Boo's Sketchbook of Questionably Bad Ideas

[Zak Dymo]

During his time as a Knight of Ren, Boo dabbled in alchemy and created a variety of things to counter the Silver Jedi's lightside relics (such as the Chiyo Amulet in opposition to the Sasori Circlet).

This thread is for submissions for the Token Dark Side Teammate.

Obviously, once we have the Factory 5.0 templates, I'll update the OP.

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: A personal weapon for [member="Boo Chiyo"]
• Image Source: Drahcirh (DeviantArt); photoshop by me
• Canon Link: N/A
• Restricted Missions: N/A
• Primary Source: Lightsaber | Shoma Ike's Training Lightsaber

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: [member="Boo Chiyo"] (child labor) and [member="Théodred Heavenshield"] ("supervising")
• Model: N/A
• Affiliation: Individual Character Name ([member="Boo Chiyo"])
• Modularity: No
• Production: Unique
• Material: Sarassian Iron (shroud), Rancor leather (grip), Kyber crystal shard, Diatium power cell

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Lightsaber Shoto
• Size: Hand-and-a-Half (youngling) | One-Hand (adult)
• Length: 26cm (hilt), 66cm (blade), 92cm (overall)
• Weight: 1 kg

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Pressure Grip (biometric reader)
• Blade Power Adjustment Knob

Strengths:

• Blade power adjustment knob allows non-lethal training use.
• Pressure grip. Operates based on a combination of hand pressure and biometric reading.

Weaknesses:

• Not Water Resistant. Submersion of the emitter matrix into water, even just 1 inch, will render the lightsaber inoperable until it can be repaired.
• Basic Lightsaber. Cannot be used to deflect slugthrower rounds or deflect paddle beam-based weapondry. Does not cut through amphistaff. Has no dual phase capability. This is as basic as a lightsaber gets.
• Pressure Grip. This lightsaber cannot be wielded telekinetically or through other remote manipulation, due to the biometric grip.

DESCRIPTION
Jedi love their lightsabers. During his time as a Knight of Ren and as an agent of the Primeval Bleeding Sun, Boo honestly couldn't be assed to construct a lightsaber. Or really care about them in general. He has an amphistaff for those sorts of things. Unfortunately, he's the padawan to the most lightsaber happy moron this side of the Tingel Arm, [member="Théodred Heavenshield"], who apparently feels that constructing a lightsaber is supposed to be some life-altering ordeal in the career of a padawan.

Jedi be crazy, yo.

Unfortunately for Boo, Théo controls his allowance. And this lightsaber thing turned out to be an allowance dependent item on the chore list. Now, Boo might not care about lightsabers, but his allowance...? That will get his attention. And Théo possibly, maybe, has a point that it's much easier to conduct training if Boo's armed with something other than a Yuuzhan Vong biot (which doesn't really have a non-lethal setting...).

Using some scrap Sarassian iron, the lightsaber is hardly attractive. It's basically just a metal tube housing electronics. When told that he needed to "church it up" the boy took some leather scraps and dressed it up a bit. This is the weapon of a street rat, intended to get dragged along, banged around, and otherwise abused. The only thing really distinctive about it, Boo's lightsaber burned in his favorite color... blue.

 

[Zak Dymo]

​

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: A Taozin amulet bracelet for [member="Boo Chiyo"].
• Image Source: HZMAN Mix 4+1 Bracelet (Amazon.com)
• Canon Link: N/A
• Restricted Missions: N/A
• Primary Source: Taozin Amulet | Laufeyson Bracelet

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: [member="Boo Chiyo"]
• Model: N/A
• Affiliation: Individual Character Name ([member="Boo Chiyo"])
• Modularity: No.
• Production: Unique
• Material: Taozin nodule, Rancor leather; Numatra snakehide; Wroshyr wood; Durafiber cord

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Taozin nodule enables wearer to hide their presence in the Force.

Strengths:

• Hide in Plain Sight. The bracelet masks the presence of the wearer to Force Sensitives. This allows a Dark Sider, such as Boo, to more easily co-exist in a Jedi-heavily population.

Weaknesses:

• No Armor Value At All. A good kitchen knife could cut through this.
• Passive Use Only. The Taozin nodule creates enough of a nullification field to mask Boo's latent Sithspawn presence, but actively using the Dark Side of the Force will negate the protection.

DESCRIPTION
Boo's Taozin bracelet was an idea born of necessity. As a Sith poisoned individual, severed from the Light Side of the Force, the Taozin nodule allows him to more easily co-exist alongside the Silver Jedi. When he's not actively using the Force, Boo's Dark Side aura disappears. Any use of the Dark Side overcomes this protection, but it's at least some way in which Boo can diminish his own presence around the Jedi.

Physically, the Taozin nodule took the form of a 4+1 leather and cloth fashion bracelet. The layers of Rancor leather, Numatra snakehide, and Wroshyr wood make it difficult to pick out the Taozin sinew and bone at the center of the piece.

