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The Jedi Weapon Master
Not to be confused with the Jedi Battlemaster, though they both serve similar purposes, the Weapons Master is focused on the more complicated and uncommon breeds of weaponry within the Order's walls. The Weapon Master’s title has no misleadings or tricks within its wording, no greater purpose than its name entails. The Jedi Weapons Master is Jedi martial prowess made flesh. Setting aside the standard lightsaber, the Weapon Master will spend years studying, training, and honing their skills in the art of their chosen weapon(s).
To be eligible for Weapon’s Master, one must have attained mastery of [at least 2 of] alternative fighting styles beyond that of standard lightsaber training, as well as truly be a master of ones own body. The styles mastered may include, but are not limited to:
-Double-bladed lightsaber-
-lightsaber pike-
-quarterstaff [and other staffed weapons, like the electrostaff]-
-San-Ni staff-
-whip weapons [including the saberwhip]-
-flails-
-vibro weapons-
The criteria in which the Council decides their Weapon Master falls to their authority, giving the position to one who has most earned it.
To be considered a Weapon Master by the High Council, not only but mastery of the previously listed weapons/styles be mastered, but also to use ones own body as a weapon as well, but not just martial arts. To truly make the body a powerful enough weapon to be recognized by the High Council as to be worthy of the title.
Previous Jedi Weapon Masters of great repute throughout history are few, but their deeds are great and many. The Jedi Guardian Crix Sunburris was the first, laying the stonework for the Weapon Master in the Jedi Path, including writing several chapters the Temple guidebook, A Manual for Students of the Force. After him, Jedi Masters Thon and Vodo-Siosk Baas were considered great Weapon Masters by the annuls of the Order, well distinguished in their deeds in the Great Sith War.
After the events of the Ruusan Reformation, the most notable Weapon Master of the Order was the famous Raskta Lsu. She was an Echani female and a Jedi Master, a soldier in General Hoth’s Army of Light. So renowned were her battle skills, she was granted the vaunted title of Weapon Master of the Jedi Order. She also displayed her great talents in the New Sith Wars, taking the fight to the Brotherhood of Darkness and greatly crippling them almost single-handedly. It was even said that she was one of five fabled Jedi who could match the terrible Darth Bane in strength and skill with the blade.
In the current timeline, the Weapon Master is the authority on unorthodox weapons in the New Jedi Order, as the Weapon Master has been since their introduction into the Order. Teaching other Jedi in the use and defense against such weaponry is the Weapon Master's primary role in times of peace [or relatively small conflict that does not warrant his presence on the battlefield], as well as overseeing the Jedi Armory. While the Battlemaster remains the premier lightsaber instructor, the Weapon Master is the instructor of all things beyond.
In times of war, the Weapon Master is the tip of the Jedi's spear of war with the Battlemaster. Both are well versed in the art of war and it mechanisms, and besides the weapons they employ, they serve in the same role as military leaders and tacticians.
Not to be confused with the Jedi Battlemaster, though they both serve similar purposes, the Weapons Master is focused on the more complicated and uncommon breeds of weaponry within the Order's walls. The Weapon Master’s title has no misleadings or tricks within its wording, no greater purpose than its name entails. The Jedi Weapons Master is Jedi martial prowess made flesh. Setting aside the standard lightsaber, the Weapon Master will spend years studying, training, and honing their skills in the art of their chosen weapon(s).
To be eligible for Weapon’s Master, one must have attained mastery of [at least 2 of] alternative fighting styles beyond that of standard lightsaber training, as well as truly be a master of ones own body. The styles mastered may include, but are not limited to:
-Double-bladed lightsaber-
-lightsaber pike-
-quarterstaff [and other staffed weapons, like the electrostaff]-
-San-Ni staff-
-whip weapons [including the saberwhip]-
-flails-
-vibro weapons-
The criteria in which the Council decides their Weapon Master falls to their authority, giving the position to one who has most earned it.
To be considered a Weapon Master by the High Council, not only but mastery of the previously listed weapons/styles be mastered, but also to use ones own body as a weapon as well, but not just martial arts. To truly make the body a powerful enough weapon to be recognized by the High Council as to be worthy of the title.
Previous Jedi Weapon Masters of great repute throughout history are few, but their deeds are great and many. The Jedi Guardian Crix Sunburris was the first, laying the stonework for the Weapon Master in the Jedi Path, including writing several chapters the Temple guidebook, A Manual for Students of the Force. After him, Jedi Masters Thon and Vodo-Siosk Baas were considered great Weapon Masters by the annuls of the Order, well distinguished in their deeds in the Great Sith War.
After the events of the Ruusan Reformation, the most notable Weapon Master of the Order was the famous Raskta Lsu. She was an Echani female and a Jedi Master, a soldier in General Hoth’s Army of Light. So renowned were her battle skills, she was granted the vaunted title of Weapon Master of the Jedi Order. She also displayed her great talents in the New Sith Wars, taking the fight to the Brotherhood of Darkness and greatly crippling them almost single-handedly. It was even said that she was one of five fabled Jedi who could match the terrible Darth Bane in strength and skill with the blade.
In the current timeline, the Weapon Master is the authority on unorthodox weapons in the New Jedi Order, as the Weapon Master has been since their introduction into the Order. Teaching other Jedi in the use and defense against such weaponry is the Weapon Master's primary role in times of peace [or relatively small conflict that does not warrant his presence on the battlefield], as well as overseeing the Jedi Armory. While the Battlemaster remains the premier lightsaber instructor, the Weapon Master is the instructor of all things beyond.
In times of war, the Weapon Master is the tip of the Jedi's spear of war with the Battlemaster. Both are well versed in the art of war and it mechanisms, and besides the weapons they employ, they serve in the same role as military leaders and tacticians.
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