New Je’daii Order Temple Stav Kesh Rebuild

REBUILDING THE JE'DAII ORDER

"series of one shots about rebuilding the nine great temples of Tython."

Stav Kesh: The Temple of Martial Arts

IC: Temple Master Terrogate & Master Builder Yeg Sunar

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160 ABY: Stav Kesh, Tython.

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Terrogates T-Class personal cruiser Roar-1 screams into the atmosphere of Planet Tython, high over the continent of Kato Zakar. Above him, the Moons of Bogan and Ashla are large and in clear contrast to each other. The eerie darkness of Bogan and the everlasting light of Ashla were symbols of not just his betrotheds new founded Je’daii order, but also a symbolic reminder of the balance in the Force that must be maintained less Tython itself become a raging beast of storms, tsunami waves and volcanic eruptions. Even the animals were rumoured to become more aggressive without the balance Mab had told him.

Below the small personal cruiser was the baron volcanic Firelands but the newly appointed Temple Master was headed due north almost another twenty-seven hundred kilometres. He maintains his constant cruising speed and keeps his altitude just below the clouds so he can take in the views of the planet’s surface. The Cathar warriors’ destination was almost five hundred kilometres inland from the northern shore to a great mountainous range known to him now as the Ice giants. It was here where the ruins of his assigned Temple lay. The ancient Je’daii temple of Stav Kesh, the temple of martial arts.

As he continues along his course his ship's holo-com lights up flashing a low neon blue glow on his main dash. Terrogate smiles, sets the autopilot and presses the button on the dash activating it. Instantly emerging from the dash mounted holographic array a hologram of a middle aged Bothan appears before him. “Yeg Sunar!” Terrogate says with a wide toothy grin. “Thank you for agreeing to join me on such short notice my friend.” “Of Course Mr Terrogate. I must admit I was surprised when you made contact again after all the erhhmm… let's say the most unfortunate business of recent times, but I'm always willing to help a good friend. And a good payer. I hope all is well with your family and you're all still enjoying the villa Knight Bathori had commissioned.” says the Bothan Master builder with a smile. “We are all fine, and it's Grandmaster Darth Bathor now actually,” replied the Cathar. “And don’t worry, everything will be taken care of. Same as last time.” “Excellent.” Says Yeg smiling back, “be sure to pass on my congratulations for her promotion.. So, another house? An estate possibly this time? Or something even more impressive, more befitting of her new station?” he asked the Knight. “Ummm no, it's probably best we talk more once we've arrived and you can get a better understanding of the scope of the project I'm looking to commission” replies Tereogate. The Master builder raises an eyebrow and looks cautiously at the Warrior. “Ok then Mr Terrogate, I shall meet you in 2 hours on site, and I remind you that I do charge for travel time with my quote fee.” and with that he kills the com. Terrogate smiles, if any one could help him bring the glory of Stav Kesh Temple back to life it would be Yeg Sunar.

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Yeg Sunar, the Bothan Master builder puffing and panting finally pulls himself onto the stone platform of the crumbling, weather beaten and over thirty six thousand year old city temple ruin of Stav Kesh. Terrogate was already waiting atop the 6,000 step set of stairs cut into the mountainside winding from the base of the mountain, up past the ancient semi-buried Tho Yor ship and finishing at the temple platform overlooking the Ice Giant mountain range.

“I’m…..I’m gonna double…… my regular rate for......for this..” says the out of breath Bothan. The air was thinner up here, and cold. Very cold, but the Cathar didn’t mind. Since his life mate had her ultra chrome arm gifted to her he had gotten used to the cold. And his fur he found, despite Cathar being a warmer climate was a very good natural insulator. Terrogate smiles, “Well, I always found the health of the body feeds the health of the mind Master Sunar, and I need you at your very best for this restoration project.” He said. The Bothan stands upright and slowly pulls out his datapad from his side bag while still trying to gather his breath. “Well then.. you can consider me in the best… shape of my life….. let’s make a start shall we? Where’s your plans..??.” He says to Terrogate, starting to sound excited. Terrogate pulls out a single piece of parchment from his robes and extends it into the space between the two. On it was a particularly poor hand sketched image of a mountain top temple. “Ummm Mr Terrogate, what’s this?” Yeg asked the Cathar, his excitement quickly fading as he took the piece of paper and looked it over with a frown. “Well, that’s errhhmm… that’s the only image there is of what the temple may have looked like.” Says Terrogate slightly embarrassed at his lack of information. He knew Yeg wouldn’t be happy. He may even refuse to help without a decent plan of what he was working with. Too many unknowns. Too many dangers structurally.

