Council Meeting: Two Issues

[Darron Wraith]

@Je'gan Olra'en @[member="Arumi Zy"]

"I do, I'll oversee him. It's not a problem, and I trust that he will follow the rules. If not, it won't be my good nature he deals with at that point."


OOC: sorry on phone and just didn't feel the need for much here.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

Je'gan nodded. "Then I think we've found a solution, for the moderate term at any rate. Lord Fidelis, thank you for your time.

"Now, Councilors," he said after @[member="Arumi Zy"] had left, with or without final words, "we come to the issue of Matsu Ike. Apart from a few irregularities, her incarceration has gone more or less as intended. She has had time to consider her guilt, but I still seriously doubt she regrets her actions in any substantive way, certainly not enough to make a different decision if she had the chance to do her actions over.

"By Republic law, she's a war criminal and a murderer. Lord Fidelis had the advantage of never having been a Jedi Master; Matsu Ike has risen farther, and thus is more accountable for her actions.

"I propose the Revan solution. Transfer of her accumulated knowledge to a holocron, erasure of her memory. Reduce her to Padawan and let her learn again. Before arrogance twisted her into a monster, she was of value. As far as the Republic is concerned, Matsu Ike will remain in the Pit indefinitely; that should keep protestors off our front steps. I'm sure we all remember the public relations disaster outside her trial, to the point where Jedi had difficulty operating or receiving support on some Republic member worlds. The entire galaxy is watching, and the Republic won't settle for anything less than justice, and thus I propose the lie."

@[member="Joshua DragonsFlame"] @[member="Darron Wraith"]

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

Josh sighed. This was the subject he had been dreading. Still, he was at least happy that Je'gan had dismissed the possibility of the death penalty.

The Revan solution... It was a hefty punishment indeed. He despised the idea, but....

He took a breath. "I'm going to be plain and honest here.... I do not wish for this to happen to Matsu. But with what she has done, and if she does not regret it and may threaten to do it again..."

He looked down, the final tugs of naivity being torn from his being as he gritted his teeth. If he had any naivity left now, if he wasn't on the Jedi Council , a Jedi that had to keep his composure and be ready to make decisions like this, he would have broke down and burst into tears. But he couldn't do that... Not anymore. The Josh now needed to be able to harden his heart for the good of the Jedi Order...

"If it is all that's left.... Then it might be the best option" he said quietly. His consciences screamed at him in his mind, his emotions were a wreck. But he couldn't show it, at least beyond the obvious guilt he showed at his decision, but he still stuck by it.

"But..." he began, looking at Je'gan. "Keep her memories of Reiko and Orihime. Her twins, her children. They do not deserve to be without their mother"

@Je'gan Olra'en
@[member="Darron Wraith"]