The evolution of basic was a long one, and in the oldest documents you'll find from the Republic the words are all different. You wouldn't even be able to understand them, now. The original word for "return" was nostos - algos meant "suffering." Nostalgia is, in root, the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. In each language ( Read more... )

He froze as a distant thunder began shaking the cool dawn air entering through the temple's massive entrance. Qui-Gon moved to stand atop the limestone staircase and stare down into the street as the sound grew stronger. He saw a flank of elite Telosian guard approach through the morning haze, headed by a figure in black - holding red lightsaber ( Read more... )

A last, fleeting glimmer of amber light played across his black cape as he let his lightsaber drop back in place at side, an old familiar feeling. Allowed it to deactivate. In the gathering gloom of dusk, Xanatos's familiar, tall, powerful contour seemed as if it were no more than an apparition made of shadows, ethereal and not there at all - some ( Read more... )