#jedi problems

[jedidryad]

WIP Wednesday: Darkness is sneaky

When they meet up on the Errant Venture in I, Jedi, Mara and Corran have a conversation about the dark side, and Corran expresses the belief that Kyp should not be a Jedi after his dark side experience. Mara does not seem to agree with him, and I interpret his comments as being quite hurtful to her considering her past. But friendships can survive rifts, and Mara and Corran deserve a chance to try the conversation again...after Corran has his own brush with darkness in the form of temptation...

“Do you think [Kyp] is worthy to be a Jedi?” Horn asked.

I wasn’t certain if becoming a Jedi was a matter of worthiness and I said as much.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean you’re not the only one who doesn’t think Durron should be a Jedi.” I thought of the utter weariness in Skywalker’s voice as we watched Kyp’s body float in bacta,  “I just don’t get the sense he has that much of a choice in the matter.”

“Once a Jedi always a Jedi?”

I shrugged, “I don’t know, but I know I can’t think that he should be executed for his crimes while I’m walking around with mine.”

I thought of what I’d been doing at Durron’s age, and under whose influence. 

“It’s not the same thing. You’ve more than proven yourself.”

“I was given a chance to.” and it didn’t escape me that Skywalker was a major reason I had been given that chance. Mirax had referred to me as ‘Luke Skywalker approved’ after all.

“You’re saying I should give Kyp another chance?”

“I’m saying I have to.”

He sighed.

“Do I have to like him?”

“Probably not.” I chuckled.

“I can be an ally without being a friend.” Corran nodded, clearly considering the idea.

“I think that’s all that’s being asked.”

“By Luke.” Corran met my gaze steadily, “Do you trust Kyp?” “No, but I don’t exactly trust myself around this stuff either. I mean I used the dark side for years and didn’t even know it.”

“Darkness is sneaky,” Corran agreed, “it gets in through your weaknesses.”

“Which weakness?”

“Sex.” Mirax said as she came back into the room with a plate of cookies and a pot of elba, “Although I’d say it’s also one of his strengths.”

[sweetiepie08]

Jedi problems

Anakin: Sometimes in the split second between pushing the button and the lightsaber activating, you’re almost certain you’re holding it upside down.

Obi Wan: Your master’s always had a suspicious love of snacking and on your 18th birthday he shows you his “herb garden” that you have to keep a secret from the council... well, half the council.

Ahsoka: Your master told study up on a particular school of Force philosophy, but when you search the archives, you find yourself knee-deep in a decades-long battle between two different philosophers slamming each other in essay form, which is entertaining, but it doesn’t really help your research.

Plo: if you think it’s awkward when your padawan accidentally calls you “dad”, try hearing it from your commander.

Shaak Ti: There’s an assassination attempt of the diplomat you’re escorting, but the assassin only has a low caliber blaster. That was just a pedestrian effort.

Mace: Your Grand Master says something cryptic in front of dignitaries and you have to nod along sagely, but you know you’re going to spend the next 3 days wondering what he meant.

Kit: you can’t get anyone else on the council on board with your idea of holding meetings underwater.

Yoda: Tell padawans not to break rules, you must. Broken several in the last hour, you have.

[medicmagpie]

*slaps Jedi*

“This bad boy can fit so much mandobait in it.”

[ampersandworm]

Welcome to the Jedi Order! we have some equipment for you:

Here is a your huge fucking Laser Sword, a tool for murdering people.

Please do not murder people, as it is against the Jedi Code.

Here is your huge fucking Laser Gun, a tool that has only one purpose, and that is murder.

Again, murder is very naughty. Please do not murder anyone.

Here is your Jedi Costume, a very distinct mode of dress which you must wear at all times so everyone will know you are a Jedi.

Mission: We're sending you to spy out our enemies. No one must know you are a Jedi.

As a Jedi, you have mystical powers beyond the grasp of ordinary mortals, including the ability to dominate and mentally control others.

dominating and mentally controlling others is against the Jedi Code. Please do not misuse your powers for Evil. Just use your powers to do what we, the Jedi Council, has determined is Good (A little mental domination on Bad People is okay).

the universe contains Bad People, known as the Sith. You will be able to tell they are Bad because of the way they dress

and also they will be trying to murder you the entire time.

