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To the High Council of the Jedi Order
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| Master_Kadek | Date: Monday, 09 December 13, 7:10 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Masters,
I would like to propose a fairly radical solution to the Eriadu situation. Bearing in mind the problems the recruitment of Jedi in the sector faces, and noting the precedent of the Almas Academy... I would like to propose the establishment of a Jedi Academy on Eriadu.
I am told that the likely result of the convention if we do not establish a school on Eriadu will be the passing of a Sector Edict from the Governor mandating pre-natal screening of all children for midi chlorion levels, and giving parents the option to electively abort fetuses destined for the Jedi Order. This isn't right. I urge you, Wise Beings of the High Council, accept my proposal and save these younglings from being snuffed out before they can even leave the womb.
I personally volunteer to head the new institution, and have had decades of experience in training eager young minds.
The Governor of Eriadu assures me he will set aside a suitable building for our use, and funds to establish a suitable environment, plus three years institutional funding. Additional funding has been offered by the government of Alsakan in the form of a trust fund which would fund the Eriadu Academy indefinitely.
We ought to only have three (at most) younglings from Eriadu yearly so the school then at most have circa sixty pupils when it reaches peak numbers in a couple of decades.
Once pupils reach the age of reason (14 on Eriadu) they will be offered the choice of transferring to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant or finishing their apprenticeship on Eriadu.
I believe all we require ought to be two Jedi Knights to be posted to the Academy. A Lightsaber instructor and one familiar with the education of the young. If there are no other volunteers, my two former padawans have expressed their willingness to train at such an institution.
The Eriadu Academy would have its own council of the two knights and I who would make day to day decisions about the Academy. We would teach the standard curriculum of the Jedi Order to pupils and hopefully provide some services where we can in the Seswenna Sector (schooling the younglings in agricorps methods and having field trips to fertilise barren worlds for example) to help boost the Jedi Order's profile. The Jedi code would be the measure by which pupils will be trained and the school run.
The Jedi Council on Coruscant would have oversight over this Academy and could send teachers or observers as they saw fit. The council would be sent regular reports . I suggest a charter being issued on a decade by decade basis, so if the Academy fails an intensive inspection the Order would have the right not to re-issue the charter and consolidate the pupils to the Coruscant Temple.
Thus we can have everyone happy and Eriadus children need not leave Eriadu, diffusing the current crisis.
Id appreciate a prompt response in either the affirmative or the negative so I can announce this to the Eriadu convention as it sits on its second day... If we can announce this then the radical religion on Eriadu will have the wind totally taken from its sails and we will have the situation totally in our serene hands. Then from Eriadu I can watch and observe this sect, and hopefully moderate them via entering in rational and civil discourse with their leaders. I believe sentient beings to be rational, and I'm sure reason and tolerance dwell in the Eriadu people.. However it may seem shrouded at present..Added (09 December 13, 7:10 AM)
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Sirs,
As I haven't had an answer or even confirmation of receipt within the timeframe specified; I can only conclude the High Council is in deadlock or other problem. I must do what the living force is guiding me to, and I will propose this to the Eriadu Convention, today. I will proceed to the convention immediately and present my proposal.
Respectfully,
Jedi Master Kadek
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Master Sentinel, Jedi Order
Watchman of Sullust
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| Tobias_van_Zant | Date: Wednesday, 05 February 14, 3:43 PM | Message # 2 |
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| Master Kadek,
You are my superior both in years and in wisdom, and if you weren't as beloved on Sulon as you are, I'd have preferred that you be Master of the Order, not me. But the Council has made its choice, and it is I who have replaced Master Tching in this role. You are owed an explanation, Kadek—Master Tching appears to have become obsessed with some mystery in his meditations, so much so that he neglected his duties as Master of the Order. Indeed, the Council was only able to convene in a crisis session, in which the vote to excuse Master Tching from his duties was unanimous. Your letter of the 9th was one of many important letters that has gone unanswered, and I am endeavoring to "catch up," as it were. I sincerely hope that this reply won't be too late.
