The Deciples of Light

== The Disciples of Light ==
Organization Name: The disciples of Light
Classification: Secret police / Watchers and Protectors of the Alaris prophecies. 
Affiliation: The Jedi (Unofficially)
Organization Symbol: see above.
History: The Disciples of Light were formed from a religious Jedi commune erected on the jungle planet of Alaris Prime. More than a thousand years after the old Sith wars had ended a powerful Jedi seer, a Sage Master named Meera To’ek visited the planet, led there by a residual lingering darkness which had haunted her dreams every night for several months. 
Arriving from Coruscant alone, and searching the planet on foot Meera wandered for weeks using nothing but her feelings to guide her yet all the while sensing that the force was leading her to somewhere very specific. Finally hidden deep in the jungles the Sage Master came across the crumbling ruins of an old abandoned temple. 
Inspecting the site she found it had been heavily damaged as though it was once the site of a great battle and inside, a single dark colored granite altar was all that remained. The Seer felt compelled to make camp at the ruins and inside its roofless stone walls she meditated for several days and nights on the force. 
It was then, during her deepest meditative state that the Force in its infinite wisdom revealed to Meera several powerful and terrible visions of the future. Meera recorded these visions by scribing them into the granite altar of the temple. It is these visions that the Disciples of Light now call the Alaris Prophecies. 
Soon afterwards, Meera resigned from her post on Coruscant and returned to the Alaris Prime ruins to rebuild the temple and create a community around its original site. The granite altar by Meeras orders remains untouched to this day but was made a secured point in the temple with a sacred room built around it. 
Over the next several thousand years guardians of the prophecy remained vigilant and built their strength in seclusion but also a network of eyes and ears out in the Galaxy. Eventually, they would be recruited by a group of anonymous senators who had lost faith in the Jedi Order's ability to protect them from the rising Sith threat; the protectors of the Alaris prophecy became a kind of force sensitive secret police for the Republic. Renaming themselves “The Disciples of Light” and dedicating themselves to hunting down threats throughout the galaxy. 
Description: 
The current public view of the Jedi and the Republic is that both are committed to good governance, harmony between all species and social classes and economic equality. The two are one and the same and their partnership seeks to fulfil the roles of government and also peacekeepers. In the utopian society envisaged by the Republic that no one will go hungry, be unemployed or suffer from discrimination. All will live in harmony. But, the Jedi order as its primarily peace keepers has time and time again proven operating out in the open and spending too much time deliberating matters at council to be costly and often counterproductive. To this end a secret police known as the Disciples of Light have been recruited from a secret Jedi sect on Alaris and funded by anonymous planets and senators across the breadth of the Republic. 
The Disciples of Light operate as an unofficial sub branch of the Jedi order and are looked on in suspicion by the official Jedi Masters and as such, operate outside of the Jedi council's direct control. While supported as a necessary tactic by many various members of the republic senate, the Jedi Council themselves are in most part against the branch and take every opportunity to discredit them and their work. 
Trained over eons to watch for the signs prophesied by Sage Master Meera To’ek, the Guardians know the dark side is always there and its tendrils run deep throughout the Galaxy. Those poor souls who have fallen prey to its temptations must be dealt with in order to suppress the Sith threat for the sacred Alaris prophecies to remain unfulfilled. 
Most more traditional Jedi consider the Disciples methods too radical, but the Disciples claim that a lack of vigilance by the Jedi Council is to blame for the resurgence of the Sith and destruction of galactic civilization over the course of history. For far too long have Jedi adopted an attitude of permissiveness and their inaction only entices the Alaris prophecies to be realised. 
Like every secret police agency, the Disciples rely upon a network of informants. These are ordinary citizens who pass on information on their neighbours, family members, co-workers and friends to the Disciples. The information may be based on rumour or suspicion rather than fact. Informants report on all sorts of undesirable activities, such as anti-Republic sentiment or words, black market trading, concealment of Force-Sensitivity, dark side use, artifact hoarding and so on.
While many members of the Disciples of Light are Non-Force-Users, its leadership and inquisitors that are sent to root out evil from across the Galaxy maintain a solid core of Force-Users from Alaris Prime. However, the nature and extent of their abilities vary. Senior members of the body may be able to utilise abilities such as Shatterpoint, Psychometry, Force Illusion, Memory Rub and Mind Probe. The Disciples Inquisitor's themselves specialise in reading the minds of captives, unearthing secrets and altering memories. Broadly speaking, Force-Sensitive Inquisitors tend to be similarly trained as Jedi Consulars or Sentinels.
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Headquarters: Alaris Prime Temple.
Fleet: various small exploration vessels and “The Purity” Battle Cruiser.  
Domain: The Disciples of light do not rule any domain and are unrestricted in the space they may operate. However, it often chooses to send out small task forces or individuals to follow up on leads outside of republic space. 
Pictured: To protect the coming of the Alaris prophecies, the valiant Disciples of Light Inquisitors purge a group of 'heretics' and 'Sith agents'.
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