Private Fiddlers Green

[Matsu Ike]

Coren Starchaser

The level of reconstruction and new temples that had been getting built up was... impressive. The uneti network of the choushin was beautiful as from the High plane the grandmaster touched the tree. Its bark was pulsing with life... its leaves in bloom as small prismatic tendrils came down and formed around herself and the other jedi who were there. That trees would remember much and below them the hybrids grew... orchids made by the Horn/Halcyon family that contained through engineering holocrons and jedi archives. THey had developed the trees and flowers for all of the jedi temples themselves... it would be a way to preserve what was there and the knowledge even if the archives all of them across the galaxy were damaged or destroyed. They would not lose the knowledge and they knew how to add to it.

That was while she focused on the force itself moving from the High plane to the next temple... beautiful in its design as it made the gateway to the unbeing easier to travel once you knew where you were going. She looked at the beauty of the Watch's Citadel temple itself. Rhen Var was the first they had been working on but there was others... the Temple of the Economic Watch on Navarro was the newest..... but there was something to be said about the Songs of Eons Past Temple that trained their force warriors. There was Dxun and the Imperial Knight Temple on Bastion. Great means for them to be able to work on the strike teams but the best way to develop them better was to go to the source as she was searching for Coren.. one fo the better warriors of the order who was left.

 

[Coren Starchaser]

A one time Grandmaster, a leader of Jedi, who had his own approach and sought his Force connection through the steps of a Wayseeker, Coren Starchaser understood that he was still seen, from some in the galaxy, as a hero, and a leader. He didn't mind that, but there were others who were better equipped, who worked better with others, than he. A Warden turned Jedi turned Wayseeker, Starchaser was at home on the edges of the galaxy, and the more exotic locales. So what if his main operation was now between his cruiser the Dawn Chaser and Kattada, the tropical renewable energy Temple.

After landing in his pretty-vintage-by-now Rassilon Fighter, the Wayseeker made his way towards the construction site. He had been keeping in touch with many of the Masters, though not as much as he preferred to. Still, with the invite from Matsu Ike , Coren made his way towards the other Jedi, finally willing and at a point where he was able, to help train new Jedi Sentinels. Those who would defend the light, but also, and more in line with his current approach, protect knowledge and establish communication with those other groups.

Making his way from his fighter towards the temple on Rhen Var, Coren was looking around.

Back into the fold, it seemed.

 

[Matsu Ike]

Coren Starchaser

"People forget but the force remembers." The jedi master said it while she was looking at the padawans who had been brought here. The starkly white silver of the citadel of the watch... the beautiful ice designs that went into it and sat atop the massive mountain. ABle to have a clear view from all directions. With its trams and secured location. Defensive platforms that would protect it and a planetary shielding unit able to project from it around the area. The central area of the temple was the uneti tree... the style of it connected to the stone of the temple.. the living stone that pulsed with energy and the force as the agena flowed through the temple.

"Master someone is here." The temple had an advanced system for it... it had a will in ways but the AI they had developed acted as the hardlight projection stood there looking at her. Eyes shrouded and hair blonde. The temple had chosen its look but it functioned to allow the jedi here to be protected. "We are registering it as a master Coren." The system spoke plainly and showed it on a display as the jedi master bowed. "THank you, I shall meet him before the clarity gate." The important part, a means to well calm minds as needed if it was required and in some cases act as a form of advanced defenses. The gate required twenty four hours of meditation like at Ossus.

She moved and went through one fo the passages as the shifting interior fo the temple allowed much more. The stairs and rooms able to move around thanks to the aterno system they had developed for the interior... while the exterior looked much the same. Only a few places were entirely anchored in place like the hanger bay so they could check it out. She moved standing in the silvery white robes that left her shoulders bare but it regulated the temperature so she was comfortable in the cold of Rhen Var. Her long hair in a tight ponytail down her back with kyber bells and small curled bangs over her ears.

"Master Starchaser." She said it and moved through one of the walls as it opened from the interior to the exterior. The air of the planet refreshing and gave a bow of her head. The silver of her lightsaber hilts gleaming on her hips for display as she rarely had to use them against opponents.. she had much better skills. "It has been to long since I have seen you." She offered her hands to him and a smile looking out upon the tundra of snow and ice below. The obscured trams that would go to various locations across the planet important to them as well as the various jedi who were around. "Welcome to the Citadel temple. We have just finished renovating it."