You'll be pleased to know that the Council and myself support your proposal for an Eriadu Academy. I must caution you, however: the Almas Academy is no "precedent," Master Kadek. It is a heretical institution—an institution that Coruscant is tolerant of, but heretical nonetheless. We support your proposal on the assurance in your letter that the standard Jedi curriculum will be taught at this Eriadu Academy. This most certainly won't be an "Almas on the Orrineswa." Indeed, the Council also respectfully declines Governor Tarkin's offer of funding and a building for this Academy—perhaps the Governor isn't to blame for this "Eriadu Convention," but that is precisely the point; he is subject to the whims of a capricious majority on Eriadu that is hostile to the Jedi Order. The hand he extends in friendship today his people may be force him to raise against us tomorrow. No, Eriadu is quite out of the question; any Academy there would be a target of anti-Jedi demonstrations, or worse. Thus, I've directed the Council to establish the Eriadu Academy on neighboring Seswenna.
And needless to say, Master Kadek, the Council has approved of you to be headmaster of this Academy. There was very little disagreement on this point, certainly not from me. I'm also making you the Jedi Order's formal emissary to this Eriadu Convention, so that you may communicate your proposal to the Governor and his people with Coruscant's full support.
Other particulars about the Eriadu Academy (such as how often its charter is renewed, who the instructors will be, etc.) can be determined at a later time. It's more immediately relevant for you to know that, upon reviewing Master Tching's recent correspondence, he appears to have dispatched the Jedi Knight "Havoc" Bruder to Eriadu to reconnoiter the Convention there. I'm unable to reach him at the moment (I suspect he is in hyperspace en route to Eriadu), but you may inform him that, as you are now the formal emissary of the Order, he may report to you for further instructions. If you have no use for him, however, do send him back to Coruscant so that I may be acquainted with him.
May the Force be with you, my friend, Master Kadek.
Yours truly,Added (05 February 14, 3:43 PM)
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P.S. Here is a droid's conception of the Eriadu/Seswenna Academy that the Council has approved:
Tobias Van Zant
Jedi Master
Master of the Order
Chief Jedi Phenomenologist
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| Master_Kadek | Date: Thursday, 27 February 14, 8:55 PM | Message # 3 |
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| Master Van Zant,
Respectfully I must ask to be allowed to select my own location while situating it on Seswenna.. This admittedly pretty place you've selected looks like it's been picked out of a teenage girls ideal romance location. No indeed, Master Novastar I must insist that if I am to train the young it must be in a solemn and simple place of smooth walls, with excellent facilities for brisk outdoor exercise and ideally with bathing facilities at a cold temperature. You must be familiar with how young Padawans can be and it would bring great shame to me if it were to transpire that such a romantic environment lead these youths away from the Jedi Path.
I will build a simple temple myself if I must, Master, but this location gravely troubles me as being serene but unbalanced, a place of warmth and feeling, not the quiet composure that befits the training of the future of our Ancient Order. The passions of youth I believe would be better served by locating them in a more alpine locale, away from local settlements by a good few hours, reducing options of fraternization, and in a monestary which evokes the serious philosophy of the order, there is something very aristocratic about that design.. An arrogance of nobility which would turn the locals against us, in our white towers separated by water men cannot easily cross.. it simply feels wrong, if I may humbly solicit the Order allow me to see to construction in a simple monastic style. A place of serenity rather than a castle with fortifications to keep the outsiders out, I would wish to welcome all in to the Academy and talk to them so they might better understand what we stand for and empathize with our goals.
Jedi Master Kadek
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Master Sentinel, Jedi Order
Watchman of Sullust
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| Tobias_van_Zant | Date: Sunday, 02 March 14, 9:53 PM | Message # 4 |
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| Master Kadek,
I haven't concerned myself with the aesthetic of the Academy, Master Kadek. Depicted is a simple structure of reinforced masonry. It is isolated from anti-Jedi demonstrators or provocateurs, which was the purpose of its locale (which has a picturesque quality to it, I suppose—suffice to say, this wasn't a consideration of the Council). I confess to a deep pessimism about winning over the famously truculent people of the Seswenna Sector. I'm not interested in "welcoming in" those who cast crude aspersions on the Jedi Order. However, I do agree with you; the Seswenna Academy should foster serious-minded contemplation of Jedi philosophy, without distractions. Perhaps, indeed, an alpine location would be more desirable for this purpose, while also providing the Academy with the requisite isolation from the caprice of the general public. Very well, Master Kadek, you may oversee the design of the Academy. But the Council shall handle all funding, contracting, and property considerations.
You are my confidence in this project, Kadek.
Yours truly,
Tobias Van Zant
Jedi Master
Master of the Order
Chief Jedi Phenomenologist
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