Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: The Apartment

Seth was standing on the bridge of…. a strange ship. He looked around, smoke was in the air, yelling and screaming tech's running around, soldiers dying. He then looked next to him. A figure dressed in black robes stood next to him, red lightsaber ignited. Three Jedi stood before the man in black, a young woman leading them. She raised her saber and spoke. "You cannot win, Revan! Today you will fall!"

The figure (Revan) laughed, dropping into a battle stance, twirling his saber. "No, my dear Bastila…. it is you who will fa-". Revan stopped speaking, he seemed to be….sensing something….

Seth turned back to Bastila, whose gaze had settled on Seth, or rather, what was behind him. He turned around, just in time to see the turbolasers slam into the ship, and everything went black again…. but he could still hear Revan's laugh echoing in his mind……

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Seth woke up. That was one crazy dream…, he thought. He stood up, looking around the room. "Whoa, this must be a luxury escape pod, cause it sure is roomy…"

"Oh good! Your awake, finally. The way you were tossing and turning there, you must've been having one hell of a nightmare!" Seth looked at the man, from the bottom of his brown boots to the top of his awful hairdo. " Yeah it was a nightmare…. who are you?"

The man smiled. "Guess you dont remember me, huh? I'm Carth Onasi, Republic War Hero, and commander of the late Endar Spire." His smile faded. "We lost alot of good men and women in the battle. We're lucky to be alive. And you are?"

"Seth Khan" He replied. "Where are we? This isn't the escape pod, is it?"

Carth burst out laughing. After a few seconds, he replied. "Haha, no, this is an apartment on Taris. The planet we landed on. Or rather, crashed on. You were knocked out cold, so I had to drag you here after found it. God, you weight a ton."

"Go to hell" was Seth's reply. He surveyed the room. A table, 2 beds, workbench, refresher, locker, and a small kitchen area. Perfect, he'd take a shower and eat breakfast, and then decide on what to do. He told Carth this.

"Fine, I'm ready to go. Try not to take to long!" Seth headed off to the freshers, and Carth sat down, reading his datapad. On it was the Republic's info on Seth.

Name: Seth Khan

Age: 31

Height: 6′1″

Weight: 200 lbs

Occupation: Previously unknown, Republic Soldier for 1 yr.

Previously unknown? thought Carth. He also noted that Seth knew 40-50 different languages. Good, it could help. But the Republic wouldnt just hire someone off the bat like that, would they? This thought bugged Carth for a good while.

Seth rinsed off, washing the shampoo out of his short brown hair. He wrapped a towel around his waist and walked over to the mirror, looking for his razor, He found it and procceded to shave. Afer he was done, he grabbed the extra suit of clothes in his pack and put them on, as well as the combat suit. He streched and walked into the kitchen. Carth was frowning and reading something. 'What got you so sour?" he asked.

Carth looked up. "Nothing, i was reading your Republic Records. All looks good, but it says that your occupation is previously unknown before you joined us. Care to explain that?"

Seth rumaged through the food. All energy bars. "I… was…" I was what? Seth couldn't remember. Then it came to him. "A freelance mercenary. But i didnt feel the need to put it down, so i didnt."

Carth thought over this. "Good enough, i suppose." He looked at the datapad. "Wait a sec, this is odd…"

"What?" Seth questioned. He wanted to get out of here soon. He wanted to explore. The sooner the planet wasn't so strange to him, the better off he'd be.

"It says that Bastila's party requested you onboard…" Carth looked up at Seth. "A new recruit added to the Spire's crew at the last second?" Carth thought some more, then grinned. "I guess I shouldn't question the Jedi, they do stuff like that all the time." But the more Carth thought about it, the more it bugged him…

Seth grinned also. "Yeah, sounds like them, alright. Let's get out of here and get some real food. There must be a cantina nearby."

Carth nodded. "Yeah, I'm sick of energy bars. they taste like plasteel." He made a face.

They grabbed their equiptment and supplies, and headed out. Seth had hoped there wouldnt be trouble anytime soon. No such luck. Trouble was on their doorstep.

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