Oberon wrote:It's been a long time since we've seen Sared around so it will be difficult to remember some of the more subtle nuances but my biggest question was what the dreams were about (the ones that seemed to allude to the family getting executed by battle droids during the Invasion of Naboo)? Just memories or was there some deeper meaning?
Also, it seemed like he spent so much time in dream land that he almost treated his experiences on Alzoc(Yavin/Kamino/etc) as just another set of dream sequences.
Like I said, this was just one version of Sared that had shared memories with other versions of Sared. The super boiled-down version is that an energy wave (I thought about calling it the 'Kilvan Wave' for a while there) with a similar composition to the Force came into contact with our galaxy every four thousand years (ish) that results in the spawning of an individual with an appointed task. Nothing so grand as 'bring balance to the Force', but a task nontheless. The last Jedi Sared was killed on at the hands of the Massassi on Yavin 4 during the original conflict against Exar Kun. About four thousand years (ish) later, another Sared was born to a young couple on Naboo. That one, along with his family, were killed during the Trade Federation's invasion.
The 'modern' Sared was an accident. The previous Sared's had weilded a ring with their name on it that followed them through time and space. (Meta note: this was my attempt at a reverse LOTR ring that continued to follow it's master through trial and tribulation. Loyal as opposed to treacherous. Apart from that I had no other plans for it.) A group of scientist had tried to synthesize human DNA with an artificially high midichlorian count. It didn't work. But two of the experiments had a child and he happened to be what they were looking for. At that point he had already made it out of their custody and was roaming the galaxy as an orphan. Because his connection to the Force was borderline artificial, the connection to the collective 'Sared memoies' were splochy at best, inconsistant, and only accessible in REM sleep or in deep meditation. That being said, when he did manage to access these memories, they were extremely vivid and traumatizing, as the only memories he could access were the strongest remaining ones (that of their final moments).
I had the Naboo Sared and Exar Kun era Sared characterized only mildly, as well as a Sared that joined a group of Duros explorers earlier in history, and another Sared set ~4000 ABY. This method allowed for me to create various incarnations of the character for almost any Star Wars setting/timeline with relative ease. From Classic to Prequels, to Legacy, to New Order, I had plans to have some form of a Sared anywhere and everywhere.
For a part of the time that we were back on Yavin 4 (after Dac), I had to spend about a month and a half going in and out of the hospital. I don't have access to Sared's old student Journal anymore (I've got better documentation of the process), but in order to 'explain' my absence with something more interesting than 'volunteering with the agricorps', I decided to take advantage of a previous Sared's death there.
The Massassi Temples (one inparticular), housed Exar Kun's spirit for over 4000 years before being roused and defeated at the hands of Luke Skywalker's students. I took this quite literally to mean that they could serve the mechanical purpose of containing someone's essence. (Though I took liberties to contain his physical body as well, lore-twisting to my own benefit, bwahahaha). During that time, Sared observed a dupicate world of the Yaving 4 temple that we resided in, including the droids. To his hyperactive mind, time passed by much slower there. What felt like decades to him was just years to the outside world. His only companions were the various service droids, including B-52 (whom he already had a rocky relationship with). Over time, they developed personalities in his mind until he finally lost his temper over a bad game of cards, hacked B-52 into small pieces, and buried him behind the X-Wing's landing pad. That should also explain why, when he 'came back', he was always super-weary of the droid (and subsequently, didn't mind B-53 so much).
These different experiences combined caused Sared to question the nature of reality very intently, and when sofficient answers could not be found he lost faith in the validity of his own observable reality.
Kamino offered a unique opprotunity. Since Sared was not a clone (just very closely related to them), his Force-sensetivity could manifest itself through his connection to the place he was in. My memory is super spotty on this, but I believe I was playing him out to be hearing echos and primal feelings (eat, breathe, sleep, etc.) of the various clones that had been created in that facility over time.
Kase was actually pretty straightforward. Yes, he was a sentient being, a Shard. He comunicated to Sared using ultrasonic frequences that Sared could see using his cybernetic eyepiece. As a silicon-based being he had very different observations about the way our meat-filled characters interacted and carried themselves, and Sared sometimes had a difficult time communicating that with others. I remember at one point Coren helped me play out an arc where Kase was sick or ill, and putting him into a lightsaber housing while shooting energy through it at a specific frequency would help 'feed' him properly and keep him healthy. This would later becomes the grounds for Sared having a somewhat unpredictable triple-phase lightsaber, because one focusing crystal literally had a mind of it's own.
