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A tall man was awaiting him. He wore a white suit, and had the smell of a sweaty armpit. "Hello" He said in cracked Basic. "I bring you to Machete. Me am Manuel." He stepped to the side and motioned down the hall. "If you follow me?" He started walking down the corridor. It was an old adobe mansion, with white washed walls and wide windows.

"Work? You can say. I protect his body." He pulled a gun out of his jacket, flashed it, and returned it to his holster. "You practically take job, but me no mind. Machete still use me." He opened a door, thick and large, like a door leading to a throne room. Machete sat at a table in the middle, playing a game of Sabacc with another man that looked like Manuel's clone. In fact, it was.

"For her, yes." the bartender said, and picked the girl up by one of her thin wrists. "She give trouble?" Outtie came, as if from nowhere, and looked her over. "That overzealous b***h, tell me, mate, did she kill the president?"

"What's this?" Drakonis said surprised " A clone.... interesting..." he smiled

"Very good, you can spot clones." Machete said. "It will come in useful. " He finished the hand by throwwing down a correllian flush, and winning the clone's smal bet. He looked up to Drakonis. "Today, it will be busy, alright?"

Outtie tensed. "Iri recruted you?" He turned to the bartender, and then back. "Fine, I guess I can tell you something, since you were recruited." He grabbed a mug of beer, and downed it, wiped his chin, and started. "A few years back, maybe a decacycle, the crystals I told you about were found. Now, Earth had just been discovered by the galactic federation, and we were all overjoyed to have reached foreign species's. but we did not know about these Jedi for about a deca cycle later. That's when the way started." Hw lookwd distracted slightly, and began again, "The leader, who I cannot tell you who he is, wanted the Jedi powers for his own. Though he was not in a position to become a subject to the Jedi. He heard of the Sith, but did not want to be subject to their rules either. So, he made his own way of using te Force, called, the Way." He grinned, "The Way is covert as of yet, and we are waiting for something to happen before we come out, but for right now, we are recruiting outcasts, who do not want to be shackled by the Jedi or the Sith, but still be more powerful." He exhaled deeply. "And tha is all I am at Liberty to say."

Outtie laughed darkly "That's the beauty of it. In our training, we are able to learn defenses to hide ourselves from other Force users, even others in the Way. We have been infiltrating and recruiting in the top levels of the government on many worlds. Alot of senators these days are from earth, even if they are on a differen planet, you may notice. When the time comes for a conflict, I think we wiill be able to handle ourselves. I am not convinced that we will fight, but we are about ten bilion strong in able bodied fighters. Alot of whom are on this planet right now."

"I see..." Drakonis paused " Machete, is this going to be like the last time? I have no problems with bringing fear into the hearts of the weak, but I always feel a bit uncomfortable from not using my lightsaber after a certain period of time...." He spoke respectfully almost like he would his master. This man would mean a great deal to his training.