fandomhigh | So You Want to Be a Jedi?, Monday Period Two

Aphra had everyone meet in the park, where the picnic benches had been covered in tools and various bits of mechanical junk.

"Welcome to class, kids," Aphra greeted them cheerfully. "You're all here because you want to be a Jedi, or because there was a terrible datawork error. So for you guys I'll just explain what a Jedi is."

She then launched into an abbreviated but not actually terrible explanation of the Jedi. "...then about twenty years ago, they all got genocided by the Empire, and knowledge of them, as well as most of the other Force worshipping religions was pretty much banned or eradicated. But turns out some of us have parents who are simultaneously dumb enough to go for the whole forbidden knowledge thing and somehow smart enough to avoid being purged for it, so luckily I can teach you all the important parts of Jedi-ing."

Didn't you all feel so very lucky, class? Or possibly somehow responsible?

"Starting with the most important! Well, technically that's meditation so you can become one with the galaxy, but then we'd actually have to meditate, so we're going with the second most important, building a lightsaber! I mean not real ones, because if I had the components you'd need for those, I would not be teaching this summer, or ever again, they are worth that kind of credits, and also real lightsabers are kind of dangerous, someone might lose a limb."

Which everyone would agree would be terrible, right.

"These are going to be more like giant glowsticks you can hit each other with. Fun, right?"

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Like you've made a terrible mistake.

Summer Smith

Freya Crescent

Liam Kincaid-Price

Rey

Anakin Skywalker

Owen Corley

Maybe she might have dumbed things down a little much in places, leading to 'magic space monks' type remarks but it's actually one of her better lectures.

Rey had not been expecting much from this class, but at the same time she had to? But so far... actually this wasn't bad?

Anakin had signed up entirely to glower judgmentally in the back and so far he was killing it.

Heh. Even if she was so far...not being wrong? How annoying.

Aphra held up a basket that made soft rattling noises when she shook it.

"The first and most important part of building your saber is your crystal. The Jedi used to do a whole pilgrimage deal to fetch Force-attuned crystals, so you're all going to let the Force guide you in choosing yours."

A lucky dip was like a Force-guided pilgrimage, right?

[The basket is filled with kinder surprise capsules with fake kyber crystals of various colours (except red) in them, and maybe a tenth of them have two crystals in them, so mod what you get.]

All the "workstations" had various parts organised by type, as well as diagrams showing how the lightsabers were supposed to be put together.

"Lightsabers were all high individualistic," Aphra explained. "While they all have similar working parts, a Jedi would let the Force guide them in choosing each of those parts to create a weapon that was an extension of them, so there's really no wrong way to make a lightsaber. Unless it blows up the first time you switch it on. Which none of these should do. So go wild."

This was the moment you've been waiting for, switch on your lightsaber and compare the length of your blades.

Maybe dirty?

Or just judge her.

You know you want to Anakin.

Anakin was so, so judging her. He liiiiived for it.

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So You Want to Be a Jedi?, Monday Period Two

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