Author Notes

So I'll be putting up a couple of chapters at a time for this story. There's a lot that could happen in this story. As of yet while I do have a good idea of what will happen I haven't decided on the all captures yet and there's room for your ideas, so do share them as I need ways of ending the Clone Wars. Maybe by some method of exposing Palpatine or something like that.

Level Intensity 4

Star Wars (Clone Wars)

Intensity Level 5 budget due to the Clone Wars taking place. The rules state that active apocalyptic scenarios may raise a world's intensity by one or even two tiers and if the setting has a galactic civil war going on that this can be considered apocalyptic. I didn't raise it by two tiers since the SI now has a ship and so he can escape the fighting if he wishes to.

Credits = 180

15 credits leftover from the last level.

Credits = 195

16 credits for capturing Hermione Granger (Tier 5) 16 credits for capturing Nymphadora Tonks (Tier 5) 8 Credits for Luna Lovegood (Tier 4) so plus 40 Credits.

Budget = 235

Heavenbuilt

Cost: 200 (150)

Run the Built in the Heavens CYOA, ignoring the choice of the origin, all personal perks, and all complications. Otherwise, follow its rules as written. You will start aboard your ship, in the same star system as your starting world, unless you also purchased Sweet Home. Your ship's AI counts as a purchased waifu of Tier 6. Alternatively, you may plug one of your purchased or captured waifus into your ship to make her a pseudo-AI or ship-girl. Doing so will reduce the cost of this perk by the price of a Tier 6 waifu (50 Credits). If you have a multiverse, or time-travel, capable waifu, she'll be able to channel her power through your ship so it can make such journeys too, even if you keep the Heavenbuilt AI as a separate waifu.

Credits =35

Force Affinity

Cost 15 Credits (Basically a Perk to give the player the powers of the Force and the ability to learn Force powers)

Credits =20

Destiny Defense

Cost: 15

You are the master of your fate. You and all waifus, both purchased and captured, are immune to all hostile and neutral remote viewing attempts: precognition, postcognition, scrying, dream visitation, etc. Supernatural observers will only see a world where you and your waifus don't exist. This does not apply to direct naked-eye observation or other mundane (technological) surveillance. You and your waifus are also immune to active fate manipulation, such as Sidereal Astrology or Death Note use, as well as retroactive erasure and all other temporal attacks.

Credits = 5

Martial Affinity

Cost: 5 Credits

You fight. You have a prodigious martial talent and can rapidly learn any personal, non-supernatural combat skills you encounter, whether melee or ranged. This also applies to command ability, not just personal skill.

Credits = 0

Built In The Heavens CYOA

Budget - 100 credits

Primary Systems

Hull Type - functional

Size Type - cruiser

Stardrive - hyperspace (Stargate)

Real Space Drive - impulse (Star Trek)

Power Source - hyperspace tap

Ship Intelligence - Rommie (Andromeda)

Self Repair and Maintenance

Medical

Captain's Captain

Bridge

Passenger Quarters

Shuttlebay

Secondary Systems

Librarium Vault - 2 Credits

98 Credits

Biosphere - 1 Credit

97 Credits

Epicurean - 1 Credit

96 Credits

Cargo Bay - 1

(No option for this so I added one)

