CHAPTER ONE Avon Starros did not bounce The only daughter of Senator Ghirra Starros and youngest youngest member of the illustrious Starros Clan of Hosnian Prime did not jump for joy or leap in excitement She was in a word a scientist But Avon found herself bouncing down the hallway all the same Really Today I can finally try synthesizing a Starros crystal today Avon said following her mentor Professor Glenna Kip toward the lab in Port Haileap The outpost wasn't much more than a rest stop for the ships going to
MISSION TO DISASTER and returning from the farthest edges of the galaxy but it was also home to the research lab of Professor Kip a wellknown wellknown scientist Yes today Professor Kip said a smile splitting the silver lined green of her face You can prepare your samples samples and we'll get to it after the midday meal Yes Thank you Professor Kip I'm going to go get everything ready now and I'll see you after lunch Avon hustled down the hallway toward the lab After months spent memorizing the basic structure of kyber crystal molecules analyzing the atoms and testing energy refraction and the like Avon was finally about to do the one thing she had wanted to do from the first moment she had stolen Padawan Imri Cantaros's broken lightsaber make a reproduction of a kyber crystal The construction of the lightsaber seemed relatively straightforward and Avon couldn't help wondering if it was possible that maybe the kyber crystals could be used for different applications After all she had no use for a laser sword she was a scientist not a Jedi but it would be nice if perhaps there was some way to use a kyber's focusing abilities to harness the ambient energy of space 2
CHAPTER ONE With so much random radiation and the like just floating around could they somehow duplicate the kyber's structure structure to direct that energy to power entire planets Avon thought so even if no one else did It had taken months to convince her mentor that a project such as a simulated kyber crystal could be useful and worthwhile and although Professor Kip had tried over and over again to get Avon to turn her attention to the natural sciences such as the crop yield project she was currently pursuing Avon didn't really care about making plants grow faster or making herds produce more offspring She wanted to understand power and how things like tibanna could be stretched further and more efficiently or even replaced altogether After all the galaxy was expanding expanding and fuel would be necessary to keep supplies running to the frontier Avon knew that because it was something her mother talked about regularly on their weekly calls So after months of diagramming the crystal's structure structure making copious notes and gathering all the relevant research available on kyber most of it requested from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant with the help of Professor Kip Avon was finally ready to test out her theory 3
