Voice on your shoulders

[Ayumi Pallopides]

They were continuing to work on everything there when she saw some fo the attention shift and an old man enter with a small honor guard. The grandmaster of the jedi enclave had come to see her and discuss the temple they had been discovered and working to restore. All of the hard work for themselves and the people to construct it up into a bigger things. "Oh we have a guest, the grandmaster of the Republic's enclave." A smile was on her face as she stood up and gave him a bow of respect with a nod of her head.

"Ah thank you senator but don't take away all of the attention, I know you have been working hard and I do not want to take all of the attention of your guests away." She got a small smile on her face as the grandmaster himself was bringing out a few of the things they had developed when they were looking over sections of it. "Well I am very happy to see you here, we have been working on defenses that will protect the jedi temple and the archives here on the planet. i know Sasori has been working to make new temple guard equipment."

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Ayumi was looking at some of the bigger things here while another was brigning out the different defense and agricultural stations that they could use to continue to build and construct their own things. "I am here representing the Republic's navy, we have several ships and stations that can be stored above Denon and the moons within the systems. Deploying pulse mass mines for ourselves to protect the world itself and the system so only those we want can enter closer to the planets."

Interdictors and pulse mass mines would work in some of the bigger things. She wanted to really seccure Denon's system from attack and if they could shut down enemy fleets with making it so they couldn't just enter as well as hold a superior level of ships around the world then well she was all for it as the senator. It would continue to push the fortress world idea as well as continue to let them develop the system itself into something new and different with layers of defenses across the board.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Ayumi though did have to think about Denon and what might be able to come from it, she was not certain about a few of the things they had or how they wanted to protect themselves. She didn't want to make it oppressive but the people and herself wanted to world to be secure so the question about security vs some of the bigger things they did. She could think of making some mine fields and new routes out of Denon for travelers that would be giving them a way to guide and check the ones who were bringing things to them.

"We shall gladly work with the republic on some fo the bigger things, the stations from Golan Arms will serve a purpose for what we desire to do. To make the skies above secure and protect the additional resource stations we have many of the things." They had the trade hubs in orbit that would be working and plans for one fo the Sakura stations when they were constructed to use. The massive ten kilometer station was designed to construct itself and provide even more space as well as a larger medical hospital.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

"There are a couple other ideas I think we could work with as well." She had more pushing over a few of the things when the designs for the different layers of defense above and across Denon were being shown. Ayumi smiling to the grandmaster who nodded in approval while the ones handling the budgeting of defenses was there working with them. Ayumi could head off with the proposal when they were pushing forward into the bigger things until she left with the jedi grandmaster to discuss things about the temple.

"Well that was a fun meeting and thank you for helping us with a few of the things. I know Yutan has a lot of the bigger things within the Republic. We have been working on many of the things across Denon that provided more detial ont he jedi temple and we have been reconstructing it within a bio-cube that will be able to chart it all out." The grandmaster was looking at her as Ayumi pushed the doors open for them with the jedi honor guards coming with them through the streets while she offered a small smile to the man.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

"That is good to hear senator, I know it has not been easy keeping your family secret let alone your own secrets with some of the people. Your people here on Denon seem to accept you but some in the Republic have been wanting to control all of the ones who can feel the force or exclude them. It is your actions at Gyndine that brought the soldiers of Denon and the Republic home that has made you harder for some political enemies to go after. I doubt they will try and touch you for awhile at least and your bodyguards helped organize the defense."

Ayumi looked at him and bowed her head in thanks for that, after Gyndine with Symara well they had gotten some praise. It was quick work, quicker thinking and Symara had organized an entire planet while Ayumi had worked to focus all of them and make them believe stronger then anything that they could win and survive. "Thank you for the compliments, I am not certain how Symara would take that, she isn't one for the whole celebration thing but I know she respects a superiors or her bosses words when they come."

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Ayumi continued to walk as they were heading to the large walkway and doors of the jedi temple on Denon. The modules had been built into the main structure with a few soldiers and its own temple guard before the senator started walking up the stairs while the grandmaster went with her. "I do hope everything we have been working on is to your liking grandmaster. i knwo the jedi enclave has been working on the bigger things we try and push forward with. Given how everything seems to be shaping up the Republic is going to be going tooth and nail for progress."

The old man was looking at her and he spoke touching his beard a little with a small look on his face when he seemed to be thinking about it when they looked at the larger sections of the temple with statues. "Yes the republic is being tested in trials by fire, it seems everyone wants to bandwagon on the train of hate and show how special they are by not being special or unique." He seemed to find humor in all of it given what they were going over before he entered the doors with a small look at the statues.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

As they entered the temple past the doors and into the massive hallway that served as the entryway showed with the statues of other jedi. They had modeled the pathway modules in a way so the defenses were there allowing it to go through with the stone as connecting off of it was the warehouse modules that were set up as classrooms for the students. Barracks set up as she came to the main area and there was a massive cube module that was set up to be the main body of the temple filled with levels of everything they had. It was like its own small city.

