Chapter 51

Coruscant, Jedi Temple, Council Meeting Room

It had taken quite a while to rebuild this old bulding back to his old glory, but after a couple of years the Council had to meet on Yavin IV after Luke Skywalker had started to form a new Jedi Order the Jedi now were finally back at the Capital of the Republic. Once it had been reported to them that Master Ralkitta had returned to Coruscant, they ordered him to immediately report at the Temple about his recent missions that had not been sanctioned by the Council.

The majority of the Council Members had the opinion that he truly had been acting irresponsible as of late and now they wanted to know, what the exact reason was for the recent change in his behaviour. While they were waiting for Master Ralkitta's arrivial the Council was discussing other important matters: „The Jedi Training Facility at Ossus is still at risk, two of our transporters have been destroyed so far. We've tried to ask Chief of State Mon Mothma for help but with great threat to the Security of New Republic by Grand Admiral Thrawn they can't pull away any ships from the battlefields." Jedi Council Member Master Tionne Solusar said with slight hint of concern in her voice and of course all present Council Members had been well aware of the fact, how serious this whole situation had been from the beginning and it was surely a diffcult time for the just newly formed Jedi Order.

Of course the Council was also eagerly awaiting the opinion of Master Skywalker to the big security problems, which the New Jedi Order had for a couple of years now, but he hadn't returned to the Jedi Temple yet due to unknown reasons. Grand Master Saba Sebatyne then decided to change the topic to more positive news as she asked:

„How the training of the new students progressing so far under these difficult circumstances?" The female Barab was quite aware of the fact, that they had to find to some way to stand up united against this unknown enemy even the Jedi were still guardians of peace and not soldiers of war.

„The Training of the new Padawans is going good, but I can sense very well that a lot of them are bothered by the huge threat to their lives." It was obvious that the new Jedi Students weren't that firm with the force just yet this early in their education with it. A few minutes later just as Sebatyne had finished her report, Master Ralkitta finally entered the Council Chamber and he truly had an empty look on his face, which didn't show any emotion at all but deep down he knew very well that he was in trouble because of his recent actions.

„Master Ralkitta, you're a hard man to find these days but it's good to see that you were finally able to join us here." Tresina Lobi began to speak fort he High Council and of course not on single bit of her face showed any signs of the anger/frustration that she felt like the rest of the High Council towards him.

Ralkitta took a short glance at all the faces of the present Council Members in the room before he replied: „I know why the Council wanted to report back to Temple, but saying that I regret what I did for Padme Amidala would be lie even if I'm aware that the Jedi are no supposed to play god when it comes to life and death of people who don't use the force actively." Master Kenth Hammer knew all to well, that Ralkitta always had been acting alone and without the consent of the council most of the time but even if he had been a lone wolf the entire he still was as valvueable like every other Jedi of this newly formed Jedi Order.

Master Hammer thought about what to say for a moment before he finally spoke: „The experiments that you have conducting are quite risky to my knowledge and since we are also not supposed to play god with the lives of non-force users, the council forbids you to continue with those."

Saarn System, New Republic Listening Post

While the fighters of the New Republic Military and the TIE Fighters of Grand Admiral Thrawn forces fought in the Orbit of the Second Planet in System, a huge explosion rocked the surface of the Planet as the New Republic Military Base exploded into a million pieces and of course that brought down the chances of finding survivors down to non-existant. Now the former rescue operation got the new assignment to get rid of any Enemy Presence in the system, as Chief of State Mon Mothma had made it quite clear that they couldn't afford to lose this system to Grand Admiral Thrawn.

But things weren't looking that good for the forces of the New Republic, as the enemy seemed to have the upperhand in this battle for the Saarn System and their only hope was to turn this whole thing around by getting some reinforcements as soon as possible but as long as the Calavary wasn't here yet they needed to hold their ground against a strong enemy one way or another.

Office of the Chief of State, Coruscant

Admiral Ackbar had just handed Mon Mothma the newest Report from the battlefield in the Saarn System and of course it was no surprise to her, that there wasn't any signs of survival and as she was still busy with reading the data pad in her hand, she still kept asking herself who had made this coordinated attack for their enemy possible. But she finally then to decided to switch her focus to a more pressing matter at the moment:

„How long will it take the five ships to reach the Saarn System to assist our forces there?" Admiral Ackbar quickly checked some data before he replied without hesitating much:

„The Reinforcements will reach the Saarn System in two minutes and let's just hope that's not too late to turn this battle around in our favour."

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