2 standard coruscant months later

Antarian ranger HQ. Ranger general Dire Kahn. Generals office on Coruscant.

Dire was accustomed to surprises, as they seemed to be part of the job description as a rangers, now not much surprised him but today had. Most of that surprise came from the young man in front of him, he was of slight build though to say he was not strong was probably wrong. His skin was dark red; he had large black eyes and long pointed ears. His skin was starting to scale like most Tal at his age, he almost resembled a Kaleesh. He was in a modified jedi robe with what appeared to be mandalorian armor and a DE-10 at his hip where usually you saw a light saber and on the other side a small sono saber.

"What's ya name boy" I asked in a monotone voice, having read his report I knew his name but decided to asked anyway. "Jin Calderian" he replied calmly but I could detect an underlining of irritation as expected. "When you speak to me you will always answer with sir or general Kahn is that clear" I replied monotone again "did they not teach you how to respect your superiors, when you were with the jedi order" his reply was brimming with sarcasm "no" "no what" "no sir" " that's better. Now as i understand it you were a somewhat of an oddity in the jedi order, as the age you were accepted was much older than the norm yes."he nodded "also that you are only a minor force sensitive and wouldn't have been accepted under normal circumstances is that correct" he replied was short and with forced nonchalance " yes, but theses days normal circumstance are hard to come by are they not". This was true, as the war had be going for a year now and the jedi were losing more and more to the war that needed to be replaced quickly. "True but even so it is still quite the oddity that you were accepted at all. but this matters little now as the jedi council has determined that you are to become a ranger." i paused to gage his reaction. I could tell he was annoyance but what I didn't expect to see was the surprise look on his face." as of such you are going to be tested to see if you have what it takes to be a ranger with the other new recruits" he looked annoyed even more so than before. " I thought that because of me jedi training I wo..." "would be give special treatment, that we'd let you straight in" i interrupted talking down to him " no that is not the case. Being a ranger is worlds apart from being a jedi youngling and as such you will be tested like everyone else got that recruit" "yes" "yes what" "yes sir" "that's better now ranger markson will take you to get a uniform and then to the training hall. Dismissed". This is going to be interesting to say the least.

Training hall. Jin Calderian.

As I walked into the large hall it looked like just an ordinary room nothing special, nothing on any surface apart from some lights set into the ceiling. I was escorted by my babysitter, markson i think his name was, to a group of 49 in the center, they consisted of a variant of species there was even an Echani and a wookie two species who barely left their home planets, but whatever the species they were all wearing the same drab gray one fits all uniform. As i got closer i noticed that like me they had been allowed to customize it in some way, some had parts of clone armor others had panted small decals on the sleeves. What peaked my interest was all of the different weapons they had ranging from just knives to the standard DC-15 and DC-15A blaster rifle. "now that the last recruit has entered the training hall we can begin" a voice, that sounded like the 'nuhun' of a general I was just with, Came over the pa "right to begin with we'll be testing speed and reaction time, but with all test survival will also be tested" this made some ,including me ,react in shock because as soon as he stopped speaking the floor started to fall away. Everybody scattered only for more floor tiles to fall away, like our weight was causing them to fall. I watched as a human had decided to stop to catch his breath only for them to vanish into the air. "oof" "watch wher..." said an Nautolan, luckily i was quicker to my feet but only just as the tile we had landed on fell with him still on it. There were few and fewer places to go. "five left" said an automated voice over the pa.

I fell, some pride wash over me as i fell replaced by pure terror as I was plunged into darkness only to be blinded seconds later, landing on what could only be described as a giant balloon. As my eyes adjusted to the room the I saw the other recruits were dusting themselves off with most moving over to a holo screen, to watch the remaining 4. Hesitating at first i joined them only for the Nautolan, the one i had ran into, to walk over to me. He skin was a deep green with black eyes similar to mine, his many letcha swaying as he walked. He was wearing the same uniform except he had ripped the sleeves and trouser legs off. "next time watch where you're going" his voice annoyed but also good natured like he was joking. "i'll try to" "what's your name Kaleesh" "Jin but i'm not Kaleesh i'm Tal" I answered calmly use to the mistake by now."Well Jin care to place a wager on who's going to win" he replied, with what could only be described as a swindlers grin on his face, I decided to play along as it couldn't hurt "who's left" "The wookey surprisingly light on its feet, the Echani to no one's surprise and the two Togruta." I decided that i was going to have some fun with him " 20 creds on the wookey then .." " Scarrow and that's fine by me cos you just lost" he said with a smirk as I heard a wookey wailing in the background. "So I have. Do you want them no..." "no need just some friendly betting" "thanks" "arr dont mention it, care for another how about which twin" he was cut off by two scream, of said twins, in the distance. he quickly turned and said to who i guessed was the human named David, "fork it over David 5 creds if i'm right" "Fine but how was i to know the sisters would just run into each other" he said with annoyance while handing over the creds "stop griping and pay up" only for the Echani to land behind Scarrow. David quickly snatched back the creds "hay you bet..." "yes but she didn't win so bets off" "hey just because none of us won ..." he was cut off by general Kahn "yes none of you won but all of you passed except David, Anthony, Ton-Ton, Comilla and Tommy you failed and your training ends here collect you things and follow Markson out of my sight" silence fell across the room as they left. "Congratulations to you for passing and all that, but the next test starts now" "what is the test about this time" i asked to which he just stared at me "sir" i added quickly "the next test" he glared at me some more than looked over the others "is endurance so get moving as it's a long from the top". The wookey made some noises that i guessed was speech as the general answered "the top of the base of course" it then dawned on me that we had just fallen down a very long way and he was expecting us to get back to the top. "oh and the turbo lift is broken so you'll have to use the stairs now get a move on recruits MOVE MOVE MOVE"