The Orphanage of Karfeddion

[Cathul Thuku]

Karfeddion. The planet where Therapy Command retreated after the defeat of its main battlefleet on Asmeru was to play host to a IGR sponsored the construction of an orphanage, due to the sheer number of orphans from Asmeru, Barkesh and Rutan (Mustafar had much less orphans because it was much less densely populated), after its investments in war bonds allowing IGR to finance the construction of facilities meant to house those war orphans. Like hospitals, orphanages and all other stuff any good refugee colony would need. Because, apparently, Star Tours was so heavily invested in rebuilding the spaceports the Primeval destroyed, they couldn't hire them to build a spaceport on that planet: they had to hire someone else. Meanwhile, [member="Sage Kennedy"] knew that there was only so much she could learn from one person, knowing that Cathul could provide for many different Force-skills. While she waited for Sage to arrive at Karfeddion from wherever she was previously based, she observed the construction site, as the excavation work began and the medical tent was set up.

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Sage was very excited to begin her force training as a Jedi, though she looked terrible. She had gotten herself into quite the sticky situation, she had come upon a Jedi and Sith dueling, when the Jedi was struck down she would take up his weapon and continue the duel. Long story sure she would end up with a broken nose and black and blue face and several broken ribs. she would make her way to the planet aboard her YT-1300. As she docked she would step off to meet the teacher

[member="Cathul Thuku"]

 

[Cathul Thuku]

"It might be best to get your broken ribs and other injuries in order first: it might not be safe for you. You will be placed under Force-induced anaesthesia and then all the injuries will be treated using Force-healing. The process is not instant, and, once your injuries are treated, you will learn how to do that sort of thing"

On the one hand, she could tell that the winged girl called [member="Sage Kennedy"] was in one duel that was fiercely contested, due to the punches she sustained to her face, on the other hand, medical precautions have to be made. True, she was inside the first aid tent, where injured workers and refugees (often one and the same) worked on building their new homes on Karfeddion after being displaced from the Mustafar hex, with the financial backing of IGR, with the foundations of the hospital being built next to the first aid tent. Cathul prepared to use the Force to put Sage to sleep while she is being treated, inducing some anaesthesia, so that, once Sage awakens from the treatment, the actual lesson can begin, with perhaps a little pain but not as much as she used to. She will learn that diagnosis is half the battle when it comes to Force-healing, as well as all the other customary warnings of Force-healing I give without fail, she thought, while taking care to mend the ribs back together and then moving on to the bruises on her face and elsewhere on her body: Sage has taken a few blows much like punches.

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Sage would prepare herself and then step inside the tent. Once inside she would be lead to an operating table, there she would lay down, this was always very interesting to see what she did with her wings.

[member="Cathul Thuku"]

 

[Cathul Thuku]

With [member="Sage Kennedy"] now asleep, on her winged back, she understood that wings were delicate portions of the body on winged species and so did great care not to break or ruffle her wings before the anaesthesia could kick in. She knew that Force-healing wasn't instant, and it would be a long day with Sage, given the stuff she came to Karfeddion to learn. And probably be the last day on that planet before she leaves for some engagement somewhere in Wild Space. So Cathul then proceeds to fix the ribs of the winged patient while other workers were coming into the first aid tent after work accidents incurred while working on the hospital and the orphanage. True, Sage was fast asleep but that was necessary to fix the ribs and then cure whatever bruises she had on her body after the ribs were dealt with. Sweet dreams, little S'kytri. No sudden moves for the next few days, please, she thought, while thinking of the precautions Sage needs to make as a patient at the same time as she addressed the bruises all over the body.

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

As Sage was put to sleep she would at very first see nothing but darkness, but then her mind would begin to wander. She would see flashes of her past, her soaring high above her home planet of Tatooine, her mother comforting her in the middle of a sandstorm, her duel with the sith. She would then begin to strange things, herself falling out of the sky on a forest planet, her training with a purple blade, her being choked out by a sith. She then saw herself in the middle of a huge battle flying over the legions, she would then land and take command of them again pulling the same purple blade. She saw herself impaled on the end of a crimson blade. She would then see herself and the master she was learning from descending on a strange planet. Lastly she would catch a glimpse of a map

[member="Cathul Thuku"]

 

[Cathul Thuku]

"You were subjected to Force-healing. Your ribs are now mended, but precautions still need to be made. For the next week or two, please, no sudden moves: using Force-healing does not excuse the patient from taking medical precautions that people would otherwise need to take"

About two hours later, [member="Sage Kennedy"] would awaken, with her broken ribs being mended. Much like another patient went in for precisely that sort of thing after working on the nearby hospital. Cathul was relieved to see that the procedure would work once again. She would see the patient being up, with much less pain than she arrived on Karfeddion with.

"Anyhow, did you have good dreams? If so, what were they? Perhaps some visions of your future may have been contained in those, in which case you may as well have been subconsciously learning precognition"

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Sage would awaken and look around, her ribs still throbbed a little, but not as badly, her face no longer hurt. She would look over at the woman who had just healed her. As she was asked the questions she thought of all the things she had seen. SHe would then speak "I saw a great many things, many from my past, but a few from the future. I saw myself falling from the sky over a forest planet, I also saw myself being choked out by a sith, I saw myself leading legions into battle and then a strange lightsaber hilt hidden away far away. Then I saw a map." She said slowly

[member="Cathul Thuku"]

 

[Cathul Thuku]

"We'll get to the map later. For now, I'll have to deliver an additional warning about Force-healing, which is the first item on the agenda for today: you're early in the learning curve of the Force but those who wait until later to learn it will often be tempted not to heed it: do not expect near-instant healing every single time. You were yourself subjected to it, you would know"

Oh and Cathul's longest stint of Force-healing involved chemotherapy of all things, taking over seven hours to do and requiring her to rest for at least that long. Granted, [member="Sage Kennedy"]'s ailments were much less serious in comparison, but it was easy to make mistakes if one learns something too late, and likewise too early. Yet, the happy medium in the case of Force-healing seems to be as early as possible. With the construction worker suffering from broken ribs laying down on a bed right in front of Sage, the lesson in Force-healing would begin in earnest. She feels a little nervous, but such is the case for every healthcare professional's first patient.