It gave her a view she wasn't expecting though in many of the things but they had also constructed across the board with everything. Denon had the space and going down closer to the surface of the planet itself was a big thing when she listened to the grandmaster who was walking with them. "You have done amazing work here, the cubes will be able to create massive cities that can be used by the jedi to teach and train all of the people within the order. We are going to need to work with some of the things in the lower levels."

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Ayumi looked at him and gave a nod of her head to that, the lowest levels of denon were an important part to work with when she knew they had been developing it as well as creating the layers of power stations for the planet. Massive machines to be the heart of the world under heavy guard and protection away from easy access on the surface. If anything she was planning to have new prefab garrisons they could station with soldiers and police forces on the world along with anti force user tech and equipment.

"We'll head on down then, lots of works are still being done under the surface of Denon for all of our projects and we are more then happy to get what we can. I know the Sasori engineers are using the synthweave they developed to make area's of the planet inhospitable to darksiders with the weave in the new walls and modules. Hopefully with the right applications we will be able to continue to infuse and enrich this world to becoming something better then the original sum of its peoples.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

Ayumi was standing on the lift when the grandmaster joined her heading down in the lift with a bow of her head towards the bigger things below. All of the jedi here working on helping the engineers with the construction efforts were proving to be very effective in the longer run given this was a peaceful place away from a large amount of the drama that people were trying to bring to the galaxy. She wanted to work on some of the bigger things here when she spoke. "So with everything that has been happening grandmaster how are you settling in?"

She could see him thinking about it and rolled his shoulders. "It has been a new experience, with everything going on around us I haven't really gotten to explore the idea of freedom that comes with being the grandmaster. I haven't gotten to teach classes because all of the students get bored and go to another order or belong to several so you can't really keep track of them or worse some are so idealistic they don't see the value in anything else but only following the code to the point of apathy."

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

She had witnessed that and was confused by it though she did find idealists so adorable compared to some when she was pushing the idea of getting more training in her own skills. It was a family legacy after all and one should always respect the family while she was pushing forward with a few of the things to get them into the lower levels and the artificial lights were working. "Yes but idealists are so adorable when they are really trying to be better then everyone. So fresh faced and brand new to the ways of the galaxy."

The two of them shared a laugh as it came from his chest and was loud with a bow of his head when it went to both of them. Ayumi stepped out of the lift with him as they started going down the hallways looking over the sections of some of the bigger things. There were more barracks as well as the massive archives they had constructed with some interest. "Yes they can be but there is some more information we can get. We have been working on the bigger things to teach you battle meditation and control so you do not fall to the darkside."

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

That was a very important thing that they had to work with as Ayumi was walking. Falling to the darkside into some of the dangerous things, it was important to have the enclave able to teach those who used the force able to protect themselves and their minds. The jedi themselves well some of them liked to work on helping and some seemed to believe you could only learn from the jedi if you were one and she wasn't one. it had the senator staying with it while they traveled through the lower reaches of the world with a bow of her head.

"Yes that was the hope, the darkside runs ancient in my family, I do not want to touch it or welcome it." She was paying attention to the major things they had there with a small look on her face before they came into the larger archives. They were still under construction and getting things hooked up but she could see a number of the jedi that were working with the databanks they had. More work down into the bowels of the academy when she was coming into the hallways with the grandmaster and looking up at some of the shafts for moving supplies.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

The grandmaster stood there with her as the many levels of Denon could be seen several kilometer's from the surface of the planet to the skyline that was looking over the different things that were being moved and set up as they secured some of the defensive tungstoid doors for them to work on the bigger things. Like the magnetic lifts for them that really need to work on some of the bigger things, no one would be able to cut or lift them because of the weight which is what came in handy.

"All of this looks very impressive, you have worked out to make the bigger and better things here on Denon, the jedi enclave will find someone who can teach you what you need to know about the force to protect yourself from the darkside and slipping into it. We don't want to have your battle meditation turned upon us or manipulated as so many others have been within the galaxy to try and impede progress and helping those who could benefit from the republics aid across the galaxy."

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

That was the big thing with all of them, Ayumi wanted to aid the republic and she was staying with some of the things there now. Denon was a powerful thing before she moved through the works towards what she was looking to get that was special for them. The heart of Denon down on the surface was the main senators bunker for the other government officials. "There is something else grandmaster that you should see and that we are wanting to have for other worlds and ships across the galaxy."

Ayumi continued to lead the way down and through until they came to the bunker with the lift from her massive offices with the other government officials that had been working on more of them. Senate commando's were down there when Ayumi worked with them to set up this bunker for protection to work more to a point. She opened the bunker as the heavy vault door opened revealing the inner defense turrets allowing the inner doors to open to show a larger modules they could survive in down below here but there was more.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

The bunker was built in the heart of the planet, under the surface itself which was covered in layers upon layers of soldiers and defenses. All made and designed for the ones in the government to survive a siege or worse as it would also be where they could stick anything out with limited access points and the self sustaining technology that sasori had developed to survive for years within a siege. Practically all of Denon was very much the same when it came to the works they were doing before the Senator stepped inside.

