Jump 101: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Jump 101: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
>Three of Swords (Tactless or hurtful words. Acting without consideration for the emotions of others.)
Tact?! Screw tact! This is a jump of people talking in circles! I'm not going to play along. No one ever just tells it like it is, and frankly, that's a needed thing.
>Age: 20
>Location: Cato Neimoidia
Must fight urge to start the assassinations before I finish writing the rest of this up.
>Identity: Force Sensitive (-200)
I can feel the Force overtaking me! ...it kinda tickles.
>Species: Chiss
This is definitely a species with interesting biology to study. Oxygen turns the skin more blue and the eyes more red. Not sure what use it will be, but you never know.
>Drawbacks: Legacy Character (0), The Prequel Trilogy (0), Old Friend New Name (+200), You're My Only Hope (+300)
So what I did in Knights of the Old Republic is known in the archives. That has implications, considering I purged the majority of the Sith, though sadly not all of them, and as they still ended up being giant assholes they threw the galaxy into a slightly-less-massive war anyway.
>Melee Training (Free, Force Sensitive)
I already knew how to use a lightsaber, but the fighting styles have evolved over the centuries, haven't they?
>Aberrant (700)
And there's another kind of supernatural thing I'm immune to. Let's hear it for being able to take force lightning without so much as a twitch.
>Comprehend Speech (650)
If I can understand what they're saying, then coupled with other perks I can probably speak it fluently in a matter of minutes.
>Absorb/Deflect Energy (1/3 Free, Force Sensitive)
I need this in case I need to invite Han Solo to dinner.
>Plant Surge (2/3 Free, Force Sensitive)
I've already got various types of plant-based biomancy, adding another is useful.
>Ionize (3/3 Free, Force Sensitive)
It's technically not force lightning, even though it is, but having a new way to disable technology is helpful.
>Sever Force (250)
Cut people off from supernatural power sources? This will be useful if I hit 40k and want to disable a psyker, or come across some wizard that I want to render powerless. Nice.
>Holocron Collection (0)
Now here's something fun to study!

So... starting the jump, I receive a message about someone being held hostage. Someone important. Not that this matters to anyone where I'm at - first thing to do is pull my freighter out of the warehouse, and set out to deal with that immediately. Taking anyone important to a Jedi hostage is an incredibly stupid thing that basically guarantees you're screwed, even if it does end up happening to be their Force-sensitive nephew.

After that's addressed, they go to the Jedi temple to learn, and I go on... shall we say, extended leave. After all, the blockade of Naboo is ongoing. My freighter gets there the day before the Jedi do, and I do the most important thing that I can possibly do while I'm here: Jar-Jar Binks is teleported to the other side of the fucking planet so that he never matters to the plot and dies years later, alone, still shunned by his people.

The next day. a couple of Jedi came in when the blockade became an invasion. I joined them, masking my abilities and instead presenting myself as a human who happened to be here on vacation and offered to help. Sure, my caster wasn't a blaster... but it definitely did the job when it had to. Used to be a bounty hunter in years past, I told them. Which was true enough - I just didn't say how many years. Decades. Centuries. Regardless, I accompanied them and proved by worth, joining them all on their travel to Tattooine.

The queen noticed when I had my attention on her handmaiden rather than her. Or rather, when I had my attention on her rather than her decoy. I shrugged it off and quietly mentioned that Jedi reputation is clearly overrated if they can't see through such a simple trick. I wished her luck and accompanied the group into town.

One thing led to another, and Watto's shop was on fire, Anakin and Shmi Skywalker were on the now-repaired ship, I had deeply insulted a Sith lord by shooting his speeder bike out from under him before he got close enough to attack anyone, and we were on our way to Coruscant to speak to the Senate.

That went as well as anyone expected, of course, and so we returned to Naboo. I told the group who I actually was, though only Qui-Gon reacted as he'd heard of me. I was rather disappointed that I was just a name in a book somewhere, but shrugged it off.

