[member="Coci Heavenshield"]
Coci Heavenshield said:
OOCly I am fine with this, and all the RP that can come of it. ICly hates it. But both ICly and OOCly I don't want to see this faction forget the there are primarily lightsiders here and it is a lightside faction. The merger saw the introduction of darksiders which is great and good for us, but not at the expense of what we are as SJO. If you DJ want a section in forums to do your thing, like a Temple we have plenty of places in SSC territory that could be used. Even build on Voss if you wish, but I think it would need to be something separate from the Silver Temple which is used by the Jedi. Just a though to help out.
Well, Sio got let in before the merger. I expected her joining to cause...more issues. The religious tolerance surprised me a bit. People told me you're jihadists.
On a more serious level, I agree with Coci. Shocking, I know. It's not just because I want more Coci in hot leather gifs. I don't think the presence of any darksiders in the faction has detracted from its identity. Same with [member="Connor Harrison"] deciding he can use Light and Dark. Slippery slope should be fun to explore.
But the faction's still primarily a Light Side one. Or light side/neutral at any rate. To use an extreme example, having a DJ be Grand Master one day would be...weird. For sake of transparency, two of my Forcers in this group are darksiders, Sio and obviously Sumiko.
Sio in a 'dark is not always evil' way, whilst Sumiko is a good deal more malevolent (though not in a unleash legions of doom to conquer worlds or kick puppies for the fun of it way, but still not nice, though she's in a Token Evil Teammate situation with SJO on Midvinter). If either of them commit crimes and get found out, I fully expect them to suffer consequences and would be upset if they didn't. Kaida is Lawful Neutral and Elpsis is Chaotic Neutral.
If DJ got a training section thingie or something like that, like a temple, I'd say putting it somewhere else than Voss - and it might be better to make it more neutral rather than explicitly and solely darkside. Either way, I expect it would be monitored by the Light Side Jedi and the same would probably apply to all darksiders in general. Presumably the Council has a file on all known ones.
Connor Harrison said:
OOC though I'd never want to detract from the Silver Jedi Faction at heart I came from or that has been built up.
I don't think Connor's new ideological beliefs or methods detract from the faction. My characters would think he's being...extremely melodramatic, but that's another question. After all, Sio started using the Dark Side for similar reasons.
Coci Heavenshield said:
Am I the only one that believes the lightside is equally as powerful as the darkside?
I think both are equal. Far as I'm concerned, every space magic power has a counter, even if sometimes it takes out-of-box thinking. It's my subjective impression that many Jedi seem to think they can't stand up to dark side voodoo.