Background
1. I’ve always been quick to react to things, but it wasn’t until I began reacting to things before they happened that I knew something was different. Intuition was lauded among my people, precognition was not.
2. After I left my clan but before I found the Jedi, I was alone. I had abandoned my clan and felt isolated, unwilling to stick my neck out for anyone. At one point a ship that I was to travel on from one nameless starport to another was beset upon by a group of thugs. They said the ship’s captain owed them for doing business on their turf, but I knew it wasn’t true. They just wanted the ship. I knew the captain was innocent and I knew that if I didn’t intervene he didn’t stand a chance. But it wasn’t my fight. The next morning the ship was still there with a new name and a new captain, but my destination was still on its route. I paid, slept with one eye open, disembarked at my destination, and never saw that ship or either of its captains again.
3. It wasn’t until I left Mandalore in search of answers that I discovered and was discovered by the Jedi. I had left Mandalore by hitching a ride with trader vessels, not willing to risk my people knowing where I went. I sought out places from the old tales, ancient battlefields where I hoped for some revelation about what I had become. I found it in a way, through fellow pilgrims who held themselves to be the Jedi order reborn, and told me that through their teachings I could learn to understand and wield my power. These were not the enemies of old I had learned of in legends, but warriors and scholars who followed strict creeds not so different from my own. I returned with them to continue my training.
4. Mero Tayk, a clanmate and former rival. This rivalry used to be friendly, but the revelation of my force sensitivity followed by my subsequent exiting the clan led her to think me a traitor. She may be right.
5. Forsaking the laws and traditions of my clan to follow my own path was more difficult than any battle I have ever partaken in. I gave up not only my family and culture but my very identity in pursuit of this end.
Motivation