 

[Coren Starchaser]

As a spacer, he had come to not mind the cold temperatures of many ships and stations, but it was something different when it was planet side. Perhaps the call of warmer climes and aquatic worlds had softened his explorer spirit. There were plenty of worlds that had better temperatures than Rhen Var. But there was something to be said for the planets and their temples, regardless of climate. Dark brown and navy robes blew in the wind. Traveling by his fighter was a bit different. And he did miss the Y-Wing if he was going to be a fighter pilot, since he could bring Porter, but Kaia had prepped him with a small probot that had a camera and a scomp.

Not that he needed it, but she swore a smaller droid would assist with the traveling. The flight helmet and flight jacket under his cloak kept him mostly warm, and protected but wasn't exactly the most Jedi gear. Though, as much as Coren Starchaser stood for the Jedi, he was always a rebel among them, even during the time in the Sullust Alliance. The hood pulled up, and the small probot hovering off his right shoulder. On one hip was his Power 9 blaster, and on the other, his lightsaber.

"Been too long, Matsu. Since I stepped away from Kashyyyk and went to Kattada after the Io incident, I believe?" That was about where he went his own way, and became a Wayseeker, finding older traditions of the Jedi, working with his kids to blend some of these with traditional Jedi teachings to make something new, something… better.

"I've been seeing the work you and yours have been doing on the Temples. Figured it was time to come out of the wilds and check them out." The Cruiser was a few systems away and that was what he was going to take the tour the various facilities. "What are we doing here on Rhen Var?" We, was interesting, since he had been removed from the Jedi as of late.

Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

Coren Starchaser

"Double checking many of the things... we want to ensure everything functions proper and there are things within the new structures. We created and augmented the trees themselves but the connection of them in the force is still new... still wild in some ways." She said it and well she was glad to see him after everything. "Are the divers enjoying their robes? We have worked on ways to universally upgrade and update when we make improvements to the materials or the robes we have developed ourselves." She said it and guiding him as there was more.. the massive hanger spaces were designed to house more ships.

"We developed newer hangers and models that will be able to work here... with the need for jedi to have their own vessels that are not always warships. OR the needs of different orders. We have turned some of the funding we secured towards exploring better tranportation networks as the means to get around the galaxy." She continued to walk and seeing Rhen Var as it was offered some better chances for them.. they could check out the training facilities. "Since the silver jedi did build a number of temples though throughout the galaxy during out Tenure... we have started with much of the building for them and it has benefitted us."

 

[Coren Starchaser]

It did feel good to be out in the world again, a bit of a galactic tour, to help catalog what was out here, and ensure that The Selab had the most updated records. He really needed to reach Tiland and Romi to see what they had to share. But what Matsu was doing, that was something else entirely. A different way of manipulating the Force. Should this have been the Jedi of the aging Republic of the past, they may both be Sentinels, however Matsu had much more of an Artisan bend than Coren ever could hope for. "They are enjoying them, and the world of Kattada seems to be flourishing with the Divers." The Witches were definitely an interesting twist to bring to the Force.

And to a Jedi world such as Kattada.

"That was always the trick, or at least one of many tricks, getting Jedi moving. I think its why the interceptors came along. I did see some plans of a Jedi Vector, figure you may be someone interested in that?" The old Outer Rim retreats were treasure troves, honestly. "Keeping the beacons lit at the temples is important. Are other Orders making use, or just the Silver tradition?"

Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

Coren Starchaser

She looked at the plans. "AH the vectors... we have experimented with designing them and gotten a decent enough vessel to go with the various ones used in the Kenobi fleet... we have even reverse engineered their cannons into something far more effective and able to be secured on more jedi ships with increased power and range." The cannons were powerful and effective in many ways so they would be able to use them and with the newer technologies that they were bringing or developing in some cases... they had other uses such as for ssome of the more combat oriented jedi armors and vehicles where it is needed. "We will be able to do some more as well as we are developing ideas for defensive measures from things such as the drengir and nameless."

