Takeover of training

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"After these exhausting campaigns in Confederate space, where you were flying starfighters in combat missions, now your Force-training will resume"

Jessica was suspected for years that she was a Force-sensitive, first by Summer, and again and again by others among the Silver Jedi at the time, even reaching as high as the topmost reaches of the then-Techno Empire administration, especially the Techno Empire Revenue Agency, after the [Third] Republic collapsed. The TERA even asked her to take a second Force-sensitivity test under another administrator because they did not trust the first administrator. Ever since that arrogant-healer-on-a-hoverchair even made her subconsciously learn Force-sense, by simply shuffling two suits of 10 pazaak cards each, and taking off the top four cards in that deck, asking her what these cards were, Jessica had been diligently learning what Force-powers she could. By now said healer must realize that she has been wrong to underestimate Jessica and what knowledge she had of the Force at the time. Oh both ladies would love to see that person's face when she realizes that she had a hand in creating a Force-using freak that can learn any Force-power faster and in greater depth than she herself can.

"I won't make you relearn what you already know: such frustration can lead to the dark side. From what I know about you, you know about the big three (telekinesis, Force-sense, mind trick), and Force-healing. What would you like to learn from me?"

The pair was in one of the few rooms the Techno Union placed at its disposal for the training of its Force-sensitives on Hypori. Now the pair could be together once again, for the first time in weeks, for something other than space combat.

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would smile bright thinking of how good it felt to be at the controls of her own starfighter. She loved flying but she also needed to learn force powers. She would stand opposite of her new master and wife. "I will learn whatever you wish me to learn master I wish to learn everything I can from you though"

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"By now you understand that sometimes starfighters aren't pressurized or even heated. The Confederacy considers organics like us to be critical assets, and droids to be expendable. For example, if you ever feel cold while on a starfighter mission, or flying in hyperspace, you can always use tapas"

It's usually the unpressurized starfighters that are not heated. Pressurized fighters tend to be more heavily armored than the unpressurized, if only because of the demands of pressurization on the inside of starfighter hulls. Light freighters are almost always pressurized and it can be cold onboard, mostly in hyperspace. In realspace, however, there is enough waste heat to go around so that few, if any, will feel cold flying in realspace. But she knew about how dark-siders that abuse tapas for purposes other than keeping themselves warm. Especially those who were vain and relied on their own beauty to manipulate (of which Jessica was not: she is more of an intensely logical person) others.

"Tapas is a Force-power that allows one to keep warm. By using the Force to increase one's metabolism, and hence your body's ability to produce heat, while tapas is in effect, it is also fashionable for those Force-users that want to lose weight"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would listen and nod slightly taking mental notes of what she was being taught

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"I see that you're ready to try tapas on yourself"

While Cathul would know about stuff like oxydative phosphorylation, Krebs cycle, substrate-level phosphorylation, proton pumps, which are all metabolic things that are relevant to tapas, Jessica only knows these things on a rather superficial level, and they know they relate to metabolism. Plus she isn't that great with tapas herself. But she can use the Force with a rather high level of precision, high enough to be comfortable using it on a regular basis. Oh, would Summer find that practical in her royal palace on Glyss! However it would be of use to Jessica mainly in space travel otherwise. Jessica would begin to use tapas herself so her skin would be glowing red, perhaps not Zeltron-red but some shade of red nonetheless, as the heat on her face is increasing along with her output of bodily heat. And her heartbeat accelerates, alongside her breathing rate, as more of her bodily energy is being spent.

"You will probably see your heartbeat accelerate, your breathing getting faster. But be careful not to use too much of your power at once: you could end up hyperventilating or getting fevers" she said, while at risk of hyperventilating.

