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.
Alberin Asteroid
Kalat Arm
2.8 BBY
Jannma relaxed herself after another search trying to find tendrils of information on Jahn and Petre. She still had a checklist to go over about the raid tomorrow, but the datapad lay untouched. Her brother came in to their tent see just what she was doing now, hoping against hope his sister had readied herself.
"Is the attack plan boring?" he asked.
"Did Juros and Jia write a new plan?" she answered "For they all seem to be the same. I concentrate on execution, these details get lost in the first thirty seconds in the fog of war."
"Gitrazin is a different place.." Darrin began.
"It is just another world with food, minerals and a breathable atmosphere. The Imps just want to place an encampment to provide for the expansion of the military by collecting resources. That we had people there first means little."
"Then maybe this will change your perspective." Darrin shoved a communications capture on his datapad at her. She started not to look and then picked it up and read seemingly compelled by something. Then she called up the audiofile of one transmission and pressed play.
"You arrogant dumbass! Did you not hear this?" She shouted jumping to her feet. She checked the terminal she was on and rapidly typed in parameters. "You short sighted idiot!"
"What has got your britches in a knot?" Darrin asked confused.
"Listen closely, remember when we heard that language every day?" She remarked disgustedly as the sounds of drips and splashed water came out of the speakers in seven layers. They looked at each other in recognition, one name on their mind, Jahn.
"Lets translate from the beginning of the transmissions and prepare to inform the Captain!"
Captain Juros was in his tent, looking over the battle plan one more time before the two out of breath Zeison Sha posted with him arrived.
"Captain" the lad started "we have news"
"So do I." Captain Juros added dryly.
"A secure communication" the girl panted "came in"
"About Gitrazin" the lad completed.
"Get your breath and settle down, what have you to report?" Juros calmly asked.
"It has troop strength, disbursing, posts, weapons placements, port, peoples, smugglers, farms and shipping. A detailed list is right here." And she slid her datapad with maps over to him through the Force.
"You know, Clone Wars vet or not, I still am not used to this." He took the floating datapad. "How did you get this information?" and the two Bernals chuckled weakly.
"Listening is what a confidential informant called it." She added.
"Trustworthy?" Captain Juros asked as Lt Jia Ji entered as if summoned.
"I trust him implicitly." Jannma finished.
"Because I was about to scrub the mission, some information came in you two may not be aware of arrived." And the captain stroked his head "Remember Jasrol Mintran?"
"He gave us our tests." Darrin stated while Jannma nodded.
"The Emperor got to him and recruited him. A band of his followers hold Sha Kalan now. There are reports of a bunch of losses, but maybe the Zeison Sha on Yanibar are tougher than he expected. Shastra had a mass exodus and the whispers of the "Child of the Jedi" have grown. Since the info on Gitrazin was from Mintran" he held up his hand "We were going to leave you two behind as a precaution and leave one hour early so we would not risk your allegiance. This new intel changes our game along with a smuggler's hyperlane route in." he looked at the data "Looks like you are coming along after all. Provided you believe the informant."
"Sir, the informant IS THE CHILD OF THE JEDI." Darrin proclaimed.
"We grew up with him." Jannma beamed "And I, am his fiancé."
"Very good, Keep that last bit to yourself Jannma. It is dangerous knowledge. Lt Jia, look over this, delay boarding one hour and then add this intel to your battle plan. We finalize preparations directly before boarding."
"Should we vet the source transmissions." Lt Jia asked "We have had misinformation."
"I think the Zeison Sha here believe, so I do as well. Moreover if you scroll to the bottom it appears a battle plan has been drawn for some key points." And he looked at the two "Pardon me for asking, was the message truly secure?" to the twins smiled.
"I think according to the message there is only five alive with knowledge of the language and its nuances. Imp codebreakers will spend years trying to work it out." Jannma said proudly to Captain Juros' nod.
"How so?" Lt Jia asked.
"He invented it and it requires ….. memories…" Jannma began "and the reason we know the knowledge of it is lessened, he informed us of his father's death at the hand of slavers."
"Petre was some two hundred years old and mostly retired. His son's birth was unexpected." Darrin finished
"Then continue on preparing, Lt. rearrange the battle plan, I have to prepare myself as well." Captain Juros stood "Dismissed!"
