The Force Titans: Advent of Power
Chapter 2
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Authors Note: Alright the second chapter sorry it took so long for me to right it but it had to go through a lengthy process of editing after I wrote it since I'm really trying to improve here. I would now like to thank all of my reviewers individually.
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The young Padawan Link'u stifled a groan as he and Master Slaran stepped into a small speeder after leaving the Jedi Temple; he'd always hated flying.
As they began flying he noticed that the entire time they were descending through the depths of the steel towers of Coruscant. The city of Coruscant could be divided into several levels: on the top level were the rich and powerful and this is where the Jedi Temple and Senate buildings were. Below that was a small level where the labor of the city lived, the honest workers that lived free of the rich and the crime. Below them were the "rich thugs" where all the nightclubs and not so legitimate casinos were located. Below that were the stomping grounds of a number of depraved gangs who had gained the reputation of being so cruel they almost ceased to be sentient creatures and below that was the lowest part of the city, on the actual surface, where factories that had long been out of use and sick twised creatures spawned from the mutagenic pollution roamed. It is on this level of the city that Master Slaran and Padawan Link'u departed from their speeder.
After leaving their speeder Link'u began to follow his master's hurried pace withhis eyes constantly roaming the strange new world they had entered. This no longer seemed like the Coruscant he knew at all but rather as though they had journeyed to some uncharted planet that was still untamed by any intelligent beings. They continued to walk along the surface of the planet (a site few people actually see) as the feeling of claustrophobia tightened with the immense metal walls always seeming to become narrower and narrower.
Eventually they came to a door in the side of a large factory that was probably constructed centuries ago when this part of the planet was still used. Master Slaran still leading the way he opened the door and the two of them went inside.
Link'u found himself in a very small room where four other beings in what appeared to be Jedi robes stood waiting. Looking at them Link'u could not tell their gender or their species, they were simply four figures in robes with their faces covered. They were standing in a broken circle so that when Slaran and Link'u entered the room they completed the circle. They obviously had expected them to be there as they gave no verbal or physical acclimation to either of the new arrival's presence.
Suddenly, Master Slaran made motion to them as though instructing them to pay attention and all their hidden faces turned towards him.
"I brought my Padawan with me sooner than I expected but the Council has denied my proposal as some of you said they would." At this one or two of the heads nodded slightly while the others remained perfectly still.
"I will begin instructing him tonight and we must find a new place to meet soon," apparently after that the meeting was at a close and the ones in attendance began to leave out of a door opposite the one that had been used to come in. It opened into a large open area that was once a construction area for the factory as immense pieces of broken machinery still littered the ground. The area was wide open area in the shape of a square the ground was metal and completely flat except for a metal ridge that ran down the middle of it.
The six attendants of the meeting moved to various areas of the construction site and what they began to do caused Link'u's mouth to drop open with awe.
They were lifting the large pieces of broken machinery off of the metal ground, and though this was not so great a thing as many of the masters could accomplish this easily, they were doing it with ease and continued to manipulate the metal in ways Link'u had never observed before. When the construction materials and machinery were off the ground they would then, slowly at first, begin to twist these metals and spin them around in the air and spin them until they lost all shape or form and by the time they were done they had completely destroyed any remnant of the previous materials at all. All of them did this in various places on the site except for Master Slaran who stood with Link'u as the two of them observed all the others.
Link'u was now incredibly frightened as he watched these men (and he could now see that they were all human males) destroy scraps of metal and machinery larger than most small star fighters. But one thing that was truly frightening that he could sense that these men were holding back, that this was... practice, that they could achieve much, much more than this if they willed themselves to. Also Link'u knew that this sort of force power had never been used by any Jedi that he knew of. He had heard of some of the greater masters being able to move large starships when necessary but that took the greatest amount of effort for them and these men were doing this task almost effortlessly.
He realized that Master Slaran must have been capable of this power all this time as well and, still frightened, he turned and looked at his Master who looked down at him with a look of triumph clearly written over his face.
He smiled and said "now Padawan there are some things that must be explained to you."
The two of them walked over to the edge of the ridge in the center of the area and there were two raised platforms of the metal ground that served as chairs for them. They sat down and Master Slaran sighed as he looked out onto the desolate wasteland that must have seemed to him as a glorious battlefield in which he was just victorious.
"I'm going to tell you some things that the Jedi Council would disagree with," he said.
"And you know that they said I would be expelled from the Order if I was ever to pass my teachings on," he said a look of grim resolve beginning to form on his face.
