Dash Starlight

Dash Starlight
Saber	Single
Style	Yellow Purist (Clean)
Affiliation(s)	The Jedi Academy
Gender	Male
Location	The Netherlands
Padawans	_Muro_, Drogan Draconite, Zuka, Sho Koon, DrunkenJedi, Laziana, Johauna

Dash Starlight is a retired Jedi Academy Master who utilizes the Yellow Single Saber stance and was taught as a Padawan by Virtue. He became the first Jedi Academy Knight to be instated after the Staff purge. Several months later he became a Jedi Academy Trainer, and has taught Basic and Advanced Medium Stance, Counterstyle Duelling and both the dark and light sides of the Force amongst other classes.

The Early Days

Dash Starlight joined the Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy community in August, 2004 after a friend got him interested in the game. Dash Starlight regularly visited public JA+ servers with Hellmouth and the Angels HQ being amongst his favorites. He was met with criticism right off the bat due to his playing style. This was because Dash Starlight enjoyed using the medium stance, which wasn’t appreciated by everyone.

During this time he met a player nicknamed Padawan who turned out to be Jaina D'Kana. She told Dash Starlight about the existence of the Jedi Academy after he expressed his interest in enhancing his lightsabercombat abilities with a focus on the medium stance. He then discovered a place with a most special atmosphere and a vast amount of knowledge and skills.

Dash Starlight took his time to get familiar with the Jedi Academy before looking for a master. He decided to contact Virtue concerning padawanship, because he could play during the weekends only and was therefore missing a lot of classes. Under the tutelage of Virtue, Dash Starlight started developing into an effective medium stance purist, but also learned about movement, Force and basic gunning.

Knighthood

On April 23rd, 2005, the Purge took place. This happened, because the listed JAKs, JATs and JAMs had become less active over time and were no longer at the top of their games. All JAK+, with the exception of the Council, got their ranks reset to Student.

Students were then toggled so they could initiate their Jedi Knight Trials and Dash Starlight was one of them. He was one of the first batch of students, which also included current Jedi Academy Master Setementor. After a retrial, Dash Starlight became a Jedi Academy Knight on June 17th,2005 and was the first Knight after the purge.

Dash Starlight remained an active player on public servers. He regularly visited public duel servers to hone his skills and to gain experience fighting styles that were a rare sight inside the Jedi Academy. Amongst his favorite servers were NJO and JLG. Although he never actually joined either of these clans, he had a lot of friends there and came by frequently.

Promotion to Jedi Academy Trainer

Dash Starlight was promoted to the rank of Jedi Academy Trainer together with Setementor on January 9th, 2006. He has taught the following classes over the years:

• Basic Medium Stance
• Medium Stance Basics (Beginner)
• Welcome to the Jedi Academy! (Beginner)
• Medium Stance (Intermediate)
• Public Fighting Strategy (Single Medium Stance)
• Public Medium Stance (Advanced)
• Force Training: Neutral and Light (Beginner)
• Force Training: Neutral and Light (Beginner)
• A Christmas Special

Jedi Academy Trainer Laziana and Dash Starlight joined forces holding the 'Welcome to the Jedi Academy!' class together as they each had ideas about helping out new JAS finding their way around the Jedi Academy.

Becoming a Jedi Academy Master

Again together with Setementor, Dash Starlight was promoted on April 23rd, 2009 to the rank of Jedi Academy Master. Their profiles had actually been closed prior to their promotion as a joke, which caused some stirr in the Jedi Academy at that time. No permanent damage was done, however, and Dash Starlight much appreciated seeing friends stand up for him.

Retirement

Dash Starlight retired due to personal reasons on July 2nd, 2010. He continues to play Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and is active both on the Forums of the Jedi Academy as well as on its servers. He has become a JARadio DJ holding a classic Rock 'n Roll show titled 'The Jukebox'.

Playing Style

As a medium stance purist, Dash Starlight focuses on it and uses it nearly exclusively. His style is based around taking full advantage of the sabering system to cause intentional knockbacks or parries. This closely resembles Virtue’s style.

Dash Starlight believes that Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy contains a number of bugs that can be used to enhance one’s performance as the game was rushed for release. He chooses to avoid these exploits, however, because it gives the user an unfair advantage over an opponent and because it would alter the gameplay and thus break the gaming experience.