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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Create a historical location where the ancient Jedi Order stored the lightsabers of those Jedi who got their lightsaber crystals from Crossroads-27.
- Image Credit: From: Instagram
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Crossroads System
- Structure Name: Jedi Temple of Crossroads-15
- Classification: Temple/Tomb
- Location: Crossroads-15 (Crossroads System)
- Affiliation:
- Currently: Crossroads Republic
- Formerly: Jedi Order
- Accessibility: Currently it is a treated as a museum and a memorial, the facade is open to the public, but certain chambers are barred from entry, only a Force-Sensitive can gain entry.
- Description:
- Located in the southern hemisphere of Crossroads-15. It is carved from the red granite in which it is located, with a pair of thin waterfalls cascading down into a shallow river with stone arches within the canyon at which the temple is at a dead-end portion of. A causeway lined with Jedi statues is twenty meters wide which follows the canyon all the way to the temple from a tunnel where the causeway ends on an open dessert plain. There is some shrubbery and soft-leaved trees in the canyon due to the abundance of water. Inside the temple is divided into four parts. There is an open main chamber, which is accessed through a door with a very large Velmorite Crystal imbedded into it. A Force-Sensitive interacts with the crystal to open and close this large stone door. At the moment it is open, but can be closed. The main chamber has the Jedi seal in the floor, but it is heavily-worn, and lightly damaged by explosives from a battle which took place inside the chamber. The first of three hidden antechambers is in the middle, this one is long and thin, with stone pedestals with carved writing saying the name, rank, and the date of death of the Jedi whose lightsaber is placed upon a bronze dish on top of the pedestal. Each lightsaber here has a Velmorite Crystal from Crossroads-27. The second chamber on the left-hand side is a cremation room with several stone slabs which withdraw into the floor where Jedi bodies were incinerated in a fashion similar to the one used in the main Jedi Temple. The third chamber is a library, containing the records of the Jedi whose lightsabers now reside in the Temple. The chamber's records are entirely kept in Jedi Holocrons, making them inaccessible to non-Force Sensitives. The doors into these chambers are blended in with the walls and their supports, making them invisible to those without sensors able to detect what is behind it, or to those who have the Force to sense these chambers. The doors into these chambers are large, being about three meters wide, but eleven meters tall. A strange ghostly presence can be felt by force-sensitives who venture here. There are also three Silver Guardians who stand guard over these three chambers, they wear a ceremonial white robe and tunic, a respectful nod to their origins as their founders being Jedi themselves.
- And there is an ever-present guard detail of two dozen Crossroads Republic Special Operations Command Tier-3 Shock Troops in dress uniforms. Around the temple are two new buildings, one is a museum which is dedicated to the battle which took place here. It has several manikins wearing Storm Commando armor, Crossroads Republic uniforms, E-11 Blasters, A280 Blaster Rifles, E-Web Heavy Repeating Blasters, and other assorted weapons, a replica of an Imperial Inquisitor's lightsaber, and the front face of an AT-TE Walker. The other building is bare, with a polished granite wall carved with the names and ranks of the Crossroads shock troops who died defending the Temple. This memorial as well has a purposely anonymous statue of a Crossroads shock trooper with his face masked to honor the one soldier who managed to survive and defeated the Imperial Inquisitor. This second building is where the guard detail is positioned. The troops who died here are not buried here.
The Causeway: Paved with polished granite initially, it is now well-worn, but in decent shape, except where the river has consumed it right up against the temple's stairway. It is lined with five hundred and fifty-two ornate statues of Jedi with their lightersabers ignited, but many are either damaged or destroyed.
The Door: Has a large Velmorite Crystal imbedded in the face with the Jedi seal on the outside, it splits open and opens inwards. It is somewhat worn and damaged.
The Cremation Chamber: Has cremation devices within the floor where slabs of stone are withdrawn down into and the bodies of the Jedi are burned to ash. It has standing room-only bleachers for onlookers and observers along the room's edges. This chamber is closed and not open to the public.
