over the river and through the woods.

[Elifain]

General Ardus San Flagren emerged from the Normandy class star yacht that he used as transport, into a clearing in the jungles of felucia, before the ship flew back off a distance. He reached out gently with his mind, and sensed a great deal of life, a majority of them being plantlife, but he did pass through a few sentient beings.

As he drew back to himself, Ardus said loudly, Come, warriors of the woods. Speak with me, so that I would know your nature...

He chuckled to himself, on the pun he had unintentionally made, but kept a stoic state of being, as around him, 12 Fellucians came, either from the tree's, or from the shadows.
Ardus cut a short bow, that brought his arms out to his sides, but showed no weapons.

The group of Felucians showed 1 gold colored creature, 2 reds, and 9 blues, scattered around him, all bearing weapons. The gold, standing before him, nodded, and in a rush of movement, 3 blues broke off the formation, charging towards Zeratul, one from either side, and a lone one from behind. Each of the side creatures led with a slash from their respective left sides, while the one behind him jumped forward, bringing its sword to bear in an overhead chop.

Ardus was quick to respond, twisting his whole body like a top, and throwing out his arms, twisting to his right. As he did, the energy blades on his wrist snapped to life, slamming into the blades of the felucians, before he brought his hands up, and snapped off the blades again, catching the final felucian by the throat, with a single hand, while the other caught the blade arm.
A simple twist, brought his body around again, and this time, using the captured falucian as a weapon, He bashed the two stunned falucians back.

Shall we continue... I grow tired of your games... Ardus said, as he let go, mid twist, throwing the, now unconcious felucian away.

The Gold felucian looked to a red, beforel looking back, and spoke with clicking sounds. After a moment, it stepped forward, and bowed slowly to Ardus, as Ardus returned the gesture, still shallowly, before sitting tall again.

He had understood some of what the humanoid was saying through the creatures thoughts, and thus knew that the attack was merely a test of his prowess.

Ardus said calmly, both out loud, and into the golds mind, I am in search of somewhere I can build a temple, and would request we use some of this forest as a starter. We will not bother your people unless it is requested of us, and will stand with you if our enemies come for this place. Is that ok with you?

A moment later, he was acknowledged with a nod from the gold felucian before it looked to its own, some recovering the 3 blues, as the two reds motioned for Ardus to follow them. Ardus quietly fell into step behind the two creatures, as the rest of the procession fell into step behind them.

A little more than an hour of walking in silence later, And the Fellucians brought him to a clearing, easily large enough to build a small city, and have room, which would be just what Ardus had in mind. After thanking the Fellucians, and giving a clan of Acklays that had taken up residence near the edge, that danger was coming, and it would be beneficial to the group to move by sending them images telepathically, from hiding, Ardus finallly stood alone in the clearing, and activated his communicator.

This is Ardus San Flagren, to the Memories of Ice. I have found a suitable location. Send down the Titans, and the garrison base. to this location. We have found it, brothers...

He was acknowledged by a human that they had picked up at the federation bases, a woman by the name of kerrigan. We're on the move. Care if some of the troops drop in as well, commander?

Ardus replied, The Federation troops are welcome to join me down here. Ardus said, guessing who was most likely going to be joining him on the planet.

Within the hour, Ardus heard the 4 Massive Titan dropships engines, as well as 4 LAAT Dropships, moving towards him. The four LAAT's were the first to arive, moving faster than the larger dropships, and were quick to unload the 50 "snipers" that had named themselves Ghosts. Most had a sniper rifle at all times, but others had adopted a newer style of rifle, the M41b, but modified with scopes, and slower firing speeds.

45 of the "ghosts" scattered on landing, activating sleath suits, to increase their abilities to hide from view, before scattering into the edges of the jungle, as gaurds, while the remaining 5, Kerrigan included, marched up to Ardus, and saluted.

As the LAAT's moved off, the 5 Titans brought in their prize, the giant garrison building, and its defensive infistructure, and less than an hour later, everything was set up and ships were moving back where they came from. Kerrigan and her 4 leiutenants, stayed nere Ardus the whole time, having somwhat taken over for his guardians, while he was in federation controlled military points.

