"To the Jedi Service Corps, you will go," said the little green Jedi Master.
"But Master Yoda," the Young human male protested, "I am the best in my class. Surely I was meant to be a Jedi Knight!"
Yoda shook his head. "Exception for Tonn has already been made. Exceptions, no further to make. So says the council."
"Then let me take the trials without my Padawan Apprenticeship. I am ready."
Again, Yoda shook his head. "The Jedi way, that is not. Younglings, then Padawan, then Knight. Know this you do. Service Corps, rewarding you will find."
He protested further, to no avail. No master felt the force leading them to take him as a Padawan. Tonn gave up and went to the Service Corps.
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Six months later...
It was a pretty good life, the Explorer's Corp. It wasn't being a Jedi Knight, but they had issued him a ship, a small ship and sent him off to the edges of the galaxy. Tonn had found two planets already.
Well, found was a misnomer. They could see the light from the star, but the task of breaking a trail to the star system was fraught with peril. No one knew what kind of debris was floating in space, so usually a trip to an unexplored Star system took months of microjumps. It went jump a light year, take sensor readings for an hour, pour over the data, take more readings, pour over the data, make a decision, hope for the best and jump another light year. It was harrowing work, one mistake and you died, but the reward...
People paid a micro fee to the Bureau of Ship Services to register ships and update maps. Their ships recorded data from their trips and automatically updated that data to the BoSS. If people used his routes then the BoSS paid out a residual. It was less than a credit a ship, but if you found a high traffic world, like a civilization ready to join the Republic, you could make millions.
Half went to the Jedi. They had upkeep costs. The Service Corps were the money making branches of the Jedi Order. The rest went to him.
And he was good at it. Three systems in six months, that was a record. Tonn hadn't been joking when he told Yoda he was strong in the force. And the force could warn him of danger and assist him in astronavigation.
Which is why he wasn't shocked when he reverted to realspace and there was a ship within range of him at an uncharted world. If they meant him harm then the force-
Tonn let that thought go as his hands jerked the controls and he turned on the subspace drives. Ion fire filled the space his ship had just occupied. The drives took a moment to warm up and really give him power. He didn't have any weapons and while he was grateful for the ship, it certainly wasn't as responsive as the snubfighters they had trained on at the Academy.
He felt the next shot coming before it was fired and juked his ship, but the ship just didn't have it in her. Blue flames coalesced around his ship, shutting down all systems. Unfortunately the electricity went through the deck and shocked him too, dropping the human to the floor, hitting his head on the way down. His world went black.
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OOC: You are a female pirate queen who wants Force strong children. Your new slave is the key to that dream. pm if interested.
"But Master Yoda," the Young human male protested, "I am the best in my class. Surely I was meant to be a Jedi Knight!"
Yoda shook his head. "Exception for Tonn has already been made. Exceptions, no further to make. So says the council."
"Then let me take the trials without my Padawan Apprenticeship. I am ready."
Again, Yoda shook his head. "The Jedi way, that is not. Younglings, then Padawan, then Knight. Know this you do. Service Corps, rewarding you will find."
He protested further, to no avail. No master felt the force leading them to take him as a Padawan. Tonn gave up and went to the Service Corps.
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Six months later...
It was a pretty good life, the Explorer's Corp. It wasn't being a Jedi Knight, but they had issued him a ship, a small ship and sent him off to the edges of the galaxy. Tonn had found two planets already.
Well, found was a misnomer. They could see the light from the star, but the task of breaking a trail to the star system was fraught with peril. No one knew what kind of debris was floating in space, so usually a trip to an unexplored Star system took months of microjumps. It went jump a light year, take sensor readings for an hour, pour over the data, take more readings, pour over the data, make a decision, hope for the best and jump another light year. It was harrowing work, one mistake and you died, but the reward...
People paid a micro fee to the Bureau of Ship Services to register ships and update maps. Their ships recorded data from their trips and automatically updated that data to the BoSS. If people used his routes then the BoSS paid out a residual. It was less than a credit a ship, but if you found a high traffic world, like a civilization ready to join the Republic, you could make millions.
Half went to the Jedi. They had upkeep costs. The Service Corps were the money making branches of the Jedi Order. The rest went to him.
And he was good at it. Three systems in six months, that was a record. Tonn hadn't been joking when he told Yoda he was strong in the force. And the force could warn him of danger and assist him in astronavigation.
Which is why he wasn't shocked when he reverted to realspace and there was a ship within range of him at an uncharted world. If they meant him harm then the force-
Tonn let that thought go as his hands jerked the controls and he turned on the subspace drives. Ion fire filled the space his ship had just occupied. The drives took a moment to warm up and really give him power. He didn't have any weapons and while he was grateful for the ship, it certainly wasn't as responsive as the snubfighters they had trained on at the Academy.
He felt the next shot coming before it was fired and juked his ship, but the ship just didn't have it in her. Blue flames coalesced around his ship, shutting down all systems. Unfortunately the electricity went through the deck and shocked him too, dropping the human to the floor, hitting his head on the way down. His world went black.
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OOC: You are a female pirate queen who wants Force strong children. Your new slave is the key to that dream. pm if interested.
