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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 10, 2011 20:21:07 GMT -6
(Transcribed from MasterJoys original task response thread in the Old Temple]
In this thread, students will post their responses to the tasks in the "Tasks" thread.
Before you respond, please write the number of the task block you are answering.
Example: [TASK BLOCK 1 RESPONSE] Then write your answers below.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 10, 2011 20:21:24 GMT -6
I am here to submit the task spelled out in the other thread, so I may join the Forces of Light.
[TASK BLOCK 1 RESPONSE] I am a servant to the Lightside of the Force. Without the light, one can not see hwere they are going clearly. With the light your path can not be obstructed. Any obstruction can be seen and clearly avoided or overcome. The Lightside does it's best to protect the unfortunate and the weak, and gives them strength and hope to continue on. Unfortunately, the Darkside clouds the vision of th light, resisting it and even battling it to keep the darkness and suffering alive. The Lightside fills the galaxy with hope, the Darkside with pain. The Jedi are servants to the light. When they follow the rue will of the lightside, they are beacons of hope and love, love that saves those who need to be saved. This is why I serve the lightside of the Force.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 10, 2011 20:21:44 GMT -6
[Task Block 2 Response]
The role of a Padawan learner is not one to be taken lightly. It comes with a great responsibility to both their master and to themselves. The Padawan first must learn the ways of the Force from the Jedi Master they are assigned too. They must open up their mind to new thoughts and experiences and be willing to listen to the masters wisdom so that they may use it for themselves. They must also teach and lead an example. They must teach their master not in the ways of the Force, but in the ways of life. How to be an understanding teacher, not to overbear or treat the Padawan as what they are, a child of the Force that needs to raised and nutured to maturity. The Padawan must understand that things take time, and experience does not come overnight, rather it taks time and patience, understanding, contemplating and processing. Finally, the role of the Padawan is to become a Jedi, to lead the galaxy against the dark and be the future tht makes way for the next generation of Jedi. That is the role of a Padawan learner.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 10, 2011 20:21:57 GMT -6
[Task Block 3 Response]
The Jedi need to possess many characteristics in order to truly be a Jedi. First, they must possess honor. Honor is waht makes a Jedi partly a Jedi. True honor keeps a Jedi loyal to the code, to their fellow Jedi, to the order, to all beings in the galaxy, and the the light. They need integrity. Integrity allows them to possess honor and allows them to function in the light. They need kindness. Kindness towards all beings so they can help them. The need love to go alog wiith that kindness. Love for all life, big and small so it can function with the Force. They must allow themselves to be open. An open Jedi can let go of the darkness and let the light flow in in it's stead. They must have trust, both of others and themselves. Trust builds relationships, holds them together and strengthings them. A Jedi must have a strong moral compass so they may guide themselves as well as others to do the right thing. The Jedi are beacons of light that are looked to as guides for those that have no light to show their own way. These characteristics are what make up a Jedi.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 10, 2011 20:22:14 GMT -6
[Task Block 4 Response]
There is no emotion;There is peace There is no ignorance;There is knowledge There is no passion;There is serenity There is no chaos;there is harmony There is no death;There is the Force
Often times a person finds themselves in tense situations. They are pressed into a distress that causes them to lose their own "sight". They let their emotions get the best of them, they lose control in the moment. It often eads to regret, sorrow, and someone may get hurt. If not physically then emotionaly, both wounds can cut deep. The emotional scar, however, is one that is inflicted on both persons involved. There is an old Taoist proverb that states anger does not affect whom it's at, rather whom it's by. When one gives in to emotions, especially such negative ones, they will raise their blood pressure, lower immunity, and shorten one's life span. If you are trying to protet life, why would you ever do something that endangers yours? By releasing one self from emotion, then one can find peace and clarity. When one can see clearly then one can react accordingly to a situation, and find the best solution to create peace for all involved. Thay can also find peace within themselves.
Ignorance is one thing that can truly destroy a society. Ignorance of others, of new ideas, and of one self. It can destroy rich and beautiful cultures, it can jepordize peace, and it can cost lives. If you cannot open up your mind to others, then you cannot learn. If you cannot learn you cannot progress. If you cannot progress, you cannot survive. Knowledge can help us better understand ourselves and better understand others. The knowledge can aid in progresing into new technologies, new medicines, and new education. Ignrance has led to many of unneccesary and unfortunate deaths. It has led to many ideals that are untrue and clearly flawed. Ignorance has led to many of the greatest travesties in the history of the universe. Knowledge is the only defense against such possible destruction that ignorance leaves in it's wake. If ignorance and stupidity never go out of style, then I don't want to be "cool."
Passion is another state that has led to destruction. When one calls a crime a "crime of passion," it is because one let themselves be consumed by there own passion. They often don't know what passion is, let alone how to control it. Love is not passion, yet we see so many peple make that mistake. They allow themselves to be blinded by passion under the false guise of love. Love in it's true form, is the love for every single thing. It is compassion, it is feeling for others what you feel for yourself. Passion is a window dressing term for selfishness, used to ease the guit on ones mind for doing something they know is wrong. Letting go of that passion is finding serenity, and serenity is the peace that love brings. When you love everyone, you harbor no hate. You can clearly feel that others are just as important as you are. Serenity is the peace that leads one away from passion's desruction.
Chaos is the destruction caused by ignorance and passion. The two lead one down a dark path where they lose all cncern for others, and care only for their own goals. The chaos internally causes one to lose exactly what it is that makes them. They lose that sense of right and wrong, they lose the sight to tell the two apart, they lose their being. They destro themselves from the inside. The ruin does not remain internal however. The ruin spreads like a plague over the world, they cause pain and sufferinf to alleviate, if only temporarily, the pain within temselves. They hurt others and cause others to fee that very same bitterness. By remaining on the path of knowledge and srenity, one can find harmony. The harmony that can extinguish the flames of chaos and build a new hope for others to live off of. Harmony is what one must find within themselves to find it in the world.
Death is an illusion. The body is but a vessel that holds our true self. When we die, we move on to another plain of living. We take with us nothing but what we learned in this life. It is the natural part life. We exist here to learn wisdom to take with us. We live for eternity with what we've done in this life. We either live in joy of all the good we have done and all the people we've helped, or we live in regret at all we did that we shouldn't have. Either way, in death we still live, only in a new form. We live on through the Force. The Tao preserves us that deserve to be preserved and allows us to experience an endless existence free from suffering and pain. We find enlightenment in both a spiritual and physical sense. There truly is no death, not at all. Only if you are blinded do you feel it ends at your "death."
That is the Code of the Jedi. This is what it means to me. I humbly submit it to you in the hopes you feel the same way as I do, and that I hold the same understanding of it as well.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 10, 2011 20:23:42 GMT -6
[Task Block 5 Response]
It was a tough choice, but if I had to choose which Jedi I wish to emulate I would have to say it would be Qui-Gon Jinn. I picked him over Luke Skywalker in an extremely tough choice. The two of them have many similarities, both transcending the Jedi and going above and beyond in their own right, but at the end of the day, I had to pick Qui-Gon. Qui-Gon was a maverick, far ahead of his time in the Old Jedi Order. He was a folower of the Living Force, believing all life was sacred. This was in contrast to what his master, Count Dooku had believed, often criticising him for his belief. Jinn focused on the now, where as many Jedi, including the council, were future orientated and lost sight of what was happening around them. This led to him openly defying the council and many occasions, even in the case of whether or not to train Anakin Skywalker, whom Qui-Gon believed was the "Chosen One." Qui-Gon's maverick ways led to him finding a way to preserve consciousness past death and teach this skill to Obi-Wan and Yoda, whom by that point had change their views on the Force to be more closely related to that of Qui-Gon's. These views were used by Luke Skywalker himself in building the New Jedi Order. Qui-Gon was different from his fellow Jedi, and chose not to conform but rather embrace his own ways. I would like to emulate him as he was one who marched to the beat of his own drum and discovered things about the Force that took two of the greatest Jedi Masters years to discover themselves, and with his aid. He was a truly unique Jedi, as I wish to be.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 10, 2011 20:24:38 GMT -6
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 10, 2011 20:28:40 GMT -6
Padawan Simba Padawan Task Block 2
Due to the sherr size of text involved with this task, I will be submitting it in installments.
Abraham Lincoln is known as one the most famous Presidents in the history of the United States of america. The leader that led the nation through a civil war, he was charasmatic and intelligent, two traits that he would need o draw upon in order to lead the United States to victory. He would also use these skills throughout his political career.
He was the second child of Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, and was born in Hardin County Kentucky. Thomas Lincoln and family was apart of a church with high moral standings, which included a strong opposition to slavery. A very rich family, the Lincoln's lost their land due to a faulty title and were forced to restart in what is now known as Spencer County, Indiana. Abe was never fond of the frontier life though, and after his family relocated to Illinois, Abe set out on his own. Arriving in New Orleans, he witnessed slavery first hand for the first time. This prompted him to walk back from where he came. He was mostly self taught throughout his life though he did receive limited teaching from various teachers. He was not much of a hunter or fisherman due to his lack of interest to kill. Due to this lack of hunting, many neighbors viewed Abe as lazy.
In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd with a wedding planned for the First of 1841, however cold feet by Lincoln caused the couple to split. They however would meet again at a party and marry in November 4 of 1842. all of Lincoln's children died young, with only one living past the age of 18. It is believed Lincoln suffered from what we now know as clinical depression, as well as being heavily affected by the loss of his sons.
Lincoln bought a small general store in 1832 New Salem, Illinois, though due to struggling business, he sold his share. After his partner died however, he found himself with a $1,000 debt he could not pay nad was forced to declare bankruptcy. It would take 17 years to pay the debt, during which he found himself now apart of the political scene in th same year despite having little education, powerful friends, and money. Although a towering physical presence, he came in 8th in a local election. Lincoln would then serve as postmaster nad after much study county surveyer. In 1834 Lincoln would be elected state legislature after running as a Whig in a bipartisan campaign. This prompted him to become a lawyer and began to teach himself by reading Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England among some other books. In 1837 he would be admtted into the bar and relocated to Springfield Illinois. He would work under Mary Todd's cousin John T. Stuart and became well known for being a formidable adversary. From 1841 utl 1844 Lincoln partnered with Stephen Logan and then afterwards he would start a practice with William Herndon. Lincoln wold serve 4 terms as a Whig representitive of Sangamon County in the Illinois House of Representatives. In a 1835-1836 legislative session, Lincoln voted to continue restriction on white male sufferage while removing the the condition of land ownership. Lincoln showed his "free soil" stance on opposing both slavery and abolitionism. It was in 1837 when he first said "institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils." He would closely follow Henry Clayin support of the American Colonization Society program to make abolition of slavery possible by aiding freed slaves return to Liberia in Africa.