 

[Zak Dymo]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: A Jedi Academy location for the Silver Jedi Order; a base of operations for the Padawan Initiative.
• ​Image Credit:
  Upper image: Temples of Melchizedek (cover art) Brian T. Collins
• Middle image: Forest Steps by Tassels (Tumblr)
• Lower image: Wookiepedia (Resistance Base; The Force Awakens screencap)

[*]Canon: Jedi Temple (Alaris Prime)
[*]Links: The Padawans: Homecoming
SETTING INFORMATION

• Structure Name: The Alaris Temple
• Classification: Jedi Temple
• Location: Alaris Prime
• Affiliation: The Order of the Silver Jedi
• Accessibility: Hidden/Concealed. Approach from the ground is obscured by a combination of the Force and vegetative overgrowth. The gates into the temple and the airspace approaching the landing pad are not prohibited, but they are watched. Doorways leading into the temple structure require two-part identification; at least one of which must be biometric.
• Security: In order to maintain a minimalist presence, aside from the padawans themselves, the Alaris Temple is patrolled by Saotome Sentinel Droids, which are easily mistaken for mere spiders. A handful of Jedi Architect Droids serve as caretakers of the facility, and can provide physical security if required. The majority of security at the temple relies upon obscurity and mechanical locks or force field barriers to delay intruders while awaiting response from the Antarian Rangers or Jedi Knights.
• Description: A small forest temple concealed within a dense groove of wroshyr trees, the Alaric Temple is, at its most basic, a Norman-style keep atop a motte-and-bailey, except that most of the keep is underground. Where the above ground perimeter walls have crumbled, today thick wroshyr tree trunks, dense moss blankets, and thick vines form the walls around the central temple structure. A landing pad with two bunker-style hangers lies just behind the temple, but the approach through the forest canopy obscures the landing field until just shortly before landing.

POINTS OF INTEREST

• THE JEDI STEPS. The approach to the temple from the ground is easily missed, with the ancient stone steps well covered by moss and vegetation. Winding up to the first gate, as one passed through the entry it is as though the world suddenly opens up. And there, before them, is a temple they had no idea they'd been passing by.

• LANDING FIELD/HANGAR BAY. The temple is more easily recognized from the air, with an open landing pad atop which two bunker-like hangars are available for stowage of starfighter or other small patrol craft. There is typically a Saotome runabout available for use traveling the Alaric Expanse or commuting back to the Jedi Temple on Kashyyyk.

• INFIRMARY. A small medical facility capable of rendering urgent care, but lacking the full trauma or emergency medicine resources of a hospital, being intended to primarily serve as an aid station. Can stabilize a patient while awaiting evac to a hospital ship or ambulance shuttle to more robust medical facilities on Kashyyyk. Overseen by a 2-1B surgical droid assisted by a GH-7 medical analysis unit.

• LIVING QUARTERS. The Alaris Temple is small. To maximize use of space, living areas are communal and divided up into dormitories. The dormitories are further divided along gender identity for those species possessing binary gender identities. These were ordinarily referred to as the Boys Dormitory and Girls Dormitory. Limited space for those padawans or trainees requiring specialized environments for their personal comfort was also available.

• REFECTORY (KITCHEN/GALLEY). The Alaris Temple featured an open kitchen with cafeteria style seating, where padawans and trainees could prepare communal meals or make use of an autochef.

• COMMUNICATIONS CENTER. At the heart of the complex is a communications hub that serves as a make-shift situation room for the padawans training at the temple. The systems here feed off the primary Silver Jedi Temple on Kashyyyk, but are limited in the data that they receive. Only that data or information rated below a certain threat level is passed along to the Alaris Temple, and even then the information is typically limited to items of concern within the Alaris Expanse training area.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Constructed during the days of the Old Republic, the Jedi Temple on Alaris Prime served the Jedi for many generations. The location fell out of use by the Jedi and had been forgotten about by the time of the Stark Hyperspace War, at which time the ruins of the temple were re-discovered by Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi. It was used by Obi-Wan Kenobi during the Alaris Prime colonial war fought between the Wookiees and the Trade Federation between 39 and 36 BBY, during which time Kenobi recovered a Jedi holocron from out of the ruins.

Jedi Researchers from Coruscant planned a scholarly study of the ruins, but the expedition was put on hold by the onset of the Clone Wars. With the Great Jedi Purge, the location of the temple once again fell into obscurity. For nearly a thousand years, the ruins remained uncharted. When the Order of the Silver Jedi migrated to the Kashyyyk System in 851 ABY, they discovered the Alaris Expanse at the edge of Wookiee space. Antarian Rangers located the ruins of a Jedi Temple on the forest moon of Alaris Prime during a survey mission. Later that year, the Alaric Explanse was designated as a training area for a group of Silver Jedi trainees -- a program dubbed the Padawans Initiative.

Dispatched to Alaric Prime, the padawans learn humility and the model ideal of service before self by working to restore the temple ruins, make a home for themselves, and use it as a base of operations for training missions undertaken within the Alaric Expanse. In this way, the Alaric Temple allows the padawans to live and work together so that they might be a more tightly knit group of Jedi when they become the next generation of knights.

The Alaris Temple Communications Center.
(Harrson Ford not included)