Preface and Author's Note:

To my previous readers:

I apologize for halting what had been a rather steady stream of progress. Please allow me to explain . . .

A lot of questions were put to me during the development of the first four chapters, as they appeared in submission, which seriously made me reconsider my presentation of the story. In short, I realized that I wanted to flesh out each particular episode like I would a novel, rounding out events that, before, were simply left un-extrapolated.

Characters that were thrown away in the original incarnation (short as it was) have been re-included to round out the events and to fill in the gaps that were, obviously, too confusing. So, rather than opening with, "so, yeah, all that stuff over there just happened," I re-write to show, rather than imply what went on. Master Fedor is now fully included in the story, rather than simply being a footnote character.

What possessed me to pass over Obi-Wan's initial training as though it were unimportant? I dunno.

I any event, here is the first chapter of my story, going back significantly further than I'd originally intended. I'm afraid that, in order to present it like a novel, the material will move by in a fashion that, compared to other works on this site, is relatively slow, but hopefully with enough richness of action and idea, when they do present themselves, to keep you reading.

All gratitude to those of you who have dared to examine my work so far.

Sincerely,

thebumblingblockhead.