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.

Kanata 1

2.4 BBY

"I take it you have some success?" Maz looked around.

"We have! And.." began Ashla.

"And used Jahn's Valuable Combat training time as usual, Zuvio, go work him out!" and she turned to the team. "You tested two and made two blasters?" she said looking them over.

"One for you boss." Which brought a smile to Maz. "now to extrapolate those lessons with Kel there into the staves and pikes he wishes. The Zeison Sha and Jedi shall have more options than before." Then she looked at the new helmet / ceremonial shield "He wishes these on it?" pointing to round balls along the edge.

"Again, it gives his an edge he says, something he can empower like his diskblade to handle other combatants." Ashla answered as he looked over at Kae and Shay diligently re colorizing the livery they made for him, which brought a smile to her face as she walked over to them.

"I understand you had a bit of a shock there?" and she looked at Shay who nodded "not knowing the man you love has other family, descended from your race unnerves you but explains much now does it not?"

"What do you mean?" Shay asked.

"He kept you less close because he did not want relations with a possible sister which he knew he had and was Zeltron. I think he believed that since you shot his father's murderer." Maz stated as she turned away to check on Jahn while Shay gasped. "Just so you know he got a sample of Soransa's blood, and it is being tested against yours." This left the two girls looking at each other as she walked away.

On her way she looked at the droid repurposing facility she had built on his urging. A total of 70 recycled, mining enhanced droids stood there being loaded for shipment to Skip 1 or 2 auction then off to Outer Rim Oreworks. The recycling project was minor but with the ability to load and smuggle by the subsidiary just worked, and was small enough that Longrun and Coldiron did not get interested in a recycling effort. As it was built into a heavy freighter, it was, as was every section of the compounds, modular, capable of setting up in any asteroid field. Personally it looked much better for her. The price of and value of scrap was going up as the war machines began their buildups. The scavenging of junkyards like Jakku had them squirreling parts left and right. The exclusive food run she bought off Xerweg the Hutt looked like a boon now. She looked back at the eight months since the boy entered her life. Almost all good, her empire starting to grow again and that castle on Tadokana looked to be back in reach.

She reached the training room and found him in a battle with three Kyuzos going hard at it, full blaster fire, his staff, the helmets and finally he when he had disarmed the blasters threw the staff aside and started tossing Kyuzos around the room with his hands while their knives looked deflected by the Force. The trio retreated and drew e-11 blasters opening fire in a three directional barrage that she felt would surely vaporize him. As the ammo charge packs wore out, there was Jahn, hot helmet, hot diskblade and a light staff, with not so much as a glancing blow. She checked her watch and with the time she had dismissed them until she arrived noted it was sixteen minutes, a new record for the kid.

"You know something?" Jahn panted "If you actually move your aim point, doing this would be harder."

"The Empire shoots center mass."

"What part of, "Act like Kyuzo Warriors, did you not understand? I can not, count on, Imperial troops, all the time or that they maintain training or not bounty hunters or mercs! They sent a friggen Hand, way the hell out here! I can go to our rebuilt duelists for this weak crap! Are you Kyuzo or weaklings?" The battle became a brawl quickly with Jahn trading street low blows just as furiously as the Kyuzo as they all bounced around the room trying to kill each other. Maz sounded the stop horn three times before they stopped and bent over in pain, blood dripping from everyone. Maz buzzed the doctor from observation before turning around to the four on the deck who were supposed to stop the sparring when it got too crazy.

"Now, THAT! is what, I needed, to FEEL. True threat! Thank you so very much!" Jahn bowed to his opponents "Peace guard and be with you."

Zuvio and his brothers returned the bow before they all went to a knee and the medics came in. Jahn however took cleansing breaths using the Force to heal his body. Five minutes later he walked out of the room hale and hardy to Maz as the medics worked on the Kyuzos.

"I do not believe it." She said to Jahn.

"I finally figured it out, they will need bacta but will heal, I needed the threat to find something to use drawing the Force." Maz tilted her head expectantly. "Faith in Love. Watch my face in the playback and you will see something interesting." And he started on his way "Xulin tells me, she has spaced ten ISF and two Navy Intelligence agents out here this week right now. What is even more fun is the Empire's new base, excepting the Customs bureau, is our old digs at Skip 5." Maz looked like this was old news. "Those tunnels are going to be a gold mine of information."

" How, won't counter intelligence.."

"Be honest? I see so much black mail in the future."

"We are going to get the information?"

"No, someone who deals in that kind of persuasion." Maz smiled. "He is probably going to be shipping a few new contracts from Skip 2, I will try to point out as usual the ships that have the best chance of inspection and we do as we have been."

"The dead drops or refusal."

"Exactly."

"But you are planning to leave and is it soon?"

"Not too soon" and he waved an old Maskri woman over to them "L'Arel, you remember Maz." As the old smuggler looked somewhat surprised "Maz this is someone who my father trusted implicitly, and while the techniques I have taught her help, our legendary efficiency will go down but not too much with her work in retirement as chief data sorter."

"I have but one request, we continue Jahn's work as best we can while still building for your future." L'Arel bowed to her.

"We will see how it goes, I feel…" Maz began.

"Selfish? Yeah kind of, but you are also concerned with your underlings. Your success guarantees their success. I am not the only one who has refugees, we both have skimmed the cream and resettled others." Maz looked at him long and hard. "You and I are equally punishing to those who cross your family. I do it for my people's loyalty, you for the reasons you were not Jedi." The comment made her uncomfortable so she struck back.

"Are you going to keep damaging our security team?" Maz asked him.

"That is why we have a Doctor, medical droids and a Bacta tank now correct?"

"So Jahn, you are going to take the gloves off and try to kill them too?"

"Kinda my point, I do not try to kill, its why I prefer the staff or open hand above all. Kyuzo can not regenerate limbs, but broken bones and the motivation to get stronger will help. Have Zuvio study the data examination process and talk with L'Arel on cold reads, detective work and infiltration. She kept us in the south informed of Jasrol Mintran, her feelings, dealings. Have him pick her brain, for our intel needs have increased and relying on the Zeison Sha has to cease. She is the best at teaching it and it is what you need, before another Hutt takes your business from you again."

"Enough!….. so Jahn, when is your Birthday?" Maz changed the subject.

"In five standard months, and I have been with you eight months soooo."

"I missed one already." Maz smiled "How long is your power source on the light staff?" she changed the subject.

"Forty eight continuous hours, It's a beauty. The other staves a bit longer actually."

"Have you that care package of first gen tested weapons for the Bernals on Shanev?" Maz asked.

"Have we perfected the one way drones yet?

"Yes we have, care to make a run there to launch one?" and Jahn went quiet.

"We have working lightsabers and electro staves, and two more Kyuzo helmets but not the upgraded model. I will drop a message in as well. Its not what I want but they have constant combat actions anyway from reports."

"With four space ports, and monthly rearmament and relief, hard to get on top of that." Maz shook her head while Jahn grinned.

"Of course if somehow the Knight Intruder BB-2B out of the set we salvaged to use for the short hop smuggling and has new engines and the bomb bay, I could use that."

"I knew letting you do that was a mistake. Dump the transponder codes we have been using for port duties so it does not trace back to us."

"Done and it is loaded for Imps." Jahn replied.

"Your already disliking the amount of death you are going to cause?" Maz looked at his nod "Good, for a minute back there I was worried you were becoming a real gunrunner. Let the Hutts and those of us who are already live that way do that, while you live true to yourself." She smiled "Go save and defend unfortunate people, it is what you did for Malcomb, it is what you do best. The rest of this you have built is the means to that end."

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 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.)