Jorus Merrill
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"Run, Luke, run."
Image Source: HereIntent: A secure method of accessing hidden holocrons remotely
Development Thread: Here
Manufacturer: Silk Holdings
Model: QQ-0VM-4R
Affiliation: Members of the Jedi Order, at the discretion of Jedi leadership (and a few may have fallen off the back of a truck somewhere, such as Levantine space). Silk also reserves the right to make very small batches for private customers, though these would have zero connection to the Jedi holocrons or Library Cards; these would be for individuals who have custody of other holocrons or audio records and wish to access them remotely and securely.
Modularity: Generally not. If specifically manufactured for this purpose, two earpieces can be audio-linked for instantaneous transmission across any distance.
Production: Limited and expensive
Material: Duraplast, high-grade nullification resin, electronics
Description:
(+) An inner layer of high-grade nullification resin renders the communicator immune to technopathy (direct Force influence on electronics)
(+) At the other end of the connection, high-grade nullification resin and taozin amulets prevent the holocrons from being detected through the Force, and the audio package at the holocron end is monitored against data transmission; the only connection is verbal
(+) Quantum ansible communication cannot be intercepted or traced; a tap will yield only audio of a discussion with a holocron -- in short, it is not possible to use the Library Card to discern, divine, intuit, sense, detect or otherwise perceive the general or specific location of a holocron by any known means
(+) Lightweight and portable, with a long battery life
(+) High-quality duraplast and good padding permit high resistance to damage and moderate resistance to lightsabre slashes
(-) The nullification resin makes the communicator impossible to repair with the Force unless the resin is removed, a time-consuming process
(-) Basic quantum ansible communication allows audio link only
(-) Has been known to cause chafing
(-) As both ends of the connection are heavily shielded in high-grade nullification resin, and the holocrons are generally stored with taozin amulets as well, the trademark Jedi holocron reticence is magnified: the holocrons have difficulty determining a questioner's readiness, especially with the Force, and thus they simply don't delve into the deepest mysteries and most easily-abused techniques, for the most part
(-) There are only so many holocrons; though it's possible to listen in on whatever a given holocron is saying to someone who's already listening to it, precedence is an issue that must be resolved Jedi-to-Jedi, or by the holocron itself
(-) Vulnerable to capture; a captured Library Card might give its interrogator a decent idea of which Jedi holocrons are in Jedi possession, though not all Cards are connected to all holocrons
The Jedi Order Library Card is a very basic, very expensive quantum ansible communicator. For each link between a Library Card and a holocron, the Card contains one half of a quantum-locked pair of particles; the other half resides in a small audio projector bank near the holocron. In the most basic of layman's terms, tiny changes to one particle are replicated in the other, allowing data transmission if performed rapidly enough. Each holocron in the Library (a concise name for a collection spanning hundreds of thousands of light-years in far-flung stealthed deep space locations, some extragalactic or in Otherspace) has an ansible connection to each Card, and each Card has an ansible connection to many holocrons. This allows Jedi Knights and Masters to access a variety of holocrons in moderate depth, audio-only, without risking those holocrons' security, and indeed without any relevance to those holocrons' locations. A captured Library Card would give, say, a Sith limited access to a variety of Jedi holocrons, though it is relatively easy for Jorus or the Grandmaster to lock a captured Card out of the system (using other pre-existing one-way devices and audio pickups; nothing as basic as voiceprint ID), and the holocrons themselves are not overly stupid when it comes to determining a questioner's personality and motives. A Sith who captures a Library Card, if possessed of solid patience and if approaching the dialogue carefully, can probably get a good Knight-level grounding in some of the first six lightsabre forms, various harmless but useful Force abilities, and Jedi history. It should be noted that the Sith holocrons captured by the Jedi Order are not linked into this network in any way, especially because many Sith holocrons are not discriminating in how they share their information.
The specific holocrons involved are as follows. Note that not all Cards connect to all holocrons.
- The Great Holocron
- Tionne's holocron
- The Noetikons
- Yoda's holocron, when permitted by Grandmaster [member="Kiskla Grayson"], who is its caretaker
- The Codex of Tython, on the rare occasions when its missing piece is added
- A Jedi datacron on Dathomiri magic and the Chu'unthor
- Various unexceptional Jedi holocrons and datacrons containing the Core Powers and other standard techniques
- Other Jedi and Lightsider holocrons as obtained by the Order
OOC/ A note on canonicity. While the only canon references to ansible technology are vague, the following links should establish the existence of the word 'ansible' in the Star Wars universe and its association with instantaneous long-distance communication. The links also demonstrate that quantum technology is relatively commonplace in the Star Wars universe, at a level of complexity comparable to, or far above, a basic bound-particle pair.
Communications satellite made by Ansible Incorporated
Ansible Beelyard
Quantum RAM
Quantum field
Null quantum field generator
Quantum-crystalline armor
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