Lincoln was a devoted Whig since 1830, saying "I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig." The party was in favor of economic in modernizaton banking, railroads, and internal improvements, and supported urbanization as well as protective tariffs. All of which were things Lincoln supported. In 1846 Lincoln was elected to a term in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served one 2 year term. He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but he would still carry the party line in his term instead of conforming to the other parties. He would come up with a plan to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia that would ompnesaye owners and would require a popular vote, but was forced to abandon it when he could not get enough Whig supporters. He also was vocal against the Mexican-American War, where he was quoted as attributing it to President Polk's desire for "military glory—that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood." Lincoln would articulate his opposition by drafting and introducing his "Spot Resolution." The war had began with a bloody and violent confrontation to which Polk claimed that Mexican soldiers had attacked first and spilled blood on american soil. Lincoln had demanded Polk show Congress the exact spot where blood was shed and prove it was on merican sol. However, this challenge was never answered nor debated in Congress, as well as Lincoln losing some local supportand getting the nickname "Spotty Lincoln."
Seeing that Henry Clay was unlikely to win the the presidency, Lincoln chose to endorse General Zachary Taylor with the Whig presidential nomination in 1848. He would later regret some of his statements, including those on the war making powers of the president. With Taylor's victory, Lincoln wanted to be Commissioner of the General Land Office, but he lost the job to a Illinois rival. Instead, the Taylor Administration would offer Lincoln the secretary or governor of the Oregon Territory role, but he declined as it was largely a Democratic stronghold and accepting would mean the end of his legal and political career in Illinois.
Lincoln would return to practicing Law in Springfield, taking on all business that came his way as a praire laywer." Lincoln would spend 16 years "riding the circuit" twice a year for 10 weeks at a time. He would appear in county seats in the mid-state region when county courts were in seesion, handling the many transportaion cases that came about as a result of western expansion. In paticular, he would focus on the cases involving conflicts from river barges under the many new railroad bridges. He would however at the end of the day take whatever case he was hired for. He even appeared before the United States Supreme Court that had involved a canal boat that had sank after hitting a bridge. He also received a patent in 1849 for a "device to buoy vessels over shoals." To this day, Abraham Lincoln is the only United States President ot ever hold a patent. Lincoln would appear in various trials over the years with moderate success as a lawyer, and was even a lobbyist for the Illinois Central Railroad, one of the largest corporations in the world at that time.
Lincoln also had some noteworthy trials in the criminal defese realm, the first of which in 1858 when he successfully defendedhis client by using a farmer's almanac to argue that the witness could not have seen the murder clearly as the almanac showed that the moon was low and would provide poor visiblity. Based on this, Lincoln's client was aquitted. A second case in 1859 involved Lincoln argueing against the judge's decision to use evidence that favored the aquital of Lincoln's client. After argueing this, the judge instead of finding Lincoln in contempt allowed the evidence and ultimately found the accused party innocent. Unkown to Lincoln, his client was in fact a cousin from his father's side.
Lincoln would return to politics in 1854 to oppose the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act that would remove the restrictions set forth by the Missiouri Compromise. The Senior Senator Stephen A. Douglas had placed popular soveriegnty into the Act, this would make the issue a private thing to be decided locally as opposed to having it decided by Congress. It was in October of 1854 whenn he would give his "Peoria Speech," clearly defineing his anti-slavey stance that would follow him all the way to his future presidency. In his powerful voice and Kentucky accent, Lincoln said the Kansas Act had a "'declared' indifference, but as I must think, a covert 'real' zeal for the spread of slavery. I cannot but hate it. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world..." It was in late 1854 that Lincoln had decided to run for the Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate as a Whig, but after leading the the first six rounds he began to lose support and decided to instruct his supporters to vote for Lyman Trumbull, who would eventually win the seat. This all came at a great cost however as the Whigs were split by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and never recovered. Lincoln was quoted on the matter as saying "I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist, even though I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery." Lincoln however would be instrumental in the developtment of the new Republican Party drawing upon what was left of the Whig party as well as on disenchanted Free Soil, Liberty, and Democratic party members. He would even be voted in party to second place as the Vice-Presidential candidate at the 1856 Republican Convention.
1857-58 would turn out to be a pivotal year in the nation as Douglas broke with then President Buchanon, and this would cause a power struggle in the Democratic Party. This would cause eastern Republicans to support Douglas in his re-election in 1858, since he was opposed to the Lecompton Constitution, which would have allowed Kansas to be a slave state. It was in 1857 when Supreme court Chief Justice Taney would utter the cold words "Get this chattel out of my court room." referencing the plaintiff Dred Scott, a thought to be free slave, in the case Dred Scott v Sanford. The decision was based on Taney's belief that the United States Constitution did not cover the rights of blacks or slaves as free and equal men. Lincoln, though opposed to slavery, was still a lawyer and would respect the courts decision. Though unhappy with the decision, Lincoln said on the issue "The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended 'to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity', but they 'did consider all men created equal—equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'." After the state Republican party convention nominated Lincoln for the Senate in 1858(the second instance of this happening) Lincoln gave his famous speech "'A house divided against itself cannot stand'.(Mark 3:25) I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other." This was a call that rallied Republicans across the North as it clearly pointed out the issue slavery was creating in the nation at the time. This was what set the stage for the Lincoln-Douglas battle for the Senate seat.
It was in 1858 when the Lincoln-Douglas campaign began, and it had featured the seven Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858. These debates would become some of the United States' most famous debates. The two men stood opposed starkly of each other, both politically as well as physically. Lincoln would warn that slave power would be threatening to the values of republicanism(democracy) and accused Douglas of distorting the values that the Founding Fathers set forth that all men are created equal, while Douglas was in support of the Freeport Doctrine, which allowed the locals to decide the issue of slavery, as well as accusing Lincoln of joining the abolitionists. Thought he Republican candidates gained more popular votes, the Democrats won more seats, and Lincoln saw himself defeated for the seat he was running for. The bitter defeat would not go without prize, as Lincoln had gained a national political reputation. In 1859 Lincoln would purchase a German-language newspaper named Illinois Staats-Anzeiger that was supportive. Despite many Germans voting Democrat, there was a German Republican movement that the paper could mobilize. In February of 1860 Lincoln was invited to speak to a group of powerful Republicans in New York. It was in this speech Lincoln set forth and argued that the Founding Fathers had little use for popular soveriengty and that had repeated;y sought to restrict slavery. Lincoln said that the moral foundations of Republicans required a strict opposition of slavery and that refused any "groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong." Although he had an inelegant appearance, even called ugly and akward by some of his audience, he still showed an intelligence that did nothing but impress his audience to the point of bringing him straight up to presidential nomination considerations. When asked if he was considering running for president, he replied "The taste is in my mouth a little."
It was May 9-10 of 1860 when the when the Illinois Republic Stae Conventon was held in Decatur. Lincoln's supporters organized a campaign team consisting of David Davis, Norman Judd, Leonard Swett, and Jesse DuBois. Lincoln would receive his first presidential endorsement. Using a distorted legend of his pioneering days spent with his father, Lincoln would be known as the "Rail Candidate." On May 18, at the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln would officially become the Republican presidential candidate. Former Democrat Hannibal Hamlin of Maine received the nomination for Vice President. Lincoln's campaigners used the strategy of focusing on such businesses as Pensylvania's iron works while holding to Lincoln's ideal of "Make no contracts that bind me." Many Republican's agrred with Lincoln that the North was a aggrieved party of the Slave Power, due to it's tightening grasp from President Buchanon and the Dred Scott decision, but they felt that secession was not going to happen and that Lincoln's election would not be a cause. On the otherside, Lincoln's old rival Douglas would become the presidential candidate for the Democratic side with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate, although 11 slave stae Delegates would ewalk out on the Democratic Convention displeased with Douglas' nomination due to his popular soverienty position and would elect John C. Breckinridge as their candidate. Lincoln made a different approach to his campaign as the Douglas and the others went on their campaigns, Lincoln would hang back and aloow his enthusiastic party members to do the campaigning as he closely watched the opposition. Thousands of Republican speakers would go about delivering pamphlets, posters and speaches about first the Republican platform and second Lincoln's life story focusing on his childhood poverty after losing his land. The goal was to show the superiority of "free labor," mainly how a common farm boy can work up to the top. The Republican's efforts eclipsed the combined opposition, with a Chicago Tribune writer making a pamphlet about Lincoln's life that would sell one million copies.
It was on November 6th of 1860 when Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States of America. He was the first ever Republican president, and won the election entirely on the his support from the North. He did not fair well in the South, as he was not on the ballot for 10 Southern States, but still managed to win bot the popular vote and decisevely took the electoral college, 180 to his opponents combined score of 123. When it was clear Lincoln was to be elected president, seccessionosts decided to make it clear that they were intent on leaving the Union. December 20th of 1860 saw the first seccession by South Carolina. By February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed. According to the Untied States Constitution, when a State joins the U.S.A, they can not leave, as it is illegal. This would be illustrated later by Abraham Lincoln himself. Soon after leaving, the seven states declared themselves a soveriegn collection known as known as the Confederate Staes of America. The upper south would entertain but at first refuse the offers to secede, and both President Buchanon and President-elect Lincoln refused to reckonize the C.S.A. at all. Attempts at compramise were made with the Crittenden Compromise, which would have extended the Missouri Compramise line, and was even supported by some Republicns, except Lincoln who said on the matter "I will suffer death before I consent...to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right." Lincoln would support the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which would preotect slavery in places where it was already established, and even penned letters to governers to support it as a means to avoid seccession and war. When on his way to his inauguration, Lincoln would avoid assassins thanks to the efforts of his security head Allen Pinkerton and upon arrival in Washington D.C. in disguise on February 23, 1861, Lincoln would make a speech directed to the South saying "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies...The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." The Confederacy would not rejoin the Union however, even selecting Jefferson Davis as their leader. By March 1861, Lincoln and nearly every Republican leader agreed the Union could not be dismantled.
