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Competition
Call from a Past Life
Textual submission

I had been working hard all week and finally had a chance to unwind at a local cantina, maybe unwind wasn’t quite the right word because I had no recollection of making my way back to the rooms assigned to me and my wife. My wife had already gone to the Shadow Academy to study and I was home alone and dealing with the effects of the night before. Grabbing a stim drink and sitting at the table I tried to focus on my own lessons for the day. I was really wondering if today was going to be a good day.

The call came in via holo viewer and the persistent chirping was getting on my nerves as I tried to study. Having a hangover was bad enough but the noise from some damn electronic squawker was getting to be too much! “WHAT!” I snarled at the holo viewer stabbing the activation button. The holo viewer sprang to life showing a person I had not seen in over ten or fifteen years, maybe longer. I blocked out much of my past with mind-altering drink so I was sometimes hazy on years and memories from when I was on the run. The transmission was fuzzy from numerous bounces between routing stations and the scrambler I had installed, but I could make out what was being said and started shaking my head in disbelief. “Janos, please, regardless of what happened I know you can help me. Please don’t let your anger get the better of you, I know deep in your soul you are still the kind child I played with when we were Padawans together.” My jaw dropped at that. Played with? More like got my backside tanned more times than I could count because of him! I spent more time facing a corner than at saber practice because of all the trouble he got me in. I turned my attention back to the holo, “—aster is ill, I know Lilith can heal him and you can help. I know you can gather the supplies needed for his medicines. Ple—“ What in the name of the gods is that moron thinking! He’s the bastard that sold Lilith and me out to my former master! I remember pleading with him not to say anything, to just let us be. I remember the look of fear in my dear Lilith’s face when he ran off to find our masters and tell them of our hidden love for each other. I sat down breathing hard in frustration and feeling my head pound and stared at the visage on the viewer.

I began thinking of how I would have to reroute my answer so I couldn’t be traced to my current whereabouts I started my reply. “My dear Ch’Cadick, you miserable pile of Rancor filth. I will dance on Master Thuallan’s grave when he finally dies and with any luck you will be buried with him. Because of you, Lilith and I had to flee, because of you I fought and killed the man who raised me. I hope you rot in a Sarlacc Pit. Lovingly yours, Janos”

Feeling rather good I hit send and took another sip of my drink. Yes today might just turn out to be a good day after all.

Competition
Call from a Past Life
File submission
Call_from_a_Past_Life_-_6059.docx
Textual submission

Please see my attached entry into the competition. If there are any issues, please let me know. Thank you.

-Shikyo
#6059

Competition
Call from a Past Life
File submission
CallFromAPastLifeEntry.docx
Textual submission

See attachment.

Competition
Operation Cobalt: Always consult the locals!
Textual submission

Armad’s comlink chirped with the sound of a message being received to his datapad. Pausing in his work, he pulled his datapad out from under a pile of wires and discarded parts, and opened the new message. It was a call for those that were proficient in computers and data retrieval, for a mission to a planet code named Cobalt. Responding in the affirmative, he immediately received another message detailing what information that he was to gather and the coordinates to the Cobalt, and what little information that they had been able to gather. Going to his office, Armad picked up a couple of small droids that he had created earlier, and added some new gadgets with additional programming, then headed to the nearest hangar. After commandeering a Clan freighter, Armad punched in the coordinates for his home planet of Umbara. He wanted to stop there, one to check on his company and pick up a more businesslike attire, and as a backstop, should the local authorities or the Dominion decided to track where he originated from. Switching ships on Umbara, Armad set out for the planet codenamed Cobalt.

Arriving in system, Armad was immediately greeted by an automatic welcome greeting, which gave the rules and regulations speech and a frequency to contact when wishing to gain entry into one of the planets cities. As he neared the planet, Armad could see that it was mostly a barren planet, with very sporadic areas that held vegetation, as well as seeing several large circles dotting the continents. After contacting the being on the other end of the frequency given, Armad was given permission to land in the spaceport of the largest dome city. Making a semi-flawless landing, Armad was greeted by a port official, who gave another welcome speech, but this time with the where and where-not to go areas. As Armad was about to go through the door out of his hangar, the official turned and gave one last “rule”, of a recent incident that had quarantined a hangar and several rooms on the other side to the port, he cautioned him to steer clear of the area until the quarantine had been lifted.

Thinking that that was rather suspicious, Armad nodded his acknowledgement and made it way out to the promenade. He was immediately assaulted by the busy sounds of vendors talking and selling up their wares. Walking past the different stores, Armad got to see the different products that this planet can produce. He wanted to stop in several of the tech stores and see where their level of tech compared to his own, but he knew that if he did he would get stuck in them and the chances of accomplishing his mission would suffer. Suppressing his curiosity, Armad continued on past until he came to a relatively isolated terminal and started making random inquiries into the local security companies and seemingly innocuous data retrievals to see, if any, red flags were raised. He felt that someone was watching him, but they felt more security making sure I didn't do anything wrong, than for what he was doing. Deftly pulling his droid, he was glad to find that the technology was compatible with each other, he plugged it into the terminal and let it do its search.

While it was searching for his mission data, Armad decided to look up what he could on this suspicious quarantine thing. He found that it had happened about a week and a half ago, no official reason had been given, and there had been reports of strange noises and missing people that had been curious enough to venture close.

URL
https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/competitions/9798
Competition
Operation Cobalt: Always consult the locals!
Submission
Specialist Quo-Wing-Tzun opted out of publishing his submission.
URL
https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/competitions/9798
Competition
Operation Cobalt: Always consult the locals!
File submission
Zeltron_Wiles_and_Cobalt_Hospitality__QA14369.docx
Textual submission

Coincides with Forceful Recruitment submission (https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/competitions/9802)

URL
https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/competitions/9798
Competition
Tea on Tython
Submission
Aaleeshah opted out of publishing her submission.