The Rebel Faction

In a surreal moment vonta passed through the glowing intrance of the hyper portal on Drewwa and instantly she was transported aboard one of the Carrier cruisers. The portal operator gave her a quick salute.

She nodded a quick acknowledgment. She was too taken in by the design of the craft that she had just entered. Before her obduction this ship was a mere design in her computers aboard the Nubulan b-2 Saber Strike. She never imagined that it would have been taken this far with out her knowledge.

Around the corner came a single person. One of the Teepo palidins bearing the mark of an Intiate, one step down from master rank, Oddly enough he also bore the pips of a military captain on his person.

"Observer Horn!" He sweeps open his hands with his palms facing outwards, "I was not informed that you were coming aboard today sir."

"Yes well," She was taking in every minute detail of the interior of this storage bay that was being used for the Hyper portal, "I did not plan on coming today."

She walks up to one of the walls. Touching it gentily as if she might to it some harm. As her fingers made contact she runs them along the wall. Her actions made one think that she was testing to see if this was indeed real or just something of a dream that is going to dissappear like it never existed in the first place.

"This ship was just a concept before now. I was not even aware of it's development into a working vessel." Her voice was full of wonderment.

The teepo captain gave a small deep laugh. Not a loud one though. It was low, deep, and full of warmth. "With your absence ma'am. Greyy put the resources of his Guardsmen at our disposal. That included coming up with several craft that were to be used in our search for you. Before your return the reps of the varies force groups were demanding to be given ships so that they could search you out on their own. Admitedly alot of the Teepos were amoung those that I speak of." He touches the hull himself giving it a single gentle carress before his continues.

"This ship was in your ships records so the guard developed it and those of us that wanted to search you out learned to use it. Most of the crew members that are combat trained are Teepos." He says with pride.

"Yes, well then I want the tour of my brain child then captain. If you would oblige that is?" she asked with flourish. The formality was not needed between herself and the teepos. She had become like family to her in return for saving much of their order.

"But of course Observer." He makes a small bow raiseing one arm up and too the left and the other follows suit indicating that Vonta should go first. She goes on ahead and then the captain follows.

* * *

They tour the ship deck by deck and system by system at a stagggering pace. She Heads to engineering and interogates the staff. Pulling each and every last detail out of them. The engines were highly rated for a cruiser of this size. It was supposed to be faster but the concept would not fit to specifications.

As is she knew that they could out run most cruisers of their size and alot of the ones that were smaller.

Shields were adapted to those simular to the Nubulan series. So the ship could indeed take a beating. There she finds out about the molecular shielding armor.

They were about to give her a guided tour of the access points to the insides of the engines when she heard someone talking about the cloaking device. She was pulled in that direction immediatly.

"The ship never included a cloaking device?!" She states quietly to the captain making a question and a statment all at once.

"Well as I said there were some things that had to be sacrificed while others were added to make-up the difference." Came the answer.

Vonta found the main cloak system and begain crawling all over it prying open panels as she went to look at the internal circutry. "Double-blind shield system?"

"Correct." The captain put his hands behind his back paciently following the Observer Jedi.

"Mmm, all of the ship systems are put to gether mostly how I envisioned them. A little bit more space in side then I was looking for but still good." She was now talking as much to the captain as to herself. Making mental notes as she went. The ship had been compacted as much as she could manage she used the Adz destroyer as her template. Expanding on the ship schematics she came up with this carrier.

"I want to see the bridge." She says flatly. It comes out almost as a command.

The captain waves to her to indicate that she should follow him.

* * *

The ship bridge was laid out to spec. It was made to be a combat bridge. THere was a com station, sensors, and the pilots seat. Another design of this craft. It was meant to be used by force users. The stearing was more like that of a freighter or fighter then a cruiser. The ship is flown by a single pilot, a force user that is trained well can use the force to make mauvers that would be impossible for a normal pilot. They could even use their force sense to 'see' through the cloak shield. She did not make that design but she was glad it worked out this way. The pilot also had control of the foward guns. Turbo lasers and Ion canons were fized forwards so that the pilot could use the force to guide the ships weapons in combat. There was a copilot station next to the main pilot seat. But it was only to be used if the pilots were not force users so that normal crew could get the most out of the ship.

Vonta nodded in approval.

* * *

The next stop was one of the three fighter bays on the ship.

