"Okay I need a Sentinel to come translate this...mess for me"

A Entry Sentinel went over and simply nodded her head

"It's written in galactic basic which anyone from the Republic can translate so I should be done in...oh about five minutes depending on how long the report is"

"Good, I want it as soon as you finish the translation in case it's something important"

The translation ultimately took ten minutes because there was a bit of Ryl involved and while the Sentinel knew Ryl due to how interesting that language was and how things were phrased it took a little longer to phrase then basic but finally the Sentinel finished and instantly took the report to all the Admirals because all of them needed the update

"Thank you Sentinel get back to work if you're on shift"

A few days later there was a battle on the ground and in space when suddenly most of the Sith warriors suddenly stopped fighting and started acting confused

"Um Master Korran what are we doing wherever we are?"

(Sighs) "I can't tell you right now because there's a lot to be done"

A few of the Jedi turned Sith really had decided to become Sith of their own free will and had to be taken down but over the next few days they discovered that most of the Jedi turned Sith had been affected by a Sith artifact and so while they were punished it wasn't as severe as it could have been, they mainly had to help rebuild from the damage they had caused and fight against their former masters which they did both gladly

"Though the rebuilding will have to wait until we take care of the enemy"

"Indeed, you should know that Portland is dead, they killed her"

"Okay, thanks for informing us, that's one more thing to consider once and if they go to trial"

The fighting continued for a long time but finally on the one year anniversary of declaring Ashland dead they finally managed to take care of the enemy

"Now we shall rebuild and do what we can do find Ashland's body or barring that finally give her a final Jedi funeral and burn her lightsaber"

"How long do we wait until we burn her lightsaber?"

"Six months, we know she's most likely dead but it would help everyone finally properly mourn with a body to burn"

"You're right"

"In the meantime we need to rebuild and finally officially declare her death in her files"

They tried to access the files and that's when they discovered exactly what Portland had done the night she knocked out the guards and went missing eventually to be declared dead

"Sir the files are gone...looks like there was a massive data transfer some where's and then all our files on Portland and Jedi even the files from the archives were deleted"

"Can you get them back?"

"Not from here, looks like we have to go to where they are actually stored to regain access to the files and it looks like once we access from where they are the entire system will be restored and we can gain access from anywhere in the galaxy again"

"Where are the files located?"

"Um that's the thing I'm not entirely sure, looks like Portland left a few clues along the way so that we could find the files but if they were ever hacked the enemy wouldn't know so they would never figure it out"

"What about during the period of Sith activity?"

"That's the brilliance of what Portland did, she phrased it in a way that only Starfleet officers would know what she was talking about but needed the help of Jedi to understand the location"

"Sentinel's then"

"Exactly, either that or the two groups working together because she knew that there was a possibility of all the Sentinel's currently in Starfleet dying"

"True that, so what's the first clue then?"

"Can that wait until we're surrounded by Jedi and Sentinel's?"

"Oh you have a point"

Fifteen minutes later they were gathered together in a conference room

"Okay we no longer have access to Portland's files or any information about Jedi even information sent via the archives that the Jedi Council allowed us to access is lost"

"How is that possible?"

"Remember when Portland went missing and knocked out those guards?"

"Oh that's what she was doing at that console then"

"Exactly, now then here's the first riddle she gave us, Ensign?"

"The first is the last and the last is the first, hidden in plain sight yet never found, a message from the dead will begin the hunt"

"That makes no sense to us Jedi"

"It vaguely makes sense to Starfleet because of the fact that we know Republic history and the names of the planets but we don't fully understand this either, she never gave us the name of the planet but she mentioned how Master Skywalker was told to find someone named Yoda on a planet when he was near death and he left the Rebellion fleet to find this Yoda on a jungle planet"

"Well the only time that happened was on Hoth, which is an icy planet but as for where he found Yoda he never said, or if he did he never really described the planet or the name really well"

"That's a start, except for the part where the first is the last and the last is the first and the hidden in plain sight part"

"Wait Master Yoda was hidden in plain sight practically when he and Master Kenobi went into exile when Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader. As for the first part I think Master Yoda called Master Skywalker the last of the Jedi once he died"

"Then I get what the first part means, he was the last of the Jedi initially but he was the first of the New Jedi Order"

"Okay so does that mean we need to go to Hoth?"

"No, I think we need to go where Yoda was, what's the second riddle?"

"The test is passed but danger was sensed, to the city of clouds from the planet of vines"

"Well the city of clouds is clearly cloud city on Bespin but there are plenty of planets that have vines in the Republic so that doesn't give us much clues"

"Here's the final riddle as far as I can tell. Remember your training and remember your history, though most train on Coruscant the beginning was started in a swamp"

"Wait, a swamp, with vines and it's where Master Yoda hid until his death, of course the planet Dagobah, I remember a conversation once with Master Skywalker when I was a youngling and decided to ask where he was trained since I knew it happened before the Empire was finally taken down and he told me about Dagobah and where Master Yoda the most revered masters of the Jedi hid until his death and where he was trained"

"Then to Dagobah we will go, because we need to declare Portland dead and regain the files considering there are Jedi that have decided to stay here that might decide to join Starfleet and we've lost the ability to train anyone much less Jedi unfortunately"

"Will we see if we can still get there in two weeks or the old six and a half months to give us time?"

"We go fast enough to get us there in two weeks"

"Okay then"

Two weeks later they got to Dagobah and soon was able to access the files that were deleted by Portland including her own personnel file and her diaries and logs and that's when they learned about the vision she saw when she "died"

"That's why she did what she did"

"Exactly, and the reason why we lost all our files, she made sure that if we were ever hacked they would never discover how to take down the Jedi and Sentinel's"

"So in six months it will have been one and a half years since we were forced to declare her dead"

"Yes, and we have yet to find her body"

"Then once we get back to Earth let us give her a Jedi funeral even if it's just her lightsaber that is burned it is still a part of her and will work symbolically at the very least"

"But is that her wish?"

"She never really stated what she wanted for her funeral, even after all these times she's been thought dead, I know she was going to mention that in an updated will that she was working on before her death but I don't think she ever managed to get the changes completed and made official"

"Very well then, let's do it"

So they do exactly that. Meanwhile where Ashland was she had been blinded on the day that the war ended having taken the blame for another person. She continued to persevere though for another year and a half while Earth rebuilt the planet decided to join the Dominion which had in turn joined the Federation a year before Ashland would be discovered alive. They decided to help with the final bits of resistance since they were officially part of the Dominion and when they got to the cave that would be when it was discovered that Ashland was alive. That day everyone heard fighting and soon enough the chains were taken off via phasers hitting in just the right spot

"Hey guys what exactly is going on out there?"

"Aliens are fighting our captures and...it looks like for one of the aliens solid objects aren't a problem and another alien with something coming from it's neck is calling it a Founder"

"The Dominion, okay time to fight back, let's see if I lost any skills I know"

She bends down and picks up an item

"Okay quick question what am I holding?"

"A piece of pipe, there's a pick ax to your left if you want to use that instead"

"Nope the pipe is perfect...yes it's most definitely perfect in regards to the length and weight"

She suddenly goes out and even though she has a collar on she starts fighting whoever attacks her when suddenly before she hit someone she was told to stop