The Captured Snake

[Belgerath]

He listend without showing any sign of annoyance or anger at her words, just staying quiet as she spoke and said her part. When she finished speaking he raised his right hand, assuming he was able. "You are partly correct, but partly wrong. The Sith Code says nothing of showing strength, nor implies that you should. Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me." After he finished quoting the code, he took a moment to breath and collect his thoughts, then spoke.

"The emphasis is on I. Me. Myself. Through passion, my passion, i gain strength. Through my own strength, i gain my power. Through my power, i gain victory. Through my Victory, i break my chains. Using the force, i free myself. There are many passions, emotions, that can drive a person. And many more ways forms of strength. As you mentioned earlier, many Sith use raw power and fear. They 'force' the people under them and make them serve. Others use cunning, deception and plots, making people unwittingly play across their own strings. Yet i would not call either of these people powerful. Let us say this mighty warrior is defeated in battle. Those who feared him before will now see, he can be defeated. And so they shall. A sorcerer with grand plots and trickery, fooling his betters and his lessers, when found out, will quickly be ousted and removed. Neither can call their power stable, not truely. Yet there is another way Sith inspire loyalty and gain strength and power. Let me make an example with a situation for you."

"You are walking alone down a dark alley alone. A young man turns around the corner at a dead run, afraid for his life, falling down after coming to a stop in front of you. He looks like a street urchin. A few seconds behind him is a man who looks like he is on the verge of death, holding a knife and attempting to kill the young man. What do you do?"

[member="Junko Ike"]

 

[Junko Ike]

[member="Belgerath"]

She looked at him and spoke. "I have my vassals attend to holding both while we deal with the situation." Doubtful it was the answer he was looking for but there was always a realistic option to scenario's in some cases. Variables in place or simply what well a jedi could do because none of it was ideal to some of the people. Junko stood there stayed with it before she turned surpressing a small grin. She had done much the same with her jedi master for the one lesson the zeltron had given her, asking questions and making claims but each scenario had been trying to well Junko had guessed trying to teach but her lessons were not as helpful in any of the ways. "Scenario's are only helpful when you want simple answers. The truth of many things is there is always more to a situation and always more to the people themselves."

 

[Belgerath]

"Ah yes. Indeed there are more to all secnarios and situations. Yet there is also very little worth in over analizing a simple tool made for an example and explination." He said with a shrug, not seeming to care about her awnser. It worked regardless, becuase it was still a Jedi awnser. Hold them both and solve the matter peacefully, even if she was trying to make an 'example' out of it. The core meaning of her words was still there. For that reason, he continued speaking.

"Regardless, the awnser is not the correct one for the meaning i aim to point out. Some Sith would kill the kid, and the murderer both simply because they were in the way, assuming they acknowledged the situation at all. Yet these others i mention would not. They would act. The street urchin runs into them from around the corner and the man follows them around, intent to kill. They do not weaken the boy by dealing with the attacker themselves. Nor do they watch idly as kid has no means to keep himself alive. They would give him a tool, a weapon so that he could prove his strength and survive. Give a man a fish and he shall eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he shall eat for the rest of his life. Save a man from fear, and he will crumble next time he meets it. Teach a man to stand boldly in front of fear and he will become strong. There are few sith who understand that in building up weak men to be strong and loyal, you strengthen yourself. Most would simply rather 'purge the weak' and 'force the strong to serve them', never realizing what they build on will crumble to dust with ease. Sadly, the nature of people, and how the darkside influinces the mind, keeps most from coming too this conclusion." He said, finishing off his explination with a light shrug. He idly wonderd how suprised she might, or might not be, about his veiw on strength. Though this was only part of it.

"Though, even with all that said, there is another cruicial part needed to be a Sith. A paticular kind of strength."

[member="Junko Ike"]

 

[Junko Ike]

[member="Belgerath"]

She acknowledge it but mostly remained impassive about the situation. For a sith he was rather different but she could see why in a group that enjoyed killing species, razing worlds and temple... Well why he was considered lower then many of them. THey would be able to deal with the others, the siths general infighting in time would work to diminish them naturally or break the groups down and apart. Junko herself could stay around here but there was more that they might have to do and she wasn't exactly certain what the big plan would be. "Interesting." Was all she needed to say before tapping a small datapad and shifting with her hand the scene to something else. "Talk like that might win over others but I imagine for a sith it will still qualify you for holding within one of the prisons."

