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"I also wish us to look into the idea of no longer sending out single Master and padawan pairs on any mission that might include violence. Master Qui-Gon was a well-regarded duelist within the Order, not the best, but certainly not the worst. And this Dark Side user apparently took him down with ease. This shows that a Force user who is trained entirely for combat will have an advantage over Jedi who are more diverse in their training."
"We don't have enough Guardians to send on every dangerous mission that we are assigned to by the Senate or asked to look into by the various sector and system governments, let alone those that the Order chooses based on our information network or the Force," protested Master Tiin, while across from him Master Plo Koon nodded somberly. As the only two Guardians on the High Council, they knew how few Guardians there were in the Order. Indeed, the two of them and the leader of the Temple's guard who served on the Council of First Knowledge were the only Guardians in the four councils the Jedi used to organize themselves.
Master Giiett, the only Sentinel on the High Council, nodded as well from where he sat next to Plo Koon. His sect was in much the same position. Though somewhat more numerous, the Sentinels were also far busier thanks to their skills, and even less well known or represented at the administrative level. Indeed, there was only one other Sentinel currently serving on any of the councils.
"Then that will need to change for both Guardian and Sentinel sects. We will assign an observer to watch the younglings' classes and slowly change out those teachers who are subtly pushing the students into choosing the Consular path over the other two sects. We need Sentinels as well as Guardians. The past few years have shown us this even discounting the Dark Side user and the mystery of his existence."
Ranicisis paused then looked over at Yoda, who nodded his ancient head slowly in agreement. Seeing this, Ranicisis went on. "Furthermore, we will look into whether there is a correlation between Jedi deaths on missions and their lightsaber styles. If there is, we will need to correct it."
"You're talking about retraining Jedi Masters who might very well be too set in their ways to accept such," cautioned Master Gallia, a practitioner of Niiman, which was known as the Jack-of-all-trades style. "Many of the Consulars will protest, seeing it as pointless and unnecessary for their duties, possibly even dangerously provocative for those who deal with the Senate and other high-ranking officials or leaders that already look at us with suspicion."
"Perhaps, but perhaps not. If relearning lightsaber skills can save their lives later on, can they truly object?" Master Ranicisis asked, one wrinkled, hairy eyebrow rising interrogatively.
"A new broom sweeps clean," murmured Master Giiett, smiling faintly at the oldThisspiasian master.
"That, and fear," Master Ranicisis said bluntly, his eyes flashing for a moment behind his beard and massive eyebrows. Despite being reptilian in many ways and though few could see past their seemingly tranquil natures, Thisspiasians were a warrior people at heart with a long history and deep rivers of rage which only constant meditation could quench. This was true even for Jedi, of course, and Oppo Ranicisis was no stranger to combat both external and internal.
"We have buried far too many Jedi of late: six Jedi in the last year alone, four before that," Oppo went on. "With the knowledge that some Dark Side sect might exist out there it behooves us to realize this and start to take action against it."
"Will this retraining regimen warn our enemies that we are planning against them?" Master Pouf asked, frowning. He knew he would be one of the first Jedi forced to submit to retraining in lightsaber combat and didn't like the thought.
"No," Master Ranicisis replied quickly, and several of the other Masters nodded. "As was said earlier, the Dark Side users must know that we suspect their existence at this point. If we take no action, that will be seen as suspicious. This action can, in fact, be a screen to cover the research into the archives and the Jedi Shadows' searches."
Master Ranicisis fell silent, looking at Master Giiett for a moment. Like Master Yoda, Master Giiett was deeply involved in new techniques and abilities that had come from Lily and Harry Potter, the young human padawan of Master Fay and his biological mother, now a Force Ghost of surprising power.
Odd concept to think about, he thought, hiding an internal chuckle. His race, after all, did not actually have pair bondings and biologically speaking did not actually have sex as most races understood the term, and the idea of a single parent raising a child was very strange. The idea was frankly a little perverted to him. His people also raised offspring in crèches organized on a clan level with multiple caregivers of both genders looking after the children.
Putting his inner amusement aside, Ranicisis asked "Micah, have you decided on a padawan as yet?"
It had been a few years since Master Giiett had taken a padawan. Despite that he was known as one of the better teachers among the Order, routinely called in to help teach the younglings.
"No, I have not. I was actually thinking of waiting for young Alecto to return to the Temple and take him on as a padawan. The boy's intelligent, eager, and a crack shot who has wanted to be a Sentinel since he was quite young. It seems a good match to me." Giiett had initially wanted to take Zule as his padawan, but the Council of Knowledge had decided to assign her to the heavy-handed Master Glaive. They thought he would wear Zule's tempestuous anger away better than his gentle approach would.
"Excellent." Ranicisis looked over at Master Tiin, who snorted, shaking his head, but that was fine as well. "I believe that his abilities will help you on your mission, and your prior connection with Alecto will allow you to help him get past his grief at Master Thun's demise more quickly than would otherwise be the case.
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