Many, many years ago (maybe in 2000), I joined a forum that was a story telling forum. Of course it was Star Wars based. Well, I found my intro for the character I was going to use, Gali Ilag. I thought I would post it here for fun along with my drawing of Gali. If I ever find the rest of the story that I participated in I will post them too...
Just so you know how this works... basically you see what somebody wrote and then you continue the story from your characters view point. Its allot of fun actually.
Gali Ilag blinked twice. Once to awaken from his meditation and again in hopes of clearing a horrible vision from his mind. This vision, this dream was of the future. It contained the unthinkable for any Ithorian, not just Gali. The vision shown to him was a nightmarish vision of the ruin of Ithor and the Mother Jungle.
Gali may have been able to ignore this nightmare had he not been a Jedi Knight on the verge of entering his mastery of the Force. “The future is always in motion.” He recalled his Master Todan Nadi telling him. This was one future that Gali wanted to be ready for although he had not the knowledge of when this would take place or if he would be alive to see it.
To his left, a monitor flickered on with a soft buzz. Gali turned to see the gaseous planet of Yavin on the screen. He adjusted his navigation controls and headed for the fourth moon of Yavin and the reason for this journey from his home world. This moon held the ancient secrets of the Sith Lords and more recently the base were the Rebellion made its first major blow against the Empire.
Now this moon or something on it called to Gali through the Force. Once before he had this kind of calling and it had called him down from the great Heard Ship to the sacred Mother Jungle and lead him to Master Nadi. Gali had trained in secret with the Ithorian Jedi Master to avoid detection by the Emperor and Lord Vader. As an apprentice he trained in the ways of the physical combat and light saber skills. When Master Nadi bestowed upon him the title of Jedi Knight, Gali, followed in his masters footsteps and discontinued the use of the light saber and became a master of battle meditation among other control, alter and sense powers.
Gali saw Yavin 4 come into his view screen and set his landing coordinates for the ancient temple that had housed the rebellion so almost a decade ago. Upon telling Master Nadi of this calling through the Force, he urged Gali to go. “Your destiny awaits.” Nadi, said. “The time has come for you to construct your own light saber. Go now and study the ancient weapon and when the time comes the Force will guide you through your weapons construction.” Nadi continued “Then…you too will become a Jedi Master.”
Gali landed his craft, Life. Walked out into the warm humid air. His forest green Jedi robes differed from traditional robes only in that they include a family crest and story embroidered around the edge of the outer cloak. With his ship secured, supply bag on his back and walking stick in hand Gali Ilag, Jedi Knight, set out to fulfill his destiny.
Name: Gali Ilag
Species: Ithorian – Deep brown skin tone with green eyes. Average height.
Jedi Knight with his main powers being in battle meditation and other defensive control, alter and sense skills. He has no light saber at this time(read bio to find out why)
His ship is named “Life” and can seat 4 people in the cockpit and has 2 sleeper rooms, a small galley and a cargo/seating area. It has one gun turret on top. Light speed and average shields.
Gali awoke with a start. A sense of dread hung over him. He immediately closed his slit like eyes and pushed out through the force to check his surroundings…he tapped into the trees to further his reach. Nothing but harmless animals and insects around him. The nightmare had visited him again.
Gali gathered up his temporary camp and sat on a nearby mossy log. Out of a pocket beneath his robes he pulled a small disk-like device. He moved his long fingers over the control panel and a holographic image of a grove of trees popped up. These same Bafforr trees were the same trees that called out in agony to Gali from his nightmares. Gali shunted out this vision now and used the trees of his home world as a focal point for his meditation.
After an hour he came out of his meditation refreshed and ready to finish his journey through the moons jungle. A journey that would lead to…”What is calling to me from this place?” he thought. His answer would come soon enough.
A break in the overgrowth revealed a small ancient stone structure. There was an opening facing Gali. The whole structure did not take up much more area than a yt-3000 freighter, nothing at all like the great temples that rose above the treetops of Yavin 4.
Gali did not need to extend his senses to know that this was the source of his calling. Raising his hand in the direction of the structure he used the Force to probe the dwelling for inhabitants but found none. He thought to himself,” why does a structure call out to me?” For that matter how, ”Does it contain something that calls out to me”
He approached the opening. From there he noticed that he could see clear through the front room to what appeared to be a second room and out the back passage way. As he entered the first room he noted several stone like slabs long enough for an average humanoid to lie on. The room was lit from openings along the top of the wall letting the natural light filter in. “An empty building?” Gali whispered out of one of his mouths running along his neck. His thoughts raced “Why has the Force guided me to an empty building?”
He moved to the next room and found much more. Many stone work tables and benches took up this room and along the walls were book shelves. Half of the books , he noted, had been pulled out and were on the tables but dust covered them. A calm came over Gali as he recognized his reason from being here…this is where he would begin his studies of the ancient Jedi weapon, the lightsaber.
The woolamanders chatter grew to a crescendo as they neared the back courtyard where the Jedi Knight Gali Ilag was deep in study. He turned his long neck toward the sloth-like creatures only when they began to pelt him with small sticks from high in the Massassi trees. Momentarily they stopped their “attack” but continued to chatter at Gali, this he could ignore. He turned back to the ancient books and was immediately hit by some fruit thrown by the bothersome creatures. With out a thought Gali motioned with his right hand and the pelting stopped again, but this time the creatures moved on. “The Force plays easily with simple minds.” Gali thought to himself. Through the Force Gali had suggested that he was gone and that there were much better tasting fruits further down the jungle. Woolamanders gone, Gali returned to his studies.
Gali studied many books on the Jedi/Lightsaber relationships. Writings by padawan and Jedi Knights
