Heart of a Jedi

• Session GM: RKM
• Session Date: 31/07/2025

Session Summary

• The Order received reports of a rogue figure with a lightsaber solving crimes and battling evildoers, primarily the Pyke Syndicate, in the Outer Rim.  The group redirected after completing another mission to the isolated, former mining colony of Kolca II, where the last reported sighting of this supposed wayward Jedi led them.  Their goal is to establish contact, but early on Atyuna notes the danger of the Pykes and that reinforcements may be needed for their mysterious comrade-in-arms.
• Landing on the outskirts of the sole settlement of this tiny planet, they are able to establish themselves as Jedi to the locals, who confirm a mysterious Jedi with a lightsaber and the ability to move objects was here and defended them from the Pykes.  The group is able to earn their trust and receive directions to a nearby cave.

• After poking around within, they are confronted by the renegade - and it turns out to be a droid!  The personal droid of a surviving Jedi, Terek Yulon.  AL-3KS, or Alex as he’s known, has been programmed to serve as a training droid to keep Terek’s skills sharp, while serving as something of a student of his and learning of the code of the Jedi.  With Master Yulon passing on, he decided to uphold his legacy and do the work of Jedi.
• Reactions to this are mixed.  Ever excitable mechanic Vels is elated, Atyuna is open-minded, Riordan is annoyed that they found a droid when they went looking for a Jedi, Ijo has well-intentioned doubts about Alex’s suitability for the role, and Reyko is mostly just confused.  Mild disagreements ensure.  They discover Alex has a holocron he’s been keeping, and invite him back to the Temple.
  
• Outside, however, they are ambushed by a group of Pykes - who were expecting one Jedi, not six.  In the fight that follows Alex shows that he is quite capable of mimicking a Jedi’s capabilities, between his flexible limbs and repulsor-emitters capable of moving objects.  During the fight, Ijo and Vels are both hit by a strange grenade that kicks up clouds of spice dust - Vels is unable to overpower the effects, and his connection to the Force is temporarily deadened.  Regardless, the fight won, they proceed back to town…
  …where they encounter none other than Cad Bane, who quickly damages Alex and has him at gunpoint.  He intimidates the group, but Vels refuses to abandon Alex, and Riordan refuses to let the Duro browbeat them.  After shooting the droid, another squad of Pykes arrive, and a desperate struggle occurs.
  
• Vels and Riordan both charge for Cad Bane, but aren’t able to catch him.  Riordan tanks like twenty knife wounds, Reyko snipes the holocron off the bounty hunter’s belt, and Vels, after having leapt after him but failing to catch him, scoops it up.  Even though the biggest threat ditches, the fight is too close to call, so Ijo calls for a tactical retreat and the Jedi return to their ship - where they’re just barely able, between Atyuna and Vels, to restore a semblance of power to Alex’s core.
  
• Back at the temple, Luke repairs Alex in full, and the droid is able to hear his master’s last words to him on the holocron, agreeing to join the Service Corps.