Jedi Order

This is an alternative take on the Jedi Order from Star Wars, set in a simpler Universe, inspired greatly by other

great Sci-fi's, meant for use in private RP sessions.

The Jedi Order
Initially, the Jedi Order was a religious movement of mixed Alamari subspecies, who settled on the planet of Tython, in the original Alamari solar-system (they orgininated on the Alamary home-planet as a much diffferent religious movement, but underwent a transformation when they moved to Tython). The Order existed for the benefit of those Alamari who were particularily strong psionics (all Alamari have inherent psionic abilities, but very few can develop them properly). The Alamari believed that their psionic abilities were some sort of divine power, connected to their destiny and to fate itself, and they referred to it as the Ashla (later translated into Galactic Basic/common as "The Force").

Only certain members of the order could use their psionic abiliies to see into the future, and they were the leaders of the order. If they saw disasters in their future, it was the duty of the order to do anything they could to prevent it from happening. In the end, the Jedi Order would come to shape the outcome of many species forever, when they managed to push their own speices into deep space exploration to prevent various anihilation scenarios that they feared greatly were to happen. In the end, the Jedi Order played a huge part in the formation of the Galactic Alliance. The creation of the Galactic Alliance was also the indirect reason that the entire Alamari Subspecies known as the Sith (who were all members of the Jedi Order, due to their inherent strong psionic abilities, albeit, they served in a more political manner, than monestic) broke away from the main order in protest, and tried to overthrow their own government.

The Sith Order was sent on the retreat into space, and the Galactic Alliance fought off the crisis that the Jedi Order had forseen, and this sealed the fate as the Jedi Order being the protectors of the Galactic Alliance.

Today the order has changed much. While certain mystic and semi-religious views remain in the order, in attempts to expalain the ill-understood aspects of psionic phenomonenon, the order has been reformed into a partially military monestic order of scholars and defenders focussed on diplomatics, science, development and honour with the primary purpose of protecting and guiding the Galactic Alliance.

What is a Jedi?
Typically, Jedi are referred to as the Jedi Knights, because the most commonly held rank with the main order is the rank of Jedi Knight. The Jedi Knights are defenders of the Galactic Alliance, famous for their hooded robes, lightsabers, powerful psionic abilities and legendary skills as tacticians, historians, diplomats and warriors. Generally reputed as a benevolent organization devoted to doing good and fighting injustice.

How does one become a jedi?
To become a Jedi, one must be a psionic. More often than not, that means being born with super powers.

Being found
Jedi potentials are located inside the Galactic Alliance at birth, because certain equipment can test them for being psionics. In the Galactic Alliance, all psionics must be handed over to the Jedi order for basic training in their abilities, but they do not have to become Jedi. It's a messure taken to prevent people from losing control over their abilities.

Training
Depending on what age the psionic was found at, they enter the order as initiates in one of the various training facilities and learn the ways of the Jedi. Once their training as initiates is complete, they can choose to leave the order, and doing so will result in being paid a generous amount of money to start a new life somewhere. Trough training as an initiate, the psionics learn not just to control their supernatural abilities, but also get a very high education, advanced military training and much more. It's very rare for someone to leave the order in discontent feeling that becoming an initiate was a waste of time. In fact, it's considered one of the greatest oppertunities the galaxy has to offer, and there is no age limit (except for those that actually want to become jedi, which is the majority - also note that if discovered at anyone discovered is removed directly from their lives and into the Jedi Order.

Becoming a Jedi

There are various ways to serve the Jedi order, not all of them as a knight, but finishing the initaite state is the first step towards all of them. They are all thoroughly explained through out this wiki. An option for those found too late to become Jedi Knights, is the Service corps, which offers a wide-variety of job oppertunities for those with the skill set of a fully trained Jedi Initiate.

Serving the Galactic Alliance
In each their way, all Jedi serve the galactic Alliance. The Knights as stalward protectors of the innocent and keepers of justice, but the Jedi serve in many ways not as dashing as the Knights duties. Some use their expensive education to become academics, while some become Psionic Commandos. It's important to note that the Jedi are not soldiers. They have their own views on everything, and instead of being considered a part of the Galactic Alliance, it is more accurate to say that the two form a symbiosis, with the Jedi order as protectors and advisors, and the Galactic Alliance as funders and providers of Psionics.

What they can do?

In short terms, Jedi Knights master several techniques, some based on their psionic abilities, othere learned through hard training and studies.

Psionics
Jedi are psionics, they can manipulate the world with their thoughts. Some a fairly weak, only capable of simple tricks like, making a pebble levitate, while some are powerful enough to kill with their mind.

Combat training
Jedi are protectors and defenders. They have the most advanced combat training the Galactic Alliance has to offer, but are most famous for their special skills as duelists with lightsabers, which is the signature weapon of the Jedi. In the hands of a trained psionic, such a weapon is more dangerous than anything else.

Diplomacy and knowledge
Also reknown as diplomats and scholars, the Jedi have the most extensive libraries in the galaxy, and they are considered the most fair and wisest mediators in the entire galaxy.

History
Exactly how the Jedi Order began, is difficult to say, as no recordings go that far back, but the earliest records show the order as a powerful religious organization within the Alamari Goverment.

When the Alamari expanded, the Jedi Order settled on Tython and colonized the planet in the name of their order, and it remained the seat of their power during that era.

As Alamari managed to travel beyond their own solar system and encountered other species, the Jedi Order was thrown into a revoltion. The Seers of the order predicted that it was necessary with the revolution, while angry radicals left the order in anger, without turning in their lightsabers. They did not accept the councils decisions and formed their own order, the Sith Order, who would not accept the new ways of the order, neither would they except the supremacy of the Alamari race being drawn into question by these alliances with foreign species. They were forced into exile, after being defeated shortly after their uprising.

The Jedi order soon started recruiting members from all species, and became a neutral organization within what had become the Galactic Alliance, based on Tython.

Doctrines/Code
Th Jedi Order follows a long and complex doctrine and code, that I with is small text aim to summerize (rather than writing said long and complex code, which will most likely be very uninteresting to read).

The Jedi order exists primarily to ensure that no one misuses psionic abilities or psionics, but also to protect the freedom and lives of the citizens of the Galactic A lliance.

The Jedi Order are warriors but also diplomats and scholars. They rarely enter armed conflicts, and when they do, they often do so to mediate between other warring parts. They always seek to avoid bloodshed, but maintain a license to kill in the name of freedom and they have been known to deem certain people too dangerous to be left alive, under certain extreme cirumstances (typically when the risk of a captive - or potential captive - is very big due to various factors, and that the escape of said captive would no doubt lead to further deaths), but this is the exception, and far from the rule. Infact, the Jedi Order preaches mercy, forgiveness and redemption, believing all people capable of redeeming themselves, no matter their crimes.

