*----- A whole lot of things happened between the previous post and this one, but were lost in the outage, so we're just going to get things caught up and updated.
The Star of Ygarta is currently enroute to the Polith system located in the galactic Inner Rim territories. This system contains the Vratix homeworld, Thyferra, which is also the homeworld of bacta, the medical wonder-drug. Carterius' investigations, however, lead you towards one of the moons of Iqobal, a gas giant located in the fourth planetary ring of the system, boasting 54 separate moons. The recovered video image points at one of these moons, a sparsely-populated mining colony on what is basically an otherwise barren rock in space.
It is still several days flight, due in part to stellar activities and several unstable nebula between Ossus and the Polith system, thus requiring going around these phenomena, rather than a direct course to Polith, and the Padawans, the human Skylar and the Twi'lek Kyrie, are currently in the main hold of the ship with Jedi Master Seyan Carterius, practicing with their lightsabers... -----*
Kyrie growled as her training saber clashed with the support strut extending from the bulkhead of the hold, instead of the sensor suit that Master Carterius was wearing, as she had intended. She spun aside, barely deflecting the swipe of his training saber as he moved to, once again, end this duel before the five minute mark. Hurtling through hyperspace at many times the speed of light as they were, it was for a good reason that none of them, Carterius included, was using a true lightsaber. One errant swipe could rend the hull open to the vacuum of space.
"Try again, Kyrie," Carterius chided, "Follow the Force, let it guide your saber, stop trusting your eyes to tell you where I'm going to move to." Even as he spoke, he meant the lesson for both of the girls, seeming to parry Skylar's opportunistic swipe with little effort, though he, as he'd done with Kyrie, pushed her back away from him with enough force to have her scrambling to keep her footing. Over the past month, both aboard the vessel and at the Jedi Temple on Ossus, their lightsaber training had been steadily advancing, becoming more and more strenuous and intense.
As well, if neither of the Padawans could land a blow on him within 5 minutes, they each had dishes-duty in the galley. Carterius did not intend to be doing dishes tonight.
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