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Welcome to the Current Test Drive for The Revival Project!

This game is a spin-off from the closed The Drift Fleet game. For more information about the game, including more details on the setting, please check out the FAQ here or the premise here.

A thread on the TDM will be required for all applications. Please view the FAQ for information about how this works. Any questions about the game please direct to the comment section of the FAQ as well.

If you are a Drift Fleet alumni bringing your character from the game, please label your character as 'DFAU' on your top level. Also, keep in mind you have complete flexibility on how your character comes here. They could be taken before endgame, after endgame, two years after, one year before, etc. It's up to you! If you want to completely restart your character, they're not considered DFAU anymore and won't need the label.

So go! Explore Agra 10! And, as always, HAVE FUN!

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Fall in Temba and Sh'Ka

A new city has been discovered and Sh'Ka turns out to be its name. And if one thing is sure to set these two cities apart, it's their respective amounts of trees. Which becomes even more obvious once summer begins to turn into fall and the first winds pick up, the still long days of Agra 10 become shorter and green leaves turn a light blue and purple before falling off their respective trees.

Now Temba has decidedly fewer trees than Sh'Ka. They are also much smaller and may not necessarily of the same species. The leaves in Temba fall gently. The leaves in Sh'Ka, however? They turn to stone while still attached to their branches and suddenly fall to the floor from high, high up above.

Thud.

They shatter once they hit the ground, which may explain why you haven't really seen any leaf-shaped rocks around. You still may want to try and avoid getting hit too much by this slowly increasing hail of stone leaves.

Explore the city Temba!

Here's a map of Temba and a bit more description of some of the buildings here.

Most of the buildings are run down and have clearly been abandoned for years; fortunately, the water treatment center appears to be working, but power is intermittent and unreliable. What used to be stores or places to live in lies in ruins, but there may still be something to scavenge among the rubble. Do you want to risk a swim in the flooded area that has turned into a deep lake that has yet to be fully explored; or does it draw you to some of the more prominent and partially restored buildings, such as the hotel, the hospital or the amphitheater.

If you are lucky, you might even stumble over The Deep End, the bar located on one of the mid-levels of the tower residences in one of the residence towers. Unfortunately no bright neon signs can lead you there, but it does exist.

Visit the spaceships!

That's right, there are currently several small spaceships grounded in the hangar - Or what remains of them. It's painfully obvious that these ships have crash-landed not too long ago and were taken back to the hangar for repairs. You were assigned to one of them and its doors will open for you and let you enter if you wish. (For test drive purposes, the ship that will let you enter is up to you, so just pick whichever name appeals, and go for it!) The other ships won't open for you, but as neither of them look as if they will be leaving anytime soon that doesn't really matter either way.

Maybe look around anyway. Or try your hand at some repairs?

Try the network!

Upon arrival, your character will have on their person a small, handheld communications device. Maybe they know exactly how to use a computer, smartphone, or tablet, and immediately blast out a text or video trying to figure out what's going on. Or maybe they're not so tech-savvy after all, and everyone is about to get a lovely shot right up your character's left nostril.

There be storms...

These power-altering storms keep ravaging parts of the planet every once in a while. No one truly knows where they come from or what to do about them yet, but one of them appears to be approaching. You have the option to find shelter in one of the buildings to wait for it to pass. Unless, of course, you rather feel drawn to investigate.

Should you step inside the storm, or even get lost in it, it will show ghosts of people you know and those you don't. It drains you of any super-human abilities and tries its best to keep you from getting to its origin. Are you going to try anyways? Or are you going to chase the whispers of people from your past? Maybe you will simply find yourself calling for help or stumble across another lost soul in need of assistance.

More information can be found here.

Wildcard!

You're welcome to use any previous test drive scenarios or previous game events as a basis for a thread/situation, or simply make up your own! Keep in mind that you're currently stranded on a planet with only basic necessities, but there is enough food and fresh water. Creature comforts, however, seem to be distinctly lacking. Quite unlike a gathering of potentially dangerous creatures to encounter. The setting is yours to explore and have fun with!

 

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[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra takes another breath to try to smooth out his emotions, before he replies, "I...guess you could say we've been called away to another mission."

Yes, this is his master. He's sure of it. After Malachor, clearly, although that still leaves open the question of which mission Kanan is referring too.

He steps closer, near enough to gently take Kanan's hand to guide up it to the easiest bit of physical evidence he can think of - his hair that he's let grow out for months, much longer than the severe military cut he'd taken to favoring while Kanan had been learning to adapt to loosing his vision. He'd kept it that way until his master's death.