Fortunately, the Sith are completely extinct, due to Reasons.

Don't worry about it. Thank you for joining the Jedi Order! Rest assured you are on the side of Good, and will never be asked to Do A War Crime.

[urdnotflexthejedibard]

Welp. After a good 18 months of doing everything right and being fully vaxxed, Covid has finally found my house. One of my truly wonderful housemates is feeling awful (I tested negative as of Wed. but I'm waiting on another test from today).

I'm having horrendous writer's block.

All of my hobbies are work.

And speaking of work, I haven't had so much as a job interview since March.

In conclusion:

[whynotpretty-and-weird]

I went to go see Star Wars: The Force Awakens and I brought a lightsaber, and I stood up, looking for it because I couldn’t find it. I yelled at my brother where it was, and he said it was in my hand. I looked down, and there it was. In my hand. The people in the rows behind me started laughing and clapping at me and it was the best thing ever. Now I know what kind of Jedi I’d be.

[rum-inspector]

I wonder if mom has kept my lightsaber?

things grown ass women think in the middle of Wednesday.

[themedicwhomeeps]

Mastery and Duties Away

PERSONAL LOG - KEEPER FYET-GREYSTORM BEGIN AUDIO PLAYBACK One galactic standard week on Nar Shaddaa has given me very little in the way of hope for their scientific research methodologies. I know what Arbiter Nyomi would say but honestly, one would think that independent medical facilities with no allegiance to either Republic or Empire would have combined the medical knowledge and methodologies of both to come up with something new. To be fair, I imagine few would be pleased about me being on Nar Shaddaa at all, but it seemed a good place to look into twi'lek neurophysiology and endocrinology. Sad as it is to say, sometimes the best place for insight into neurochemistry and endocrinology is through the research of those having to deal with patients suffering the aftermath of taking illicit drugs. Besides, I have Alti, Keyvaar and Aranar'aliit to back me up. Thus far Keyvaar managed to dissuade one of those former 'cookery cultists' from identifying me as his former deity. I wish he hadn't done it via a blow to the head, mind you... AUDIO LOG - TRAINING GROUNDS, TYTHON BEGIN AUDIO PLAYBACK "...I understand the sentiment, Ryall, but Force telekinesis is not always only used for throwing things! Try creating a shield so that Vi'ine can finish healing without worrying about a blaster bolt to the back! And if you're going to throw anything at the enemy, perhaps try a rock and not the medkit you will want to use later! ...Thank you." PERSONAL LOG - KEEPER FYET-GREYSTORM BEGIN AUDIO PLAYBACK THORN budgetary review meeting. Apparently they wanted to take funds away from preventative measures in order to secure a heavier funding allocation towards weapons. I spent two hours making a bit of a speech about how 'friendly fire isn't' and that I doubted anyone on Alderaan, Corellia, Tatooine, Taris or any of the other places where rakghoul plague comes up really needed more people shooting. In the end, the extra budgetary allocation went to development of more easily deployed research / treatment staging grounds and early warning systems, and there will evidently be a discussion with relevant personages about deploying backup from the Republic military if required during an outbreak. I think that the Supreme Chancellor will agree to that because she really does need a way to save face after recent events... AUDIO LOG - LIBRARY, GREYSTORM ESTATE BEGIN AUDIO PLAYBACK "Mom wants to know if you're going to make an appearance at this dinner tonight." "You mean the formal affair at which I will have to wear that dress I can't breathe in and be polite to Devoy Lyrri, whose emotional resonance around me is very inappropriate. Can I avoid it without being rude?" "Probably. You're good at that. Plus you have all that research. Thanks for getting better at not filling my head with it, by the way." ".................." *siiiiiiiiiiiigh* "Nerf it. Find me a more comfortable dress and I'll go." "I'll punch Devoy Lyrri if you want." "You will not, Mae. You're the heir. You can't go around punching people. Particularly not since he will probably be thrown at you as a potential suitor next." "Aw, NERFBISCUITS." *giggle* PERSONAL LOG - KEEPER FYET-GREYSTORM BEGIN AUDIO PLAYBACK I know I was only supposed to be at the University of Coruscant for three days for use of their archives. However, when the head of their Biological Sciences department asked me to contribute to their research on an interesting variation on ascomycetous pneumoconiocis, I could hardly say no, given my ... erm, expertise with fungal infection of that type. It shares a lot of commonalities with PX-133, though