The Training of Rate

Supreme Prophet Praxeum · The Training of Rate

Greetings my apprentince, when you are ready to begin I will give you your first mission

Darth Validus

"Mi'Lord, I am ready to accept whatever you hand to me."

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Rate I am going to give you the same mission Lord Minious gave to me on my first mission, How did you come to chosing your name?

Darth Validus

"When I was a little boy, my mother killed my father because he cheated on her. His last name was Prone with an 'e'. My mother changed it to Pron, pronounced the same, but spelled differently. She changed it because she wanted to not be apart of his family, but she wanted to remember him somehow. My name is Ratius Pron, or Ratius Prone. When I left the Jedi, I had to come up with a Sith name, so I fused my real, full name: Ratius Prone, into Rate. This is how I came up with my alias, and soon to be my only name, Rate."

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

I see, very good. Now I would like for you to explain your lightsaber form and why you use it, and what order you wish to enter and why.

Darth Validus

"I use the Form II or Makashi. I use it because it is a simplier way to kill another opponet armed with a lightsaber, or a Jedi. My lightsaber form specilizes in fighting against another lightsaber, or lightsaber-to-lightsaber combat. That is why I use it. I want to be apart of the Military. I want to serve this Empire to my full and I will complete that in the form of militant combat. I also want to defend the Empress to my death. That is why I want to be in the Military.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Excelent, now for your next task, Name your five most favorite Sith and give me a brief descrpition on all five

Darth Validus

"My favorite Sith is Darth Sidious. He was the last Supreme Chancellor of the Old Republic and the only Emperor of the Galactic Empire. He was killed by his own apprentice, Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker, during the Battle of Endor. He was attempting to turn Anakin Skywalker's son, Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side. He failed and was ultimitatly betrayed, as he did to his Master, Darth Plagueis. My second favorite Sith is Darth Nihilus. His name comes from the Latin stem, Nihi, which means nothing, which he is. He was killed during the Battle of Telos in KOTOR II by the Jedi Exile. My third favorite Sith is Darth Vader. His name, Darth Vader, translates into Dark Father. He is the father of Luke Skywalker and is said to be the Chosen One that will supposly bring the Force into balance. He killed his Master, Darth Sidious, hence killing himself. My forth favorite Sith is Darth Traya, the Sith Lord of betrayal. She was betrayed by Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus, her apprentices, and she manipulated the Jedi Exile to kill them and eventually herself, taking her vengance to the full. My fifth favorite Sith is Darth Sion. He was the Sith Lord of pain during the Exile Wars. He trained at the Trayus Academy on Malachor V as so did Nihilus and Traya. He betrayed Darth Traya and that action had sealed his fate. He was killed by the Jedi Exile on Malachor V, right before the Exile would face Traya."

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Very nice my apperintice now, write a 500 word essay on your favorite Non-force sensitive being. You are progressing very nicely

Darth Validus

OOC: It will be about 10 minutes until this is complete. I am going to use Micrososft Word to type it, it tells you the amount of words you have typed. It is so much easier. Cool

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

OCC - Wise thinking

Darth Validus

OOC: I'm sorry it took so long....also it is only 407 words. I did it solely on memory. I didn't want to plagerize or anything.

