Ashla called as he had his "Bird of Prey" running at atmo flank speed.

"Shay, you and I are lead, turks, you follow. We have four bases to flatten, lets get to that! First pass, we release 20 freedom drones each drawing their fire, second pass, suppress EVERYTHING firing at us! We then rotate!" as the intruder flight got to work.

"Any of you hunters worked sniper training before?" Jannma asked them and they all nodded. "Good, lets find defensible places up on the rocks and slowly pick them off. I think we have the rifle range to hit those cannons right?"

"Rifle no good versus cannon." The lead hunter replied like she was an idiot.

"Cannon no fire, unless cannon have gunners." Jannma replied. "Set two riflemen just for that, select the rest to pick off officers and thin frontlines."

"What do you do?" they asked as she held up her diskblade.

"What I do best up closer."

"Got her! and Oh My! They are assaulting the base!" Darrin replied.

"Give me a range and bearing so I can transmit close air support corrections too Intruder 4 and 6."

"293.6 bearing 310.3 kilometers." Darrin replied.

"Long way from base then eh?" Lina the Corellian copilot commented.

"New tunnel system with transport." Was Darrin's reply. "Can I get ready with Jahn back there now?"

"Tell him to drop in 30 seconds and May the Force be With You Cutie." Lina replied.

Darren hurried back to the bay door as Jahn meditated and Deloan and James collected what they thought they would need.

"Pick the shoulder fired rockets as well, they have a cannon." Jahn snapped out of it to speak then look at Darrin. "Remember the red robes? They have three and one is a high Inquisitor. All are fallen Jedi Knights or Masters unlike the two hands we saw and the junior Inquisitor they wanted to seduce you with. The high inquisitor is Soransa's father, a Zeltron."

"Whoever that is, listen, your diskblades are…"

"Lightsaber safe? Yes, I dug a pair out for you here, they were in the shipment."

"Is your suit?" Darrin asked.

"Not entirely no, he can get nasty slashes, I know I gave them to him." Deloan replied.

"The helmet?" to Jahns nod. As he produced two one for him and one with disblades for Jannma.

"Light is green! James jumped out with Deloan, Jahn and Darrin behind. Jahn heaved a new helm toward Jannma in the drop.

Jannma was getting tense and had almost made her way when she felt the uplifting presence of Jahn and Darrin and a Kyuzo warhelm flew to her side with two diskblades in it.

"Upgrades!" She exulted and cast her helm and two blade weapons forward into the storm troopers before ducking behind her boulder and hastily re-gearing.

"Look at the Sha girl, she thinks gifts from above make a difference in her short miserable life." Three red robed men stood about ten meters from her as the screams of discbladed and rifle fire slain stormtroopers reached her Force senses. She felt drawn to and an attraction to the man in the middle.

"IDK, my man is sure creative and I trust his designs."

"He over reaches, thinks he is invincible and does not realize only through the dark side can that be accomplished." The man in the middle was exerting his will in the Force with his two lackeys trying to overpower her and become like them in the dark side.

"And you know that…. How?" Jannma asked.

"Because I know tonight he and your brother are going to die, and you will join me ASAWA KO." the man in the middle suavely pronounced. As visions of Jahn's beheaded body reached her next to Darrin's.

"You have no idea what you just said in my language." Jannma laughed breaking their spell "Needless to say, your ignorance and faith in hate will be your undoing."

"Stupid little Sha girl, you will regret your choice!" as Jannma felt the cyclone of Jahn's presence settle and begin buffeting them and he and Darrin landed.

"Told ya, three, not two, not four." Jahn said as he landed.

"Definitely not Mintran trained, they would have been at it instead of wasting breath." Darrin replied "I'll owe you the credits later." To Jahn's laugh. "Shall we?" he lit his light staff as their opponents lit their sabers.

"I call muddle in the middle." Jahn said softly as he drew his staff and Jannma lit her light staff and saw.

"You have got to be kidding! A pail staff?" Jannma exclaimed.

"Why that surprises people…" and Jahn threw his diskblade with was deflected up the hill by the man in the middle. "You two mutts might want to step back." He said as a rockslide came and scattered the Emperor's minions soon all were paired off.

"Your daughter taught me a few tricks High Inquisitor, I intend to redeem her honor you have stained with your villainy!" Jahn spoke evenly as his Force sped up but focused in him.

"That whelp is no daughter of mine!" he merely had time to utter as Jahn was in rare form pounding punishing every move he made forward, back or even stationary.

Jannma took her measure of the sneering face on the left commenting on boots, clothing choices and lack of defensive technique as she swiftly ruined his attacks time after time. Darrin did his own methodical defense looking for a weakness before the High Inquisitor unleashed his ace in the hole from his knees.

"Behold the power of the Dark Side!" he called extending his hand flat toward Jahn who somewhat mimicked it with his palm out as Force Lightning poured into it spreading through the suit.

"News flash fallen one, I anticipated this and read as much." He said as his diskblade zipped from up the hill lit with charge and toward the man. His lightsaber batted it twice before it danced home removing his head. Then the deadly blade sped to Darrin's opponent doing the same as Jannma bisected her foe.

