<div align="center">Behind the Scenes</div><br/>Stars flashed past the cockpit of the old YT-100 freighter named<em>Secret Hope</em>.  Sitting in the pilot seat of the creaky old ship was one of the Jedi, the protectors of the peace and defenders of the Republic.<br/>He snorted in dry irony,<em>Some peace protectors we are, the whole galaxy is at war with itself and we didn’t even know the Separatists were planning to attack until Master Kenobi and his Padawan were captured by the Genosians.</em><br/>The veteran Jedi at the controls was named Justin Tera.  He wore his black hair short, trimmed closely to keep it out of his way; however, his once solid black hair now had streaks of gray in it, telling of his age.<br/>At forty-seven years old and still with no Padawan Learner, Justin was a bit old to be without an apprentice of his own, but he had been a slow learner in the Jedi Academy and had fallen behind the other’s who joined the Order at the same time as him.<br/>But he still reached the rank of Jedi Knight, a life-long goal for him, and if he remained a Jedi Knight until he joined the Force he would be satisfied.<br/>Around him the old bucket of rust known as the<em>Secret Hope</em>groaned as she flew through hyperspace.  A grim chuckle left Justin’s mouth,<em>I may join the Force sooner than I may plan, why in the name of the Force did the Council even bother giving me this wreck?  I would have been better of being thrown into space in a cargo container with a small leak in it, at least then I would know when and how I would die.</em><br/>A rather sharp tremor ran through the ship as it dropped out of hyperspace.  A single barren planet hung in space before the freighter.  With a low moan coming from within the old freighter Justin powered up the Hope’s sublight engines, flying the bulky craft toward the surface of this forsaken planet, identified as Belance.<br/><br/>(Planning thread is located here: http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=87276.0 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=87276.0)<br/>