Why the War

[Warren Century]

The Jedi and the Sith were often at odds with each other. Their wars encompassed the Galaxy as noticed by Jeff when he had read information about the Galactic Empire and the Rebellion. A sith had master-minded it all. Since the Sith had their own empires throughout the galaxy and the Jedi were few and far between it made sense for Jeff to learn to use a light-saber. Really skill with that could save him millions of credits. But he would not even come close to the levels of training needed to be a master likely ever as a droid. But still, he could put forth a good effort anyway.

 

[Chaos Maxtor]

"Greetings, synthetic. I understand you wish to learn the ways of power and speed. To deflect and redirect attack with you own strenthg. If one can call it your own strength. Considering this is my first role-play post...I mean job in a few hundred years: you might want to pay attention."

"I will begin with a test of your speed..." He said keeping a last gambit.

The room was large and empty, with a single blast door standing open at its end. It was from this doorway that the voice was emanating, echoing through the chamber easily before its owner stepped past the threshold. Enter Elgyn; striding purposefully, the unlit pommel of his long-handled saber resting in his left hand and the shortened pommel of a shoto in his right. He only moved a few feet into the room, leaving a good ten meters between himself and the droid, and from here he continued.

"So, synthetic, you will show me your speed. And you will do it with this..." He laid the shoto pommel to the side of his boot. "You will have visitors whom you will want to deal with--but I hope you enjoy the boom at the end."

He stepped backward then, back over the threshold of the blast door, which closed before him with a resounding clang, as two slim doorways opened at either side of the room. From their depths came clanking, rolling, the unmistakable shapes of two identical droidekas. Of the droids' signature blast shields, there was no sign, no telltale bluish distortion of the air, not even a projector mounted on their chassis, but as they unfolded it was clear their weaponry was very much operational. They began firing immediately, advancing on the droid on their tripod legs.

Meanwhile, Elgyn had moved to a makeshift table and chairs made of shipping crates and a dirty cloth, chips and cards strewn over its surface as he picked up his discarded hand. "Okay, where were we... all those melodramatics got me thirsty--Katri, be a dear?"

At the table with him sat two rather beautiful women; a violet-skinned Twi'lek with gleaming bluish tattoos over her arms, and a Togruta whose lekku were decorated with silver rings. The latter of these plucked a frosty bottle from a cooler and passed it to Elgyn, who grinned appreciatively. One might never know that these women were synthetics, like the man who, to the best of Elgyn's knowledge, was fighting for his life in the locked room. They'd been designed that way.

"Seriously though--is that how Sith are supposed to act or am I just reading too many Dark Side romance novellas?" He laughed softly. "I really hope he survives, though. I've met a lot of droids and just from first impressions he seems... well, spunky."

"Y'know, at first glance."

 

[Warren Century]

When droids were released to be his opponents Jeff immediately accessed his data-base. It was a good thing these destroyer droids did not possess shields presently because they would prove very hard to injure or destroy if they did. Using the tractor beam of his body he pulled the Shoto Saber into his hand, and parried the beams with it upon activation of it. However he lowered the hand that had the Shoto Saber and discharged a powerful burst of electricity similar to that of Force Lightning, but it was technological. Droidekas should be outlawed by everyone as a useful droid. They simply were too powerful a droid especially if you left their shields operational.

As one of them survived his attack Jeff decided it was time to bust out his ace in the hole. Activating the Flight Function he lifted off of the ground before coming close to the droid, and doing an electrically charged punch at it. The punch didn't damage his body due to suitable shock protection inside of it, but it should short out the Destroyer Droid permanently.

"How'd I do?"

 

[Chaos Maxtor]

"Go fish."

The synthetic Togruta huffed softly, rolling her eyes in disappointment as she leaned over the makeshift table to draw a card from the pile. Elgyn grinned over the fan of his cards triumphantly; he had several pairs already and was certain he would win the round. He reached over and took a long swig from one of the variety of bottles strewn over the tabletop.

"How'd I do?"

Elgyn choked a little, coughing as a bit of liquid went down the wrong way. "Wh-- whoa, you're still here? That took you like, forty-five seconds! I totally forgot you were here." He put his cards down and stood up. A faint clicking noise came from his mouth as he sucked his teeth, as if calling some kind of pet. His sleeves shifted a little, and two palm-sized creatures scuttled into his hands. "Next trial, then--"

Grinning, Elgyn wound up. "Strength!" And he threw both blast-bugs at the same time in sweeping arm-motions, sending them flying toward his potential student's center of mass.

[member="Jeff Solaris"]

 

[Warren Century]

When the Blast Bugs came at him Jeff concentrated. There had to be a way to take out the Blast Bugs. The Shoto Saber was not long enough. But combined with the Push Gun built into his arm, maybe just maybe. So with that he used the saber to slash the Blast Bugs. When he had done a significant amount of damage to them he used the Push Gun to repel them from him. After all he was determined he'd master lightsaber combat so he could be better prepared to deal with the various Jedi and Sith out there. There were too many factions with Force Users.

