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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 2618256" data-attributes="member: 10948">"Alright, then."  Nakima replies, and pulls up a schematic of the ship on his console to discern where the engineering compartment is.. "Do you want me to head over there now, just in case we get ambushed?""It's been a while since I've used one of these, but I'm confident it'll all come back to me at the right time."  Meira says, looking over the fire controls.Having consciously tried to sense the contents of the pouch through the force, Kia feels as though they are glowing embers, radiating a soft heat.  At her question, Miera looks up with slight amusement."So you can feel it, then?"  Miera says, and draws a single faintly glowing white crystal from the bundle and holds it up for Kia to see.  "It's these crystals that initially drew me to that cave.  What most people know of such caves' existance normally don't realize is that like Force Sensitives, there are places in the Universe where the matter somehow maintains a connection to the Force.  If these places are relatively free of dramatic erosion such as caves, which is why such places are where we normally find these crystals, their Force connection further preserves them.  Minerals in these caves overflow with the Force, and eventually condense into gemstones infused with the force.  "You probably know that such crystals are normally vibrant in color, such as the normal blues, greens, reds, and so forth.  Essentially, these force crystals are precious gems such as sapphires, rubies, emeralds and so forth, but unlike their mundane counterparts, they have power in the force.  This power allows them the focus the condensed light beams in a lightsaber without disintegrating, and thus produce the blade."These particular crystals I carry however,"  Miera says,  "are far rarer.  As force crystals are akin to gemstones, these are essentialy Force-infused Diamonds.  Appropriately enough, however, they are a great deal more precious than their colored relatives.  You of course know that diamond is condensed organic material, so in a way, the force infusion gives some of them a certain...life, but not in the sense of living beings.  It is as if they have their own spirit."Used in our lightsabers, they give our weapons certain abilities that normal force crystals cannot.  As you have seen, they can allow us to incapacitate rather than kill an opponent, a very valuable advantage over normal blades."  She is about to continue, but is interrupted when her commlink buzzes, and Arias' voice is heard on the other end."Miera, could you ask Kia how much longer do we have until the Imperials arrive?  We've formulated a plan, and I think we might be able to get ourselves a second transport sent down here if you are back before they are."  ***"Well," Arias says to his gathered students after speaking over the commlink, "you'll soon be in your first fight against other human beings.  It may be tempting to simply stun them, but remember that these troops you will be facing are trained killers.  If we let them live, they'll only continue killing those we may consider allies, and perhaps even innocents."</blockquote>

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