Upon becoming a Jedi, one forgoes all rights to personal belongings (this does not count for the Service Corp. who more or less function as regular job-holders)  and swears to minimize all personal attachment. This means for the most part, cutting ties with family, not putting too much weight on friendships outside the order and for the most part, giving up on having a love life. This has known to be almost impossible for even the most devout Jedi to remain true to, and it's surprisingly common for Jedi to have love affairs internally in the order, or having secret relationships outside the order, how ever some openly oppose this doctrine and marry openly. Most Jedi can confess to having experienced short lived flings. It's a subject of continous great debate, young offenders are typically banned or severely punished for breaking this rule more openly (if a secret long term love affair is found out, opposed to it being revealed that the Jedi had a short term fling, which would most likely just result in a warning), while older and more respected members are generally allowed to "retire" to less influential positions in which having a love affair would not be able to harm the order. It is impossible to have an open love affair in the order, and still be a key figure inside the order however.

The Jedi are sworn to protect the innocent, but also teach that it is impossible for the Jedi order to save everyone.

The Jedi are taught not to strike people down in revenge, and infact they are encouraged to set aside their emotions and let rational thinking guide their actions. Anything done in anger, is done influenced by emotions, and must be considered a flawed choice, as it must be justified AFTERWARDS, which means that it was not a considered action.

This following Jedi Mantra is one of the most pointed to in the order:

The following is directly from the official formuated Jedi Code, but is used as a mantra to describe the role of the Jedi, and often used outside the order for the same purposes:

Following tenets are found in the code:


 * The Jedi are the guardians of civilization, yet do not allow civilization to destroy needlessly.
 * A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for aggression or personal gain.
 * A corollary of the Code was "A Jedi does not act for personal power."
 * Jedi respect each other, and all other life forms.
 * Jedi must put the needs of the community above the needs of individuals.
 * A Jedi must protect the weak and defenseless from evil.
 * Jedi must always cooperate in battle or crisis.
 * Jedi must not have wants; self-reliance must be shown.
 * A Jedi will not kill an unarmed opponent.
 * A Jedi will not take revenge.
 * A Jedi does not cling to the past, but rather seeks to learn from it, and apply it to the present.
 * The Jedi do not believe in killing their prisoners, unless killing a prisoner will prevent further bloodshed.

Traditions
The Jedi order is subject to a number of traditions, tied closely to their internal structure and their position in the galaxy. These are however simply traditions, and are not required to be upheld by the Jedi Code.

The Jedi wear special garments, that, while serving as a uniform, were often costum designed and while they tended to look a lot alike it was often obviously easy to tell the garments apart.

Only Padawans and above ranking Jedi get their own self designed garments, while initaites utilze the same



clothes, and these are orange loose fit tunics, with a hood attached (unless the traditional robe is worn), and either tight fitting or loose fit orange pants with matching boots, and typically gloves as well.



Established Jedi wear clothes that are considered more common within the order, looking more formal and seem less focussed on being practical in training situations, how ever the clothes retain certain aspects.These clothes always had a hood attached on the back (which was usually removable) unless worn with the traditional robes, and often looked VERY similar. These clothes were considered formal wear and were the official uniforms of the jedi order. The clothes varried quite a bit from rank to rank and role to role, making it easy to tell a padawan in the dimplomatic corp. from a Solar Guardian.

Finally, the Jedi also had practical wear that they would wear for non-formal occasions, especially travelling, training and non-diplomatic missions, and  these clothes were often extremely costumized and rarely worn stand-alone, but accompanied by the traditional robe of the order.



The Robe of the order is perhaps the most well known and still most incognito garment of the order. Robes like the ones used by the order are surprisingly common through out the galaxy. Essentially, the robe is more of a coat, as they could be closed. Some robes, mostly traditional robes, others simply permanently part of the formal uniform, are always closed in the front.

While these clothes are formally associated with the Jedi, the Jedi do not refrain from wearing armor in combat situations, but seeing as the Jedi rarely go into a conflict expecting combat, they are very rarely seen in armor. Most Jedi do carry personal energy shields, though.

The Lightsaber is another thing tied to the Jedi Order by tradition. Considered the Jedi weapon of choice (which isn't true for all cases), it's a weapon all Jedi, even the service corp. must learn to wield, maintain and build. Traditionally, the Jedi Initiates start out by learning to use ordinary melee weapons, acrobatics, various athletic disciplines, unarmed combat and ranged weapons. As they start to master all of those, and gain an increased understanding of how those work (which usually happens within the first year and a half of their training, which is fast though not so considering the intensity of their training), they eventually set aside most of their training with other weapons and focus primarily on unarmed combat and learning to use the lightsaber. To learn how to use the lightsaber, they initially learn the Shii-cho form, which is one of several forms of Lightsaber Combat, that teaches the transition from using a melee weapon, to using the weightless energy blade of the lightsaber. The training is done with special kind of lightsaber replica, usually called a Dummy Saber, though officially it's called a Lightsaber Bokken. As soon as they have managed the basics, they start using training sabers however, which are essentially real lightsabers, though it's commonly known that lightsaber hilts are often costumized to suit their wielder's needs, but these training sabers are very generic and simplistic in appearence, and have various differences in internal workings rendering them non-lethal The training sabers still utilize a Lightsaber Crystal  however, and it is a tradition that the initate must create this crystal himself, synthetically. Traditionally, the crystal must be made so that it produces a white blade, how ever if a different result occurs for some reason, it is generally accepted, unless the initaite outright attempted to create a different colour. Further more, the initaite must build the training saber himself, from parts made available (normally many of these have to be costum made to fit the costum hilt of a lightsaber), and certain parts must be hand-crafted as these are not normally purchasable. Further more, the initaite must costum- create the hilt, following the instructions, ensuring that the initiate ends up with a lightsaber that looks exactly like any other training saber, further more, these training sabers cannot be activated using a button, rather the initaite must use psionic abilities to activate the lightsaber, by using telekinesis to activate certain mechanisms inside the saber. Advancing even further, the training saber is upgraded, adding an actual activation button, and a secondary crystal, namely a Kathracite crystal, that the initaite must brave a Kinrath lair to obtain. This secondary crystal produces a less-lethal blade (less than a real lightsaber anyway, how ever still quite lethal) that the initaite can rely on for self defence purposes, as older initiates are often tested in various ways that can prove dangerous. Upon becoming a padawan, a Jedi must create his own lightsaber, which must be completely costum built, and before building the lightsaber, the padawan must travel to Illum and find a suitable crystal there. Usually, Padawans report feeling some sort of strange connection to one crystal in particular, because the crystal resonates in a special way that attracts the padawan, but not all padawans share this experience, at any rate, because the crystals are often chosen based on this phenomenon, it's impossible to impose any regulations on what colours may be used. The only rule is, that only Jedi Masters may decorate their hilts with electrum, while all others are forced to rely on more common materials. Further more, it's very atypical for a padawan to create his/her first saber as a double-bladed or curved. Most create a straight hilt as their first hilt, and eventually modify it later.

Initiates keep their hair short and practical. Female Jedi initates are allowed somewhat longer hair than male jedi initaites, typically paige hair reaching no longer than the mid neck length. Dispensation can be sought however, to maintain a different haircut. Males sport military style haircuts, with milimeter short hair on the sides a, and somewhat longer on the top of the head. Initaites are required to be smoothely shaven and always appear well kept and groomed if possible. Both male and female Jedi sport a small pony tail which is kept longer than their other hair. All initiates have a single lock of hair sprouting from their right ear, which they never cut. It's incredibly thin and braided, and is allowed to grow indefinately, until they either transfer to the Jedi Service Corp. or become jedi Knights.