A request for provisions was made by the commander of Fort Sumpter, South Carolina was made to Washington. Upon agreement to provide them by Lincoln, the South would declare this an act of war. April 12, 1861, Confederate troops would open fire on Fort Supmter and force the Union to surrender, beginning the war. It has been said that Lincoln miscaculated in thinking the Union would be preserved. Future General Shurman would visit the White House during inauguration wek and would be "disappointed" that Lincoln had not realized the South was preparing for war. However, it is also said Lincoln knew fairly well what was seemingly inevitable, it being said that "His[Lincoln's] repeated efforts to avoid collision in the months between inauguration and the firing on Ft. Sumter showed he adhered to his vow not to be the first to shed fraternal blood. But he also vowed not to surrender the forts. The only resolution of these contradictory positions was for the confederates to fire the first shot; they did just that." On April 15th Lincoln called for detachments of 75,000 troops be sent to recapture the forts, protect the capital, and preserve the Union, which Lincoln still felt was "intact" despite the decrees of seccesion. This would cause sataes to choose sides with Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas voting to seceed, while Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland threatened secession, although they never would. Delaware would also stay with the North despite being a slave state at the time. Troops heading to the capital to head the call set forth by Lincoln would find themselves attacked on April 19th in Baltimore by angry seccesionist. This would spark one of Lincoln's controverial actions, as he had the Baltimore Mayor and other suspected politicians arrested and suspended the writ of Habeus Corpus. Despite chief Justice Taney declaring this to be illegal, Lincoln would ignore him and continue.
As Commander-in-Chief, Lincoln would use powers in an unprecedented fashion whichincluded among suspending the writ of Habeus Corpus and arresting and imprisoning thousands of suspected Confederate sympathizers without warrant, he would impose blockades, and disburse funds before appropriation by Congress. This war effort was the source of disparegement of Lincoln from many directions occupying his attention along with the death of his son Willie.Lincoln would get grief from many Northern factions and any attempt to compromise seemed to dissatisfy one side or the other side, including appointing either Democrat or Republicans to command Union Army positions as well as having Radical Republicans criticise him for moving to slowly to abolish slavery with Copperheads and other war opposers criticizing Lincoln for not compromising on the slavery issue. To top things off, in August of 1861, without Lincoln's permission or knowledge General John C. Fremont would declare martal law in Missouri, claiming that any who owned a firearm would be shot and slaves of person's supporting the rebellion would be freed. Lincoln would try to rein him in with no success and after Fremont was charged with neglignece, he would be given another command in November. This decision would in part keep Kentucky from leaving the Union. In 1861 the foriegn diplomacy implecations of the war would be seen when the U.S. Navy would board the Trent after illegally intercepting it to capture two confederate foriegn ministers. This caused cheering in the U.S., but anger in Britain, to which Lincoln quelled by releasing the men. Lincoln would look to Seward for advice on foriegn affairs, however after his reaction to the Trent affair was not to Lincolln's satisfaction, he would also begin to turn to Charles Sumner. Although inexperienced in war strategy and miltary affar, Lincoln would still study books on the matter and follow telegrams closely. He would consult with htose more experienced on the issue and chose Genrals based on past success. In January of 1862, Lincoln would remove inept Secretary Simon Cameron and replaced him with Edwin Stanton. Lincoln had two main strategy points, to protect Washington while conductin an aggressive affair for the North that would hopefully cause quick and decisive victory. Major Northern newspapers expected victory with 90 days. Lincoln also understood the need to control strategic points such as the Mississippi River and the fortress city of Vicksburg and knew it was more important to beat the enemies army than it was to simply capture territory.
One of Lincolns' democrat commanders, George B. Mclellan, refused to act in an agressive manner in the approach against the South, against Lincoln's wishes. McClellan was appointed general-in-chief after the Union loss in the First Battle of Bull Run, after Winfield Scott retired in late 1861. Mclellan took several months to plan his Peninsula Campaign, with the objective of capturing Richmond by moving the Army of the Potomac by boat to the peninsula and then overland to Richmond, but too many delays made Congress and Lincolm grow frustrated. On top f that McClellan did not want to leave troops to defend Washington, against Lincoln's strategy and faulted this to the failure of his plan. Lincoln would remove McClellan from his position in favor of Henry Wager Halleck after McClellan sent a letter giving Lincoln unsolicited political advice on the war. McClellan would incense the Radical Republicans, who had convinced Lincoln to appoint John Pope as the commander of the Army of Virginia. Pope was more complient in Lincoln's strategies, but due to McClellan not willing to cooperate and provided backup, his plans to take Richmond would fail and this would lead to the Army of Potamac to defend Washington a second time. The war also had some key naval battles, especially in 1862 when the former USS Merrimack, now renamed the CSS Virginia damaged 3 Union ships before succumbing to the USS Monitor. Lincoln would restore McClellan to command defense of Washington despite his dissatisfaction with his refusal to provide Pope support. With the Union victory in the Battle of Antietam in 1862, Lincoln was able to anounce his intention to go forth with the Emancipation Proclamation, which was held back due to lacjk of Union success. Lincoln would however replace McClellan afte rhis refusal to persue a retreating Confederate army and replaced him with Republican Ambrose Burnside. Burnside would prematurely attack across the Rappahannock River, causing him to be defeated. On top of his failure, his troops were unhappy and undisciplined, leading Lincoln to replace him with Joseph Hooker. The 1862 mid-term elections brought many losses to the Repblicans, and could have been worse withut the prospect of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. In 1863 however, Lincoln felt optimistic about upcoming battles, feeling that a string of wins would begin the end of the war. These plans would not succeed at firts however. Hooker would be replaced by George Meade after defeats by General Robert E. Lee, and Meade would lead a successful Gettysburg Campaign, although failing to capture Lee's forces, while Grant won at Vicksburg. Lincoln would begin to undersand that he had more success by relaying plans through his War Secretary and genral-in-chief.
Lincoln would maintain that ending slavery was limtied by the Constitution, and felt that the end of slavery would be brought about by preventing it to spread to new U.S. Territories. He also wished to provide states with compensated emancipation in return for their prohibition of slavery. Lincoln had hoped that slavery would be ended by economically expunging it, though it would not come through. Lincoln would reject two previous emancipation attemts on the grounds that they would cause borderline Union allies to defect. In Jult 1862, congress would pass a bill tht would free slaves of those who aided the rebellion, known as the Second Confiscation Act. Lincoln felt that war time powers grated t him form the Constitution allowed him to free slaves and during a draft writing session for the Emancipation Proclamation, he stated "as a fit and necessary military measure, on January 1, 1863, all persons held as a slaves in the Confederate states will thenceforward, and forever, be free." The Emancipation Proclamation was issued September of 1862 and went into effect January 1st of 1863, freeing slaves in territories not already under Union control. Omce freeing the slaves becamse the primary military objective, Union soldiers marched South and began liberating over 3 million slaves. He was supported by his fellow Republicans, though they called for McClellan to be removed from command. Lincoln would also personel lobby the bill that would later become the 13th Amendment, permanently abolishing slavery throughout the nation. Lincoln would reluctantly use former slaves as Union soldiers, but decided the policy was neccessary, believing the sight of these former slaves in Union uniform would be enough to end the rebellion at once.
With the Unon victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the political defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln was able to get the strong and defined support needed to redefine the war effort. His address was set with the Gettysburg battlefield cemetery to be the stage. It was short speech 3 minutes long and 272 words long, but the Gettysburg Address would be one of the most famous speeches ever delivered. He would say that the death of all those Union soldiers would not be in vain and that the nation was born in 1776, not 1789, "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." He concluded by saying that the Civil War was a new founding of the nation.
Due to Meade's failure to capture Lee's forces at Gettysburg and the passive state of the Army of Potamac, Lincoln decided a change at command was needed. Impressed by Ulysses S. Grant success in the west, Lincoln felt he was the right man for the job. Lincoln felt he was aggressive enough to defeat the C.S.A. and was a top commander who agreed to use black troops. Lincoln would even obtain Congress' consent to reinstate for Grant the rarely used full rank of Lieutenant General, once held by George Washington. Grant waged his bloody Overland Campaign in 1864 and despite high losses, would insist he would not quit until victory. The Confederacy would lack reinforcement and begin to shrink, and Lincoln seeing this would use the draft in the North to bolster Grant's ranks and help him garuntee victory from a fleeing Lee army. Lincoln would also give Grant permission to attack Southern infrastructure to hopefully kill moral on the Southern side. Despite Southern assaults on the capital, the North would hold strong. After Grant;s grinding down of Lee's forces, talks of peace began to surface. Lincoln refused to allow any negotiation with the Confederacy as a coequal, wanting them to agree to end fighting and as a result talks failed. Lee would warn Jefferson Davis to evacuate Richmond, and on April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia.
With Grant's campaigns turning in stalemates decided by determination, Lincoln was in full support of it, even with the high costs it had on the Union Army. with the presidential election upcoming, Lincoln easily defeated attempts at denying his renomination for the 1864 election. The Republican Party would nominate War Democrat Andrew Johnson to be his running mate. They would untie the War Democrats and the Rupublicans by running on the new Union Party ticket. The seeming lack of military success was Lincoln's biggest obstacle in re-election, enough to worry Republicans to look for a potential replacement. As a result, Lincoln woud sign the a pledge that if lost the election he would not surrender the White House until he defeated the Confederacy, saying "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterward." Lincoln would not share this pledge with his Cabinet, only asking them to sign a sealed envelope. The Democrats would follow the Peace wing of the party saying the war was a failure, although their presidential nomination, former general-in-chief George B. McClellan supported the war. All the while Lincon would provide Grant with new replacements and would mobilze his party to renew the it's support of Grant in the war effort. Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September and David Farragut's capture of Mobile ended defeatist jitters. The Democrats would become split, with some leaders and most soldiers supporting Lincoln. The Union Party in relation was renewed with vigor due to the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln won in a landslide, recieving 78% of Union soldiers support and carrying all but 3 states.
Reconstruction initially began as Lincoln wondered how to reintegrate Southern states as well as what to do with freed slaves and Confederate leaders. Lincoln would lead "moderates" in terms of Reconstruction policies, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans. Lincoln was determined to reunite the nation while not making the South feel alienated, by urging speedy elections under generous terms be held throughout the war. Lincoln would offer pardons for those who had not mistreated Union soldiers, had not held Confederate office, and were willing to sign an oath of allegiance with his Amnesty Proclamation, in December 1863. With Southern states becoming subdued, Linoln had key decisions to make in regards of their leadership while they were reforming from the fall of the Confederacy. Lincln felt Tennessee and Arkansas were of special importance, appointing future Vice-President Andrew Johnson to Tennessee and General Frederick Steele as respective military governers, while in Louisiana Lincoln ordered General Nathaniel P. Banks to promote a plan where Louisiana would be restored to statehood upon 10% of the voters agreeing to it. Lincoln's Democratic opponents would accuse Lincoln of using the military to the Republican and his political aspirations. Radicals however would call him too lenient and would pass their own bill, the Wade-Davis Bill in 1864. Lincoln would veto it however and in retaliation the Radicals would refuse to seat the representatives of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Lincoln's appointments were meant to keep the moderates and radicals happy, including appointing Salmon P. Chase, the Radiacals choice for replacement of the late Chief Justice Taney. When Richmond fell in April 1865, Lincoln personelly went down to the former Confederate capital personelly and was greeted with mixed reactions, as whites were stonefaced while freedmen greeted him as a hero. He would not treat the defeated Confederates too harshly, as when asked by a general how Confederates should be treated, Lincoln would say "Let 'em up easy."