 

[Chaos Maxtor]

"Well done, Tinman. You survived." Elgyn said. "Now three questions. Answer well."

Perhaps he should scan this droid; his schematics might be useful to him in the near future. "You are self improving--I take it you have a heuristic processor. Why are you going about asking to be a student when you could just download the information into your programming?."

Elgyn stepped closer to Jeff, wrapping his hair into a bun he continued "Secondly, what is your purpose for learning these arts? Why should I disclose secrets?"


He threw off his long coat. "And third: what do you have in mind for payment?"

[member="Jeff Solaris"]

 

[Warren Century]

"Well the answers to your questions are as follows. I was previously human before I had an incurable disease requiring the upload of my neural pathways into the brain and body of a droid. My purpose for learning the arts is that EVERYONE seems to possess a lightsaber and have a good amount of skill at using it these days. Basically it's self preservation. As to what I could offer you for payment, well you've seen some of the things I've done. Some are built in gadgets my company sells, you'd get a discount for life if you trained me."

Everyone seemed to possess light-sabers these days. Be they Sith, Jedi or unaligned they all had lightsabers. It was getting old, and fast. Especially if you were a droid who did not have much protection against the blades. Fortunately Jeff did plan on improving his body soon so that it could withstand the test of time, and battle. Since the Galaxy saw fit to throw him curve balls he'd be ready.

 

[Chaos Maxtor]

"Well," Elgyn said with a wry grin, "in spite of the fact you're more human than human, I will train you. But, I won't teach you out of a sense of self-preservation, not survival of the fittest. No, your training will be to see just how far you can go. What you can become. And discounts aside, all I want is a number of droids numbering no less than fourty. I will provide the build and specifications."

Elgyn shifted his stance, turning his back on Jeff.

"A lightsaber is nothing more than a weapon--a tool, only made valuable by the skill with which it is wielded. To surpass both skill and tool you must learn not to expect the unexpected, but to do the unexpected." His saber ignited with the familiar snap-hiss, the pearlescent white blade casting ethereal illumination over the dark metallic, lengthened pommel with its oversize ring at the end.

 

[Warren Century]

With that, Jeff knew he'd be trained. "You shall have your custom made droids." Jeff then examined the light-saber from a distance. "So what's our first step in my training?" Later Jeff would do some research to upgrade his shield so he could cover his entire body when wielding a lightsaber providing protection against people who abused such blades. Jeff nodded, and then waited. "I will however insist on one modification to your droids, and that is the installation of a power cell I've recently constructed, and am powered by. "

 

[Chaos Maxtor]

"Then we have a deal, and perhaps a future alliance. " Elgyn said with a single nod. "We will begin with stance--Shien and Djem So are two different styles in the same form. Both are equally useful for attack and defense; Shien was developed as defense and redirection against blaster bolts, and Djem So was derived from it specifically for lightsaber combat. Since I am Sith, we will begin with the most violent. Observe."

Elgyn brought his hands together on the pommel of his saber. "When you see your opportunity, strike," he said, as he shifted his stance to take on the first position of Djem So. He squared his feet, shoulder-width apart, knees relaxed, the blade lying almost touching his arm, over his shoulder and above his head. "Now attack--hurt me, do not hold back." His smile faded, his expression all seriousness, a cold stare. "And always remember to expect the unexpected.

[member="Jeff Solaris"]

 

[Warren Century]

"Very well. As you wish me to attack you, I shall hold nothing back." Jeff did not waste any time either, because he had the Crystal core as the primary power cell for this body it could take the strain of what he was about to do. Thus the Optic Lasers of this body were used as an attack on whoever was educating him in the proper way to handle a light-saber. Should they be stunned, or not by this attack Jeff was already on the move shooting twin beams of red energy out of the wrist blasters at them, before using his servos to leap close and try to deliver a shock touch. Jeff was one who liked to finish a fight before it could officially begin even, and he liked to do so efficiently.

Jeff then picked up the Shoto Saber as he was about to make the leap, activated it and did a slash instead of the Shock Touch. This slash was aimed so that it would separate the Torso and the body in a single, smooth slash. It would be a very painful demise.

 

[Chaos Maxtor]

Excellent, Elgyn thought as the droid lurched into motion. This was exactly what he'd hoped for. When the twin lasers came streaking toward him, Elgyn's spine seemed to twist and writhe in a way no Human's could ever have; he bent double, backward, his midsection turning to the side. Following up, needing to deflect the following bolts, the saber hummed through the air. The blade hissed and spat with every bolt batted aside, sparks of plasma singeing the air and filling it with the ozone smell of burnt oxygen.

The clanging of the droid's feet on the durasteel floor clued him that Jeff was approaching, and Elgyn quickly rearranged his stance, straightening to anticipate the coming blow. The saber thrummed as he raised it up to deflect Jeff's blow, smacking the shoto aside easily. "An Avalanche will rise," he said, absurdly, his expression unchanging as his blade spun in his hands to raise up over his head.

As he began the downward stroke, aiming for the top of Jeff's head, he switched easily to the offensive. "And it shall also-- fall!"