"But this is what I believe and this is what those Jedi (he motioned to the men across the construction site) believe." Link'u was now intently listening to his master and the fear that should have occurred to him as his Master spoke to him of heretical teachings did not come but instead he listened intrigued by the startling power the other Jedi had displayed.
"The force as you know is energy, they explain this much to the younglings as their first lesson, this energy that is the force is constantly present. Those who are force sensitive merely have the ability to channel this energy in the way that the individual has the ability to," None of this surprised Link'u it was the most basic of the Jedi's principles about the force.
"But there is a great lie hidden in the Jedi teachings," Master Slaran continued.
"They say that the force is like a sentient being, that it is energy and it has a conciousness, that it influences those who have connections to it. That is the lie, the force is merely energy and we as force sensitive beings merely have the ability to channel this energy through force of will and concentration of the mind."
"Also the Jedi's use of the force to generate their own abilities is flawed. Because the force is pure energy and we channel it, its effectiveness is determined by a spectrum of the user. Since the beginning of the Order the Jedi have always focused the force through a small limited spectrum created of their own perception. This lets them extend their ability to altering small situations such as moving an object across the room, healing on a cellular level, or examining the the surface thoughts of another. Some have glimpsed that the force can be used on a larger spectrum when they feel the life energies coming from an entire planet and sense that the chance to manipulate on that scale is possible. However, few have ever been able to actually do such a thing; there was once a powerful Sith Lord, I believe, who discovered yet one aspect of this and used it to consume the life energies of a planet, wiping out its populous and feeding his energies from theirs. It is because of beings like this who have scared the Jedi into thinking that this power is destructive in its purpose, but that too is flawed. Another example of the Jedi's powers glimpsing into this power is the art of Battle Meditation which is almost impossible for a Jedi to master but affects things on a much larger scale than what a Jedi would normally be capable of."
"Yes, this power could be used for destruction but in the hands of Jedi such as us that destruction would be unleashed on the enemy in a righteous war or the opposite of the Sith Lord's actions could be done and cause the great healing of a planet." Master Slaran now seemed to be getting frustrated at his own words and took a moment to calm himself before continuing.
"I realized this and began to pursue what the capabilities of the force were when they were broken free of the limited spectrum of the Jedi."
"I found that perhaps the most destructive ability of this is that huge masses, perhaps even immense star cruisers, could be taken and be utterly destroyed. I that the power present in this one ability could be another of the reasons why the Jedi Council refused my teachings."
"I also discovered another ability of this is that the abilities that the Jedi already use as commonplace could be used on a much larger scale. Picture manipulating the minds of an entire army to not attack a helpless village or healing a city of the wounded after a horrible battle had occured there."
"I also realize that there are still countless abilities that this new perception of the force could offer its followers but since I am the first one to pursue it actively I may never live to see the discovery of these abilities." Master Slaran had finished talking and stood up with Link'u doing likewise.
"It is time to leave here Padawan. You now know of my views and why the Jedi Council has abandoned me. I now give you the choice to follow me and my journey on this new path of discovery of the force or you may remain loyal to the council and not be punished alongside me."
Slaran now faced Link'u silently urging him to make his decision and watching Link'u struggle with internal conflict.
Link'u's mind raced with this new information the internal struggle within him building and the thoughts constantly pounding in his head:
"I can't side with Master Slaran this could lead me to the path of the dark side."
"But is it really the dark side that he's proposing after all? Everyone knows the Council has always been narrowminded in their views on new teachings and after all, every Jedi had power it just depended on whose hands it was in and all these men were Jedi his masterhad said soandMasterand himself were Jedi as well."
"But what if the Council believed them to be so powerful that they hunted them down?"
"The Jedi would never do that once you had proved of the great works this power was capable of."
Link'u stopped struggling with himself and looked into Master Slaran's eyes. "I will follow you with this new teaching."
Master Slaran's eyes lit up and he was overjoyed with Link'u's response. "Alright then Padawan let us leave this place I have already decided what our group's next move is to be."
The six Jedi gathered together and walked out of the construction site filing one by one through the tiny door in which they had entered. When all had gone through Master Slaran stood at the entrance staring out over the wasteland that had served as his training ground for these men for so long. He then smiled put out his hands, palms faced downwards, and began to concentrate. With the lowest rumble the entire area was suddenly nonexistent. The door that he was standing at now led to a 50 foot drop to black rocks.
Link'u was left stunned as his head followed Master Slaran as he walked out of the room and back to their speeder.
End of Chapter 2