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					[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-mmssqwH9I][color=aba000][b]Yavin IV: Congregates [/b][/color]
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[@Lotrix Molick]


"Defender Tasaia then" Luke remarked suppressing an amused laugh at the look Mara Jade suddenly sported when the Farghul offered to play a game of strip Dejarik, he was grateful for that for it served to defuse Mara from her -why don't we just assassinate the crazy fraud on Coru- rant that he knew was building up inside despite her agreement with Hamner's vehemence that assassinations be avoided unless there was no other choice. That was Mara, someone who often contradicted herself, yet remained steadfast in her own convictions. She was pained, she was chequered, she held her own grief tight and yet, was probably the most enthusiastic of his Jedi. It was probably what drew them together, that solidity in spirit. He'd found himself starting to feel for her, the sentiment was mutual but he'd gained so many new followers in the last two months that he'd hardly had time to stop and think on it, much less everything else. "Kale should be returning soon, you'll find him interesting"

Hamner had to nod in assent, a smuggler and mercenary who'd been self taught and much like Kenth brought insights to the order that were invaluable as "outside perspective". "Strip Dejarik sounds fun, but I say we hustle these two out of their clothes and credits as well" Mara beamed causing Kenth to shake his head as Luke lead them further through the immense temple. "You've given us all much to think on Defender Straka" Hamner remarked, his hands were folded behind his back and compared to Mara who had an arm around the Farghul's shoulders like a drunk giving salutations to an old buddy and Luke who just strolled leisurely with the typical nonchalance of a field hand, Hamner was really the only one who looked the part of a Jedi.

He did his best to maintain that distinction as well, for it allowed him to act more like a Jedi of old and manage the politics so Luke didn't have to get his hands dirty.  "Yeah the whole, this place might literally be haunted is the part that surprises me" Mara put to words that Kenth was thinking and what Tasaia inferred. Around them, lights began to bend around shadows as the force seemed to surge through the hall as they made their way towards a stairwell up to the rooms that served as the Council's meeting chambers. "The Emperor was obsessed with finding a way to cheat death, but he never did. I didn't even think it was possible for Sith"

"It doesn't surprise me in the least" Luke admitted, but he also didn't think the presence here was solely Sith, there were other things too, some dark and twisted and some gentle and kind a menagerie of the dead, of their antecedents and while it seemed to spook Hamner and many of the Republic soldiers, it was oddly comforting to him.  "Master Yoda and Ben found a way to survive in death, it doesn't surprise me the greatest enemies of the old order would also find their own ways. Though, the people who built this temple seemed to be far more mystically inclined than the man I faced in the second Deathstar"

Palpatine was a dangerous wizard in the force, Luke thought, but his traditions felt, secular, almost a copy, a funhouse mirrors rendition of the knowledge and devotion, the power that came before. Deadlier, perhaps, greater in raw might maybe, but different. Less overt, more pragmatic and subtle but far less refined than what he felt here.

"This place is a place of power, its like..a monument to a culture built on hubris and independence. The Sith Lord I faced made such a monument of his own flesh"

"You think these ghosts are what we felt last week" Hamner asked. Mara laughed "He means the force seemed to have a mini seizure, don't know if you sensed it too"

Luke shook his head emphatically. "What I sensed last week, reminded me of what I felt when the Emperor died, as if something choking the lightside of the force was suddenly removed. The light came roaring back, but last week it felt violent..unnatural not like the last time when it felt like a correction over Endor"

"there's something to be said, that we're asking these questions of you" Hamner remarked to Tasaia which made Luke laugh. "Right we lack tradition and we're trying to build that and a knowledge base as well, it's kinda like, trying to ring water out of sand. So I am glad you offered your help, we need it bad"

"Zsinj and his Star dreadnaught?" Kenth asked and Luke shook his head. "No, not really, Jerec though..his power is growing, its getting stronger every day, it's immense. And the one on Coruscant, I can't sense her, just everything around her and I can see less and less every day" He didn't even know if that one was a threat, the other "blank" presence, certainly wasn't. It was doing its own thing, generally being peaceful. Good things happened around it, Luke didn't realize he was struggling to sense them both because they were wielding more than one aspect of the force, he hadn't been trained to sense "the gray". But both seemed content to be stationary for a time, the question was, which one would move first and how?