SWTOR Character Tales: Ragdat's Return to the Republic-Jedi Under Siege

Welcome back, my beautiful freaks, to Sean's Workshop! It's time to continue the story of Ragdat in the new incarnation, Ragdat's Return to the Republic!

Ragdat had just finished his meditations when he received a call in the war room. It turned out to be Krex General Ardinondu Dipolus Daeruun of the Republic army. General Daeruun wanted to talk to Ragdat about the Jedi, and how the Republic needed them, and Ragdat assured him that the Alliance would always be there for the people.  Daeruun thanked Ragdat, and mentioned that there was a colony of Jedi on the former library world of Ossus, and asked Ragdat to assist them in their evacuations.

Ragdat took a shuttle to Ossus and was immediately met by two faces he recognized; Nadia Grell, now full Knight of the Order, and his old friend Doc Kimble.  Doc, so happy to see whom he perceived to be the greatest Jedi warrior ever, told everyone that they should call the evacuation off, but Nadia and Gnost-Dural, former keeper of the Jedi archives, still stressed the need to evacuate. After a brief moment to catch up with Doc, who told Ragdat that he didn't know where Kira was, Ragdat was met by a familiar looking dark skinned human, though he couldn't place from where. The human was Tau Idair, another powerful Jedi warrior, who unfortunately felt that her prowess in battle made her a less than stellar Jedi.

Gnost-Dural had Ragdat and Tau go out into the mountains and close off some passages to prevent genetically modified geonosians from hampering their escape. And it was during this that Tau revealed why she looked familiar to Ragdat; during the previous war, she had served in Ragdat's Jedi Army on Corellia. She was likely still a Padawan at the time and her first battle left her mentally traumatized; a Sith jumped aboard her transport and slew her companions in quick succession with his two lightsabers. Tau killed the Sith in brutal fashion, using her bare hands to beat him when he turned on the pilot, then pushing him out of the ship with his grenade in his mouth.

Ragdat had never considered how battle could traumatize another person; for him, battle was a natural part of life. All life needed conflict to grow, though not all conflict required pain or even death.  And even then, death was part of the Force, so Ragdat had accepted his life as a necessary one, though not without enjoyment. But the idea of battle being something to be feared, that could scar a person emotionally? It was a strange concept.

During the mission to evacuate the Jedi, Ragdat discovered how they had managed to create viable farms on a world as toxic as Ossus. Ossus had been devastated by the Cron Supernova a little over 300 years earlier, and that data could help the Republic create more efficient farms on many other member worlds. He and Tau aided Nadia in protecting a droid trying to download the information, and Nadia returned to the colony to finish the evacuation.

Eventually, they made it to the Library, which was full of Imperials. Fighting their way through them, they found a heavily injured Gnost-Dural and a crazed Sith woman ranting about the mess made of the library. After the battle, the Sith, Darth Malora, revealed that Darth Malgus still lived, a fact that Ragdat balked at; Malgus was dead. Adaso killed him in the battle of Ilum. Malora mocked Ragdat, saying that the death didn't take, only for the sound of fighters and bombers to scream outside them.  Luckily, Daeruun managed to deploy fighters onto the scene, saving the colony and sending Malgus' shuttle to the ground.

After capturing Malora, Ragdat and Tau returned to the colony to find that Doc had treated Gnost-Dural and Daeruun had landed to take control of the situation. The colony would still be evacuated, and a small contingent would be left behind to ensure that the Imperials couldn't get anything from the computers, but that was it.  Tau announced that the Jedi would be rejoining the Republic, and Doc chose to join Ragdat's Alliance.

Once on Odessen, Ragdat talked to Doc to find out what he'd been up to; he followed Kira and Scourge for a while before they got separated. And that was when he heard about the Ossus colony needed a doctor, and Doc got right into things.

Before parting ways, Doc promised that he'd keep an ear out for Kira, and Ragdat returned to his duties to the Republic and the Alliance.

I know, why stop here when Kira has returned with Onslaught? Simple; I don't want to spoil the story for anyone who has yet to complete it. I'll get to it soon, I promise, but for now, stay beautiful freaks!