95 Credits

Internal Heaven Array - 5 Credits

90 Credits

Maid Deployment - 1 Credit

89 Credits

Backup Core - 5 Credits

84 Credits

Drone Command Array and Bay - 5 Credits

79 Credits

Heavy Drone Array Augment - 5 Credits

74 Credits

Stasis Crypt - 1 Credit

73 Credits

Drive Redendcy (backup hyperdrive of Star Wars make) - 5 credits

68 Credits

Command Core - 2 Credits

66 Credits

Teleportarium - 5 Credits

61 Credits

Manufactory - 5 Credits

56 Credits

Warchive - 1 Credit

55 Credits

Stealth - 5 Credits

50 Credits

Phase Cloak - 5 Credits

44 Credits

Singularity Core - 5 Credits

40 Credits

Biomedical R&D - 5 Credits

35 Credits

Gravity Tractor - 5 Credits

30 Credits

Auspex Battle - 2 Credits

28 Credits

Astrometrics - 5 Credits

23 Credits

Effector Beam - 5 Credits

18 Credits

Grand Hull - 10 Credits

8 Credits

Buster Cannons x1 - 1 Credit

7 Credits

Warhead Launcher x2 - 2 Credits

5 Credits

Blaster Cannons x2 - 2 Credits

3 Credits

Void Shield - 1 Credit

2 Credits

Anti Superliminal Warhead - 2 Credits

0 Credits

I hope my maths worked there. I don't want to have to do that part again.

Waifu

Lara Croft

Velma Dinkle

Isabela

Hoshi Sato

T'Pol

Merrill

Luna Lovegood

Tonks

Hermione Granger

Andromeda (Rommie)

Rule34Economy 4

Star Wars 1

Chancellor's office. Coruscant.

As soon as it happened the man who was working hard on becoming Emperor sensed the sudden change in the galaxy. If the Force could be seen as an ocean, complete with currents and tides, then someone had just dropped a massive boulder into it. Something had happened which had thrown off the course of events in ways he couldn't have ever predicted.

Yet the Dark Lord could not see what it was causing all of this. As he sat in his office, a place from which he wove schemes that affected trillions of lives, he tried to see the present and the future so as to find out what had changed. However, nothing had changed as far as he could tell. The wage raged on as the Jedi weakened and the Sith grew in power, all seemed well to Palpatine.

The Force was in turmoil and he sensed that events were no longer under his control, not that they were as much as he would have liked and as blind as he was to what had brought about the change in the flow of events he knew that it existed, but if it was centred around a person or a place, or even an event, he simply didn't know. He would have to discover the truth.

He would have to rely on finding out what new element had been added to the mix using more mundane efforts such as his many agents, if there was a new player out there then they needed to be dealt with before the thousand-year-long plan to bring about the revenge of the Sith was jeopardised. That could not be allowed to happen. Palpatine would rule the galaxy.

Dooku would need to be informed and if this was something of the Separatists then he would have his apprentice deal with it, and it was something of the Republic then it would be his business to handle. Perhaps to destroy, or it might even be something that the Dark Lord could use. Only time would tell.

As the Chancellor began to look through recent reports for anything odd he wondered if a certain small and green Jedi Master had been able to sense anything. The dark side clouded the vision of the Jedi, but they had not been totally blinded, and if they discovered what it was that had altered the future they might gain an advantage over the Sith, this could not be allowed.

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The Infinity And Beyond. In Orbit of Courscant.

Even Hoshi and T'pol, who'd both served on starships before now, were highly impressed by this vessel, and they should be given the sheer wealth of technology it contained as well as the awesome power of the spacecraft that I now commanded. I truly did command the vessel as while the AI would do most of the actual work along with the automated systems, I sat in the captain's chair, and from this seat, I could control any system within this mighty space ship.

The bridge of this vessel was deep inside the cruiser, which was exactly where I'd put one, and while the walls and floors were dark the control consoles were silvery in colour. There were many colours displayed on the consoles themselves as well the holographic protections that were interactive as were the 2D screens that also displayed information to the crew.

This space didn't look much like a traditional bridge of a starship as there while there was a view screen of sorts it didn't just show an image of space, and there were large screens around the room that displayed a variety of information about the ship and its surroundings. There were even some work stations that faced each other to make communication between bridge officers easier.

It was certainly more of a command centre than a bridge, and that suited me just fine, and even though I'd just arrived I already knew where my waifu would be stationed while they served me on this ship. But before I got to them I had to inform everyone of our backstories so that we all knew who was pretending to be what, and who everyone else was pretending to be. While we all got some new memories to help us play our roles, I felt it best to make sure everyone knew who they were supposed to be, and what they should be doing. Besides, it wasn't as if it would take very long.

"Okay we'll start with me," I said to the waifu "I am Captain Gothic of freelance cruiser The Infinity And Beyond, and I'm guessing that this is a reference to Buzz Lightyear whose catchphrase is To Infinity and Beyond, suitable for a ship that will travel to different dimensions".

