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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
CONTENT INFORMATION
As a combat form, Diakoptis advocates the use of Force Valor and includes detailed instructions on how to reach the state of mind needed to employ it.
The moniker 'Way of the Gundark' refers to the animal's ferocity and its four arms, as a practitioner of Diakoptis learns to use their weapon's leverage to both strike and grapple from unexpected angles and distances. The two grips utilized by the form are the scythe and the hammer. The scythe is noted as a grip with the thumbs facing together as a farmer would hold and swing a grass-cutting scythe in a pulling motion. It's a versatile grip advocated defensively and for maximum leverage when grappling, though there are strikes detailed in the treatise from this grip.
The hammer is a conventional grip with both hands facing thumbs upwards to the striking end, off-hand placed near the butt of the weapon and the other hand mid-length. This grip is utilized to parry with the haft of the weapon between the hands, where the wielder has the most leverage to deflect a strike and rotate the haft around the enemy weapon like a fulcrum to deliver crushing full-power strikes. In particular this grip is also advocated to change engagement distance as the haft can be slid through the dominant hand to effectively shorten or lengthen the striking distance as well as the leverage of the strike as needed. Choking up on the weapon by widening the grip reduces striking distance but affords quick direction changes and thrusts, while sliding the haft through the dominant hand to narrow the grip affords maximum range, as well as increasing the tip-speed of the weapon for more powerful strikes.
In addition to using the weapon to strike Diakoptis advises one to utilize the leverage of pole weapons to engage in grappling maneuvers with the opponent. An example of this is a play that begins in scythe grip. The practitioner parries an overhead strike with the haft between the hands. Then, twists the hips and body by stepping forwards, placing his lead food behind his enemy's and slings the striking end of the haft over the opponent's head. Now that the body is coiled in one direction, it is primed to reverse direction. The practitioner snaps their hips back while pulling the weapon into the side of the opponent's jaw or neck with the goal of throwing them by pulling them to the side and forcing them to trip over the practitioner's lead leg.
All grappling plays that seek to throw an opponent to the ground advise finishing with an overhead blow referred to as a 'Morthau' or death-stroke to the head, delivered with a hammer grip and letting the weapon slide through the fore-hand for maximum power and leverage. Delivered properly to an unarmored opponent, even a wooden quarterstaff is capable of fracturing an opponent's skull this way.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Rhook Mandragoran created this treatise during the Great War that cast the galactic alliance into darkness nearly a decade ago. As a weapon master of polearms himself he sought to create a combat form that would properly inform and teach Jedi for generations to come on how to follow in his footsteps. The reception of the treatise is mixed; Jedi who prescribe to the idea that they are galactic peacekeepers who should value the lives of even their opponents may find the way in which the treatise focuses on battlefield conditions and delivering fatal blows to be antithetical to what Jedi are meant to be.
Pragmatists who are concerned with winning the wars the New Jedi Order has found itself a part of may appreciate the straight-forwardness of the Form, and may argue that the techniques the Form teaches are not universal proscriptions; it is possible to practice the form and still show mercy to an opponent, but Jedi should be armed with the most lethal of techniques in the open warfare they now find themselves in.
- Intent: Creating this to establish a form directly meant for pole-weapon style lightsabers, notably lightsaber pikes.
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- Holocron Name: The Diakoptis Treatise on the use of the staff, lightsaber pike and other derivative weapons.
- Alignment: Light aligned
- Origin: Rhook Mandragoran
- Affiliation: Galactic Alliance
- Gatekeeper: The holocron is kept in the Coruscant temple archives, which is guarded by the jedi who live within, and the archives in specific by
Auteme
- Description: The Diakoptis Treatise is an instructional holocron designed to teach the Diakoptis Form, a combat form explicitly designed for use by pole-weapon style lightsabers.
- Accessibility: It opens with the touch of a Force-sensitive.
- Security: None
CONTENT INFORMATION
As a combat form, Diakoptis advocates the use of Force Valor and includes detailed instructions on how to reach the state of mind needed to employ it.
The moniker 'Way of the Gundark' refers to the animal's ferocity and its four arms, as a practitioner of Diakoptis learns to use their weapon's leverage to both strike and grapple from unexpected angles and distances. The two grips utilized by the form are the scythe and the hammer. The scythe is noted as a grip with the thumbs facing together as a farmer would hold and swing a grass-cutting scythe in a pulling motion. It's a versatile grip advocated defensively and for maximum leverage when grappling, though there are strikes detailed in the treatise from this grip.
The hammer is a conventional grip with both hands facing thumbs upwards to the striking end, off-hand placed near the butt of the weapon and the other hand mid-length. This grip is utilized to parry with the haft of the weapon between the hands, where the wielder has the most leverage to deflect a strike and rotate the haft around the enemy weapon like a fulcrum to deliver crushing full-power strikes. In particular this grip is also advocated to change engagement distance as the haft can be slid through the dominant hand to effectively shorten or lengthen the striking distance as well as the leverage of the strike as needed. Choking up on the weapon by widening the grip reduces striking distance but affords quick direction changes and thrusts, while sliding the haft through the dominant hand to narrow the grip affords maximum range, as well as increasing the tip-speed of the weapon for more powerful strikes.
In addition to using the weapon to strike Diakoptis advises one to utilize the leverage of pole weapons to engage in grappling maneuvers with the opponent. An example of this is a play that begins in scythe grip. The practitioner parries an overhead strike with the haft between the hands. Then, twists the hips and body by stepping forwards, placing his lead food behind his enemy's and slings the striking end of the haft over the opponent's head. Now that the body is coiled in one direction, it is primed to reverse direction. The practitioner snaps their hips back while pulling the weapon into the side of the opponent's jaw or neck with the goal of throwing them by pulling them to the side and forcing them to trip over the practitioner's lead leg.
All grappling plays that seek to throw an opponent to the ground advise finishing with an overhead blow referred to as a 'Morthau' or death-stroke to the head, delivered with a hammer grip and letting the weapon slide through the fore-hand for maximum power and leverage. Delivered properly to an unarmored opponent, even a wooden quarterstaff is capable of fracturing an opponent's skull this way.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Rhook Mandragoran created this treatise during the Great War that cast the galactic alliance into darkness nearly a decade ago. As a weapon master of polearms himself he sought to create a combat form that would properly inform and teach Jedi for generations to come on how to follow in his footsteps. The reception of the treatise is mixed; Jedi who prescribe to the idea that they are galactic peacekeepers who should value the lives of even their opponents may find the way in which the treatise focuses on battlefield conditions and delivering fatal blows to be antithetical to what Jedi are meant to be.
Pragmatists who are concerned with winning the wars the New Jedi Order has found itself a part of may appreciate the straight-forwardness of the Form, and may argue that the techniques the Form teaches are not universal proscriptions; it is possible to practice the form and still show mercy to an opponent, but Jedi should be armed with the most lethal of techniques in the open warfare they now find themselves in.
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