“My favorite non-Force user is Canderous Ordo, who eventually becomes Mandalore. I love Canderous Ordo because he is an excellent leader and a marvelous Mandalorian. If I were to be any Mandalorian in the Galaxy, it would be him! I don’t know why, but I would be him. Canderous Ordo was a Mandalorian in Clan Ordo. He was a famous Mandalorian soldier during the Mandalorian Wars. He served under the Mandalore in the Wars. After the Wars were over, many Mandalorians left the path of honor and worked as bounty hunters or mercenaries. Canderous was one of these mercenaries. He worked for Davik Kang, an Exchange Boss, on Taris. The Battle above Taris will seal Canderous’ fate. Revan had crashed landed in search of Bastila and Canderous provided help. Canderous was tired of doing Davik’s work so he agreed to go with Revan. They stole Davik’s with ship, also with the help of Carth Onasi, Mission Vao, and Zaalbar. They journeyed to various planets: Kaskyyyk, the Wookie homeworld; Tatooine, the desert planet; Manaan, a watery planet that has one city for humans; and Korriban, a notorious Sith planet. They eventually found a new planet called Rattatak. That is the planet that the Star Forge is from. Canderous then helped Revan defeat Malak and destroy the Star Forge. After this, Canderous declared himself Mandalore. He recreated the encampment upon the moon of Dxun, the closet of the moons of the planet Onderon. He brought together hundreds, if not, thousands of Mandalorians to forge as one Mandalorian Empire. While he was there, the Jedi Exile came and helped him out in the Jungle. Canderous then took him to Onderon to help him contact a Jedi Master in the Palace. They contacted him, but the meeting was stopped short when Colonel Tobin interfered. Then, civil war broke out and they had to leave. When they came back, Mandalore assisted in ending the war. They did end it and Onderon stays in peace. Canderous helped in getting the other masters and used his Mandalorians to help bring an end to the Battle of Telos. He used them to attack the Ravager and destroy it with remotely detonated proton bombs. After that, he helped the Exile a little bit on Malachor V. Then, he departed to an unknown destination. That is all that is known about Canderous Ordo and that is all that will be known for now about Canderous Ordo."

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Very nice now I wish for you to to write another essay, this time 500 words, about your favorite planet in the Star Wars galaxy

Darth Validus

Okay, Master.

Darth Validus

Master, my favorite planet would be Korriban, the supposed homeworld of the Sith. Let me tell you about it:

Korriban was the sole planet in the Horuset system, located across the galaxy from Koros Major. It was a world of the Sith species and a sacred planet for the Sith Order, housing the tombs for many ancient and powerful Dark Lords of the Sith, and containing tremendous dark side power. It was originaly used as a graveyard for Ancient Sith people and later was used as a home and training ground for more modern Sith. Korriban has housed an academy, being destroyed by the republic and rebuilt by the sith, from the time of Darth Revan to the new jedi order era. Some famous Sith Lords buried in the Valley of the Dark Lords include: Marka Ragnos, Naga Sadow, Ajunta Pall, Tulak Hord and Ludo Kressh. Freedon Nadd is one of the few Dark Lords of the Sith not to be buried in the Valley of the Dark Lords.

This remote, forbidding planet was once a slave planet of the Infinite Empire. The Rakata took Sith slaves from the planet (the Sith originally having come to Korriban from nearby Ziost) and used them for their projects, such as the Star Forge (30,000 BBY). The sole artifact to survive this era was the ancient Star Map, around which the tomb of Naga Sadow was later built. The Rakata were eventually struck by plague, leading to a slave revolution in 30,000 BBY.

The Sith Empire was founded in approximately 6,900 BBY by exiled Fallen Jedi fleeing the Battle of Corbos, which concluded the Hundred-Year Darkness. These Fallen Jedi landed on Ziost and Korriban.

Under the pall of Sith magic, this desolate world became more hellish and dangerous. The Sith Lords erected huge palaces and burial complexes to honor their fallen Dark Lords. Circa 5,000 BBY, the planet became an endpoint of the newly-formed Daragon Trail hyperspace lane. After the fall of the Sith Empire, the planet lost much of its prominence in the galaxy, eventually falling off the galactic starcharts for a thousand years. After the Great Hyperspace War, the Republic and the Jedi exterminated the Sith in an act of genocide against the species.

Korriban was resettled prior to 3,993 BBY by Dark Jedi survivors of the Exar Kun War, and was home to the new settlement of Dreshdae and a Sith training academy. Darth Revan and Darth Malak visited the planet on their quest to discover the Star Forge. After losing his memory, Revan visited this academy again on his quest to re-discover the Star Forge for the good of the Republic.

With the death of Master Uthar Wynn, the academy's headmaster, and Darth Malak himself at the hands of Revan in 3,956 BBY, the Sith Order collapsed into a civil war (which took place 3,956-3,955 BBY) which decimated the Sith Order.

The world remained desolate until it was taken over by the Commerce Guild just prior to the Clone Wars, c. 24 BBY. Other than Guild employees, the planet was mostly inhabited by those who were unfortunate enough to end up on Korriban and have no way offworld.

