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She bowed her head and showing him how to use it brought her hand up to display it and focused the force energies... wisps of blue and silver light shimmering for a moment then it opened while she motioned. "It is simple enough, the force plane of the unbeing can be... tricky to navigate and we have created anchor points.... beacons in the force that can guide one through it and the galaxy. Or if you want to you can use it to venture to the planet at the edge of the universe... a realm of mysteries that few others can reach." She said it with a smile on her face though when she was looking at it and them. "Though building a place here would be welcomed, we can aid you and there is plenty we work with the wookiees still."
Taiden listened to Matsu with concentrated attention as always. Calmer and ready for the next phase of his journey. When she'd finished he was looking over the undrjarn to understand the intricate details. "Fascinating Master, it appears the power source is self-contained?" He would spend many minutes studying now and hours later meditating on the schematics of the design to better understand its mysteries. "Are the destinations connected, or is the space between them shortened?"
There was a large part of the Echani that was again feeling deeply intrigued, his stance and body language shifted to be alert. "Do you have any texts on where we are headed?" Holocrons would suffice as well. For he would very much like to study them on their journey, to better prepare for his service.
While Taiden was fascinated with this force device, Kei was always practical, "how many uses does it hold?" The Epicanthix asked, placing it in a safe container for later. Kei didn't plan a large structure here, a couple of rooms, and a place to keep stuff out of the house. Elara would probably bite him if he filled up their spare room with training equipment!
"Of practical text not much, aside from what information we have gathered and stored in the archives we are making up much of it as we go and pushing the boundaries. The rest is going to an area of the void above the galaxy and we will be able to peer down and see it all... venture where we need to go as well as chart courses to places we have been striving towards for years with other exploration projects." She said it but there would be plenty for them here and well they had the Chain Gateway which one would be set up here for their allies and those who came looking for them. The chance to really explore the reaches of the galaxy and the force itself well... it wasn't something many would pass up and Matsu was all for really seeing what they could do and what they could recover from the multitude of things that seemingly had been lost. "Master Amadis, there is no uses it is how much energy you can muster to better make use of it."
While Taiden quietly contemplated what Matsu was saying, in deep reflective thought as he often did. Amadis handed his device over to an elderly wildcard technician to properly store. The man carefully placed it in a sealed container used to store precious objects.
Placing his arms again behind his back, Kei nodded firmly to her explanation. "Thank you." He said simply, a generous gift. He could tell she had put work into it achieving it. Matsu had put work into many things, she'd been a constant rock and deserved more. "Thank you for your years of service to make our order what it was and is." Said sincerely with a strong look her way, in case nobody had said it recently, he wanted to make sure she heard it.
There was one more thing on his mind.
"Any governments objected to us keeping in contact?" He had a duty he had to more than Kashyyyk. Amadis could be there for them if they needed his aid.
Any objections? Not that she could think of in that case. "No, there are no governments that seem interested. The Alliance may move over here eventually or another might crop up but we have left the worlds of the concord with supplies, with direction and the chance to improve themselves and not just have another guiding them." Whether that would last was the question unasked and she didn't know but the silver jedi would be able to come and help as needed as they were developing other things. "We are also going to be sending them some of our new countermeasures when we develop them. There are some things in the galaxy much more dangerous." There was always a threat but they might be able to develop more ways to defend. One was the dyson shield project and another was hybrid biots. "Thank you for your kind words, we will see how the next years of service go as I am still around and there is much to do."
Coming out of his almost standing meditation, focused on this new device, Taiden had fifteen more questions to ask and a hundred more after that. Keen to investigate the intricate mysteries behind the transportation device. They would be contemplated in depth later and presented as a thesis perhaps. Duty was to the moment and more than his own intense curiosity.
"Master, would it be prudent to leave our former governments some way of contacting us directly, should the day arise that we may offer a service?" His stance shifted from contemplative to alert, wanting to in some way offer a bridge. The future was always uncertain, and even a lone Jedi advisor was a valuable thing to send in times of crisis or turmoil.
