Lightsaber here I come. You know that cave I was talking about a couple weeks ago? Yeah, it seems I felt it calling because the thing was filled with crystals many of which were imbued with Force energy. It was amazing. It was like they knew I was here and were calling out to me. I fear that if someone not Force Sensitive were to walk into that cave that they wouldn’t see the sights that I saw. Instead I will try to describe them the best I can. It was truly an amazing sight to behold.
I entered that cave with some trepidation having no idea what I would encounter. I had seen some pretty dangerous looking animals in my exploration of the moon and who knows; perhaps it was some type of lure trying to draw me into a nest of something that wanted to have me for dinner… literally. That was not to be the case. I had gone a few hundred meters in heading down a very steep incline. I distinctly remember looking back towards the cave entrance and seeing the smallest pin prick of light. If the compulsion to go forward was not so strong I would have turned back at that moment.
There was no natural light and my data pad really didn’t help much. It seemed that the darkness simply absorbed its light. My shins and toes paid the price for my lack of vision but it was a price well worth being paid. I followed what could only be described as a feeling. It led deeper and deeper into the cave. I was beginning to worry that my data pad battery wouldn’t hold out for the return trip. As it turned out, it didn’t matter. I rounded a corner and there I beheld the most spectacular of light shows.
The room was filled with dancing light. Light was everywhere and in all the colors of the spectrum. Tendrils of light, like smoke, swirled up into the air then diffused against the damp cave walls. The heat was nearly stifling. The crystals themselves pulsated with Force energy which released as the colored tendrils. They appeared nearly ethereal, but I could sense their physical presence as well. The Force granted me vision to see these crystals in a way that no ordinary eyes could see. They seemed to interact with each other and their combined energy was beyond anything I had ever experienced. I wanted to take them all. The Force had another idea though.
As I walked into the room, the tendrils of light intertwined and formed what looked like a corridor leading to a pair of crystals. One, a clear crystal pulsed with white light so bright that I couldn’t look directly at it. The other, whose colored light would spiral around the clear crystal, was the deepest, darkest blue one could possibly imagine. These were the crystals, the ones that chose me. I had no doubt about it. Their energy pulses were synchronized with the beating of my heart. I reached to pluck them from their rocky roots and the heat emanating from them was searing. I couldn’t actually grab the crystals directly. I needed some other means to collect them.
It was then that it dawned on me. The old desert hermit had taught me about levitating items with the power of The Force. It was the perfect idea. The crystals responded with such amazing fluidity. I suspended them in the air in front of me and used their light to navigate my way out of the cave. As I moved further and further from the room, the light from the crystals began to dissipate, until I finally reached the entrance of the cave, where they appeared as just normal crystals. I reached out and found that their temperature had also dropped significantly. I could still feel the power in them though. The energy was concentrated but in no way lacked from the power I felt in the cave.
Something had changed in me while I was in that cave. I could feel the life around me in a way I had never felt it before. I could feel every creature and plant around me. With concentration I could actually focus on specific ones and feel their impulses. It was all around me. I could close my eyes and map out the entirety of the moon with two exceptions. There were two black spots in my visions. These spots seemed to be devoid of any type of energy. It was like my Force vision was blind to those spots. I knew them too. One was the Imperial bunker I had discovered, and the other was what I had thought to be some sort of mercenary encampment.
I must have stood just outside the entrance of that cave for hours just feeling the world around me. I had even forgotten about my desire for a lightsaber. I may have stood there for days were it not for the sound of approaching speeder bikes. I took cover in some nearby bushes and watched as a couple of scout troopers when screaming past me. I am guessing they were on patrol. I don’t know what they expected to find at such high speeds, but it worked out for me. I headed back to my camp. It was time to put these crystals to good use.
I spent a week in the shuttle using the workspace and the secret cache of blasters I found on board. There was lots of trial and error and I went through a number of blasters, stripping them for parts to build my lightsaber. It takes serious concentration to perform precise movements with The Force. Without conventional tools, I had to use The Force to bend and shape metal, hold objects, and wire controls. Admittedly the wiring was my fault. I didn’t connect the wires internally before I closed up the lightsaber. Yeah, real smart, I know. I finally got them to connect. It’s not pretty, that’s for sure, but at least it works, and quite well I might add.
While the lightsaber works well; I am flawed. I really need training with this thing, and preferably in a place without objects to accidentally cut apart. I wonder how many Jedi died during lightsaber training from self-inflicted wounds. Don’t worry I didn’t do any serious damage to myself, only a couple small scars. I did crush my shelter with a tree though. The saber went through the trunk of that tree like it wasn’t even there. With some training, I could probably take out the entire Imperial bunker with that thing. Those mercenaries wouldn’t stand a chance either. I must continue teaching myself once I heal a little. Oh and did I mention that it makes the coolest noises? I just hope its humming doesn't attract any large, carnivorous bugs.
The next things I will work on are my skills with lightning, or more to the point, figure out how I can do it again. My theory is that it will only work when it’s necessary, or at least that’s the only time I can get it to work. I must test that theory.
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