thankfully not with the Dark Side component and the massive multi-organ spread. Still, there is the fever to contend with, and ascomycetous pneumoconiocis is a fairly significant issue given how many of our forces end up in Rishi jungle dealing with Revanites... AUDIO LOG - FORT GARNIK MEDBAY, ORD MANTELL BEGIN AUDIO PLAYBACK "--Yes, I know I said I was on my way to Tython, and I will get there. But when we picked up the warning about the outbreak of Corellian mumps, I was hardly going to ignore it, was I? You know as well as I do the damage that sort of epidemic can do in a closed community that hasn't been receiving more than the bare necessities, nutritionally speaking. ...Yes, I'm fine, I have Alti and Keyvaar. We're in the Meepmobile, at least, so we can inoculate and treat those that need it. ...Yes, we dropped Arbiter Nyomi off at Carrick Station; she was afraid Ahri would try getting her to teach younglings again if she stopped on Tython, but I will be fine. You know everyone here is nice to me. And I'm making grazer loaf. ...Yes, I will send some back via Alti. ...Thank you. Send my love to Muffin. ...You always have my love, silly man." PERSONAL LOG - KEEPER FYET-GREYSTORM BEGIN AUDIO PLAYBACK I've had to cut short my research with the healers in the Kalikori settlement. According to Marran comms, Primatrix Alasha has gone missing under circumstances that suggest she was wounded during capture. I need to go back because we will no doubt be looking for her and it sounds very much like she will need a healer when we find her. She's been there for me when I needed a rescue; it would be unfair of me not to respond in kind. In any case, I haven't been learning much new, so cutting matters short won't do too much damage to my research goals. I need to get back to the Rest and compile everything with the details that Xze sent via Primatrix Alasha. I wish she hadn't decided to make a game of this whole load of nerfery. I also wish she'd stop calling me by the name of my Sith ancestors. But never mind; the important thing is that I'm packed and ready to go-- ...Oh. The Council wants a word before I go. I hope they won't mind a fairly informal update if they want to know the state of affairs in the Kalikori settlement... *                                 *                                      * The offer hit Jallira like a fast-moving speeder. She sensed it coming - had started to sense it somewhere in the middle of the status report on her various activities over the last year. The Meepmobile, her padawan, the training courses she ran on Tython, the medical lectures ... the reasoning behind making it official was her status as semi-formal liaison between the Jedi and Luka Sene Councils, as generally they wouldn't assign less than a Jedi Master for that sort of thing. However, when Raiyden had offered her the role of liaison, and she'd taken it because it needed to be done, the Jedi Council had apparently started to take notice. They'd evaluated, and somewhere along the line, they decided that she had earned the rank. For all her overdeveloped sense of self-effacing modesty, logic told Jallira that they weren't precisely wrong. Rank and title were not rewards; she'd learned that from her Naming. Even her unofficial Naming to Apothecary had come weeks after she'd taken on all the responsibilities of an Apothecary, and the formal Naming had been just that - a formality. Even leaving that part of it aside, though, from an objective point of view, she'd come so far since joining the Marran. She'd done so much good, helped so many people. She'd developed - or possibly just proved - patience, wisdom, compassion ... and most of all, self-awareness and self-discipline. She wasn't even meeping. She could indulge in that later, when she wouldn't look like a silly nerf in front of the entire Jedi Council. But once upon a time, she wouldn't have been able to help it. If she turned it down, as part of her longed to do, it would be like saying that every bit of good she'd done, every bit of progress she'd made didn't matter. Modesty was one thing, but acknowledgement of progress was something else. She never let anyone else duck the results of effort like this. She should follow her own example. So instead of meeping, or hiding in her hood, she bowed her head respectfully and said, "I am honoured, and will continue to justify your faith in me." She knelt when they asked her to, and heard the Council's words, heard the weight of tradition behind them. But the part that resonated most with her came at the end: "Protect and guide the Republic as the Force guides you." As she rose, she wondered if she was actually obliged to tell anyone within the Marran about this. If nothing else, the 'Master Meepers' jokes were going to last forever once this got out.