They were moving on but they need not cut all methods of being reached out to. Although the Echani was happy to move on with the current and flow of the force, more than Kei might be at the moment, he still saw the benefit of remaining open.
His stand shifted even more alert as she spoke further. There are some things in the galaxy much more dangerous.
"Will you allow me to contemplate these threats and threads of information with you?" He should very much like to study what Master Ike would find concerning. If only to offer her counsel or support.
"We have, there is always a way to contact us and we have given the tools for more. Our economic AI should be able to help them and others for managing resources." She said it with a nod of her head as she was more then happy to allow them anything. Where they would be able to look over the information itself well... she had computers but they also had the interface tools that would be there and used. "Take your time, these threats are not all going to come at once... some are out there and far off, some might be closer but there is never a bad time to look and think things over."
Hand on her shoulder, Kintan's priestess closed her eyes inhaling softly, "their hearts will travel light," and "they'll endure" she reached out a prayer. Removing her veil for a time, renewal, and rebirth, their force giving her a sign.
Burns on her face and hands, tracing them with the edge of her finger. She'd carried the weight of her past transgressions long enough, and would need to ask him how to heal them fully one day soon. Hesitating once again, today wasn't the day yet.
We'll be needed to do our part, he'd said.
"Yes Master, our path remains," Sera said gently, looking toward him. Her ocean-blue eyes showed faith in him, and resolve for her place in things. As was prophesied on one of their last missions together, she'd barely aged. Sera would outlive them all, as restitution and penance for her actions. They'd both walked through their own darkness, and both had that eternal steady vigilance that came from life experience.
Patting his hand with hers across her chest, and resting against his for a moment. Today was brighter for him being here.
Closing her eyes to farseeing, the moment drifted away, this place, these concerns. She tried to see one of many possible futures for them all….
Using an Echani wrist device to send cues to the wildcards to begin final evac of the site, he was considering keeping a few of his oldest friends nearby with the locals. There was a scenario he considered that some might take advantage of their absence, purely out of spite. He could at least stop that.
"Ace of spades, Jackson you there." He called over comms on his wrist, needing verbal comms for this message.
"Copy this is AOS" Buzzed the response.
"Pick a dozen of the men, we'll be leaving a full squad here for the locals," Amadis decided.
"Roger that. Confirmed, and there are some Houks wanting to stick around."
Amadis grinned wide, "tell them to behave. Amadis out."
The comms said their goodbyes.
"Matsu, Taiden, Natoline, Masters." Amadis looked at each of them, and again he said. "Its been an honor serving with you." He extended his hand to Matsu one final time. They might meet again but force knows when that would be.
Giving Taiden a bow, Natoline a curl of her hair, then bending to kiss her forehead. The Jedi Master departed, steadily walking off into the distance, and offering a wave to them all as he did.
She bowed to the departing Kei and there was always the chance for them to see each other once again. She planned to visit many of the worlds they had been on and foster the jedi temples or outposts there if they could manage to make them much more standard and well with the right design choices they could even turn it into a better network then what they had. Allowing the jedi to function as part of each worlds culture but also maintaining their autonomy... helped of course that she had developed and re-developed the economic circle for managing the temples credits and making sure they could pay for themselves.
"We will meet again." She could see Taiden and there was more of a chance though while walking around and seeing the settling nature around where the lake and trees were filling in everything from the old rest. The white tree she had been gifted would look beautiful and they were connected to much more as well. "If you are ready we can depart there is always more to do and final prep work for the rests placement is always a good thing."
He gave a nod and for the par of them well there was always the next place to travel and benefit.. they were more then likely to outlive all of the others. Which went a long way towards establishing plans if needed... or a lack of them when she seemed to have a vision and his eyebrow raised. Then they were done and he and Sera Inkari
would be departing not to the high plane but deeper through the forests to the Alema and whatever came as part of this vigil.