Apparently I was the only one here to have seen the Toy Story movie so I moved on.

"I am a failed Jedi Padawan who was dismissed from the Order after failing to become a Jedi Knight," I said next.

From what my new memories told me it was hard to actually leave the Order. Younglings were rarely allowed to leave the temple because of how young they are, and because they needed protection, but this was also partly a way of keeping outside influences away from them. The Jedi Masters believed that children not ready to become Padawan's were too susceptible to their emotions to be allowed to make any choices for themselves, as those emotions clouded their judgement. So therefore unless they have the Council's full agreement that they are not meant to become Jedi, they will remain within the Order, it was very rare for a potential Jedi to be sent back to their family unless they are deemed too old like Anakin Skywalker nearly was.

Padawans were pretty much in the same boat as younglings. They were bound to their masters, and as such, they couldn't simply decide to leave the Order even if they had anywhere, which most wouldn't because by this point they'd missed out on growing up a family and they lacked a more normal education. Anakin Skywalker was again almost an exception to this rule as he'd nearly left the Jedi Order while training under Obi-Wan Kenobi, but at that time he would still have had a mother to go live with

What happened to me was what happened to a quite a few Padawans who Masters decide that becoming a Jedi Knight was not right for the Padawan's future, then the master will allow the Padawan to make a case to the Council. But only at the Council's discretion would they allow this student to leave, if they are not convinced, then the Padawan must continue his training until such time when the Padawan is ready to take the Jedi Trials.

The main reason why that potential Jedi don't easily leave the order is that if they do, then there is no coming back. Leaving the Order is something that the Jedi Council does not take lightly, and if you chose to leave, you won't be allowed to return, although there have been a few times in history, such as with Revan, when this rule was ignored due to the greater needs of the Jedi Order and the galaxy.

Knights and Masters, however, are free to leave if they wish, but only a small number have ever done that, such as Count Dooku. Plus, despite what the Jedi say about attachment, the Jedi do make friends and family in the Order, and therefore do not want to leave their family forever, as it is all they know. During the Clone Wars, Ahsoka Tano got around this not by actually leaving the Order, but by refusing to the rejoin the Order after they kicked her out.

I was different. I'd left the Order because, according to my backstory I was not well suited to becoming a Jedi Knight, and this made sense to me as I'd never have been able to live by their code. As such, I'd never even faced the trails and I'd been given a few options once that became clear to the Masters. Many potential Jedi Knights who failed the Jedi Trials were sent into the Jedi Service Corps via the Council of Reassignment. These Service Corps were formed during the Old Republic era and were divided into four different branches, the: Agricultural Corps. Medical Corps. Educational Corps and Explorational Corps.

To join these corps was considered an honourable alternative to leaving the Order, and the existence of the Corps was supposed to prevent these "rejected" Jedi from taking to the Dark Side. Jedi who failed the trials were free to leave the Jedi Order, but they were very strongly encouraged to join the Service Corps.

I had simply left the Jedi Order, not wanting to be a farmer or a healer, or even a temple guard which was an option I'd been offered, and while the Masters disapproved greatly they couldn't actually have stopped me from leaving, and even if you never gain the power of a full Jedi Knight and are only averagely strong in the Force you can still make quite a bit of money using your Force powers in ways that were totally legal.

The only real downside to this background story for this level, other than not having a complete education in using the Force, and this could be fixed by finding a holocron or a teacher who was outside the Order, was the since I'd left the Order I'd had to surrender my Lightsaber, and since I really wanted to own a Lightsaber I was going to have to find a suitable crystal, then build a new one, which wasn't going to easy as finding the right kind of crystal would not be a simple task.

Before moving on to my waifu I opened up myself to the Force, and while I could remember doing so before, this time it was real rather than just a memory, and it was as if until now a veil that had been covering every one of my senses until it was suddenly pulled away. I truly saw, heard, and felt for the first time in my life. My senses went into a sort overdrive and I was lost for a time somewhere else until I brought myself back to the physical world. At least mostly.

