Re: A little game - Who are TKM?
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:45
Right after reading all your thoughts, sitting here with too much caffeine and rabbits. I finally got something down on paper. It may be cheesy, it may be vague but by Crom I like it.
The biggest problem with writing anything about TKM is we have no concrete information. We don't really have our characters yet, we don't have the familiarity with the setting. This makes it hard to write something from the perspective of one of our characters. So Here for your approval and enjoyment.
They are The Kestrel Minority.
It was often said some time after that "The Minority" were a folk tale. Nothing more than a story to tell your children in the evenings, a story of brave citizens who gave up a safe and normal life so that others wouldn't have to.
They said that these noble few took up arms to battle injustice and the empire, to seek knowledge that would help in the fight, to bring peace to the republic.
Some truth remains. There was a group named "The Kestrel Minority", they did fight, they did travel the galaxy. However the story is a much darker one, than any would suspect.
Perhaps to begin with their intentions were noble, there are none alive today that know for certain. There were a number of them and each had their own reasons to fight. They came together over a span of time, perhaps drawn to the cause, or perhaps to the lust for battle, for glory or for credits.
The details of their forming are hidden in the annals of history. What we do know is that some event forced a group of unlikely allies to band together for a common goal and from these few the spark of an idea was born.
They would go where the senates' armies could not and do what needed to be done. Search the darkest reaches of space for answers and perhaps find a cure for the menace which now plagued the republic.
Today in the stories they are remembered as heroes, who played their part in a much larger scheme. However, few know what it cost them.
The biggest problem with writing anything about TKM is we have no concrete information. We don't really have our characters yet, we don't have the familiarity with the setting. This makes it hard to write something from the perspective of one of our characters. So Here for your approval and enjoyment.
They are The Kestrel Minority.
It was often said some time after that "The Minority" were a folk tale. Nothing more than a story to tell your children in the evenings, a story of brave citizens who gave up a safe and normal life so that others wouldn't have to.
They said that these noble few took up arms to battle injustice and the empire, to seek knowledge that would help in the fight, to bring peace to the republic.
Some truth remains. There was a group named "The Kestrel Minority", they did fight, they did travel the galaxy. However the story is a much darker one, than any would suspect.
Perhaps to begin with their intentions were noble, there are none alive today that know for certain. There were a number of them and each had their own reasons to fight. They came together over a span of time, perhaps drawn to the cause, or perhaps to the lust for battle, for glory or for credits.
The details of their forming are hidden in the annals of history. What we do know is that some event forced a group of unlikely allies to band together for a common goal and from these few the spark of an idea was born.
They would go where the senates' armies could not and do what needed to be done. Search the darkest reaches of space for answers and perhaps find a cure for the menace which now plagued the republic.
Today in the stories they are remembered as heroes, who played their part in a much larger scheme. However, few know what it cost them.
I like the dark undertones and for some reason towards the end of it I get a sort of fade in of the A-team music in my head!