"This is very impressive but what is down here that you wanted to show me?" The grandmaster asked and Ayumi led the way through into a small chamber, large crystal formations were in the room and designed like a chamber with a chair in the center of it. Small crystals that were pulsating with the force when she went there and sat down with it activating at her touch. "This is what I wanted to show you, are primary addition to the planet and developed using crystals from Ilum and around the galaxy."

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

The grandmaster seemed to understand it as Ayumi was sitting there in the meditation chair, the same kind that was developed and used by Jacen for his battle meditation. A way to focus and expand your own abilities while lessening the strain that one would feel while they were training it. As a tool of the jedi it could be powerful and as a weapon of the darkside it could be more dangerous then anything as coordination meant suppressing the minds and taking full control of the people you were going after.

Ayumi herself was sitting on the chair and could feel it expanding her consciousness as she was feeling the world itself all around her. From the soldiers working to even the faint electrical signatures of the droids that were working. Her detection field was there and everything felt within her grasp before she was allowing her eyes to open back up. removing her head to break the connection and knew that if she focused she could feel it, she could face it and have it all be hers to inspire and command.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

"Now with the force allow your energies to expand outwards, focus your mind, quiet your thoughs and all of your actions. Forcus solely on the feelings of the people around you and seek out the doubt, the fear and the anguish they feel as they live their lives. You are their senator, one fo the people who understand what it is like to be there in the galaxy and feeling powerless. You want to protect them, your want to inspire them, your actions are made to save and inspire them. The mentality you have of never asking someone to do something you were never willing to do yourself will help."

She was feeling it as he spoke about the force and her own personal feelings, the senator was focusing the force energies of her meditation as she was starting to reaching out and expand her realm of consciousness. Slowly allowing everything she had to touch the minds of the jedi in the temple close to them, then to the human and finally to the aliens. Her thoughts and her senses to feel and communicate with droids to a superior degree were there as well while she couldn't influence them she could feel the droids.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

She might not be able to push influence on them but she was going to have to work on many of the things with her attention going upwards into the bigger things. She was feeling their minds and listening to what the grandmaster had said to her she was focusing on ways to push back and inspire them on the world itself. It wasn't about the dangers of the galaxy and this wasn't about controlling them it was about making all of them feel better, feel like the horrors that were the galaxy were closing in around all of them.

"You are doing good now steady your breathing, eyelids half closed, tongue to the roof of your mouth, lips slightly parted so you can inhale the force energies around you. In the air and bring them into your being as you separate the two halves of each breath. The two sides of all energy, light and dark. One cannot exist without the other and yet when they are imbalanced they create destruction. Only when they are together can you truely have a balanced mind and body able to channel the force properly."

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

She continued to work with what he was saying and understood it wasn't just touching the minds she also needed to be able to do it for prolonged periods of time that would be able to keep going. She was letting her breathing come out when she inhaled through her mouth lightly feeling her chest rise with the expansion of air that was filled with the force energies. As it circulated with the air she was holding it for a moment when she exhaled the air through her nose before her senses continued to expand out and the strain lessened.

"Continue your breathing, allow it to motivate your mind and body protecting your thoughts from the influence of others and the force energies will sustain your body as those who are made to protect you will keep your concentration from being broken." Ayumi stayed there while she set about some of the imprssive things going into it when she was wondering how badly hurt Symara was and if she would properly heal. "Focus your mind, no distractions senator." The grandmaster spoke with a stern look at her.

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

She could continue to feel it all and didn't know how much time she was spending on it, all of the energies and her meditation now to maintain her concentration was pushing all of it until she felt a hand on her shoulder with a nod opening her eyes and feeling like a weight had been lifted as her concentration had been broken. All of it before she was going over and coming up off of the chair with a sharp inhale of breath to herself so she could stand up. Her muscles protesting from being in the same place.

"That was intense." She said it while staying there and more of herself was out then she had expected. The grandmaster holding herself up a little with a bow of his head as he seemed to understand seeing her. "You did very well, this is an exercise that you should practice every day for as long as you can spare, just focus and work on building your endurance while also your mental stamina for connecting to an entire army or a planet. You will eventually be able to stretch out with your consciousness."

 

[Ayumi Pallopides]

She could work with it like that, going over all of the things that they had been doing here when she was getting her breath back to her old self. The Senator smiled a little though as she came back up hearing her back pop in several places that made her feel a little better and more relaxed. The popping sounds of her neck before she twisted in her place to the same sounds all over relaxing a little more. "THank you for that, she should be able to work on it with some of the bigger things here. I have a few ideas of how to improve it all."

Ayumi and the grandmaster could leave here, she had a lot left to do on Denon when it came to projects and as the time had progressed so had everything else with construction when she finally came out of that euphoric state of being. She felt her stomach rumble and was wanting some food. "I am so hungry right now I could eat an entire banths for myself or a lot of snack cakes." She said it with a small look on her face but was paying attention to some of the things when one of the guards was bringing her food.