Upon being Knighted, Padawan steps into a circle of masters (traditionally the High Council Members if they are available) with their hoods on, and ignited lightsabers pointing up in the air, and the highest ranking steps foward, hood down and cuts off the braid while the padawan kneels infront of him.

Jedi Knights are allowed to let their hair grow as they see fit, but may not sport a beard, as beards are reserved for masters.

Naturally these rules only count for species that actually have hair.

The Councils
The Jedi is ruled by councils with the High Council in the very top, and planetary councils in the very bottom.

Planetary councils
Planetary councils can hold up to three members; a Counsular (but only if the planet is inhabited), a Guardian (but only if there is a Shadow Site on the planet), and a Watchman (again, only if the planet is inhabited. If there is only one person on a planetary council (necessarily a guardian), his seat is moved into the Solar Council and that planetary council is dismissed (not removing the duties of the guardian however).

Solar Council
A solar Council consists of, potentially unlimited members (but the highest number so far, remains 21). The counsular of every planetary council has a seat there. Every guardian who guards a shadow site on an uninhabited planet has a seat there. A jedi is selected (not from amongst the already existing watchmen in the system) to be the Solar Watchman, and one is similarily selected to be the Solar Counsular. The Solar Watchman has all uninhabited planets as his immediate juristiction, while the Solar Counsular leads the council formally, and has a seat in the sectorial Council. In cases where there are entire solar systems without any inhabitants (making up the majority, despite the terraforming efforts), the Watchman of that Solar System moves up to have a seat in the sectorial council.

Sectorial Council
Above the Solar Councils were the Sectorial Councils, standing as some of the largest councils. All Solar Counsulars and lone Watchmen would hold seats in the Sectorial Councils and a seperate Master would hold title as sectorial counsular and possess a seat in the regional council.

Regional Council
There are 10 Regions of the galaxy, and as such, 10 regional councils, how ever, these regional councils are far from equal in size, despite the 10 regions being almost equal in size and number of systems and planets. The reason for this, is the vast number of still unexplored systems in many of the regions, and that not all of the galaxy falls under the Galactic Alliance.

High Council
The High Council of the order holds all 10 regional counsulars, the grand master of the order, the battlemaster of the order, the designated lore keeper of the order, and up to 5 elected members. Further more, the leaders of any prominent and important Jedi facility (these facilities being: The enclave of universal study Dantooine, the Grand Temple on Tython, the Library on Ossus, the Enclave of Advanced Study on Telons IV and the enclave of on Illum) could demand a seat when ever, but seeing as these facilities had their own councils, they would only on exceptionally rare occasions bother to participate in the business of the high council. The high council would at no time have more than 23 members in session, but only 18 of these 23 were considered formal members of the council.

The Titles
The various titles mentioned in the above hierarchy of Councils.

Watchmen
A watchman is responsible for monitoring, either the uninhabited planets in a system, or a single inhabited planet. His job is to maintain close relations with important people, ensure the safety, continued health and wellbeing by finding threats and eliminating them. They are also responsible for tracking down new and previously undiscovered shadow sites (a rare thing to happen, but certain to make a Watchman's name go over in history) and find and protect children with psionic abilities, until they can be taken care of. Watchmen are also expected to assist any Jedi passing through their areas of responsibilities. Watchmen are typically older Jedi who are very caught up in public relations and travelling, and more often than not, they are too busy to handle most of the threats they eventually discover, leaving it up to the Jedi Sentinels to handle such matters.

The Padawan of A Watchman
Certain Watchmen have large enough, and interesting enough territories that they are allowed to take a padawan. Padawans to these watchmen will typically recieve good training in both conflict resolution, combat, dimplomacy and many other useful matters, and typically grow very skilled, especially in more untradtional matters.

Jedi Guardian
Guardians are protectors of Shadow Sites. This duty may be held by a Jedi Knight (accompanied by his padawan), and is rotational. If there is a shadow site, there is a guardian, and the guardian is in charge of the temple guards. Guardians are preferred that have previous experience from the Jedi Peace-Keepers or the Warriors. Guardians aid the local efforts of law enforcement and military if there is any such present, but otherwise, their primary duty is the security of the Shadow Site and Jedi Enclave located by it. Seeing as it's a rotational duty, usually 6 months at a time, the Guardian will usually spend that time teaching his/her padawan or training. How ever, many Guardians are holding their positions permanently, using it as a retirement option. There are infact so few rotational guardian posts left, that chances of being rotated there are slim. People who voulunteer to hold a guardian position are promoted to the ranks of Masters, but denied further rights to take on Padawans.

The Padawan of a Guardian
Guardians are often not permitted to take padawans, with a select few rare occasions, those rare occasions being the rotational guardianships, where the padawan will simply follow the master for the duration.

Jedi Counsular
The Jedi counsular is the leader of an enclave situated on an inhabited planet, and a diplomat. While his job is to maintain a good standing with the officials, he relies on the local Watchman to know whoever else is worth knowing, and focuses on keeping the local government on the right track by functioning as an advisor.

Higher levels of counsulars function not as enclave leaders, but rather as middle-management leaders mediating between the different councils, a straining life very akin to the life of a politician.

The Highest of the Jedi Counsulars sit on the High Council, representing entire regions of the Galaxy, but holding as much sway as anyone else on the council, how ever their primary duties lie with their respective regions, and not in the High Council Chambers.

The Padawan of a Consular
Consulars are often too busy for a padawan, but may choose to take one on. The Padawans of consulars will often experience their padawanship changing at some point, at first being primarily a mentor/student relationship, changing into a relationship of handler/operative, where the padawan will act in place of the Consular on important assignments.

Jedi Weapon Master
A Jedi Weapon Master is a Jedi Master, who has either mastered a single weapon not normally associated with the Jedi, one of the more exotic Jedi weapons, such as the Saber Staff or Guard Shoto's, a person who is considered a Master of a specific style of lightsaber combat (note: "mastering a style" is not the same as "being a Master of a style", mastering a style simply means that the style can be used to it's full extend, but being Master of a style means that one is considered and expert of that style in particular) or mastering all styles.

Masters of a specific styles are usually mentioned as "An X Master" where X is the name of the style they master, rather than being denoted as weapon masters, but the title holds the same effect. Weapon Masters are promoted to Masters, no matter what rank they held before, how ever to be declared a weapon master, one must pass an examination that is difficult to pass for anyone not at least a knight. It is also highly unlikely to find time for the studies and training to the extent they need in order to achieve the mastery needed.

It is possible to be a weapon master of, for instance a star fighter, which denotes the Jedi "Jedi Ace", and many other such alternative titles exist.

The Padawan of a Jedi Weapon Master
It's the duty of a Jedi weapon Master to ensure that their padawans become a weapon Master in the same way they did. Otherwise, there isn't anything in particular to say about the padawanship under a Weapon Master.

Jedi Instructor
A Jedi Instructor is a either a Jedi Weapon Master or a gifted Jedi with good teaching abilities, usually making use of it as a retirement option. Instructors stay at the various Jedi facilities that teaches initiates, and they teach everyone there. Instructors are not numerous, but every teaching facility holds at least one Master of every lightsaber fighting style and every regular Jedi weapon, and a number of Jedi Instructors of various subjects.