In 1864, well-known actor and Confederate spy John Wilkes Both would formulate a plan to kidnap Lincoln in return for the release of C.S.A. soldiers, but after attending a speech on April 11 by Lincoln in which he[Lincoln] promoted voting rights for blacks, Booth decided to change his plan to assassination. Upon learning that Lincoln and the First Lady would be at a show held in Ford's Theatre, Booth intended to assassinate Lincoln, VP Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William H. Seward. On April 14 1865 Lincoln would leave to attend the play Our American Cousin without his main bodygaurd Ward Hill Lamon. Lincoln's bodygaurd at the theatre, John Parker, would leave the theatre at intermission to go drinking with Lincoln's coachman. Now with Lincoln ungaurded, Booth saw his chance to enact his plan. At about 10:13 p.m, Booth would sneak up behing Lincoln and at point-blank range shoot him in the back of the head. After a brief struggle with Booth, Major Henry Rathbone would be stabbed trying to prevent the assassin's escape. After being on the run for 10 days, Booth would be found and killed by Union soldiers on April 26. Army surgeon Doctor Charles Leale would initially asses Lincoln's wound as mortal. Lincoln's dying body would be taken across the street to Petersen House, and after a nine hour coma, Lincoln would succumb to death at 7:22 a.m. on April 15th. Lincoln's flag-enfolded body would be escorted in the rain to the White House by bare headed Union officers while church bells would ring in the background. VicePresident Johnson would be sworn in at 10 a.m. he day after Lincoln died. Lincoln would stay in the Capitol. first in the East Room, then the Rotunda, and finally he would moved in the funeral train to his final resting place in Springfield.
10 quotes by Abraham Lincoln.
10. "institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils." 9. "'declared' indifference, but as I must think, a covert 'real' zeal for the spread of slavery. I cannot but hate it. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world..." 8. "I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist, even though I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery." 7. "The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended 'to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity', but they 'did consider all men created equal—equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'." 6. "'A house divided against itself cannot stand'.(Mark 3:25) I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other." 5. "I will suffer death before I consent...to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right." 4. "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies...The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." 3. "as a fit and necessary military measure, on January 1, 1863, all persons held as a slaves in the Confederate states will thenceforward, and forever, be free." 2. "military glory—that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood." 1. "It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak aloud an remove all doubt." (That one is actualy one of my favourite quotes of all time)
This concludes my second task.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 10, 2011 20:32:38 GMT -6
Padawan Simba Padawan Task Block 3.1
My Favourite Non-Force user Star Wars Character
This was an easy choice for me, Han Solo. He was born on Corellia in 29 BBY. He was orphaned at an early age and found himself under the care of Garris Shrike, who would train Han to do various things such as being a begger and a pickpocket among other things. He would befriend a Wookiee cook named Dewlannamapia who would teach him Shyriiwook, the Wookiee native tongue. Shrike would keep all information on Han's parents away from him so he could better control him. Dewlanna would discover information for Han, but the reunion with his family went bad. He would not learn of his parents, Jonash and Jaina Solo, until he was an adult. Han would join the Imperial army as a pilot and would graduate at the top of his class with the rank of lieutenant. He would not last long in his career however, as while aiding Commander Nyklas in 5 BBY, he would be ordered to kill a helpless and injured Wookiee named Chewbacca. As a result, Han would be punished by being to forced to work with the Wookiee slaves. Chewbacca however would have no part and would attack Nyklas. When Nyklas went to shoot the Wookiee, Han would save Chewbacca by stunning the commander. Dishonorably discharged, Han would team up with Chewbacca and become smugglers. Chewbacca would also swear a life-debt to Han.
At first, Han was not happy to have Chewie around, and with his military career over, he spent much time drinking. After a fight over a game of sabaac, Chewbacca came to the aid of Han and afterwards the two began to grow closer. An old friend from Han's academy days named Mako spince helped Han and Chewie get their start smuggling and used Nar Shaddaa as their base of operations. They would often work for Hutt Lords Jiliac and Jabba. Han would also befriend a gambler named Lando Calrissian who saved Han from the bounty hunter Boba Fett and Jarik "Solo," a street urchin claiming to be a long lost relative of Han. Although knowing the youth's claim was a lie, Han none the less took the boy under his wing. Han would also have romantic relationships with a magician named Xaverri and a fellow smuggler named Salla Zend. While with Xaverri, Han would become a stage assisitant, as well as aid her in her missions against the Empire. Han would also teach Lando how to pilot with a ship known as the Millenium Falcon. Han would buy a ship from Lando known as the Bria and after repairing it, would use it against the Empire in the Battle of Nar Shaddaa. Shortly after the battle, the Bria would be destroyed however by Imperial fighters. After Mako was crippled on a smuggling mission, Han and Chewie would continue thwir career on their own. It would be at this time that Han would pawn off his last treasures to enter the Cloud City Sabacc Tournament. After an improbable run to the Finals, Han would face Lando and win. As a result, Han would win the Millenium Falcon along with his other winnings. After, Han and Chewie would work in remore but lucrative sectors of the galaxy as well as the the Corporate Sector and the Tion Hegemony. Han's reasoning for taking such jobs was partly because Salla Zend had been making wedding plans and Han was not ready for such a committment. Later, Han would boast that he had been "from one side of the galaxy to the other."
While in the Corporate sector, the Falcon would be damaged wheile on a smuggling run to bring weapons for Duroon insurgents. They did manage to collect payment from the insurgents however and went to pay off Ploovo Two-For-One. Due to the fact that neither party liked the other, Han would attach a small dinko to the payment that woould bite Ploovo. Corporate Sector Security would go after Han and Chewie, but could not capture them. With payment complete, Han would go to "Doc" Vandangante's hideout, but quickly discovered he'd been captured by Corporate Sector Authority and taken to their prison at Stars' End. Doc's daughter Jessa would give them upgrades for the ship in exchange for a rescue. However before they could take off they would eb attacked and after a heavy battle they would drive bcak the attackers. After the goals of the mission were ony for ship repair, it became personel when Chewie was captured and after dealing with a traitor, Han would make his way to the Stars' End an lead a successful rescue. With repairs to the ship complete, Han and Chewie would leave the Sector for a time and take with them two two droids, Bollux and Blue Max, that were provided to them for the misson with them.
Han would have several misadventures during smuggling career, but the one that was most noteable was a job he did for Jabba the Hutt. He was smuggling a spice known as glitterstim when he was boarded by an Imperial patrol, forcing him to dump the spice, and it coould not be recovered. it was this time when Han made his famous Kessel Run in less than 12 Parcecs after an attempt to recover the spice went wrong. Jabba would hire the bounty hunter Greedo as a warning to let Han know the Hutt wanted his compensation for the spice. Jabba was not patient and none of Han's smuggler friends could aid him. On top of things, the bounty hunter Boba Fett had informed Han his past Bria had been kiiled at the Battle of Toprawa. Han would attempt(presumably) to make money to pay back Jabba by taking a job transporting the imprisoned crime lord Tyber Zann off of Kessel, however after getting Zann, Han was asked to also transport his friend Urai Fen. Han had still not paid Jabba back and Jabba sent Greedo to collect a bounty on Solo, dead or alive. When Greedo finally found Solo in the Mos Eisely Cantina(Tatooine), he had the unfortunate displeasure of never leaving alive after confronting Solo. Later Han would find Jabba outside the Millenium Falcon where he would convince Jabba for a payment extension by offering what he owed plus fifteen percent, by paying him out of a reward he would get for transporting two passengers to Alderaan. This trip would shape Solo's destiny forever.
His passengers would be the old Jedi hermit Obi-Wan and a farmboy named Luke Skywalker. They had seeked passage to the planet Alderaan to escort the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 on behalf of Princess Leia and the Rebel Alliance. R2-D2 had contained construction specifications on the super battle station known as the Death Star. After a close call in being captured by the Imperial Army, the Millenuim Falcon would come out of hyperspace to find Alderaan to be little more than floating asteroids, destroyed by the Death Star, though uknown to them at the time. They would be captured via tractor beam and brought aboard the Death Star where they would avoid detection by the inspectors. Upon discovering that the Princess was aboard the space station, Skywalker would convince Han and Chewie to aid him a rescue that although freeing the Princess in the process, did not go over smoothly. They would manage to escape though thanks to a dsitracting sacrifice by Obi-Wan. Arriving at Yavin, Han collected his reward and left only after Luke pleaded with him to join the Rebellion. He would however return to the space battle and aid Luke by blasting Darth Vader's Tie fighter and giving Luke the free lane to blow up the Death Star. He would be rewarded the Alliance Medal for bravery. In addition to the medal, Han was also given a reward of 20,000 Alliance Credits and a collection of valuable treasures. Han would destroy a Star Destroyer looking for the destroyed Death Star much to the displeasure of the Rebel leaders, and would also have his reward stolen. After recovering the reward from the pirate who stole it, he returned it to the Rebel Alliance. Still having to owe Jabba money, Han and Chewie found a cache of treasures on Yavin IV and sold it off, sending the money to Jabba, who had accepted it but refused to retract the bounty. Still a hunted man, Han would sell of the remaining treasure and purchase some X-Wings for the alliance. Han though wanting to leave the Rebellion would still hang around with Luke and Leia for a time, helping them get secret codes for the Rebellion from a piot, but only aftyer Luke had won a podrace and Leia had to rescuse the group from an angry bet loser.
Han and Chewie would be hired later by a moisture farmer on Aduba-3 named Ramiz to protect his farm form local thugs. Among his group was a man who believed himself to be a Jedi named Don-Wan Kihotay. After the group failed to do their job, a reptilian monster was summoned to deal wth the thugs, but after the beast began to run wild, Han was forced to use Kihotay's lightsaber to destroy the beast. Han and Chewie left soon after and were captured by the same pirate whom had stolen Han's treasures from an earlier date. His name was Crimson Jack and he also had Leia in his custody after she had went on a search for Luke in the Drexyl system an dJack had planned to ransom Leia. However, Han and Leia came up with a plan to trick Jack into transporting them to the Drexyl system after Han convinced the pirate that there were treasures stockpiled there. Jack fell for this and took them to Drexyl where Luke was waiting. After Han escaped in the Falcon and met up with Luke after a crash, Han and Luke along with others managed to rescue Leia, Chewie, and the droids and Han killed Jack.
