OOC: This well take place a few months before vonta meets the krath in Observer.

IC:Vonta stood on the bridge of the nubulan b-2 frigate the saber strike. She looked at the star scape. So many stars and so many support life. Or at least they did at some point in their history.

The universe is so old that she wonders if there was ever a race that fully understood the secrets of the force. Before the seemingly times of enlightenment that had come in the last several thousand years with the birth of the galactic republic.

The saber strike was no longer just a normal ship. Vonta made more then a few...well up grades. One was her computer core. In the tradition of her experiments with artificial inteligence that spawned several AI's.

The first being Her constant companian the R5 unit she affectionately calls cypher, To her for duminitive positronic droids A1, B2, C3, and D4, C3 who went on his own path as the sith hunter droid C4 (The new designation number reflecting his new stage in his life), and Zed Nine the autonomous Police unit now serveing at Vinda corp.

Her latest creation was a ship inteligence. SHe upgraded the Saber Strikes computer core adding AI capabilities. The ship had it's hands full managing the ship so she was never idle. Through out the ship are holo emitters. So that Saber strike could manifest itself in a more human like persona.

The result was a 5'6 dark haired human with a very white and clear skin complexion. Vonta sometimes wonders where she got the design but never asked. In another bout of brain storming. She thought that Saber strike could use a corporeal body as a base of operations. Using a Synthadroid that she had on board she up graded the unit with positronic circuts to handle the information it would have to deal with from the saber strike. Along with a advance data transfer unit that allows the unit and the ship to share a consciousness. The result took her aback by the unexpected result.

The unit and the ship shared data but operated with two separate personalitys based on how they veiwed the galaxy. Vonta named the ship bound personality Strike and the android Saber. Saber was the hand of the strike.

Saber the android came behind vonta carriing a cup of coffee. Vonta took it with appreciation.

"Thank you saber." She was used to the ship as a person and a invaluble freind in recent days. Saber merely nodded and was a bout to turn around and go about her bridge dutys as a science officer when she looked as she was hearing something that no one else could.

"Sir," She addressed vonta "Strike informs me that you have a visiter requesting boarding. A padawan Kenshin."

That was the name of Wade's padawan that she had met recently. "Give him clearance and have Strike escort him to the bridge to meet with me."

:She wants to know what this padawan wants with her that could not be said through communique:

When Kenshin docked, he was escorted to Vonta by the android. On the way, he couldn't but marvel at the ship. But then again, he hadn't seen many. Most ship technology was new to him.

He was totally absorbed into everything and didn't even notice when they reached their destination. When Kenshin saw Vonta, he smiled and bowed.

"Hi..."

Strike had opted to show the young man to the bridge the hologram of a attractive young woman in a red dress escorted him to the bridge where they met immediatly with vonta. She was in less then formal ware at the moment. Dressed in a stained jump suit. One that had seen one to many days under the hood of a fighter.

"Welcome Kenshin, welcome to my home away from...." She was going to same home but in reality this was her only real home she had in the galaxy. "...Well my home any way."

"Tell me young padawan to what do I owe the pleasure of your company. I mean not many go to the trouble of searching out a single ship in the galactic spanses just to say hi."

The Android named Saber ,the corporeal doubleganger of the holographic image of Strike, Stood up to take her leave passing her double on her way out. Giving a breif nod to the new comer on board as she passed him and her holo graphic double.

"I searched you out for a lesson in social studies."

Kenshin grinned.

"Specifically, what you've learned about the Aiki and the Jensaarai. I want to learn a bit more about them and I might choose to train under one of the Orders if it fits with my philosophy of the Force and what I want to be able to do with it."

"Mmmmm. Are you now?" She asked the question more to her self then to her freind here.

"So I am going to play teacher in this case then." She turned to face the stars to the port bow.

"Very well then, Student." She smiled it was one of the first oppertuitys that she had to act the part of teacher reather then the taught.

"Here is your first lesson of the ancient force ways a bit of a riddle to punder.

' The force comes in shades. Of witch there are many the ones that you know of so far are light, dark, and grey. The light of the jedi the dark of the sith and the gray of the shadows. But in the history of the force there are always more shades lurking in the light and the dark.'

The light and dark shall find their ways through different paths." her back still to him.

"That is your first lesson think on it a bit. One of the crew well show you to temporary quarters. Then meet me back at the bridge at 1020 hours."

Kenshin sat in his quarters, already in thought.

He understood that the Force users were split into three groups, the light, shadow, and the dark. He also understood that in each of the groups there were many different sects according to which degree and how each followed the certain shade.

What he didn't quite get was the phrase:

'The light and dark shall find their ways through different paths.'

He didn't undertand what the 'paths' were.

Vonta stood at the bridge of the ship waiting for the padawan.

The clock read 1015 hours.

She hoped that he would not be late.

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in kenshin's quarters a holo image of the young woman Strike appeared. "Master Kenshin you wanted me to warn you when it was time."

Kenshin snapped out of thought at the sound of a voice. He looked up to see the holo image.

"Yeah, thanks Strike."

The got up headed to the bridge.

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Kenshin arrived at the bridge when the clock read 1018 hours. He singled out Vonta and walked up to her.

"Early, Good. All the better to begin then. Just follow me my friend." The two head to the turbo lift. "Destination HD-27 strike." The femine voice of strike answers

'Acknowledged'

The two stop at a deck of the ship that vonta had specially made to her specifications. A sort of training deck where she can sit in isolation and study for hours at a time. "Welcome to my huble abod. This room is a compendium of knownledge of the ancients." she leads him over to a small main frame.

"Here I have a librairy of all the information that I have gathered on all of the old force sects. from the Jedi librairys and from other sources such as obrai-skai." She passes by.

Stoping at a set of doors. " But history is best told through the eyes rather then through books in my opinnion. This is another of my pet projects. A holo room as it were a way to follow the historys of the ancients in a more intimate fashion." The room came alive with images.

Kenshin watched in awe at the huge archive. When the holos popped up, he grinned as the studied them.

"This, I like..."