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would concentrate on the atoms inside her making them excelerate. She would feel her heartbeat get very very fast. Her breathing would get very fast very near hyperventilation

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"You may have been using too much power too quickly. Just wait a little bit for your body to calm down and then you can try again"

At least Summer understood that tapas, pyrokinesis and cryokinesis were more similar in their mechanisms than they were different: all three of these were about the vibrational frequencies of the target if solid. But tapas was not too intensive on Summer's brainpower, because Jessica didn't feel as if her lover's head was getting hotter because her brain was glowing in the Force, as would be the case in someone that used a lot of brainpower in an intensive manner. Like in someone using Instinctive Astrogation Control: usually meant as an exercise (unless you had the computational power of Cathul or Jessica, in which case you may use it for long-haul flight so long as the last jump or two was not made using IAC), if someone wanted to use the induced Force-boost in brainpower for something other than for computational purposes, they may as well be using Force-comprehension. Two glasses of iced water later, and about five minutes later...

"Given that mechanism, you may have realized that you can also apply this method to other objects: we'll get to that later. Try using your power at a lower rate"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

"OK love" She would say cooling off and then she would try again this time slower than before

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"Much better. One thing that I know all too many Jedi lack is self-awareness. Self-awareness will allow you to know when to use less - or more - power and when to stop"

She knows no one will always get it right the first time, not even someone with the best self-awareness in the galaxy. But someone with excellent self-awareness would be able to detect whether there is something wrong even though they can't always point at what by themselves. At least she is willing to offer constructive criticism, unlike Summer's first master. Since she knew Summer tried to accelerate her atoms' vibrational frequencies, then she knew she had an idea as to how pyro/cryokinesis worked: although Jessica learned pyro/cryokinesis before tapas, normally the reverse was true. Naturally, Jessica would think the time is appropriate to approach the topics. Never would Jess have to doubt her ability to learn Force-powers on a whim, let alone when she could do so while understanding Force-power mechanisms. But that's the speed of her mind for you, and Cathul had a comparable mental speed, too.

"You have realized by now that the whole deal of playing with the atoms' speed, as you did with tapas, is also useful for cooking, and in both directions: it allows you to light fires for cooking, as it can allow you to make ice cubes or ice cream. Accelerating atoms' speed is the recipe for pyrokinesis, and braking atoms is the recipe for cryokinesis"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

"That seems like a good thing to know."

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"You see, from what little I know about Jedi that know all three of tapas, pyrokinesis and cryokinesis, most fail to understand how all three relate to each other: at most you would see some people see in cryokinesis a reversal of pyrokinesis, but never how pyrokinesis relates to tapas"

Cathul and Jessica are best known for quantizing the Force, that is, treat the spirit ichor as coming in discrete amounts. To them, if one knows the science behind how a Force-power works, one can learn the Force-power associated with it. So anything relating to the speed of molecules is, to them, can be used in Force-powers dealing with thermal effects. It's obvious that even Jessica, let alone Cathul, knew a lot about the Force, more so than even Masters, albeit those Jessica knew for sure that she knew more than they did, were mostly Guardians. But to think either woman knows as much about the Force as the elder Heavenshields, that is, Coci and Thurion, as Summer once estimated, that was going to be a little far-fetched. True, these two women had more brains than the average Jedi, and they seemingly had spells for everything. Jessica lines up a few stones in a circle and places some smallwood inside the circle formed by the stones, using telekinesis to move the implements into position. Also she prepares a bag of marshmallows for the two of them to eat.

"Now, Summer, try accelerating the atoms inside the smallwood twigs. We'll eat some marshmallows if you can make pyrokinesis work"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

She would listen and concentrate on the Atoms and she would begin make them excelerate slowly and then faster but she would fall over unconscious as the twigs lit

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

That was not good. Falling over unconscious as a result of using the Force means that one's Force-batteries are completely drained. And that was taxing on Summer's computational power, but Jessica knew that she didn't use all of it: calculating the root-mean-square speed of twigs is nothing compared to solving for their Maxwell's equations. Once the bonfire has been lit with Summer's first attempt at pyrokinesis, she would prepare two roasted marshmallows, one for her and one for her apprentice. Ah, the smell of roasted marshmallows was flowing throughout the temporary training room while a permanent Jedi Temple would be built on Hypori, and, given Jessica's relationship with Summer, she would trust her lover with designing the temple. Oh, if only Summer was awake, she would know just how Jessica gave a touch of romance to her training. They knew their idyllic romance was destined to last, but, to actually make it last required that efforts be made at every step of the way.