The fighters were to be the true heart of the vessel. The ship was equiped with 12 Quad-lasers, six on top six on the bottom. Force users were always doing one mission or another. The equipment was never the same twice. More then once vonta wished that she had a fighter that was not include in her inventory. With proper equipment she would have had more options that would have worked to her advantage instead of having to just 'make due'.

She goes up to another concept brought to life. The modular fighter. She based in it on the Delta-7 aethersprite from the old republic. The ship was as fast and agile as an X-wings but with less sheilds and weapons.

She Looks at the modularity system that the modules are stored in. Each one is set in one of three compartments. at her command sequence it spun on a middle access stopping at the module in question. The first one that came out to combine with the modular fighter was the bomber module.

The small fighter in moments became a intemidating hulk reminicent of the Y-wing bomber becuae it had the same style of Ion canon mounted on top of the cockpit with the module. The module added additional shield strength as well as one proton torp and two cuncussion missle launchers. Not as fast but much tougher then the original craft.

She resets the program retracting the bomber and replacing it with the cloak module. With the addition of the module the fighter almost looked like an 'ugly' version of the Modular fighter, ugly being a fighter with missmatched parts from different fighter craft. There was a single wing along the bottom of the craft and two more that skirt along the sides of the craft. The back edges of the tie fighter like foils were cut off and merged to form a thin addition to the ships actual wings.

She resets for the last time. And gets a welcome glimpse of the last module. The shield and aquatic module. It has no laser canons giving them up in favor of a powerful shield that is over powered for this size of craft. It was nearly three times as powerful as most conventional fighters. That say shield lets it travel under water and it is armed for under sea combat if neccessary. The fighter is excellent for planetary recon. PLus there is the addition that the ship gains superior defenses with the gungan born tech.

She looks through the systems getting picture feeds from the other two fighter bays. The ship carried six of the modular fighters with 12 modules. With this ship watching over them this was going to be quite an asset to the Observer order in the future.

"Impressive captain. Give my commendations to the engineers." She said with a wide smile.

"Not before I give them to the designer ma'am, Congradulations." Vonta had a laugh at that turn phraseing.

After the deal was completed with the Droid, C4, Greyy decides to set out on some meditation at his office in the Guards underground facility.

He sets up a pillow to set himself upon. Nothing elaborate for him. After yes of training anything more that is immediatly needed seems like it is over doint it.

Sitting down he crosses his legs, straightens his back and closes his eyes.

In his mind he delves deep into the recessess of his beings. Passing what he already knew of the internal mind. Finding that witch was a power in him that he can only barely grasp. Yet it is tangible enough that he can be aware of it.

He focus's on the faint light. When all of a sudden a beeping enters the trance. He finds that it is strange. Almost sepparate from himself.

He pulls himself out of meditation to hear that he has a beeping from his desk counsil. He looks at the wall chronometer and relizes that he is scheduled for a press conference on the Almanian holobroad cast in the hour.

He is sorry to have to interrupt his Teras Kasi meditation but responsiblity beckons.

He is the figure head of the Teras Kasi. Running most of the public relations and home concerns of the guard.

Although in reality he turned control of the GUard to the Teras Kasi master Toryn Sabreen. No one knows of Toryns existance except for those in the guard. and they are fiercely loyal. Being in the guard even means that one must swear off drinking for the most part.

As so that nothing can get lost in the bar scene.

Even the lowwer levels of the guard believe that they are answering to Greyy. In a way they are. Toryn allows Greyy a high command clearance and a place as a captain of forces when ever he is needed. If need be Greyy could take control of the guard again.

But the old soilder preferred it this way. To let the next generation take over.

Greyy chuckles at that last thought. Sabreen is almost 60 years his senior due to the Teras Kasi training that, at the master level, slows aging down. Greyy wonders just how far he is willing to go into the Teras Kasi path. He has no wish to live that long though.

He just smiles. No, just settle with the sensing of force users. He shakes his head as he prepares for a shower to clean up.

