Pydyr

[Jalua Solast]

The modified Star Cruiser Enlightment came out of hyperspace a huge distance from the moon. The cruiser kept itself at this distance to avoid detection, while scanners attempted to locate possible hostiles around the planet. While this was happening, Jalua's shuttle escaped from the hanger bay and shot outwards towards the moon at full speed, followed at a distance by a starfighter squadron of new R-Wing Mk. II's which then reverted back to the Star Cruiser before sensor detection. The Shuttle landed on the moon and opened it's ramp, where the group in their new prototype armour walked off the shuttle. There was a couple of mechanics on the pad with some droids helping them and the landing officer who was discussing with the pilot how much it would cost to land here. Jalua and the rest continued past them and headed into the city of Corocus.

Heading to the nearest Cantina, Jalua sat at the table and looked at Dan, seeing just his armour. "Right, we need to spread out and find any information you can on the Fallanassi tribe. Sort yourselves out into teams of two and let me know over comm what you find out. When we have enough information, we will find them" She said, her observing look following each and every one of them around the table.

[Dan Zorko]

Dan nodded and stood up, grateful for the helmet. He started to work his way around the cantina, talking to people here and there, seeing what tidbits he could find.

After about half an hour of fruitless searching, he was about to give up when a voice came out of a dark corner. "So you're looking for information about the Fallanassi tribe, eh?" it asked. Dan looked over to find an old woman with white hair sitting ihn a chair. Dan nodded. "Well, I may know a thing or two..." she said.

[Jalua Solast]

Jalua was sat at the cantina when she received a call from the Enlightment. "Go ahead" she spoke with an almost suspicious accent. "We've found some information on the government here. They have very loose security, even with their more aggressive neighbour. The Fallanassi apparently moved here decades ago, although they weren't originally established here. They will also probably be far from civilisation, their lack of contact with most males means they will only teach women. It would probably be best for you to take limited numbers into the camp to negotiate. The camp should be based on a relatively high point, with new foundations for the buildings there. The Fallanassi will probably know your coming in advance, so be on guard" came the voice from the other end, Jalua didn't know who it was but they obviously didn't know they were speaking to the Empress, which was good. "Roger that Enlightment, keep me posted". A bleep sounded through her right ear and the link was broken. Jalua reflected on this information and returned to the table where the eight special forces soldiers were sat, they obviously hadn't gone far in search for information. "Nobody knows where they are or they aren't going to tell us" the one said before raising a glass to his mouth. Jalua nodded, they knew who she was but they too wouldn't be addressing her properly. They didn't anyway but it still was vital that nobody overheared anything of her presence outside of Coalition space. "I've had some intel on what to expect, but nothing really about where they are located. All that we know is that it will be far from here, it might be best if we launch probes-". Jalua paused. "Where's-?" she began before spotting her other soldier in the corner speaking to someone. "Nevermind, i think we may have a lead" she muttered, where the Spec Ops soldiers unconspiciously checked where the other soldier was. "Let's wait here and see what he comes back with" Jalua ordered, before beginning to raise a glass to her mouth. Unfortunately, it clunked against her helmet, a rather stupid mistake which made the rest chuckle at the table. "Don't worry boss, I'll drink that for you" said one soldier next to her as he snatched the glass out of her hand and began to drink it all down in one go. With his mind occupied, Jalua reached under his drinking arm and slid his own drink in front of her, much to the humour of the others at the table.

[Dan Zorko]

... and while they're excellent at illusions, they can't use telekenisis." finished the woman. Dan nodded. "Thank you ma'am. This will be very useful." He turned and walked back to the table, where everyone else was drinking. He saluted Jalua. "Ma'am, this is what I was told by that woman in the corner there." he turned to indicate who she was, but found that she was gone. "Odd..." he mutered. "Anyways, she told me quite a bit of useful information.

The Fallanassi, also known as Adepts of the White Current, was a religious order devoted to the White Current, which the Jedi knew as the Force, mostly an all female group like the Witches of Dathomir and hardly ever taught men their teachings though some of its functions were different than the universal energy field they use. With the White Current, the Fallanassi could do amazing things with illusions and a unique ability known as Force Immersion, but had no skill with manipulating the physical world through abilities such as Telekinesis. They taught that authority was an illusion and that everyone should serve only their own desires

One of the order's first homes was on Lucazec, but after the Fallanassi refused to swear loyalty to Emperor Palpatine, they fled ahead of his stormtroopers, their location betrayed by one of their own members, Talsava.

After finding a number of worlds to resettle on, the Fallanassi chose to abide on the planet J't'p'tan, deep in the Koornacht Cluster and a sanctuary of the H'kig monks. In exchange for sanctuary on the world, the Fallanassi agreed to protect their spiritual brethren by creating powerful illusions through their use of the White Current, able to convince visitors that the H'kig monastery, the Temple of the Infinite Spirit, was merely a smoking ruin.

Seventeen years after the Battle of Yavin, the Fallanassi received two visitors: Akanah, daughter of Talsava, and Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, who sought clues about his mother and believed her to be a member of their order. Though his search proved fruitless, Skywalker persuaded Wialu, leader of the Fallanassi, to create a powerful illusion of battle cruisers that helped turn the tide for the New Republic in the Battle of N'zoth, thus ending the Yevethan crisis. With the Yevetha defeated, the Fallanassi left their adopted world of J't'p'tan on the cruiser Star Morning.

The order relocated itself on Pydyr, a moon of Almania. Five years after the end of the war with the Yuuzhan Vong, the order lived on under the leadership of Akanah and was visited by Jacen Solo, who visited Force users like the Fallanassi or the Aing-Tii. Solo briefly received training from Akanah in tapping the White Current before he left to follow a call for help deep within the Unknown Regions during the Dark Nest Crisis.