After the Wars, the Galactic Empire took control of Korriban, and Emperor Palpatine visited the planet to increase his strength in the Force.

At the time of the New Republic, the Disciples of Ragnos arrived on Korriban, hoping to resurrect the ancient Sith Lord Marka Ragnos. However, their plans were spoiled by the Jedi, most notably by Jaden Korr and his former Master Kyle Katarn. This started the Battle of Korriban. It was apparently untouched by the Yuuzhan Vong War, as Darth Krayt and the Legacy Era Sith used it as their headquarters starting around 30 ABY.

That is most of what you need to know about Korriban. I really enjoy Korriban and the Sith there. It is full of the Dark Side and I love it! I hope you like it, Master.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Execellet, Now for your next task I wish for you to create a practce duel in the Roleplaying section, and I shall observe.

Darth Acheron

Please, guys, alert an admin when you begin your training and we'll change your rank, Rolling Eyes

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Darth Acheron

And while I'm at it, I have discussed this specific topic, about which threads are for what missions. Do you guys bother to read announcments? Especially since mine was labelled READ ME SECOND. Rolling Eyes

This forum is for RP missions such as dueling and missions, whereas the Missions forum is for Out of Character assignments and essays.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Lord Minious, I placed his trainging here because the information given about "Offical Missions" was " For Sith Masters to teach their apprentice and larger RPG." Sou would it not make sense to place his training here?

Darth Acheron

Yes, exactly, For Masters to train their Apprentices and larger RP roles.

Implying that the missions are RP missions for their Apprentices.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

But it still says "For Masters to train their apprentices......." I suggest that be change, if this is the incorrect topic.

Darth Acheron

Yes, it says that, but thats like reading this sentence: I like men to do funny things" and only read the start and say "Ooh! Hes gay! He likes men!" you have to read the whole sentence. It says "For Masters to train their Apprentices AND LARGER RPS" implying its RP training, Rolling Eyes

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Darth Validus

Okay, where do I make the practice duel then?

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

In the Practice Duel forum

Darth Validus

"Yes, my master."

Darth Acheron

Don't go in and out of character like that. If you want to aska question out of character, but then go in character, use (( )).

But no, if you are doing missions for your Master whcih are duelling missions, they are here.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

I did not mean a duel between myself and Rate, Lord Minious. I meant a duel between Rate and another. Therefore why it needed to be in the "Practice Duel" forum

Darth Acheron

Yes, for practice duels against other people, the Practice Duels forum is used, for duels against your current Master, or unofficial missions for him are done here.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

I understand, but as I just stated this is a duel againist Rate and another opponet, not Rate againist myself

Darth Validus

[quote="Commander Minious"]Don't go in and out of character like that. If you want to aska question out of character, but then go in character, use (( )).[quote]

If that is for me, well, that is how I do it. Unless it is a rule to use "(( ))", and don't go and make it one now, then I do not have to use it. On my forums, I let people do it the way they want. You guys are lucky I do not put ":: ::" when I describe the RP and type what NPC's and I say in different colors.

Darth Acheron

What I am sayting, is you ask a;ll this stuff out of character, and then reply in character, with no indication except the speech marks, which doesn't make sense, when the conversation is out of character, your character would have hads no idea of the conversation thsat to place.

Darth Validus

Darth Acheron

Yes, but what I'm saying,. is we are having an out of character discussion, and then, out of character, you ask your master which forum to use, and then youy reply in character, which made absolutely no sense.

Darth Validus

Well, if you hadn't interrupted, there would only be two posts in between our OOC and what he requested. I replied with my character to what his character requested. You wouldn't just ingore your parent if they told you to do something, and then go do it, eh?

Darth Acheron

Oh, I'm so dreadfully sorry for interupting, your worshipfulness. I will never again be a polite, helping administrator, and, because you are so right, perhapos you want to be made an administrator? Again, so sorry for interupting. Rolling Eyes

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If you want to continue from the last point of In-character, so as not to confuse people, do somthing like this:

((OOC: Now where were we))

"Yes Master, right away," Rate said, bowing and leaving quickly.