“Sanhedrim Ship
this is the typical Aing-Tii starship design. Referred to sometimes as pilgrimage vessels, the Sanhedrim ships are huge, cylindrical craft which are very organic in design. Like the Mon Calamari star cruisers, no two Sanhedrim ships are exactly alike. They are unlike anything seen or produced by the rest of the galaxy, with engines, thrusters, and weapons sprouting at weird angles and placements. The hulls of Sanhedrim ships are covered with millions of glyphs and sigils that mirror those found on the bony plates of the Aing-Tii themselves. The ships average about 300 meters in length, and have a crew of 150 plus 66 gunners. Typical Sanhedrim ships are armed with the unusual Aing-Tii weaponry, often 30 energy web generators and 6 null-burst projectors. Sanhedrim ships are often well-shielded, and are hyperdrive-equipped. However, instead of a slip of pseudomotion before entering hyperspace, the Aing-Tii ships simply disappear. They reappear just as suddenly, as if they were created in their new location. Rather than direct fighting, the Aing-Tii often use these ships as battering rams, seriously disabling the slave ships they hunt.”


In transit to one of the Training frigates Vonta is engrossed in the joy of piloting again. The Modular fighter was fast as well as agile enough for her to become quite creative in her acobatics.

Putting the ship through cork screws and tight turns that would push many seasoned pilots into unconsciousness due to the G-forces excerted on the body.

All at once she feels a familiar touch on her mind.

“Greetings Observer Horn.” It was a telepathic communication that was, in her mind’s eye, the strangely familiar voice of a female.

Immediately Vonta recognized it. It was the mental voice of her Aing-Tii Counsilor the one that defended her before the Ten.

“Counsilor?” Vonta answered questioningly back telepathically.

“Yes…I would kindly ask you to inform your system that they are about to have one of our vessels arrive in your system. In the likely hood of avoiding a misunderstanding please state our intentions as friends.” There was no further explanation just a straight forward statement. Typical Aing-Tii as far as Vonta’s experience is concerned.

Out of Nowhere a frigate sized ship appeared in the system. It was 300 meters long from end to end. It looked about as alien to Vonta Horn as any thing that she had ever seen in her life. With the exception of the vong technology that was reported from the Vinda Corperation’s contact reports on their technology. Emplacments sprang from all parts of the ship. Some, Vonta could see, were engines. Others were undefined because of their alien look to them. She guessed that they were gun emplacements. She Heard the Radio chatter going into high-alert.

She immediately contacted the nearing training frigate.

“This is Vonta Horn to Observer Training vessel.” She waited for a reply.

The ship was turning about. The training vessels were meant for exploration and training force users. Not for combat. They were to avoid Combat if at all possible.

It took a moment before responding. “This is the captain of the Training vessels Professor Horn. We are preparing to tracter you in and make a retreat as is procedure.”

“Never mind that Captain.” She states. Talking in a commanding voice. “Send a message to the Alderaanian guard and tell them that the shlip is a friendly. Do not engage! I repeat! Do not engage!”

“Complying sir.” There was several seconds of pause. The Communications were running through the chain of command with all due speed. A stand down order goes out to all fleet forces.

“Sir the message has been relayed. Do you require pick-up?” The captain inquires.

“Yes. Prepare one of the Hyper shuttles for transport. Disgression is needed here. Professor Horn Out.” She did not wait for an acknowledgment before cutting the communications. She was troubled. She had expected to hear back from the Aing-Tii At some point. But not this soon.

Something was wrong and she needed to find out what it was.



* * *


A Hyper shuttle was prepared for departure once Vonta had landed her fighter in the Training frigate.

The Hyper shuttle was referred to as such because of the fact that it had been stripped of most of the internal amenities in favor of making room for a Hyper Portal Mk II.

She went to the shuttle without waiting to speak too anyone. She commanded the Captain to send word to the leading members of each of the Force sects and too Director sabreen. The Teras Kasi may need to lend an ear as well.

She piloted the shuttle with only a portal technition as her co-pilot. The techs were the guards for the portals as well as their operators. This particular tech was in charge of the Hyper shuttle that she was in.

“Observer please Dock at our port.” The female voice states.

Vonta answers in a question. “Your port being where counsilor. Your ship is not quite what I or my ships computors am used too.”


“Of course. It is in the under belly of the ship behind the bottom most thruster.” Vonta saw where she had indicated on the ship. She lined up her docking port to theirs and connected with ease, the ease was in fact surprising because of the alien nature of this ship.

Vonta gives the Tech to stay on board to received persons via Hyper portal.

Through the portal Vonta’s senses were filled with familiar sensations. Smells sounds, and sights that were just like those that she had experienced on another such vessel. Then she was on trial. Now…

Well, she could only guess what would be required of her.

Several Aing-tii stood at the hatch. They were rigid as stones, more then likely they were the guards. But she felt no danger from them. Behind them stood one Aing-tii that Vonta expected to see. The counsilor from her trial. The Aing-tii them selves were more akin in looks to bipedal creatures common on most planets. But this belied their advanced nature.