>"Oh, and by the way, there are two Sith who are behind this at the moment. One of them was the zabrak whose speeder I shot. The other is her senator. Proof? As though you'd find any, he's one of the cleaner politicians of the galaxy, he knows what he's doing. It won't matter; I am an instrument of the Force, and now is another occasion where I am needed. Oh, by the way, you know that prophecy about the chosen one bringing balance? It means a very literal balance. Which requires almost all of the Jedi to be exterminated until only two remain, slavery galaxy-wide, genocide on hundreds of planets, a few planets being blown into bits... my purpose is to sunder that prophecy."

The look on their faces was great, I wish I'd brought a camera. I told them to deal with the invasion, and I would deal with the Sith apprentice. They did a rather admirable job, got the Gungans to help deal with the droids, and the two of them jumped into fighters and dealt with things in space. Being Jedi meant that they got to fudge the dice rolls necessary to take down the drone ship in orbit.

Meanwhile, I dealt with Darth Maul. We said nothing, lit our sabers, and we exchanged blows for far longer than I would have anticipated. I damaged his lightsaber and he was forced to use it in an awkward one-handed grip. He ended up slicing off my off-hand arm. He was notably more disturbed when the limb levitated and reattached itself to my body... combining telekinesis and regeneration is visually impressive. When he swung his lightsaber again, he was decidedly NOT ready for me to grab the blade and fling it back at him. A brief use of deflecting energy that left my palm burnt, certainly, but it was enough to throw his world view off kilter. I smiled at him and turned off my lightsaber, and spoke.

>"Maul. You have known no fate but to be a tool. The slave of a politician who intends to throw you away. Knowing nothing but the dark side, corrupted from day one. I wish to free you."
>"No. The dark side will set me free--!"

He charged at me. I raised my hand and hit him with a purification blast, which knocked him on his backside. His saber clattered to the floor beside him as he looked up in shock, then down at himself. I expected something like that, that was normal. I offered him my hand, but he made a different decision: he picked up his saber, turned it on himself, and ended his life.

After all had calmed down afterward, I returned with the others to Coruscant. They went to the Temple with Anakin who joined them. I went to Palpatine's office and waited for him. After he entered and the door closed, I tossed him the lightsaber, which he caught with notable confusion. He attempted the politician's denial; I told him that his apprentice failed, and I was divine retribution for his crimes, past and future.

So naturally he took exception to this. He attempted to strike me with force lightning while I was still calmly sitting in his office chair. I sat there impassively, and when he stopped, I chuckled. His next mistake was to be stupid enough to try to light Maul's saber, which exploded and took his hand with it. After that... well, Sever Force did a sufficient job of removing him from the Force, and properly applied telekinesis did a sufficient job of removing him from life.

Things were rather calm after that, aside from the fact that the Sith had been exposed and both killed by me, and the Jedi council was divided as to whether that was even a bad thing since as far as anyone else knew Palpatine had simply disappeared. This is probably not much of a surprise. What WAS a surprise is that, without Palpatine there and with the divide in the council, the civil war happened ANYWAY, and faster. Fortunately the war was much quieter, though in the wake of things in the years to come, Supreme Chancellor Amidala and her Jedi husband ended up shoring up the Republic; it took a somewhat more authoritorian bent, due to warding against corruption.

Also it turns out that Mace Windu and Shaak-Ti were dark jedi, were the ones behind splitting the council, and tried to form a false council. This made the existing council reconsider a lot of their policies (including, as it turns out, policies on public relations, romance, and babies), and cooler heads ended up prevailing for a long time.

Anakin ended up with his head on straight. Padme ended up surviving giving birth. They both knew me personally. Anakin wasn't brushed aside when he had nightmares of her death in labor, and I was present for the delivery to ensure she lived.

As it turns out, droids are stupid and can be programmed with bad vocabularies. "She lost the will to live" means massive internal hemorrhage. An application of out-of-jump magic for regeneration purposes later and suddenly she's not going to die. Everyone is happy!

Especially me.

Because Anakin agreed to come with me to my next jump, and only my next jump, in exchange for saving her life.