Darth Validus

Well, PM's are useful. Yes, I would appreciate being an Admin. No, I do not want to. It seems that you guys are pretty good of keeping this site together. Smile

Oh, yeah. FYI, I posted the "Yes, Master." seperate from the OOC post. Two different posts. When someone posts one thing in OOC they would not continue it into another post without using OOC. Wink

Darth Acheron

Didn't you notice the sarcasm in my voice?

And I'm saying, that the way you did it was confusing, as immediately after an Out of character discussion you just said in speech marks "Yes master", now, how am I, or any one else, meant to know what you mean? If you put in: ((OOC: Now, where were we?)) then at least we would know your subesquent text would be referring to a previous in-character post.

Look, stop arguing, I am much more experienced then you in Role Playing, and I am your superior. No matter how right you think you are right, you aren't, which is the whole point of training; teaching you things you didn't know.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Rate, You are now ready to begin your trials

Darth Validus

Darth Validus

IC:

Rate walks into the room of where his Master is. He bows to Praxeum and stands up straight.

"Master, I am ready for whatever awaits me."

Rate then sits in meditation, waiting for whatever is instore for him.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Apprentice, for your next mission I wish for you to right a 500-word essay on the History of the Sith

Darth Validus

((Sorry it took so long. I was doing stuff over the summer and forgot about this site.))

After two painstaking weeks of research and reading, Rate has finally put together an essay for his Master. He gets up during the morning and prepares the final cut. After some meditation, the eager apprentice stands up and hastly paces to Praxeum. The two sit down as Rate begins to read.

"My Lord, the Sith have existed since the dawn of time. This Sith, however, were merely a race. Around 7,000 BBY, after the Hundred-Year Darkness, Dark Jedi cast out from the Republic land on Korriban searching for a place to settle and regroup. Over time, they rebuild and are thought as gods by the local species. They declare Korriban their domain and start to forge an empire.

"In 5,000 BBY, the great Dark Lord called Naga Sadow brings the Sith Empire of Korriban and surrounding systems out of hiding. He leads the fleet to war with the Republic. So begans the first war of good and evil since the Hundred-Year Darkness.

"Not even a year passes as the war is ended with the Second Battle of Korriban, the fall of the Sith Empire, and the near death of Naga Sadow and the death of Ludo Kresh. Naga used the remainder of his fleet to trick the Republic and he sacraficed most with bombings and kamakazi's. Naga fled with his Massasi warriors to the jungle moon of Yavin IV.

"Another point of interest, Master, during the Sith is Freedon Nadd and his dark reign over Onderon. He falls to the Dark Side in 4,400 BBY and takes up as King of Onderon. He kills the spirit of Naga Sadow on Yavin IV and, when he dies, is buried in a temple on the moon of Dxun which orbits Onderon. His tomb is later reopened by Sith under control of Darth Nihilus during the Exile Wars.

"In 3,997 BBY, Jedi Exar Kun falls to the Dark Side after being tricked by Freedon Nadd's spirit into venturing through a Dark Lord's tomb on Korriban. He later kills Nadd's spirit upon Yavin IV.

"One year after the fall of Kun, Lord Exar takes the fallen Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma as he apprentice and uses the his army plus Ulic's Krath army to wage war against the Republic and Jedi. This later becomes known as the Sith War. Fate choose Yavin IV as the spot for the final battle of the war; the Jedi and Republic were victoriou.

"Thirty-six years after, the Mandalorian Wars' hero and notorious Jedi Knight, Revan, and his apprentice, Malak, discover the Trayus Academy upon Malachor V, the final site of the last battle of the Mandalorian Wars. They both, along with all Jedi (except the Exile) and all Republic soldiers turn to the Dark Side. There were other, non-important figures, who did indeed escape the temptations of the Dark Side.

"In 3,959, Revan and Malak, who added the title "Darth" to their name, use the infinite supplies of the Star Forge to create an invasion force so large and powerful that it matched the might of the Galactic Empire nearly 4,000 before its rise. Darth Revan uses the fleet, with Admiral Saul Karath at the head to invade the Republic. This is either known as the Second Sith War or the Jedi Civil War.