 

[Coren Starchaser]

Starchaser was like his long time friend Jorus Merrill, he had a thing for the classics. He had a TIE/Ad he was working on stashed on the family cruiser, but he also favored his Rassilon, and even made a small modification to allow Porter, his long time astromech to link into the ship from a distance. Droid had to be ported into the Dawn Chaser, but if he wasn't flying a ship needing his droid? It one thing he didn't like about the Vectors was the lack of astromech support. The Etas and Aethersprites had their own astromechs, it was helpful to give a Jedi any advantage.

Not that the Force wasn't the best advantage.

"Will the tech help with the projects for the Temples? Or are we working on a small Jedi… fleet?" He didn't hate that concept, but it wasn't choice number 1, either.

Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

Coren Starchaser

"Both.... we have developed for the temple a sophisticated hanger with gravity lattice. It allows them to house a few dozen fighter sized vessels and we have developed a range of them for different purposes from general use to stealth to escort and defensive means. Even one that act as wingmates and are droid controlled slaved to a primary vessel. For a fleet we have developed the Kenobi fleet which serves to aid and protect jedi temples where needed. The silver jedi fleets are still around and active somewhat... they have been reduced and one did run to the Galactic alliance sadly but then so did Caltin which while saddening is not a surprise."

She said it with a shrug as she didn't judge them for their actions. The jedi grandmaster showed a few more things here of the watch. "We have also been developing some other things... specifically out advanced model bio-droids which will serve to keep the temples and fleets going. We have also developed the Arisen who serve in the temples." SHe said it and the workers who were operating and keeping things going looked similar. Icy blue eyes and pale skin... blonde hair with much more but each of them was impressive to work there. The jedi master walking and leading the way. "We are able to increase some production from our artisans though as we also develop for jedi saber components to build into their blades."

 

[Coren Starchaser]

Temple life was not something Coren Starchaser was a hue developer of. He supported the Temples, don't get him wrong. A place for Jedi and other Force wielders to hone their skills, and learn the traits of what make them a Jedi? It made sense. Perhaps seeing his children take to different paths adjacent to the Jedi, while still paying homage to the Jedi. Jared and Kaia were good Jedi, they were good people. Then his other one, the Witch he watched over, was doing just as well for herself.

Witches had a lot of freedom in what they did. Perhaps it was why Jared was leaning that way nowadays.

"Will the Kenobi Fleet be there to defend all temples? Silver, New Jedi, and … the unaffiliated middle ground Temples too?" For the Wayseeker, he wanted to see what the Jedi were going to come across in the future, and see if they could work between their worlds. "I recall what the Alliance of Sullust had, our Jedi fleet was around to help."

"Bio droids? Are we working with kyber at all?"

Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

Coren Starchaser

"It can, mostly it is not as large to cover all of them at all times so allocating it to areas where it could reach them would be ideal. We are working on developing sector fleets under it. We have managed to develop better shipyards though.. it will allow us to develop them and spread out. All temples are welcomed to the fleet as needed that includes the alliance should they wish it." She said it and there was no reason why the alliance shouldn't benefit. THey had access to the jedi equipment that Sasori and the silver jedi made from robes to equipment packs and ships. "Temples in the middle will be able to always benefit... we have developed other things to help them as well."

She smiled while walking. "And we still use kyber, it had shards and dust from cutting crystals for sabers that can be used in the quintessence reactors and power cells that power all of the equipment. So one could say the heart of the jedi's equipment is the kyber itself." SOmeone had once said the brightest stars had hearts of kyber and it was true... they used the brightest stars to power the forges in the ancilla station that was built around them. "We are trying to do a lot and...." She smiled wider standing at a balcony as she motioned with a hand to the wide open snow tundra and held a hand out to one fo the bunny cats.

"OUr newest creation for the jedi." THe bio bunny cat moved onto the railing that was looking down when she nodded and it jumped into the air leaping further outwards. "The Jedi Choushin Vessel." The bunny cat rippled.. muscles expanding and elongating as it spun around and shifted into a larger vessel and remained there in the air hovering. The sound of its engines there as jumping from the ship was a Choushin Biot that came down and spoke looking at her. "Grandmaster." The biot stood there and bowed looking on as its effects was there. "ANd the companion of it... a bio-droid that communicates with you and." She spoke touching the droids shoulder. "Its tears excrete bota a potent healing means."

