A new beginning

[Alyona Volkovna (Алёна)]

Alyona was running.

One foot in front of another. Hop, leap, twist, land, roll, run.

No music blared in her ears save for the sounds of the forest and the whooshing of blood in her ears as her heart pumped faster and faster to supply oxygen to the rest of her body. She held the Force at arm's length, focusing on building her physical body. Here and there she practiced her peoples' steps and motions; the knowledge of the Echani reliving itself in her arms, legs and fingertips. These were not motions of violence, rather those of art; Alyona danced her way through the forest with music in her mind. Near the end of her run, dancing was all she had left. She wore low topped hiking boots with gym shorts and a tank top with a sports bra underneath. Sweat coated her skin and glistened here and there where rays of sunlight cut through the dense canopy and struck her pale tone. She spun and twisted, shook and jumped, letting the music in her mind take her across rivers, over logs, beneath waterfalls. She spent the better part of the morning out in the wild, wet, muddied, and exhausted. It felt miraculous.

When she finally came to rest it was within a small glade through which a creek ran to join the river she'd passed earlier that morning. The air was crisp, but not cold, though Alyona was so hot she could see her breath. Her cheeks were rouged with exhaustion and heat, and the ponytail she wore was still wet with water from one of the falls she'd run through nearly an hour before. Water dripped down the back of her neck and ran down her spine. The sensation made Alyona feel...vivacious.
She looked out across the landscape that would, for a time, be her new home. The Jedi Order had left the Republic, abandoned it in its time of need, and Master [member=Mantic Dorn] would need every Jedi he could garner at his side in order to raise the next generation of great Force Users. Trees covered the landscape, a stark contrast to the ecumenopolises she was used to operating on. Most recently however, she thought of Jakku, the desert world that had been the last place she'd spoken to her Master, Corvus Raaf, before the woman's disappearance. At times Alyona desired her guidance; this newfound drive within herself to avoid killing was relatively hindered by her feeling of violence as a necessity under certain circumstances. She had focused her emotions with great success for many years, yet now she felt turmoil within herself. The Force had taught her in the dark cave on Dagobah that she had yet to face her true test. She began to wonder if it was drawing near. With much on her mind, Alyona stood and began her long trek back to the newly founded Force Enclave. The journey would take hours and give her much time for reflection.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

[member="Arisa Yune"] [member="Mantic Dorn"]

Ayumi watched the two of them speak while she was working on the things, all of the hard work they would have to do would be easier with the right materials. "We can reinforce it with jarna stone, the one temple that was restored used it for the superior protection. Just get it marked where best you need the equipment to be set up." She said it while waiting for confirmation from the ships above that the factory had arrived to deploy what they needed. All of the work could begin after that just have to wait for it first. She'd even be able to work with them hopefully for some of the things. She kept her hologram up working on the different things for herself when finally the chirp of confirmation arrived telling her the factory ship was in orbit. "Send down the first set with the cradle and set it up, we'll link to it and bring what is needed with the droids."

 

[Mantic Dorn]

Mantic nodded at [member="Arisa Yune"] and clasped his hands behind his back.

"Yes, we have a few jedi that have entered the temple and I believe it is starting to be explored but if you have time to enter and search for such a locale I think we will have enough room to host such a facility."
he smiled. The temple had was a construction built for a far larger order and space would not going to be their prime problem for some time.

"I have already approved of a temple garden to be created as well but your strive to maintain a natural habitat around us will be taken into account from here on and we will limit our impact on the surrounding nature as much as possible."

He turned and watched as cleaning droids came out from the temple with rubbish, they poured it into a massive and clumsy container droid before turning to head inside again. [member="Ayumi Pallopides"] was working with her equipkent as well and he knew the Republic military and [member="Willam Forlon"] had been working on perimeter defenses that sadly was necessary at this time.
Things were coming together and this place would soon be operational.

"hm... well place it here." he pointed on the holomap for [member="Ayumi Pallopides"] to see.

"Let me know if you find the space required padawan." he continued to [member="Arisa Yune"] . Something was nudging his mind. A presence he had not felt since...

[member="Alyona Volkovna"] - the padawan of [member="Corvus Raaf"]. He lifted his chin and turned his head. She was coming in fast, but he felt no danger. Still his body stiffened somewhat, maybe she knew more about what had happened to her master.

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

Alexandra sighed as her shoulders fell forward and she was torn from her focus for a short time. She was no novice and she knew this alone was straining every part of her body, much less the time it would take. While her work here was only in the first hours, much less the days to come, she had worked on the seed itself since leaving her home planet and now she sat on a foreign place without the source of her main connection to the force itself. Even now she didn't realize how much she had connected herself to the force by living in a nexus every moment of the day and now here she sat without that source of power constantly at her hand and around her while she lived beside the force as its companion.

