Space, on the bridge of the Inexpugnable-Class tactical command ship: Valiance. 1800 Hours, (RST)
The tactical command ship Valiance, was large and deadly. It was equipped with eight, sets of two, twin gun batteries. The command center was located under its main superstructure, toward the back. Its circular structure also held several considerably extensive hangers toward the bow.
Its propulsion systems were also impressive, the enormous structure was moved by four large thrusters, and these were powered by engines under the central area of the ship.
Malak felt rather impressed as he looked around.
Revan and Aiden were standing close by with Yusanis, Arren and Brianna. Not to say that he was far away from the group, he had simply wandered over a few feet to the right in his 'inspection' of the bridge.
Malak had seen battle ships, and frigates and star fighters, hell; he'd even seen support ships like orbital shuttles…. Nothing he had seen in his twenty-odd years of life had ever been like this….
Brianna looked to be in a similar state, though, minus the slack jawed wonder that Malak seemed to hold…. She had only traveled on smaller ships, like the Ebon Hawk before, and the Hawk held many people with ease.
she looked up at Aiden, who was standing next to her and saw that he was listening to the conversation going on between her father and Revan…however, the twenty one year old knight could not understand a word of the rushed Echani….
Arren was looking over the shoulder of an unsuspecting Republic officer at their computer station…. Brianna rolled her eyes, typical, she thought, peeved.
Thinking back over the last day and a bit, the young Echani could hardly believe that so much had happened in such a short amount of time.
By the end of the interrogation, the mandalorian major had said but two words, no matter what sort of 'persuasion' was presented to him, he was still with his men on the planet, though, he was currently in solitary confinement, and would be for a while….
The two left with the STALKER-class ship had been hauled in questioned, and then shoved into the cell with the rest of their companions.
Revan had come back from his meditations early, and then immediately demanded to see Yusanis. He called together the Echani elders and the Jedi masters and held a short meeting. According to Arren, Revan had received a vision through the Force, and was now, after several months of originally scouting around with fellow Jedi, joining the Republic war effort officially.
According to Aiden, who Brianna had spoken to during the trip, for the past five plus standard months, Revan , Malak, himself and several other Jedi Revan had recruited to their cause, had scouted out almost all of the possible areas that the mandalorians could use to gain a foothold against the Republic.
All information that would be necessary to help the Republic in battle was taken and analyzed by the group, then it was put into complex , encrypted files by Revan himself to hand over to Republic intelligence when he deemed it necessary to finally join the actual Republic forces; versus scouting about with his Jedi friends.
After landing in one of the several large hangars, the in the Hawk; the large group plus the several other ships full of Echani warriors , and the Jedi rescued from Taris, they had been greeted by a few wide-eyed, green recruits… that gawked.
The recruits had then called down their Chief petty officer, who looked a little stunned to see the supposedly 'uninvolved' Jedi in his hangar bay and the 'undecided' Echani, not to mention that the General Yusanis was among them….
Brianna had to give the man a few respect points though, the Chief had recovered after only a few seconds and immediately escorted her father, mother, Revan, Aiden and Malak, plus herself up to the bridge, while the other sixty that had accompanied them were escorted by the few recruits to a separate part of the Valiance.
Brianna had watched Malak and Corina exchange a glance of unwillingness to part ways…
But, Revan had given Malak a pointed look, and the tall knight had made a shooing motion toward the padawan, who had nodded and then followed her master, Aiofe, to wherever the recruits were taking them.
Malak followed Revan at his usual long-legged pace, looking just a little dejected. Aiden had elbowed his tall friend in the side and rolled his eyes at him.
Malak squinted down at his shorter friend and 'hmphed', his eyes glinting with mock seriousness.
Aiden raised an eyebrow in mock offense and then pretended to ignore the tall knight.
If Revan noticed his friend's strange behavior, he was ignoring it, or immune to it…. Brianna was not certain of which it was….
When they had reached the bridge, the chief had promptly excused himself, saying that he would be right back after he grabbed the Captain….
It had been roughly ten minutes since then….
Revan looked over from his conversation with Yusanis to the secondary door that had just whooshed open.
Out of it came a man that was about six feet tall with brown hair that had a few random bangs fell over brown eyes, and a very, very orange flight jacket. He made his way over to the group of Echani and Jedi quickly, followed closely by the Chief petty officer.
When he came closer, the orange flight jacket man did a bit of a double take at Malak, due to the sheer height of the man.
Revan smirked slightly at the man, who turned to face him after a moment with his eye brows raised slightly.
"Are you the Captain?" Aiden asked the man.
He shook his head, "Negative, my name is Lieutenant Carth Onasi. Captain Karath is my mentor. He's in a meeting at the moment; he's asked me to bring you down to his office. Who are you, by the way?" Carth asked his brown eyes looking curiously at Aiden.
"Jedi Knight Aiden Kenobi." Aiden replied offering his hand for a shake.
