I had made a serious mistake in the use of my lightsabre on our mission. It would be a telltale that would haunt us if I could not cover it up. It would attract too much attention to us. The Empire believed all the Jedi were dead. I had to find a weapon which could leave a similar wound to a lightsabre and leave it in place, and soon. Hopefully drawing suspicion away from the idea that a Jedi was about in the Emperors galaxy. I equipped one of my blades with a high-energy field. This enabled it to still cut, but also leave a cauterized wound channel. I hated to lose one, but could not manufacture a suitable alternative in time to remove suspicion. I chose to leave immediately, going on my own to the same base. There guard would be up and they would likely be alert for anything, but I was travelling alone and knew that I would have an excellent chance with only myself to worry about. Keilla was waiting for me as I left the students. The look in her eyes was furious " What have you done? What are you? ". With a face cold and void of expression I explained I was going to fix the error now. She was not having any of it. " You know exactly what I mean. What ARE you? The students told me how you killed those Imperials. I've not heard of anything like it. Not since the time of the Republic, but then I was just a girl then."" You are better off not knowing." anger in her eyes " Who are you to tell me what is best for me? ". She had a point, a good one. " I'll tell you, but please, not here. The fewer people who know, the better. " Not at all happy with the matter but willing to bide her time she assured me she was willing to listen. " I am a Jedi Knight. I was only a teenager when the Purge began. I sensed it coming and fled to save myself. I have lived until just over a year ago, by myself on Yavins fourth moon. I grew up there and trained myself. I am the only Jedi in the galaxy fighting for the Alliance. All the rest were killed and if the Emperor discovers I exist he will not rest until I am dead as well. " She spent a long time in silent thought. When she finally looked at me again she asked what I planned on doing. I informed her of my plan in covering up the error at the ship facility. I needed to cover my tracks and leave them a false set of clues. " I hope you understand. If not then I can do my best to lead the Empire on a merry chase in another direction. We were far enough away and took plenty of precautions coming back that they shouldn't be able to track us back here, but if such is your wish, I can go and take their interests with me. " With that I stood to leave, only to find her grabbing my arm " Please don't leave. " her eyes on the verge of tears. " I must, I can't let the Emperors attention become focused on this part of the galaxy. It would only be a matter of time before he locked down every planet in the sector in his attempt to find me. " Grasping my arm harder as she said " No, you don't understand. I don't want you to leave. I couldn't bear it if I lost you now. I've grown...accustomed to your presence. " That was when I finally understood her meaning. I had no experience in such matters. I grew up so fast and on my own that there was never opportunity for love and no one to feel it for me or me for them. " I'm sorry, I must do this now. I will return as soon as I can, but this must be done and it must be done soon, before suspicions focus the Emperors attentions in this direction. " I turned to leave, looking back once again, trying to smile for her. Knowing how weak it was even as I did it. The flight back to the shipyard was of no importance. It all was just one series of mechanical movements to get me to my destination. When I arrived in system, there was much more comm traffic as well as ships flying patrols. I tried to focus all my efforts on getting people to look the other way. To not place any special interest on just another shuttle flying around, nothing special, pay it no mind. I was able to get in near to the shipyard. I chose another entrance, farther away. I wanted them to feel that the attacker from earlier had never left. Merely hidden out while biding his time. I'd left no witnesses last time so no one could describe events of the previous assault. I wanted to make this look like another such assault. I did not want them to think on the reason for the attack, merely that there had been another attack. This became more complicated the more I thought on the matter. What could I do to make them look at anything but the hyperdrives? The obvious answer was a more direct form of sabotage. So I had come prepared with charges for destroying some ships on the pads. I chose empty ship shells as being the best choice. Not very well guarded. The primary component necessary for each ship. A simple target. One that the Empire would expect to be hit as easier. Sneaking in proved a little more difficult than last time as the number of guards was far thicker than before. Moving from shadows and from ship to ship, I managed to get farther into the facility, amongst the ship hulls. I began placing charges carefully. I did not want to be discovered to soon. After I finished placing the charges I needed to time an attack on guards with the explosions. It was difficult waiting for the elements to arrive in place. I couldn't believe that yet again I would find myself killing, so soon after wishing I had not. Further evidence that Yoda was right about me. Finally my moment arrived; a squad of Stormtroopers was leading a unit of technicians off shift. I waited until they had walked along side my hiding place then I jumped out to meet them. I tried to keep my attack such that I could leave witnesses sure of what they'd seen, but I couldn't chance them killing me in the attempt. I quickly dispatched over two thirds of them with the blade, it was clear they'd never seen anything like it, I disarmed all but one of the few remaining ones, before 'allowing' him to shoot the blade from my hand. I feigned an injury before taking a blaster and shooting him dead. It was at that moment the explosions began to go off. In the confusion I turned and ran. Hoping that enough of them would survive to spread the lie they'd witness. That they'd just seen some Rebel with a different sort of weapon, nothing special. Yes he killed a lot of our men, but only because he surprised us. This is what I wanted them to say. This is what I needed them to say. This is what I nudged a few of them into thinking. Then I ran as fast as I could to escape before they could capture me. I arranged my departure to be a little sloppier than my arrival. Let them think their security was strong enough. I took some light damage from some TIE fighters, but the shields held and I made my first jump to hyperspace, then followed it with a series of others, each in a different direction, confusing my trail and hopefully losing any pursuers. I waited for half a day after my fifth jump. Just to be certain I wasn't followed. No pursuit came, so I set course for Garqi. When I arrived back Keilla was there to greet me. She came running up to my ship as it landed and came in through the hatch as it opened. Rushing towards me and wrapping her arms around me. " Don't ever do that again. " she whispered.