One more Year 10 Planner

[Zeke]

Because I need help with ideas and I don't have time to sit on AIM and stalk anyone. So here's the plan(s) so far:

Zeke, Carol, Cassandra—Zeke's going to be training Sindy on Ossus and helping the Jedi get their feet under them. This may or may not cause him to drift apart from his family. Still hashing out that idea. By this point he'll have settled with the loss of his old ships and business.

With the Alliance of Free Planets established, Carol will want the business and ship back. If she can get a decommissioned Wheel ship, that'd be fantastic. If possible, she'll go back to running the old business inside AFP territory.

Cassie won't want to stay on Ossus OR be part of the company. I may send her to an Academy or University somewhere.

Part of the issue with the time skip is that it takes a lot of the drama out of their situation. Unless I really just wanna play out their arguments over being stuck on the Wheel, the time skip neatly wraps up everything with a quick “After some arguing, stress, and consternation, the Saska family got their acts together”...so now I'm not sure what to do with them.

Zenas Codrey--Who got Shili? The Empire or the AFP? I'm thinking of just cutting off the old “hunting for my mother” arc that's dragged so horribly and have him be intercepted by agents of the government. The thing of it becomes If Empire, then Imperial Knights; If AFP, then Jedi as his main opponents, so I'd need to borrow one or more of the appropriate faction to corner Zenas at his family's home so he can show what he's learned in his life and be shunned forever by his nuclear family/his old Togruta clan. Then, fight and evade Imperial Knights or Jedi Knights, or maybe get caught (though if he's going to get caught, I'd prefer Jedi).

In place of a true family, Zenas will take an apprentice to teach his Force powers and lightsaber skills to, and to try to take care of as a surrogate child/brother/sister.

I'd also had an idea that, should this apprentice become injured beyond Zenas's ability to treat him/her, he might stumble on the Wheel and make a deal with them to have his apprentice treated with Bacta in exchange for maybe training Padawans in Form V or some other Force skill (knowing from his old Master that Jedi Masters and Knights are few, and they're likely to be hurting for training). This would naturally create some drama as the Knights and Masters fret over him corrupting Padawans to darkness or sabotaging their Order in some other way that maybe I didn't think of because it's late and Korean classes are a brain drainer. Now that the Jedi are on Ossus, Zenas being captured and made to train Padawans under supervision of a Master/Knight as “community service” might work instead. Bottom line: I want Zenas to interact with Jedi beyond the scope of “Let's You and Him Fight.” This seemed a fun way to do that.

Also, he'll continue to work for Decepis/Acera. Need to get with Charley and Christin about that stuff, somehow.

Zhe'chot—I need to post a solo thread outlining his experiences with Imperial Army Basic Combat Training. That'll go up soon. The galactic cold war puts him in a bit of a bind because now he's got less fighting to do, and that's the whole reason he signed up. He once mused that he'd switch sides if the Rebellion were a legitimate government. Now they are, so maybe he could defect. I was thinking he could get curb stomped by one/more of the Novgorod special forces, captured, and then defect to the AFP army and get a little more respect.

Thoughts/comments/compliments/gripes/bitches/complaints?

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

I would love to help out with Zenas' kidnapped family storyline! I have a character, Razadi Syfa that I want to get more involved, and I would be happy to team her and Zenas up :)

Once I get home I'll write up more.

[Razadi Syfa]

Ok!

So with Zenas wanting to find his mother, how would you want to approach where she may be by now? In the same place? Or possibly could she have moved on to another planet? And if she does, where would she have gone? If she does go elsewhere, it might be fun to do the hunt in stages, with clues to be found as to where to go next.

As far as Zenas and 'Zadi meeting each other, that would be relatively easy to do, since 'Zadi is a small-time hustler out looking for the big time; or at least whatever it is that she perceives the 'big time' to be :shrug:

She's a brash, quick to anger braggart who would have no problem stealing from her own crippled grandma, so as far as scruples and a strong moral compass, there's not a lot of that. I hadn't really considered the notion of her being Force sensitive when I made her, but it's entirely possible that she harbors a latent talent which she unconsciously uses while swindling. It's something that I mulled over at work today, and I rather like the notion of it.

Though this all depends on whether you're keen on teaming those two up :)

[Zenas Codrey]

Damn, 'Zadi avatar, you scary.

Any excuse for us to write is a good one! I always enjoy writing with you and I'd like a dedicated writing partner for Zenas.

I'm thinking that Zenas will experience severe Occam's Razor fail and find his mother on Shili, having first searched on Naalol, then Coruscant, then having run through several other Imperial-controlled worlds in the interim. We can jump worlds well enough, he's got a ship built for 2 and knows how to fly it.

As far as meeting 'Zadi goes, he may have to end up on the wrong end of a mafia organization in his questing for Decepis/Acera (retrieving some data to incriminate a politician, obtaining black-market thingmabobs for some insidious plot that he need not be privy to, etc.) where 'Zadi (who is working for them) witnesses his power as he tears the organization and its main compound apart. She survives his passing and they make a partnership; Zenas will train her if she will use her skills and connections to hunt along paths that he cannot explore on his own. He will begin forming attachments to her, and after he is essentially banished from Shili by his family and clan, will cling to her even more tightly.

[Razadi Syfa]

All of that works great for me :)

If we go the mafia way, perhaps we could work a Hutt into it? In an old past-s'Il thread I did, she had an encounter with a Hutt on Tattooine named Urga. Though he was killed by the end of that thread, perhaps a family member of Urga's has surfaced on some other planet and is in possession of a trinket or whatnot that s'Il wants. It doesn't even have to be anything in particular. Of course it could also be that s'Il still harbors a big grudge and just wants Urga's family dead, heh.

Either way, I can see 'Zadi trying to make some sort of deal with the Hutt when Zenas shows up, and is caught in the crossfire.

[Zenas Codrey]

All of that works. Friday night I'll get the show on the road.

[Zenas Codrey]

I am so late. Urga's brother Torgo claims to have possession of a something that belonged to his brother's assassin; proof that she is dead and that his clan tolerates no action against them. This is clearly a lie; Zenas is dispatched to deal with the Hutt. Going up in the next few minutes.