The Alaris Temple

## Desciples of Light Temple (Alaris Prime)

**City Name:** The Alaris Temple

**Classification:** Religious Commune and training facility

**Location:** Alaris Prime

**Affiliation:**

* Protectors of the Alaris Prophecies
* The Disciples of Light
* Jedi (Unofficially)

**Population:** Heavy. The addition of pledges from around the galaxy to join the recently created Disciples of Light has swelled the temple to capacity, spilling out into the surrounding forest to create a commune or village that has hastily come together while these new members create new homes for themselves.

**Notible Members**

Sage Master Avra Stormbreaker

Seer Issaal Numara

Temple guard Bryngaar

Initiate Thoth

**Demographics:**

* Alaris Sages of typically far sight sensitive species.

* Various Human/Near-Human from around the galaxy.

* Wookies from nearby Kashyyyk.

**Wealth:** Low. While Alaris remains the primary location for training Disciples, sponsored funds for the group are channelled directly into the purchasing of ships, general supplies and facility expenses on certain supporting worlds scattered throughout Republic space.

**Stability**: High. The Alaris Temple run by its Sages has existed for several thousand years since Meera To’ek first settled on the ruined site of an ancient temple and its location is a closely guarded secret. Any major disturbances or decisions are handled by the Sages under the guidance of the current Sage Master. Officially Alaris Prime falls under the jurisdiction of Kashyyyk, however is commonly believed to be uninhabited.

**Description:** At the center of the growing village is the namesake Temple that is the hallmark and center of the growing community. It is here that the sacred altar outlining the prophecies is located.

Originally restricted to the rebuilt Temple of Meeta To’ek, the Alaris Temple in recent times has taken on new life that has expanded upon the existing facility and exceeded its support mechanisms. Temporary habitats and rustic huts have been erected inside the temple grounds and along the exterior of the temple, forming a shantytown and creating a village radiating out from the temple proper. It is no longer a singular structure, but has become the center of a rural commune.

## POINTS OF INTEREST

**THE TEMPLE STEPS:** The approach to the temple from the ground is easily missed, with the ancient stone steps well covered by moss and vegetation. Winding up to the first gate, as one passed through the entry it is as though the world suddenly opens up. And there, before them, is a temple they had no idea they'd been passing by.

**THE ALARIS TEMPLE:** Built atop the original site where Meera To’ek was shown several powerful force visions, the Temple is a Jedi Academy style facility. The several thousand year old structure is home to the Alaris Sages and where the altar on which Meera recorded the prophecies is kept.

**THE ALARIS PROPHESIES:** An aincent dark colored slab of granite altar that Sage Master Meera To’ek used to record the powerful force visions shown to her on the site.

**MEERA TO’EK STATUE:** At the main temple entrance is a carved statue of the Temples founder Jedi Sage Master Meera To’ek.

**LANDING FIELD/HANGAR BAYS:** The temple complex is no more easily recognized from the air, however for those who know where to look an open landing pad is present with two bunker-like hangars available for storage of starfighters or other small Disciples of Light patrol craft.

**INFIRMARY:** A small medical facility within the temple proper is capable of rendering urgent care, but lacking the full trauma or emergency medicine resources of a hospital, being intended to primarily serve as an aid station. The infirmary can stabilize a patient while awaiting evac to a hospital ship or ambulance shuttle to more robust medical facilities on Kashyyyk, and is augmented by a 2-1B surgical droid and a GH-7 medical analysis unit.

**COMMUNICATIONS CENTER:** Contained beneath the Temple complex is a basic communications hub accessed through the temple basement, which serves as a situation room and control center for the Disciples of light information grid.

**THE DISCIPLES OF LIGHT COMMUNE:** The main avenue of thoroughfare which now paves the way from the temple steps toward the temple at the center of the village, the commune is where the families of disciple pledges, support personnel and trainees live and is the heart of the community. It is a bustling market where bartering and trade takes place during the day, where debates take shape, and where the people gather and congregate to conduct business.

**THE ALARIS RIVER:** The temple complex and village are bordered to one side by a river flowing down from the mountains, and which supplies the principle means of subsistence for the fishermen of the commune.

**SECURITY:** Low. There is little in the way of technology and the force sensitive Sages are well versed in combat.

### HISTORICAL INFORMATION:

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. Lead by Grand Inquisitor Master Antonios Dekker 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.