The freighter Jannma was on as part of the Diskblade Alliance attack force had been modified for troops. On this group was the heavy strike infantry. Their job was to be first down and secure the port. They had two fighters as an escort to try to take out artillery and her group was to storm the gates. Lt. Jia Ji commanded the team which included a Herglic and the best commando team the Diskblade Alliance had. Lt. Jia had her with Drado as Jannma's leader. She felt like that was overkill to have the Kyuzo watch her and her brother but as dicey as this battle could become, maybe it was a great idea. After all, if it proved they were in league with Mintran, the unit had to be wary and able to take them down.
"Atmo in two…" Lt Jia called getting them to check their gear. One thing Jahn hhad recommended was light artillery. Rocket and grenade launchers with the two Zeison Sha carrying a variety and a suggestion to use the grenades like exploding diskblades. She thought that was a bit much but he had seen the defenses and their info might be tainted.
Jannma felt like she was surrounded by all her family throughout all the ages as she meditated, one person, faceless, came up and draped a scarlet cloak around her with a kiss saying "Remember THE WELL" before disappearing.
She came out of the reverie as the door began to open before the landing was complete. The Force surged in her and carried her like a wave forward. Her seat harness disconnected and she flung her diskblade out through the slit of the boarding ramp as she raced diving head first as it widened out of the shuttle. Her mind was in the future as she rolled and came to a hardened box that had soldiers firing from behind it before her blade that had clipped stormtroopers on the right came back to her on the left dropping those firing from the other side of her barrier. She hopped over it and ran drawing fire from the rest of the pill boxes tossing grenades as she flashed by. The troopers in a firing line tracker her progress adding to the confusion as they shot their own in the crossfire instead of the opening hatch of the transport. She swept the blade forward taking the last out who were engaging her brother as she completed her circuit having neutralized three levels of defense.
"Move out! Grab extra ammo on the way!" shouted Lt. Jia as Drado caught up to her grabbing her arm.
"That was not the battle plan, but good." He stated in Huttese, it was also the first words she ever heard him utter. And she grabbed two E-11 blasters with the Force and extra ammo belts in an X across her chest.
Her next objective was a port tower where she lobbed an ion grenade before firing at the two defenders above covering Drado and Darrin rushing to the door. When defensive fire concentrated on the inside she gave a leap aided by the Force onto the roof before swinging down into the balcony to finish the vertical pincer move ending the Imperial resistance. From there they continued to use the high ground to snipe from the balcony and cleared the way for the Herglic to force their way to the compound as alliance troops from the other sides of the city converged. Soon the expeditionary force was taking artillery fire and a cannon shook the tower.
"Time to go!" Yelled Darrin as he leaped toward a building and Drado repelled before she changed course and leaped directly toward a municipal building with two grenades racing in front of her suppressing fire when they hit. She began a zig zag path toward the depot hurling three more grenades which exploded in the alley past the next house before she jumped dead behind a platoon of wounded stormtroopers who were on an intercept course for Darrin and Drado.
"I'll accept your surrender now Imps." She began as they turned, obviously not surrendering by the weapons pointing at her. For some reason light shone on the dumpster they had just passed, it was an old model with wheels. She spun it for cover and ran pushing it with the Force right at the stormtroopers. When she reached the end of the alley, those not ground to pulp when she started rolling it over them after the wheels ground away were dead from Drado and Darrin hitting them from the rear.
"Thanks sis!" Darrin added while Drado grunted.
"I need four more grenades NOW!" she demanded as she discarded two blasters while two more with fresh bandoliers flew to her. When they gave them to her she said "All on the rooftops now! much faster!" Darrin levitated Drado up as he leaped and they continued Pressing the objective as the transports moved in for fire support and troop / weapon retrieval.
The objective depot was by now finished as when they reached it all support towers were knocked down. However one transport exploded falling on its attacker as the sound of two AT/AT heavy walkers sounded. One left! Jannma meditated as she ran pell mell right towards it and saw just what she needed in a large tree. Her grenades raced after her diskblade as it made two cuts before returning home as the grenades arrived dropping the tree on the walker, tipping it over to explode as internal gear shook loose. Satisfied she had done all she could she ran hard to make it back to her transport as a lone A-7 imperial fighter broke through.
She reached out almost to her limit and used the tree again, this time as a fly swatter knocking it from the air as she collapsed in exhaustion a mere sixteen meters from the transport. She saw before losing consciousness, on a clothes line in the distance, a scarlet cloak flapping in the breeze as a shadow fell across her and lifted her up.
Notes, I do not own Lucas or Disney property 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 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 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.)