As my mind seemed to expand well beyond my body, I could feel how out of balance the Force was, the Clone Wars and the growing power of the Sith had brought about a galaxy in which the darkness was greater than the light. I would have to be careful to resist the pull of the dark side far more than I would need to concern myself with the pull to the light, both of which were corrupting in my view, only in different ways. The Light Side was somehow muted as if there was a veil made of living shadows thrown over it. The Dark Side, on the other hand, was not limited, if anything its power was out of control.

"Master are you okay?" someone asked.

Rather than reply to that I got going with the business of making sure everyone knew who they were and what they'd be doing during this level.

"Lara you are a bounty hunter who specialised in recovering stolen property until you joined me," I told the tomb raider who looked a lot Aurra Sing only in a dark blue outfit and she was still human "You'll control the weapon's system and take care of our warchive, which seems to be some sort of fancy armoury".

I'd have to check that out later.

"We don't have much in the way of weapons" she commented.

I hadn't had many credits left by the time I'd gotten to the weapons selections.

"Anything we can't take on in a fight we can run or hide from," I told her "Plus the ship has a feature that allows it to grow over time, and we have manufacturing capabilities on board so we can build weapons from the settings we visit and add them to the ship as it grows".

I'd been more concerned about defence and keeping the ship as self-sufficient as possible while setting this up so its offensive systems hadn't been given up attention.

"Velma you'll be down is Astrometrics and you'll serve as our navigator" I informed everyone who was listening.

This role would require someone of high intelligence and so it suited Miss Dinkle well.

"Isabela you are our pilot," I told everyone

If nothing else it would make a nice change from what she'd been doing for the last couple of levels. Besides she had some experience in this having taken the helm of a ship before. Granted that would have been a wooden sailing vessel, but it made sense considering how the game worked.

"T'Pol your our science officer" I informed the waifu "no surprises there, and you're from the Unknown Regions so you don't have to be anything other than a Vulcan".

Even looking at her made it clear that she was herself again as her outfit had changed back to what she'd worn while serving on the Enterprise.

"I'll take my post" was all she had to say on the matter.

Next, I looked over at Hoshi.

"You'll handle the communications and our electronic warfare systems," I said.

I'd invested heavily in ways to avoid getting shot at. I'd not only selected the option for electronic countermeasures so as to make it hard for any hostiles to get a target lock on my vessels, but I'd also paid game credits for the ship to have some sort of stealth tech and a phase cloak, and while this might seem like too much sour objective for this level was to survive the Clone Wars. As such the ability to avoid getting blown up along with the ship was very important to me.

"Yes, Captain" was all Hoshi had to say on the matter.

Miss Sato was now wearing a jumpsuit very much like the one she'd worn while serving on the NX Enterprise only it lacked any rank or any indication of what ship she served on.

"Merrill you are the environmental science officer" I mentioned, "Which is a fancy way of saying that you look after the life support systems and the biodome which should be a forest with some room in it for you grow the plants we can use for potions".

The happy-looking elf, who in this setting was also from a world from within the Unknown Regions, went over to her station and began checking out the readouts from the biodome. Her backstory was that like T'pol I'd picked up her to serve as crew while on a planet outside of what Republic types would consider the known galaxy.

"Tonks" I was now saying "You're our security officer. You'll lead the bioroids against intruders, and on any missions too".

Before I keep going Hermoine spoke up.

"What exactly is a bioroid?" she asked, "My new memories don't fully explain it".

Not surprising since it was hard to understand the idea.

"Bioroids are manufactured people" I explained "Not like clones as they aren't copies of people, and while they can be cybernetic, they can also be fully organic, the ones on this ship are linked together and under the control of the ship's AI, who I will soon introduce, and we have a biomedical R&D that can make more. I plan to use that and the stasis crypt to keep a small army on board, in case if we need some troops".

I might also take some time to figure out how to make my own Terminator, a more independent gynoid with organic parts that could run errands for me that the waifu might find distasteful. But that would have to wait until I acquire that science perk I'd read out about as I lacked the expertise for such things.