Following beside Matsu like the Echani had done many times before, he was as attentive if not more to her words. Perhaps he was too keen, the dangers would reveal themselves in time. Taiden sort out a measure of calm serenity that he usually found around these temple grounds, especially in his duties and work around the gardens.
Was he ready to take this next huge step into the unknown?
Taiden looked to Glade in the distance now and gave her a deep bow. She flashed some neon lightshow from her hoverchair, and waved back. He had the feeling he might not see her again, and so held that look as long as she did.
Turning to Master Matsu, the Echani radiated a serenity that he'd not felt for a long time. In a light stance, his body language didn't hold a single tension point in any muscle. "One moment please Master Ike." Walking to his left, he had one last look at the memorial garden that he used to keep on Voss. Dipping down to take a cutting, Taiden pulled out a small jar and placed three plant cuttings carefully away.
"I am prepared now for the journey ahead Master."
Voss's and now Kashyyyk's memorial garden could begin again.
Werucoss Nertivor
was heading their way, saying his goodbyes to old wizened Zacka the groundskeeper, and Kei's lifelong friend. The Ithorian was the picture of a slow and steady gait, blinking a few times when he finally reached them. It seemed to take a time before he spoke, "do you have room for one more?" Weru's deep, slow, and careful voice asked.
The jedi master looked at them and nodded her head. "Always room for more." They made it seem grand and sprawling which was something as she held a hand out and focused the force for a moment. She had made the undrjarn to channel it easier but she knew how to do it without as the light shimmered around her hand and then out making the pathway for them. Different ones they would all have to use but going to the same place as she smiled. "There will be plenty and the high plane is not that far away just a little jump." She said it and walked through leaving the path open for them to follow and venture to the garden ship. Massive in its size with mountains and lakes constructed, a massive shielded dome that allowed it to peer into space and see everything nearly flawlessly so it seemed they were standing there in vacuum. Envirnonmental slabs that showed life from across the galaxy collected and gardens of plants from all of the worlds that could be.
A beautiful image and gateway to a ship shone out. Like something out of a dream, she wanted to remember all of it, every last detail to hold for later. Then with a blip, they were gone, just like that. Glade watched quiet fields, grassland, and the last ships leave above. Sitting there in her chair and looking up at the stars. The silvers had left, it really happened, another piece of her heart went with them all.
She was the last one left.
Tears would come soon, but not yet. Nope.
Like a thud aching away in her heart, she couldn't take not doing it anymore. Her letter. She'd made 500 of them, and never had the courage enough to send one. They never had the words she wanted, never said enough, and the person receiving it could break her heart again with a single word. Would it hurt Sio more to send than not? Was Sio still… no she couldn't think that. FFffffftttttttt she almost chewed off her own lip in stress
"Fyor. Letter 1."
The first, she'd gone back to it over and over and over.
"Send."
"Miss Natoline there is no return address, how will you get a reply?" Fyor Droid said in binary.
"We're not sending this for me Fyor. " An apology that she had wanted to give for years.
Encrypted Message to Firemane via Kashyyyk, Via Corellia, Via Denon, Via Coruscant, Via Alderaan
Destination: Arx Aeternea | Duplicate to Alderaan in case of signal loss.
I'm sorry for any pain I caused you.
All the shame I brought to your family and my daughters.
How I ran. I was a coward, when I should have been stronger and faced my mistake.
You were the best thing I ever had in my heart and always will be.
I wanted you to know that I've carried my guilt and shame for it around every day.
But more than that.
I'm sorry Mother.
So very sorry.
Message sent.
Wind picked up around her chair, and now she could cry she did, for all of the memories. Sad for herself. Happy for every Jedi that came and went from this temple. The Jedi couldn't get carried away in their emotion, so she cried for them, and every voice that wasn't here to say goodbye.
"Where are we headed next Miss Natoline." Fyor continued in binary.
"Kinda feel like icecream"
"Let me present a wide variety of flavors for you, I've heard Courscant Coconut is all the rage this season…"
Kei Amadis