Jedi Instructors are not permitted to take Padawans.

Jedi Lore keeper
The lore keeper is the Jedi currently in charge of revising the archives, overseeing what goes in and where it goes when it does. Usually, everything goes into the archives, but some things may be more important and relevant to the Jedi students than, say, a collection of romantic short stories. The Lore keeper also revises the educational plan of any student and any training facility. Every Lore Keeper also adds a chapter to the "History of the Jedi Order", a "book" that summerizes every period of Jedi History since the beginning of the order. It's in many volumes, and each chapter is essentially a volume on it's own.The greatest duty of the Lore keeper remains the continued survival of the Jedi Legacy, but this is hardly a task any one person has ever managed to contribute much to, but rather something maintained by the order as a wholeness, and as such, it is not just the greatest duty, but also the simplest.

The padawan of a lorekeeper
Being the padawan of a lorekeeper is an interesting job, an typically prepares the student best for more research based assignments. Lorekeepers usually pass on their title to their apprentice, and may apprentice anyone they wish, typically choosing a padawan they trained themselves and then apprenticing said padawan permanently after reaching knighthood.

Jedi Battle Master
The battlemaster is mostly an honorary title given to the proven best fighter in the order. The battlemasters duties include, assisting the Lore Keeper with any combat related education planning, and he does have a final say in such matters, but ultimately remains one of the least important members of the council, except for when the Council declares that the Jedi Order officially participates in an armed conflict, at which point the battle master becomes the official second in command of the order. The battlemasters other, less formal duties include improving the combat styles of the order, so that they can live up to the modern day technology and dangers faced. Developing techniques to overcome new dangers, finding new equipment that the order needs, and procuring this equipment. The Jedi Battlemaster is in direct control of all Jedi Guardians, the Jedi Military Corps, the Jedi Warriors, the Jedi Temple guard and the Jedi Sentinels, making him the operative leader of the Jedi Order.

Padawan of the Battle Master
Being the padawan of the Battle Master is considered one of the most prestigious padawanships, how ever, the truth is, it may prove far less interesting than many other padawanships. However, being the padawan of the Battle Master comes with the promise of great knowledge and superior training. Padawans of the Battle Master are almost guaranteed to master all aspects of Jedi Combat before their time as padawan is over, this means that their padawanship is occationally extended though.

Jedi High Council Member
A member of the Jedi Council is always a Jedi Master (with only a select few exceptions in history), and there are 5 members of the high council who are there by the will of the grand master, and for the most part, the rest of the council. It is an unofficial tradition that the majority of the existing council has to approve the promotion of someone not on the council, to take one of the 5 seats that are not predetermined by other councils. It is considered one of the greatest honours in the order to obtain a seat on the high council in this manner. A seat given on the Jedi High Council is usually held for life, but many choose to resign at some point, while in rare cases some are asked to seek a new position, because they have proven to the rest of the council that they for various reasons no longer fill their roles. Officially though, the Grand Master of the order may invite anyone he wishes to hold any of those 5 seats, but seeing as the Grand Master is elected by the high council it is almost unheard of, for a Grand Master to even get away with insisting on a single person, against the wishes of the rest of the council. The 5 chosen council members remain the most influential council members.

Padawan of a High Council Member
Being the padawan of a High Council Member is considered an even greater honour than being the padawan of, say, the battle master. The High Council Members are choosen specifically for their wisdom, talents, usefullness to the order and veterency. The High Council members are almost always Jedi Sentinels and most Padawans find that taking the occasional week-long breaks from the missions is a rewarding brush of fresh air, and the chance to return to more familiar surroundings often, comes with the promise of a chance to seek knowledge. The padawan will be able to seek out instructors and visit the libraries.

Grand Master
The Grand Master of the Jedi Order, is the acknowledged head of the order. He holds a seat on the High Council, and is typically elected from one of the 5 elected council members, upon the death or resignition of the former Grand Master, but occasionally, others have stepped up to the challenge. Ultimately, it's a vote made by the High Council members. A Grand Master is expected to be as wise as his fellow council members, as responsible as any regional counsular, as dedicated as any facility leader, as learned as the lore keeper and fierce in battle as the Battle Master and while that sounds utopian, it's actually a fitting description for many former grand masters, while some lacked in certain area's they typically made up for it in other ways.

The Padawan of the Grand Master
Being the Padawan of the Grand Master is usually an honour reserved for the youngest and over-all most potential and promising student who is found in the order at the time when the Grand Master is searching for a Padawan. However, as with all Padawanships, there must be a good connection between them, and this is more important than anything else. Padawans of the Grand Master have a tendency to end up as consulars or scholars, as being the Padawan of the Grandmaster does not come with the promise of much field experience.

The Ranks
While not a military organization per say, the Jedi Order does have a strict and formal ranking system, but without the strict discipline that is found in the military.

Jedi Initiate
A Jedi Initiate is the lowest rank a Jedi can hold. To become an initiate, one must be old enough to be functioning. Usually, when a child starts talking and walking, they are made initiates, but some initaites are not found until later in their lives, and as such, it is simply the lowest rank, the not one necessarily held by the youngest. Initiates either become padawans or members of the Service corps, and sometimes both in that exact order, and on the rare occasion, an initiate decides to leave the order upon completion of initiate training (being extremely rare, as job oppertunities are quite lucrative in the service corps). To advance from Initiate to Padawan, the initiate must complete the trials of Padawanship, found further below, and if they do not, they are moved into the service corps. Initiates live at one of the many Jedi Training facilities, and study there, rarely leaving campus. Initaites are organized into "clans", with specific Jedi Masters from the educational corps teaching them. These clans are easily compared to classes, and are pretty much just groups of initiates that show similar qualities and weaknesses. The number of clans, and names of clans are occasionally altered and differes from facilitiy to facility.

Jedi Service Corps
The Jedi Service Corps is devided into many sub-organizations, all with their own different purposes. The military corps naturally follows standard military ranking, compatible with the Galactic Military Space Navy ranks, but most others in the service corps hold less military themes ranks such as "lead project manager" or "head scientist", or as meneal as "technician". Padawans who end up in the service corps retain their titles in conjunction with their new titles (eg. "Padawan Technician", "Padawan lead project manager", or "Padawan Lieutenant"). Occasionally, members of the service corps are promoted into Knighthood for extraordinary services, however retaining their positions, but title wise, it works like with Padawans. Members of the service corps retain their status as Jedi. They keep their personal training lightsaber, which at this point in their training will have two activation functions, one jusing normal power- and magnetic-field settings, but with a kathracite crystal producing a less lethal blade, and one using a synthetic crystal and less power set to the blade itself, and more to the magnetic field, making it non-lethal entirely. They are taught how to change the settings manually, how ever, and buttons are installed on the saber allowing it to become a fully lethal lightsaber by adjusting the power intantly. Being in the service corps is considered "working the jedi duties", but it's also a regular job, how ever one that people rarely quit. If anything, they request transfers which is a wish always granted. If service corps workers tire of their lot in life, they can even request re-education and get a new position (starting out with the lowest rank in their new field, however). Service corps members are paid well, being amongst the only Jedi to recieve an actual sallery, and they are allowed to have personal lives, with both living quarters, vehicle and other goods made available by the Order. This only goes for the Jedi Service Corps members who did not pass their padawanship trials however, as those who do can also take up work with the service corps, but usually this work will be different.

