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    Cere offered something he didn’t know he wanted until she dangled it in front of him, and he crumbled like a sandcastle even in the face of her remarkably evasive explanation for why she’s no longer a Jedi.  He doesn’t trust her yet, but he likes her nonetheless.  The Bogano breeze toys with his hair while Cal watches the sunset alongside a little droid who’s been glued to Cal’s side since the moment he fixed BD’s damaged leg.  It’s not bad at all.  He could get used to this.

    Unfortunately, Cal is pretty sure he’s dying.

     

    (Cal bleeds. Cere patches him up. Eventually, he gets to return the favor.)

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    16 Mar 2026

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    Cal crash-lands on Bracca at age thirteen, gets poisoned a few months later, and promptly spends the next five years subsisting on safe, reliable ration bars (except when he’s stashing them away for emergencies or forced to eat bad medcenter food). He’s just barely scraping by, but he manages not to starve, even when the Guild’s being a real pain in the ass about actually feeding its scrappers.

    Everything works out fine until he winds up on the Mantis, instead. Suddenly he has a new purpose, along with some new crewmates who are way too invested in finding out why Cal doesn’t karking eat… and trying to do something about it.

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    16 Mar 2026

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    A few months after Nur, Cal’s life has fallen into a predictable if not always comfortable routine - he and the crew stay under the radar for a while, find some Imperials who need pissing off, pop up, give the Empire a hard time, and disappear again. He likes it. Even those under the radar parts are never too dull when he winds up doing things like disrupting prisoner transports, scrubbing graffiti off the Mantis, and trying to find a lost Jedi retreat.

    Oh, and occasionally being kidnapped by bounty hunters. And getting sick, again, which would be less of a problem were it not for the whole ‘kidnapped by a bounty hunter, again’ thing… and that spleen he doesn’t have.

     

    (the direct-to-video sequel to all some children do is work)

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    16 Mar 2026

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    Dathomir and Ilum are not next-door neighbors. The crew of the Mantis has a bit of a journey ahead of them, but once they make it there, Cal can find a new kyber crystal for his lightsaber, get this mission back on track, and unlock the vault on Bogano. Retrieve the holocron before the Empire catches up to them. Rebuild the Jedi Order.

    He doesn’t have time to get sick.

    (Tough luck, kid.)

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    16 Mar 2026

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    Order 66 goes out. The clone troopers execute their Generals. Jaro Tapal dies in an escape pod and Cal lands on Bracca alone, one of the few surviving Jedi in a galaxy that suddenly wants him dead. Under those circumstances, all he can do is blend in with the scrappers, keep his head down and his eyes open, and try to trust in a Force he can no longer connect with. He shuts his mouth so he never says anything suspicious and then decides perhaps it’s best if he just doesn’t talk at all.

    After five years, he’s pretty sure he’s forgotten how.

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    16 Mar 2026