Mission on Mustafar

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The mission on Mustafar saw an unidentified spacer collaborate with Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi's spirit in order to correct an imbalance in the Force on the planet Mustafar. The mission saw Kenobi task the spacer to find a shard and remove its influence in order to correct the imbalance and remove the dark side's influence on the planet. The spacer located it and attempted to return it to it's chamber but had to confront the Dark Jedi Vartonis and his hired Brotherhood Mortalis members. The spacer eliminated them and succeeded in correcting the imbalance for Kenobi.

Prelude

Millennia before the Galactic Civil War, the Jedi Order had a chapter on the planet Mustafar.^[6] During the Great Sith War,^[8] the Jedi uncovered a large Force crystal, tall as a building. The Jedi learnt that it attuned to the Force within them individually. However, news of an impending Sith invasion prompted them to experiment on the crystal, hoping that it could help defend the chapter.^[6]

During the battle, in 3996 BBY,^[8] the Jedi channeled their powers through the crystal and strengthened their abilities, while significantly diminishing those of the Sith. However, while this worked at first, the crystal slowly began cracking as the power within it was being pushed to the limits. The crystal exploded and sent the planet out of orbit, while it killed all Jedi and Sith save for the remaining elder Jedi Master Erg Krow. As the crystal exploded, he managed to shield himself from some of the ensuing destruction, and though injured, found a large shard of the crystal still remained relatively intact. Krow went into hiding with the shard, spending the last ounces of power he had left to use the Force to put a protective shield around it to make sure that other Force-sensitive's could not sense its presence. Krow succumbed to his injuries shortly after.^[6]

Over time, the shield put in place by Master Krow around the shard gradually diminished. After a few millennia, the shield finally vanished during the Galactic Civil War.^[6] The power of the crystal shard caused a major disturbance in the Force that empowered the dark side on the surface of Mustafar.^[6][9] Around the time of the Battle of Yavin, the power of the crystal drew darksiders to Mustafar, including the Dark Jedi Vartonis who hired the Brotherhood Mortalis to aid him in securing the shard so he could intensify his power in the dark side of the Force.^[6]

The mission

In 1 ABY,^[7] Vartonis was dangerously close to found the shard of the broken Force crystal.^[6] Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi visited Mustafar as a spirit to investigate how to eliminate the evil presence on Mustafar and correct the imbalance that existed.^[6][9] He approached a group of adventurers and secured their assistance since he himself was unable to do so. He warned the spacers that the dark side was growing in strength and that failing to correct the imbalance would further empower the dark side more than it already was.^[6]

Kenobi told the spacers that a small shard that remained from the crystal had the active soul of Jedi imprisoned within it; he was certain that this shard could be used to gain entry into the chamber containing the largest crystal shard. Kenobi asked the spacers that the small shard be recovered so that the crystal could be destroyed, so as to prevent the dark siders from claiming it as their own.^[6]

The spacers found the shard in the possession of a crazed Mustafarian hermit, and the fact that his movements were erratic made it difficult for even Kenobi to locate him through the Force. The Jedi soul in the shard, according to Kenobi, was in great pain and he mused that the spirit may have been what gradually drove the hermit insane. While the spacers merely wanted the shard, the hermit grew hostile, and was killed in the ensuing confrontation. While Kenobi expressed regret at the hermit's death, the spacers was adamant that it was an unavoidable confrontation, which Kenobi conceded.^[6]

The adventurers later visited several ruins of the old Jedi enclave — the northern and the southern Jedi Ruins in the Smoking Forest, the eastern Jedi Ruins in the Berken's Flow — while carrying the hermit's shard and eventually managed to locate the Lair of the Crystal.^[6]

The duel

Kenobi sent the spacer ahead to locate it while he used his abilities to delay the dark siders who were hunting the crystal down. The chamber containing the evil crystal shard was located beneath the Temple Ruins, in the north of the continent in a place called the Burning Plains. When the spacer arrived, Kenobi's spirit returned. Inside the inner chamber, Vartonis and the Brotherhood Mortalis members arrived, hoping to lay claim to the crystal shard.^[6]

The spacers first fought the mercenaries, successfully defeating them. They then confronted Lord Vartonis but the Dark Jedi was too powerful for them. Guided by Kenobi, the adventurers accepted to use the power of the crystal to fight the Dark Jedi. The shard soon increased the abilities of the adventurers who were able to defeat and kill Vartonis. Then, following the advice of Obi-Wan's spirit and despite the temptation to keep the Force crystal for themselves, they destroyed the shard once for all.^[6]

Aftermath

The spacer's actions helped to correct the imbalance on Mustafar by destroying the shard and thereby ridding its influence on the planet for good; Kenobi expressed his gratitude to the spacer before departing.^[6]

Appearances

• Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan (First appearance)

Sources

• Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Guide: Prima Official Game Guide
• Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game — Champions of the Force Card: Fate of the Galaxy (backup link)
• The Essential Atlas (Indirect mention only)

Notes and references

External links

• Fate of the Galaxy on the SWG Wiki