Padawan
If an initiate manages to pass the trials of padawanship, they are apprenticed to a Knight or Master. They serve as that person's right hand and student. Padawans must immediately upon being apprenticed to a master travel to Illum with their master in a ritual known as "the gathering" and find a suitable crystal for their personal lightsabers, and then travel with their masters to Tython and build their sabers at a sacred location known as the forge. Most of their training takes place outside of Jedi Facilities. Masters who are stuck with a title such as watchman or counsular are only very rarely permitted to take padawans because their titles don't afford them many chances of educating their apprentices. Finally, they are required to pass the trials of Knighthood, described further below. They have three attempts to pass these trials and after their third attempt, they are moved into the Service Corps. A rule, however very flexible, states that a Padawan must   be apprenticed for at least a decade before taking on the trials of knighthood, and that the padawan is fully grown and adult (for a human, that means being the age of 21), how ever, most padawans regardless of how long they have been padawans attempt the trials around their 21st birthday. About 69% of all knights and non-title holding masters have padawans at any one time, on average.

Upon becoming a padawan, the jedi travels with their new master to the planet Illum, in the Adegan system to participate in the ritual known as "the gathering", in which the padawan will, from scratch, by spending weeks in the frosty environment of Illum, gather all materials needed for his/her lightsaber. This means prospecting the ore to cast the lightsaber hilt and components directly from the undergrond, as well as finding one of the famed Lightsaber Crystals. Seeing as padawans today create their lightsabers using a variety of materials, including some not found on Illum, the prospecting of iron ore is mostly ritualistic, and if the padawan wishes to use other materials, at least 5 kg worth of iron ore must be prospected, as well as a kg worth of a conductiong metal, as a sort of "trial". The Jedi will use the mined metals to create various lightsaber components for practice, and then travel to the home planet of the order, Tython, and create their lightsaber using what ever materials they desire (with Electrum being restricted if it is at all visible on the hilt), at a location called "the Forge". Typically, both the synthetic crystal and kathracite crystal from their old training sabers will be fitted into the hilt as power-crystals.

The Padawan of a Knight
Typically, Knights are not allowed to take especially promising students, because students with such talents are reserved for the Masters of the Order, but as with all other things, the importance of a bond and connection between student and teacher takes presidence over everything else.

The Padawan of a Master
Masters typically select the most promising students, and also the more difficult and dangerous students, because their mastery makes them more qualified to handle such students with success. How ever, promising and dangerous students are not common, and more often than not, anyone could end up as a Master's student.

Knight
A knight is a fully fledged Jedi, with no more trials necessarily lying ahead. There is no demand that the Jedi advances from this point, and only few restrictions. Knights are expected to take on, at least one padawan and train said padawan successfully to knighthood, during their careers, but otherwise, they are free to join what ever organization they wish. Knights who successfully train several padawans to knighthood, are promoted to Masters for their services. Performing extra ordinary deeds will also be a way to get a promotion (one of the more respected ways to earn the promotion, as what ever the Jedi did, most likely will be remembered) and finally, the Knight can take on the trials of Mastery, described further below, and this can be done at any time. The least attractive way of becoming a master would be the "convenient promotion", as it is nicknamed. Knights who are getting older or who have suffered grave injuries they may never fully recover from, or Knights with no desire to train padawans may be promoted to master and granted a title as Watchman, guardian or counsular, effectively "ending" their career advancement options. Despite there being quite a few masters with titles like the above mentioned, the bulk of the order is made up of Knights (not counting the service corps of course).

Master
After becoming a master, a Jedi can serve in various ways. If no title is held, the Master is expected to train at least one padawan after his/her promotion. Masters are excluded from the warriors, but are otherwise free to persue what ever goals. Masters with titles make up a big portion of the order, but aren't counted as operative Jedi, and serve merely as liasons, while masters without titles are generally few and make up the smallest part of the order.

Organizations
Several organizations exist inside the Jedi order with different purposes.

Jedi Service Corps
The Jedi Service Corps is actually not a single group, but a reference to the many smaller support groups the Jedi make use of.

Jedi Military Corps
About 40% of the Service Corps serve in the Jedi Military Corps., most of them starting out as Jedi Commandos, the Gallatic Alliance Military's most elite special operations units, and later becoming high ranking Officers in the Galactic Alliance. An additional 10 percent are rotated in and out of the military Corps and into the Temple Guard Corps, making the actual number of members 50% roughly. The Military Corps works closely with the Jedi Warriors. A part of the Jedi Military Corps is known as the Jedi Flight Wing, which trains highly skilled Space-naval officers and some of the Republic's most gifted Fighter Pilots.

Jedi Temple Guard
The Temple Guard Corps is the corps in charge of maintaining the security of all Jedi Facilities. Dressed from top to  toe in ceremonial garbs, and wearing full facial masks, they wield short-bladed ceremonial saberstaffs using using yellow Methite Crystals. They take orders from the Jedi Peacekeepers corps or what ever local guardian, Sentinel or Watchmen is present and has authority.

Jedi healers corps
A corps consisting both of Jedi Masters and Service Corps level Doctors. They make up a relatively small portion of the Service Corps and serve as pioneers in the field of medicine, and as healers and doctors in emergencies. They work much like "Doctors without borders" from the real world, except, they also travel the world, assisting local "CDC" departments.

Jedi Aggricultural Corps
A corps consisting of various scientists from different fields who help lead colonization and rebuilding efforts all over the Galactic Alliance.

Jedi Exploration Corps
Again a wide collection of scientists and this time doubling as archologists work as frontiersmen for the Galactic Alliance, finding planets that are possible to settle on, or tap for resources, as well as marking planets as being dangerous is so.

Jedi Educational Corps
Consisting of leading scientists in all fields, their one true purpose and dedication is self education and furthering the studies of the world. Jedi have access to the best education, and naturally that means there is quite a few bright heads amongst the service corps members. They work closely together with the exploration corps, and quite a few Jedi Masters and Knights decide to take on the path of the scholar and join in both these corpses efforts.

A padawan of a Scholar
Being the padawan of a scholar is certainly a career with promise of much knowledge and self-insight to be had, but it's rarely a permanent situation. Most Masters and knights who take a padawan and spend time as scholars, do so in the period of the Padawans education where the padawan is still young and learning, and then leave the Educational corps when the padawan is ready for more operational assignments.

The Jedi Diplomatic corps
The Diplomats as they are called, are perhaps the most well known faces amongst the  Jedi  apart from the Service Corps and the Jedi Officials. Their Job is to  act as advisors to the different offices within the Galactic Alliance, and to mediate between the different political parties, always trying to help the parts negotiate for peace. They also serve as diplomats for the order. They are quite few in number and members are found amongst those who have great understanding of diplomacy and politics and well developed understanding of how the world works, but also Jedi with unshakable ethics who have a strong understanding of the code. It is not necessary to be especially good with a lightsaber or strong in psionic abilities. Because of this, no special rank is required to be a member, and while most are Masters or especially gifted members of the Service Corps, but there are also Jedi Knights and Masters serving in this branch of the Service Corps.