 

[Coren Starchaser]

Coren, as was his normal, worked in smaller groups. He and Jorus Merrill and Veino Garn had helped out the Underground, and helped lead that. And part of that lead into the Galactic Alliance when it was based off Sullust. Small teams were how he worked. Give a crew a working corvette or larger freighter and they were going to do very well. It was probably why his time with the Warbirds worked so well.

He really needed to fix his Preybird.

"And Matsu, you know as well as I do, not everywhere is needing cover at all times. I can push a few cloaked cruisers as watchman ships your way, they're not designed for heavy combat but a quick skirmish and surveillance for a larger movement, that can be done. The crews I've had running them are more Underground types, comfortable on the Rim, so that can help?" He offered.

His family cruiser was mostly around Kattada these days but he knew Jared was itching for something to do, and Kaia was working with Brooke, prepping to go deeper into the Unknown Regions. As he looked at what Matsu was indicating for the bio droid, and the ship it turned into. Coren was, needless to say, floored.

"You've outdone yourself on that one!"

Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

Coren Starchaser

The ships he was offering were... welcomed she rather liked her own but there was always a good use for those provided by others and it meant she wasn't in it alone. A smile on her face when she was checking it out and over a few things. "THe ship would be wonderful to use." She bowed and was walking while checking over many of the other things while the choushin was walking with them. She looked over at it. "I try, well that isn't always true... I do and I have those whom I have trained an army of talented jedi that are working towards the ultimate goal of improving the lives of nearly everyone in the galaxy. They have been making greater strides in that regard." She said it and there was a lot more.. they had some ideas that were prepared to be sent out and tested but they had improved it.

 

[Coren Starchaser]

Anything to help the Jedi. Coren served as a Grandmaster once, he could have served sooner, but his approach to being a Jedi was bothersome at best. He was a Rebel of the Jedi, a Wayseeker before the term was rediscovered. He knew what he was good at, and currently it was keeping his family safe. Many times that extended to all the Jedi.

"I believe I can spare about 2… a few more if you want them not-cloaked. But Starchaser Enterprises and… other friends have the other cloaked ones." He more meant the Underground and River Network, the Jedi Academy Network reborn, to move Jedi through the galaxy.

"So, Master Ike, if I am looking to coming back into the fold in a more active way, advisory at the least, where could I be used?"

Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

Coren Starchaser

She nodded. "Any amount is fine." She was not hard up and needing as many as could be retrieved... she could be patient and smiled at the mention of where he could start to help them. "What do you know about Skara Nal?" She said it with the grin getting larger. "An old treasure hunter made notes about it.. a legendary heart of the mountain treasure lost for centuries but was really an engine of power and destruction. We might be able to study it or at the least the species that created it. We have found other types of things made by lost civilizations... it is strange to think a handful of species all had the same idea and all vanished leaving little trace or explanation... Not improbable in some ways... a chance however slim could be there in its own stand alone complex."

 

[Coren Starchaser]

Coren looked to Matsu and nodded. He looked to his little probot, who still didn't have a name aside from probot. That wasn't going to do, but for now? For now, it had to. The Jedi Master nodded to the droid and hoped the understanding that getting one or two of the ships moving towards the Jedi front was going to be well understood. Then Matsu brought up something else.

Skara Nal.

"Wasn't that a weapon? Droid walker or something if memory serves." It was something that as far as he understood, was ancient during the Clone Wars, so that made it even older in this day and age.

"I've heard tale of the Forerunners here too, ancient races that have come back around. Rakata, Selkath… The like of them. You want me going after their treasures?" That was definitely on brand for the Jedi Master, and was pretty exciting to think about.

Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

Coren Starchaser

"Older, Rakata learned from the Gree, The Gree with the Kwa from the Celestials and the Celestials from things older. The monoliths we have found for mortis and the bubble of the lost were created to contain sites of primordial force energy. Mortis being its own world within and home to the Ones but the Bubble of the lost was used to contain beings of.... darkness. Something older then most things in the galaxy and even older than some of the elder beings that we have found. It is what we have worked with and faced. We found older places of the force and been able to develop them into enclaves for the jedi to train and learn."

