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Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Wrath
Arx System — Brotherhood Territory
40 ABY

Hundreds of ships filled the space above Arx, coming and going from the planet’s surface, venturing to the ACE Shipyards and to the many ships of the Iron Navy. It was chaos made manifest, full throttle burns to docking, narrowly avoiding collisions because speed was everything. Every ship in the system, Brotherhood owned or not, had been taken in on this endeavor.

Rajhin winced as he watched two light freighters collide in the distance.

“SPEED MEANS NOTHING IF YOU EXPLODE,” he boomed. Every station was occupied, some with multiple people just trying to keep the supply chain functional.

Ciara's holoprojected image bobbed to the rhythm of her run as she oversaw the manufacturing of the crystal purification gas. “Speed is all we have left.”

“More forces are appearing on the planets,” Dacien said.

“Enough of these ships have been outfitted to at least start. We should go,” Rian said, his glistening forehead sparkling oddly in his projected image as the beads of sweat caught distant lights.

“Make the jump. Kill these bastards. Take everything,” Darth Nehalem ordered, malice dripping from his voice.

“More ships will follow,” the Regent said before his image disappeared, returning to organizing the ACE facilities.

Rajhin nodded, and the Wrath jumped to hyperspace.

Read the third chapter of the Fifteenth Great Jedi War and its epilogue here.

Summary

• The rush to complete a counteragent to the Children’s crystals is completed.
• Rahjin leads the Wrath and Iron Navy out to finally support the clans.
• Not willing to risk missed shots, Qyreia takes it upon herself to snipe out enemy assault craft before receiving word that the Iron Navy is inbound.
• Bentre leads a charge against the enemy line utilizing the force to help push them back.
• Zentru’la rides a bucking raptor as the countermeasures remove the Children’s hold on the creature. He then punches it very hard and rapidly.
• The Children’s leaders frantically order a retreat, astonished at their loss of control over the crystals.
• Selika breaths clean air again before destroying some Lightbringer soldiers.
• Alethia lures one of the Children’s monstrosities in to kill its own people, having noticed it too was freed from the Children’s control.
• Thran kills an enemy who was also a big fan of his. He notices the Children portal away from Ragnath.
• Darcy incapacitates enemy forces that were left abandoned in the retreat of the Children.
• The DC breaths a sigh of relief. Due to the clans' efforts in research and containment of the crystals, the invasion against the Brotherhood was countered successfully.
• No lasting effects of the Ascension gas are found. And the purified crystals are now useful for the Brotherhood to craft their own unique powerful inventions.
• Later, the Grand Master practices trying to open portals like the Children did to escape, finding an ethereal plane.
• His focus is broken by an intrusive mental message from his predecessor, Telaris Cantor.
• The Children’s leaders plead their case before the Father, urging the call to begin the unbinding of the Force before it is too late.
• Avitus and Saira arrive, with a small child who is already walking. The child makes a run for the Father.
• The true nature of the Father is revealed, an ancient being, once known as Matthias Westland, is now a fully crystalline skeleton. He appraises the small child as an appropriate “vessel”.
• From the depths of the Cor’neria System, Rath Oligard appears again, watching the conflict between the Brotherhood and the Children.

The Father Revealed

The final piece of the Children’s leadership is now unmasked. With all the speculation and theories on the man behind the curtain, now that we have had a chance to face the might of the Children, it is time to reveal the man himself.

The Father was a mere human known as Matthias Westland born thousands of years ago. Over his lifespan, he became obsessed with the powers of the Force, and the connection of one’s soul to it. In the end, his research led to the creation of the first crystals, his own body. His skeleton was converted into a piece of horrific beauty, granting him a continuous presence in the galaxy all these many years.

While through the years he has had many vessels and clones to reside within, the majority of these eons of existence have been tethered to his crystalline skeleton. During the events of the war, we saw him take control of the Harbinger for a period of time, an easy feat for the Father as the Harbinger is in fact a genetic clone of the Father’s original body. Now he plans to use the rapidly grown child born from the Harbinger and Saira to unbind the Force from its chains, and complete his life’s work.

With that, I hope everyone enjoyed GJW XV: Ascension. We saw some amazing entries this war and massive congratulations to all of the winners! Apologies if I butchered your character in the fiction, I tried.