The Padawan of a Diplomat
Being the Padawan of a Diplomat yields the promise of travelling and luxury, mingling with high society, visiting numerous cultures and leaning both languages and costums of each and every one of them. Being the padawan of a diplomat is rarely very action packed or full of adventure and dangers, but it's a very interesting and enriching existence.

Jedi seers Corps
Seers are psionics with over developed abilities to far-see and overly developed abilities to see the past and the present. Some have strange abilities that allows them to sense certain things with little scientific explanation. They have one thing in common; they all suffer under their lack of control. The confusion generated by sudden visions tears at their sanity. Some seers go on to become respected Jedi, while others go crazy. The Seers Corps is a loose organization of the seers who eventually gain control and those that don't, along with a few masters who specialize in healing and calming the mind, some very well educated psychologists and psychiatrists along with neurologists from the Service corps.

Jedi Officials
This organization consists of all the Jedi with elevated titles in the different councils. It consists solely of Jedi Masters. These are the ones holding titels such as Jedi Watchmen or Guardian.

The Jedi Warriors
The Jedi Warrios are the source of many horror stories about the Jedi Order. These Warriors wear ceremonial armor of the same type as the Silver Knights to honour their brothers who were expelled, and they wear the mandalorian helmets to honour Revan. Only Knights may be members of the Jedi Warriors, with the exception of Weapon Masters being allowed to join as well. They are a relatively small, but very elite fighting force that stands ready to aid the Galactic Alliance whenever, often in cooperation with the Military branch of the Service Corps. Many Knights choose to spend some time there to improve their fighting skills, before taking a padawan. Warriors are not allowed to have padawans.

The Ace Corps
The airborne equivalent of the Warriors, only made up of Jedi Masters however, specifically Jedi Ace's. The Ace's are gifted and well trained pilots, using their deadlly aresenal to it's fullest extent with their precognitive powers giving them an edge over other pilots. The Jedi Flight Wing is relatively small, and many retain only honorary memberships, because they choose to pursue other careers. The active Jedi Ace's do not have time for padawans.

The Jedi Peace keepers
The keepers, as they are nicknamed, are Jedi Police. They work as detectives and agents, to take down operations of organized crime, and take down specific wanted criminals that are considered very dangerous. The Peace Keepers also police the jedi order itself. Quite few in number, they consist of padawans, knights and  masters.

The Padawan of a Jedi Peace Keeper
Being the padawan of a Jedi Peace Keeper is an interesting padawanship, that comes with the promise of both political experience and daring adventures. The Jedi team will travel to many worlds for shorter or even extended stays, and also typically be stationed on worlds for months if not years to assist a local law-enforcement effort.

Jedi Sentinels
Jedi Sentinels are the primary operatives of the Jedi Order. When ever trouble arises, sentinels are dispatched. The business primarily conducted by Jedi in the Star Wars movies would be very much the role of the sentinels. They make use of many skills, including piloting, mechanical skills, computer knowledge, astrogation, various sciences, diplomatic abilities and their fighting strengths to win the day. By far, one of the most attractive organizations but also by far one of the most respected. Both knights, masters and padawans find themselves in the ranks of the Sentinels. Knights or masters with padawans are normally only permitted to serve as sentinels if their padawans have reached considerable age and skill, further more, Knights and masters joining must have considerable skill in combat and diplomacy, leading them to often seek out other venues first. Most Jedi Sentinels are veteran and experienced Jedi, that are trusted by the council to carry out dangerous assignments.

The padawan of a Jedi Sentinel
Being the padawan of a Jedi Sentinel is one of the most hoped for padawanships an initiate can dream of, how ever, considering that the life of a Sentinel is dangerous, most sentinels temporarily rotate into the Peace Keeper-, Diplomatic- or educational corps for the eariliest period of the padawan's trianing, and then return to their duties as sentinels along with their padawans, when the padawan is old and experienced enough. This brings the promise of a varried career, and insight into many of the organizations in the order.

Shadows
If the warriors are the reason behind the horror stories, the Jedi Shadows are the reason for the many ghost stories told about jedi. Supposedly, these agents, infiltrators, spies and assassins are highly skilled and serve the order with great secrecy, spying both on it's own members and everyone else. It is claimed that they aid both the Keepers and the warriors in their missions, and vice versa. Surprisingly, rumor has it it that the organization consists both of padawans, knights and masters, but can not possibly have many members. Of course, formally, this organization doesn't exist, and all members who's existence isn't denied or obscured otherwise, may not even be official members of the jedi order or at the very least are members of other jedi organizations. If this organization has a real name, or if members of this organization even know that they are a part of it is completely unknown and despite that the existence of the organization is guess work at best, there is a lot of evidence that suggests that they do exist. Conspiracy theorists have even claimed that this organization is what the Jedi use to control the entire galactic Alliance, but this seems a bit far fetched... Or does it?

Where the training takes place
Depending on what age the jedi is, and at what age the jedi is found, they are trained at various facilities.

Infants
If found at infant age, the child is sent to the temple on Coruscant.

Infants are trained in safe and fun environments, made to learn to use their psy abilities through games. They are kept on special diets, and stimulated in many ways so they may quickly develop mental- and physical strength. Infants raised at the temple on Corsucant are incredibly quick to develop and grow independant, and almost none of the pupils there show any signs of being discontent with their situations.

Toddlers - Children
If found at toddler age or while still a child (2-10 years), the child is sent to the temple on Dantooine. The planet and the facility specializes in removing the traumatic aspect of being removed from the child's parents, and creating happy and warm memories of the jedi order and the time spent at this specific temple.

If found as an infant, once reaching the age of 2, the child is sent to Dantooine, where they will continue to develop their powers, primarily through games and social activities. However, most jedi found as infants will already be capable of walking, talking and even reading in many cases, at age 2, and only depend on adult supervision when it comes to judgement calls, schooling, structuring and being fed, which means for many, the amount of adult supervision at this time is greatly reduced. After a few years on Dantooine, schooling becomes the primary focus, and the children there study hard and are still kept on special diets. Instead of constantly being stimulated through games and activities, physical training is being eased into their lives around age 5. Swimming, running, weight-lifting, climbing, obstacle courses, shooting, fencing, self defence, throwing and many other disciplines are practiced to an extend normally not safe for children, but due to the diets and previous amount of physical conditioning, the children quickly adapt to the hard lifestyle, and somehow still manage to find time and energy to play after school, training, practice,chores and home work.

Children begin learning about using psy-powers in more practical ways, such as to aid them when they need to perform specific tasks, including during self defence, and they start dabbling in  lightsabers at this age as well. They are taught various languages, history, physics, chemestry, biology, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, medicine, economics, technology, IT, diplomacy and many other subjects, and the teaching of these subjects continues through out their training. They end up studying these many subjects at what equals candidate level, and while most jedi could probably not pass an exam in most of the subjects at this level, they do have a good understanding of a broad field, however, many actually DO gain a great understanding of, at least SOME of these subjects, while others continue to study them even after their training is actually completed. Some of the Galaxies leading scholars within the fields studied by the jedi order, are actually found within the order itself, despite there being millions of people studying outside the order. Apart from that, only professional translators master as many different languages as the jedi.