Here though, here she had to spark its flame anew and that was nothing short of a titanic task. First came growing the tree to draw in the force much less sustain a nexus and that alone would take constant focus for the next week if not month. It was a long task for one person, one who had to act as a conduit for the force to travel through until the tree itself could preform that task which tore at a person's strength, even if it was the lightside.

This after all was not meant to be a cheap imitation, no trick or wave of a hand to cast an illusion over the eyes of others. She was here to give the Jedi a gift that she had grown to understand and it was that the force was a companion to have beside you. Someone to confide in and hold not as a guiding hand that was omnipotent... but rather to be that stalwart companion. That ally that stood beside you and combined its power with your body to do what you believed was the right thing. That was how she had always treated and spoke with the force, as a friend and now she would give the Jedi that chance to learn as she did about the force.

Sure, they probably would still treat the force as if it were some all powerful entity for them to worship. She understood their philosophy enough to know that her tree would not change their mind so simply. But it remained her gift to them none the less as the fighting on the side of the sith had taught her one thing. There will be one chief thing in this galaxy, and that will be wars. Be it a few months from now, or a few decades, there will always be a new war to end peace... the Jedi need a beacon to remind them that peace is always there in the end though. And thats what her tree will be. A beacon.

With that her eyes found the head of Daeda who at this point had fallen into a sleep of his own. Beside him was a plate of food resting and as she sighed, her mind knew the wolf had somehow gotten someone to leave it for her at no small effort. "Thanks old buddy..." Her hand ruffled the tiny wolf's head as she took a piece of bread and began to eat while she rested.

 

[Alyona Volkovna (Алёна)]

"Where are you, Master?" Alyona asked Corvus, speaking through foggy breath into the empty forest around her. In truth, Alyona had no answers, and every day she grew closer and closer to letting go entirely. There was no evidence of Corvus' path to be found, and the fledgling order of Force Users supported and encouraged by the Republic needed Jedi like Alyona in order to survive, and thrive.

She stood on a hillock looking down over the temple. The forest was everywhere, not a bare piece of land was visible for dozens of miles. Alyona looked out across the landscape, her eyes drifting over the large stone structures built along the banks of the rivers flanking the temple. She watched the rivers run below, watched the water churn and froth, fading from blue to white and blue again. From here, Alyona walked, keeping her mind to herself and letting her eyes wander through the trees and across the horizon. "This will be my home," she realised out loud as her breath dissipating before her. "I will have to make the most of it," she told herself, picking up her pace once more and jogging toward the temple.

 

[Eugen Aker]

[member="Mantic Dorn"]

"Thank you, I will."

She gave the Jedi Master a respectful bow, then left to begin her exploration of the temple. Back at the control console for the wasp recon droids, she found that they had already made some steady progress in her short time away. Several halls had been mapped out, though some chambers appeared to be sealed up or otherwise obstructed. She found that to be a good thing. Any sealed chambers could still hold valuables for the Jedi to recover. As for the open chambers examined, she could see a few good spots to house the hydroponic stations. She would have to look herself to see how the plumbing was setup inside. Of course, the priority was still checking out what was left of the power grid.

With a pair of Kiribian engineer crewmen, she would finally enter the temple.

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

Like velvet, her hand moved around the small sapling, barely poking from the ground and with a sigh she touched it in the most gentle fashion she could. She knew this was going to be difficult, hell the place she was at was only five hours worth of work compared to the full grown tree it was suppose be. To make that figure worse, she would have to remain there to guard the sapling at all times until she was done. Not only from being trampled on but as well as disturbing the balance she had already placed on the immediate area around her. Then came reinforcing that nexus by both ways of the force but also by creating a stable and beautiful atmosphere around it which was made no simpler by the fact they had chosen a jungle world, making the creation of her normal gardens nearly impossible. She got annoyed by that fact but she did know of native flora as well as resilient specimens that would fit her needs, so she couldn't go and skin Mantic on that one... for now.

Her smile grew at the strangeness of her situation. The first jedi she had met would smile if he saw her now, sitting here in one of their temples. Back then though, seven, maybe eight years if not more, there had been that one boy who found her after she left the sith and was lost and alone in the world around her. Verrin, such an old name of a Jedi she had once stabbed through with a branch. The days after all she could do was try and think of ways to atone for what she had done to him and finally this was the way she had found. Even that fox faced bastard was worth her though as she touched the leaf sprouting from the sapling. "Damn that Vulpesen, making me help out Jedi while you are off being a king and father... i wish i could hate you..." She sighed as her hand traced the minuscule length back to the earth around it. "Daeda, can you go get me a drink from the ship? You know how mu-" The wolf moved into her sight with a doubting glance. It knew full well what she was thinking about and was having none of it. "Please..." He simply shook his head, adapting another human trait before walking off in annoyance at her.

With him gone in terms of earshot she let out a sigh and began her work once more. No need to waste more time on breaks after all.