Thread: (Star Wars: Crucible of Shadows) Ep 1. Ch. 1

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Star Wars Crucible of Shadows Episode 1 Strange Hybrid Flowers Nearly two centuries after the battle of Yavin, the Galaxy stands divided between the free and proud people of the Galactic Alliancesuccessor to the new Republicand the Empire. Though the two interstellar nations are officially enemies, tensions slowly decline between them. This is largely the result of Emperor Ronan Fel's progressive and reformationist policies, phasing slavery out of the Empire and offering full citizenship to non-humans. The Jedi Order persuades the Yuuzhan Vongdescendents of a species of invaders from a foreign galaxyinto an attempt at reconciliation with the Galactic Alliance. As a gesture of restitution, a group of Yuuzhan Vong biotech masters known as Shapers undertake a great project to restore a planet ravaged by their own weapons a century agowith promises to do the same to many other worlds in return for membership in the Alliance. Through unknown methods, a mysterious saboteur corrupts the living tools that were released to rebuild the planet, created instead a horrific mutagenic plague that twisted the world's surviving life into tortured monsters. Before the Vong could discover the source of the mutation, the Galactic Alliance struck against them, driving them into hiding. For their association with the Vong, the Alliance withdrew their support to the Jedi order. Before the Jedi can begin to make political amends, a great fleet of Darksiders supported by Imperial forces dropped out of hyperspace and assailed the Jedi temple. Tens of thousands were slain, and what few survived were hounded throughout the galaxy. The Sith had returned. Even in times dark as these, some remember that it is the dedication and heroism of the individual that can change the world. Guided by the Force, Seska Kreea Jedi master in hidinggathers small cabals of powerful operatives to oppose the One Sith. She searches for the scattered Jedi to bring them together. She seeks the hidden fleets of the Galactic alliance and the exiled Emperor. Now Seska Kree gathers some of her more powerful operatives on board the star ship Crimson Falcon, a medical freighter equipped for blockade running and other combat zone operations. I want you all to deliver these medical supplies to planet Donovan V. The people there are suffering badly from poisons and radiation that have seeped into their soil since the wars in the Palpatine Era. Protect yourself with the Rad Tabs the Ithorians will provide you while you are there. Distribute the medicines we have sent... In a space dock on an Ithorian herd ship, on board the Crimson Falcon, Melaara waited for cargo droids to arrive with crates upon crates of medical relief supplies. She expected both her ship and Elysium--which was to be joining them--to be packed to bursting. Their Ithorian patron had promised analgesics, antibiotics, several thousand units of bacta, several million rad-tabs, water purification tabs, antivenoms, and highly concentrated vitamins to aid in the recovery of malnourished humanoids of the primary sorts believed to inhabit Donovan Five. Melaara knewhoweverthat their mission extended beyond delivering relief supplies to a world that had been devastated by war repeatedly since the Palpatine Eraa world where over half the land was either poisoned or irradiated by weapons of mass destruction. Seska Kree's enigmatic messagedelivered to her, at least, by a seemingly random droidasked that they make this possible. The sapphire skinned Jedi master had also said Distribute the medicines we have sent, but take care. The shadow of the Dark Side lies over this planet. It clouds my vision and I cannot get clear view of what threats might await you there. I want you to be my eyes, to see for me what dark things the Sith may be doing here. I want you to be my scalpel and lance this boil of profane puss. Oh, and while you're there, plant a flower garden. The others will help you. The messages the others will have received said, And while you're there, I want you to plant a flower garden. The captain of Crimson Falcon is Melaara. She's a Codru'ji, and she is six months pregnant. Melaara will know what I mean about the garden, and she will know that I sent you by learning I asked this of you. Melaara To Melaara, the garden could only mean one thing, though she didn't really know what that one thing meant. When she'd received this ship from her felinoid teacher, the smugglers hold was already full of rust red flower bulbs. The droid on board had instructed her they were to be kept out of direct light until the time came to plant hem.