The culture shock only hit me, when we emerged from the public transport that brought us to Coruscant.
On cathar even the speeders and starships at the spaceport still looked mundane for people who more or less knew science fiction in my old world, but coruscant was on another level. Anywhere I looked was some piece of amazing futuristic technology, even the need for public transport or speeders seemed unnecessary, because many people were floating around without any support in sight, though the more old fashion but still futuristic, vehicles were still heavily used.
Yoghurt brought me to what looked like a tunnel and into a small cabin, that as soon as he closed the door and pressed a blue button shot away with unimaginable speed.
The thing was, I didn’t even feel the slightest bit of G-force. The acceleration of the cabin should have flattened us like pancakes but it didn’t even feel like we moved at all. ,Take that law of inertia!‘ I thought.
After what I guessed was about a minute we stopped, and again it wasn’t perceivable at all.
Yoghurt opened the door and brought me out of the tunnel to leave me in awe. In front of me was a gigantic four sided pyramid like building with a tower at each corner of the flat top and a bigger tower in the middle.
Lining the road leading to the huge main entrance were statues of men and women in robes and what looked like meditative positions, while at each side of the entrance stood an enormous statue holding a giant lightsaber made of stone over the entrance.
In short we had arrived at the Jedi temple.
As we moved toward the entrance, I was surprised to see not a single guard standing there, the gate wide open, as if inviting anyone to come in.
In the great entrance hall between the gargantuan columns mingled many people, not only Jedi in their brown robes, but normal people seeking for the Jedi’s help. There were many long counters each having lines of people waiting to be received by one of the non-Jedi clerks.
Yoghurt and I just flew past them on Yoghurt’s hoverchair, being greeted and bowed to by all oft he Jedi and no small amount of the other people too, Yoghurt seemed to be well liked by the people. We hovered through the grand corridors of the temple until we reached the door of an elevator guarded by two templeguards clad and masked in grey each holding a deactivated saberstaff diagonally in the direction opposite of the door.
They looked at Yoghurt and he asked: „In session the council is?“ and after receiving a nod continued: „Then going up I am“
Without a word one of the guards pressed a button, opening the door for us to pass. On the ride up Yoghurt nudged me and whispered: „Time to wake up it is, little one. Meet the council you will.“
I had pretended to sleep in order to be undisturbed while taking in the sights of the planet, not that hard considering I was still thickly wrapped and unrecognisable, my eyes in the shadow of the cloth pulled over my head like a hood.
I looked up to Yoghurt and gave him as big a grin as I could. I already loved the old man. On the ride here he had constantly played with me and even though I was technically a fully matured man I couldn’t help but enjoy it.
We arrived at the top and Yoghurt hovered us in front of another door guarded by two temple guards, who without even asking let us through. When we came into the councilchamber I saw it exactly, like it was in the movies, twelve seats forming a three-quarter circle.
Except the council members, they were different.
From left to right were a female Cerealier, a female Voss, a female Twi’lek, a female Miraluka, a female Chiss, a female human, a male human, a male (I think) Gant, a male Mon Calamari, a male Duros, a male cathar ,great‘ I thought and unbelievably a hutt.
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I tensed a little. A cathar on the council wouldn’t do me good with how they feared the race of nekomata.
But I was plesantly surprised to see a hutt. In star wars they were after sith, the rakata and, if I were to consider the extended galaxy, the Yuzhan Vong the most vilified spezies, being portrayed as greedy and powerhungry. They couldn’t all be bad after all.
The male human, a young looking man with dark blond hair, spoke first: „Welcome master Yoda, what is it that leads you here? Coming to a council meeting is unusual for you even though you are technically still the Grandmaster of the order.“
So it was Yoda, I had been confused already, his behaviour and speech pattern were after all very Yoda-like. This seemed to be a really different star wars verse. I seemed to have been born after the fall of the galactic empire, but Yoda was still alive
With a chuckle Yoda responded: „Grandmaster of the old Jedi order I was, the position yours in the new Jedi order it is, Grandmaster Skywalker.
Here I am because a vision sent me the force has. Follow my instincts I did and found a new youngling for the order I have.“
With those words he pulled down my hood and revealed me to the council. There was a gasp from the right and everyone turned to the cathar who spoke with a surprised expression: „A nekomata! No wonder you brought her here every cathar will want to kill her!“
„Does that include you?“ asked the hutt with a deep and comforting voice.
The cathar looked affronted and shook his head vigorously: „Of course not! We jedi believe, that all sentient life is equal in rights. The fear of nekomata is taught to the Cathar children in children stories during their whole childhood. I came to the temple at age 5, so I wasn’t influenced by it as much, but I still remember the stories.
Long ago, before the beginnings of the Republic, when humans first sent sleeper ships to the stars, one of those ships landed on Cathar. There was only one passanger, a human man. He was a great hunter, so the tribe of Cathar, who took him in respected him. Eventually he fell in love with the daughter of the tribes leader and courted her.
They married and got a child. That child was the first nekomata, but his mother died in childbirth. There isn’t much known about his upbringing, but when he had grown to a man he started to conquer the tribes of the Cathar and ruled over them with an Iron fist and abilities, that are told to have been given to him by demons, but I would guess, that he got those abilities from the dark side of the force.
He ruled over Cathar for 2 centuries until he died of old age. His name has long been forgotten, today he is only known as ,the Tyrant‘. Ever since there has been a law on Cathar that every nekomata is to be killed at birth.
Nekomata are unbelievably rare, in the tenthousands of years since the Tyrants death this one is only the third to be born. They can only be born if a male human and a female cathar copulate, but even then it almost never happens.
There are those who say, that even at birth the other two nekomata already had the ,demon’s powers‘, leaving me to believe, that all nekomta are very strong in the force.“
He looked around sheepishly and said: „I ranted again, huh? Sorry about that.“
„Right you are, master J’zargo. Shira this is, already the force she used, when still to be born she was, her mother said.“
This time the human woman, she looked even younger the master Skywalker, with a beautiful face and long brown hair falling freely to her hips, spoke: „We will take her in, she shall become a jedi, or does anyone here has complains?“
Nobody spoke up, I could see a tender look in the eyes of those in my field of view.
Master Skywalker then declared: „Good, master Yoda have you already measured the midichlorian content of her cells?“
„Over 25.000 it is.“
That was the result of one of my wishes. I wished for increased talent. Sounds ordinary? It is, but with talent I would come much farther than I would choosing a random superpower.
„Then you will take care of her, the normal wet nurses of the temple won’t be able to handle a baby that strong, who can already manipulate the force. Besides, she really seems to be comfortable with you.“ Why Master Skywalker said that?
Simple, I was again playing with Yoda’s ears.
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