Younglings seeking masters to become padawans

[Jeh'rad Verai'cal]

I have noticed that there is growing number of younglings seeking masters, in order to advance to the rank of padawan. I believe that there must be someone out here who is yet to take on a padawan. While this is an encouragement to all jedi, who currently have none, to take a padawan.
Ofcourse, some characters were not intended to have padawans, ever. Others just haven't found the right one yet.

Now, with that said, I it would also be appropriate to mention that some younglings might have characters that no player character would actually be the amster of. I ahve not stumbled across one eyt, but they are bound to exist. When creating a youngling who is suppsoed to advacne to the rank of padawan upon character creation, then it would be a wise idea to consult the masters looking for padawans, and try to work your concept with them.

This is just my take on things right now. I wouldn't know if the current rating of "masterless younglings" is actually low right now... But if I remember right, most kngihts look forward to taking on their first padawan, so that they can advance to the rank of master.

Maybe an IC thing could be made out of this. Perhaps the council discovers a current rise in the youngligns not selected and a rise in the knights and masters without padawans, and encourages the jedi to take on padawans?

Anyways, as said before, this is jsut my take and my ideas on the subject

[Halmtier]

I have often considered taking a padawan with my Healer, but the biggest issue is he spends a great deal of time researching, and is pretty bad with the light saber, a thing most padawan want to focus on. Finding the right padawan is hard when you have so many other things to deal with: Training yourself, doing large scale research, and being defensive based. I guess the only padawan I would want to take on is one interested in becoming a healer as well, a rare thing.

Others would find a padawan burdensome, seeing it as another dragging tag along to bog down RPing. I've seen this go both ways, where the padawan was a great asset to the RP environment, and others where neither side knew how to act in a master/padawan relationship. Lower experience RPers are less likely to take on a padawan, as they haven't grasped playing their master without being a teacher.

[\J|K/]

I had this taken care of on Prime. First I took one Padawan (Talau who recently came back) and became a Master. Then my character noted the massive number of students without masters and opened an "Academy" in addition to the "Temple." Every Padawan who did not have a master came to my Academy and could potentially be trained into Knighthood. I can't do that here because I have a Sith but someone else is welcome to take on that task.

[Jeh'rad Verai'cal]

While we'r at it, what is this "prime" thing?
Well, for instance, if my character Jeh'rad, wanted to open up an academy, like that one, would the mods accept it? Is there any where that I can read abotu this academy?

Hey, Halmtier, I think Kaim might fit your describtion, but ofcourse, I'm not sure. So far, his character has not been RP'ed yet.

[\J|K/]

look at the url: Swrponline2.bla bla bla. Prime was swrponline.blablalba.

swrponline.proboards23.com

If you wanted to open something like that all you would have to do is OK it with the Jedi Council and display superior RP skillz.

[kaim]

Jeh'rad has like a major point.

There is a big increase on Youngling (Me being one of them) who seek a master.

I think you have a good idea, like the Council noticing it. If needed, I could ask to advance my character to a Knight and take an apprentice but this is my first Star Wars RP. I'd hate to screw one over, but it's worth a shot. I mean, i've roleplayed many different subjects, and been roleplaying for almost two years.

[Jenno]

well, if you look at the active character list you can see quite clearly that the number of Knights + outnumber the Padawans/younglings quite heavily.

And JK, the only reason we were able to do that on Prime was because of the time frame. When Luke set up the New Order, the rules were a lot more laxed. You have to remember that anything 'out of the ordinary' would likely be instantly shunned during this time frame. The Jedi as of now are particularly stubborn.

Also, I doubt they'd let someone who's considered a 'Grey Jedi' to head up said academy, as they'd prefer to keep things more in order.

[Jeh'rad Verai'cal]

Ofcourse, Jeh'rad might not be the perfect subject to set it up ut actually, these acadamys already exist. The enclave on dantooine is a facilitywhere they train padawans to knighthood. They are tought by masters who reside there. Ofcourse... It was turned into a pile of dust, and it's current function might not be the same, but this means that they already exist. We could simply put one of them into play and highlight it more. That way the padawans might interact more.

[\J|K/]

Eh, the functioning of the Dantooine enclave is somewhat questionable. There were masters who taught classes but, if you recall, Juhani attacked her specific master. I can see some of the Council Member teaching classes for younglings to participate in but not into knighthood. Jenno has a point, we were in two different time periods. I don't think the Jedi of this age would allow mass training into knighthood, epically after Exar Khun and then Revan.

[Jeh'rad Verai'cal]

That makes sence, but I'm sure we could find reasons for the council to agree even with these facts taken into account. It's possible that cirtain people on dantooine had personal masters, but why woudn't masters wan't to settle down with their padawans in the time of war? If she found her padawan on dantooine, why would she leave with Malak and his brood breathing down her neck? All younglings were trained on coruscant I believe, so dantooine was strictly for padawans and masters. There weren't even any knights there. It made perfect sence to have a place like that at that time, considering how many jedi had fallen, and how many that were killed in action. However, do consider the fact that the youngling looking for masters would be able to engage in RP with eachother very often if we had such an academy/enclave/thingy... The reason for this could be to many inexperienced knights as of yet and too many masters who cannot be spared. If 3 of these masters ( one for lightsaber, one for force mastery and one for propper training in the jedi code) were spared anyways, and sendt to dantooine to begin training of padawans... Well, I just see a great oppertunity here and the only thing that speaks against it is fear, which is against the jedi code. Revan is dead and the sith are believed dead. Exar kun is still a spirit on yavin 4... But harmless for the time being.
Mass training into knighthood sounds so... Well it sounds like taking a lot of students and boosting them through padawan stage and throwing them directly into knighthood.
I still believe that this used to be a common way to achive the rank of knight. Revan did it this way. That is said in kotor 2 ("Revan had several masters" and then she mentions almost half of the jedi masters the used to be on dantooine. The only one she doesn't mention as far as I remember is Nemo and one that was removed from content). This was not the reason that Revan fell.

An argument as to why we.. well you really, should not consider this an option, could be that they don't have it in the time the movies takes place in, but they could have dropped it at anytime, because the jedi grew in numbers and it was no longer nescesary.