Han would managae to rescue one of Jabba's emmisaries and as a result had the bounty taken off his head. Returning to Tatooine Han began to mend his relationship with Jabba doing some smuggling for him, but this would not last long as the remains of Crimson Jack's ship were discovered and as Jack was under the employ of Jabba, Jabba grew furious and replaced the boutny on Han's head with extra incentive to bring him in alive so Jabba could kill Han himself. It was over the next three years Han and Chewie would work with the Rebel Alliance growing a friendship with Luke and developing a love-hate relationship with Leia, developing close friendships after close encounters with bounty hunters. Han would send Col Serra to create a new unit for the alliance, but it would be a secret for years. Days before the evacuation of Yavin, Leia would accuse Han of being an Imperial spy, but this was ploy to root out the true spy in their midts. After the evcuation the secret unit and Han wuld work together to obtain a holocron made by Bail Organa before Alderaan's destruction. The holocron was encased in phrik and as a result was able to survive the planet's destruction. It was important as it had contained a list of potential Rebel bases. The Holocron was succesfully obtained during a battl, in which Boba Fett contacted Han demanding the Holocron, only to be driven off by the Rebel squadron. After this battle Han, Chewie, and the Renegade Squadron would go to Ord Mantell for repairs on the Falcon, but would be discovered by the bounty hunter droin IG-88, who would alert the Imperials. During a battle with the Imperials, Han and Chewie would find the neccessary parts in a junkyard for repairs and the squadron with Han and Chewie would narrowly escape. Soon after the escape Han learned Ackbar was captured by Imperials on a recon mission and Han and Chewie would aid in his rescue.
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Post by MasterJoy on Mar 15, 2011 18:47:52 GMT -6
A most excellent and outstanding job, Padawan Simba! You may proceed when ready.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 15, 2011 20:27:06 GMT -6
Alright. I'm still working on Han's bio, so I'll get to that as soon as I ca.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 16, 2011 20:43:31 GMT -6
Padawan Simba Padawan Task Block 3.2
Han learned from Ackbar that Boba Fett had captured Ackbar's crew and sold them into slavery on Tatooine. Upon landing on the planet, the squadron encounter some Imperial resistance. During this time, Han learned the slaves were being held in a ship yard and freed them. Soon after with the aid of Renegade Squadron, the Millenium Falcon escaped, but were tracked by Boba Fett after he placed a tracer on an R2 unit and tracked them to the Rebel Alliance base on Boz Pity. Fett would inform the Empire and Han and Chewie woud eb forced to flee after aiding the Alliance evacuate the base. 6 Months after the Battle of Yavin, Han was to escort Leia on a diplomatic meating with Chivkyrie on Shelkonwa, but was reassigned to help Luke hunt pirates that were threatening Alliance trade lines. During this mission they would meet the rogue Imperial group the Hnad of Judgement, and with their help learned the Empire was hnting Leia and rescued her with some of their assistance. They made their way back to the Alliance base afterwards. Following weeks of seaching for Vader's TIE fighter, Han and Leia ended up over Ord Mantell where Han had hoped to make money playing Sabacc and get his bounty removed from his head. During ths time Leia was captured and he was forced to race the Togorian Alfreda Goot to Tatooine. During this time Han had rescuesd Leia while inadvertantly handing Vader back over to the Empire.
Nearly a year after the destruction of the First Death Star, Chewbacca and Han went to Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day, however the Empire soon discovered their position and followed them there. Vader would order a blockade on the planet to search for hidden rebels. However, due to some quick thinking from Chewbacca's son Lumpy, the Empire was fooled into thinking they had to leave. All the forces left with the exception of a single Stormtrooper who was ordered to watch for Rebel activity. After the trooper learned of Lumpy's rouse, he chased after Lumpt, only to be greeted by Han and Chewie who were just arriving and the trooper met his end. They would celebrate an uninterupted Life Day. A year after the Battle of Yavin Han would provide the Rogue Squadron support during the Battle of Correllia. As a member of the Alliance, Han would partake in missions while being hunted by bounty hunters looking t collect the reward Jabba had on his head. He would encounter a cyborg Bounty Hunter named Skorr who had hoped to use Luke and Leia as bait to capture Han, but he only found a death by his own hand after he accidentally shot himself with his own blaster. When the Alliance lost a large shipment of ryll, Han took to the underworld to use his contacts to find it. When he recieved several leads, Solo arranged a meeting with Major Bahn in a Corellia cantina. However he was greeted by an undercover ISB agent posing as a smuggler. This meeting was interrupted when Solo's friend Col Serra arrived telling Han that Bahnwas bush-walked at Tatooine by the same guy Han was talking to. After a confrontation with the agent, Han and his friend defeatd him, but not before the agent was able to place a tracker on Han. After the shipment was discovered, the Rebel agents that travelled to recover it managed to defeat the ISB personell attempting to secure it. Han Chewie would go and atempt to help return the ryll to the Alliance, however the tracker on Han led the ISB to their location and this time managed to secure the ryll, with Ha and Chewie only managing to secure a few crates.
I will have more at a later time.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Mar 31, 2011 21:17:15 GMT -6
I'm going to take a break from my Han task to do(already did actually) this task.
Padawan Simba Padawan Task Block 6
Jedi Order
The Jedi Order is consists of a rich history with many heroes answering the call of the Force. An establishment that was loyal to the Lightside of the Force, these knights were meant to be keepers of the peace and protectors of the Republic. Coming to the aid whenever they could, the Jedi were constantly at work in order to prevent disaster and suffering across the galaxy. With many threats looming from the shadows, the Jedi would constantly be on guard to battle that which opposed peace. Mainly battling throughout the history of it's order with the Sith, the Jedi were at war not only with the Darkside outside the order, but the darkness that also dwelled within themselves. To keep peace and prevent the Darkside from ruling, the Jedi were dedicated to the ideals of the protection of many and would do what they could to in order to accomplich this goal. Though the order has a history of being involved wit wars and conflict, the Jedi were dedicated to the Lightside and keeping the peace for both the Republic and the Galaxy as a whole. Withput the Jedi, chaos and darkness would surely rule the galaxy.
Origins
The beginning of the Order is very ambiguous, with many links to different organizations including the Order of the Dai Bendu, the Chatos Academy, the Followers of Palawa, as well as many beleiving the morality to be from Caamasi. The earliest that the Order can be traced back through documentation is around 25,783 BBY on Tython. This is where many had gathered a millenia before to discuss the Ashla, or Lightside of the Force. However, the Bogan, or Darkside, had begun to consume some and would lead to the Force Wars, which devastated Tython for a decade after. From this devastation the Jedi would arise, from which they would form the Jedi Forge, the ability to channel the Force into metals to create the Jedi Katana. The Jedi Katana was the weapon that the Jedi had used prior to the lightsaber, and was actually immune to the lightsaber. The discovery of the lightsaber allowed the more proactive Jedi to leave Tython to liberate oppressed planets, as well as found the school of Ossus, where the Ashla and the Bogan were defined as light and dark. They were also able to discover the Living Force and the Unifying Force as well. It would be around 25,053 BBY that the Republic was formed and with it an alliance with the Jedi within the century. The Perlemian Trade Route was mapped and Ossus and Coruscant would be linked, leading to the Jedi moving to Coruscant to aid in defending the Republic. Soon after the event know as the First Great Schism arrose. Users of the Bogan oce again arrose and challenged the Jedi. Led by General Xendor and his Legions of Lettow, he allied himself with Arden Lyn and her Followers of Palawa but were unsuccesful. In 7,000 BBY, the Second Great Schism took place resulting in the Hundred Year Darkness. In 6,900 BBY the conflict was ended at the Battle of Corbos wsith the remaining Dark Jedi fleeing to Ziost to found the Sith Empire.
Great Hyperspace War
In 5,000 BBY the Republic had accidentaly discovered the Sith on Korriban. This event would lead to the Great Hyperspace War. Naga Sadow had seen the arrival as an excuse to expand the territory of the Sith, who had been in exile since the Second Great Schism. A Jedi named Odan-Urr had a vision that had forseen the death of Marko Ragnos and the war started by Sadow as a result. However, upon warning the Senate, Urr was not taken serious and no actions were taken. A Jedi named Memit Nadill, who had travelled to Coruscat with Urr, soon discovered a convict named Jori Daragon who was one of the travellers that discoverd the Sith. Nadill ahd learned everything he could of the Sith from Jori and then returned to Coruscant ot rally Jedi Knights to support and aid him. Soon after, Naga Sadow launched an attack on the Republic by attacking multiple worlds at once, all the while Sadow left his eye-shaped meditation sphere near Primus Goluud to use Sith magics to create thousands of illusionary soldiers making the Sith seem far more numerous than they actually were. The Jedi had defened Coruscant with Nadill leading the Jedi Knights, while at the same time Urr and his master Ooroo were defending Kirrek. During the battles, Sadow's concentration was broken causing the false soldiers to dissapear and on Coruscant a massive counter attack was taken driving back the Sith forces. On Kirrek the Jedi were also victorious, however Ooroo was killed, sacrificing himself to defeat the large number of Massassi warriors. in 4,400 BBY Freedon Nadd was denied Knighthood by the Jedi Masters, a decision that infuriated him and led to him killing his master Matta Tremayne. Convinced only the Sith would teach him about the Force, Nadd discovered Sadow on Yavin IV and awoke him to be trained in the ways of the Sith. After completing his training, Nadd killed Sadow and then conquered the city of Iziz on Onderon. In an attempt to strengthen his city, Nadd exiled the criminals, however they united and became strong. The war continued after Freedon's death. in 4,250 BBy the Third Great Schism began and afterwards the exiled Dark Jedi retreated to the Vultar system, were they discovered artificial planets. Unable to control the machinary that stabalized the planets, the Dark Jedi were destroyed along with the system.