"Two years into Revan's crusade against the Republic, a Jedi strike team that includes powerful padawan Bastila Shan, flies aboard the Sith Flagship and confronts Revan and his powerful servants on the bridge. Directly before the remaining Jedi on the bridge attempt to capture the Dark Lord, Darth Malak, in the mist of an important battle, fires upon his Master's ship, fatally wounding Revan. Jedi Bastila manages to keep the remaining life inside of Revan. They bring him beforth the Jedi Council and the Council decides to brainwash him and use him as a pawn for capturing of killing Malak and ending the war.

"Reven, Bastila, Carth Onasi, and their crew fly to five different planets to endure the challanges in hope of finding and completing an ancient Star Map of the Infinite Empire, one year after the betrayal of the now Dark Lord of the Sith. During this time, infamous bounty hunter Calo Nord and Darth Malak's apprentice Darth Bandon are killed at the hands of Revan.

"Once completing the Star Map, Revan and the crew discover the planet of Rakkatak and the Star Forge. They contact the Republic Fleet and the final battle of the Jedi Civil War begins. The Republic wins with the death of Darth Malak and the destruction of the Star Forge. In the wake of the battle, the Sith under Revan and Malak on Korriban and elsewhere fall into civil war.

"The five years leading up to the returning of the Exile, Darth Traya, Darth Sion, and Darth Nihilus all wage a shadow war against the Jedi know known as the Exile War. In 5,951 BBY, the Exile, added by the manipulative Kreia aka Darth Traya, defeats Darth Nihilus in the Battle of Telos and defeats Darth Sion and Darth Traya on Malachor V within the Trayus Academy. This eventually leads to the destruction of Malachor V forever.

"In 2,000 BBY, Darth Ruin, another fallen Jedi, forms a new Sith Order and wages war against the Republic which lasts 1,000 years with. It ends with the Battle of Ruusan and the destruction of the every sential being there with the exception of Darth Bane. Darth Bane then forges one last Sith Order with the one master, one apprentice rule. Each must have a "Darth" name and there may not be more than two Dark Lords at a time. This lasts for another millennium.

"In 22 BBY, the Republic, under the influence of the sly Darth Sidious aka Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, declares war against a sepratist movment lead by Sidious' apprentice: Darth Tyranus aka Count Dooku. This last until 19 BBY which results in the fall of the Republic, the formation of the Galactic Empire, the death of 7,000+ Jedi, and the fall of Jedi Anakin Skywalker to the Dark Side who know is Darth Vader.

"The Empire rules with an iron fist for nearly 20 years until the Galactic Rebellion ends the reing with the death of Darth Sidious plus the death and turning of Darth Vader to the Light Side in 4 ABY. This happens during the Battle of Endor. The Galaxy has peace again but the Empire continues.

"The Sith and the Imperial Remanent continued to thirve to this day and now the Sith Empire has been reforged and the Sith will rule once more.

"That is what I have learned about the Sith, Master. I hope you enjoyed it."

Rate finishes with a deep breath and is excited to finally get it all out. He sits, queitly, awaiting a response from his Master.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Darth Praxeum says to his apprentice " Good job young one, I shall continue your training till a Lord/Lady tells me other wise, for your next mission, I earlier asked your favorite Sith, now I wish for you to give me a longer version of what you said your favorite is. I will take a 400 or more word essay, nothing less. Until then my apprentice you are dissmissed. "

Darth Validus

Rate rises out of his sit as he master follows. "Yes, Master," Rate boldly states. "I will be on my way." With that, Rate bows to Praxeum until he recieves it back. He then paces out of the room to the holocrons for information on Darth Sion.

Darth Validus

Rate comes back into the room. He paces several meters to his master. He wakes Praxeum out of his deep meditation.

"Master," he states, not knowing if he will be punished for waking him, "I have completed the essay:

"Darth Sidious, or known as Palpatine, was born on Naboo in 82 BBY. He came to know his Sith master, Darth Plagueis, a Muun very well. His master had the ability to manipulate the midichlorians, or so it is told. Plagueis taught Palpatine everything he knew.

"After breaking down Palpatine and turning him into a full Sith, Palpatine murdered his master in his sleep. It was what each Sith does, but more commonly in battle. Sidious learned that, and feared that, for he knew his time would come one day, when the apprentice killed the master to gain mastery.

