Jastin Kets

Darth Thrax

Darth Thrax, the Sith Gatesmaster, stood in the center of his personal chambers. His eyes were closed, his jaw clenched, and his brow was furrowed. He had just accepted a young human male as his new apprentice. Although there were several humans within the Empire that he worked closely with, his hatred for humans burned strongly within his entire being. They weren't his friends, only close allies.

The zabrak gripped his hilt tightly as he waited for his apprentice to arrive. He would not take his training lightly. He needed to be ready for the Empire that he would be a part of. He needed to be tested. Your training starts now. He whispered into the mind of his new apprentice with a monotonal yet intimidating voice.
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Jastin · Sith Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 271

Jastin was walking when he heard a voice in his head telling him his training started now.He walked up to a nearby apprentice and asked"Do you know where I can find Darth Thrax?" the apprentice replied"Yes,he should be in his chambers right now."and pointed him in the right direction.Jastin thanked him and began walking toward his master's chambers he was looking forward to his training.Jastin had heard that Darth Thrax was a zabrak so he knew that his training would be intense wich was just what he hoped."With him training me I'll have great knowledge and ability with combat and the force by the time I'm knighted."

Darth Thrax

As the chamber doors opened, the zabrak's eyes followed suit. As he glared at the human male, he nodded and beckoned him over. The man obeyed without saying a word and stopped just a few feet from his master. "I am Darth Thrax, your master. I have little tolerenace as it as and even less for your kind." He turned from his apprentice and slowly began to walk away, letting his words sink in for a moment before turning to face him again. "Now tell me... Why are you here? What made you want to join the Sith?"
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Jastin · Sith Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 271

Jastin looked his master right in the eye and said "when I was 15 I killed in self-defense and was hunted for it every night I slept in fear that I would be caught and imprisoned while I was sleeping.I became very angry and now I hate everyone who I had ever feared,and now I want power so much power that I will never have to fear anything or anyone they will be the ones who fear me." he then turned and asked "So will we be starting right away?".

Darth Thrax

The zabrak merely glared at the human. That story, the story about revenge, was far too common among the Sith here. Of course, that was partly the reason why the Gatesmaster had joined. He grinned wickedly at his apprentice's question and stood perfectly still. In the blink of an eye, literally, Jastin flew into the cold durastell wall, leaving a very slight dent as he slid to the floor. Darth Thrax casually stepped towards his apprentice, who layed crumpled on the floor. While still approaching Jastin, Thrax lifted his hand into the air causing Jastin to do the same.

"It seems that we have much work to do." Thrax bared his teeth as he lowered Jastin back to the floor and glared down at him. "Go to the training room and duel my other apprentice, Iyezo. Come back to me when you are finished. Oh, and don't worry, he will not kill you." His lips curled into a sinister grin. With that, he pointed to the door and turned back around, heading back to his desk.
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Jastin · Sith Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 271

Yes,I will do that right away my master.

Jastin · Sith Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 271

Jastin found his master and said"Greetings master I have done as you ordered, I found your other apprentice to be quite tough you've trained him well."

Darth Thrax

Darth Thrax was turned in the direction of his apprentice when he entered the chamber, his face emotionless as he listened to Jastin. "Part of the reason is because I trained him, yes. But the other part is due to his natural zabrak strength and intelligence. We are superior to your kind, human. Unless you can prove yourself to me, you will die whether it be by my hands or the hands of the enemy." His voice had a hint of intimidation in it, trying to scare the human into submission.

Without waiting for Jastin to speak, Thrax used the Force to pull the apprentice's vibrosword from him and snapped it in half. He pointed over to a small work bench on the other side of the room. "You have no use for that anymore. Construct your lightsaber. All the parts you need will be there."
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Jastin · Sith Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 271

"Yes, and may I ask master what kind of crystals will be there for I have not learned about the different focusing crystals yet?"Jastin said as he walked over to the bench.

Darth Thrax

"The Ossus dueling lens is very unique in its own way. As you might've already guessed it, it comes from Ossus which was a former sanctuary for Jedi. The lens allows for your blade to be highly focused and finely tuned, allowing for swifter attacks and a lighter blade.

"Lorrdian gemstones were also rather unique. They allow you to better read your opponent's actions, which, for a force user, will greatly increase your effectiveness in a duel. It also helps deflect against high rates of blaster fire.

