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RE: Duncan Starchaser
Core Worlds
Darpa sector
World of Val'Dora
Tropical Island/Resort:
Golden Coast
Republic Zeta-class:
The Arbiter
c. 2919 AOK
Things were happening so fast. One moment Duncan was standing on roof of the resort talking to Padme and listening to what she had to tell him about how she was losing control of the other cadets. Then out of nowhere he was confronting… a creature he had never even heard of before. But more than that he felt nothing but pure evil coming from it. The creature kept asking him the same question over and over that still didn’t make sense to Duncan. He kept asking if he was the one, the one that prophecy foretold, and how he had foreseen that he would meet this champion there. Then the creature was throwing Padme over the edge to her appearant death. Duncan didn’t think he just acted and dove off the roof after her trusting in not just his ability but also in the Force. He caught her and turned around and was about to reach out to grab hold of a nearby scaffold. He was not expecting to see the Zeta-class shuttle come up behind him, nor to feel himself being caught, by what he knew was, people using the Force. He had been saved by those that he was tasked to keep alive.
Things moved even faster once the shuttle had landed. Padme, before she was taken into custody, had given him a holodisk. That evening when he had time and was by himself he played it. He saw as two powerful Jedi crossed blades in the Grand Council Chamber before Grand Master Dooku, Master Windu, Master Shaak Ti and a pair of Republic Royal Guards. The drawn out fierce battle ended when Chancellor Syrdash disarmed Graff and claimed his right eye in a combination attack. As she announced the end of the duel and walked away, Graff attempted to attack her from behind. He was stunned by the two Royal Guards. Chancellor Syrdash, enraged by the dishonorable attack reactivated her lightsaber and moved to strike the unconscious Graff.
When the video finished, Duncan deactivated it and removed the disk. He saw how others could see the video and think that the Chancellor was a murderer. However, the video was interrupted at the moment when the killing blow was supposedly delivered. This made the evidence highly circumstantial in his mind. He wondered if there was a better version of this footage somewhere. It was something he would need to meditate on. Not just trying to find an answer to if the Chancellor was a murderer, but also what to do with the disk itself.
When his meditation session was completed Duncan was physically refreshed, however he didn’t have an answer to all the questions he had before he started. What he did know was that even though he wasn’t sure about these Jedi yet, what he did know that they deserved to know and see what Padme had given them. And perhaps they would have a better idea of what to do now that they had this information.
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