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.
Rakjas Spaceport, Kratovas
2.7 BBY
"Well, lets go rally our troops, ready you two?" Lt Jia asked.
Lt. Jia moved her force and set up a defensive perimeter with three fallbacks. "Jannma, you have the first ring, and make them pay dearly for every inch you give. Drado, you and I help her." as the Lt. took to commanding her troops.
When the Imperials came Jia's heart dropped, they were Stormtroopers, "They must really want that kid badly."
Jannma and Drado were above the troopers when they came and set up a perimeter. "Surrender now Resistance Scum!" she motioned to Drado, released her diskblade and fell into a fighting trance. She dropped into a fire unit of three killing them with quick neck strikes while her adrenalin pumped as her blade did its deadly work. Soon between the crossfire of the resistance and the soldiers behind the stormtroopers, from Drado, and her disk blade, the enemy started dropping like flies. Friendly fire, Jahn had just said, can be your friend. She rushed into the white troopers telekinetically throwing them this way and that, she even began guiding their own weapons to add to the friendly fire. After she used up their usefulness, she ended them with her diskblade. The main force was behind her 10 meters now and firing madly as she grabbed bodies, parts anything to defend herself. A blaster shot from the army troops burned and scored her left trapezius and she went down under a pile of bodies as the crossfire from resistance and imperials reached a crescendo above her. The imperial lines moved right over her as she placed a bandage and med pack on the wound and drank from the flask Jahn left her. Then her eyes settled on a bomb pack counting down.
"This was a suicide mission for them?" she realized and that with the drink taking hold galvanized her like no other time before.
Lt Jia felt the fear of defeat pressing in on her troops, even with the additions Jahn had left her they were outnumbered twenty to one at the beginning of this fight. Now it looked like ten to one as her force of forty original resistance members was now down twenty and her Zeisson Sha looked like she was dead, shot in the neck. Drado came up to her, rearmed and ready to help her fall back under the pressure making a last stand. At least the Stormtroopers were gone as they traded blaster fire. The kid did say only a handful would survive. The she saw an explosion of white armored flying bodies and a diskblade swooping around as Jannma rose with a feral snarl on her face and a blaster in each hand providing the crossfire that proved so effective before.
Jannma used the Force to aid in aim and to dodge as her diskblade acted like a mad buzz saw beheading or dismembering foe after foe. She rushed them gaining weapon after weapon, empty blasters impaling foes and she swept the diskblade though the last six before she reached Lt. Jia . One imperial soldier began to rise and take aim to shoot her and she raised a half dead soldier to block the shot before breaking the shooter's neck with a gesture as Drado finished his last two. Before her was Lt. Jia Ji, Drado, and four others.
"We need to leave, there is about fourteen high explosives throughout the buildings they set to remove the evidence here and get any sleepers. I fell on one, we have three minutes." She kept walking right past the Lt. calling her gory diskblade to her "LETS MOVE NOW!"
The Phoenix Hawk left the facility just in time as the facility blew up on the burn off the planet.
Jahn raced behind Irene as she pressed forward toward the military base. Two A-7 fighters swooped down towards them seeing the lit light staff.
"Lightsaber fixation indeed." Jahn thought as he prepared himself in the future. The lead craft fired its canon and he batted it back using the saber with a huge outpouring of Force energy hitting it just right and colliding with the wingman until they death spiraled into the first turbolaser battery. Which fired a wild shot hitting the second battery. Jahn gasped as the lights went out on over one hundred living beings but …. He felt right still. And this somewhat bothered him.
"So that means there is just two to go now Jahn!" Shouted an impressed windblown Irene. "Good news, only things in the sky are leaving from the cargo port."
"I hope its not my Boss yet." Jahn drew strength from the feeling Jannma was still alive. He needed to knock the last two out so she could escape. His legs started churning as the recovery of youth energized him. "I must remember to thank Shay for the body glove" he thought as it was the missing link in his protection. They raced onward leaping into the air toward the morass of people fighting in the military field.
Once down he got his bearings and picked up as many pieces of cover the Empire hid behind sending the crates and bulwarks tumbling. Seeing his target he raced headlong at the nearest tower as it turned towards him lowering its guns. Two pieces of fragged loader flew to cover him as he reached up with the saber one more time deflecting the shot from it into the barracks. Shaking he brought his arm down amazingly still intact from the intense heat as the barracks collapsed behind him. Drawing the Force in a wide maelstrom he rose again flinging the saber with it to the turbolaser, chopping the guns then as he ducked for cover under the loader chopping its support it exploded as the light staff returned.
A warning from the Force had him launch sideways into a roll as the skip loader evaporated from the last tower's fire. All the ion grenades he had streaking like guided missiles toward it and the openings in its unfinished shielding. When they went off he dashed from cover behind the war helm and reached the foot of the battery, three slashes with the light staff started it toppling to the ground directly on the remaining defenders building causing a huge explosion.
He looked at his helmet before he began the run to the cargo port, the battle here and his part done. It looked like it had taken over 100 frag grenades. Pocked and shrapnel all over it he could tell it was done, would take no more damage meant for him.
"You said you had to go after this?" Irene asked as she came to him breathing hard as well.
"Yep." And he held out the helmet "For a museum display about today." Which caused her to laugh.
"It will be my honor, and here, Petre's diskblade, you deserve and earned the right to be considered Zeison Sha Warrior and Jedi Knight today, with no shame." Irene said looking fondly "What is your name young one?"
"I am named Jahn Petre Allyan the Misu Chico." He said solemnly. "You are right, I have a ride to catch, say hi to L'Arel for me." He started running as the pile of dead he caused weighed on him. He looked catching Darrin's eye and wave, the knowledge he had saved him from the turbolaser death as well came uplifting his spirits, a Herglic also waved as he caught the sight of the Phoenix Hawk "The Nomad Sentry" rise. Jannma was there and on it. These truths lifted his run as he tried to outpace his part and responsibility in causing so much loss of life.
Maz was about to raise the boarding ramp when the kid ran in looking like a bit of a battle dirty wreak.
"Welcome back." She simply said to him as he stole by with hunched shoulders, receiving no response.
"Shay, get us out of here, we have money to make!" she called as the ship soared skyward.
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.)
