Competition: What If...

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What If...

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Prompt

You have been assigned to assist a team of Consulars and non-Force using archeologists to search a long-lost temple on Myrkr that had been discovered following the events of the Myrkr Crusade. While examining the temple the team uncovers a strange mural in a long-lost temple on Myrkr similar to the one found in the Jedi Temple on Lothal.

As a member of the team, you are present when the mural is “unlocked” opening a portal to the World Between Worlds. Just as the portal is opened, mercenaries attack the team causing a collapse, the team is forced to enter the portal.

Once inside the world between worlds, you are faced with the possibility of being able to alter past events in Odan-Urr’s or your personal history. What will you do? What consequences will you face? Can the timeline actually be rewritten or is it all a Force vision?

Submissions and Grading

  • Entries must be a minimum of 500 words. Any entries that are under 500 words will be disqualified and ineligible for participation or placement.

  • There is no maximum word cap.

  • Your story must be centered on one of your dossier-linked characters, be it your Main, Alt, or other slotted NPCs. Additional NPCs, including ones listed on the wiki or created/invented to tell your story in this fiction, are allowed and strongly encouraged.

  • A snapshot of the primary character’s loadout must be selected and submitted with your entry via the checkbox submission field on the competition page.

  • Preferred submission format is .pdf, .doc, or .txt. Anything in a Google Doc must be exported as a pdf for submission.

  • Entries will be graded using the Fiction Rubric with a lot of leeway on the realism dimension given for the speculative nature of the scenario.

Competition Information
Parent Competition
Odan-Urr What If...
Organized by
Champion Rajhin Cindertail
Running time
2021-09-03 until 2021-10-04 (about 1 month)
Target Unit
Clan Odan-Urr
Competition Type
Fiction
Awards
Third Level Crescents and Clusters of Ice as per VOICE guidelines
Participants
9 subscribers, of which 4 have participated.
Results
1st place
Essik Lyccane
Member
Essik Lyccane
Submission
Essik Lyccane opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
1st place
Member
Elyon de Neverse
File submission
Elyon - Odan-Urr What If....pdf
Placement
2nd place
3rd place
Raziel
Member
Raziel
File submission
What if 11584.docx
Placement
3rd place
Member
Lieutenant Creon Neverse
Textual submission

They were still at what appeared to be the Lothal Jedi Temple. From what Aura Tavar had spoken of earlier, this portal only changed when we were, not so much where. Aside from the survivors the temple seemed to be abandoned. Unfortunately they assumed that before they were ambushed. Creon's instincts compelled him to scan the room for anything that could have noticed their arrival. His vision took in the area as a whole and checked for any motion against the wind. His senses in the Force detected nothing, but was clouded by the harnessed energy within the dwelling of this temple.

"Stay on guard," Aura called out. "That could have been an indigenous group that could attack again on sight."

"We're quite literally between a rock and a hard place too," Revak Kur quipped at the portal which was now potruding a portion of a massive stone ecompassing the entire area of the portal. It was a big enough rock under a burial mound that no amount of combined effort would lift. Instead they faced the unknowns of an younger galaxy. The Jedi Consul took the first steps towards the entrance. Master Blade and Creon followed.

After searching the entire temple they concluded it was abandoned. They did not find their vessels for which they arrived on Lothal in this new parallel reality, but figured it would still be a long journey on foot to the planet's capital. It was the only city on the planet however, that had a intergalactic transport shuttle. It was a long journey, but their combined efforts into survival led them to discover that they were in the same year as their previous timeline. They returned to find a very different galaxy, one where a 'Galactic Alliance' and 'New Jedi Order' had pushed back a warmongering invasive species from another galaxy. In the Outer Regions they visited the home of Odan-Urr of what they called "New Tython". They found it under siege by Darth Ashen.

The Sith Lord raised his claw towards the skies and raked down lightning upon squadrons of enemy starfighters. The troops on either side fired only on themselves, intentionally ignoring the Force Users out of fear. Had it not been for the efforts of Revak Kur, Master Blade, and Creon the results of the battle would have been the same. The three musketeers brought with them volunteers from the New Jedi Order, which reinforced Clan Odan-Urr and turned the tides against Darth Ashen.

After the war had ended, the Jedi of Odan-Urr and the New Jedi Order became as one. It exposed most of the Brotherhood's influence and cleared up their maps on the outer rim. This "Galactic Jedi Order" shared its wealth and power with the "Galactic Alliance" and was recognized as an equal galactic super power. The Sith Brotherhood and the Imperial Empire were also seen as super powers politically, but not economically. After the war had ended inflation occurred in the Galactic Jedi Order and Galactic Alliance's favor. The Sith Brotherhood was forgotten to time. Propoganda from the Jedi Order and Alliance encouraged the embargo of the "super power" known as the Sith Brotherhood. It seduced the Empire to do the same in favor of sharing wealth. It lasted another 500 years over its own set of planets, but eventually faded when a unified "Galactic Governance" was created out of the three super powers becoming one.

Placement
4th place