Jahn sunk to his knees as he called his blade back to him and Jannma rushed to hold him.

"Not a great idea as of yet Asawa Ko," he stopped her with the Force "let the hateful intent he unloaded on me, dissipate."

"Where do you come up with all this stuff?" Darrin asked amazed.

"The Histories of the Sith Wars volume 1-1,197, those wars essentially created the Zeison Sha. Mom left them to me." And he took a couple of deep cleansing breaths before rising, "Clones or not, we have stormtroopers to fell before I lose a Recon Ranger." As the BB-2Bs, Puffy the freighter, his two battle rangers and the forces of the warren still had left them and their diskblades much work to do.

In the end, the First Major Battle of Shanev came down decidedly for the Diskblade Alliance and twenty three of the Alliance's finest walked up to the warren with six captured lightsabers and no enemy left living on the field of battle, The Shanev hunters were rather particular about that sort of thing.

"Anyone have any ale or mead?" Shouted James as he walked in still fully armored covered in blaster score and gore, but helmet off with a clean face. "I was told that for this gig we would get the finest in drink and ale!"

Deloan and the rest of the JJR badged crew laughed as Jannma walked arm and arm with Jahn leading them to "The Commons" or chow hall. The Captain of the Diskblade Alliance Force, Jai-Don-Schu came up with Lt. Per Diton to shake every warrior's hand and say a personal word of thanks. When all were assembled he held up his hands for quiet.

"We have word our forces not only soundly defeated the enemy but!" and he held their attention "Two more tribes have joined us and over three hundred slaves were freed!" to a round of applause but he held up his hands for silence again "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the more than one hundred twenty three who gave their lives tonight so Shanev could be free!"

"You know, if the empire just settled and bargained and all that, we would be out of a job." James responded to the people seated near him before he lifted his mug "Here is to be an out of work Soldier!"

Jahn soaked in the merriment and the fact Jannma was by his side, they snuck kisses and little squeezes left and right until Captain Jai-Don-Schu pointed him out to the crowd.

"I would most like to thank Jahn Misu, The Hero of Kratovas and now Shanev who has tirelessly supplied and defended this place from out in space so we were not swept into the dustbin of annihilation!" The chants of speech grew from the Shanev and slaves while Jahn's crew groaned.

"This could get messy without your help missy, he is terrible at this." Deloan whispered to Jannma conspiratorially and they both rose.

"May I?" she asked as they locked eyes, her fingers on his lips, he nodded.

"People of Shanev, I present a young man, young even as you count years, I have known and loved all my life. He is a man of very few words, most chosen well, some poorly." She swept them with her gaze. "I think he would say he is honored to be of service, for that is the feeling he is projecting, and he is humbled by your gratitude and faith in him." she looked at Jahn who signed to her something. "His one wish is we can all live free, honorably in peace. He is no warrior but had to train as we all have, very hard, to get to this point. That is his goal in war, for it to end. I will let him if he has the voice for it give his finishing wish."

"A wise one asked me, if I was prepared for, and sought war. I stated I prepare for and seek peace. If someone becomes a warrior, then he spreads war. This is the failure and mistake of the Empire. If someone searches for peace, even in war he may bring it with him." with that Jahn sat down to approving looks from the Captain, his staff, his men and the Shanev.

"I think this is, one of those uncomfortable times Asawa Ko, I need to rest, our flight needs unloaded and repaired and we need to be ready to depart and take you to Kratovas."

Notes, I do not own Lucas or Disney property, or even any Fanfic Property like that I borrowed Thieves World Style from Mechalich and have just injected the bare minimum so far. It is lazy yes, but the characters fit. I do not own them and receive no compensation for them, nor will accept any unless I become a screenwriter for them LOL.

I recently decided that the extended family of Jahn is adding some interesting twists so I expanded that character list for development.

I also took and basically modified some Tagalog terms to fit an isolated founders language. Gender terms are not differentiated too much. Asawa = spouse, ko= my, Kuya= brother, Ate =sister but drawing it out in a kooyaah or ahhtay is a greeting, like hey bro! in mixed company kuya seems to work and sometimes I screwed with spelling etc. Just adding a bit of texture. Mgabata = mga bata= children.

I have asked permission to use the "landscape" and some Characters from Mechalich, I have received approval. Mechalich owns them, not I. I broke his timeline for my own use in Xulin-Etch origins because it made better use here. I hope I can make these additions at least as good as a Thieves world Borrow. I used few Canon personalities so far, basically just two Maz Kanata and Zuvio. Check out the Tales from the Kalat Arm and The People's Armor here by Mechalich, they are quite awesome.

And lastly, since I did think Jedi were a bit stuck up, I believe the term is hidebound, rigid, unable to understand their own prophesy (This is what I am driving the story at, those that bring balance to the Force). I chose this Kalat Arm and Zeison Sha backstory for the character. It appealed to me, added conflict. I hope to make it a long long way bringing balance and up to date all the way to Rey-Finn and Kylo Ren. (except in my vision, those will be from different origins, hey, if Disney can scrap canon…which oddly is the metaphor of Jakku.)