⸺ ꜱᴛᴀʀ ᴡᴀʀꜱ ᴅʀ - the beginning
Okay this is filled with sw prequels lore...i'll try to make it as digestible as possible so bear with me. Haven't shifted here yet, this is me rambling about what my first days will probably look like.
My journey starts inside the cramped cockpit of a freighter ship bound to Coruscant, I'm on my way back from a solo reconnaissance mission on Oba Diah.
The next day, the Naboo commercial blockade happens (on my one day off from duties, awesome). Obi Wan & Qui Gon are sent there to try and talk some sense into the Trade Federation but it doesn't work, and the little stunt takes a whole new turn when Queen Amidala of Naboo narrowly avoids an attack from an anonymous red lightsaber wielder.
Obi Wan, Qui Gon and Amidala escape the planet and come back to Coruscant. Amidala seeks to speak to the Senate to see if they can help.
Newsflash ! The Senate is filled with a bunch of losers, no backbones in sight, all bitches to corruption womp womp. Amidala's over it and just wants the Trade Federation out of Naboo. Palpatine (a Naboo senator) urges her to call for a vote of no confidence on the current Chancellor so that he is replaced with someone "stronger" and more cutthroat. Rip Valorum, you tried, wasn't enough. Palpatine becomes one of the candidates.
Amidala is at her wit's end with senate politics and insists on going back to her people, who, by the way, are still being held hostage by the Trade Federation.
The Jedi Council is also fed up. Done. Jaded. Hasta el orto. Ras le cul, if you will. The Masters fear that the election of a new Chancellor & the Queen going back to Naboo will widen the confrontation.
Oh right and there's also that red lightsaber fuck running amok too sigh
They take matters into their own hands and hold a meeting to discuss sending reinforcements. Kit Fisto (my former Jedi Master, as I'm already a Jedi Knight by this point) and I are called in. The Council tells us to join forces with Qui Gon and Obi Wan to protect the Queen, free Naboo, and find the attacker.
Little side note : Obi Wan and I have spent our entire childhood trash-talking each other. It was a whole thing.
At first the Jedi Masters thought it was funny because haha look at those tiny little younglings holding each other in a chokehold shit wait obi's getting purple in the face and n'iko has a black eye separate them now. It got ugly sometimes.
We grew up. Matured. We now politely nod at each other in passing, sometimes go as far as engaging in small talk. We're cool now, I guess? Still a bit awkward for some reason. He did congratulate me after my Jedi Trials so that's that.
So yeah, this will be our first "serious" interaction in years. Look, I've got nothing against the guy, but going on a mission with my childhood arch-nemesis isn't exactly on my bingo card.
Anyways, we head to Naboo on a Nubian and land in the forest. We come across JarJar Binks, a Naboo Gungan, and he guides us to his community's hiding spot.
Spoiler alert, the Gungan leader didn't want to help. Didn't give two fucks about what was happening topside (which, fair enough). Amidala somehow manages to negotiate & ally her people with the Gungans to try and defeat the Trade Federation. Mama, kudos to you for saying that, for spilling.
Back topside, shit goes down. I'm not diving into the whole planning of the operation but in short : the Gungans hold off the droid army heading towards the swamps, we destroy the droid control ship orbiting the planet, and we infiltrate the throne room and capture the Trade Federation Viceroy.
Somewhere in the middle, Darth Maul, the mysterious red lightsaber guy, appears. Qui Gon and Obi Wan duel him, Qui Gon is hurt but Obi Wan manages to defeat Maul. During this, Kit and I are on the other side of the Naboo Temple and capture the Viceroy. YAY.
Qui Gon doesn't die. Double YAY.
When everything slowly comes to an end, Padme steps down from her duties and Obi Wan officially becomes a Jedi Knight.
i had to include this one they look like they're about to start reciting bad slam poetry