"So I'm still in law enforcement," Tonks said when we got back to her "or some version of it".

Well, it was more than that.

"You'll get to visit plants with us and don't forget the perks" I reminded her "You all share in my perks so you have eternal youth, the ability to learn new kinds of magic, the power to shield your mind and I got a new perk for this level that keeps us off the radar of anyone who would mess with our fate, or try to spy on us with supernatural means, that should stop the Sith from sensing us even if they can still come after us directly, but that's why we need a security force, and I picked up a perk that should help with that as well. One that will let us all learn fighting skills quickly".

Tonks even looked like a security guard, she was wearing some sort of light armour and had a blaster on her hip.

"Okay, who is next," I said.

Hermoine didn't appear to be anything special. She just wore what I guessed to be some sort of civilian clothes.

"You're our researcher and will be posted in our library/museum," I said, after reading out what my smartphone had to say about her role here "So you'll be looking after not only our books but also any one of a kind artefacts we pick up".

Hermoine looked pleased with that, so I looked over Luna Lovegood and she looked like a Nightsister of Dathomir.

"You're a renegade Nightsister who fled her homeworld because you refused to perform a dark magic ritual" I readout.

The Nightsisters, also known as the Witches of Dathomir, were a clan and order of magick-wielding females who lived on Dathomir, a planet bathed in dark energies. These Dark side users were able to perform their arcane magicks by tapping into the magical ichor that flowed from the depths of their planet.

"Why is she still a witch and gets new magic, while I am a bloody security guard?" complained Tonks.

I knew why.

"One of the first perks I selected allows to me to blend in with the settings I chose for each level" I answered, "and you share my perks so the game does its best to account for both while giving you roles that shouldn't be too different from what you used to do. Since Luna's two fields of expertise are magic and magical creatures, and we don't have any magical creatures she could only be a witch. It also makes sense as your suppose to share my affinity for the Force and the magic in this setting is as an aspect of the Force, at least as far as I now. I doubt most people in this galaxy could tell the difference, and they likely think the Force is magical".

The Force is not the same thing as magic. I understood that and any experienced Jedi or Sith would too so we'd have to be careful about using magic if we were around any Force Users.

"I only know a little about the Nightsisters and their spells," Luna told everyone "and I'll share what I know".

Merrill spoke next.

"I've already started sharing what I know, and I'll give people lessons on magic if you have the time" she offered.

We'd all been busier than expected during the last level, what with our jobs, and trying to gather as many materials from the wizarding world as possible.

"If we can pick up fighting skills fast then I should be able to train everyone in forms of self-defence" offered Lara.

T'Pol also offered to the same.

"Last but not least we have my newest Waifu the AI Andromeda, who will actually be running most of the ship and can take over for any of us if we're busy elsewhere," I said while gesturing at the female figure on the screen "She controls the bioroids that make up the crew and any that we'll use as soldiers".

While I was thinking of making a special bioroid to serve me closely the rest of them would never become sentient lifeforms I wanted to keep them all as extensions of Rommie and keep them connected to her via subspace communications, but with the ability to work on their own if they had to as part of a group mind. Somewhat like the battle droids of the Separatists, only much nicer to look at.

"I have a physical avatar as well," Andromeda told everyone.

A human-looking android stepped on to the bridge. She wore no clothes and the AI on the screen was only showing her head and neck, so she might also lack any clothing. Perhaps this had something to do with Andromeda, this version of her, not being a Commonwealth officer.

"Oh you're naked," remarked Luna, who was only wearing some red coloured robes, "Can I get naked?".

Most of the people here did their best to ignore the nudity.

"I'll go find some clothes," said the avatar "I don't have a sense of modesty, but I seem to be a distraction".

Until the door closed I'd been too busy checking her out to really care what she had to say. Once the naked robot lady was gone I was able to focus once again.

"How long will we be here for?" Velma questioned.

I went over the data.

