Star Wars: The Expansion

Part 1 – Marketplace

Keely had become accepted among the ranks of the Nexus. Though she followed Raavik Yaan on supply runs, she felt that she was nowhere nearly as important as some of the others. She did not work the gardens, although she did visit them on occasion and the gardeners always treat her like the others that live in the Nexus. The mechanical areas were maintained by a team of engineers and way obsolete droids that were just barely functioning. Everyone in the Library portion of the Nexus was self absorbed into their own research. 

She did manage to talk to one of the four Jedi sentinels. All four were sisters and they all maintained their battle finesse as sentinels. They truly became awake when the sanctity  of the Nexus was threatened. 

She didn’t quite understand what is meant by “fully awake”, for the sister that she talked to seemed to be more awake than any of the others that occupied the Library. There did seem to be a presence that seemed to silence most of the others; for when she tried to garner their attention they looked at her with pale eyes, before returning to what they were doing. She often found herself standing on a balcony that overlooked a majority of the Nexus. She could see a lot. The gardens, the top of engineering, as well as the vast wealth of knowledge and the tenders.

Keely had gotten used to life in the Nexus to say the least. Everyday was usually the same. Wake up. breakfast, morning workout, combat training, lunch, meditation, helping the gardeners, reading a new and different book, dinner, evening combat training, relaxation, sleeping. But ever so often, Raavik would whisk her away to another world. To collect more knowledge, to collect more scholars. Such was her payment to accompany him, the Apostle. 

After lunch, her routine was interrupted by such a request. However, she asked that before they go planetside, that he join her for an evening combat training.

Keely had been training with the Jedi sentinels. Her combat instincts were second to none. Her connection with the force was different from other Jedi, indeed, for she had spent more time in the Nexus and relied upon its power rather than the lightside of the force. Her force was dependent upon the mood of the Nexus and the Apostle.

Within her time in the Nexus, she had spent more time in meditation than any of her time with the Jedi. Within her meditation, she has heard the Voice of the Nexus. She had only once seen the Wraith of the Nexus, but the Voice has consoled her in loneliness.

For in a station full of people, most are lifeless, blind