She brought up on the screen the temple at Millinar. "We built this temple on Millinar a jedi myth... to some but it is within the transitory mists of Hapes... finding it taking navigational beacons above a direct route but it is a powerful vergence in the lightside of the force." It was a beautiful world as well with warm waters and they developed a temple where dozens of force orders resided... libraries and halls for training specifically of her Ta-Ree jedi who served as guards. "But finding artifacts is something we both do and there are more out in the galaxy... both light and dark but we have been developing means to protect and contain the dark."

 

[Coren Starchaser]

The Jedi Master did know most of his galactic history, but not all of it. Once he got beyond the Celestial history, there was a lot of varying degrees of fuzziness. Maybe he would find more of that when he found the Prime Jedi, yet another item on his list, to see how far the Jedi strayed from the Prime Jedi and the beginning. High Republic Jedi weren't enough, though, he was seeing it as a way for the Jedi to live.

Between that and the legends of Luke Skywalker.

"Seeing that we are getting into that depth of time, it may even be that we can start to locate Ossus history, and maybe even unlock the Prime Jedi's location?"

But he looked back to Matsu as she spoke about the Millinar temple. "I have to get out that way soon. Hapes Cluster, right?" The Jedi looked to her and nodded. "I really need to get out there. Its one of the worlds of myth. My daughter is out to find Tanalorr. Hoping it can be a place the Jedi can call as a refuge. So long as we keep the paths secret."

And hope no one grabbed a Path Engine.

Matsu Ike

 

[Matsu Ike]

Coren Starchaser

"Easy to do, we have been making more and more worlds into refuges and places the jedi would be able to use to preserve themselves and knowledge. Tanalor is one fo the worlds I have been wanting to see and we have been working with the children of the jedi. They made a temple and have been... well Altisians were in some ways similar but also different then other jedi. Their families being important but they evolved being cut off and think of them more like dynasty makers they keep track of bloodlines and houses of force users trying to promote stronger and stronger bloodlines while preserving knowledge."

She said it and moved. "Though protecting paths is not a problem... hyperspace paths need a skilled navigator trained in the force to do it. That is at best a small handful in the galaxy. Jorus and Rave, Ikki and I believe one of your family were notable and actually could make full use of a path engine... well and me cause we developed it to go into all of our vessels with a sophisticated AI flash cloned from the mind of a force navigator." She said the last with a grin. "It is also good for pocket force dimensions, otherspace and a number of others including being able to take a vessel into the netherworld now that we are starting to understand the rifts."

She said it and there was a whole lot more history was something for them to see and learn from... but also the chance of the future. "But we are also interested in the future... not exactly how to control and manipulate it... but the chance to study it and precognition... we have been dedicating some resources to force visions and what can be learned from them with many of our people. We have started to develop some more theories about the flow of time in regards to the cosmic force where it seems you can exist at the same point in all time periods for an instance.... though inducing the state is not exactly easy. Oneness is only for the few who have experienced it."

 

[Coren Starchaser]

He really missed having Jorus Merrill around. He knew the older man, his own teacher once upon a time, was out there, but it would help to have someone like him to locate these worlds. Tanalorr was on his track. He'd visited the worlds of Ahch-To and Ilum, but these other ones? There was a mystery to them, an air of secrecy, and Coren was interested but he was keeping a watch on the known galaxy. "So, a bit of intrigue in the Jedi families has been occurring, small states and baronies? Or has it become a working and safe environment to protect these smaller temples?" He had a temple that he was considered the Master of, out on Kattada. He didn't try to mpose any such will, or prevent others from remaining there.

After situations like Csillia, and other worlds, he knew that there was much to worry on here. And he was a Sentinel, at a time, The Sentinel.

"I have thought of toying with a path engine for my freighter, or my cruiser. It would be… interesting." Instinctive Astrogation was a skill of a few families, Merrills and Starchasers and Tillians chief among them. "Could help link the worlds in a sort of shadow network." Shadow not by being dark, but by being clandestine. "A few of us working together to form the paths could sneak between the main hyperspace routes. But… if the coordinates fell into the wrong hands…"

Matsu Ike