"Oh and the first part of any successful use of Force-healing is the diagnosis part: so many get it wrong because they were unable to properly diagnose the stuff in patients"

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Sage would take in all of the information, she would definitely heed the warning that the woman had given her. She would look around and locate the saber she had picked up from the fallen Jedi, she would stand and ruffle her wings making sure they were alright. She would then stand up and walk slowly over to where the Saber sat when she would arrive at its location she would take it up in her hand and clip it to her belt, she would then turn around and say "I am ready to learn"

[member="Cathul Thuku"]

 

[Cathul Thuku]

"Once you find where the injury or sickness is, using Force-sense/sight, you may then proceed to apply the cure. Also, you may want to place the patient under anaesthesia if it is warranted. Here the Force is applied as a medicine, hence the importance of proper diagnosis"

[member="Sage Kennedy"] will, in time, realize that the patient in front of her has a few broken ribs, too. The other two items on today's agenda are pyro/cryokinesis: she will learn those things by welding beams in the hospital or orphanage and preparing ice cream respectively; however, no sign of poisoned patients around here, she thought. She knew it was easy for a budding practitioner of Force-healing to malpractice, but then again Sage might want to go check out a medical holocron whenever she has the chance. It's certainly not the kind of magic to do lightly, and around the pair, other patients were coming in for a variety of common work injuries, like cuts, broken (insert bone here). So it's painfully obvious what's causing pain in the patient: the winged Jedi would not realize that she has a long road ahead to learn about the Force and that Cathul would be taking the first few steps here to teach the S'kytri.

"I may sound like a broken record by now but there is one more warning: even though that is not be an issue with people at padawan-level of power, if you go overboard, you may induce cancer in the patient without knowing it"

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Sage would begin to focus, she would think on the force and begin to search through the patient's body to find the injury. She would soon find the spot of the injury, the ribs. They looked pretty bad through the force, she would hear the warning and decided it was a good idea to put the patient to sleep. She would do so and afterwards place her hand on the ribs of the patient, she would focus on the force but not too hard, soon she would feel the wounds healing

[member="Cathul Thuku"]

 

[Cathul Thuku]

[member="Sage Kennedy"] took a little longer to cure the worker's broken ribs than Cathul needed to fix Sage's: after all, Sage was a beginner in using Force-healing. Now that her shift in the first aid tent was over, Cathul could go out in the nearby area and get to see in what condition the hospital and orphanage, which were the two buildings being built closest to the first aid tent, were. She then guided Sage out of the and into the construction site, where they were both made to wear hard hats for safety. It seems that welding work has begun and, with it, structural work. Duracrete being cured all around them meant that they had to tread lightly when it was being cured. When she finds a suitable spot on the first floor of the hospital being built, Cathul decides that the best thing for her to do is to just hold the durasteel beam using telekinesis and then hand her some rivets for her to make fit and then weld into place at a later point. But she wasn't sure of whether or not Sage knew telekinesis.

"First question: do you know telekinesis?"

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

"No I dont why?"

[member="Cathul Thuku"]

 

[Cathul Thuku]

"In that case you will learn telekinesis before moving on to pyrokinesis and cryokinesis"

So she really was a raw recruit whose only Force-training involved Force-sense/sight and Force-healing? she thought, while bringing in a rivet that [member="Sage Kennedy"] will later weld using pyrokinesis, somewhere inside the hospital under construction. After what happened on Asmeru, she knew what the purpose of the refugee colony on Karfeddion was. To her, the Force is a tool, and people should learn how to use Force-powers while also putting those in practical situations where one could be reasonably expect the power to come in handy. But the workers were mostly indifferent to her and the S'kytri, especially since the other refugees were of an assemblage of species.

"Try to put the rivet inside the hole without physically touching the rivet"

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Sage would focus on the rivet, she had never done this before but within a moment she would pick it up with her mind and slowly lift it to the hole

[member="Cathul Thuku"]

 

[Cathul Thuku]

"Good"

Now that [member="Sage Kennedy"] put the rivet into the hole, the time has come for her to learn the next item on the agenda: pyrokinesis! From experience, she could reasonably expect padawans at that level to be able to weld a rivet into place, or perhaps heat up a lightsaber to the point it burned its wielder, but not much more than that. Around the two of them other portions of the hospital were set into place, and, rather than using the Force, they used conventional tools of the trade: tug droids, blowtorches, hydrospanner, to name the main tools for that portion of the welding work. Cathul crossed her fingers and hoped that her student won't accidentally cause the whole beam to melt or the Force-power to fizzle: fizzling is more common than causing the whole beam to melt at Sage's level of power, and some powers are best learned early: waiting too late may cause some mistakes that would be much more dangerous to attempt fixing than in people with less power.

"Too often people think of pyrokinesis as some sort of flamethrower, but padawans may use it for disarming opponents. Oh and don't forget that you can use pyrokinesis for welding, cooking, or climate control, too. Just visualize the rivet being in flames"