The Jedi Iroh
Tiland watched the island grow ever closer to the viewport as the ship settled in for a landing. A slight bump jostled up through his body as it settled down on the island. A hiss of hydraulics alerted him to their landing. A protocol droid strode over, metal feet clanking on the durasteel deck.
"Master Kortun, we have arrived at your chosen destination. What next?"
"K-2," Tiland answered slowly, "We will wait on the Force." The droid seemed rather confused, tilting its head to one side, it nodded slowly before returning to the cockpit. The old Jedi knight slung his bag of herbs over his shoulder and strode down the boarding room.
A stiff salty breeze whistled through his hair, sending a few stray locks of hair fluttering in the breeze, and whispered in his ear. Not words, but memories of time under Darkness and time under Light. Waves kissed the shore a few hundred meters away, a rhythmic dance that echoed timelessly through the halls of sun and moon as surely as the world turned. And it had turned and sung for millennium.
Tython was an ancient world, rich in memory and the Force. He sensed a Dark shadow that lay upon the world, but something else fluttered beneath- a ghost of a memory, a thread of gold adrift in the wind, just too faint to catch. Tiland tilted his head, aching to hear it bloom.
But it wasn't physical. It rippled through the fabric of the Force. With a deep breath, he ambled to the beach, each step soft in the piles of sand, shifting beneath his feet.
Records he had found listed these as the Moon Islands- a small archipelago hundreds of kilometers from the nearest continent. He couldn't find why they had been called so. It was such a mystery that would warrant further research.
Sea spray stung his lips and water droplets clung to his beard. He stood, leaning against his staff, staring off into the sea. Vast and ancient, ever-changing and eternal. Tiland was old. There was no denying that. He'd seen over eight centuries pass and go, the rise and fall of empires and republics, of Jedi and Sith. But this ocean made his life look like a blink of an eye.
Just like the Force. It existed in the beginning, long before him, and would last until the very end of the universe, as vast and mysterious it had been in the beginning. Tiland knelt in the sand, setting the staff across his lap. That golden song still lingered.
Eyes closed, Tiland breathed. It was such a simple act, so often unconscious, yet it was in such an action that kept most sentient beings alive. Deep breaths in and out, he settled into the rhythm, unconsciously matching the rhythm of the ocean-dance. A peace, thick and soft, settled over him and that ghost, that memory, floated through his mind.
It was the Light. Buried beneath years of Sith rule, the Light still remained on Tython. Like all old things, the Force here had wounds that had scarred over. Scars that ran deep, leaving rifts behind. Not unlike the Jedi themselves. They had been split apart, torn by the winds of war and Jedi as strong in personality as in the Force. Unhealable rifts? Probably not, but it would take time and cooperation, not unlike how the Jedi Academy Network had functioned. How to get Jedi from all over the galaxy to cooperate, however?
A rift appeared in the distance of Tython- a Dark Side scar. They would need to heal that, as a team, to tend the Light Side and return it to flourishing. That would take years and many Jedi.
Indeed, perhaps even a small enclave of Jedi. Jedi dedicated to service to the Light and of caring for living things. But first, they had to arrive.
Tiland stretched out further in the Force- sending his presence as far and wide as he could manage, along with a message to whatever Jedi would hear it.
Come, friends. We came from Tython and now we can return. It has been scarred by Sith and Force Storm. Come and let us tend it together, to heal it for what it once was.
Message sent, he stood and cast one last glaze over the sea. Then he strode back to the ship, setting new coordinates. He stared out the viewport across the endless ocean until they came to another place. It was a small glade in an ancient forest, with trees draped in shadow. That would be where he would begin. Not as a Jedi Knight, but as he was at his most humble - a gardener and tender of plants. Healing began at the most basic level, even for planets.
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"Master Kortun, we have arrived at your chosen destination. What next?"
"K-2," Tiland answered slowly, "We will wait on the Force." The droid seemed rather confused, tilting its head to one side, it nodded slowly before returning to the cockpit. The old Jedi knight slung his bag of herbs over his shoulder and strode down the boarding room.
A stiff salty breeze whistled through his hair, sending a few stray locks of hair fluttering in the breeze, and whispered in his ear. Not words, but memories of time under Darkness and time under Light. Waves kissed the shore a few hundred meters away, a rhythmic dance that echoed timelessly through the halls of sun and moon as surely as the world turned. And it had turned and sung for millennium.
Tython was an ancient world, rich in memory and the Force. He sensed a Dark shadow that lay upon the world, but something else fluttered beneath- a ghost of a memory, a thread of gold adrift in the wind, just too faint to catch. Tiland tilted his head, aching to hear it bloom.
But it wasn't physical. It rippled through the fabric of the Force. With a deep breath, he ambled to the beach, each step soft in the piles of sand, shifting beneath his feet.
Records he had found listed these as the Moon Islands- a small archipelago hundreds of kilometers from the nearest continent. He couldn't find why they had been called so. It was such a mystery that would warrant further research.
Sea spray stung his lips and water droplets clung to his beard. He stood, leaning against his staff, staring off into the sea. Vast and ancient, ever-changing and eternal. Tiland was old. There was no denying that. He'd seen over eight centuries pass and go, the rise and fall of empires and republics, of Jedi and Sith. But this ocean made his life look like a blink of an eye.
Just like the Force. It existed in the beginning, long before him, and would last until the very end of the universe, as vast and mysterious it had been in the beginning. Tiland knelt in the sand, setting the staff across his lap. That golden song still lingered.
Eyes closed, Tiland breathed. It was such a simple act, so often unconscious, yet it was in such an action that kept most sentient beings alive. Deep breaths in and out, he settled into the rhythm, unconsciously matching the rhythm of the ocean-dance. A peace, thick and soft, settled over him and that ghost, that memory, floated through his mind.
It was the Light. Buried beneath years of Sith rule, the Light still remained on Tython. Like all old things, the Force here had wounds that had scarred over. Scars that ran deep, leaving rifts behind. Not unlike the Jedi themselves. They had been split apart, torn by the winds of war and Jedi as strong in personality as in the Force. Unhealable rifts? Probably not, but it would take time and cooperation, not unlike how the Jedi Academy Network had functioned. How to get Jedi from all over the galaxy to cooperate, however?
A rift appeared in the distance of Tython- a Dark Side scar. They would need to heal that, as a team, to tend the Light Side and return it to flourishing. That would take years and many Jedi.
Indeed, perhaps even a small enclave of Jedi. Jedi dedicated to service to the Light and of caring for living things. But first, they had to arrive.
Tiland stretched out further in the Force- sending his presence as far and wide as he could manage, along with a message to whatever Jedi would hear it.
Come, friends. We came from Tython and now we can return. It has been scarred by Sith and Force Storm. Come and let us tend it together, to heal it for what it once was.
Message sent, he stood and cast one last glaze over the sea. Then he strode back to the ship, setting new coordinates. He stared out the viewport across the endless ocean until they came to another place. It was a small glade in an ancient forest, with trees draped in shadow. That would be where he would begin. Not as a Jedi Knight, but as he was at his most humble - a gardener and tender of plants. Healing began at the most basic level, even for planets.
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