Stargrave - Minster Salvage and Absolution Inc.

Qui-Gon Jim is the Captain of his star ship “The Mission”. The “Minster Salvage and Absolution Inc.” is just a front for his own quest. The few pockets of authority in the galaxy and the pirates rarely have any concept of religious tolerance and fear the psionicists and mystics. The powers that they have been mastering in their conclaves (manipulating people, inanimate objects and people’s perceptions) are both feared and  in demand. It was easier to avoid persecution if he comes across as a selfish salvage specialist than a priest trying to find a new home. Religious orders were looked on suspiciously, as a judgemental and pious people that horde resources in monastic compounds and communes in rare areas of calm in the chaos.

Qui-Gon was dragged out of one of these monastic compounds and threatened into serving an ambitious warlord else the monks and initiates of his flock would all be killed. Qui-Gon honed the more aggressive and warlike powers in the warlord’s raids, robberies and plundering as was demanded of him.

His best initiate, Kobi Juan, was able to get a message to Qui-Gon. The crew stood around to hear the message of unknown origin. The message that sounded like a garbled mess to the warlord and his crew, held a psychic message that Qui-Gon heard loud and clear. “They lied… Betrayal… Many dead… They lied… Not safe… Return… Please Return…”

Qui-Gon waited until the next mission, an intricate heist where Qui-Gon was the linchpin for it’s success, to exact his revenge on the warlord and his crew. As the warlord screamed at the end of Qui-Gon’s void blade the warlord’s crew were arrested by the bank’s tipped off security forces. Qui-Gon avoided the authorities, took the warlord’s starship and returned to Kobi Juan.

He found murdered monks and initiates and a gore covered Kobi Juan on his arrival. When the warlord’s men, left to guard the compound, turned on their captives with brutal efficiency Kobi Juan had fought back with such ferocity that the last of the warlord’s men fled. A contingent of the monks escaped on a transport, some hid in refuges and hard to reach meditation stands across the region but it was clear the compound was now compromised and a new base would need to be found. The few monks he could find became his crew. He augments his crew with whatever recruits he can find (hence the Daktari contingent), made Kobi Juan his First Mate and explores the galaxy looking for the lost monks and initiates that escaped the evil warlord’s cull. Qui-Gon  is gathering money and resources to set up a new safe haven for gifted individuals, to offer faith and absolution for those that want it and protect those that can’t protect themselves in a place beyond the reach and corruption of the pirate menace and those that would rid the galaxy of mystics and psionicists like Kobi Juan and him.