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Master Morihei’s Lightbo
Type: Unique Force Enhanced Bo Staff

Skill: Lightbo

Power used: Lightbo Combat

Difficulty: Very Difficult (30) (Missing by 5 points means inflicting damage on yourself - this is not a weapon for beginners). Without Lightbo Combat power on, add 25 to difficulty, and missing the roll even by 1 point means you cut yourself.

Damage: 6D + Control

Notes: Add +1D to attack and ranged parry, and +2D to melee parry. Also, it can be used as 2 dual setting, variable length lightsabers (either with Lightsaber combat or Daisho combat power).

Description: This weapon looks like two long (35 cm) handles with blade projectors on both ends... It was made with Ilum crystals (no power needed), and was a gift for the legendary founder of Aiki Jedi knights Morihei Ushiba from his son, an Artificer Jedi, Musashi Ushiba. His father used no lightsaber, but instead, he used his walking stick, charged with Empower Weapon, and even developped special power for it. However, he realized that his Empowered stick was not the same as a real lightsaber, because of its weight and air-resistance. After a long and legendary life, Master Morihei was slain by the newly crowned Emperor Palpatine and his Dark student Darth Vader. The fate of his lightbo, the only known lightbo in the history of the Jedi is unknown, except for the fact that one part of it was taken by the Emperor (perhaps to Mt. Tantiss?).

IC:

Mount Tantiss sat in the far distance of the Nohgri colony on the planet of wayland. They came at teh bidding of Lord vader. The savior of the nohgri. They serve lord vader and he protects them and provides them with a new home on the lush new planet.

Irman Nogar was born her during the years just after the construction on the great mount had finished. His people always followed the will of lord vader. But Irman always felt that this was slightly wrong. When he looked at the lord vader and the one in black robes that occasionally visited. Some thing at the very corner of his being told him that this was wrong. The this men were not what the saviours that they claimed to be.

Occasionally in the night he saw a man appear to him. He was not a nohgri. He was far to tall to be one. Always he was clouded in a robe with a hood that drapped over his face. In the dream he tells him of the true history of lord vader.

One night he saw this man fight the lord vader, the robed stranger and 10 warriors weilding weapons simular to Lord vader. In the dream the man was like no one that he had ever seen. With only a staff that seemed to glow he defeated lord vader, killed the 10 other warriors, and was only defeated by fingers of blue light from the robed one.

It was then that he awoke. At the foot of his bed padding there was a blue wraith of the man from his dream. He points up to mount tantiss. "To take my path you must find the ligh bo at mount tantiss."

Irman sits stunned. This was the stuff of legends. "But where do I find it!' The jedi disappears from veiw.

It would be sacralidge to go against the lord. But these dreams and a feeling in him some thing else told him that this ghost was telling the truth. Preparing his armor he starts for the mount.

The trek is long and treacherous. Many storm troopers regularly patrol the area with giant two legged walking beasts. And seats that floated on the air. He had made it a of avoiding them since he was a young one. It was the other Nohgri that patroled the area he worried about. He moved through the forest. As he moved he felt a power in him helping him. He was able to move more quickly that he ever had before, Leap farther, and now the forest as if he were a part of it. He saw his brothers before they ever saw him.

It took hours to reach the mount. ::WHat now?:: He thinks.

The ghost apears again. Pointing to an area of the mountain. Just as quickely as he appeared he was gone. Following the way that he pointed to he found a opening to a cave opened by a tree root that broke open the solid rock in the recent years.

The open was just big enough to enter. The cave was cramped he had to crawl most of the way. But there was a faint light at the end of the tunnel. It was a small crackin a stone wall. With a kick he opened it up. There was some kind of a room before him and the feeling beckoned him on. There was some thing in the room beyond the door that he must get.

A man in red armor spoted him just then. "Stop!!" he was seen. If he gave the man the chance he would call the security of the whole mount on his head. He felt that power that seemed to beckon him. BLade out stretched he covered the distance between them in milliseconds. And before the man uttered another word he had cut him to the chest through a kink in the armor. Pulling the reddened blade out the red armored one droped with a thud.

From him he took a key card. The key to the room some thing told him. Sweeping it through a slot he waits as the door slowly opens. Inside he finds a staff on a pedistol. He takes it with out asecond thought. Leaveing the staff of the red one that he just defeated in it's place. alone with some of his knives it made just the right weight displacement.

Out of the mount he left with the bo. In the forest the ghost appeared to him again. "Take my bo and go to the planet of obrai-skai. There you well find a text that well lead you down the path of the Aiki. Learn our ways well my padawan."

A padawan. He had no way of knowing what that meant but he would surely find out. The supply transport was at the launch padd. His ticket off the planet. several other nohgri had left that way so he knows it can be done. He heads for the ship. Obrai-Skai where is that?

it did not take the nohgri long to sneak on to the ship. Stowing away in the cargo hold. No one saw him as was right. The ship left strait for the Imperial Center (Couruscant). The ship touches down on a landing padd amoung the sky scrappers. For a being that had spent most of his life amoung the trees and forests it was a bit over whelming that this place of canyons and flying ships was actually here.

Even with his surprise he stayed to the shadows. In a store he passed he found a cloak in a window that would serve his purposes. Stepping in he got some strange looks. no one had really ever seens a Nohgri before. So there was some speculation on what he was.

