Summary
- "Following the Twelfth Great Jedi War and the Battle for Nancora, Darth Pravus's departure from the Brotherhood left more questions than answers hanging in the air. How would Grand Master Telaris Cantor's reign differ from Pravus' New Order, and how much would remain unchanged? Whatever the answers might be, the War taught us one harsh lesson: the Brotherhood is not as safe or secure as we once believed it. With only six clans remaining, The Collective have shown themselves to be a true threat. Even with their defeat, they do not seem deterred from their pursuit of purging the Brotherhood from the Galaxy. We will not win this fight alone or divided. As my duty as Master Archivist comes to and end, however, the rest of this story will fall to the next Headmaster. May the Force guide us forward into a stronger Brotherhood. "
- ―Farrin Xies, Headmaster Emeritus, 36 ABY
[The Collective] Prologue
Summary:
- A gathering of bureaucrats, nobles, merchants, and dignitaries is being hosted at the Dark Ascent on Arx.
- In private, Grand Master Pravus reveals that he is stepping away from the throne.
- Deputy Grand Master Telaris is told that his time has come. Long may he reign.
- Back at the gathering, the various leadership representatives of the Clans are present: with the exception of Odan Urr.
- Telaris appears where Pravus should be, shocking many of the gathered to different degrees.
- Telaris is the new Grand Master, and he says that in order to reforge the Brotherhood in the face of the threat that is the Collective, the Brotherhood needs to be unified.
- Telaris states that the Council will continue to bolster and support the Clans territories.
- Jac Cotelin has been replaced as Justicar by Dacien Victae diPlagia.
- Selika Roh has become the new Herald.
- Morgan Sorenn has become the new Deputy Grand Master.
- Later: It is revealed that a Collective spy was able to record the exchange and share it with the Collective leadership.
- Ghafa and Daggo argue over their mixed success and failures against the Brotherhood so far.
- Rath quiets them, and admits to not predicting that Pravus would just walk away from everything.
- Rath resolves that this will not stop him from achieving his goals. The Collective will not stop until the Brotherhood is eradicated from the face of the Galaxy.
[The Collective] Chapter 1: Counterpoints
Summary:
- Rath Oligard broadcasts a propaganda message cross all Brotherhood channels, offering a pledge of defiance and issuing a decree that the Collective will not relent until the Jedi are broken.
- On Arx, the Voice and Director of Inquisitorious Operations, Ness’arin Ohnaka discuss Oligard’s new tactics, gleaning the Collective is using the growth of the First Order and the internal conflicts of the Brotherhood to its advantage in order to gain support in Wild Space and the Unknown Regions.
- The Inquisitorious, eager to step out of the shadows and directly engage the Collective, launches Operation Tempered Iron.
- Seemingly one step ahead, the Collective’s Aleena Demolition Squad secretly infiltrates Psi Termina I, Inquisitorious Listener Ship in Wild Space.
- Voice Marick Tyris addresses the Brotherhood, indicating the purpose of the Inquisitorious and its role in the war to come.
- In response, Varryn Antillus – the mastermind behind Capital Enterprises – gives the signal for the Collective to continue its offensive.
- A squadron of spacetugs, led by Bifrost I, piloted by Reiko Minkara of the Liberation Front Partisans launches a successful suicide attack on Psi Termina I.
[The Collective] Chapter 2: Executive Action
Summary:
- In Wild Space, Collective forces continue their suicide attacks on Brotherhood assets.
- Vera Wright, Halcyon Taldrya, and Arx Capital Exchange pilots successfully escort the Portly Dewback on a resupply mission to Mattock Station.
- On Etti IV, in the Corporate Sector, Wyndell Tyris, Kojiro Keibatsu, and Inquisitorious Operators intercept a shipment of capital ship plating from Ghaffa Ordam, gleaning critical information on the location of Collective assets.
- Mimic Team and Wyndel Tyris prepare to execute Phase-Three of the Inquisitorious’ plan.
- On Mattock Station the Board of Arx Capital Exchange and the Dark Council meet under the aegis of CEO Rhent Ghosen to discuss the course of the war and its impact to the Brotherhoods’ economy and infrastructure.
[The Collective] Chapter 3: The Hunt
Summary:
- Voice Marick Tyris discusses the dissatisfactory ACE Board meeting with Regent Evant Taelyan.
- Additional Listener Ships dispatched to replace Psi Termina I while the strength of the AIN is revealed.
- Vance Kordall and Grot, under contract with the Inquisitorious, infiltrate the Lost Caverns of Ulmatra seeking to retrieve an artifact.
- The Shikari Huntresses, led by Kendra Icasta, track Kordall and Grot.
- The Inquisitorious retrieve the artifact as the Shikari Huntresses arrive.
- After a furious assault in the Lost Caverns, Kordall and the artifact are taken by the Shikari Huntresses.
- Grot, beaten but not broken, begins to track Kordall.
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