Preserving the Past

[Darth Abyss]

While the temple still was intact, the power that guarded the door had been strong and hard to deceive, but like anything else inside the temple time and decay had taken their toll on it. Without darkness around him, the door allowed him to hear the echos of the past, and therefore of those who knew how to open it.

A mechanism inside the door that only could be set in motion by the force, small yet complex. His hands moved over the cold metal as his mind extended into the force, searching for the right place. What a fascinating riddle the jedi had left him behind. Even if the knowledge behind the door would disappoint him, the way through the door would not. He was already set to document the mechanism afterwards, as the way it worked would be useful to recreate.

A small click was the only sound the door made as it slowly swung open, revealing a small room with two bookshelves to Abyss. He could already feel the darkness that waited in the books as he traversed inside. Most of the books he had seen before, classics writen by authors like Darth Revan that many sith libraries did hold. It would take some time to look through all of them to see if there was anything rare that had been hidden away in here.

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[Darth Abyss]

Double post, please ignore.

 

[Celiana]

I felt a disturbance in The Force and I figured that it stemmed from Abyss but I also felt that there'd been a shift in the temple...As it was my probe had copied all of the books I'd given it so far and I'd been granted materials to work with, a Force imbued blade, and several original Echani manuscripts along with a trove of data-disks and data-wafers. If it was The Force's will to allow Abyss access to Sith secrets here on Ossus I wouldn't stand in the way of that, besides things had a way of balancing out. The information and materials I'd been granted would have to be offset by Abyss gaining something valuable to him here.

I felt the prickle of electricity along my spine and my arms but I ignored it for the moment. I was eager to learn more from Master Gan and we'd recently started learning the power of Electric Judgement... Now I felt as though I'd strengthened my connection to The Force. Opening my eyes I saw there were green sparks dancing along my arms coalescing in my open hands. Closing my hands into fists I rose and after slinging my pack back over my shoulder I began to wander again through the library...

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[Darth Abyss]

Abyss wandere up and down in the small room, looking for ... he actually didn't know. It never had been documented what exactly exar-kun had been looking for, besides the general notion of sith knowledge, so he had no clue what kind of secret knowledge could be found here. Sure there where the books, but with any he looked at his frustration began to rise. Everyone of them he had already read while he still resided at the Academy, and they had nothing new to offer to him. There had to be something, something that was dangerous and powerful enough to make the jedi to completely block the entrance into the room.

His hands moved over the pages, his mind already slightly absent and exhausted from keeping his presence hidden. After the electric shock from the blades he would rather prefer to don't take any risks with the jedi sorcery that still resided in the temple. His hand moved over a book, that was particularly old and ragged, and his eyes looked at its title. "The Legend of the Shapers and seers. The darkside besides the sith.", written by a guy he had never heard of before. Interesting.

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[Celiana]

I was unsure if The Force had anything more to show me here... I'd already been granted access to materials I'd be using for the alchemically altered healing bracer, a Force-imbued blade, and ancient Echani manuscripts detailing what I believed to be the ancient ways of combat. From what little I'd heard of those arts I knew they were brutal in their applications but absolutely breathtaking to behold. I was still unsure of what the data-disks and cards held but for all I knew they were weapon designs...

I was also wary of the possibilities of what Abyss might find...There was much knowledge here and not all of it was geared towards the Light. The dark artifacts here were locked away for a reason I just hoped I wouldn't be the one to find out why...

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[Darth Abyss]

Abyss began skipping through the pages, fascinated by this new and rather exotic find. The shapers, a sect of force users that had far smaller numbers than jedi and sith was already interesting to him, but a the fact that he never even heard of the book made it so even more. The pages where filled with words in a rather hasty handwriting, and many pages where empty or only partly finished. It seemed like the author never actually finished his project, leaving Abyss with a million clues but no conclusion.

He slowly dropped to the ground, crossing his legs in meditative stance, the book resting in his hands. By now he was sure that the security measures wouldn't kill him if he released his focus from the cloak that shrouded his presence, so instead his mind moved on to the book. It only took him two sentences to get completely lost in the words, drifting through all the information that had been hidden for so long.

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[Celiana]

On idle curiousity I rose from my meditation and walked over to the search kiosk. Keying in my search parameters I entered Jedi - Relationships - personal accounts and Same-Sex. Then I hit enter. I didn't expect there to be much honestly maybe some journals in an electronic format. From my knowledge there weren't ever many same sex couples even known about within the Jedi. My growing attraction to Master Rasu as well as my experience with Aria had me concerned and I wanted to at least be able to read through and meditate upon other Jedi's words and thoughts on the matters of relationships, attachments, and so forth.

After a few minutes the screen chimed and to my surprise there was a trove of data in digital formaton all of those topics. Printing out a list of the resources I began walking towards the digital archives with an assortment of datasticks. If there was somehting that could help me with this then I'd take whatever help I could from the Libraries of Ossus...

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OOC: Sorry it took me so long to get back to this thread. My muse kinda dried up for a bit but it's back now! so yay.

 

[Darth Abyss]

The book was a fascinating piece. A combination of first hand accounts of living with the shapers and a collection of academic accounts taken from other works to set them into context. As fascinating as the rest where the few informations about the author that could be found. From what Abyss could puzzle together he had been a former jedi who turned away from the order in a ideological crisis, searching for wisdom outside of the well known orders of sith and jedi. Sadly the descriptions about the shapers famed techniques were of a strictly describing natur, revealing nothing about the actual ways to archive the forming and manipulation of nature.

Abyss scanned through the pages, devouring anything written on them in almost unbelievable tempo. Slowly he got the picture of the mindset beyond the shapers and their philosophy. That knowledge alone would have been enough to satisfy his hunger, but as he came to the last few pages, the stylistic of the writing changed.
"Day 230. My live under the shapers came to an sudden stop. This morning a strange man came into the village, shrouded in a dark robe, speaking and acting like a sith. The shapers called him an outsider and heretic, because he taught himself how to utilize the "invisible" ways of the force. He came to face me personally, and for the sake of the village I decided to come with him. I don't know what awaits me."

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[Celiana]

As I made my way towards the digital archives I wondered what I'd find there. I was cautiously optimistic about what I'd find there and I knew that if anything I needed to be able to see and read through some of these accounts of relationships from Jedi of the past. From research I'd done I'd always figured that Jedi had the desire for love and a mate the same as anyone else but that there were certain members of the Order prior to Anakin Skywalker's fall that had a more...passionate side to them. Masters Depa Billaba, Aayla Secura, and Shaak Ti, along with Master Qui-Gon Jinn. Those were only the masters...

There were also examples such as Master Skywalker's apprentice Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee. I wanted the knowledge and stories of these Jedi to draw my own conclusions from. Finally making my way to a door leading into the digital archives I pressed a button on the doorframe and walked through eager to begin collecting the information I'd been searching for.

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