The Jedi Iroh
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a neat little, slightly magical object for Jedi Pilgrims and Circle of the Light Hand to help unite them together and signify their membership.
- Image Source: Paige's Medallion
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Tiland Kortun & the Jedi Pilgrims
- Affiliation: Jedi Pilgrims/Circle of the Light Hand
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Haysian Smelt
- Conductor: Haysian Smelt is a very conductive metal, meaning the pendants themselves retain this specific property of the metal, allowing them to short-circuit and fry minor electronic security systems.
- Force Imbued: Crafted with care by the finest artisans the Jedi Pilgrims and the Circle of the Light Hand can muster, each pendant is hand-crafted with care and love for each member of the respective orders as they take their vows. As a result, these can be sensed as a faint Light-side presence.
- Distant, but together: The main feature of the pendants is that they have been imbued with the Force and connected to each other, allowing them to serve as a faint beacon and a weak Force-based communicator between their carriers, capable of sending sensations, brief images, and flashes of emotions to anyone else who wears a pendant. They can also function as a form of compass, with sensations growing stronger the closer they are to each other, allowing wearers to follow the sensations to find another pendant, and ideally, its wearer.
- Conductor: By acting as a conductor, this pendant can be applied to electronics and overload the circuits, tripping the breakers and disabling it temporarily.
- Force-Imbued: With the application of the Force, the metal has become more durable than its non-imbued counterparts. It also has a faint Light-side signature.
- Connected: Wearers can sense the directions and relative distance of everyone else carrying a pendant by holding it in both hands and concentrating on it and the Force, giving them a sense of where all other members of the Circle and the Pilgrims are, as well as potentially transmitting brief images, emotions, and sensations to others who wear them. However, it is not possible to pick someone to send the sensation too. It can only go to all of them.
- Light-Side: Despite being only faintly imbued, these are more difficult to hide within the Force, making it easier to be detected by other Force-users while wearing it, since that was its purpose. Powerful applications of Dark Side powers can overwhelm and destroy its imbuement.
- Only works while worn: If a Jedi isn't wearing their pendant, it won't work to help other Jedi find them or call for help, and can be used to lay a false trail to lead Jedi astray.
- Conductor: It conducts electricity. If not careful, it can conduct electricity from a source to the wearer, shocking, electrocuting, or even causing severe harm.
- Connected: Since all pendants are bound through the Force as a means of transmitting emotions, sensations, and images, they can be over-powered by a Force user with enough power or by a wearer experiencing extreme sensations that will rebound through the minds of everyone wearing one.
Shared symbols bind people together. As the Jedi Master asked to form a Jedi organization for the Outer Rim with the dissolution of the Outer Planets Alliance and its systems, Tiland Kortun was aware of this and set about designing something simple, elegant, and practical to help tie the scattered Jedi of the Outer Rim on a symbolic and actual level. Speaking with other Jedi artisans and his own experience with imbuement, they ordered a shipment of Haysian smelt and forged small pendants from the metal, marked in esoteric and ancient symbols.
More practically, the metal was imbued before the process began, allowing the metal to all be connected on a spiritual/metaphysical level, even when physically separated, symbolizing the unity of the Pilgrims and Light Hand, despite their penchant for nomadic lifestyles and decentralization. Unified in the Force, separate in physicality. As each member takes their vows to formally join the respective organization, they are given one of the pendants in a ceremony akin to a padawan's knighting, although it can be done for a Jedi of any level, depending on when they choose to join.
The pendants are small enough to be held on a human's palm and easy to slip beneath a tunic. If not, they just look like a traditional piece of religious jewelry. Thanks to its unique metal, they can be used to override some electronics, for when they find themselves needing a little trick to outsmart more technologically-supplied opponents, especially doors and security locks, helping them to evade and escape basic imprisonment, or disable criminal's electronics systems, as well as frying slaver's control systems when that occurs.
More importantly for the Jedi, their connection in the Force ties all wearers together. By clutching the pendant in both hands and concentrating on the sensation, they sense the direction and relative distance of every other Jedi who is wearing a pendant. They can even send brief telepathic messages through that bond, limited to an image, a feeling, or a single idea. This way, it gives the members of the Circle of the Light Hand and Jedi Pilgrims to have a basic means of communication through each other, since they do not have a temple or a council or any of the more-established communications networks that more centralized organizations have access to.
Small, discrete, useful, and resonant in both symbolism and the Force, the pendants are the perfect symbolic badge for the members of these closely related Jedi organizations who's greatest emphasis is humble service, unobtrusiveness, and aiding the poorest and most overlooked in the galaxy.
11/27/20- Changed from Minor to Limited
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