A Forbidden Love - Synth Saturnlee & Reven Krell
Synth Saturnlee was one of the best and brightest. Her energy shone pure, her soul true, and her life was dedicated to the Guardians and the Lightforce. She believed wholeheartedly in this mission, and somebody like her had never been seen before, and probably never would again. She was one of a kind.
But she was not infallible, not entirely. Even as she rose astronomically through the ranks of the Guardians, becoming their youngest-ever Grandmaster in the midst of their worst war, her heart fell. See, she was a shining beacon of hope and light, but she was also human.
While Synth Saturnlee was the top of her class and ostensibly observant of the rules, Reven Krell was not. He was the stereotypical bad boy of the Guardians, and rode on the edge of control. A contemporary to Synth, the two rose through the ranks together, albeit in very different directions.
While Synth ascended to the rank of Grandmaster, Reven followed a different sort of doctrine. While Synth followed the letter of the law….mostly, Reven did no such thing. The Guardians had an established list of Force abilities that they believed lead to the Dark side, and so their usage was forbidden. Reven believed that Light and Dark was determined not by the powers, but by the user, and so he sought out to learn more of these abilities in order to utilize them against the Aggressors.
The Rise of the Wolves
Synth and Reven continued on their different paths, and these strikingly different outlooks on life….or at least approaches, eventually lead to Reven taking particularly drastic actions in the midst of one particular battle. As a result, he was stripped of his command and immediately left the Order, taking the entirety of his breathtakingly loyal fleet with him.
Reven and his fleet settled on a war-torn planet and christened themselves the Force Wolves, with Reven taking on the codename ‘The Revenant.” Throughout the war, the Force Wolves took up in the name of the Guardians, dirtying their hands in ways that the Guardians were morally restricted from doing.
They ran dark ops and brutal missions with the sole focus of their lives on bringing down the Aggressors. Their strategies were radical, often utilizing the Aggressors’ own methodologies and dirty tricks against them. They were mostly good people, doing bad things in the name of winning a war that nobody wanted, and they often went unappreciated and unnoticed, but such was their burden to bear.
The Beginning of the End
As war was waged, the fame of the Force Wolves and the Revenant grew, so did Synth’s ranking. She continued rising up the ranks of the Guardians, eventually becoming its Grandmaster. In the midst of war, she was a shining beacon of hope, even in the bleak darkness.
But despite her young age and despite her status and station, Synth was still a woman, with weaknesses just like any other. In the Guardians’ darkest days, Synth travelled to the home base of the Force Wolves in order to seek out Reven’s help. It was during this trip that the two rekindled their relationship and put together two of their generation’s most cunning minds to develop new strategies to defeat the Aggressors.
One such strategy was an invention that Reven brought to the table; the device that would come to be known as the Force Bomb.
Cry Havoc, and Let Loose the Dogs of War
The Battle of Krillik is an event that will be remembered forever, the ramifications of which still shudder through Force users and mundanes alike. Prior to this battle, Synth brought together a group of Guardian younglings dubbed the Torchbearers in order to continue the legacy that she feared would end in the culmination of this war. They were put into cryostasis pods and sent into the universe in order to preserve the Lightforce and establish a new Guardian Order.
While the Torchbearers were sent out into the universe, the Battle of Krillik raged. In stories of old, in tales that people tell their children to soothe their fears in the midst of night, good always wins. Faith perseveres. The light beats back the dark. In reality, it is not so neat as that. In order for the Guardians to win, completely eradicating the Aggressors and launching an extreme act of war and massive weapon was the only way forward.
The Force Bomb, the Revenant’s creation, was the only way forward. Guardians slipped behind enemy lines and combined their power in the most devastating Force attack in recorded history. The Force Bomb was a telekinetically charged orb of air and its energy shook the planet to its core. Untold amounts of Guardians and Aggressors died in the attack, and the tides of war were turned. But not without a huge, perhaps insurmountable, cost.
The Secret Child
While Synth sent the Torchbearers off in cryostasis in one ship, there was another youngling she sent off separately. Devika Saturnlee was the young child, born of a loving union. While Synth went about her duties during war, she very carefully obscured the existence of hers and Reven’s child, a young daughter who blessedly would not remember the events of the Battle of Krillik.
A homing beacon was attached to the Synth’s daughter’s ship, and after the Battle, the young child was retrieved by trusted Guardian loyalists. Devika was then shipped off to Synth’s sister, Trevaria, and her husband. They lived on a planet not in any of the central systems, but close enough to them that they would never be considered outer rim.
Trevaria loathed the Guardians and what they had done to her family. They had taken her younger sister from her even before her achingly recent death. Synth had been raised within the Order since she herself was a youngling, and Trevvy had felt that loss her entire life. As a result, she and her husband imbued their utter derision and hatred of the Guardians into their fostered niece, Devika.
Devika was raised believing that the Guardians were responsible for the death of her parents. She was taught that they were not beacons of the light, but that they were hypocrites and were a stain on the universe, and a plague to all.
Emergence
There were incidences throughout Devika’s childhood where she exhibited Force abilities. Complete and utter panic and extreme self-hatred and derision kept her from saying anything to her aunt and uncle. She believed that she was dirty, that she was wrong, and that they would turn her out if they knew.
When she was seven, she accidentally swayed her uncle’s mind during a game of hide-and-seek, and made him believe that she wasn’t even present. Her fatal mistake was doing so in front of her aunt. From that moment forward, they treated Devika as something other, and they withdrew their love from her.
Trevaria and her husband went to every length possible to try and bind Devika’s powers. They had well-known scientists attempt to bind her, psychologists try to use behavioral therapy to school it out of her, and when everything else failed? It was then that they turned to witchery in an attempt to bind her powers.
By the time that she was twelve, Devika had taught herself enough control to make them believe that they were successful in all of their attempts. And by the time that she was sixteen, she had convinced her aunt and uncle that it would serve them well to allow her to get properly vetted schooling on a politically prevalent planet within the inner systems.
The Rise of a Rebel
Instead of attending the finishing school that she had pushed upon her aunt and uncle, Devika instead began seeking out training for her Force abilities. She sought out and tracked down any crumb of information that she could find, many of them nefarious. Her natural aptitude was remarkable, and her intuition nearly ummatched. Between the two, and in great deal thanks to her legacy, she gained a preternaturally quick aptitude with the Force, focusing her education on more subtle and stealthy maneuvers.
By the time that she was nineteen, Devika was a widely renowned bounty hunter, thief, and occasional assassin for hire. She was infamous for performing inhuman feats, feats that shouldn’t have been possible without Force abilities. Walking through crowds of people with not one person having an accurate recollection of her. Killing a senator during a session and nobody remembering it had even happened until the bloody body was found. Walking into heavily armed banks and entering vaults and taking priceless artifacts and weapons, with no memory of her presence on the planet, let alone in that building.
Rumors began to swirl across the galaxy. Reports varied, accounts were different. But they all boiled down to a young female, who was a suspected Force user. And the larger her body of work grew, the larger the myths surrounding her grew.
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