"It worked, but you have exhausted your power. Once you regain consciousness, you can have a few roasted marshmallows, and you're going to need some rest once you have eaten your marshmallows" she told Summer, hoping that she would subconsciously pick up what she says in the Force, or better still, allow the smell of roasted marshmallows to help her regain consciousness. "You have realized by now that it took more Force-energy for you to light a bonfire than to do the stuff you learned from Junko, but what you managed to do was about right for someone at your level"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would hear this in her subconscious and her eyes would flicker open and smile "Hey baby."

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"I care about you. That's why I wanted you to light this bonfire: so that, even when you're in training, you can enjoy the fruits of your training. In my experience it feels better to be able to use something when you know what you can use it for, and increasingly so when you can train in it in your daily routines. You will find that you will be able to use the Force more often over time, and also at a greater intensity. Just help yourself to a few roasted marshmallows around the bonfire, and then you can go sleep in a sleeping bag. Then again, so will I"

Of course, Jessica would leave a few skewers on a plate with a few roasted marshmallows on each, prepared when Summer has given out due to her complete exhaustion of her Force-batteries. And the sleeping bags, so that they can both be rested when training will resume tomorrow. That's my romance for you, she thought, even though there are two ways one could sleep under the stars, depending on whether one was on the ground or in space. Camping was what people usually meant when people say they sleep under the stars whereas in space, it was pretty much a given. By then the fuel of the bonfire would exhaust and the flame would extinguish itself; Jessica waited until that moment to fall back to the comfort of the sleeping bag, well, as much comfort that she was going to get from a sleeping bag. Because she knew that a sleeping bag was not going to be as comfortable as the beds she usually slept on. Yet she knew everyone needed a good night of sleep, especially these ladies with hyperactive brains.

"It's going to be as close to camping as you're going to get"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would nod and take the marshmallow and eat it. "This is very good." She said smiling at her love. She would then grab a sleeping bag and bring it over to her love and climb inside before snuggling up to her love

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

Glad you like these marshmallows borne from your own pyrokinesis, love, she thought, knowing that Summer had the ability to receive said thoughts when directed at her. The two lovers were snuggling at each other all night while their Force-batteries recharged and their brains were much less active than they were when they were using the Force. Plus they knew better than to assume that, just because they're married and swore to be together until death did them part, even Force-aided, they could make their relationship last forever with little effort. But Summer earned Jessica's loyalties, and rightfully so. When Jessica awoke, she fetched some cream not unlike the base material used for soft ice cream in various ice cream parlors across the galaxy, in hopes that Summer could get a cup of ice cream out of her cryokinesis. Obviously cryokinesis won't allow either of them to get the soft ice cream like the cones said vendors so it would be served as cups instead. Once Summer awakens...

"Do you feel rested now? We'll get a surprise soon. Provided of course that you can brake the atoms of the cream inside these cups"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

"I do baby." She said and would smile and would begin trying to turn the powder into ice cream

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

Jessica was a little nervous watching Summer making an attempt to turn the powdered cream into soft ice cream using cryokinesis, into the two cups near the sleeping bags. But she was anxious, too: she knew what a successful attempt at cryokinesis for cooking should look like, and she ate her lover's culinary creations on multiple occasions, and never complained about her cooking, if only out of respect for her. Ouch, that will tire her, that will make her hungry, I know it is going to make her brain glow in the Force because she is just getting started, and it increases her mental activity. Yet I know that I have to treat my padawan(s) with respect so that they will respect me and my teachings. All too many masters are condescending towards their students, she thought. But at least she has a feel that she will actually be able to make something out of it, as she senses the powder become something that resembles ice cream in the Force. Once both cups are ready...

"Now that's ice cream you can eat, love! Just take your time to eat that ice cream: when I was at your level in the Force I mostly used pyro/cryokinesis for cooking"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

"I love you so much." She said taking up one of the cups and eating it slowly savoring the flavor of the ice cream Babe I think this is the best thing I have ever done using the force She thought knowing Jess could read her mind

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]