In side a droid helped him to the cloak. When asked how he would pay for it. The nohgri pulled out some gold coins. The droid did not know what to make of it. THe only currency it is programed to take is credits. It was about to turn him down and tell him to leave when the manager walked up to see what was the trouble. A glance at the coins and he excused his protecal droid.

It was a good thing too Irman needed the cloak and thought that he may have to take it by force. The deal made and cloak in hand he heads out into the streets.

There is much to learn here. Spoting some shadier beings heading for a elevator he figured to follow them. Beings that live in the shadows are more to his likeing. Down the lift goes into the depths of the city.

People her looked like the warrior types. Harded by real battle. Unlike those above that seemed to live in luxury. The bars are were he hit first. Asking around he found a transport that would take him to obrai-skai. All around him he was getting strange looks. on his back he carried the light bo wrapped in a cloth and straped to his back. Only the tip of it showed through. A bit of crystal that was tantalyzing to the underworld crowd for the mere fact that it could mean a possible profit.

A group of gammoroneons stepped in his path. They surround him and indicate that they want his staff. The nohgri had no time for this. Killing these would be childs play.

All of a sudden the feeling that he got on wayland came to him. It clawed at his very soul almost bidding him to...to...not kill. He was not to kill. It seemed againest his nature but he went with it. Calmly he asked the large snorting pig like creatures to step aside. They decided against if. One swung at him with a vibro axe. He took the pig beings axe from it's hand in one smooth motion. Grabing it by the head and slamming it into the ground knocking it uncouncious. Two more tried to attack but met his heels in their faces instead of their fists in his flesh. They fall to the ground with a thud. The rest back away not wishing to face him. The man that is to be his ride to Obrai-skai follows hiim bewildered that one person could do all that.

And Irman would have done more but somehthing in him told him not to kill. What was it.

--OBrai-Skai--

Little to do here now but read. This is a planet of scholors not warriors. What use would a warrior have on such a planet? The cloaked blue being continues on. Following that strange feeling that seems to guide him.

He does not know what he is looking for or even where he is really going. All that he knows is that there is some sort of feeling guiding him to some thing. The closer he gets the stronger the feeling gets.

After hours of searching he takes a rest on a stone street. The place that he walked into was quite old. Not like the empirial areas that were dank and dismal but brighter. with smooth angles in all the architecture. The building in front of him seemed some how inviting. So he decides to enter.

Inside he feels so strange as if he had been there before and yet how could he have? He lived his whole life on wayland. Around the area was row upon row of data files. A haven for knowledge. Or a prison for it. Either way it did not matter. The doors in the place seemed to open of their own accord. As if the place was greeting him. The staff at his back begain to grow warm. Looking at it now he sees it is atually glowing.

The air around him seems strange. Just like. "Just like when you first saw me not long ago?" A voice answers him from behind, the blue wraith had returned.

"Who...are you." He asked with cuation in his voice.

He merely smiles at the young warrior. "I am master Morihei. A jedi. Albet a bit dead now, I am afraid to have to admit."

Irman's face twisted with reconition. "YOU were the warrior in my dream that defeated Lord vader and the warriors that fought like him."

The blue wraith smiles a smile that can be seen through. Books line the shelve behind him. "I was."

"You defeated the lord vader hurt him. But lord vader is the master, our saviour." He says the words but with a bit of uncertainty.

"YOu do not sound sure so of that." Morihei comments.

Finding his voice in his doubt, "I was always taught that but some how he feels to dark to be a savior even by my people's standerds." The nohgri way was that of the warrior but the lord still felt wrong.

"Mmm, that he is. Lord vader wipped out the Jedi order a group of people that weilded the light side of the power that vader has, the Force. A living thing that makes up all of the living beings of the universe connecting all things in the universe. I called you here becuase you have a connection to that living force and I want to teack you how to control it. Now I havnt much time left so listen carfully.

This place is where I kept a record on all things about the Aiki order. That is my way of fighting. Learn all that you can from these recordings I left you. The universe well need you some day. Prepare for it Irman. Prepare." With that he vanished.

Leaving the young nohgri alone in the building. Turning to the book shelf he pulls one and begins to read.

20 years the nohgri trained. With out the aid of a master he trained. Through the years master Morehei appeared several times. With aword that gave the nohgri aglimps of the path he needed to take to reach the next steps in his training. What a to except these new ideas as fact took the nohgri a great deal of time. He was a born and raised warrior. And the Aiki were warriors that learned to be some of the strongest jedi of all.

Yey they teach that he must not fight unless the situation is dire. To not confront the enemy but to save it. That violence in any form is wrong. But only when absolutely necessary is it to be used.

One thing a Aiki had over all that he had learned was a superior fighting style. It was like nothing that he had ever seen in his short life so far. He was sure that he could defeat almost any one with these arts. And yet he was not alload to by his Aiki code of conduct.

OOC: Apart from the fact that Noghri can't be Jedi, good posting. You couldn't control the lightbo unless you were a jedi. 'Nuff said.

OOC: There are always flukes in the force. Here's one.

Wandering all over the planet of Obrai-Skai incognito he found that many of the Aiki ways were more then valid. He helped where he could but only in the smallest of ways. The emporer was still searching for any jedi so most of what he did he did in the forests of the planet using the life of the trees to mask his force abilitys. Life toils on for the Aiki Nohgri. Once a warrior now a warrior monk.