Chapter 6

This is the best decision I've ever made. The medical corp is actually well-liked. It wasn't uncommon to hear rumours of Jedi kidnapping and abducting because of the way they trained and yet while the Jedi were respected they weren't liked, especially in the lower levels of Coruscant

The common man had almost no interaction with the Jedi but most had heard the legendary stories of Jedi. Justice, honour and peace were their calling cards but the common people who lived in the lower levels couldn't swallow the injustice they faced every day or the roaming gangs that took and killed when they wanted. All of this was done right in front of the Jedi, or more precisely, right under their boots. The common people could only see that the Jedi let trillions of people suffer without helping or caring right on their doorstep. The common people didn't care to be told that the Jedi were saviours but knew that their inaction had resulted in many people suffering.

The Service Corps had better public Relations than the Jedi. This is where I learned that personal power was great but one bad turn could turn the public on you, I needed a good PR team or at least have a good image in the normal people's eye.

I set up three basic general practitioner facilities using the medical droids I had scavenged. I charged a low price to see the droid to cover the cost. It was odd that if you gave away free medical care in this Society then people felt a great distrust towards it, but charge them a price and they will believe it's their god-given right to use it and will fight for it.

I called it Bee's Medical Care.

It was very popular. Too popular. Bee's medical care was swamped by the masses, I thought that this was going to be a huge problem until it worked to my advantage. Gangs started to muscle their way in and tried to take over. A single normal person would be afraid of the bully tactics and physical violence of the gangs but it wasn't a single person, it was a mob in the thousands of strong, and those poor defenceless people turned into a berserker like a warrior when something good was taken away from them.

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The money was good if not much and yet many small incomes would build into a substantial cash flow, all while painting a great picture of my character. I decided to put the cash back into the business.

In a wonderful feedback loop, I bought medical droids, set up a new GP and raked in the cash, rinse and repeat. Every week a new medical room was installed. It was super cheap to set one up because of the technology this galaxy had to offer. The greatest cost was the droids themselves. I would love to be able to find medical droids whenever I wanted but the first time was luck. I had to pay full price for brand-new ones.

All of the technical sides of running a medical empire were taken care of by my statistical and manager droids. With a couple of careful commands, the droids would look after the business. The biggest problems came from political pressure from greedy legislators, ministers and statesmen, but with a quick flash of credentials from the Jedi temple those same blow-hard ministers hide back in their shadows.

As more and more medical rooms popped up my name grew. Fourtanty that wasn't the only thing that grew. Thanks to my personal floating medical droid nurse, my force enlightenment and the teaching of real masters dedicated to mending the body, my skills in the healing arts grew fast.

The masters taught me about using the force in different subtle ways to encourage delicate improvements on the body, to stitch wounds together using the impossible power of the force, and to scan and guide using the inconceivable precognition that all force users had. The smooth and gentle art of force control and sense grew like a weed in the most fertile of grounds.

My helpful nurse droid taught me the intrinsic design of bodies and the chemical and biological reactions. The healing arts of precise cuts and the brutal nature of destroying selective parts increase healing.

All of this experience consolidated under force enlightenment causing great growth. I started to apply what I've learned to my own body, just small things that complemented force abilities. Moving faster with the force was a basic ability that all force users had and yet it turned into something unique when the body of a force user was augmented with medicine, an overly trained body and force-stimulated exercise. This was the same with any part of the body, that included the mind.

I realised that I probably wasn't the most efficient person to ever hold force powers but it boggled my mind how many different combinations there were just to increase force abilities and yet no one seemed to be taking advantage of it. Their loss is my gain.....I guess.