 

[Belgerath]

"No, talk like that wouldn't get me put in a prison. If i claimed to have such strengths, i would get challenged. And if i lost then it would probably result in death, or worse. Because the sith way is to be strong and to challenge those who are strong, and become stronger yourself through victory by your own strengths and power. If you were listening you would notice i did not claim to have such strength however, though if i were to aspire to strength, that is the kind i would aspire too. However, true trust and loyalty on that level is hard for one such as i to come by, and i am not a paticularly good leader either. No,my strength and power would be better served by following such a person." He relaxed for a moment, taking in the now changed scenery.

When he said 'true trust and loyaly is hard to come by for one such as i', she would likely easily understand what exactly he meant by that. Junko would have noticed long ago that he was most likely an Assassin, judging by the equipment and tools he had on his person. After a moment he spoke up, looking at her.

"So. Something neither of us have done so far and need to do. What is your name? As i imagine you prefer to be called by some form of name rather than 'you' or 'lady'. I myself and Belgerath."

[member="Junko Ike"]

 

[Junko Ike]

[member="Belgerath"]

She listened to him and stood there. "I am Junko of the Royal Atrisian court and jedi knight. Though with all that has happened on Atrisia the title of princess might have changed." She wasn't certain but there was a lot that went on whn it came to atrisia that others couldn't really work with. Staying over some of the things here and there though she was waiting for news from the other while providing the information about the prisoner of whih there wasn't much. Her own personal notes not as impressive compared to some that might come from other prisoners but she would deliver themt ot he grandmaster for whatever they needed to do while his name would come in handy now for seeing if he was tied to anything.

 

[Belgerath]

The name popped up twice. However, not only did both of the incidents not match his appearance, one was an Ithorian, and the other a Zabrak, both confirmed via DNA tests. There were no crimes or entries on a 'Belgerath' who was a Miraluka. "Atrisia, the planet that was said to be the birth place of Jar'Kai as a lightsaber form was it not? Not only that but you are part of its royalty and a princess no less. The suprises continue to roll. Though what would make a princess wish to bore herself with me?" He asked with a rather high degree of suprise. This was suprising information, and didn't quite make sense in his head why she would be here, talking to him if she was such a person.

As for other prisoners there would most likely not be anyone among them who knew anything more than 'he is a sith'. This was not because he had hidden everything he had done so far in his life with exceptional skill, but because he had not really done anything major or big. Rather than something being hidden, there was nothing to find on him in the first place.

[member="Junko Ike"]

 

[Junko Ike]

[member="Belgerath"]

"What would I gain if I pick and chose who I meet with? I am a royal and I am a jedi with enough self awareness for myself compared to others to know that I am arrogant, selfish and find myself above everyone." She said it with a look on her face of practicality that she would be able to work with all of the things before she was walking and sending off the messages for the others with more of the attention. She stood there waiting though and relaxed herself while some of the droids were coming with new equipment as well as some of the things that they were working on and developing different equipment for testing here like the scouter that was displaying force signatures on the duel layer lens.

 

[Belgerath]

"Huh." Belgerath was genuinely suprised by Junko's words about herself, that she was arrogant and selfish. He wasn't really sure how to respond to something like that, scratching his head a bit as he looked for words. "Well, you know what they say. Fixing a problem starts from accepting there is a problem and all." He said in a dry tone and a shrug. As far as his signature was concerned, he was just a darksided sith, not escpially dark and evil like some, but by no means 'normal'. He didn't pay much heed at all to the droids, mostly because he couldn't really do anything about them.

"So. What is it you plan to do with me exactly, hmm? Trial? No trial, just prison? Or has that yet to be decided." Belgerath asked in a lazy tone, almost like he was talking about someone else's problems. "Or is that all to be decided after you make your latest report as it were."

[member="Junko Ike"]

 

[Junko Ike]

[member="Belgerath"]

"After the report, the council will decide what to do with you." She might be asked and really thought mercy for him would work maybe... unsure really she didn't have much else to do while exiting the room and leaving him to his cell.

ooc: I got nothing muc sorry as into others hands for the moment

 

[Belgerath]

"Very well." Belgerath shrugged, making himself comfortable in the cell for the moment and letting out a yawn. Seemed like he would be here for a while. Or maybe not.

(Alrighty, PM me when it is all figured out exactly how things will move forward and all)

[member="Junko Ike"]