Hey, everybody. It's me, Faìthe. On behalf of the Order of Revan--which I thirdly rule, as Sith'ari--I welcome and request incorporation between our Orders. The Order of Revan is a fellow roleplay clan with many talented members in terms of roleplay and saber combat--based on Movie Battles II's mechanisms, anyway. Though we do host our servers on MBII, we are willing to convert to JA+ partially, should we be taken up on our offer. Feel free to make an account on our forums and see what we're about!
Order of RevanAnd, just to make it more interesting, here's our hinting that we'd like DAJ involvement in roleplay style:
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Unusually, the Exchange remnants have sacrificed their hold on the Outer Rim Territories for something of value in the Unknown Regions. The only thing they have relayed to the public is that they are building up a fleet to invade an organic mass unheard of until now. How they made this discovery, nobody knows as of yet. The vastly wealthy Mandalorian bounty hunter Shirei is leading the assault against any opposition within the uncharted territory. Further news will have to wait.
THE FLEET"Why?"
Darth Ar'rii, Sith'ari of his Order and Black Knight of the Emperor, walked about in the ring, letting the prisoner hang suspended from the wall in chains. Recently, the Order of Revan had the misfortune of an infiltrator within their own ranks─a Jedi Knight, presumably. The Sith'ari doubted the possibility of a Jedi traitor at first, but even the purest of Jedi─Barriss Offee, for example─had walked such paths before. Remnants of the Exchange had finally found their haven─a world forged by both sides of the Force. For years, they still hunted Jedi, and by now had they amassed an army large enough to capture two star systems. The Order's security was now at stake.
"Why sacrifice your position for this fate?" It was completely foolish, the way Darth Ar'rii saw it.
He doubted this man was a mercenary. He hid his identity well, but he knew by his Force signature that it had to have been someone within the Order of Revan.
"Freedom," finally came the reply.
"Freedom?" The Sith'ari subconsciously chuckled. "You haven't earned this privelege. You are an insignificant brat of the Exchange."
With back still turned and without gesture, the chains that held the man by his arms let the prisoner loose, and despite all of his recent torture, the man landed perfectly on his feet.
A golden glow flickered through the air. He turned his mask to face it, and made out a dark silhouette walking toward him. His clawed right hand reached for his lightsaber, which he selected automatically from many at his waist. It snapped on, casting a bloody red glow through the room.
By that light, a man in Jedi robes was revealed, tall and straight-backed. The face beneath the hood was smooth-skinned and calm. His eyes gleamed, containing sorrow and pity. Familiar and yet unfamiliar, known and yet utterly unknown . . .
Darth Ar'rii hissed a low, dangerous sound through his mask's vocoder and crouched like a poised snake, master of Juyo, the most vicious form of lightsaber combat known in the galaxy.
The Jedi drew his own lightsaber─a bright sky blue─and adopted a classic Soresu opening stance, with left arm upraised, palm-down, running parallel to the lightsaber in his right. With his left foot forward he balanced perfectly on his right, ready to defend himself against any attack.
The Sith'ari didn't keep him waiting. He didn't employ any wild acrobatics or fancy Force moves. He simply lunged, using his whole body as a weapon, his balance and dexterity utterly focused. The dark side thrilled through him, harmonizing perfectly with the anger and hate in his heart. The traitor was going to die, one way or another. It might as well be now.
Blue blocked red in a spray of energy. Darth Ar'rii struck again, higher this time, a deceptively loose blow that hid deadly subtleties beneath its wide swing. The Jedi blocked it too─just. Soresu was a defensive fighting style, but it wouldn't last forever against the malignant grace of Juyo.
The Jedi came in hard and fast before Darth Ar'rii could rally another attack. He cared little if the Jedi hit him, so long as the damage was minimal. Close hits left flesh sizzling and armor smoking. The energy he saved on wild dodges he spent on tearing jagged planks from the walls and throwing them at the Jedi's head. All were deflected, but it distracted the man, robbed his attack of some of its momentum. When he paused, Darth Ar'rii sent a surge of Sith lightning under his guard.
The Jedi was caught in the flickering storm. His face twisted into a pained grimace. Then he brought his right arm down and placed the blade of his lightsaber directly in the lightning's path. The energy was absorbed by the blade, then bent back upon itself in a superconducting loop, striking its source with more energy than it had originally possessed. The Sith'ari stiffened as pain coursed up his hands and arms. The agony was unbearable─but bear it he did. His skin melted and warped all over his body, and he gagged on the stink of his own burning flesh. The pain and revulsion only fed the dark side, so the faster the lightning came back to him, the harder and stronger it flowed through him.
The loop couldn't last forever. With a blinding blue flash he and the Jedi were blown far apart, crashing with arms outstretched into the walls of the room and dropping to the floor. Their lightsabers skittered away in opposite directions, dead.
Flat on his back, Darth Ar'rii wheezed through his mask like an asthmatic Gand, only gradually regaining sensation in his arms and legs. His muscles twitched spastically when he tried to move. Acrid steam poured from his mask's narrow eye slits. Fearing that his Jedi opponent might be on his feet before him, he called on all the power of the Force to lift himself bodily into the air. Hanging suspended like a doll, with his feet some centimeters off the ground, he blinked his searing eyes until he could see again.
The Jedi was faring no better. He, too, was upright, but only just. He, too, had lost his lightsaber and not yet managed to reclaim it. The Sith'ari leered behind his mask. He had several other lightsabers to choose from, belonging to all the Jedi Knights he had killed. All he had to do was select one at random and strike.