Children - teenagers
If the child is between 10- and 14 years old, the order realizes that removing the trauma of being taken away is a lost cause, as the child has developed enough self consciousness to be aware of what is going on, despite merry distractions. Instead, they send the child to Yavin IV , a harsh frontier moon covered mostly in jungle where many dangers loom and put the child through military style schooling, demanding that the children take responsibility for themselves and eachother in order to make it through the day. They will constantly be put through tests in which they face actual dangers and made to help the colonists, and in this way, they discover a purpose and a higher meaning with their existence, despite possibly having trouble adjusting to being removed from their families.

If found at a younger age, the child will have first been to Dantooine, and the transfer to Yavin IV is usually quite a shock, and the Jedi found at younger age, tend to have a harder time emotionally dealing with the sudden change of tone and environement that comes with the new temple, despite most likely being much more suited for it, as they already have the physical and mental conditioning needed to function in such an environment. Eventually, it usually takes those that came from Dantooine only slightly less time coming to terms with the change of environment, than it does the ones that come directly from civilian life, but it's important to note that the children found at a younger age will be put through a much harder program immediately, where as the ones that arrive directly will have their program gradually adjusted.

It's not expected that children found when older than 10 years will ever become skilled enough to become padawans, how ever a surprising amount of them do infact succeed in this, just below 50%.

Yavin IV is the last stop for anyone discovered up until the age of 14. They will remain at Yavin IV until they eventually become padawans, or transfer into the Jedi Service Corp. Here, the initiates are trained as officers in all aspects of combat (naval, space, air and land) to the admiral/general level, as well as recieving special forces training at same level as the most elite of the Galactic alliance special forces. Those who pass the actual officers- and special forces exams, are allowed to try for the Padawan trials, they have until they turn 18 to complete these trials, which is typically about 1-2 years, depending when they were discovered. Those who fail the exams are transferred to the Jedi Service Corp. if they are too old to retry. If they succeed, they will be assigned to a master

Teenagers and adults
If older than 14 years old when discovered, the child is sent to the temple on Telos IV, a beautiful world that has both great cities, small communities and vast amounts of unspoiled nature. At the temple there, they will study in an environment that is suited to teenagers and young adults and even fully grown people.

On Telos, only other late discoveries study, and it is highly rare that anyone found at this late age will become padawans, infact, many of the late discoveries are so old and set in their ways at the time of discovery that they cannot even pass the trials for the Service Corp. and special jobs within the service corp. must be found for them, typically in the non-military section of the corp.

The only others who go to study at Telos are those that fail their padawanship trials, and wish to study for a specific job in the service corps.

Trials
Trials are the key to advancement in the Jedi Order. They are exams, testing the Jedi in their Jedi related abilities, to figure out how they best move on.

From Initaite to Padawan
Passing from initiate to padawan, the jedi faces their first trials and to do this, they must  show full mastery of the Shii-cho style, basic mastery of both Shien and Soresu and while Ataru is not a formal requirement or exam subject it is necessary to master Ataru to pass the initial exercises. The Student must also show control of psy-powers. Because of these requirements, many do not pass and are moved into the Service Corps.

From Padawan to knight
Upon advancing further to knighthood, the student must have mastered both shien and soresu, as well as Ataru. The students psy-powers are expected to have grown somewhat since the last the trial, which is a necessity for most, as many barely pass the padawan trials, and the trials of knighthood are much more demanding. The trials of Knighthood are different from the Padawan trials in many ways, as the aspiring knights understanding of the Jedi Order will be tried to the limit, no matter how learned the Knight is, this being because the Knight will be a future teacher of later padawans to come. A padawan may fail his trials to knighthood 3 times, before he is moved into the agricultural corps.

From Knight to Master
The trials of mastery requires the knight to learn any one of the remaining styles, Djem So being the most popular choice by far, and they must show a great understanding and self-control, in regards to their psy-power. Masters are expected to have reached far enough that their potential is fully showing, if not necessarily fully developed yet.

Jedi Facilities
The Jedi order builds enclaves near, or even on shadow sites upon finding these. Enclaves are usually built as self-sustaining communities, with underground gardens if necessary, solar-cell power to charge the building if there is room for nothing else, or perhaps an inbuild reactor. They provide room and food for all jedi who reside there.

Most Jedi Enclaves has small number of staff consisting of a few Temple Guards, and some technicians needed to keep the place running, all selected from the Service Corp. and typically rotated every 6 months.

Tython
The Jedi Order makes it's home on the Jedi Planet of Tython, which is a planet in the Alamari systems. Barely populated. The planet was granted to the Jedi many generations ago, and was always an important location to the order. Tython is primarily used as a retreat for Jedi, where they come to study their past, and to get in touch with their roots, but it has a long history with the Jedi Order going almost as far back as it's roots. All settlements on Tython are powered by mills or solar energy. Tythois holds only one settlement ajnd a few outposts and defensive structures and is entirely inhabited by Jedi, only robots are otherwise found in the settlements, tending the more pragmatic tasks, such as breeding and slaughtering cattle, growing crops and vegetables, cooking, cleaning and reparing most of the structures. The robots are primitive in programming, but are almost self-sustaining, as the planets various energy sources produce more than enough energy to empower the planet and the robots, there is a factory that can reproduce any robot on the planet and everytime one breaks down and is beyond repair, a new one is simply taken out of storage an activated, and another one produced. Certain robots serve no other function that to repair other robots. None of the robots are truly capapble of fighting, perhaps with the exception of the robots tasked with driving cattle, but even they make poor fighters. All structures are constantly inspected by repair droids and various factories lay dormant with filled storages until repairs or expansion is required. The only settlement on the planet is located just outside the Valley of the Jedi, which is only possible to enter in one place, namely through a tunnel that passes under the tall steep mountains surrounding the valley, and that tunnel is "guarded" by the lone settlement, which holds housing for every single jedi in the galaxy and many more, to live comfortably there, and infact, upon entry in the order, one recieves a home in this settlement, but many never really see that home as most jedi are found in the jedi service corp. and most of the jedi service corp. never bother to visit Tython. This naturally makes it one big empty city, but a city it is, with everything a city needs including powered down robots to maintain them (stores for instance, empty as nothing is ever for sale or purchased in Tython), including a military base (empty, but with an impressive armoury) city walls, a moat, and a powerful ray-shield that covers the entire settlement including the outstreching farming lands, factories and the entire valley of the jedi. Everything beyond the farming lands is wilderness with many different terrains, similar to earth, only with more mountaints and larger trees, and less occean. In various locations, outposts with automated anti-air units are located. There is a single powerplant, which is dormant and not activated, located underground, which can power the entire planets facilities incase it becomes necessary, and every building on the planet has it's own backup generators.

The Grand Jedi Temple
The Grand Jedi Temple, a remnant of the orders time as a religious institution, is the structure that would inspire all other Jedi structures. All other Jedi Enclaves are based on the Grand Temple, the enclave on coruscant being a near identical copy, how ever more simplistic in it's appearence. The Grand Temple is covered in statues, gargoyles, carvings, inscriptions and decorations. It's interiors have been greatly modernanized. The Jedi Temple has the official High Council chambers, but today, the finds itself at home on Coruscant, close to the senate.