Carth took it and shook, when he released and looked at Revan.
"And you?" he asked.
"Jedi Knight Revan." Revan said, still smirking slightly.
Carth returned the smirk and finished introductions with Arren, Yusanis, and Brianna.
He then turned to Malak.
"Ummmm-"Carth did not get a chance to finish his sentence as Malak pulled a face and held up a large hand.
"I know, I'm the tallest human that you've ever seen, blah, blah, blah…. My name's Malak, I'm a Jedi knight."
Carth chucked good naturedly, causing Malak to lift a brow. "Alright, alright, I guess you get that tall jibe a lot then…."
"You have no idea…." Malak replied smacking himself on the forehead, then smiling at the good natured lieutenant.
"Well, if you'll all follow me, I'll take you down to Saul's office." Carth said, and then turned to the Chief Petty officer, "that will be all, thank you for bringing them up."
"Yessir." The Chief replied respectfully, then exited the bridge through the door he had brought the group through fifteen minutes earlier.
"Right then, this way." Carth said moving back over to the secondary door had emerged from naught five minutes ago.
Revan followed the brown haired man, and the group followed Revan through the door.
The door led to a hallway that was lit by fluorescent lights sunk into the walls along the edges of the ceiling and lining the now blue carpeted floor.
They were obviously getting closer to the engine room as they walked down the long hallway, because the hum of the four engines to power the inexpugnable-class ship was getting louder by the second.
They finally came to the end of the hallway, and it separated into two different doors. One on the right and one straight ahead, to what Revan assumed was the engine room.
Carth lifted a key out of the front right breast pocket of his orange flight jacket and slid it through the access panel to the captain's office. The door opened without any sound and the group followed Carth in.
"Well, this is it. This is Captain Karath's office." Carth said waving one hand to all of the room. "Make yourselves, uh, comfortable I guess. He might be a few minutes; he was dealing with a bit of a crisis on Taris the last time I checked… I don't think he's left his meeting room all day, actually…." Carth said plopping himself down into one of the several seats in front of a durasteel desk
Revan looked around for a while, there as a holographic projection computer system on one wall and one built into the desk by the looks of it. The office was not overly ostentatious at all, and that told Revan much about the man he was about to meet
. The man was precise by what Revan could tell, he was to the point and he didn't like to beat around the bush, just like Revan. What sort of personality the man had outside of his military life, Revan did not know.
There were no personal effects in the room, not even a picture of perhaps an old squad the man had been on…nothing.
Revan raised an eyebrow to this discovery, either Karath didn't have a life outside of the military, or he didn't want to think about it… and when you don't want to think about something… Revan knew that feeling all too well….
The door slid open after several minutes of quiet from everyone in the room, barely anyone noticed. Captain Karath was a quiet man, when he spoke, and when he walked apparently.
" Are these the people we were informed about Carth?" he asked in an even tone, it did however sound slightly wearied, as though he had not had much time to do anything but listen to problems all day.
"Yessir, they are. These people are Jedi Knights: Revan, Aiden Kenobi, and Malak, General Yusanis of the Echani and Arren Kae and Brianna." Carth said promptly pointing to each person as he introduced them to Captain Karath.
"Jedi knights?" Saul asked, curious as to why they were even here, on his ship in the first place…. Especially when they showed such disapproval for the Republic war effort….
Revan was the one to answer Saul, "I hope our presence is not a problem, captain Karath. My friends" Revan motioned to Aiden and Malak, "and I have been working unofficially for the Republic for the last five-plus standard months. We have scouted out many of the possible territories that the mandalorians will attempt to take, and we have spoken to several mandalorians. We," Revan motioned to the small group, "have decided that the council is taking far too long in 'assessing' this threat… and my friends, and several others that will be joining up with us within the next several weeks." Revan explained crossing his arms over his chest.
Saul looked somewhat confused, "what do you mean, 'join up with 'us'?'" he asked a few seconds of silence.
"I thought that was obvious, captain Karath." Revan said in a relaxed manner, denoting his relatively easy going disposition. "We're leaving the Jedi to join the Republic."
Saul Karath and Carth Onasi's eyes widened in shock.
Uhhhh... Hi? Ummm, yeah... it's been a month since I last updated...
I don't really think sorry is adequate enough for an apology... but, if it helps at all... I'm sorry I haven't updated in fifty gazillion years!
erm... this chapter was like... really fillerish, but I needed to write it, and get it over with... I had severe writers block... which is really, really weird coming from me...because I NEVER get writers block! I think it's all Saul Karath's fault... I blame HIM!! -points finger accusingly-
P.S.: to anyone that actually read Knight of the Old Republic, the comic... I know it's supposed to be the Courageous that Saul is in command of... but I like Valiance better... and it is my fic, so I renamed it, and don't expect that battle to go the way you expect it to...you know the one of which I speak!
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