Letters from Jaxton

[Jaxton Ravos]

Dear [member="Kiskla Grayson"]

Got this holomail from a friend of a friend. Anyways, I deeply apologize, but I am not going to be able to make it to your Jedi Shindig. I'm in pretty deep right now. I deeply appreciate your invitation though, so I'm going to pass on a few things. I don't agree with everything that's going on over there, but I won't let ideological differences stop me from trying to save some lives. Use this well.

A friend

Enclosed in the holomail would be a file giving the names of every One Sith, their rough locations, and a journal on the life of Odium relating to his servitude to [member="Darth Isolda"], along with any tendencies he observed of her.

 

[Jaxton Ravos]

Dear [member="Seydon of Arda"]

So, I can't tell you what's going on right now. Just that a lot of stuff is happening. I think I figured out where Rosa is, and what happened to her, but I'm not completely sure yet. I'll give you more info when I figure out more and confirm some things. You've been a great friend to me Seydon, nay, the best. But I'm going to have to ask you to trust me. I'm in deep right now and I don't want to endanger you or the Sanctum anymore than I already have. I'm sending you something, because I don't know what to do with it and I don't want to keep it around me. I don't know if you'll know what to do with it, but you've got far more experience with alchemy and such than I do, so I figured even if you don't know you might know someone who does.

Best wishes,

You know who.


Seydon would soon receive a package of crystals, including one that contained souls upon souls, bound to it in preparation to create an artifact of near-ultimate power. Jaxton didn't trust himself around such a thing anymore. Not after what had happened.

 

[Jaxton Ravos]

Dear [member="Ashin Varanin"]

Well, my trip has been even more adventurous than I thought it would be. In light of that, and recent events you'll soon read about, I've decided that I'm going to send you a rough log of what I've been doing. In case something happens and I stop being what I'd like to be it'll be nice if someone knows what I've learned, what I'm capable of. After successfully integrating with my new friends I followed one, a mute nautolan, to a strange place hidden in the galaxy. The planet we went to, it raged with the Force. I've been on Ruusan and Tython but they were nothing in comparison. But despite it's power the planet no one was there, it was just us, the trees,and nexuses of extreme power. They were unlike any I've ever seen or heard described.

The nautolan headed over to one of the nexuses, a pool of water, then stripped and bathed. Once he got in there he seemed to be in another place, the nexus interacting with him somehow. After thinking on what to do I decided I needed to figure out what he was doing, where his mind left, and I joined him. When I went in I went to another place. It looked like the planet I went to, but it was not. There was no physical world, it was all metaphysical. Rather than being a place strong in the Force that place was the Force. Time was strange. The only way I can describe it is that it seemed to be infinite, yet instantaneous at the same time. I saw the Nautolan, and he knew my name. He knew me for what I was, and I knew him the same way. We spoke briefly, until I convinced the Nautolan to leave.

When we came out we spoke for a moment, and the Nautolan said the pool had corrupted us. That the only solution was to go to another nexus, and take in it's strength as well. But I could feel the darkness in him, his own, what the pool had done to him, and what the pool had done to me. I didn't feel that type of power was mine or his or anyone's to possess. He and I fought, and I eventually killed him. If it was anything else I probably would have just arrested him, but I couldn't risk him or the rest of his club finding that place. Drinking it's power. I feel it was the right thing to do, but I'm not sure if I would have made that decision before I bathed in the pool, and that scares me.

Ultimately I have decided to try and explore that place, the 'metaphysical' world of the Force. It is fascinating, and it almost makes me believe the rest of the galaxy isn't real. That the only that exists is the Force. I am holding on to 'reality' though, the physical galaxy around us, but I still wish to explore this place of the Force. But with the way time is immeasurable and untraceable over there I had to put in a safeguard to make sure I don't stay there too long. Let my body wither while my soul explores the Force. For this purpose I have purchased a medical droid from Hedgemonic Automation. Whenever I go to this place beyond shadows I tell the droid to inject me with concentrated ixetal cilona, to dim my connection to the Force, and pull me out of there. It has worked thusfar, though not without cost and I believe it will require increased dosages in the future.

As for how I feel outside the realm of the Force? I can feel the corruption of the pool. It's changing me. I believe travelling to the Realm of the Force staves off the corruption, the changes, but I can still feel them. When I left you you told me to find you again if I finished my task and I was still a good man. I'd like to be that, but I fear than when this is done I will no longer be considered a man at all.


A Friend

The message would also have a file enclosed in it giving the names and rough locations of all One Sith members, along with a journal from the point of view of Darth Odium on his apprenticeship to Darth Isolda and tendencies he noted on her.