Brown hair pushed back from his face and green eyes settling on the
wilderness before him, the Jedi Knight shifted his lightsaber on his
belt and tapped his earpiece. "See, See are you getting this?" Static
met his query, the Knight puzzled as he checked his sensors.
Dead.
His communicator was next on his list, also dead. Molari began to sense a pattern.
Craning
his neck up he walked back to the ship; the world he'd landed on had
been thick with storms, hiding his descent into the atmosphere and a cut
of engines had made the Knight's arrival nothing more than a flash and
crack of lightning and thunder. Banging on his ship's ramp he waited
for the mechanism to unlatch before stalking into the small shuttle
craft. The lights flickered unsteadily on the ship as if something were
draining its power, Molari quickly shutting down the engine and
everything except a homing beacon to conserve his power. See had
powered off with the ship leaving the Knight alone and without even a
droid's company.
What world had he felt drawn to? His old master had told him to let
the Force guide his actions but so far that'd earned him three scars, a
singed-off braid, and now this.
Grabbing a spare saber he added
it to his belt - he wasn't the greatest at double-bladed combat but
better to be prepared. His supplies were going to run out soon but he
stashed a few days of protein squares in a pouch at his waist, grabbing a
robe to throw over his armor. He needed to find out what drew him to
this world, what tugged at the Force around him until he'd thrown reason
away to find this planet. A planet far off his star-charts, with no
name.
He needed to find out what the world was and solve its mystery then
get back to his work. His mission to Alderaan had been taken over by
another Jedi so he had a few days - perhaps even a week - to solve the
mystery.
"Easily enough time," he said to himself. At least See wasn't awake to question why he was speaking to thin air.
Boots
hit the ground and he manually shoved the shuttle's door closed,
latching and locking the ship up. A quick check of his wrist guard
showed he could still navigate back to the ship, but without a map he'd
be fairly lost. Pulling out a scanner droid he let the small device
float a few moments before it moved ahead, a map transmitted to his
communicator. But then the droid dropped and Molari sighed, running
forward to pick it up. The shorting out droid was quickly folded back
to its compact state, the man clipping it to his belt. It'd be his
luck- his wrist map shut down.
"Force take technology," he muttered, shutting the device down. No
archives access, no maps, no star charts... this world had something
unusual going for it. A screech and roar filled the sky, a primal sound
that made the Knight draw his saber, blade hissing as it ignited.
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