"Well our objective is to survive the Clone Wars" I replied "and as we're a freelance cruiser working for whoever can pay us, we could end up doing missions for both sides until the war is over. Since our first mission is transport supplies to the Clone Army on Christophsis, and we are transporting a Jedi Padawan as well who goes by the name of Ahsoka Tano so that would make this...".

Andromeda interrupted me if only to help.

"I can't get an exact time," she told us "But I can tell you that Order 66, which signals the end of the war will take place in roughly 2 and a half years, assuming nothing happens to alter the timeline the Sith have in place".

That sounded like a long time, but we had a whole galaxy to explore so really it wasn't long enough, and if I did something to screw up the plans of the Sith that caused the war to drag on or end sooner then it could change the time. Something that I explained to my waifu.

"What do we know about the warzone we will be flying into?" T'pol asked.

Since she wasn't bothered by the news that we could be spending more than a couple of years in this galaxy the Vulcan babe had already started thinking about our first mission.

"The Battle of Christophsis was an event that took place during the early part of the Clone Wars" the Andromada on the screen began to tell us "It started after a CIS battle fleet tried to take over the planet so that they could lay claim to its vital resources that would benefit the war effort of whatever side possessed them".

That sounded like a sound move by the CIS to me.

"When the natives sent a distress signal to the Republic, the Jedi Order dispatched Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi to Christophsis with two battalions of clone troopers to help the people of the planet. During this event, a battle in space resulted in the destruction of Admiral Trench's ship even though he escaped".

While her knowledge impressed me I had to wonder where it came from so I asked about that.

"As an AI waifu, I can link directly to your smartphone and help you make uses of its services," she told me

Yes, there was a rule about Cortana from Halo plugging into the device, this must mean that other AI waifu can do the same, or something similar.

"While connected to the smart device I have access to its data," the 2D image of the AI told me "The first mission for this ship was decided by the game so we won't have this level of information for any future missions, but if we connect me to the holonet, I should be able to use to find anything you need".

I turned to Hoshi.

"See if you can get us linked up" I ordered "We might need some special equipment for it if we do find out who's paying us for the job and ask for the equipment as part of the payment. The bioroids should be able to install it".

Hoshi with Andromeda's help should easily be able to handle that, and there was no point having waifu if they couldn't handle some of the work for you. Well not if you wanted anything more than sex slaves.

"Ahsoka Tano is a high-value capture" the AI was now telling me "But she'd not available yet since she isn't above the age of maturity yet and hasn't reached adulthood".

This confused me as there had been plenty of girls at Hogwarts who would have turned 17, the age of maturity in the Wizarding World, while I was teaching.

"So I can't lure her?" I asked.

The AI displayed some data on the screen.

"According to the fine print, you can use non-sexual lures on capture that hasn't yet matured" Rommie let me know, proving once again that having an AI was very useful in these sort of situations "So in your case, you could provide a meal that will make her want to keep eating your cooking, and then use a sexual lure much later".

I was somewhat surprised to discover that Ahsoka Tano would become an adult during the next two and half years as she seemed so young at the start of the Clone Wars, but she wasn't human, her species might mature faster once they reached puberty, so I should do as the AI suggested and just make her a nice meal while she was on board, and do nothing else. Anything sexual would not only be illegal it wouldn't be possible as I just wouldn't be attracted to her.

"My biggest priority is making myself a lightsabre," I said to anyone who was listening.

It wasn't actually illegal to own a lightsaber if you were outside of the Jedi Order, although it was illegal to be a member of the Sith Order according to Republic law, it was just that getting your hands on such a weapon legally was a lot of trouble if you weren't a Jedi so that was why you didn't see them very often outside of the hands of the Jedi. There were a few reasons for this.

They required crystals found on planets only the Jedi can normally access. The blueprints required to make them are guarded secrets of the Jedi/Sith orders, and they required the Force to create. Also, the Jedi/Sith are very protective of their weapons, and would not give them away. Besides all that, they are extremely difficult to wield without training and you need the Force to use them to deflect blaster bolts or duel another Force User.