Within moments, 4 more LAAT's came back around, each holding 30 infantry, and 10 anti armor men, making another 160 troopers groundside, for guard shifts at the temple.

As Ardus moved into the temple, he noticed how lively it seemed to be. the ghosts being scattered outside, left the defense force scattered through the base, prepping everything for future use. Ardus, however, found a command room, and after setting the troopers there about their business, he opened a link to the memories, who rebound it to the federations bases in the system.

Any member of the jedi who would like to join the brotherhood, Join me on Felucia. He said, simply, before cutting the link, and moving on to business.

[Zilfer]

Bones and Rin descended in a Federation transport. They got off on the planet of felucia and among all the things Rin had seen in her life this appeared to be as beautiful as the people of her homeworld. The planet was so full of life. Bones on the other hand saw the ferocity of this place. He knew a place like this you had to keep your wits about you if you wanted to stay alive. Bones couldn't quite put his finger on exactly what it was that alerted him to this.

They headed towards what appeared to be going as the "Temple" in these parts, and the only non forest like thing on the nearby planet's surface. As they approached they waited wondering if they were supposed to just walk in or if they would be greeted. Whatever the Federation had planned they wanted to know so they could get started right away.

[Ragsmire]

Memento Mori, Felucian space.

The room was so dead, so silent. A lone rustling was the solitary noise that reassured Tycen Malone that he hadn't gone deaf. Sitting on an elevated bench within the claustrophobic room. Four white metallic walls boxed him in at all sides, various knickknacks were spread across the walls in an attempt to human the place up. Mostly things relating to the biology of things like the eye, or brain, but here and there one could find holocrons on display with images of family. The Medical wing of the ship felt more like a morgue to Malone then anything else, perhaps that was just his fear of doctors though.

"So, Mister Malone, how are we feeling today?" came a powerful male tone from where the source of the rustling had originated. Doctor Karol Patict was the doctor assigned to watch Tycen as he recovered from his injuries back on Kuat. But quite frankly Tycen didn't like the man, and got a bad vibe from him.

"Feels about the same doctor, a slight tingle, like a burning, flairs on occasion but that's about it." Tycen answered with a uncertain tone presence in his voice. A mix of concur over the environment and fear of the Physician sitting ahead of him, coupled with a level of puzzlement regarding how to describe the sensation.

Patict scribbled some notes down on his datapad before launching himself from the desk and wheeling to the foot of the bench. Before he could continue with the followup exam Malone rose abruptly raising a hand to the doctor. "No, no. I'm afraid this isn't going to work doctor." With the rushed explanation Tycen hurried through the blast door and left.

As he moved down the halls of the medical wing the PA system boomed with news that they'd just arrived at Felucia, and for that shake, Tycen now knew where he could go to escape from the secluded enclosure that was the officer.

He quickly returned to his quarters to acquired and fashion the Crusader MK III armor, something he never left the ship without, not after Kuat. Before leaving he beamed an encrypted transmission to Tina, who while still living on board the ship, was something of an out of the way trip simply to give her the instructions personally. Instead he sent the simple exercise through his datapad.

Considering the severe lack of fully realized jedi master's Tycen had taken it upon himself to direct Tina through her training, and thus, he sent her simplistic instructions regarding some basic meditations he wanted her to practice while he was away.

Now making an approach to the hanger Tycen's pace was matched by Adderate, the dock master in the hanger, whom quickly pondered what Tycen was doing here. "So Malone, what will of the architects brings you here?" Tycen took obvious note of the sarcastic tone in the man's voice, and choose to ignore it.

"I'll be taking my stealth-X to the surface, Adderate, is it prepped?" Malone questioned while marching forward without sparing a glance to Adderate.

"Yeah, as requested the ship is in a readied state at all times." Malone recalled giving that order months prior. It was something of a safe guard in case he ever needed to make a quick escape from the Mori, Thus far he has not found a need for it.

"Excellent Adderate, now i see why i keep you around." Tycen remarked in something that was close to a compliment from Malone. He gave Adderate an awkward thumbs up before moving to jump into the cockpit and take off from the hanger.

Felucia surface, five minutes after landing.