Instead he reached out with his left hand and, as his Emperor and Dark Master Sidion had done to the first Jedi killed on this spot, long ago, gripped his opponent about the throat with the Force. Still smoking from the lightning attack, the young man jerked abruptly in the air.
They faced each other across the ring, neither touching the ground.
"Kill me," gasped the Jedi, "and you destroy yourself."
Darth Ar'rii laughed gloatingly, a hideous sound that bore little relation to anything made by a human throat. Summoning his lightsaber, he activated it and threw it at the stricken Jedi. The blade went through the Jedi's right shoulder and deactivated when the pommel hit flesh. The Jedi arched his back but didn't cry out. Savoring the moment, Darth Ar'rii unhitched one of the other lightsaber hilts from his belt, ignited it, too, and impaled the Jedi again. Over and over he stabbed the Jedi Knight until there were no more hilts at his belt and the floor beneath his victim was stained deep red.
Still the Jedi lived. A flicker of annoyance spoiled the moment, but then he remembered that there was one more lightsaber he hadn't used; the Jedi's own. Snatching it to him, Darth Ar'rii ignited the blade, drew his arm back, and stabbed the Jedi Knight through the heart.
That did the trick. The body dropped to the ground, inert, and Darth Ar'rii allowed himself to stand properly on the ground. The dark side throbbed through him. He was the living embodiment of power.
Tipping his masked head back, he crowed in triumph like a feral wolf cat.
As Jedi Knight Adner walked into the sensor room, he noticed some strange reading.
That can't be right.But it was indeed right. The Exchange had assembled a massive force big enough to take on two star systems. He hurried from corridor to corridor and finally found him.
Adner watched in shock as he had just slain a Jedi Knight.
"What the hell are you
doing!?" He didn't pause to reach for his green-bladed lightsaber. Igniting, he stood at the ready for any surprises of Ar'rii's personal techniques.
"I killed that Jedi Knight," he replied gravely, "because he has given away our haven to the Exchange. He is a traitor."
Adner took slow breaths. He calmed down a bit, slowly turning off his lightsaber, but was still disturbed that Darth Ar'rii had killed one of his Order. Regardless, Adner shook it off.
"I'm sorry," he slowly said, even though Ar'rii merely stared down at his victim's corpse with consideration. "Anyway, I came to tell you that according to our sensor logs, the Exchange has assembled a massive fleet. They have an ion cannon, too."
The Dark Lord actually paused, looking at his mechanical restraints. "I am aware. What else?"
"There have been bounties on us for a while. Now they intend to─"
He paused as a chill of false anticipation traveled about his spine. A dark presence clouded his thoughts. He had assumed it was the Sith'ari's, but this presence was different. It was threatening.
Suddenly, it was behind Adner. He drew his lightsaber and narrowly blocked a fatal strike. Turning around, he saw a familiar face─a Sith who had been a veteran of the Order of Revan. To Adner's dismay, he was a traitor. He sought combat.
The Jedi Knight had to be cautious, for this Sith was extraordinarily powerful. Adner formed a tight Soresu defense and prepared for the attack. The Sith attacked first, unleashing a powerful barrage of Ataru strikes. Adner blocked them and went onto the offensive, counterattacking with Djem So and unleashing a barrage of Force-infused Niman strikes, which caught him off guard and disarmed him.
Before Adner could deliver the fatal blow, he attacked with traditional Teräs Käsi hand-to-hand combat moves, catching the Jedi off guard and disarming him. They engaged in hand-to-hand before Adner got the upper hand and they both called their lightsabers to each other. This time, A was faster using Force Speed.
He attacked, barely missing the Sith traitor as he moved to counter attack. Adner desperately used a unique Protection Bubble, shielding himself from the otherwise fatal blow. He then released it and they charged each other, wills locked and unbreaking.
They found themselves caught in a saber lock. Adner was physically overpowering him, but the Sith barely dodged the attack. Guessing a frontal attack wouldn't work, he backed away and barraged the traitor with Force blasts before infusing his Force push with Electric Judgment.
He defended himself from it with his lightsaber, but it was what Ander was hoping for. It exploded in a current of electricity, unyieldingly stunning him. Finally, the Jedi rushed in and slayed him with the Flowing River technique.
Finally releasing himself from the seemingly unending world of combat, he took several breaths in exhaustion, staring up at Darth Ar'rii with disappointment. He had slain his foe, but the Sith'ari had merely spectated the entire time.
"Thanks for the help!" he said sternly through his clenched teeth.
"You needed the exercise. Now, where were we?" Ar'rii casually collected the infernal swords of the dead and then paused. "The Exchange now has a fleet."
"Yes," Ander answered, the weariness folding over him like a warm blanket. "What do we do?"
The monolith paused, rattling his claw-like fingers together in a conceding hand-fold. "I shall convene with the Emperor. I believe there is one more source of strength we could look to. Hopefully we can send a message through the Force."
"What if they don't get here when the Exchange has landed on our planet?"
Darth Ar'rii rasped with disgust behind his helmet. "Assemble what of our Order you can, and scout for Hellspawns. Hopefully we can release them against the first waves of Exchange forces."
He felt pity for those beasts, no matter how mindless and terrible they were. "They are not going to be tools of─"
"Do
not fail in this task, or it's your life, along with all of ours."
Adner watched as the shadowed exoskeleton stalked the corridors of the Temple discreetly, and reluctantly took his comlink. "All warriors assemble in the War Room."