Rain tried to keep her breathing quiet, slinking along the side of a cement barrier. The empire's forces could be heard conversing and clanking about mere yards from her. Her brown jedi robes would be a dead giveaway if she were seen, but she had to get inside and disable the alarm system so the rebel troops could get by unnoticed. She sat very still for a moment until the footsteps seemed further away and then ducked as low as she could and sprinted along the wall until she reached the side of the building. There were various species of trees growing there and they all had strange curves to their branches and trunks, their leaves tinted purple. This was not Ckorena's home planet and this was the first time she had been here. She was young and her superiors had decided they were going to send the rookie in to play the bait. She had taken on smaller missions, but this was her first big one. Her mentor trusted they only joked that she was bait, and that they all trusted her skills more than they let on. She waited for quite a while until she finally heard a pair of voices approaching. White armor glinted in the daylight for a second in her peripheral vision and then she struck out at them. Her whirring blue lightsaber sliced cleanly through the first trooper and she spun and quickly put an end to the second's sudden shout of surprise. She dragged them into the shadow of the bushes and took off the armor, quickly putting it on herself. She took a deep breath, pulled the mask over her head, hid her saber, and marched out gun in hand. She walked right up to the building entrance and they stopped her, asking for ID. She gave the trooper's without speaking and the guard looked at her suspiciously, but then let her pass. She wandered down the long halls and followed the mental map their spy had explained to her until she reached the control room. Staring at the blinking wall of panels, she located what had been described to her as the security system controls. It crackled as she thrust her lightsaber through it and the lights began flashing purple in the room around her, sirens wailing. She quickly made herself scarce as footsteps sounded down the hall. Several long minutes later, there was gunfire. She raced in their direction. It was time to fight.
the end of the world --
Ckorena splashed at her friend, a smaller kalon with similar blue fur. They were playing in a small lagoon near her home, the 5 year old girl feeling brave away from her grandmother. Her warm-hearted guardian had taken her in after Rain's parents ran away to spend their time and love on the casino planet instead of their daughter. Suddenly, Rain's grandmother appeared, in a frantic rush. She told her friend to hurry home immediately and ushered Rain into the house. She shoved her up the steps and into a room the young kalon had never seen before. "You cannot stay, dear one," she told her, her voice steady but afraid. "It is not safe. Know that I love you forever. Always fight on the side of goodness." With that, she pushed her frightened granddaughter inside a glass capsule, sealed the door, drowning out Rain's confused cries, and pressed a switch. There was a rumbling and then Rain watched her grandma's face disappear in an instant as she was hurled upward and upward for what seemed like forever. The capsule shook under the force, making the sturdy glass walls rattle. Soon the shaking slowed, and Rain opened her eyes to find herself slowly drifting out in the blackness of space. Her water planet floated beneath her, like a perfect blue marble with patches of brown and green scattered about its surface. Time stopped as she looked at it and then it was over.
Orange cracks spread across the surface and then a blast sent Rain's capsule skittering back even further. Pieces of the planet that once was littered the blackness around her. It drifted like it was in slow motion and Rain screamed, knowing that her grandmother had sent her to safety and stayed behind to face the end of the world. She could not peel her eyes away and watched through her tears until there was a clunk overhead. She looked up to see a metal claw had closed around her and could only wait to see who had found her drifting. She soon found how lucky she was to see the faces and emblems of the rebel troops. They welcomed her and comforted her, asking her name and her story. They were her new family now. But she would always remember the words of her grandmother. She would fight on the side of goodness. And she did; from the moment she watched her world end to the moment she held her first lightsaber and forever after that. She was a jedi with a good kind of vengeance, and she would take down the empire that had taken so much from her.