"If the Mori's scan of the world was accurate then i should be nearing..." as he trailed off Tycen moved into a large clearance now occupied with troops and a massive eight story structure with two visible hatches for deployment of ships running along the upper levels, coupled with reinforced blast doors to retrieve and deploy armor to and from it made for quite a scene in the middle of the jungle-and not quite the temple he came expecting.

Tycen gradually stepped forward toward the base with the feeling of watchful eyes all around him, even if he didn't see the source of those eyes. Upon arriving at the base of the temple Malone noticed a familiar figure, however unwelcoming it was. The backside of the creature from Mon Calamari stood watchfully taking in his fortress as men move to and fro setting up its defenses.

Tycen pressed ever forward into the building until coming up to the creature's side, while it might have, and probably was, aware of his presence long before now he did not wait for an invitation to be extended any further then the initial calling. Malone cocked his head back and gazed at the interior of the structure finally commenting.

"A rather impressive base, as far as a temple however i'm not sure."

[Elifain]

As Bones and Rin made their way to the temple, they were "greeted" by 5 members of the ghost forces, decloaking around them.
Welcome to Felucia, sir, ma'am. The leader said, a smirk showing on his face, as he held his rifle low, before asking, Visiting or looking for the commander? He asked calmly.

---

Ardus didn't turn as he was spoken to by Tycen. When he did reply, his voice took on an amused tone, as he said, A tower will come later, as soon as The engineers arrive. This is a temporary residence...

He finally turned towards Tycen, and his eyes somewhat narrowed. What took you, human?

[Zilfer]

"Looking for the man in charge, heard he wants the Jedi to join the fight against the Empire," said Bones addressing the man as Rin continued to look around, she had only sensed the invisible men approach but a moment before they had revealed themselves so she couldn't have warned Jik if she tried, but it seemed they were friendly enough.

"I believe they were calling themselves the brotherhood? Would you happen to be linked to them and that... temple? over there?" asked Rin politely.

[Ragsmire]

Tycen crossed his arms while still regarding the building itself, even when the alien turned to address him directly. The Primary reason simply because he distrusted this creature, while he himself would not admit it, Tycen was something of a xenophobic and treated aliens that weren't immediately related to humans in some form as inferior.

"Rough negotiations, lets leave it at that." He replied coolly aiming toward a quick climax to this conversation, perhaps if it came down to it Tycen could stomach to engage in a full dialog with the Skirran, however that was purely if the need be absolute.

"Lets not monkey around, Skirran. We got off on bad terms and i don't have the time to deal with anymore of your unnecessary antics. So lets get straight to it, what must i do to become an Initiate affiliated with the brotherhood, what trials, or test much i face?" Tycen asked facing Ardus now trying to get to the point of his force odyssey or whatever, the Jedi had tests, so it was only safe to assume the same with the brotherhood, however Tycen could be mistaken.

[Elifain]

Bones started questioning about the brotherhood, and as his question was finished, the soldier said, Your in the right place. We are the perimeter guard for the Garrison here. Our engineers will be using it as residence, until a proper tower can be created. If your here for the brotherhood, Then this'll be your home until that time as well.

---

Ardus raised an eyebrow, a fraction of an inch, in his staring at Tycen, when the man became serious.

You will be sent on a mission to prove your worth to the brotherhood. Use whatever you have to, to succeed in your mission, short of destroying the planet. We rely on self adaptation to achieve our goals, and thus are less likely to be caught in old habbits...

He thought to himself for a moment, before moving onto the topic of the "test" The Federation needs a foothold in the Core, from which we can deploy forces from. I have thought hard on the options, and have come down to two. The wreckage planet, Corellia, long being destroyed by the Imperials, Is a desolate planet, filled with whispers of ghosts. The industrial planet, Balosar, Its crime infested streets prevent easy domination for the emperor, and will likely attempt to stonewall any forces there. Both are either empty of, or hard to hold zones for the empire to control, and I want you to seize one of them for me. My ships will be there in 4 days, regardless of success or failure, and while success will not mean the end of this war, failure could mean your lives. Ardus remained quiet for a moment, before adding in ominously, Make your choice.

