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.

Takobo

Hammertown Spaceport

1 BBY

The Rebels huddled with the young children they had been sent to save. Surrounding them was a cordon of stormtroopers and four Imperial Inquisitors in red robes. Surrender seemed the only option to them. Asoka Tano readied herself as 20 drones swept into the room and engaged the stormtroopers with blaster fire. Two Droids thrown by the Force and armed heavily launched over the ring from two sides and the Inquisitors tried to get them but missed as a glowing buzzsaw blade laid into the stormtroopers. As she entered the fray to take on a pair of Inquisitors another suited warrior wearing a Kyuzo battle helm and holding a strange electro staff entered simultaneously and immediately began engaging two Inquisitors who shouted "Kratovas Wildman!" as he leaped into the fray intercepting the other two.

"Space!" He shouted as he swiftly battered and drove his foes until one decided to flip over him in a flanking maneuver to land headless behind him as another buzz saw left his back doing the deed. The foe's lightsaber jumped toward his staff which even as he parried a strike from the front, spun to impale his foe.

Asoka was hard pressed using all her skills when she felt the stormtroopers and two inquisitors were no more and the Force swirled around her from behind as the deadly buzzsaws engaged her opponents. While they parried easily the blades did a pirouette and still beheaded the two Inquisitors before returning to whence they came.

"You think they would have learned something about that by now." came the obviously adolescent voice of the young one behind her. "I wish they would just stand down for once." He turned to her with an elaborate bow, elbows bent palms up and open "Jahn Misu, Child of the Jedi and Zeison Sha, Kratovas Wildman by reputation with the Imps, Asoka." He addressed her.

"I am glad you came, strange they sent so many inquisitors…" she began.

"And four initiate underlings…" he added showing his collection of lightsabers along his belt as he added the last two.

"For eight Force sensitive children." They finished in unison.

"They have been collecting them a while, I followed them across seventeen systems on this little roundup, I thank your men for the help." Jahn said "One has to remember though, the people we are dealing with need a grist mill. Those who do not die get promoted and the toughest and cagiest rise to contend to be one of the two." He looked around to the Rebels "Your ship? We need to move." A bag flew to him and all the drone parts flew into it.

"These two with you?" the leader asked pointing to the droids and Jahn nodded. "This is going to be a tight fit." They swiftly boarded the freighter and left the spaceport.

"You are alone out here?" Asoka asked during the flight.

"I am never alone, for the Force is my ally. I am never defenseless, because the Force is my shield. I am never helpless, because the Force is my tool." He smiled "That is the Zeison Sha code. I could wear your ears out with a list of lessons from my home world. But this holocron I brought as introduction to some of my lessons should help you discern my intent." He looked beyond her a bit "item two on "my to do list" is simple, aiding you."

"Why would that be a priority?" Asoka looked at him.

"Because you are one of the two pebbles that hits two more, causing the rockslide needed to reveal that which I search for." And he dug through his bag of scrap for a set of 3 black probes and a box. "You know how to use these, just place the pieces in space where you believe they will do the most good and do with the information they gather what you believe is right."

"You are different, if you would like I could teach you…"

"Many things" he interrupted with a halt gesture "and I you as well. Zeison Sha Force telekinesis is the most comprehensive in the galaxy." He said as a statement of fact "But I caution you upon a thinking, and a paradigm, the next words you were going to use included master." He looked at her with total seriousness "That word, is dangerous in the Force, as near as bad as hate. Mastery of the Force is a Sith mindset, not the way to harmony which is the true goal." And he looked at her as she accepted this concept "We of the Sha hold this as a constant, the base and for eons our isolation allowed us to strive toward the whole being in the living Force."

"You have much wisdom for one so young and yet."

"I need much training, specifically in lightsaber and have a few months to spare to do so even while working with the two we sense at our destination." He sighed "Then my half sister will arrive to pick me up and take me to my wife as you place the pebbles where needed."

"You are married at such a young age?" She looked surprised.

"My Asawa is handling other pieces to the puzzle even as my enterprise works to unravel the rest." He looked through her in an eyes open meditation, the one showing clearly a moon firing a beam and destroying a planet visible to both. "This is a thing become clearer each day, the name of the place is unknown, only that the event is drawing near. I must find it and this weapon, removing it from the universe." Her eyes were wide in shock.

"I was unaware and did not see that coming. I wonder if your feelings are clear."

"I have felt this vision for years as the actual preparations and testing before the final build began." Then he spoke a secret he had told only two others before "The Emperor and I share a similar affinity in one talent alone in the Force, the vision, the ability to see and cloud in the shadows. Almost all other things we have differing abilities."

"Well even though you are young, count me in to do…" she responded with fervor.

"Just be yourself, follow the moment or even better ten seconds ahead and place those tools. They will lead you to the answer I seek allowing you let the rebellion know. That will allow the New Hope to oppose the New Order." And she nodded.

"What was I to train you in?" she asked.

"Lightsaber, while I may never face your instructor, my fate does depend on a much greater proficiency." He smiled "and maybe with enough water available I can teach you the delicate lessons I learned including" he held up dug up a version 2 diskblade in a harness "my Zeison Sha weaponry, a barter as payment just as it would be on my home world," then he whispered "Fulcrum fits this mission exactly." As she nodded in acknowledgement.

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.)