[309] A similar thing once happened to Emmy when she touched this very same lightsaber - we saw it in Road Movie to Naboo - but it doesn't occur to her at first that the same could be happening to Alaia, because it happened to Emmy for different reasons. She had the vision of Obi-Wan's death because she's his direct blood descendant. Alaia's a near-total stranger from a different species. Emmy would never have imagined she'd have such a reaction.

[357] Obi-Wan doesn't know about Quevas, he wasn't there, and Emmy's not about to explain that over a groggy padawan's head.

[377] And thus begins the pain-in-the-ass phase of having a Jedi Master around - you don't get to slack off. ALC

[429] Presumably the label on the canister didn't include the bit about the t'skrang; Len's taking her question to mean "how did you know it was full of kuratai?"

[453] In Knights of the Old Republic, Juhani can use the Stealth skill without the aid of a piece of equipment, unlike any other character in the game.

[495] We've seen Gryphon say this before - for instance, to Paige Guthrie in Excessive Force.

[556] In the more customary form of Jar'kai, the Jedi holds a conventional lightsaber in his strong hand and a shorter model - essentially the lightsaber equivalent of a wakizashi - in his off hand. Emmy's, which are based on the fencing blades of the Hyelian East Seacoast Style, are equal in length, midway between the two, and have slightly narrower, more precise beams.

[604] Fluorite crystals often are both green and purple at once. Alaia's saber was inspired by a particularly pretty one I saw once.

[625] It's sadly possible to lose fighting trim quickly, and Alaia's been effectively an invalid for the last month. ALC

[693] Juyo again. As a Jedi historian, Alaia probably has read about it, but she'll never have seen anyone perform it, since Obi-Wan is its only living master now.

[951] Ivan was an unusually fun minor player to write lines for.

[1134] Cordé was Senator Amidala's decoy in Attack of the Clones. I thought she got kind of a raw deal, so I gave her the nod here instead of Sabé, who played that role in The Phantom Menace. In UF she's Castle Theed's majordomo, and as such, is in charge of arranging accommodations for guests of the Crown.

[1188] She hasn't shown him what she was working on as far as the dirk is concerned. She's painfully aware at this point that she wasn't doing very well with it. But Niman is the form necessary to learn two-weapon fighting (Jar'kai, as we see shortly. --G.), so she has it. ALC

[1297] Not every Jedi agrees with Morpheus Windu and Vert's assessment that Utena Tenjou, the Grand Duelist of the Order of the Rose, is the One of ancient Jedi prophecy, but all agree that the Force is with her - and she knows how to handle a blade, be it of light or steel.

[1325] My favorite image of this duel - Yoda kickin' it wuxia style.

[1394] There's a good reason for that.

[1617] Which she will ask the Temple to get back at some point, as she spent a lot of her formative years practicing with that saber, and it's got a lot of good memories tied up in it for her.

[1806] More than one, probably closer to 1.75.

[1870] Every Jedi has a specialty. Obi-Wan's seems to be the Jedi Mind Trick - which he is apallingly good at. The second movie illustrates this extremely well. ("You don't want to sell me death sticks.") It's a good thing he's a Jedi Knight, or the universe would be in serious, serious trouble.

[1895] Master Befin had compunctions about this sort of behavior. Alaia is very much a Light-sider, both by inclination and training.

[1903] It's very hard to be strict with someone as charming as Obi-Wan. This will continue to haunt her.

[1985] That being said, Alaia herself can be just as charming when she bothers to work at it. (She doesn't bother much in Fulcrum, she's too busy being shellshocked.) ALC

[2330] Apart from the music cue, which was added later, this sequence was written well before Revenge of the Sith came out, when all that was known about the incident that turned Vader into Scary Breath Mask Man was that it had involved a duel with Obi-Wan and a volcano - not that I'd have written it to parallel the Mustafar scene any more closely than this anyway, since, as you see, there's no volcano here.

[2343] It's just a coincidence that both Fulcrum II and Fulcrum III end with Darth Vader blacking out, but once I knew that was the way it was going to come out, I thought the two divergent closing lines made for a nice bit of symmetry.