Great Sith War
A series of wars would follow that were all catogorized as the Old Sith Wars. I shall focus on the ones the Jedi were directly involved with. It began with the Great Sith War that started 3,996 BBY, the Jedi Exar Kun had learned of the Golden Age of the Sith and travelled to Dxun where he found the tomb of Freedon Nadd. The spirit of Nadd had corrupted Kun and he soon fell to the Darkside, leading him to Korriban. Later Kun would go to Yavin IV to take over Naga Sadow's old fortress and enslaved the Massassi race. After destroying Nadd's spirit, Kun then claimed his right as heir of the Sith legacy. This was of concern to the Jedi who had called a meeting to discuss the looming and growing danger of the Sith. During this meeting the Krath attacked the Jedi, killing Jedi Master Arcs in the process. Arca's death was a sacrifice to save his student Ulic Qel-Droma. Ulic then infiltrated the Krath as a spy in the hopes to destroy them from within, however he was injected with a Sith poison that caused him to fall to the Darkside. In an attempt to find and destroy Qel-Droma, Kun travelled to Cinnagar to destroy him, only to be stopped by the spirit of Marko Ragnos ordering them to unite. As a result, the two would kidnap Jedi from Ossus and convert them to the Darkside. Kun himself, would steal a Darkside holocron and kill Master Odon-Urr. Qel-Droma would go on to defeat Mandalore and as a result gained the loyalty of the Mandalorian army. The forces of Qel-Droma would ravage Coruscant, however the Jedi still managed to defeat and capture Ulic. Upon receiving news of this, Kun traveled to Coruscant to rescue Ulic and in the process killed his old Master Vodo Siosk-Baas as well as the Supreme Chancellor. Kun would also order that his Sith disciples kill all their former masters, most of which accomplished this task. Kun and Qel-Droma would then make the suns of Cron Cluster to go super nova by using Naga Sadow's flagship they discovered on Yavin IV, the blast from the novas destoying Ossus. Though unable to save all the artifacts on Ossus, the Jedi would bury that they could not bring. Ulic would duel his brother Cay to the death, upon which seeing his lifeless body wold regret everything he had done. During which Nomi Sunrider would cut Ulic's connecton to the Force. After that Qel-Droma would lead the Jedi to Yavin IV. With the imminent arrival of the Jedi, Kun would sacrifice all the Massassi on the planet in order to bind his spirit to his body. An orbital bombardment would destroy most of the temple. The resulting victory woud lead to Nomi Sunrider being elected the official Head of the Jedi Order and began rebuilding the High Council as well as Yavin's ecology.
Mandalorian Wars
Attempting to prevent a return of the Sith, Master Krynda Draay had dedicated herself to training Jedi Seers who would be able to spot and deal with any shatterpoints that may result in the Sith rising up again. These Seers would make up most of her shadowy organization known as the Jedi Covenant. It would be soon after the deterioration of the Jedi Order would begin with the start of the Mandalorian Wars. Coinciding with the visions seen by four of the Consular Jedi Masters that made up the First WatchCircle of the Jedi Covenant, they saw chaos and disorder in the Jedi Order and that it was perhaps the responsibility of one of the Master's Padawans. The Masters gre ambitious and decided to strike the Padawans first, but only succeeded in the deaths of four of the five Padawans, with Zayne Carrick escaping. This caused unrest on Taris and left the planet vulnerable and of ease to conquer by the Mandalorians, and also to the dissolution of the group. The Mandalorians, now under the leadership of Mandalore the Ultimate, were making short work of conquering the planets the Sith left weak during their wars with the Republic and the Jedi. Being careful to only attack Planets not under the jurisdiction of the Republic, the Mandalorians increased their territories across the Outer Rim. Eventually the Mandalorians would attack the Republic and thus began the Mandalorian Wars. With the Mandalorians devastating the Republic, a plea was made for Jedi intervention. The Jedi however counsilled caution and felt the Mandalorians were not the true threat. Despite these warnings, a group of Jedi led by Revan and Alek Squinquargesimus challenged the council by defying them and rallyed some Jedi to join the Republic. Soon after the tide turned and the Republic began defeating he Mandalorians. Revan used tactics that the Mandalore army were not prepared to defend against, and fought them back to their defeat at the planet of Malachor V. During this battle, Revan defeated Mandalore in hand-to-hand combat and as a result the Mandalorians lost their weapons and armor. Revan's master Kriea was exiled afterwards as a resut of her "Gray" beliefs, as the Council felt it was these teachings that led to Revan's fall. This would not be the Last they would here from Kreia.
Jedi Civil War
It was soon after the end of the Mandalorian Wars that Revan and Alek would dissapear to the Unknown Regions. When they had returned, they were changed. Somewhere Revan had found the teachings of the Sith, and had planned on using them to prepare and strengthen the Galaxy for what was to come. Revan had become the Dark Lord of the Sith and Alek had become his apprentice, Darth Malak. Upon their return to the Republic, Revan and Malak began to prey on it's weakened state and with the aid of the Jedi still loyal to Revan, the Republic soon began to be beaten back. Revan's forces were growing at an alarming rate and before the Republic knew it, they were overwhelmed. The war had led to masters fighting students, friends against friends, and fathers against sons. This war was emotionally jarring to many involved, the Jedi Civil War had begun. Having seen the capabilities of Revan both in the Mandalorian Wars and in the current conflict, the Jedi decided to take Revan out in the hopes of stopping the threat. The plan was set, a young Padawan with an amazing gift in the Battle Meditation, Bastila Shan used her gift to infiltrate Revan's command ship with a Jedi strike team to capture Revan. Malak, however, was stationed on a different ship and seeing an oppurtunity to defeat both the Jedi and his Master, took aim at the bridge of the command ship. Succeeding in seizing the title of Dark Lord of the Sith Malak failed in killing Revan and the Jedi, for Revan's body was preserved by Bastila, though his mind encurred heavy damage. Malak would continue to wage war against the Republic, however his stratgey was one of pure force over tatical strategy. With the Republic unable to answer Malak's power, Bastila was forced to use her battle meditation more and more to help preserve the Republic's cause. Over Taris the ship Bastila was commanding, the Endar Spire, was found under attack by Malak. The three survivors of the battle on the Republic's side were Bastila, Carth Onasi, and a mysterious Force-Sensative transfer officer that was on the ship at Bastila's request. The three of them found help on Taris and escaped soon after, although in his impatience to capture Bastila, Malak had destroyed the Planet's surface. It was discovered that Malak and Revan had been using a mysterious factory known as the Star Forge, however the location was unknown. As a result, the group was tasked with finding ancient artifacts known as Star Maps. These maps when pieced together would reveal the Star Forge's coordinates. The group, led by Bastila and the mysterious soldier now turned Jedi, was the main focus of Malak's attention and led to their later capture. During this capture Malak revealed the identitiy of this Jedi Padawan to be one other than Revan himself. During the battle with Malak Bastila would be captured saving Revan so the mission could continue. Accepting his identity, Revan would continue to follow the path of the Jedi and find the Star Forge. After saving a fallen Bastila from the Darkside, Revan would go on to defeat Malak and stop his conqest of the Galaxy. It was soon after this Revan would disappear to the Unkown Regions.
First Jedi Purge
The aftermath of the Jedi Civil War would cut deep in both the Order and the Republic. Soon after Revan's depature, the Jedi were struck a huge blow. With only aproximatly 100 Jedi left in the Galaxy, the number would slowly begin to dwindle down. Unknown to anyone why this was happening, a group of Jedi gather together on the Miraluka world of Kataar. This Jedi Conclave, with the intention of finding the source of the threat, succeeded far too well. The entire population on the planet was destroyed. All the inhabitants as well as the Jedi were mysteriously absorbed, leaving the planet to be nothing more than an echo in the Force. Seeing the threat any group of Force-Sensitives presented, the remaining Council member disbanded in the hopes that the threat would eventually reveal itself under the impression of victory. Soon after, an exiled Jedi would make her return to the galaxy. Having followed Revan in the Mandalorian Wars, the exile had lost her connection to the Force and returned to the Order. The Council would exile her for her crimes. Her return to the known galaxy made her a target of these new Sith. Seeing this threat and the danger behind it, the exile slowly began to be re-opened to the Force and sought out the self-exiled Jedi Masters. Along the way, she woud train her companions in the ways of the Jedi to fight against this Sith threat. After finding the hidden Jedi, she met them in the old Jedi Temple on Dantooine, where the remaining council members Vrook Lamarr, Zez Kai-Ell, and Kavarr decided to attempt to cut off the exiles Force connection. It was revealed that the exile had been unintentionally behind the Sith threat. The Sith were led by what was known as the Sith Triumvirate. The three Sith on the top were Darth Nihilus, the one responsible for the Kataar trajedy, Darth Sion, a Sith that was capable of regeneration, and Darth Traya, the woman the Jedi Council had exiled for the responsibility of Revan's fall. Upon learning that the exile was the one responsible for the Sith threat, the Council made it's attempt to cut her off from the Force. They would fail, as Kreia intervened and killed the remaining Jedi Masters. The Exile would then go on to face and defeat Nihilus over Telos, saving the planet from destruction. She would then go on to Malachor V, which the Sith had made their base of operations, to confront and defeat Darth Sion and Darth Traya. After defeating Darth Traya, Traya revealed that those who had traveled with the Exile would make up the rebuilt Jedi Order, and that the exile had the choice of staying on Malachor or going off to follow Revan once again. Destroying Malachor and putting the Force back in balance, it is presumed the exile left to follow Revan in the unknown regions.
New Sith Wars
As large a conflict as the Old Sith Wars were, an even grander event would take pace later on. A Jedi Master named Phanius who became obsessed with forbidden knowledge. In defiance of the Jedi Council, Phanius stole an ancient Sith holocron from the archives and fled into deep space. Haven fallen to the Darkside, Phanius had taken the title of Dark Lord of the Sith, and now went by the name Darth Ruin. After gathering a large number of Dark side followers he founded the New Sith Empire. In the hopes of using this army to crush the Republic and the Jedi, Ruin and the Brotherhood of Darkness attacked the Republic and began conquering vast amounts of Republic territory. When all seemed lost and the Sith would conquer, they as all Sith of the past had done and turned on each other vying for dominance. The Brotherhood splintered and began to wage campaigns against others territories. This would allow the Republic and the Jedi to recover. The Jedi regrouped and in response to the Brotherhood formed their own group known as the Army of Light. Led by Lord Hoth, the Jedi went on the offensive in the Brotherhood's central system in the CLoak of the Sith. As decades passed, the Jedi began to gain the initiative over the enemy, but the Sithwould not give up easily. Regrouping on the world of Ruusan under the leadership of Kaan. Lord Hoth and the Army of Light would follow the Sith to Ruusan and engage in seven fierce battles. At the end of Seventh Battle of Ruusan, Kasn mad from the Darkside, unleashed a Thought Bomb that destroyed every Force on the planet. The New Sith Wars were over, and the Jedi had survivied. It was presumed that the Sith were finally destroyed, but it was not the case, as Darth Bane had survivied. Bane would secretly rebuild the Sith for their revenge plot, this time arming them with a very dangerous weapon, patience. It was also after this the Republic and the Jedi would reorganize into a less militiristic society, an event known as the Ruusan Reformation.
