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Master Saa also took this time to get to know the students as well as she could. They found her kind but demanding, subtly teaching the students the type of comportment they would have to have as Jedi. It helped, as did the sessions with Fay, T'ra and Micah about the fight, getting the children to understand what had happened, why and that those who had killed during the battle had not been wrong to do so, despite feeling the deaths of their attackers through the Force.
Lily found she liked both T'ra and Fay, and Micah was a mix between Professor Flitwick and Remus Lupin, serious but with a sense of humor and a humanity that shone through his actions. T'ra and Fay reminded her of a few teachers she had in preparatory school, though the Neti was somewhat intimidating when she wanted to be.
All three women became friends over the shared task of helping the students move past the shock of the battle, and both Jedi were admittedly curious about Lily, her world and, amusingly to Lily, what being married and giving birth had been like. She didn't try to sugarcoat it, telling them about the good and the bad, which scared both women despite their knowledge as healers, never having been present at a birth, and despite the Neti not reproducing like that. But Lily noted the wistful expression on Fay's face and the thoughtful one on Saa's when she mentioned her married life with James (even one evening quite graphically), and realized that perhaps the Jedi as a group were not as welded to the New Oath as many of them wished people to think.
The evening of the second day after Harry woke up, Yoda, with the help of Master Zeltesh had powered up the ships Hypercom transmitter. The damage to the ship had forced them to route the power from the two Consular class ships in the hanger bay, but as they would have to use the two smaller ships generators to power the Explorer's engines once the control systems were repaired, that was time well spent.
Not, admittedly, that Yoda had been much help in that effort. He knew how to use technology, not how to jury rig, repair, or even, it was rumored, be nice to it. Anyone who had watched him move around the hologram device, muttering and smacking it with his gimer stick would have instantly agreed with that last statement.
Now he sat in the captain's chair, staring into the holographic transceiver at Master Mace Windu and the other Masters of the High Council.
Without preamble Yoda began to describe the attack on the Explorer and the result of it, listing the dead as well as what the Bando Gora had been after. He had decided not to tell them everything that was going on here with Lily and her son, who had not met yet, though he was already forming a good image of the youth. Not because he didn't trust them, but because he didn't know if they would realize the need to keep it to themselves.
And he also could not predict how they would all react. Yoda got on with Master Windu very well, and he respected the younger man both as a swordsman and as a Jedi Master, but there was a certain inflexibility in his manner. That had served Mace well over the years, but it would not help them in this situation.
Master Evan Piell, a Lanik who was almost as short as Yoda, shook his head. "I am not alone in thinking this but I shall voice it. The Bando Gora attacking us outright like this is a very bad sign. I would have thought the last time they clashed with the Order would have sent these madmen scurrying into their rat holes, but if it has not, they must be stronger than any reports we have seen indicated. We will need to strike at them quickly, if we can find them at all."
"Assigned Master Tholme to that task, I already have. Find them he will." Yoda said shaking his head. "Remain here I must, getting the children over this shock Master Saa and I will."
"Of course Master Yoda," Mace said before looking over at one of the other Masters. "But still, this attack and the disaster which fell upon Chu'unthor decades ago is proof positive that the counsel of First Knowledge is correct in their desire to mothballs such ships entirely. All learning should be done here at the Temple itself, even if that makes journeys to the Outer Rim longer and less certain."
"No," Yoda said simply shaking his head, and more than one Master there found themselves surprised at Yoda and Master Windu disagreeing on something. Mace also looked surprised for a moment before his eyes narrowed slightly and he sat back looking at the aged Grand Master's hologram. "Pointed out to me it has been, missing many youngling's we have been because of a lack of recruitment trips. Defenses these ships must have yes, but too important are their missions to do away with them."
"You're speaking about the recent flow of casualties we've been facing in the past 15 or so years," said Master Ranicisis, an elderly Thisspiasian with green skin a shade lighter than Yoda's and a beard longer than Yoda was tall. He was the third oldest member of the High Council by a significant margin but age alone did not matter much amongst Jedi. Yoda was Grand Master because he was not only the most powerful, but the most learned and wise, not just because he was old (though that did help).
"Yes. If convince the Council of First Knowledge we cannot that limit we must the number of initiates sent to the Agricorps, bring in more initiates initially we will have to."
"We could also make it mandatory for Masters to take padawans," Master Mace said thoughtfully, nodding his head at the idea. He too believed that the Agricorps and the cutoff age for when students were sent to it unless they were chosen as a padawan by a Jedi was a concept that needed to be replaced.
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