"And now to the Velmorite crystal. If you prefer elegance and speed, look no further. It is a crystal that makes your lightsaber finely tuned and allows for graceful, fluid weilding. Of course there are many other crystals near you, but the ones that I mentioned are meant specifically for almost completely different purposes."
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Jastin looked at the workbench and at the crystals he put together the hilt and installed the dueling lens and the velmorite crystal along with a green gem.Looking at the lightsaber he said to himself."I've heard about Jedi with lightsabers that changed length dual phase I think they were called." after saying that he began work again.Deciding to make two sabers he took another green gem,another lens and a second velmorite crystal.Jastin had considered using the lorrdian in his second saber but decided it might throw him off if one of his lightsabers didn't move quite like the other.Now for a finishing touch he put three small spikes on the pommel of each saber so he could stab with them.

Darth Thrax

"You mean one like this?" A slightly curved hilt floated in front of Jastin's face. "The Supreme Commander, Lord Marix, asked me to create another lightsaber specifically for the Armed Forces. The dual-phase lightsaber is great for all situations. Especially with the blade length being able to adjust with the simple press of a button."

Darth Thrax grabbed the hilt out of the air as he stopped next to Jastin. "You're lightsabers, use them. Against me." In one swift motion, he ignited the half blue/green blade and spun it twice before settling in a defensive Djem'So position.
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"Yes, master." was the reply of Jastin right before jumping behind Darth Thrax and slashing at his back with one saber.

Darth Thrax

Darth Thrax easily spun his hilt behind his back and blocked the attack, turning around as he did so. Jastin's second lightsaber came around for Thrax's right side, but stopped just short. The large zabrak had used his telekinetic ability to halt the lightsaber in it's place and deactivate it all at once. The Gatesmaster smirked maliciously and deactivated his own blade, sending his apprentice falling forward. As his apprentice began to regain his position, Darth Thrax's blade was already reignited and at Jastin's throat.

"And now what will you do, human..." Thrax's face returned back to it's normal, emotionless state.
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Jastin could tell his master was trying to scare him with the impressive display of dueling, but he wasn't ready to give up yet looking all around the room he noticed a few small bits of metal he had leftover from making his lightsaber.I could distract him with those he thought.Jastin then used the force to grind the bits of metal together making a loud screeching noise.Using the distraction to his advantage he escaped Darth Thrax and quickly pulled off his cloak and tunic so he wouldn't be as greatly encumbered revealing a scar across his back from when he had fallen off of a speeder bike.Jastin then used the force to pull his other lightsaber back into his hand and ignited it.

Darth Thrax

Darth Thrax easily blocked out the horrendous noise that came out of the combining metal. Over the several years that he has been in the Empire, Darth Thrax has had mnay encounters with Force Scream and eventually became immune to its effects. He sauntered forward, lightsaber in hand, and spun his blade in a variety of ways, trying to confuse his apprentice.

As he neared Jastin, Darth Thrax blinked twice swiftly, sending two obsidian chairs that sat in front of his desk flying directly at the human. At the same time, the large zabrak lunged forward at his young apprentice and slashed upward across his chest.
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Jastin · Sith Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 271

Jastin blocked the saber and deflected one of the chairs but the other chair knocked him flat and left him staring at the cold durasteel ceiling for a few minutes before his master whispered into his mind "failure.", and being kicked in the head by a large black leather boot.Jastin the lost consciousness

Darth Thrax

The large zabrak watched as his apprentice, Jastin, finally came to. Without a second thought, he quickly pointed his finger upwards and jastin slammed into the ceiling. "You worthless human!" He growled loudly, his voice reverberated throughout the entire chamber. "I have no time for your pathetic kind!" He threw him back on the ground and looked upon the frail human with intense eyes. Darth Thrax grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up high. "You will not fail me again. If you do, you will die." His voice struck fear into every apprentice he had ever taught and that usually caused them to defect. The end result was simple: Leaving the Empire meant death for Thrax's apprentices.

