The Clouds Align For Battle
Chapter 30: What's Sown
I own not those situations I borrow from Disney Properties, Lucas, Mechalich or Thomas Benjamin DeMayo. This is a dramatization from my mind on a character created from the meld of table gaming and so on. Special thanks to ideas Drew Karpyshyn and Tim Lebbon fermented. Special thanks to Morihei Ushiba who formed Petre with his wisdom. Like any mind construct this is an exercise and my own work building on other ideas from the past.
This is a Zeison Sha story, set in what is known as the Star Wars EU.
Shanev
1.1BBA
"The real way of the warrior is based on compassion, wisdom, fearlessness and a love of the natural." Jahn taught to the gathered Sha and Shanev. "This is why we need these people, to not return them with this lesson will instead bring more of them in retaliation."
"But we will have you to help defend us!" the tribal Elder shouted pumping his spear in the air whipping the Shanev throng to a frenzy.
"I do not see that happening." Jahn stated so flatly the crowd was stunned to silence, letting the power of the words sweep the assembled.
"You would leave us to be slaughtered?" the stunned crowd murmured.
"Your choice now before you is peace or endless war, I will not invest in your glory of war. I will invest in your peaceful isolation. Its your choice, I cannot make it for you just as I cannot make choices for my brethren. I have another choice before me, one I will make soon." Jahn stepped through a berm of thorny vines that had parted to allow his passage and surrounded the captives, to stand among them. "So in this let me do as I may." Jannma "Liger" Bernal, Lyi "Japord" Chinwe and Ni'ko "Wolf Bear" Shan all joined him as they took out knives to begin cutting fetters once they chose.
"Who are you? What is the name of the faceless warrior who wishes no war."
"I am the Zeison Sha Misu." Jahn said with granite in his resonate armored voice.
"Take them away and yourself as well." The Shanev leader said waving a hand in dismissal not even bothering with the basic tongue.
"I will go with him." Jannma, their greatest hero, stated in her clear as a bell voice, in Shaneva, their language.
"AS DO WE!" Dar'n and the rest of the Sha stated shocking the crowd.
The crowd, stunned murmured before and admitted defeat. The Elder held up his hand "Without the Sha, we would have lost long ago. We know not why no Sha are born among us, only that it is so. We are sorry you do not respect our values, grateful for your assistance, and we will honor your memory and ponder your words as we allow you to take the blood debtors away."
"Thank you for your wisdom elder scholar. I may return at a later date if allowed by the Force." Jahn said in their language before opening up the brambles in a path toward Puffy with a casual wave of his hand.
Once onboard the Ranger crew fettered the prisoners a bit differently.
"Has anything changed?" Jannma whispered to Jahn.
"Akumi has not reached Sha Kalan yet so no. Yet we have so little time asawa ko." Jahn said looking around. "I think the three heroes, the Rangers, and I will stand honor guard for the exchange."
"That is a risk." Lyi Chinwe said.
"If the imps try anything, we take their shuttle then their ship." Jahn said flatly. "They will find out what false negotiation buys and Zeison Sha are capable of."
"Rebellious scum!" the Sargent Major spat listening in to the last discussion. "You have no right!..."
"Which is why" Jahn cut him off "You have us opposing you. You take by strength, you arbitrarily assume everyone else has no rights. Clones like you should relate Tachy." Jahn said evenly as his face twisted. "Your old buddy Rex would agree." "Tachy" had a look of extreme confusion after that name dropped. Jahn had been amazed at how close Tachy resembled an older version of him.
"Jedi scum!" Tachy spat which brought laughter from the Sha.
"Many of us Sha have voiced just that, like you just did." Lyi chuckled to their shock.
While this went on Ni'ko looked at "the exotic beauty" Carrera, a ranger that had caught his eye as she walked up grabbing a chicken leg before resuming her walk of the battlefield looking for her brothers from Carida, one a storm trooper, the other a slave brought in to farm. She made sure they received proper pyres daring all Shanev to shoot her down if they could. Ni'ko stood by her to ensure her threat was not called after watching her. Jannma was…. An ideal, Zeison Sha perfection… this woman moved him like no other, almost like she was perfect for him.
Lt. Horn, onboard a shuttle with five storm troopers EVA ready to board the larger YV stood in wait to capture the rebels and get their people back before they shot down the two ancient star destroyers.
Malcomb checked the secure data link he had with the Crow, operational, more than one shot showed for all her guns as well. The Raven's turbolasers were also in a better state of readiness.
"Go Jahn Go." Was his silent wish.
Jahn who while fully armored kept his external tells in check. He just stood with a blaster rifle at his side (the DBA had salvaged ALL blaster weapons and grenades as the Shanev saw the "burners" as "unclean") looking like a bounty hunter should. The prisoners were fitted with a special self contained breath mask activated when the external filter got clogged.
"We are sorry your cohorts may not have this protection, but you see" Lyi Chinwe lectured them "they may have some strange idea about picking a fight. Misu will lead you across the gantry. And if your pilots respond well, you will be flying home safe with no incident. If Captain Piet has issues, you all die." She looked them over "Questions?" she saw just stunned looks "Good!"