The Lightsaber Chamber: A long thin room with five hundred and fifty-two pedestals with bronze dishes on top with lightsabers with Crossroads-27 Velmorite Crystals as their energy source. There are no non-Velmorite Crystal lightsabers here. Each pedestal has carved writing saying who the lightsaber belonged to, what rank they were within the Order, and when they died. This chamber is closed and not open to the public.
The Library Chamber: A circular room with a number of holocrons in cubby-holes in the walls. These holocrons are locked behind panes of transparisteel, and only a force-sensitive can access them without damaging the library itself. There are a dozen meditation platforms where a Jedi presumably would sit to access the information within one of the Holocrons. This chamber is closed and not open to public.
The Main Chamber: A large circular room with a vaulted ceiling. The Jedi seal is imbedded into the floor and dishes where fires were meant to burn kept it lit when in use. The walls have support pillars which serve a structural purpose as well as aiding in hiding the antechambers' presence. It is in the worst state of the different chambers due to it being kept open.
The Museum: A dedicated historical memorial and teaching place where the history of the temple and the battle that was fought here between the Crossroads Republic and the Empire is told in detail with visual aids and historical items from the period. Included in this is the front end of the actual AT-TE which helped defend the temple from attack. It even retains its original battle damage which put it out of commission in the actual battle itself. There is a constant flow of tourists and students on field trips coming and going through here.
The Memorial: A polished granite slab with the hundred and forty-nine names and ranks of the troops who died fighting here. There is a platoon of troops guarding this location in their ceremonial black dress uniforms and black berets.
SECURITY
Medium The temple has built in security to keep the temple itself from being defiled by those who would mean it harm. There's also a police presence for basic security, and there's a military base nearby in case of something more major occurring.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Established as a resting place for the Jedi who came to the Crossroads System to protect the primitive Piantans and Delfinos native to the system during the Pius Dea Crusades. A vicious battle occurred on Delfino between the Jedi and a Pius Dea Crusader ship after the ship arrived to enslave the early Delfinos. The Crusaders were expelled, but at massive loss to the Jedi themselves, but a few remained, and established their own outpost which eventually died out at the tail-end of the Crusades. It was found by the Crossroads Republic early in its history, and the Jedi Order, busy with its expansive commitments, allowed the Crossroads Republic to safeguard it, with a Jedi coming every so often to insure that the temple was unviolated. During the Clone Wars only one Jedi, a Padawan whose master had died, ever came, and he stayed throughout the Clone Wars. This saved this Padawan from the fate of Order 66 and remained isolated in the Crossroads Republic, keeping a farm, and eventually joining up with the Crossroads Republic's armed forces after he came upon hard times. It turned out he would be the savior of the temple and its artifacts. When the Empire invaded the Crossroads System in 4 ABY he was a Shock Trooper, and he managed to convince his commander that the Empire would come for the Temple, and going against orders to defend a nearby settlement with the rest of their battalion they went to defend the temple. Imperial forces arrived after seizing an orbital skyhook and landed a battalion which advanced on the Temple. The only reinforcements that arrived was a single AT-TE which was the only one whose transport gunship wasn't shot down. The Crossroads company and their lone walker fought the Imperials viciously, with both sides eventually whittled down to a handful of troopers. But the lone Padawan stood alone against the Inquisitor after he wiped out the remaining Crossroads troops who'd finished off the Storm Commandoes who'd conducted the assault. The two dueled, and the Padawan won, but he never reported that he was a Jedi to his superiors after the battle was won. And so history as the galaxy knows it, says that a single Crossroads Republic soldier stood against an Inquisitor and won, being the rallying cry and a point of pride for Crossroads Special Forces. Since then the Temple has been a museum and a shrine to the loyalty of the Crossroads Republic's oath to safeguard the Temple.
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