Rise of the Empire
The Jedi would be involved with small scale conflicts throught the time between the New Sith Wars and the Clone Wars. The largest of these conflicts was the Stark Hyperspace War, but it was religated to one region of the galaxy and would result in a Republic victory. Involving Jedi such as Yoda, Mace Windu, Qui-Gon Jinn, and Plo Koon amoong others, it would be one of the only times the Jedi would be aiding the Trade Federation. Soon after the conflict the Sith would make their return to the galaxy. In 32 BBY, the Trade Federation was contacted by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious and told Viceroy Nute Gunray he should place a blockaded around the planet of Naboo. The current Supreme Chancellor deployed two Jedi Knights, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, to negotiate a withdrawl of the blockade. This was all for naught, as the Trade Federation attempted to murder the two Jedi, forcing them to flee to the planets surface. Their thay would meet a Gungan named Jar Jar Binks, who brought the Jedi to the Gungan city of Otah Gunga. After gaining transport to the city of Theed, the Jedi rescued the captured Queen Padme Amidala and made transport of plaet ending up on Tatooine. It was here that they would find a young Anakin Skywalker and after being able to release him from a life of slavery. Here on Tatooine, Qui-Gon Jinn would be attacked by a mysterious figure holding a lightsaber. After escaping the enemy, they took Queen Amidala to Coruscant. Pleading for aid from the Senate, it was apparent that nothing was going to be done. After making a vote of no confidence against the Chancellor, Amidala returned to Naboo in the hopes of freeing her people. The Jedi and Amidala managed to create an alliance with the Gungans to fight the droid army of the Trade Federation. In this battle, it was revealed the mysterious figure from before was a Sith. His name was Darth Maul. While the Jedi engaged Maul, the Queen would make her way to the Viceroy and forced him to sign a treaty to withdraw from Naboo. The Jedi defeated Maul at the cost of Qui-Gon's life, Palpatine would gain the title of Chancellor, Obi-Wan would be promoted to Knight, and Anakin would begin his Jedi training.
The Clone Wars
It was over the next ten years that the Republic would once again be drawn int conflict. The Trade Federation, along with a number of other organizations, united to create the Confederacy of United Systems(CIS) under the leadership of former Jedi Count Dooku. After being captured tracking a bounty hunter to Geonosis, Obi-Wan Kenobi was notified that the Senate was under the control of a Sith Lord by Count Dooku. After going to Geonosis to rescue Kenobi, Padme Amidala and Anakin Skywalker were soon captured and all three were to be execited in a Geonosis arena. The timely arrival of a group of Jedi led by Mace Windu prevented the execution, however the group of Jedi was outnumbered and were eventually dwindled down. Refusing to surrender, Dooku had planned on executing the group if not for the timely arrival of Master Yoda with a Clone Army. The Clone Army had secretly been commisioned by noe deceased Jedi Master Sifo Dyas. Using the army, the Jedi pushed back the CIS. The Clone Wars had begun. Dooku led the CIS against the Republic in what was the largest scale war the Republic had seen in some time. All of the war was the working of Darth Sidious, who unknown tothe Jedi at the time, was Chancellor Palpatine. Many great Jedi would lose their lives during the Clone Wars. Towards the end of the war, Dooku and General Grievos would launch an attack against Coruscant in the hopes of kidnapping Palpatine. While the space battle would distract the Republc forces, Grievous would move in and accomplish the goal of obtaining Palpatine. Obi-Wan Kenobi and his former Padawan Anakin Skywalker were sent on a rescue mission to recover the Chancellor from the CIS. During a battle with Dooku, Kenobi had been incapacitated, leaving Anakin to battle Dokku alone. After "disarming" Dooku, at the command of Palpatine Anakin would kill Dooku. After the recovery of Kenobi, the group woud attempt to make their way to the hanger only yo be captured. After a short exchange with Grievous and his eventual escape, Skywalker would pilot what was left of the ship to Coruscant''s surface. Later on Kenobi would be sent to Utapau where Grievous had been hiding after the failed abduction. After a long and gruelling battle, Kenobi would kill Grievous, leading the CIS all but defeated, but it did not end there.
Order 66/The Great Jedi Purge
What should have been a victory for the Jedi and the Republic was not so. During the years of the Clone Wars, Palpatine had grown closer and closer to Anakin. With the end of the war at hand, Palpatine had made his move. He revealed he was a Sith Lord, and asked Anakin to be his new apprentice. Anakin was angry with the Jedi for not granting him the rank of master, but he still went to Mace Wndu with this news. When revealed that Palpatine was a Sith, Windu brought a group of Jedi to arrest Palplatine, who immediatly attacked the group. Disposing of the first three, Windu proved to be more of a challenge. Upon entry into the battle, Anakin saw a wekened Palpatine ready to be killed by Windu. As Windu attempted to slay Sidios, Anakin betrayed Mace and aided Palpatine in killing Windu. After this Anakin enterd the services of Sidious as his new apprentice, given the title of Darth Vader. Order 66 was issued, and the clones that had served alongside the Jedi began to cu them down. Across the galaxy, Jedi were slain all at once. Darth Vader even led an attack on the Jedi Temple to execute any Jedi he found there. He even slayed the Younglings Only a few survived including Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi. The two Jei would go on to confront the Sith, only to ultimately fail in stoppng them. The Jedi and the Republic were lost. The Republic made into the Galactic Empire, and the remaonig Jedi went into hiding. In the years after, Dart Vader would hunt down and exterminate the remainig Jedi he would find. All hope was not lost though. Anakin SkyWalker had secretly married and sired children with Padme Amidala. These twins would grow up to oppose the Empire. Anakin's son, Luke, would be trained in the Jedi arts by Yoda and Kenobi and would go on to redeem Anakin Skywalker. In the process of this redemption, Anakin killed Palpatine and ended the rule of the Sith. Luke would go on to fond the New Jedi Order.
New Jedi Order
With the defeat of the Sith, Luke Skywalkker found himself as the last Jedi alive. After first being more than willing to create a new order, Luke would grow reluctant after many mistakes were made in his atempts. His first attempt in training Dev Sibwarra ended in the death of his student, Luke became weary of training anymore students. After begging and pleading by many to be trained, Luke still refused. His refusal even led to a youngman named Flint to turn to the Darkside. After seeing the consequences of his reluctance, Luke began to open himself up to the possibilty of rebuilding and teaching. After practicing on a non-Force-Sensitive, Luke wuld meet many Force-Sensatives, including Kyle Katarn who had some basic training in the Force, to aid him in his journey. However, Palpatine would rise again as a clone. Using a Force transfer technique, Palpatine would revive himself to fight Luke. Luke in the hopes of defeating Palpatine from the inside became his apprentice, however he would succumb to the Darkside. Eventually being saved By his sister Leai Organa Solo, Luke would begin rebuilding the Jedi Order
Jedi Praxeum
During the Thrawn Campaign, Luke would be visited by Obi-Wan in a vision. In the vision, Obi-Wan told Luke that he would need to rebuild the order. Though dsitressed by the thought of being the lat of the old Jedi, Obi-Wan calmed him by telling him he was not the last of the old, but the first of the new. Luke would use this to give him the confidence to approach the New Rpublic for aid in rebuildng a new Jedi Academy. With Yavin IV given as a place for training, Luke began to teach a number of Force-Sensitives he felt were ready. These included Kyle Katarn, Corran Horn, as well the later additions of Mara Jade and Kyp Durron. However, this was not a safe place for the Jedi to train, as Exar Kun's spirit was still tied to the planet. Kun would attack Luke, forcing him into a coma. As a result, Kyp would flee in the Sun Crusher and cause havoc across the galaxy. Luke would soon awaken and with a joint attack by the Jedi, Kun would be push back and finally defeated. This was the first of many trials for the new order to overcome.
Expansion
Although these many trials and set backs were hard on the order, they still served the galaxy and continued to grow. They were also aided and supplemented by other Force organizations such as the Matukai, the Jansaarai, some students from the School of Hidden Wisdom, and the Iron Knights, as well as other ways. The new order Jedi Knights aided in many battles including stopping the Death Seed plague and battleing with the Disciples of Ragnos. They managed to increase the number of research missions and managed to rescue a captured Jedi Knight who was captured in a mission to the Deep Core while confronting the capturer inquisitor Shynne. Slaving rings were broken up on the Outer Rim, stopping an assasination attempt on Admiral Ackbar, and negotiating peace between two warring tribes on Nim Drovis. THe discovery of ancient artifacts such as Arca Jeth's holcrom, lightsabers, Jedi armoor, and Asli Krimsan's holocron. The old practice of Master and Apprentice was reinstated, however the banning of marriage was not assimilated due to the fact that the secret marriage of Padme Amidala and Anakin Skywalker was one of the reasons for the destruction of the Old Order. They would also disregard the seperation of families that the Old Order had practiced, even providing employment and accomidation for the families within the Order.
Junior Jedi Academy
In accordance with what Master Yoda told Luke about younger student's being easier to train, Luke started the Junior Jedi Academy on Yavin IV in 22 ABY. This same year, trainies Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila found the Ancient Jedi Master Ikrit and freed the trapped Massassi souls that were imprisioned by Exar Kun many generations before. These two, along with Tionne Solusar, Uldir Lochett, and R2-D2 discovered Kenobi's lightsaber, Asli Krimsan, and stopped the Orloc from starting his own Jedi Order. Later in the year Luke and Mara would travel to the Unknown Regions to an innaccesiable region known as the Redoubt, to find the Old Republic Outbound Flight expeditionary fleet. Accompanied by Chiss Aristoca Formbi, Commander Chak Fel, and Dean Jinzler. While there they discovered the survivors had formed a colony and were fighting the Vagaari. With the aid of the Jedi, the combined group defeated the Vagaari and drove them away. In 23 ABY, the New Order was faced against the Shadow Academy, a group of Dark Jedi, and the Second Imperium, who had rejected the Pellaeon-Gavrison Treaty between the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant. The Second Imperium had kidnapped Jedi trainies including Jacen and Jaina Solo, Luke's nephew and neice, and their friend Lowbacca. After this failed, the Imperial Remnant turned to recruiting diadvantaged youths. During an assault on the Jedi Praxeum, the Shadow Academy and the Second Imperium were defeated by the New Order's trainees, ending another threat to the Order. In 24 ABY, the Jedi would encounter an alien-supremacists group bent on punishing humans for the atrocities they wrought on the galaxy during the New Order, however they were defeated by the Jedi. This would be followed up by Czethros' attempting to restore the crime syndicate known as the Black Sun to it's former glory, only to be thwarted by the Jedi as well.