"I've been here a while, though. A little more than 6 months, galactic? Probably. So-" There goes sounding calm and matter of fact, as he chokes a little. Still, he tries to project his genuine happiness, and hold remembered grief inside him.

"It's really good to see you, Kanan."

[see_differently]

There was no mission more important than the one they were about to undertake, nothing more important than rescuing Hera. For a moment the thought of her is what dwells on his mind, the feelings for her and the fear of something happening to her. But also the dedication and determination to get her back. He had been meditating and had decided on just how far he was willing to go when he found himself here. Before he could speak though Ezra had mentioned how long it had been, and unless somehow the others had found a way to hide themselves, Ezra was being honest and this wasn't Sabine.

That explained it, the growth, given the boy's talents and knack for trouble he would have made a lot of headway in that time. Taking a moment Kanan ruffles Ezra's hair,

"I'm back."

It seemed like the fitting this to say if Ezra had been waiting on him that long, after all Kanan had promised that he would always come back for him.

"You've grown, but I hope that you haven't been slacking off the entire time. Have you kept up with your training? And what this new mission you're talking about?"

For now thoughts of Hera and questions beyond the basics would have to wait. He had to have faith in the force, and that he was where he was supposed to be.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra remembers that promise, of course, but he's certain the only reasonable way to look at such a thing is understanding that death releases the person who made the promise.

Not that he doesn't fully believe Kanan had done his best to guide Ezra from beyond death, before moving on. And here Kanan is, alive, anyway.

"I've been busy, and I haven't slacked off on my training, I promise. Which had been easy to not fall out of the habit of because...because there's other Jedi here," he admits, in a rush.

"The mission is: The planet we're on is Agra-10. It's been, um, pretty badly devastated. And there are storms here that hurt the people who used to live here, specifically, and they want help reclaiming their home. So they've asked those of us who, kind of...appear here for help. Whether the new people, like us, come here purely through Force stuff or if someone's making it happen more deliberately is kinda unclear. Which, yes, raises so many other questions, but that's the 5-second debrief."

[see_differently]

"That's a lot to take in for a five second brief. How many?"

Other Jedi, here? It wasn't Ashoka because Ezra would have just said her name. It fact if it had been a single person he would have. Kanan began to think if he'd heard rumors about others, a hidden temp or something. As for the storm, they would definitely have to check it out and figure out if it was the storm itself or something hiding inside of it that was the culprit.

"Well then, I hope you haven't been as difficult for them as you were when I started training you. Though it seems like it's been doing some good, I can sense that you've really improved. Your connection to the force, it's stronger. You'll have to show me what you've learned sometime, and maybe introduce me to the Jedi you found."

Whoever it was if they were here to help as well, then there had to be a reason the force was guiding them here. If not, then it meant that they would need to work together to fix whatever was causing it. And to help and free the people of Agra-10.

"But first, maybe we should go somewhere and catch up. Some place we can have a seat and don't have to worry about disturbing anyone else."

[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra makes a bit of a face; he'd like to think he hasn't been that sort of difficult since...well, since Master Kenobi - the older version, on Tatooine - had rescued him from very nearly getting himself killed, convinced him that not every problem was his responsibility to fix, and then to go home. That there'd been an adult, albeit a younger version, whom Ezra had already been inclined to listen to when he got to Temba had probably smoothed over his own settling in quite a bit.

"There's a master, a knight, and two other padawans," Ezra reports obediently, rather than protesting out loud. "And also infant twins that are strong in the Force. Their mom's here too, but we've been helping her. There's - well. There's a lot of abandoned buildings in various states around. Not long after I got here, Master Kenobi picked a complex to call a temple and we've been fixing it up. So that's where I've been living. The other padawans haven't moved there, actually, just come to visit and train. Padme and her babies do live there. It's all kind of complicated."

Another beat and breath. Come to think of it, he doesn't really know how Kanan would feel about being part of even a very nominal temple again. He might want some distance. And then Ezra would have a make a decision about whether he was staying, wouldn't he?

"So. We could go there, and I can finish what I was doing in the garden just now. Or, totally different direction, there's a herd of livestock I've been helping tend. Nobody's likely to bother us there."

[see_differently]

Kanan had said when they started, and at the start Ezra had been anything but easy to train. But both of them had learned a lot since that time, about teaching and about learning. They had lost their path and found it once again, as they would undoubtedly do again. Listening Kanan was surprised to hear about so many being in one place, and to not be in hiding.

