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LECTURER
Sorran Ven-Olar
STUDENTS
Äeslan Tyolus
Kemp Aeschylos
Andreus Makaryk
Adonia Xylona
Brandon Asari
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Earth. Air. Fire. Water.
The Four Elements each united and bound together by the cosmic and universal energy of the Force.
Earth - the solid foundation, the ground upon which life itself evolved, the soil in which existence is nurtured and cultivated, a farmer's crop, the sand laiden dunes, the rocks that greet the sea, the mountains.
Air - the elusive and invisible substance, the great winds that blow the clouds, the unseen hand that moves the waves, the first and final breath, the spoken word, the sky.
Fire - the destructive and consuming agent, the heat of hearth and furnace, the conflagration of war and battle, the surging stimulation of growth, a tribeman's cooking, a light in darkness, a signal flare of infinite hope, the stars.
Water - the lifegiving and mutable source, the first tears of a newborn child, the fluvial contours of river and stream, the roaring thunder of waterfall, the rain that floods the barren steppes, the blood that courses through veins, the reflection of a pond, the icicle of winter, the ocean.
All four elements unified and coalescing, eternally within the Force.
Sorran Ven-Olar had been considering the omniscient power of these vastly different entities. At first approach one would consider them all such estranged things of each other, so unique and separate of one another in their composition and existence. And when brought directly together would naturally invoke the most wondrous of transformations.
Water could drown Fire. Fire could dry Earth. Air could fuel Fire. Earth could devour Water. And in the end, each was in a completely changed state of being. Each some mercurial thing that made up the matter of the universe and interacted upon each other and were all eternally unified within the Force.
And so his meditation for those few ephemeral and fleeting hours drew to a close. The great starship, The Will of the Force, hummed with absolute function as it drifted on the peripheries of Tython's orbit. He had now grown accustomed to the chill of space, and had become used to the clockwork routine and hourly regiment that was the vessel's life. It was the core of the New Jedi Order's combat and battle faculty, an area of specialisation in which Sorran had excelled and flourished and now strove to impart upon the newest generation of Jedi.
The Jedi Knight glanced down at his chronometer in expectancy. He was scheduled to give a lecture that would encourage and reveal various tenets of Jedi strategy and practice within the context of battle and combat. While the Jedi were a peaceful collective, striving in all things to promote peace and harmony, the galaxy was a place where enmity and hostility and hatred was ever present. There were those who would seek to destroy the Jedi, those who would choose to rage and fight and consume others in the name of peace. The Sith. The Dark Order whose central belief was that peace was a lie and that passion was truth and could only be achieved through the death of others. By destroying those who were against them, by extinguishing those they felt as weak and undeserving, that was how they sought their skewed version of peace.
Through the raising of a saber.
It was thus that the Jedi Order was on the verge of something like a war-footing. They were to be forced out of their harmonious ways and sentenced to meet their nemesis upon the battlefield. And if they were to survive what was to come, they needed to be prepared. For those who were well prepared had already won half the battle.
The Sith were unified by hatred and vengeance. Their entire philosophy built upon deceit and anger and lust for power. But, he who thrives on vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy, and one for himself. Sorran pondered introspectively.
Their corruption and malevolence would eventually be their undoing.
The Jedi were united, as family and kindred spirits and fellowship, forever unified like the elements within the Force. This was the Jedi's strength. For without the link and bonds of unity, without that unbreakable faith of kinship and alliance, it would be like running into conflict without a weapon.
The Jedi had many weapons. Not just the tangible form of their lightsabers, but the wisdom and knowledge and understanding of the Force, the compassion and benevolence and altruism of light, and ultimately their unyielding and dedicated faith.
Sorran stood and rounded to a table in the large training atrium. This particular chamber was unique upon the grand Jedi ship, and it was enormous with a currently unseen purpose. In today's lecture the Knight would instruct the Padawans in the first five forms of lightsaber combat, would educate them on various non-Force and martial arts techniques, and then finally test their skills in the Art of Movement disciplines. The vast atrium was fitted to transform into a complex training ground, specifically designed for battle simulations. After lecturing and instructing his Padawans he would examine them at the end for them to practice what they had learned.
Sorran would fundamentally prepare and aid his students in their development as Jedi. He would help them grow, like seeds in the earth, like fire in the stars, like water in the waves, like clouds in the wind.
As children of the elements, they would move entire mountains, entire stars, entire oceans, entire skies.
As children of the Force, they would all be united...
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