He dropped the human on the ground and stood, staring down at him again. "Fortunately for you, I am in a forgiving mood at this moment." His eyes still burned with intensity, but his voice seemed to not sound so intimidating. "You will write me a 300 word essay over your Sith Lord or Lady of choice. It can be one from our own Empire or one before them." He pointed his clawed finger to another desk in the chamber. "Get to work."
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Jastin · Sith Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 271

((Do I actually have to write the essay?))"I'm not a "worthless" human and I'm getting very tired of your hatred of my kind, you'll get your essay because I want to finish my training!I won't give up on my training ever!".Jastin realized he'd better do the essay or his master just might kill him so he walked over to the small writing desk and picked up a piece of flimsiplast looking around the room he thought "This is gonna take a while."((Is this better?))

Darth Thrax

[[Please don't control my character like that. If you did punch my character in the eye, your character would either be dead or severely injured.

And yes, you have to right the essay. Almost every apprentice does it one time or another. Don't just copy and paste from wikipedia or something like that.

Also, you should take out the part where you hit my character. You can leave the rest though.]]
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Darth Thrax

[[Yes, that is better, thank you. I apologize for making you do that, but it wouldn't be in my character's nature to just let that go.

About the essay, take as much time as you need. There's no rush. Wink

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Jastin · Sith Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 271

((Thanks but I was pretty bored anyway and it didn't take long to write an essay on Exar Kun hopefully it's up to your standards Smile

))Jastin wrote on the flimsiplast:Exar Kun was a human male Jedi who was very interested in forbidden teachings.He traveled to Onderon and Dxun, visited Freedon Nadd's tomb and woke up his spirit.Kun embraced the dark side of the force and became Nadd's apprentice.Kun quickly became a powerful sith and went to Yavin 4 where he grew even more powerful.He destroyed Nadd's spirit and set out to conquer the galaxy.He knew about Nadd's other apprentices and wisely realized that due to the nature of the sith they would be in the way of his becoming Dark Lord of the Sith, so he went to the Krath Sith Cult and destroyed them as well as the other darksiders.After fighting Ulic Qel-Droma for a short while he and Ulic were visited by the spirit of Marko Ragnos who made Kun the new Dark Lord and Ulice his apprentice.Kun went to Ossus stole a sith holocron, and showed many Jedi the power of the dark side making the beginnings of his sith empire.He had his newer better Dark Jedi strike down their old foolish masters, and also fought and killed his own master Vodo-Siosk Baas as well as the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic.He freed Ulic Qel-Droma and the two sith lords continued the fight.He destroyed the Cron star cluster, and raided Ossus taking all the ancient lore he could find.He then returned to Yavin 4 but didn't know that Ulic had betrayed him and brought the Jedi to Yavin to fight him.Kun seperated his spirit from his body to escape, but was defeated, although by Nomi Sunrider and thousands of other Jedi.Later his spirit haunted the trainees of Luke's Praxeum showing Gantoris the dark side, and killing him when he denied Kun's influence.He was however defeatedby Luke's students.Exar Kun weilded a dual-phase double bladed lightsaber, and was a master of sith alchemy.He was also proud and had a disdain for non-human jedi."finished" Jastin said proud as he got up from the desk his feet a little numb and walked over to his master handing him the paper."I hope you find it worthy of your approval master, and I don't mean anything by that last line in the essay."Jastin said as he looked his master in the eye.

Darth Thrax

[[The essay was good and I like the fact that you didn't copy and paste from Wikipedia. The one thing that could've helped was seperating the sentences into paragraphs. It makes it easier to read. Wink

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Darth Thrax reahced out for the flimiplast and snatched it from the apprentice. He quickly scanned the essay then proceeded to crumple it up. "That'll suffice. Now, we will test your power with the Force." The zabrak turned around and paced away from Jastin. "What do you know of so far?" He slowly came to a halt, still facing away from Jastin.
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Jastin replied giving examples of his abilities as he went along."I can use your basic force telekenesis such as push and pull as well as choke"Jastin demonstrated by lifting a few pens from the writing desk and spinning them around in the air before replacing them on the desk."I can also use a bit of force lighting." Jastin shot an arc of lighting from one hand to the other." You already know I can use the force to jump quite high, I can also use drain life and force scream, but I won't demonstrate those." Jastin looked at his master and thought I wonder what he thinks of that, but he's probably had apprentices who were far more skilled in the force.I also wonder if he's ever going to let me go on any missions soon.