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Darth Vader - Volume 1 - Heir to the Empire - Part 13
Ssek: Mira......
The unconscious young padawan laid face down on the ground without even a twitch from the first call to her.
Ssek: Mira.....
The second was far more effective. This time there could be no mistake, the padawan heard her name being called. Not the false alias she now went by to cover he tracks, her real name. Mira Rumesk. One of the few Jedi to escape Operation Knightfall, the mission led by the fallen Jedi, Anakin Skywalker, to exterminate the inhabitants of the Jedi temple.
As the young padawan awoke, she found herself in her former Jedi robes. The safe robes she'd been forced to burn to cover her tracks.
Ssek: Mira....
Mira: Master?....Is.....is that you?
Whilst taking a few moments to observe her surrounding, the former Jedi can't help but wonder if this is the cosmic force she heard so much about. Where all living beings go when their life comes to an end. Was that why she could see her master stood before her?
Ssek: Mira....the balance....
Mira: What balance master?
Ssek: The force. It is unbalanced.
Mira: From what? The return of the Sith? The decimation of the Jedi?
Ssek: No.....
Mira: Then from what!?
In a brief moment, Mira couldn't help but cry out in anger at this apparent vision of her master before her. Ssek had ordered her to run when the first wave of the 501st legion stormed the Jedi temple that night on Coruscant, whilst promising to be right behind her. It wouldn't be until she returned weeks later that she'd realise that he'd stayed to fight. Stayed, to protect the younglings.
All in vain.
The newly appointed Darth Vader had spared none who stayed to defend the temple. Masters, knight....even younglings. No-one escaped the Dark Lord's wrath.
Ssek: From you.
Mira: Me!?
Ssek: There is a great imbalance in you, child. Your obsession with the one called Vader blinded your vision, and it cost you dearly.
Mira: I sought only to avenge you, master.
Ssek: Revenge, is not the way of the Jedi.
After a long protracted pause where the disillusioned padawan debates her response, she finally decides to say what's truly on her mind.
Mira: The Jedi are all but extinct. Perhaps if we're to survive, we must embrace the methods we have attempted to avoid.
Ssek: That is the path of the Sith. In the end, it will destroy you. Just as it destroyed Skywalker.
Mira: And Palpatine? He sits on a throne at Coruscant, overlooking an Empire that's slowly attempting to control the entire galaxy! Had we fought him with the full power of the force it'd be us that control it all, not him.
Ssek: And in the end, we'd destroy ourselves. Just as the Sith did millennia ago, before the time of Bane.
Mira: But what if we've been doing this wrong all along, Master? What if the only way to defeat the Sith is to use their own power against them?
Ssek: Just as they did to us during the Clone War.
Mira: It'd be different.
Ssek: Delving into the darkness to destroy the darkness, whether with good intentions or not, merely ensures its survival.
Mira: But surely it's for the greater good that the Sith are destroyed!
Ssek: Perhaps. Perhaps not. In many regards, it was for the greater good that most of the Jedi were destroyed.
There's a long pause as Mira is shocked to hear her master make such a suggestion.
Mira: How can you say that?
Ssek: For decades, the Jedi were unable to see through the force. The imbalance caused by our vast numbers, blinded our sight. But now, the future is clear.
Mira: But I still see nothing.
Ssek: Your vision remains clouded, because your imbalance blinds you. Have hope, my apprentice. Things may seem dark. But in time, a new hope will emerge.
Mira: Hope? What hope? Master?
Thal: Mira? Are you still with me?
As the surroundings begin to fade out and the outline of her master disappears, the distraught Mira can't help but call out one last time in desperation, either out of hope, or out of desperation.
Mira: MASTER!
Darth Vader - Volume 1 - Heir to the Empire - Part 13
Ssek: Mira......
The unconscious young padawan laid face down on the ground without even a twitch from the first call to her.
Ssek: Mira.....
The second was far more effective. This time there could be no mistake, the padawan heard her name being called. Not the false alias she now went by to cover he tracks, her real name. Mira Rumesk. One of the few Jedi to escape Operation Knightfall, the mission led by the fallen Jedi, Anakin Skywalker, to exterminate the inhabitants of the Jedi temple.
As the young padawan awoke, she found herself in her former Jedi robes. The safe robes she'd been forced to burn to cover her tracks.
Ssek: Mira....
Mira: Master?....Is.....is that you?
Whilst taking a few moments to observe her surrounding, the former Jedi can't help but wonder if this is the cosmic force she heard so much about. Where all living beings go when their life comes to an end. Was that why she could see her master stood before her?
Ssek: Mira....the balance....
Mira: What balance master?
Ssek: The force. It is unbalanced.
Mira: From what? The return of the Sith? The decimation of the Jedi?
Ssek: No.....
Mira: Then from what!?
In a brief moment, Mira couldn't help but cry out in anger at this apparent vision of her master before her. Ssek had ordered her to run when the first wave of the 501st legion stormed the Jedi temple that night on Coruscant, whilst promising to be right behind her. It wouldn't be until she returned weeks later that she'd realise that he'd stayed to fight. Stayed, to protect the younglings.
All in vain.
The newly appointed Darth Vader had spared none who stayed to defend the temple. Masters, knight....even younglings. No-one escaped the Dark Lord's wrath.
Ssek: From you.
Mira: Me!?
Ssek: There is a great imbalance in you, child. Your obsession with the one called Vader blinded your vision, and it cost you dearly.
Mira: I sought only to avenge you, master.
Ssek: Revenge, is not the way of the Jedi.
After a long protracted pause where the disillusioned padawan debates her response, she finally decides to say what's truly on her mind.
Mira: The Jedi are all but extinct. Perhaps if we're to survive, we must embrace the methods we have attempted to avoid.
Ssek: That is the path of the Sith. In the end, it will destroy you. Just as it destroyed Skywalker.
Mira: And Palpatine? He sits on a throne at Coruscant, overlooking an Empire that's slowly attempting to control the entire galaxy! Had we fought him with the full power of the force it'd be us that control it all, not him.
Ssek: And in the end, we'd destroy ourselves. Just as the Sith did millennia ago, before the time of Bane.
Mira: But what if we've been doing this wrong all along, Master? What if the only way to defeat the Sith is to use their own power against them?
Ssek: Just as they did to us during the Clone War.
Mira: It'd be different.
Ssek: Delving into the darkness to destroy the darkness, whether with good intentions or not, merely ensures its survival.
Mira: But surely it's for the greater good that the Sith are destroyed!
Ssek: Perhaps. Perhaps not. In many regards, it was for the greater good that most of the Jedi were destroyed.
There's a long pause as Mira is shocked to hear her master make such a suggestion.
Mira: How can you say that?
Ssek: For decades, the Jedi were unable to see through the force. The imbalance caused by our vast numbers, blinded our sight. But now, the future is clear.
Mira: But I still see nothing.
Ssek: Your vision remains clouded, because your imbalance blinds you. Have hope, my apprentice. Things may seem dark. But in time, a new hope will emerge.
Mira: Hope? What hope? Master?
Thal: Mira? Are you still with me?
As the surroundings begin to fade out and the outline of her master disappears, the distraught Mira can't help but call out one last time in desperation, either out of hope, or out of desperation.
Mira: MASTER!