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At the same time the Force's warning hit Micah it hit Fay and Yoda as well. Both of them had been busy calming the children down or carrying the wounded via the Force towards the medical bay, but they both stopped, the joyful song of the Force suddenly shifting into a scream around them.
With no time to waste, Yoda halted his progress, letting the younglings hovering in the air around him down gently. Gathering up the minds of the other Jedi aboard the ship and on the Consular class into one single entity quickly he began to push away at the nearest pirate vessel. This was a Jedi trick which the Sith had never really perfected, the ability to join their Force powers and direct them towards one purpose, one goal. He did not reach out for Micah though, Micah was already doing what he had to.
The children felt the pressure in the Force. To Yoda's surprise a few of them, notably the young Duros boy, pushed their own Force power out to join the effort not even questioning what was going on. Yoda spared them all a nod of approval, before the red-haired Force Ghost was in Yoda's face asking, "What's going on?!"
That she couldn't feel it through the Force was interesting to Yoda, but he answered nonetheless. "Pirates ships docked with us, going to explode they are! Push them away from this vessel we must."
With that he closed his eyes, ignoring the material universe around him as he pushed out his Force powers, extending them away from his body pushing at the one ship that Micah had already attacked. He spared a brief second to be thankful that the ship in the bay had already been dealt with, all of its com gear destroyed and every pirate aboard incapacitated or killed by Masters Saa and Tholme.
The target ship began to move away from the Explorer, but at this distance it was very difficult to concentrate on and power intensive. All around him the younglings who had joined the effort fell out of it quickly, exhausted. Only the young Duros boy and two others, a Falleen girl and a human boy stayed in for more than a few seconds. But one after another they too fell out of the working, collapsing into unconsciousness.
The Duros initiate was barely able to gasp out, "I'm sorry Masters," before falling out of the gestalt. Quinlan barely caught him with one hand, most of his being concentrated on his part of Yoda's effort, and then the ship they were concentrating on exploded.
The Jedi all gasped, reeling backwards slightly as the Explorer rocked all around them. Luckily, explosions didn't propagate very well in space, and the ship had already moved far enough away to save their ship. Debris peppered the outer hull, but that was all.
The other ship however had not yet been cut off, though Micah was seeing to that at the moment. It allowed the Jedi a moments rest to gather themselves in their gestalt before attempting it again. It also gave Yoda a moment to realize that the Force Ghost had disappeared and he wondered where she had gone, or if she had simply rejoined the Force. She wasn't the first Force Ghost he'd seen, though it had been several centuries since the last one, and that one had not been around for very long.
OOOOOOO
Lily had not rejoined the Force. In fact, if asked she would be hard-pressed to decide whether or not she could. And frankly even asking would seem quite an insult to her, considering how Lily wanted to watch over her son as long as she could. Which was what Lily was doing now: watching over Harry and everyone else aboard as best she could.
She raced through the ship, phasing down through the ship's decks, towards where she thought the generator room was along with the emergency shield control console, which the Knight named Clortesh had tried to turn on before the battle began. Lily had thought he had, but she wasn't certain, and frankly she didn't know enough about shielding technology to know whether or not they could be turned on again after faltering but Lily couldn't do anything else, so she was doing this now.
Entering the engine room she nearly ran into a stocky alien with a powerful looking frame hidden under his robes and an all encompassing mask which covered his face and all his features save for large, insect-like eyes. The being moved back quickly looking at her before nodding slightly. "You would be the Force Ghost that had Master Illaveil all atwitter. This one is Master Zeltesh, in charge of the ship's engines and other things of that nature."
Lily noticed one of his arms was hanging loose at his side. He also looked out of it somehow, his eyes unfocused even as they tried to look at her, and his other hand seemed to shake occasionally as she looked at him, and there was damage to his mask as well. He looked as if he had a concussion, but if that affliction effected his race in the same manner it would a human Lily had no idea, along with what race he was.
There was a body of younger looking alien who she recognized as one of the knights by the doorway to the engine room to one side, along with what looked like several dozen dead attackers. But Lily had no time to wonder about the battle that had occurred here, instead looking around desperately. "The shields!" she shouted, "we need to reactivate the shields!"
"Why?" he slurred, unable to focus even now despite the desperation he heard in her voice.
"One of the pirate ships is still connected to us and it's going to explode!"
At that the alien's compound eyes widened, and he tried to push himself off of the ground, only to flounder back to his knees. From within the mask Lily could make out the sounds of ragged coughing. "This one, this one is, am, ugh, they are over there. You, you will be able to restart them, they were overwhelmed, but we still, ha-have the port shield generators… Gand is sorry he cannot help…"
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