"Daisy cutter is ready!" Called Ni'ko.
"Trigger set?" Jannma asked.
"Yes Liger."
"Oh and that big bomb is going with you to ensure you leave." Lyi Chinwe said with finality.
They hooked the chain of prisoners, all wearing the masks and blindfolded, to the medium grade repulsor pallet jack handle and when the gantry was set sealed and ready, he led them out to the shuttle.
When he arrived at the shuttle, to the pointed weapons of the special ops storm troopers there Jahn gave a "no no" gesture with one hand and a tap tap gesture with the other pointing out the UHE symbol on the crate.
Lt. Horn gestured for him to get out of the way.
Jahn pointed to the keyhole lens and mic on the crate before jerking his thumb at keyhole lenses on all the prisoners before shrugging.
He led the prisoners onboard which cramped the space in the shuttle thanks to the "daisy cutter" then showed his fingers walking down the gantry, and the fast fingers…. He then showed a bounty hunter ID for someone called "Deathstalker" before giving an ok gesture.
Halfway down the gantry though someone ungagged a prisoner who yelled "TRAP!"
And Jahn's famous glue charges fired coating and sealing the compartment before the gantry was disconnected and retracted as a burst transmission was sent to the Raven. He calmly used the eva suit to re-enter "Puffy" as Malcomb hailed Peit.
"Captain Bax goo.." Peit started before Malcomb cut him off.
"I have an important communique for you idiot! First you tried to cross the Sha, hell even a blind bantha knows better than that in this arm of space! Second, they glued the gank out of that shuttle, Fourth and most important you forgot to watch the space junk you are floating in. which is why I moved away from that exact area."
"And that concerns me…. How?"
"You are in the middle of a UHE mine field that just went active. Which is what that LT to your left is GOING TO TELL YOU."
Malcomb waited for the comfirmation their dummy mines would show up. "You now have three minutes to leave the area or… another imp SD bites it."
"I am sure…"
"Oh and that shuttle? One on there too, so you can take what intel those crewmen give you or die. I suggest you leave as we negotiated for only when it is out of the Kalat Nebula will the mined be dormant."
"We will be back." Captain Peit said with restrained rage.
"Aw hell, you may be back LATER, but NN is reporting another shipyard and a garrison on Bannister so…. I think we will be a much LOWER priority for some time way out here at the END OF NOWHERE and by the time your empire gets to us, well, odds are our ships will be a bit nicer, pilots more plentiful and STILL have the Sha. BAX OUT."
"Everything ready?" Malcomb said with nerves showing.
"Still green to fire."
Then the imperial SD jumped out on a Gitrazin course.
Two hours later the word came they jumped the Gitrazin gap to Smuggler's run causing a dance on the bridge. A scroll came across his tactical data board they "supposedly controlled".
Damn Bax! I woulda thought you'd realize by now I do not leave my investments in trouble! J-Boy
"Captain, who wrote that?"
"Some smart ass kid that the Sha call Misu. Should be called many other things." He turned to the droids "Well? go get the damn salvage on Shanev and out there! We have a whole bunch of crap to piece together at Garage 8. Lets Go Lets Go Lets Git Er Dun!" he finished clapping his hands urgently. His eyes looked at a list of gambling halls in the Kalat Arm…. Or what looked to be a blank page to him Jahn had sent him. "Its my choice and my mind trick" he smiled. "I just hope I never have to SHOOT at one." and the thought brought him mirth, "Out of sight, out of mind he repeated."
Thus ends Act 3 of "the Sha Chronicles: Book 1: Its Immaterial" Post comments if you desire.
Act one gives a picture of Yanab life sans the Twi'Lek settlements (which ARE there and only Twi'Lek Sha were hidden in Sha Gralan) and the Fall of Sha Kalan.
Act two fleshes the political structure, doing more staging, fleshing family out more,
Act three is decision time and the calm before the war … ends.
Then the tide turns to the Ripples in the Wake, Book 2 of Its Immaterial
The First Act is "The Search for the Weapon"
There may be more acts to come, after all this is space opera.
I am never alone, for the Force is with me
I am never defenseless for the Force is my shield
I am never ignorant for the Force guides me to knowledge
I am never helpless for the Force is my tool
Zeison Sha Code…
Yanibar's Rules
Upang Ashla palanging maging tapat (To Ashla {good [the light side of the Force]}, always be faithful)
Hunt those that forget rule one
Forgive those that re-remember it
Dark side does not strengthen, it is cancerous, weakening survival. Thus it has no place in the winds.
There is No Such Thing as Coincidence
Do Not Waste Good
Encourage Good's Growth
Encourage Self Actualization
But do not Encourage Dependence
The biggest obstacle to learning something new is the belief that you already know it.
Seek Places For All to Contribute
Be Self Sufficient
Always Work as a Team
Do Not Waste Resources
Never Take Anything for Granted
Always Look to See
Always Be Prepared
Always Have a Food, Drink, a Rope and a Knife
Te Amo Asawa Ko