[Ragsmire]

Felucia surface.

As he speaks Tycen takes time out of his self absorbed attitude to truly listen to what the creature is saying, these instructions could be vital to everything the future holds for one side or the other, however they could just as easily go unused and unnoticed. Regardless the initial statement takes Tycen back. Old habits, while it seemed like an innocent enough comment Malone had to consider it a stab at the jedi order, which at many times came to an utter standstill without members doing anything.

However the thought quickly passed and Tycen returned to the present, to hear Ardus assignment. It sounded simple enough in concept, take one world for something like a staging area, but the actually event would be much more difficult Malone knew. Regardless he'd do it, he'd have to.

"Alright then, I'll secure your foothold to the Core. I'll see you in four days, Ardus." With that he gave a single nod before moving to face the exit and stalking away slowly, adding just before stepping through the doorway. "I'll send word when i have the planet, you'll know where to be then."

After a fifteen minute trek through the woods back to his stealth-X Tycen force leaped to the cockpit and headed back to the Mori Relaying orders to the command bridge beforehand so things would be ready as soon as he landed, which took only an additional ten minutes flight time.

Memento Mori

He returned the Stealth-X starfighter to the same hanger he retrieve it from and moved without a word up the deck to the lift where he proceeded to take it up to the central level and walk the remaining distance to the Mori Core ship as it began final preparations for hyperspace. However at the last moment Tycen decided to instead move to meet with Tina in the makeshift training room, converted into a place more suited for lightsaber, blaster, force, and other varieties of combat and none combat training from a rarely used assembly room.

Hitting the keypad to slid the blast door out of his way Tycen was welcomed by the sight of Tina sitting cross legged in the center of the room levitating a chair, two holocrons, and three datapads in the air. A seldom seen look of pure intensity marked Tina as utterly concentrated on the task at hand, the one that about an hour ago, give or take, he gave her.

"Trinity." Tycen said as he slowly stepped into the room. The sudden surprise from hearing her name most have caused Tina to drop the various items she had hovering in the to a crashing stop back to the ground. "Tycen!" She returned in a pleasant tone, the same normally used when addressing most people she opened a dialog with, however since losing the title of commander of the Audere Est Facere. had put her in a sour mood, perhaps she was coming out of that now.

"I see you've done as i instructed and practiced the meditations." He comment down playing her use of telekinesis, it most have been something she picked up while away from him as Tycen did not recall even vaguely mentioning it.

"I simply did as you asked." she replied, clearly picking up on where he was headed with her recent removal from the Audere and restitution on board the Mori. Tycen took another few steps forward taking hold of a pair of training blades.

"Well, all things considered Tina it as come to my attention that you need training, and lack a master. Thus i will fill that void." Tycen flipped the practice saber in his hand once before tossing it across the room to his sister, whom caught it. "So lets begin."

[Zilfer]

Bones looked from man to man as if he wondered whether they were holograms. "You still didn't answer my question. Wheres the one in charge?" asked Bones as politely as he could a second time. He thought about telling Rin to ask the men because they sure seemed to answer to her questions. Rin her self nodded to the man.

"Thank you for the information. This planet is a beautiful place," said Rin before looking over to some figures in the distance. There appeared to be species of all sorts here. It would be a sad day if the Empire ever laid it's dark hands upon this planet. The beauty would surely fade.

[Elifain]

The trooper nodded to rin, before turning back to Bones, General Ardus is wandering around the grounds, making sure everything is secure and whatnot. If you would like his attention, I can call him in for you. The soldier was about to, but before he did, 2 Skirran warriors decloaked nearby, standing and watching, one making a point to wave towards Bones and Rin to follow them.

[jezred]

Jezred was just leaving Illum and had already begun his forms, practicing both unarmed and light saber skills when Tala spoke up without warning.
"Sir I've intercepted a communication." She said.
"Intercepted or received?"
"Well... received but intercepted sounds more fun!"
"Play said communication." He responded.
"Any member of the jedi who would like to join the brotherhood, Join me on Felucia." It was a male voice, and one that Zed wasn't wholly familiar with. Shrugging, he took a seat in the pilot chair and checked the coordinates for Felucia.
"Enter hyper drive with the currently set coordinates. Once there, hover until we find where to land." He ordered. Wordlessly, Tala did as told and entered hyper space. Meanwhile, Zed continued to train until he was satisfied with his form of meditation. He was trying to develop now, a new force style that would utilize the skills he already possessed. Thus far it wasn't exactly going smoothly.

