Star Wars: Mark of
the Jedi
--sparkvallen
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Knowing that Count Dooku used to be a Jedi Master is pretty creepy. How can somebody who trained with Master Yoda turn out to be so… so twisted? I mean, sure, the HoloNet tries to paint it that he's "just" the political mastermind of this new Confederacy of Independent Systems. But how does someone who was trained to defend the Republic end up being its chief opposition? That is too weird for little ol' Padawan Falco to make sense of! If I could ever see Master Yoda, I'd ask him about Count Dooku and what he thinks of all of this.
Yeah, I really miss my chats with Master Yoda like I had when I was a youngling. I know: "focus on the present" but still. I miss not seeing Siri around much as well. She and her Master have been summoned into the war because of having Healing abilities. She's gone, Anakin's out there somewhere being a hero. And here I am.
Oh, but I'm getting off track! If there is one thing creepier than Count Dooku having been a Jedi who became part of the Lost Twenty, here's something even weirder: we're hearing stories from Jedi who have been in the war that there the military mastermind for the Confederacy is this Jedi killer called General Grievous! The stories that I hear about this General… eeesh! They say he's like a Droid, but even faster than any Droid in existence. What's worse is that hardly anyone in the Order survives an encounter against General Grievous. And the HoloNet says that he keeps the lightsaber of a Jedi he's killed as a trophy! How awful is that?!
I started doing my own research in the Jedi Archives with Master Nu lurking over my shoulder. She kept saying things about how she should have seen me so much more often… but hey, if Master Kire doesn't send me in there with little reading assignments, what does she want me to do? Go in there for fun? I've got too many droid parts to catalog and clean. Or, really, anything is better than hanging out with Master Nu. She's kind of creepy too! Anyway. I started doing some research to see what I could find out about this General Grievous who is out there taking down my fellow Jedi. There's not exactly a cyborg species other than sentients who get their brains upgraded with a computer system. (I wondered about doing this to myself but I wouldn't want to lose the Force and the headband look just isn't cool.) What I did find though were the Kaleesh from the planet Kalee. The skull-look that General Grievous has seems to be based on the actual look of the Kaleesh! But why is he a cyborg now? That's what I don't know yet. Why does he specifically hunt Jedi? I don't know that yet either.
I don't have a lot to do while managing the Droid and parts shop here since I'm just so good at it (haha) so I think I will risk Master Nu's staring at me in order to find answers about General Grievous…