Yuuzhan Vong War/Recovery
After finally having a short time of peace, the New Jedi Order was able to establish itself as a truly good force in the Galaxy. Withmore Masters training Padawans, the number of Jedi were seeming to grow. The New Order however would be rattled by the emergence of a new foe. With public opinion beggining to be turned against the Jedi with invaders hunting the Jedi themselves. The Jedi did receive help from suprising sources with the Priaplulan joining the Jedi Auxiliaries to suport the Order. It was during this time the New Order found it necessary to establish a Jedi Council due to conflict within the Order on how to handle the invaders, namely between Kyp Durron who advocated an agressive approach and Luke Skywalker who supported a defensive stance. At the end of the war the number of Jedi was halved and the mindset of the Jedi was changed. The Academy was moved to Ossus and the High Council relocated it's position to a newly built Jedi Temple on Coruscant. During the Dark Nest Crisis the Jedi recovered to number over 200 Jedi and at the end of the Swarm War Luke was named the Grand Master of the Jedi Order.
Second Galactic Civil War
The Jedi Order was growing across the Galaxy in influence and strength. Building and establishing training enclaves in moresystems. THe number of Padawans being promoted to Knights was growing, causing the council to move a large number of Masters and Knights to Coruscant and left Ossus Academy for the training of Younglings. In 40 ABY, the Second Galactic Civil War swept across the Galaxy. With a bit of a struggle in the perception with a need to side with the Galactic Alliance, the Jedi did all they could to prevent to conflict from escalating. Making things worse, Jedi Knight Jacen Solo fell to the Darkside and became the Sith Lord Dart Caedus, all the while he controlled the Galactic Alliance. The stance was made clear by Luke Skywalker, while the Jedi supported the Alliance, they would not support the Alliance controlled by Jacen. After the Battle of Kashyyyk, the Order declared itself neutral and formed the Jedi Coalition. The Jedi made many efforts to remove Caedus from his position on top of the GA. The Jedi were however forced to secretly retreat to a hidden base on Endor. After the death of Caedus at the hands of his sister Jaina Solo, the war ended and the Galaxy was again at peace while the Jedi Coalition was reformed into the New Jedi Order and made it's return to the Galactic Alliance. With the arrest of Tahiri Veila, former Jedi Knight turned Caedus's apprentice and then turned iformant, it was beleived that the Sith were once again gone. The Jedi however were in a state of despair for many had looked to Jacen for guidance before his fall.
Tension
After the war, Natasi Daala managed to rise to power, gaining the position of Chif of State of the Alliance. While in this position, Daala managed to foster Anti-Jedi sentiment and the tensions would reach a high over the next two years. In 43 ABY Luke Skywalker was forced to call the Jedi to the temple on Coruscant due to a dispute between a rogue Jedi named Seff Hellin and Daala's security forces. Later Jedi Valin Horn developt a mysterious psychosis which had him entering violent rages. Although Horn was stopped by Luke, Daala had charges brought up against Luke for preventing the fall of Jacen and would allow Luke his freedom only if he went into exile and no longer have contact with the Jedi Order. Agreeing to these terms, Luke and his son Ben would enter exile. Council member Kenth Hammer would replace Skywalker as the Grand Master and instilled policies to appease Daala, bowing to each of her demands including that each Jedi be accompanied on missions by handpicked officers. This ruling was overturned in the courts though. Secretly unknown to Daala though, Hammer had secretly created a covert Jedi group known as Darkmeld led by Jaina Solo. This group had the goal of undermining Daala's efforts to take over and control the Order. All the while Horn had been encased in Carbonite until his illness could be cured, at that time he would be placed on trial. Effoert by Seff Hellin to free him ended in his capture by Darkmeld for research, as he suffered from the same problem Horn had. Jysella Horn, like her brother, had fallen to the illness and after escaping the Temple was captured by the Galactic Alliance Security, who froze her in carbonite as well. Around the same time the Lost Tribe of Sith on Kesh felt the Skywalkers through the Force when Luke came in contact with the Codex. Afraid that Luke was the one who would stop them from re-establishing the Sith Empire. After discovering the location of Luke, they sent an elite strike force to kill him. After more Jedi were found to have the mysterious psychosis, the Galactic Alliance went through greater troubles to obtain the madened Jedi. Failing to do so in an attempt with a warrant issued by courts manipulated by Daala. With Hammer in favor of surrendering the Jedi, the Council overrode his orders and decided to take the ill Jedi to Shedu Maad where the Galactic Alliance had no jurisdiction. It was then heared Daala had contracted Mandalorian Supercommandos to capture the Jedi and make it look as if it were a nothing more than bounty hunters going for a contract. It was failed attempt. THe Jedi then manged to smuggle the ill Jedi offworld. Daala in retaliation ordered a squad of Mandalorians to attack the Jedi Temple. After the Mandalorians were driven back, Daala issued arrest warrants for several Jedi Knights and Masters including Hammer. It was soon after that Luke and Ben attacked the Sith tribe and defeated all but one, Vestara Khai, who Luke had put a Blood Trail on to trace her back to her homeworld to find more Sith.
Crisis of the Jedi
Over the following 90 years, the Jedi would grow and rise in number. Unfortunatley, so would a new Sith threat. The Ordeer would find itself on the brink of collapse once again at around 130 ABY. The Sith would rise again from the shadows and join forces with the new Galactic Empire. With the Galactic Alliance dissolved, the One Sith were steadily gaining advantage over the Jedi. The Sith would launch an attack against the Academy at Ossus. With the Jedi unprepared and some not even there in time to help, only half the Jedi survived the battle. Forced into hiding, the Order were hiding and running from not only the Sith, but by bounty hunters who were interested in the large reward for live Jedi heads. Cade Skywalker, a descendant from Luke Skywalker, even left his Jedi heritage behind and became a bounty hunter. Cade even turned in a fellow Jedi, an action he would later regret. Darth Krayt, leader of the One Sith, let few survive his purge. Those not killed by the Sith themselves fell in battle to bounty hunters or were presumed to be in hididng. Some even fund refuge in the Galactic Alliance Remnant where a hidden temple was located until it was later discovered by Cade. An Imperial Knight that was working as a double-agent learned of the temple and went to discuss an alliance between the remaining Jedi and Roan Fel's Empire, which was felt to be the true rulers of the New Galactic Empire. Seeing how the Sith worked, Cade wanted to put together a group to assassinate Krayt, figuring the rest of the Sith would destroy each other with no strong leader to control them. Agreeing to speak with Fel, the Council at the same time refused the idea of Cade's. This would not stop Cade and a few other allies from executing the plan, and with the "death" of Krayt, more Jedi would reveal thamselves from hiding and aid in the battle against Krayt's Empire.
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Post by MasterJoy on Apr 11, 2011 21:27:33 GMT -6
I am extremely proud of you, and words cannot describe how pleased I am with your work. Please continue.
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Post by JediMaster1511 on Apr 18, 2011 0:03:58 GMT -6
Padawan Simba Padawan Task Block 3.3 While on Hoth, Imperial intelligence discovered that the rebels had a secret base there. Before Han and Chewie had a chance to leave planet to finally settle matters with Jabba, the EMpire launched an attack on Echo base and with the Vader leading the opposition, the Rebel Alliance was forced to evacuate. Leia and C-3PO were cut-off from the other rebel leaders and were forced to leave planet in the Milleniun Falcon with Han. The ship however could not make the jump to hyperspace and was being closely pursued by the Empire. After hiding in an asteroid field for a while, Han came up with a plan to escape without using the Falcon's hyperdrive, by hiding in with the trash released by the Star Destroyers. Unkown to him Boba Fett was hired to find Han and was hidden with the debris. Han would use the backup hyperdrive to make his way to Bespin where Lando Calrissian was now in charge of Cloud City. Unknown to Han however the Empire had calculated the route to the Bespin thans to Boba Fett and arrived at teh planet earlier to capture the crew of the Millenium Falcon. Lando handed Han over to Vader who subsequently froze Han in carbonite testing the reliabilty of the machine for use on Luke. After he was frozen he was handed over to Boba so he could cash in on the bounty. Lando however betrayed Vader and aided in helping Leia, Chewie, and C-3PO escape the Empire's capture, but was too late in saving Han a Boba left just as they arrived to stop him. After rescueing Luke the crew left planet. In 4 ABY, Luke and the crew arranged a rescue attempt to get Han's frozen body from Jabba's Palace. After all of them infiltrated the palace, Han was unfrozen by Leia, but was immediatly captured. Soon Luke would come but would find himself captured, though it was intentional. Set for execution, Luke enacted his plan and recovered his lightsabe from R2-D2, who had it secretly stored inside his body and the crew managed to recue Han and destroy Jabba's barge, killing Jabba in the process. Soon after Han was sent to lead a team on Endor in destroying a shield generator that was protecting the second Death Star. The Battle of Endor found Han, Chewie, and LEia leading an assault against the Empire forces on Endor while Luke battled Vader and the Emperor on the Death Star and Lando led a battalion of fighters in space. With some help from the native Ewoks, Han and the Rebels managed to destroy the shield generator allowing Lando and Wedge Antilles to destroy the Death Star and Luke to escape with the now redeemed but dying Anakin Skywalker. Palpatine was dead and the Empire was struck a significant blow which was thought to be the end of the Empire's reign. Han would have several adventures aiding the Rebels against the remenants of the Empire, but around 7 ABY Han would discover that Leia was proposed to by Prince Isolder of Hapes. Depressed Han went to the undercity of Coruscant and won the planet Dathomir in a game of Sabaac. He would then kidnap Leia and take her there in an attempt to win her heart, but was captured by the Dathomir Witches in the hopes of using him as a bargaining chip for escape from the planet. Luke would rescue Han and after escaping the planet would marry Leia soon after. In 9 ABY, Han would go up against Admiral Thrawn while caring for his wife and unborn children. He would be involved with several types of misisonns from diplomatic meetings, to recruiting, to even investigating potential spies. He would use unorthodox tactics to defeat enemies and accomplish his missions. He even shot the last clone incarnation of Palpatine in 11 ABY, helping in ending the menace of the evil emperor. Han was apart of the New Republic's military and was an instrumental leader who aided in fighting back many threats including the Yuuzhan Vong. His first son Jacen Solo would fall to the Darkside and become known as Darth Caedus, but was defeated by his sister Jaina Solo. Anakin Solo, Han's youngest son, would fall in battle and become one with the Force during the Yuuzhan Vong war along with Han's close friend Chewbacca. Han was also heavily involved with the Second Galactic Civil War. I shall move on to my next task as soon as I can.
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