Upon entering Felucia's atmosphere, Jezred immediately took manual control, scanning for buildings which, on Felucia, wasn't exactly that hard. With the coordinates determined, Jezred set down near said building, reached out with the force to check the nature of the people around it (make sure it wasn't imperial), and walked off of his ship, heading to walk straight through the front door.

[Zilfer]

Bones was about to say something but was interrupted by a few new arrivals. More aliens that he had never seen before. That perked his interests.... he had flashes of someone that looked a lot like them. He was struggling against restraints. Shaking that image from his mind he moved forward with Rin allowing the Aliens to lead them towards where ever this infamous leader was.

[Elifain]

The two skirrans who had approached Rin and Jik slowly moved off, heading towards the front enterance of the Garrison building, before fading back into the shadows, leaving the two standing before Ardus, who turned to the two, and said, En taro adun, young ones. Welcome to the Brotherhoods temporary residence... His voice was, somewhat cheery, but held a sharp tone, involuntarily. He looked between the two, taking notice of their stances, as well as their expressions. He resisted the urge to reach into their mind, as he bowed shortly, and stood tall, looking between the two again.

---

As Jezred climbed out of his ship, and began moving towards the base, 4 of the "ghost" team decloaked around him, guns held down, but ready.
State your business here. One of the members said, a female, by the appearance.

[MikDaTv]

(Very High Orbit, Felucia)

John P. Jones exited hyperspace in his Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor. The bright white hull of the craft was covered in pits and scores from multiple blaster burns and dents from micro-meteorite strikes. It's red cross was still clearly visible, extending from the base of the cockpit all the way to the nose of the ship and crossing midway down the fusalage.

His upgraded hyperdrive no longer required the hyperspace ring that the other fighters in his class needed to travel faster than light, so no orbital parking was needed. He put himself in a decaying orbit and stretched out his arms. He'd been confined to the tiny cockpit of the fighter for 18 hours and while he had gotten plenty of sleep during the hyperspace jump, he was still tired.

He would usually take the opportunity to meditate and reconnect himself with the Force in order to help wake him up but he had lost his lightsaber, and without it he didn't have a focus for mediation. He could mediate without it but not in the cockpit of his fighter going through atmospheric entry.

His R2 unit twerped something at him and he looked over at the droid. "No, i don't know why we're here. Stop asking."

The droid gave a low trumpet and swivled it's head to face away from the cockpit and back out into space. John shook his head. "Look, we were only in range of a few worlds and this is the only one that felt good. calm down."

John switched on the autopilot and looked down at himself. His armor had seen better days but he'd just gotten through a stiff fight. He tighened the shoulder armor around his arm and adjusted his plated gloves to fit more comfortably. "Gizmo, run a scan on the surface. We're looking for signs of civilization."

The droid trilled out an afirmative and began using the fighters sensor array to look for a place to land and possibly conduct maintenance on the fighter.

Finding a single building, hidden within a jungle on something as large as a planet was a lot more difficult than some people seem to think it is and in fact, the R2 unit never did find it. But it did find another ship entering the planets atmosphere and told John to simply follow it. John did so and in no time they picked up the structures on their own, non-magical sensors.

[jezred]

Jezred noticed a second through the waves of the force before the ghosts decloaked around him but that wasn't enough time to come to a solid conclusion about what to do about it. Given that he raised his hands in the air.
"I'm here to speak to whoever is leading this brotherhood. I came straight here from the jedi temple on Illum." He explained. Then in a show of good faith, he slowly, slowly, pulled the lightsaber tube off of his belt and tossed it to one of them. What he didn't tell them was that it was a fake. It would activate, but it was little more than a training saber. He kept it on his belt with his real ones out of sight so that unless someone really really knew him, he would always have them on him.
"You guys wouldn't happen to know the direction of that building would you?"