THIS OLD TEMPLE: NEW JEDI ORDER RESET
by ardavenport
- - - Part 14
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"Recording. Recording.
"C-3PO speaking.
"Things have simply gotten out of hand here. Where are all these people coming from? There are nearly two-hundred of them.
"And most of them are only somehow connected to the people Master Luke has invited to restore the Jedi Order. I really don't know all their relations. Most of them are helping out with the work around here, but others. . . . Well, I'm not sure what they do.
"I understand that Coruscant is rather expensive to stay in, but really I think the New Republic should find better accommodations for them. At least not here. Where they get in the way. Some of them only complain. I can't do anything about how small the rooms are. Saying that they've seen prison cells with better facilities. . . . .
"Oh. I wonder what they know to make that comparison with. . . .?
"Well, I can't do anything about the rooms. I wouldn't be in this Temple myself if Master Luke hadn't moved everything here. If I can manage, surely they can.
"And there have been several lightsaber accidents. Nothing serious so far, but Master Luke and the others have had to spend a lot of time securing them and a lot of other equipment. That Corran Horn and Mirax Terrik have been bossing everyone around about not getting into trouble. Admittedly, they has been effective at setting some order, but they are certainly quite abrasive. They have no sensibility about being diplomatic about things.
"All these people around here have been nothing but trouble."
"3PO?"
"Oh! Master Ferus. Can I help you?"
"What are you doing?"
"I am narrating a record of Master Luke's project here of reviving the Jedi Order. For posterity, of course."
"A log? Shouldn't Luke be doing that?"
"Well, technically, yes. But Master Luke is . . . . much too busy to keep up with a log of our activities."
"He should be doing it. Or at least Bren. Especially since he's been working on the Archives."
"Oh. I'm sorry to hear that you're not happy with my service - - "
"No. It's not that. But there should be some first person accounts."
"Well, I thought I was a first person. But I have included quite a few recordings of significant events in this record to broaden the perspective. It's available for review by anyone here."
"Really? How many people have reviewed your logs?"
"Well. None, actually. But they are available at any time."
"I see. Well, at some point this will have to be put into the Archives. When they're ready."
"Of course. That was always my intention. How are the Archives coming along, if I might ask?"
"Slow. Leia and I are absolutely certain that Palpatine would never have destroyed all the information in the Archives without making a copy of it for himself. Knowledge was one of his powers."
"Really? He was supposed to be such a detestable man."
"He valued knowledge for its power, not the power of knowledge."
"Oh. I'm not very good at those distinctions."
"Anyway, even with the stuff that's been coming in from the coms, we don't have much of an Archive, at least not any of the deeper Jedi knowledge. Nothing even close to what it used to be."
"And why is that?"
"We haven't found any pieces or remains of any of the artifacts that should have been there. It looks like the vaults were stripped before they were burned."
"Oh. It would be fortunate if you were able to recover the Jedi Archives. Data loss is always such a tragedy."
"Hmm? Oh, yes. I suppose it is. Carry on with what you're doing here."
"Of course, Sir."
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- - - End Part 14