Yeg senses the knight's disappointment and, being the professional he is, instantly turns his mood. After all this was a major contract. And architectural technology was always improving, so he may have a solution he had only recently acquired.

The Bothan smiles and scans the page into his datapad then hands it back to Terrogate and moves slowly in a full circle holding his datapad out in front of him, scanning the surroundings as the Cathar watches on in wonder of what the Master builder was doing. Just a moment after Yeg finishes his scan a holo projected 3D image appears, circling slowly above the datapad. It looks vaguely, but still astonishingly like a three dimensional model of the picture Terrogate had handed him. It was a little bit different from the sketch he had to admit, but still it was close enough that he knew this was it.

Yeg smiles at Terrogate as he sees the Cathar knights face when viewing the new 3D Scanteck site recreation program. “Impressive huh…?” Yeg said with a smug grin and eyebrows raised. “We can scan every possibly area of the ruin and the Scanteck program will, using footing dimensions, positioning, density, building techniques used and any other additional imagery or information to re-create what the original building would have looked like when it was still standing.” Terrogate looks impressed. “Well, I’ll want not just to recreate.. but to improve it and expand it with some ideas and requirements of my own if possible, and of course under your artistic guidance.”  Yeg Sunar smiles excitedly once more… “Well then, you definitely called the right man. Come… we’ve much to scan and to plan.” He says and the two get right to work surveying the mountain top ruins.

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Close to a year later….

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11months, 1 week and 3 days after first joining Bothan Master Builder Yeg Sunar on the mountain top ruins, Je’daii Temple Master Terroage returns having gotten the comlink message from Yeg saying that the build was finally in the closing commissioning phase.

Terrogate had actively gone and employed a literal small army of workers from his native Cathar to help Yeg with the project and who had built a small workers town at the very foot of the mountain that they lived in. Complete with a cantina and all other types of amenities you would find at a town of that kind. They had called it “Windhelm.”

The Cathar people themselves were hardy and strong with fur like him that would withstand the cold of the Ice giants range almost all year round. Their planet had been stripped for several years by the Syndicate faction so there was no shortage of willing labourers, engineers and stonemasons happy to move their family to reap the long term rewards from a project this size. Terrogate had even got Yeg incontact with Bones who was an old ally of the Temple Master, now turned quarry owner and had cut a deal that the sandstone required to keep the temple close to its original aesthetic would be mined and imported directly from the Great Dune Sea of Cathar itself creating hundreds of jobs.

Terrogate meets the Master Builder and together they take a tour of the newly reconstructed City Temple.

Where once were two large structures built into the side of the mountain, with flat tops and sides that slanted down the mountain, now stood a now much larger City Temple, easily 3 times as large as the original and covering the entire cap of the Mountain with high walls to protect it from the intense Tython weather and other predators that may look to penetrate its walls.

Where once was a single cylindrical tower on the right side of the temple proper now was replaced by a dozen square edged security towers evenly spread over the city temples footprint.

Working there way downwards the open courtyards for combat training that once took up much of Stav Kesh's original upper exterior were now reconditioned to new and extended. Yeg had imported sculptures, elaborate water fountains and other various kinds of stonemason curt artwork from around known space and had much on display for all to see.

The sandstone now fortresses-like City Temple was re-constructed all the way up the mountain's slope, forming buttresses and cliffs of smooth stone, windows and balconies dotted the surface of the mountain. A waterfall ran down the surface of the mountain and across the slopes of the lower city walls, and the incredibly long 6000 step staircase ran from the plains below to the top of the temple had been re-cut and repaired to required standards. Although Yeg himself used several choice cuss words when it was time to discuss the steps. Canvas window shades and pennants of the New Je’daii order were hung from the walls and waived lazily in the breeze.

On entering the main entrance hall to the Temple major.. Larger-than-life statues of previously known Temple masters are seen displayed throughout the hall sculpted from fine marble along with dates of their stewardships. Temple Master Rupe 27,987 BBY. Temple Master Vor'Dana  26,012 BBY. The Talid Temple Master Lha-Mi 25,802 BBY. Noghri Jedaii Master Tave and the Zabrak Je’daii Master Kin'ade inventor of the Darrow Sphere, an one of a kind highly advanced spherical training hover droid also know as “Je’daiis bane.” And at the foot of Master Kin’ade lay the broken parts of the robotic Darrow Sphere itself still with noticeable blaster scorching on its surface.

