Star Wars New Order - Volume 1 Chapter 13 Change

The following days were full of hardship as Ki-Adi-Mundi seeing he couldn’t change his padawan mind choose to make him understand that he could be aggressive with the third form only when he had fully mastered it and his defenses were strong enough. And so during these days, Vaner understood that his defense and mastery of the third was lacking.

Besides being beaten Vaner start to think more in-depth of his theory in the balance of the Force however the more he thought about it the more it didn’t make sense but the reaction from the council seem to point that he was right.

If his theory was right then the dark side was as strong as the Jedi, while he agreed that Darth Sidious, well Sheev Palpatine for now, had influence but he wasn’t the supreme chancellor for now so his power was quite limited so it wouldn’t balance the Jedi.

The number of Sith was low even if the movies didn’t show them all and they were more of them, they would probably only be around 50 in the whole galaxy even if they were a hundred which would totally incoherent they wouldn’t balance the Jedi even if the order had started to rot from the inside.

Vaner finally came to a conclusion which causes him to have cold sweat running down his back as fear could be seen on his face. If he was right until here, then there was nothing to balance the Force in the known galaxy which means there was outside and with the Force heading toward equilibrium naturally, it would mean that there was a light side outside the known worlds too.

So this part of the star wars may just be a forgotten zone, and outside there were two massive sides maintaining the balance of the Force and no matter what would happen here had no effect on the Force itself and all the fluctuation felt by Jedi were only local one with no real consequence.

If there really was such huge force somewhere in this universe then he will need to change his plan and stay hidden longer than he had planned or at least not show to much. And more importantly, he will need an army bigger than he had planned and for this, he will need a huge amount of credits.

While all of this was just theory Vaner unintentionally convinces himself that this was true and became spiritless all his plan had become useless and against such thing his advantage of knowing future really wasn’t as useful anymore.

It had been a few days since Vaner had been dispirited, his state had alert his master who thought he had been too hard on the young boy but also master Yoda who never stops paying attention to Vaner and such a drastic change was surprising and convinced that there was something more master Yoda decide to enter deep meditation for a while thinking that the young padawan had reached new understanding on the Force.

Two days after master Yoda entered meditation, terrible news arrived at the Temple Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn had died in combat, this news made the temple tremble and with this news, the news of the return of the Sith couldn’t be hidden any longer and soon it start to spread.

Even with the fact that Obi-wan had killed the Sith the Jedi were still divided about how to react however soon the temple became relax again after some said that with the death of this Sith the Sith were extinct once again.

The news of Qui-Gon’s death, however, a good effect on Vaner who awoke from his dispirited state as he realized that it didn’t do something the next one would probably be him and so he starts training again much to the relief of his master.

While Vaner resumed his training the word didn’t wait for him, soon the Senator Sheev Palpatine also known as Darth Sidious was elected as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic and not long after Jedi Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi was promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight by the High council and grant the right to teach the chosen one Anakin Skywalker.

Seeing all the gear of the beginning of the plot in place Vaner start to increase his effort but this time on the Force side as his mastery of the lightsaber while not perfect was still way better.

Vaner had already mastered the basics of all three aspects of the Force it was time for him to master different techniques. After looking at the different technique Vaner decide to first focus on mastering Thought Shield, Force Speed and Force Sense, while these techniques were supportive one he felt they were the best to start with as they would enhance his lightsaber combat and his survivability and once he mastered them he would concentrate himself on more offensive techniques.

As time was relentlessly advancing, Vaner was training. Besides training and honing his skills he also spared with Obi-Wan and with these spars he met his Padawan Anakin Skywalker, the chosen one. Knowing well what he would become Vaner didn’t know what to think of him and what to do with him, but he soon came to the conclusion that there was nothing good that would come from interacting with Anakin.

While the boy was still growing and so influenceable being near him would only attract the attention of Darth Sidious and being under the close eyes of the Jedi was already enough for Vaner there was no need to have the Dark Lord of the Sith. Moreover, after thinking about it Vaner decides that with all those variables already existing it would be good not to change too many things.

What pushes him to this decision was the fact that a Jedi knight who was sent in mission to find clues about Syfo Dyas came back with clues about the former Jedi Master Dooku. While Vaner couldn’t know if this news had reached the Jedi Order in the original timeline, he knew that what happened after hadn’t happened otherwise it would have been mentioned.

Two months after the return of the Jedi with news of Dooku, this Jedi vanished from the order but not alone. In the following weeks of the departure of the Jedi knight, another 24 Jedi vanished from the Order.

Hearing about this Vaner knew that his presence in the world had had its first huge impact. This time the clone wars will be harder as they will need to fight former Jedi and nothing could tell that they would be the only to betray before the war.

The betrayal of such a number of Jedi made the atmosphere in the temple heavy and even more eyes were on Vaner watching his every movement as if waiting for him to make a wrong move for him to be judged guilty so a scapegoat could be found.

During this chaotic year, Vaner met his best friend from his time as a youngling. Bhak who he hadn’t seen since they became a padawan had come back to the temple. Talking with him Vaner learned that Bhak was being trained on Shili as Jedi Master Shaak Ti train her padawan in her homeworld.

Vaner spared a few times with Bhak during his stay at the temple however while Bhak was at the temple Vaner found it strange that he only rarely saw him so he starts to worry that his friend would betray too. While he didn’t care for the order Vaner didn’t plan to betray the Jedi before the end of the war so if Bhak betrayed then they would be opposing each other which was not something Vaner wanted to see.

However, his worry was only rewarded by an incontrollable laugh from Bhak when Vaner questioned him, before learning that he was just learning a few things from Jedi Master Astaal Vilbum who was one of the few Jedi who had access to most of the knowledge available in the order.