[14 BBY]

[Teaching Halls, House of Wisdom, House of Wisdom Deck, House Stormcrow Capital-class Warship Stormcrow, Mobile Headquarters, Imperial Navy 1st Frontier Fleet, in orbit Stormhaven, New Haven System, Trilon Sector, Outer Rim Territories, United Federal Empire]

Stass Allie smiled, watching the younglings leave the teacher chamber where she had the honour of granting them basic lessons in the Force. Within limits, though it would still fulfil the criteria of Temple approved from before the Fall of the Temple, but it was still something that Stass found herself enjoying the task. Even if the rest of their education she could not find herself agreeing with as she sat, feeling her former padawan coming towards her as agreed. Greeting the younglings as he went as best she could feel through the Force, with the sounds of his armour clad form barely audible. Trust Daron to learn to sneak while being a Mandalorian, 'light' armour or not.

Though it was, perhaps, a little amusing to have him act the 'wise old master' as he did at times like this, with him so young, and yet clearly having picked up Yoda's habits with the younglings except in his own, more energetic and rancor-headed, way. For all that he'd, energetically, left the Order, and struggled against it, Stass had, for odd moments, forgot she was aboard a warship and not in the older parts of the Temple. Of course, that was far from the case overall, as this was less a warship now than a mobile base, of both Daron's ambitions, but also of the new 'Imperial Inquisition' as well. It was just 'training a Jedi Sect' was also one of those ambitions clearly enough, and Daron had very particular views on that, like her former padawan did on many things.

"Younglings are in a good mood" he greeted her coming through the doorway, giving a bemused smile as he looked behind him as he entered, then turned his attention to her "Interesting lesson?"

She gave a mock sigh "Unlike some they were eager learners"

"I was always eager to learn. I just had…opinions" he replied, and that was very much true she could admit as he came over to where she stood "You know how it was"

"I know how you were my padawan, I can't speak for the other younglings" Stass joked back, sitting back against the desk inbuilt to the floor, amused for some reason at the juxtaposition of her traditional Jedi robes and his Mandalorian 'light-formal' armour. There was the record of their Master-Padawan relationship shown in an unspoken way it occurred to her suddenly "Enjoy your trip to your palace?"

Daron gave an amused snort, rolling his eyes "Palace? It's a fortress built on a volcano where I haven't spent a full day and night present there yet. But, in regards the colony, development's ahead of schedule, mostly, but we won't be leaving anyone there yet. Though there will be some training planet-side for a few days while we are here, soo…letting you know I'm taking some of them on a little fieldtrip"

"You just seek to avoid your duties for a few days, hmm?"

He gave a snort "No, I'm just trying to get some time to focus my other duties Stass and involves training with both my troops and the students. I'm sure they would enjoy some time off the ship as well"

They would Stass could agree with, and it was good for them all to train on various worlds, even if just for a few days or weeks at most. She would prefer if they were being trained as Jedi rather than this dangerous system that Daron was intent upon with the various Force Users, younger and older, that he had recruited, along with the likes of Ventress and her 'sisters'. But that was as it was, and she could only do what she could during her time here to mitigate the damage caused by the darksiders...while also trying to reach out to the younglings touched and tainted before they'd even had a chance. There Stass could, sort of, see the need for non-traditional teaching, but adding parents to a Force Sensitive younglings learning was just…unnatural.

Daron seemed to think otherwise, so she merely nodded in agreement before he continued "And, we have a new recruit"

Stass glanced at him, hoping it wasn't another crazy witch, or like that crazy man from Firrerre who's wife could have been such an excellent Jedi if only she'd been found as a youngling "Oh?"

"Former Agri-Corp devaronian girl, by the name of Sanya" he replied, and Stass gave a sad nod. There'd been a few Agri-corps members who'd come here, another small number to Grandmaster Kota's efforts, but many just seemed to have vanished off elsewhere, or live as farmers instead of Jedi. Whether they were rejecting the Jedi Order or simply seeking to live new lives Stass didn't know, but the loss of the Service Corps was hard felt in these dark times "Her intent is to be a colonist, but I've persuaded her to do some teaching for a year or two with the younglings. It'd like to make use of such valuable skills and knowledge first and foremost, spreading experience and knowledge of the Living Force is important to me"

She nodded, it would be "That is good to know, though…"

"Yes, I'm stealing her away" he murmured, shaking his head "Though I'm not you know, she came to us rather than the other way round. But you'll be introduced to her later and I'm sure you'll talk to her about such things in the coming days"

Stass sighed, chuckled "Always so suspicious my padawan"

"Hmm, maybe so, maybe not" he replied with amusement, arms folded gently across his chest "Anyway, can you give me a run down on the younglings' progress…"

She gave a faint smile at the sudden image of him being as he was and regretting he had not been the Jedi Master with so much potential that she could see. Yes, he'd made his own place in the galaxy, but Stass knew that, while she could respect his choices, the truth was he could be so much as a Jedi, and that was something the broken Order needed in these desperate times. Instead, he was the competition to many degrees, married to a now pregnant Knight Offee, further depriving the Order of what had been a model Knight, as well as to the dangerous witch Ventress. Let alone the Sect he'd essentially assembled here about his city-ship turned warship turned city-ship again.

