Star Wars New Order - Volume 1 Chapter 3 Jedi Initiate

It has been 6 months since Vaner join the Jedi temple, during this time he lived in here he couldn’t do much as he was too young to start the youngling training and there wasn’t much to do in a monk temple, so he spent most of his time in the open space of the library trying to learn how to read or helping the Jedi agricultural corps in the temple.

Today was the day he would be assigned to his youngling class, in his time he learned how the Jedi initiate work and the Jedi initiate class was also called clan and it was there he would spend the next ten years.

Arriving in the academy hall he could see quite a few kids at least more than a hundred waiting for a master to come to assign them to their clan, he even recognized some he saw during the last few months. Once the seventh hour of the day rang through the hall the doors opened and eleven Jedi entered the hall.

“We will know to start sorting you into your youngling clan, keep in mind that these clans are important for you, all of you from the same clan will stay together day and night, learning, eating and will sleep together until the day you will become a padawan.” Said the leading Jedi master, Vaner knew about it, he had already read some book about it and he knew that they will be divide based on the observations made by the Jedi within the temple, each clan had their own characteristic.

Time passed as the children were assigned to clans and were heading toward one of the ten Jedi behind the Jedi master each representing a clan. Soon it was Vaner turn “Vaner Shan you will join the Dragon Clan” said the Jedi master to which Vaner answered by a “Yes Master”. The dragon clan was the clan representing tenacity, he didn’t know if tenacity was the right thing for him as you could say he only fled in his past life but why not, Dragon was cool.

Arriving at the dragon clan he recognized some of the races of his new classmates’ thanks to his days in the library and his memories. There was a Togruta, a Rodian, two Nikto and a Nautolan, the rest were human or near-human species but what caught his attention was a near-human with a light skin tone, white hair, and silver eyes, if he wasn’t wrong it was an Echani, the Echani are a warrior race making it easier for them to fall in the dark side and few of them were left due to past conflict. His gaze was clearly felt by the Echani who turn her head smiling to him before staring again in front of her, seeing he was found out Vaner also start staring at the children who still hadn’t any clan cursing himself for not being discrete enough.

Once all the Jedi initiate were divided between the different clan, they followed their Jedi to their quarters where they would live for the next ten years. The quarter was not divided between men and women, this probably due to the fact they were young, and that relationship wasn’t permitted in the order, so the youngling needed to become monks. After leaving their belonging in the quarter they were sent to a classroom where their first lessons start, and this became the biggest deception for Vaner as it was about learning to read and calculus which he already knew about and had nothing to do with Star Wars.

The first few days passed with only this type of lesson for the first week, the next week history starts to appear which interessed Vaner way more. During this time, he also learned about his classmates. First of all, he wasn’t wrong, and the child was a real Echani and she was named Raskta Lenu and from what she said it in honor of some legendary warrior from her race. He also befriends a Nikto more specifically a Kajain’sa’Nikto or Red Nikto named Bhak’ror’krox Rousk, he called him Bhak as it was too troublesome to say his whole name every time.

As for the other, he knew them but he wasn’t really close to them just normal classmate but without much interaction even with them living together as he still hadn’t really stopped he previous living style which in some sense was quite close to being a monk if you replace anime and the likes by meditation. Speaking of meditation, It became the primary lesson well more like his primary thing he spent time on as he need do 5 sessions of meditation a day.

After the first month, the real Jedi initiate training started, in the morning we had Force training, during the first lesson Vaner learned much, he discovers that the use of the force was divided in three.

Control which was the base of it and what they would be mainly taught during their initiate years and with it, he understood why the base was the most important as Control was the control of one own body and how to apply the force to the Jedi body which leads to prolonging the life of the user.

The second aspect of the force was Sense which was mainly taught while being a padawan which they didn’t explain much but it was about using the force to feel our surroundings. The last Stage is Alter whose teaching start during the end of padawan years and what Jedi knight learn, it consists of affecting the surrounding with the force which made Vaner realize that the push and pull the Jedi used in the movie was, in fact, an advanced technique.

After the Force teaching of the morning, midday was still made of the classic teaching such as languages, history, science Vaner knew of but there was also galactic law, politics, strategy which were more Jedi oriented or at least he didn’t experiment on earth.

Finally, in the afternoon were his favorite lessons which were dedicated to physical activities which help Jedi to have a good physique for the fight and so with the physical training there was hand combat lesson and the lesson symbol of the Jedi the lightsaber lesson. These final lessons were his favorite after all when you think about Star Wars the first thing that comes to mind is a lightsaber.

During the lesson, he learned enormously, first of all, he learned that there were multiple fighting styles. This was a surprise for him as he had never learned any form of swordsmanship on earth and it never came to his mind that one weapon had a different style of use. The lightsaber combat lesson explains all the different styles and that they would learn the base of all of them during their ten years as initiate before choosing one to specialize when they would become a padawan.

They were first taught the first form also known as Shii-Cho, this form was the first taught not really because it was the first but because it was the first-ever create and so it contains all the basics necessary for lightsaber combat going from the body target zone to the basic defenses going by the movement while being the most basic fighting style it was the most complete to start learning.

In addition to all those teaching, to finalize the order teaching the initiate need to learn the Jedi code which was like how a medieval knight was glorified on earth but in a more philosophical way. All of this formed the Three pillars of the Jedi the Force, Knowledge, and Self-discipline and these three pillars were the subjects of all those meditation.