"Master Kenobi. . . Padmé, wait a second do you mean Padmé Amidala?"

The senator had been one that was well known to the Jedi, and one that most of them considered a friend. At the very least she seemed to get along well with General Skywalker. There had been nothing about her after the order came down, since the formation of the empire, but she was here along with Mater Kenobi. Had this been the system they'd retreated to?

"Ezra, the name of the Jedi Knight, is it Skywalker? Anakin Skywalker?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Not Anakin," Ezra says, voice dropping lower, as he tries not to dwell on the complicated feelings he's come to have about Anakin Skywalker, while being surrounded by the man's family, and also knowing Vader and Anakin were one and same. He's never feared Vader as much as he probably should have, and he doesn't think he could ever hate someone who feels rather like an absent family member he's just never properly met, at his point. One who is mourned but also left so much devastation in his wake.

But Ezra's been struggling with some anger, over that contradiction, that Anakin was so clearly loved but betrayed those who loved him, anyway.

"Luke Skywalker," he continues, more firmly. "Anakin's son. He should be my age, but he's actually from several years past us. Master Yoda knighted him. And yes, Padme is Senator Amidala. She came here from the first Empire Day. Master Kenobi - I've never pinned him down on how long it's been since the Empire started for him, but less than a year, I think."

He shakes his head. "It's all at least as weird as it sounds."

[see_differently]

That it wasn't brought some relief to Kanan, a crisis that was averted. Though he understood well Ezra's anger, he hadn't been there for the clone wars. Anakin had been a hero to so many, and he'd been an inspiration for many other young Jedi for better or worse. There were only a few who knew what would happen, most likely assumed that he had fallen with the other Jedi during order 66. To ease Ezra's emotions though Kanan placed a hand on his shoulder and squeezed lightly.

"I didn't know that he had a son. But if what you say is true then we will need to be careful, whatever this is it must be powerful to be able to mess with time in such a way. And we can't risk altering events that have already passed."

Once a secret was known, it can not be unknown. The Bendu's warning came to mind.

"But that means, even what we know might be different from one another."

It was starting to become clear.

"There's more to it than just the time that you've been here isn't there? The mission that we were preparing for, it was on Lothal. You've already completed it, haven't you?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

He has complicated thoughts on the nature of time in general, and how it relates to this place specifically, but he doesn't want to debate that right now. Not when he can step into the hand on his shoulder and sweep Kanan into a hug instead.

"I don't know which mission you mean," he insists, half muffled into Kanan's shoulder. He has a horrible sneaking suspicion, but strictly speaking, there's a few options. Kanan could mean investigating the factories on Lothal.

But he doesn't think so. He thinks Kanan means...that last mission.

"But. Yeah. I think. Yes. I'm a little past you." There's a fraction of a second of internal struggle before Ezra decides, kriff it. He's saying it out loud in actual words, and Kanan can take it how he likes.

"Hey, you know I love you, right?"

[see_differently]

It catches him off guard for a moment, but he doesn't object or do much more than placing a hand on top of Ezra's head. The two of them had been through a lot, and had taught one another so much in the time they had been together. In a way they were family, and it was a bond that Kanan knew traditional Jedi teachings wouldn't encourage or permit. But then his training had been limited, and he'd left much of it behind long ago.

"Woah, where's this coming from? Usually, you're ready to yell when you think I took too long."

He was deflecting of course, and after a moment he returned the hug.

"It goes both ways you know. You, Hera, even Chopper on rare occasions. We should probably express it a bit more often, quit being so stubborn about it. But that's just the way things are."

[ezra_of_lothal]

Well, you went and died to save us, Ezra thinks to himself, although he hopes not loudly enough for Kanan to pick up on somehow. And I decided I couldn't hold onto to being angry with you about it.

Not that anger didn't bubble up sometimes, with all the other emotions that swirl around in grief.

"Hmm. Master Kenobi and I have been talking about that," is what he says out loud, instead, not really letting go of the hug yet. "The way things were and are. That maybe we should more talk about how things could or should be, at some point. And the things that get left unsaid."

Suffice to say Obi-wan has some regrets that stem from Anakin's fall to the Darkside, and conflicting feelings about training the younger Jedi here in a less than traditional manner.

It's weird; Ezra knows he learned a lot about the importance of honesty about emotions between master and apprentice along side and from Kanan. So why does this conversation feel harder than some of the one he's had lately with Obi-wan?