Alethea was correct in stating they would be okay so long as they had each other.  It was a strange comfort from his companion, but a welcome one at the same time.  Few said such words of comfort to him, and Thal-ion had been rather use to such.  It was, however, refreshing to have her sooth his worries so easily.  When she went off to meditate; he couldn't blame her in the least.  This assignment required meditation, but he would let her do so from the comfort of her cabin.  So, Thal-ion turned to face the blackness of space as the ship hurtled through hyperspace.  Taking a deep breath, the young Jedi Sentinel calmed his emotions.  It was never wise to allow emotion into the usage of the Force.  Emotions clouded ones perception in the Force, and it could lead to the Dark Side...which was never acceptable.<br/><br/>Thus, Thal-ion found himself closing his eyes and meditating to further calm himself...to clear his mind and heart.  He needed that clarity now more than ever, but this was again something to clutter his mind, and so he let that too pass away.  It was, to say the least, not easy.  Much was worrying him, but after one full solid hour; Thal-ion was able to achieve a state of peace.  The Force was everywhere, but Thal-ion also believed it was every-when.  This little idea came from knowing that through the Force one could see the past, the present, and the future.  It only made sense that the Force was not just everywhere, but every-when as well.  With that single thought in mind; Thal-ion began to reach out to their destination in the Force...to explore the past, the present, and what may yet come.  Almost immediately, and to his surprise, he felt his new companion's presence in the Force.  She was like a beacon of light and knowledge...strong and exploring, but her own exploration of the Force differed from his.  Perhaps it had something to do with the two brief telepathic brushes he had with her since they met.  It was certainly a possibility, but Thal-ion had to focus on his own investigation.<br/><br/>The young Sentinel began by letting the Force flow through him as he reached out to their destination, but no sooner had he done this did the headaches begin.  A sharp flash came to him of the<span style="font-style: italic">EMERALD DAWN</span>spinning into a storm the likes he had never seen before...much less heard of.  As the old YT-1300 spun into the heart of the storm; the unthinkable happened...the storm vanished in a flash of light and color so bright that Thal-ion almost felt blinded by it.  The next thing he saw past the haze of pain was a very rapid flash of their old freighter showing up at a lush world surrounded by massive circular starships.  He was sure he had seen such ships before, but the moment eluded him as new images came to him.  Through the Force; Thal-ion attempted to slow the visions in order to better comprehend them, but this was no easy task.  The next to come showed Thal-ion and Alethea working together in the cockpit to avoid a wave of fighters; with Thal-ion going off to one of the gun turrets.  Another showed the ship being pursued by three starfighters, A-wings no less.  This didn't make sense to the young Sentinel since A-wings were used by the Alliance, and they would have no need to fire on their ship.  Something about the fighters seemed darker somehow...their look more stark and menacing...as if the Force was pointing out that they were not from the Alliance.  Before he could think more of such a vision; Thal-ion saw a massive station with single bright blue beam aimed at the storm he had seen previously.  Yet, in this case, the storm was much smaller, but clearly growing.  That told Thal-ion all he needed to know.  The station was indeed responsible for the storm he had seen their ship vanishing into, but to what purpose...<br/><br/>The station, itself, was dark and menacing.  It was as black as the space around it...almost like a massive chameleon against the night.  There was a single massive network of arrays from which the beam fired to create the storm he had seen.  At first, Thal-ion thought of all the experiments the Empire had done, but this...for some odd reason...did not feel like an Imperial installation.  It felt like...well, he wasn't sure, to be honest, but it wasn't the Empire.  Confused and unable to think more of it; the next scene showed the two young Jedi fighting aboard the station...lightsabers flashing as one of them was doing something to a console.  Thal-ion wondered if it had something to do with the beam, but he could not say for certain.<br/><br/>And then, the same thing again...their starship spinning out of control into the storm, and the storm vanishing...swallowing them up whole.  Reappearing at that lush green world surrounded by those massive circular starships...ships he was sure he had seen before.  Then, the headaches became too much, and the visions came more rapidly until he felt as if he were drowning.  Flashes of a duel in hot sand between a tattooed Zabrak and an older Human...red and green blurs, a boy standing before a semi-circle of twelve, a young lady painted regally and etched with worry standing before a massive body of people...faster and faster the images came, but this was not Thal-ion's first time to experience such visions.  Back through the Force he fought for control, and though the struggle was greater than he anticipated...he still managed to break free.  He sat back exhausted in the co-pilot's chair...shaken by what he had seen and experienced.<br/><br/>When he looked at the chrono; it told him four full hours had already passed, but then...they were still a good distance away from their destination.