Leaving the hall and entering the main Temple room, the now bone coloured granite floor was so smooth and so freshly polished you could see your reflection in it. And in very large golden writing, in the very middle of the room was a quote that Terrogate had found written in one of the texts Mab had uncovered from the God-Kings tomb.

It reads..  "*No one can fight without balance.*" ―Temple Master Rupe

Many droids buzzed around completing their cleaning schedules and maintenance tasks as they walked. Also many Cathar were still present carrying out commissioning duties. Many of which had recognised their king and bowed as he walked past. Some approached him and thanked him, tears in their eyes for his role in liberating their home, and others offered to have them and their families stay by his side after the Temple was finished, and requested he allow them to stay in his service here on Tython and continue living in the Frosthold. The Temple master could not help but feel truly humbled and had agreed to all who asked this of him. He knew many did not have a home to return to after the war, and Tython had provided them an opportunity for a new life.

Inside the vast City Temple itself was a mass of Training rooms, Barracks, Mess Hall, a great  Library Dedicated to the Martial arts and combat in all forms including, and somewhat new to the temple was also pilot training and flight simulation rooms. A Weapons room / Armory, , droid maintenance, workshops, Meditation rooms, Kitchens, Laundry, Storerooms, State of the art Medbay, and almost every other kind of provision you would expect for a large Temple of the Martial Arts. If the Je’daii would ever need to defend itself, Stav Kesh was where its strength lay.

Yeg then leads Terrogate to one of three newly installed elevators. The one they stood in was the Temple Masters private elevator that unlike the other two, also went to the Vault and Terrogate entering the secure code that Yeg requested he set privately, they then began their descent into the mountain where the Cathar warrior had requested the bulk of his new additions to Stav Kesh.

The Force had a particularly strong presence at Stav Kesh and the Grand Master herself had agreed that it made sense to have a vault installed where it would be best protected, and so it was done. Just one level down, built directly under the Temple and into the mountains core was a high secured underground vault for items of power that the faction may need to protect from finding their way back out into the Galaxy and disturbing the balance once more.

The Vault itself was simply incredible. Constructed from a thick layer of highly prized Quantum-Crystalline and it could withstand the blast of a supernova. Inside it were dozens of different sized stasis chambers that would hold objects of power indefinitely and block out any and all force signatures.

Moving further down into the mountain, the next level down was the ancient Tho Yor starship. Still buried into the side of the mountain as it had remained for millenia, silent and unopened.

Taking the elevator once more deeper into the mountain, an enormous starship hangar had been dug out into the side of the mountain below the Temple. The elevator shaft they were in was one of three that ran from the cave system deep below the mountains connected it to the City-temple stopping at all levels. The Hanger was enormous, with 3 separate levels and could accommodate the entire breath of the Je’daii Navy if required.

The pair take the elevator one more time to the last stop, they pass by the entrance to the ground level that was highly secured from the outside and delve into the planet itself.

Below the mountain, a significant cave system existed which was warmed by magma lakes where the first Je'daii maintained hydroponic gardens and grew fruits and vegetables to sustain them. Although still in reasonable but overgrown condition Yeg had his team attend the gardens and now had been reconditioned, re-arranged and re-stocked for future use.

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Back in the top most hanger Terroate says his goodbyes to the Bothan builder and thanks him for his efforts. The Temple was truly a work of art and none other than the great Master Builder with the help of his loyal subjects of Cathar could have hoped to have pulled it off. Terrogate smiles wide as he sees Yeg’s ship fly off into the distance. His time as a Je’daii was only just beginning. Soon enough there would be students to teach, important missions to attend, and the balance to keep. But first, he needed to repair the Darrow Shere thay lay in the Temple at the feet of its creator's statue.

To be continued...

~\*OUTLINE OF TEMPLE / MOUNTAIN LEVELS\*~

MOUNTAIN TOP - City Temple of Stav Kesh

LEVEL 5 - The Vault

LEVEL 4 - Tho Yor

LEVEL 3 - Hanger

LEVEL 2 - Hanger

LEVEL 1 - Hanger

MOUNTAIN BASE - Plant surface

CAVERNS - Hydroponic gardens

\*outdoor stairs (\*6000 steps) lead from the mountain base to the Temple entrance. Young Je’daii hopefuls are required to climb these as part of their great journey.

\*Three internal elevators run through the heart of the mountain from the Temple itself down to the underground caverns, 2 stopping at each level except the Vault and a third high security Temple Masters elevator that has access to all levels including the vault.