There were some exceptions to that last one such as General Grievous, and a few Mandolorian warriors could use a lightsaber somewhat effectively, but they were oddities. I could use a lightsaber and it was unlikely that the sabre I would have owned in the past as part of my background story had been destroyed, but the Jedi were equally unlikely to return it to me. Not unless I did something to earn it back in their eyes.

"Can we all learn how to use one?" Isabela asked.

Her background must have given her at least an idea of what lightsabers could do as most people in this galaxy would know a lightsaber if they saw one. Not that they'd be able to use one safely.

"I can train you in the basics," I told her "I even know how to make them, and most of the parts for a sabre aren't that hard to find, but without the right kind of crystal it would be pointless to try".

Kyber crystals were Force-attuned crystals that were rare but could be found a few places in this galaxy, with some areas having a greater abundance than others. The crystals concentrated energy in a unique manner through the Force, resonating with the energy of life. This was possible because kyber crystals were composed of both organic and inorganic matter, meaning in some sense they were living creatures. Yet while they were alive and could be used to direct energy, they did not generate heat as an animal could, nor did they absorb water or take in oxygen.

They were still crystals and strong ones at that that so they were impervious to normal fire and resistant to any efforts to shatter them. Kyber crystals were even sturdy enough to survive the violent explosion of a lightsaber's power grid, such as those caused by accidentally inverting the emitter matrix during the weapon's assembly. However, they could be destroyed with enough effort.

Kyber crystals were most notably found in Ilum's Crystal Cave. They were a critical component in the construction of lightsabers, focusing energy into the weapon's distinct plasma blade. The crystals have shared a special relationship with the Jedi for tens of thousands of years.

Just as I remembered doing, Jedi younglings travelled to the ice caves on Illum so as to harvest their own crystals, which they then used to build their lightsabers. The Force guided their selection, finding a crystal that matched them as Jedi. For those not meant to receive it, the crystal was cold to the touch, but those the crystal chose would hear its "music" and "harmony," becoming attracted to it.

The crystals found in the caves were naturally colourless until were chosen by a Jedi. Once chosen, most lightsabers became blue or green, though other shades were created in some instances, most notably Mace Windu's purple blade, the yellow blades of the Jedi Temple Guards, the black Darksaber, and possible others. Given how limited the Jedi who served the Order were these days, it would be rare to find one of their crystals that wasn't green or blue.

Kyber crystals were inherently attuned to the light side of the Force and resisted any effort by dark-side practitioners to use them in lightsabers. To this end, a Sith or other dark-sider could use a kyber crystal only by using the Force to dominate the crystal, bending it to their will. This process caused the crystal to "bleed," as if it were truly living organisms, resulting in the distinctive red or crimson-bladed lightsabers synonymous with the Sith.

It was possible to "heal" a corrupted kyber crystal. The only known instance of purifying a corrupted kyber crystal was when Ahsoka Tano purified the two crystals she retrieved from the Sixth Brother's lightsaber following his defeat. In this case, the crystals turned white. In theory, I could do the same, but I'd have to find an intact Sith lightsaber somewhere in the galaxy. I'd be better off trying to find a kyber crystal somewhere else in the galaxy as Illum was simply the world where they existed naturally in great numbers.

"There are records of kyber crystals on Christophsis" Andromeda told me "I'm attempting to find records on the crystals, but they aren't available to the public, and the planet is a warzone it might be wise to look elsewhere. I'll keep searching for more information on the holonet".

The Jedi tried to limit information on such things so that people outside their Order wouldn't try to make lightsabers or come up with a way to effectively counter them.

"We'll have to deal with that later" stated Hoshi "We have a Jedi shuttle asking to dock. As planned we're supposed to take on a Jedi Padawan and detachment of clones before we meet with the rest of the fleet that's going to try to resupply the Republic forces on Christophsis".

Right, I needed to make some credits first, and then I could worry about creating a new lightsaber.

"Ladies please remember to call me Captain" I ordered "Seal off all parts of the ship other than the passenger quarters, the cargo bay, the shuttle bay, and any parts of the ships our guests will need access to. I want all the stuff the locals don't need to know about to be secured as much as possible".

Time for me to go meet the most adorable Padawan in the galaxy.