“As I said Observer Jedi, we would meet again.” The actual language was a series of clicks and chirps but Vonta heard that familiar female voice in her head as clear as anything.



* * *


Vonta and the Female Aing-Tii that she only Knew as 'Counsilor', what equated to a lawyer in the Aing-Tii’s ruling Council of Ten.

“Before we do anything else I believe that you owe me the pleasure of your name ‘Counsilor’.” She repeated the only name that she knew the female by. She spoke rather then use telepathy. It felt more natural and appropriate to Vonta.

“Yes, that is right I never need give you my Name.” The ‘Cousilor’ looked away for a moment to ponder the question a moment before she answers, “My name is unpronounceable in your tongue of Basic. But you May refer to me as Talis.”

The Pair walk through the corridors of the ship on their way to some location.

Vonta wants to question this but is hesitant to do so. The Aing-Tii came here for a reason and she was not sure if she wanted to know the answer until she was given it.

The arrive in a room filled with Ten Holo pads.

Ten Holo-pads. Council ten perhaps?

Sure enough a moment after the doors close behind Vonta and Talis the pads come to life with the holographic visages of the Ten Aing-Tii that she had been set before previously.

Talis moves in front. “I present once again Obsever Jedi Vonta Horn Before the Council of Ten.”

The Eldest of the group speaks up first. His long beard passes the limits of the holo-pad as if it were cut off.

“Observer Horn. Last time you met with us was to judge your worth as a Force user.” He made the clicks and chirps of his language but his telepathic voice was clear and sure. With a deep Tener to it that was musical and mesmerizing.

“Today,” He continues, “You face our number out of a beckoning of the force it self.”
Vonta was curious at this proclaimation. She had been feeling that she was on her way to a major change but she had not felt a beckoning of the force to seek out the Aing-Tii. Perhaps she would not seeing as the Aing-Tii’s understanding of the force was quite alien to her own. They saw and felt something that she could not.

“Until it is known what part you have to play in the coming days we shall see to it that you are made our ally. Your ‘Cousilor’.” The said ‘Counsilor’ interrupts briefly.

“Heretoforth known as Talis in the Observers Presence Sir.” She Bow in respectful apology for the interruption.

“Talis,” The Elder continued, “Shall be your guide to our world. See to her education and safty Talis and Good Journey to you.”

He finishes then the member of the Ten that had not wanted Vonta to continue was still among this group. Although he said nothing Vonta felt his dissatisfaction with this action as well. She had to watch him closely.

With that the Holograms faded and the doors to the Room opened again.

“You should be Honored Observer. You are one of the first out siders in a long while to interest our number so.” Talis regaled to vonta.

“So just what is this education entailing then?” She asked questioningly.

“You are to learn of our race. Just as your new Observer Order mandates you too. Learn out ways. Our philosophies, technology, history, everything. But only with the understanding that only those of your Order are to learn any of this.” She finishes with a statement of fact as always.

“Of course, so I take it that we shall be traveling then.” She got the feeling in the force more then anything.

“As a matter of fact, yes. We are to journey to the Kathol region with several of your vessels. First to our outpost on Exocron and then to visit the home world in the Kathol Rift where we live and where we construct our vessels.” Vonta stops dead in her tracts at the mention of travel through the Rift while Talis continues on only relizing a moment later that she was walking along, “Is there a problem Observer?”

Vonta fights back her surprise the Kathol Rift was one of the most dangerous places in the universe for space navigation. She would rather go through the Maw then through the Kathol Rift.

“Ah you worry about the Rift’s dangers, have no worries our Race can navigate the rift with ease. As well as guide your ships with us.” She reassured Vonta.

“Sorry, I trust you. That was just an old pilots reaction. I have heard many storys about ships that entered the rift never to return. Studies on the rift indicate that it is un-navigatable.” She finishes shaking off her lapse of emotion.

“Do you have vessels that can travel with your Order?” She inquires with yet another question. Probing into what vonta’s capabilities are in terms of technology.

“We have several vessels meant for exploration and training of our order as well as support vessels for the defense of those vessels. I well need to bring the heads of my order’s to meet with us first of course.” She makes her words a questioning statement as seems to be the way of the Aing-tii.

“Yes, you may contact your number to invite them to join us.” Talis answers.