"Sidious had three total apprentices. His first, Darth Maul, he trained since Maul was an infant. He kidnapped the Iridonian-Zabrak, while he was still Plagueis' apprentice. He trained Maul and turned him into a tool that wants one goal: the udder destruction of the Jedi.

"Sidious, using the Trade Federation and its viceroy, Nute Gunray, he forced a blockade over the planet and had Chancellor Valurom out of office. During the Battle of Naboo, he lost his first apprentice to Jedi Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi and the near death of Qui-Gon Jinn, Kenobi's master. Qui-Gon later died and Palpatine was elected Supreme Chancellor.

"Afterwards, Sidious had to search for a new apprentice. He found that Dooku, an already trained Jedi, infamous for defeating the Mandalorian Death Watch, was the best choice. He approached Dooku, who was looking for him, and they talked. After starting to agree with Sidious, Palpatine convinced Dooku that a new order had to be in control of the Galaxy.

"After Sifo-Dyas ordered the creation of a Clone Army, Sidious commanded Dooku to murder his best friend in order to keep the information from getting to the Council until it was time. Sifo-Dyas was now dead.

"Ten years later, Dooku, now taking up the name Count Dooku, created a seperatist movement. He had gather hundreds of star systems to his cause. They were to rid the Republic of its corruption. But Sidious had different plans. It was to weaken the Republic and the Jedi until it was time for a changing of the guard.

"While Obi-Wan was tracking a bounty hunter from Coruscant to Kamino to Geonosis, he was captured on Geonosis. The Jedi then sent a few hundred Jedi to rescue Obi-Wan. Yoda went to gather the clone army for an assualt against the CIS headquarters there. The Clone Wars had begun.

"Three years into the conlfict, Count Dooku was killed at the hands of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Palpatine's prize, during the Battle of Coruscant. Palpatine witnessed the death and had actually ordered Anakin to do it. With Obi-Wan unconscious on Anakin's back and Palpatine now free, they tried to escape. They were captured and fought General Greivous on the bridge of the Invisible Hand. Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Palpatine escaped unharmed. Sidious now knew that Anakin was ready for Sith apprenticeship.

"While Kenobi was sent to kill Greivous, Anakin had learned that Palpatine was indeed the Sith Lord that had evaded the Jedi thirteen years earlier. He then preceeded to inform Master Windu of the Chancellor. Master Windu, Master Fisto, Master Tiin, and Master Kolar went to Palpatine's office to kill him. Immediattly, Sidious killed the three lower Masters, leaving the High Council Member Mace Windu to deal with.

"Mace had defeated him and was about to kill him until, fortunatly, Anakin Skywalker came into the picture. He cut off Mace's hand and Sidious killed him. Later, Sidious would declare the Republic the Galactic Empire and he would reign until his death in 4 ABY by his apprentice Darth Vader.

There you go, Master."

((Sorry it is so long.))

Emperor Shadow

As per Darth Praxeum's request that I review Rate's training, I have judged that Rate requires a final non-essay task to go forward to his Trial.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Darth Praxeum glared at his apprentice for a moment then said to him "For your final task, you shall create a Roleplay in which you and a team of Sith, that you may choose or simply let them come, must go to Yavin 4 and go to one of the Massassi Temples which have just been taken by the Jedi. You and the team of Sith must clear the Temple of the Jedi presence, then report back to me." Then Darth Praxeum bowed his head and continued to rest

Darth Validus

Rate subtly walked into the room. He was happy to be home. He looked around and found his master, a new prophet of the Dark Side. Rate was so proud, and he is sure that Praxeum is of him.

Rate moved up to his master and bowed. He was so honored of becoming his apprentice. They exchanged glances then stared each other in the eye. Rate moved in to hug his master for a big thank you.

"Master, I have completed my training. I will miss you as my master! I am waiting for my knighting. I thank you for everything that has been given to me! Thanks for your wise patience and guide!" he proclaimed, very proud of his situation.

Supreme Prophet Praxeum

Praxeum looked upon his apprentice and grinned as he said " Go to the Knighting Chambers"

Darth Validus

"Yes, My Lord," Rate said as he bowed. He then preceeded out of the room and headed for his knighting.