Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
IT'S ALWAYS DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN...
Location: Coruscant - Jedi Temple - Lower Levels
Comm-link, Rebreather, Custom Robes, Battle Armor,Toraynor-Henkan(mind crystal added)Advanced Jedi Utility Belt
Starship: Starlight Sentinel, (Jedi Interceptor in landing bay, Dilorian and Bike both in cargo bay)
Companion: Astromech R01R - "Roller", Pilot droid Mu51c - "Music" , "Aricsias" Wookiee Clan (pops in and out of posts)
Companion: Astromech R01R - "Roller", Pilot droid Mu51c - "Music" , "Aricsias" Wookiee Clan (pops in and out of posts)
” The past is called the past for a reason. If you spend your life looking behind you, your eyes are not on the road ahead. You do not drive a car that way, so why should you live your life that way?” - Rachel Van Dyken
Every single argument that Caltin had heard was right, in some way shape, or form. There was nothing wrong with how any of them felt, or how he himself, but the rub was how to get them to tie it all together. Not long ago, he would have just went off on them for being immature, but that was before he really found who he was. That was when he had just come out of the ice of Rhen Var and had not completely come to understand the galaxy as a whole. No, now was a different dynamic entirely.
Romi had it right. We need to show the people who we are, too many had forgotten.
The demure blonde Consular next to him hit proverbial the nail on the head. They couldn’t do this alone. This was indeed one of those times where he wished that there was one Order and not so many, but that was for a time long past. That was something that he needed to press with his Council.
We’re all “Jedi”, that should be all that matters.
There was a problem in the immediate thought and while he had no place being a “fixer”, Caltin could notice that there was not going to be anything done if all were blaming each other. The Sith was the one who sacked Coruscant, not the Senate(for all of their blunders) and not the Jedi. They needed to realize it. It was natural and perfectly acceptable to be feeling the way that they were, but the consensus was turning into something that would hurt them in the future. True, he saw himself in a lot of them, but Caltin knew he has made mistakes in his life. Should they?
If I may say something? I know that it does not look like it right now, but the Sith were not successful.
The big guy realized fully how it sounded. He looked like he was “lovable but a bit much sometimes”, and half expected everyone to just nod and blow him off like a senile old man.
Heh, you’re a jerk sometimes, you know that right?
You laughed… anyway, giving them another second he continued to his point.
Hear me out. It was a “gut-punch” to be sure, but there are still Jedi in the galaxy, and not in hiding. Jedi were not forced (no pun intended) to pick up and hide on a single planet. What they did is on no one and everyone at the same time. The populace has allowed themselves to believe that what has happened before would never happen again. The problem with this is how to solve it. Living your life in fear and paranoia is no life at all.
There is an old military saying that goes something like: “Keep the barrel pointed out.” Don’t blame each other for what happened, it’s counter-productive. There’s nothing with being angry, frustrated. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to turn and fight back. I get it more than you know but say you do. I used to call this place “home”, myself. My quarters were right around the corner from here.
He pointed in the general direction.
Look, it’s probably not my place to say anything, I get it. I’m not telling any of you how to live your lives or conduct yourselves either. I’m here to help no matter what you ask of me. I’m just saying, I was here when this place was sacked once before when hundreds of Jedi walked these halls daily. I “crossed that line” in defending the Temple… I’m still paying for that.
The demure Consular was dead-on in that they needed to come together in not only pushing back the Sith but showing the sentients of the galaxy who they really were. Not just what they believe to be the Jedi’s lot in life. Many like to see the Jedi as whatever some slick marketer tells them to see them as. They cannot change their opinion, but they can show them the truth.
Right now though, they needed to stop the bleeding before they could close the wound.
... YET THE DAWN ALWAYS COMES.