Daron's flagship was now the mobile colony-base of the entire sector, and his education model was just as ad-hoc and eclectic with the various groups he'd assembled here, and knowledge. Knowledge he'd barter for as shown from the records exchanged with the Dagoyan Order on Bardotta, though it wasn't anything deeply important to that planet bound group. It was a worry though that such groups of Force Users were potentially looking beyond their world's orbitals now that the Jedi Order's protective shield to the galaxy had been shattered as shown by the Dathomiri witches' arrival and establishment here. So many learnings that younglings and padawans should not be exposed too without plenty of preparation…and Daron just taught them such things, even if he did have some limits at least.

The fact that he could coherently argue his position with logic and rationality as a Jedi should was both a pride and regret as an educator, a sign of both her success and utter failure. Like now as he listened and they discussed the dozen younglings who'd left to attend classes with the younglings of non-Force Sensitives aboard the flagship, learning skills a Jedi likely did not need. Or, at the least, should not need, but possibly could now in this crazy galaxy. It was why Stass worked so hard, despite misgivings, to aid those he'd gathered, as it was the best chance many of them had with how the galaxy had sunk into, and the threats that needed to be confronted by them.

But quickly, that came to an end, and Stass sought to seek out other information as she walked with him towards getting something to eat "And how is my gran-padawan doing?"

He rolled his eyes "You know Cal's shared, I'm but head of a team on his training, along with his merry little pack of Padawans"

"I'm not sure I'd count the witch girls as padawans exactly, true ones at least" she murmured back "And you could at least let a former Master know how he's processing on his latest mission"

Daron sighed, smiled faintly "He's with Celeste, so he and Merrin are learning plenty and will be due back in about…oh, two weeks or so, training assignment with the Inquisition troopers is going well as per report yesterday. Which is high praise from our Inquisitor"

"Hah, indeed that would be!" Stass agreed with her own amusement, as Celeste Morne, now, technically, marked as a Master due to Daron's influence possibly owing to the politics involved as Grandmaster Kota put it to her before she'd come aboard the Stormcrow. But Stass had found the woman out of time to be a harsh, but generally fair, taskmistress. And while the Master had an unsurprisingly archaic and potentially dangerous Jedi knowledge as what had to be a Shadow from those dark times of the past, Stass had found her focused to her duties at the least. Cal Kestis had lost his former Master, Jedi Master Tapal, and that was always a hard blow, certainly enough to understand his bonding with this Sect over Stass's own, with Daron having largely served as his 'primary' Master.

'Not that Daron does the traditional thing' she admitted at they chatted about the young man's continued training, and improvement with the lightsaber apparently. Daron favoured more 'wide' training as he saw it, though that was partly due his role as 'Moff' or Hereditary Military Governor of this region in the midst of a post-war piracy and 'privateer' problem. That clearly meant he could not spend the time needed for a true Jedi Master with his Padawan, and actively seemed to encourage an 'open-mind' and training with the others, even the once wannabe Sith Ventress for young Kestis. Thankfully he'd held strong to Stass's relief, and she thanked Knight Offee silently for her efforts there. The true bright spot was that such an activity had, for now, served to curb the Darkness of the witch girls somewhat, or at least had one or two of them behaving in a more appropriate manner for Jedi.

She pushed that aside, glancing at him "Do you…intend to put him through the trails for knighthood, I know you did not, and with Barriss it, well, wartime…"

He gave her a 'I know what I'm doing' Daron look "Soon, but not yet, he doesn't quite know his path yet, and I'm not going to force him down one. Though, yes, we will be putting him and the two others through something akin to the Trials"

"The Trials are the Trials, there's no…akin to them"

He shrugged "Unfortunately we don't have the Temple, so myself and Celeste have our own means planned, just as I'm sure Rahm Kota has had to adjust to the changing circumstances. You have no idea the headaches we give each other agreeing common ground on equal training levels on officially declared ranks between us, or the Imperial guidelines we've gotten passed"

Stass laughed softly "Better him and you than I, your argumentativeness and stubbornness were hard enough to bend when you were but the student, so I know what you are like now"

"Thanks" he chuckled back, amused and mildly offended at the same time "I guess?"

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