And that's what I was told." he concluded.

OOC: Yes, epic copy and paste from wookiepedia

[Jalua Solast]

OOC: Hehe, it fits in anyway

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"Exactly what I'd heard" responded Jalua, with a thankful nod. Although the voice sounded strangely familiar, the helmet masked it the person's true voice and too many people had that kind of accent to distinguish who it was. "Any idea on the location?" she asked, ignoring her curiousity at the voice.

[Dan Zorko]

"Location of what ma'am?" Dan asked.

[Jalua Solast]

"The location of their camp?" responded Jalua, hoping that he knew of at least a rough location.

[Dan Zorko]

"Their camp, unfortunetly no." said Dan. "Although I do think that they are definetly on the planet. That woman gave me a lot of history, but not an exact location."

[Jalua Solast]

Jalua nodded and raised her wrist, to speak into a communicator. "This is Omega-One-One to Tuscan-One. We require the probes to be launched immediately, areas designated are confirmed. Repeat, launch probes immediately, designated areas confirmed". Jalua looked around to make sure nobody had noticed her irregular activity and motioned for the rest to exit the cantina. Once there, they headed back towards the transport.

Once there, the team of thirteen loosened out speederbikes packed on top of each other and rode them out of the shuttle and then further out of the city. They split themselves up into teams of four, although Jalua accompanied one such team. They headed out across the fields to be closer once the probes began to transmit their findings. Then they could have an observation post created for when the other teams arrived.

[Dan Zorko]

Dan rode along, packed in with 3 more troopers on a speederbike. "I thought the max on these things were 2 or 3?" grumbled the trooper in the back. The trooper piloting the speeder just gave a grunt in reply. As they skimmed along, the console for the probe started beeping. "Hey, the droid found something!" exclaimed the trooper piloting, and looked at the console. "Ok then... 1 klick off to our northeast... We'll go a bit closer, then set up the observation post."

They skimmed along until they came up to a ridge of hills. "You, go take a look." he said to Dan. Dan nodded, climbed off, and made his way up the hill. He crawled to the top, and unhooked a pair of binoculars to look at the camp. After he looked around, he crawled back down to the rest of the group. "Looks like a standard camp, facilities, a mess hall, etc. There's a landing pad near the back, but there's no ship on it. I couldn't see any turrents, but that's not saying some may be conceald somewhere. The camp is surrounded all the way around by these ridges, with one way in or out on one side, so if we were to attack, it would be best to do it from along these hills." The trooper nodded. "Good. Lets get this observation post set up."

After it was set up, the trooper activated his comm. "Omega-one-one, Charlie-three. We have found the camp, I repeat, we have found the camp."

[Jalua Solast]

Jalua heard the message and raised her wrist. "This is Omega-one-one to Charlie-Three, confirmed, heading to your location". She switched channels to the team she was in, she knew the other team would head there anyway. "This is Omega-one-one to Omega-one-two, lead the team to the observation post". It would take merely twenty minutes at full speed, the probes had been very effective.

[Jalua Solast]

The teams arrived at the observation post, a camouflage box basically, with some rugged features to make it blend more into the terrain. From this location, within some trees, they could easily see the camp through binoculars and the surrounding area, to plan for attacks and other events. There was a dirt track leading out of the camp, two of the Special Forces soldiers had been stationed along the trees at the edge of the track to monitor the road for incoming people and vehicles. If necessary, they had a one-shot rocket launcher designed for taking down vehicles. A team of four had already positioned themselves around the opposite side of the camp, keeping an eye on that area for signs of activity. Meanwhile, Jalua's team met up with Dan and his other Coalition counterparts looking at the Fallanassi Camp.

"Anything interesting?" Jalua asked quietly, almost a whisper. "It's filled with people Ma'am. They aren't armed but they have multiple compounds. Any one of those could contain weapons" one of the special forces soldiers responded to Jalua briefly. "Okay, well we shall wait till evening and then i shall proceed onto the camp" she ordered, requiring no response. Meanwhile, the Special Forces soldiers made themselves busy making a scale model of the camp and designating points of entry and how to assault the camp taking minimal losses.

[Dan Zorko]

Dan looked at her. "Ma'am, with all due respect, I must protest you going in there alone. You don't know what surrises may be in there. At least let one or two of us go with you."

OOC: Sorry, all I had time to pound out before school.

[Jalua Solast]

Jalua looked surprised at the soldier's boldness. He was one of the two soldiers from the Royal Household who wasn't even Special Forces status. She was about to object when an actual Special Forces soldier added her thoughts. "I agree" she said straight to the Empress' face. "They are force-users and will be able to find out the things we do, but those two" she said, turning her head to the two soldiers, "They are new. They'll be able to look like companions rather than soldiers. Take them, we won't be far behind and at least you will have some protection". Jalua stopped herself from interrupting, although she disagreed that was two people, from different jobs, telling her the same thing. It was a few moments before the Empress responded, but once she did, although looking at the Fallanassi camp, she said "Alright". With that, they waited for the sun to begin to set.

[Jalua Solast]

The sun began to set upon the mountains, although the camp was still highly lit on it's peak. Jalua, now clothed in hiking gear and a backpack, joined the two soldiers dressed likewise and approached the camp from up it's steepest route. Hiking up this rocky path, where the cliff was literally a meter away, the three approached the camp. Silently above, fifty thousand feet in the air, was three Imperial Coalition stealth probes, sending video feeds to controllers on board the modified Star Chariot Enlightenment.

Entering the camp, they walked to the centre where a statue of a monk was located, around a fountain of water. This obviously represented life for the Fallanassi. Jalua bowed down to the monk who came to her. "Greetings, we are looking for a place to stay" she said, asking for help.

OOC: Will continue soon sorry