The Pillar of light
The pillar of light  is the nickname for an unnamed pillar, located in the middle of the council chambers, which has been used since the earliest times to deposit lightsabers in, when ever a jedi left the order. This was done by igniting the lightsaber, and sliding the blade into one of the thousands of pre-made holes, designed so that the blade doesn't touch the pillar itself, but is simply hidden entirely inside the pillar, wich means the lightsaber expends no power at all. Upon the death of a former jedi who turned in his lightsaber, the hilt of the saber is welded to the pillars metallic surface, making it forever impossible to reclaim the weapon. The order believes that no-one is beyond redemption, and therefor it remains possible until death, to reclaim the title as jedi (though it has rarely happened). To this day, the pillar holds only a few hundred sabers, how ever a greater number of jedi have left the order without turning in their lightsabers (considered a crime), and in most cases, the Jedi order have retrieved those sabers, and most of them rest with their owners. The pillar has a few names inscribed on a plaque, stating the names of those who left the order prior to the invention of the lightsaber, adding only another 153, how ever it is believed that the true number is greater, but some names were simply lost.

The Great Jedi Archives
The great Jedi Archives are located on Tython, below the grand temple. This archive is perhaps the most extensive archive in the entire galaxy. It has vast catacombs containing ancient texts on tablets and various forms of paper, including many levels of museeums, how ever all data has been copied digitially and most information that comes in these days is store in data modules. The archive contains holocrons of various jedi masters who held important knowledge when they were yet alive, including great jedi artisans, historians, battlemasters and instructors as well as almost every jedi council member since the invention of the holocron. Only three other archives are as extensive as the one on Tython, having copies of everything there (but not the originals found in the museems and found in paper form ect.), and those are the archives on Coruscant, Ossus and Telos IV, all other Jedi enclaves and training grounds have to put up with having to download everything they need manually via the holonet from the original Tython archive systems.

The Valley of the Jedi
Tython is home to the Valley of the Jedi in which the Grand Temple is located. It is an ancient burrial valley that hosts a huge underground mausoleum. All jedi who's bodies that are recovered are burried there, inside tombs which feature a lid with a near perfect rendering of the jedi that lay inside, holding the actual jedi's lightsaber, it it's hands, ignited to forever light the dark in the tomb. If the Jedi had made a holocron (most jedi achieving rank of Knight while still alive do) it is installed in the tomb, otherwise, a data module will be installed, containing every bit of information that has been recorded about the jedi in question. If a body could not be recovered, a live-sized statue is placed in the hall of the fallen (which is a gigantic hall at the entrance of the mausoleum), holding the lightsaber, or a replica with a synthetic crystal of same colour. The jedi were burried in a similar matter, their bodies forever preserved if possible, prior to Tython being established as the jedi homeworld, but every known jedi burrial site has been moved, there is a great number of unknown jedi burried in the valley of the Jedi.

Tomb of the Forsworn
Similar to the Ancient Burrial tombs of the Jedi another tomb, also located in the valley of the jedi, known as the Tomb of the Forsworn contains the bodies of those that have left the order behind to become enemies of the order. Most of the people in the tomb of the forsworn never officially left the order, most simply stopped being jedi and started being something else. Inside is a plaque of names with all forsworn jedi who were never redeemed or forgiven (as not everyone was ever found). As with the original tomb, statues replace those who left no bodily remains, but have been confirmed dead.

The Citadel
The Citade l is the name of a   Jedi Prison, maintained by the Jedi, a group of mercenaries paid many years in advance and Galactic Alliance enlisted military forces. The Jedi Peace-keepers are in charge of the prison facility, which is considered impossible to flee from. This prison is not only used for Jedi, but for any psionics who are captured and sentenced to imprisonment. The Citadel is located on Tython's only moon, Tython I. A crater on the moon turned out to be the ideal site for such a structure. Typhon I has water a few meters below the surface of the planet, but due to a poor atmosphere, the planet is too warm for plants to grow naturally. A large dome was created, and inside the dome, temperatures are regulated and food is grown and bred and this is also where the only actual settlement on the planet is located, completely opposite of the prison itself. It is impossible to survive on Tython I's surface for more than a day without water, and the crust is too hard for one to dig for water without tools, and the water is too far below the surface anyway. The citadel itself is located in the dead center of a very deep valley, and most of the prison facility is located so far below the ground it's surrounded by the water that flows in the caverns below the surface, but it's also located in the only lake on the entire moon. The lake is too large tha one can swim from the center where the prison is located, and to the shore, and further more the valley itself is surrounded by several kilometers of very steep mountains, considered unclimbable and last but not least, there is not an ounce of shade in the valley, and more than three days of travel with a landspeeder, to the mountains, which means that one cannot reach the mountains before sunrise. Last but not least, the gravity and magnetic pull of the moon means that only certain crafts can land there, as other crafts will not be able to leave. The planet is covered in solar powered automated armed anit-air stations which makes it impossible for such specialized crafts to land without authorization (though all it takes to be granted permission to land is an SOS broadcast, so it's safe to assume that they are rather there to prevent unauthorized take off). To prevent hostage situations, most actual personel in the prison never even go to the prison levels, rather only robots go there. To prevent people from using psionic abilities inside the prison, a device known as the "nullifier", created using Lightsaber Crystals, has been placed within the prison, and it somehow interferes with psionics abilities, it is belived that it absorbs their energy based powers and creates some sort of white noise that prevents anyone from using their mental powers. They can still use their biological powers to a limited degree how ever, and telepathic communication is still possible, but much more difficult. The Nullifier remains a mystery to all most the highest of the jedi order, and is one of the orders best kept secrets, hardly anyone knows about its existence and the few that do are often not believed, and even they no know the nature of this item.

Coruscant
The Jedi Order primarily operate from their Grand Enclave on Coruscant, which holds their High Council as well as any official offices. Most official jedi business is done from here. It also serves as a military base for Jedi Warriors.

Post Zakuul Invasion
The Zakuul Empire of course couldn't allow the Jedi Order to continue existing as it did. Many Jedi fled into exile, but the truth is that the majority of the Jedi Order mysteriously vanished prior to the Zakuul Invasion, when Revan attempted uniting the Sith and Jedi.

The majority of the remaining order were either recruited into the Imperial Knights or quarantined on Ilum, and all non-humanoid force users were sent to Ilum as well, regardless if they were Jedi or Not.

The Jedi Order became non-militant, focusing on the healing arts and preservation of knowledge as well as charity.

The leader of the Order was a mysterious character known as "The Mender", who continued the order's legacy on Ilum.

Ilum, through a powerful ritual, moved a bit closer to the sun, resulting in the planet heating up a bit, causing bearable climate around the equator, and soon Ilum became a small agricultural paradise.

Post Scream
The Order remains a pacifist organization, having almost entirely retired the art of lightsaber combat, due to so few members of their order being humanoid. The Order has a Blademaster and his five blades, but beyond that not much has changed except the Alliance and the Federation using them as a resource for establishing teachings for psionic academies.