“I well send for them. But they well arrived by Hyper Portal on the shuttle.” Vonta states.

The Bipedal Aing-tii tilts her head questioningly.

“Hyper Portal?” She is not familiar with the device.

“An adaption of Gree Hyper gates. We can use them to make matter transportation through hyperspace via the gates. A form of teleportation with hyper drive as it were.” Vonta finishes her explaination.

“Perhaps we do have more to learn from one another then we originally thought Observer.” Talis answers in a though communication of pleasant surprise.


* * *
Shortly the members of the Observer Order had ‘Portaled’ (A word to describe Hyper Portal travel) over to the Hyper Shuttle docked with the Aing-tii Vessel that Vonta found was called a Sanhedrim.

Before anything else in the interest of trade of knowledge the Aing-Tii agreed to give one of these ships to the order to study. The Aing-Tii were officially Joining the Observer Order. The Aing-tii on this ship well pilot it as well as study the technologies used by the Order as well as the Imperial tactics that the imperials may use.

Talis indicates that Imperials have increasingly been encroaching into the Kathol region. The Ten indicate that they should try to avoid any contact with foreigners until they can decypher what their intentions are. The Aing-tii go after pirates and slavers. A new government they may have no problem with. Governments come and go. But Pirates are a constant.

No, Aing-Tii are to attack Imperials unless stated otherwise. By order of the Council of Ten.

Passing through the portal was an experience like no other to the Nohgri. Though he finds that he prefers a shuttle when he can have it.

For a moment he sees nothing but blue and then he passes through the portal onto solid ground. His forwards momentum not changing at all as he passes through the other side.

As he takes note of his surroundings he can not help but wonder to himself.

-But into what.-

They arrive in the Hyper Shuttle that was their destination. That was familiar. It was what he felt above them that was unfamiliar. There were energies of life and of the force but none like the Master Aiki had ever felt before.

The technition at this portal addresses the congregation, "Observer Horn indicated for me to tell you all to meet her through the docking port."

Through the portal the travel. From familiar suroundings of the shuttle craft into a vessel that was totally strange to everyone of them.

The very architecture of the walls around them was unfamiliar. It was primitive in it's appearance with bone like plates and decorated with complex glyphs yet it felt more advanced then it seemed.

-An Aiki looks for what lies within not what stands upon the surface.- Irman reassured himself with a qoute from the Aiki Holo-cube.

The small form of the Nohgri is pacient. This was a member of a group that had tried to take away his apprentice not long ago. Now they were seeking friendship with those that they had hurt the most by abducting her.

He felt mixed emotions.

He hiimself understood why they did what they did. At least the principle of it.

They were following what they interpreted as the will of the force. NOt an easy thing to interpret. Throughout his years of study he found that there were many things that were down by the 'will' of the force. Those that found out that they had misinterpreted the force found that they had walked into some blunder that cost them dearly.

The Aing-tii were a old and wise race and order. Though the Aiki knew little about them he had a hand full of records on their actions against slaver ships going back several thousand years. Nearly as far as his records stretche. Good will is alway the way to start.

"The pleasure is all mine Talis of the Aing-tii." He made a bow of his own.

"Master Aiki, last of that order founded by a Master Morehie. You spent several decades studying in a secluded location. You are an anomally among your people. A force user, of witch the Nohgri have never had do to some latent resistance to it in terms of detection by force users. Yes your record precedes you." Talis made an effortless recount of Nogars accomplishments.

The gray skinned being stood speachless. He glanced over at Vonta questioningly. She shook her head as an answer. Indicating that she said nothing of the sort to Talis.

"Ah, you are confused. Our race keeps watch on many of the force users of the universe. As well as of the dangerous force Items scattered accross space. Thus how we knew of Observer Horn." She answered the question that Irman had yet to ask.

"Indeed there is more to your race then I ever imagined." Irman said in wonderment.

"And of course we have Master Teras Kasi Toryn Sabreen. Members of the Teepo and Jensaarai orders. And another Nohgri of whom I have no record of." Talis continues on.

Irman chimes in, "You know much of us. But we do not have the same pleasure."

"There well be time enough for that during our journey Master Aiki." Talis drops another hint.

"Journey?" Irman was even more curious now. What could not have been said over communication channels?

"All in due time Master Aiki. Follow me please." Talis's answer was in the Aing-tii fashion. In the form of a statment.

Everyone had not choice but to follow and see where it led them.