Since I have already gotten myself into this deeper description I might as well add the hierarchy of our order. There is a major differen our order and the jedi or sith order's system. In the grey order there are three civil ranks of force sensitives. That means, that no force sensitive is forced into military servi peace times. From the beginning of the order, there was not eveime when the order was forced to full mobilization. We are i on tinuing this good tradition.

  We usually get by with mostly small skirmishes that doese inte battles or wars. If the situation turns dire we simply escape. Evehe power bance is on our side, we like to avoid unnecessary frontations. Of course flicts are not always avoidable, for such outes we are also prepared to stand round. That is why expeditionary teams are created from mostly battle trained individuals wandering the unknown universe is extremely dangerous after all.. They are volunteers who wish to extend knowledge of the order. Curiosity was one of the main driving forost intelligent races we know nowadays.

  But I shouldn't wander off too far from the topic, of course force sensitives have to learn to use their powers, their force abilities, but you don't have to learn to kill with them if you don't want to. There are many differe's to take that measure every individial's level of trol ah of uanding. If your skills are acceptable then you go and live your life as you please as a civilian force user. These are the three civilian ranks of educated force sensitives. They are people, who are not explicitly traio use the for battle, but still they are capable of defending themselves or esg from unfortues through smart use of their abilities.

  There is one more rule that has caused many arguments over the millennium yet it still wasn't ged. Civilian's who are not part of the military of the order, are not allowed to leave the hidden cities or secret outposts. Except by using teleportation to travel to other civilian approved locations. Those locations are always defended by military forces and hidden in some fotten er of the gaxy.

  The reason for this rule is quite obvious, civilians are not traio eorture or if things e to that, be ready to end their own lives in such sarios. If they were captured and questiohey could reveal muowledge that we would never wish to e into the wrong hands. For this exact reason, we ot allow civilians to wander on their own, not outside of the internal els of teleportation gates.

  In special cases which usually clude stific research they still leave as part of a whole ptoon of troopers and a small fleet will apany them on their way. In those cases civilians are still allowed to leave our territories. This is a small price to pay to maintain our secred stability.

  Now back to the ranks... let's see, these are the ranks of force sensitives from lowest to highest.

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  Civilian ranks

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  Youngling

  Learner

  Knower

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  Military ranks

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  Initiate

  Warrior Apprentice, Infiltrator Apprentice

  Apprentice of an Apostle

  Warrior, Infiltrator

  Warrior Master, Infiltrator Master

  Warrior Elder, Infiltrator Elder

  Elder's cil Member

  Apostles

  Immortal cil Member

  Living Grandmaster

  Immortal cil of Grandmasters

  The Three Seers

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  Now that's abht. Let me expin them iail. The first is a youngling, which is basically a child who shows signs of force sensitivity. They are taught by their parents and also by specifically chosen and traieachers or masters of the order. They are not allowed to mih not force sensitive children without the guidance of a force sensitive parent or someorusted with the rank of knower. Well, they are not allowed to mingle only until they learn proper trol of their abilities. This might seem harsh at first, but it is the only safe way to avoid possible harm to not force sensitive children.

  The learner is the rank, this rank represents people who are able to trol their force abilities and uand the possible repercussions of usiain teiques or eliaiions unreasonably. People with the rank of learner are trained in the use of the force, aensively educated on it, but they still ck the trol and precise ability to use them for their own and the unity's betterment.

  The knower is the st civil rank, it represents those people, who have refiheir knowledge about both side's of the force. At least in a general uanding, they are able to el their anger and sorrow away and clear their minds, instead of shing out with their powers even under extreme pressure. They reached a baweewo sides of the force. They are fully fledged force users, and are treated as adult citizens even if their ages are youhay.

  Oh, yes since basically everyone who is force sensitive here is capable of using life elongating teiques to a degree and the for itself extends one's lifespan, the average of natural lifetime between force sensitives, excluding the apostles who often live unreasonably long is around three huo three hundred fifty years. There are however a rge branch of people, who refuse to use such teiques. Saying that many of their closest friends living here are not force sensitives, it is painful to wate of your friends wither away, while you still hold onto your youthfulness. In fact, just about half of the people living here belong to that category.

  Then there is the other category which disregards this, saying that throwing away life is simply stupid and unreasonable. Also, there are many different races living here already, and it makes a differen expected life time anyway. Those people, who are not force sensitive are themselves usually state that they should use the full extent of their life, no one would expect their own cherished friends to die before time for a misguided sense of justibsp;

  These people, however often disregard the fact that living on is many times more painful theurning to the force. Choosing to die with their friends or lovers, is more of a choice for themselves in truth.

  Now let us see the first military rank. Which is the initiate. Only force sensitive people with the rank of knower request to learn military grade knowledge in exge for military service. This is basically the middle school of force education. Which means only those who have fihe mandatory elementary school join. This isn't a mandatory training, it is solely based on volunteering. However, those who finish the training are basically under oath to provide military support to the order if the o defend against any outside force will ever arise.

  People traio onize force teiques are part of the military rank of the order for life. It is not something you simply put aside, that is why you are expected to meditate over the application for aire year before you apply for further training. Of course you live your life freely, but if an unlikely war situation appears you will be called in to defend the order, but you probably would do that anyway, so it is not that big of a thing actually.

  Anyway, initiates are the first rank, and they are expected to train in a general dire basically. This training is meant to reveal orengths and weaknesses. If he or she is more of a straightforward type or a subtle one, based on the result they will join the infiltrator apprentices or the warrior apprentices.

  The curriculum on both is extremely rge. Both have to choose specialized on types, force teiques which dire they wish to take. At the end of these they should figure out where they want to go exactly. There are basically endless variety of subcsses in both. There are Warrior-Healers those who choose warrior training and while endlessly healing themselves and their allies through the force. There are Warrior-Enters, who use the force to reinforce their bodies or their allies to inhuman levels of speed, durability or physical power. Then Warrior-Specialists, these are usually using some unusual fighting styles often paired with strange ons. One of the most iing types of these are the vibrobde specialists. They basically disregard the use of lightsabers and use specially reinforced ade vibrobdes instead. Those ons easily deflect real lightsabers too, so it is not as big of a disadvantage, also they are better for stealth operations as they won't light half the room up ag like a torch to every enemy nearby when activated.

  Except if a metal airlock stands in your way, but for that reason they usually carry a normal lightsaber too on themselves, and mining sers or bombs. A strange bunch even among us, but I guess, if everyone has a lightsaber in your neighborhood, you will try to stand out by not using one.

  Well, what I want to say, is that you basically have any sort of bination, what matters, that you had the skills of a warrior as a base, that means nobody leaving that css will be lost in a battle. The same ats for the infiltrator apprentice css.

  Above basic apprentices are the rank of the Apprentice of an Apostle, this is basically someone who is groomed to be the in the memory liheir rank is mostly a show, sihey are normally nht into the order ihey are trained in backwater and hiddes sihey are extremely valuable to the order directly chosen by the will of the force.

  The one is the fully fledged infiltrator or warrior. These are the equivalent of jedi knights basically. They have learned and trained for years in their chosen art, achieving a high level of skill and knowledge.

  Then the masters, who had not simply trained in their arts, but perfected them. Also, it is mandatory for every master to choose a third specialization. Until now there were only two, one was the warrior or infiltrator while the other one was self chosen. However, this expectation is not a secret, and therefore those who io reach the rank of master often choose to learn a third mastery from the beginning. Masters create the tral spine of the order, they are our truly skilled members who still have a reasonable rge number.

  The are the Elders, every master, who reaches the age of three hundred years are immediately appointed as Elder. From the Elders are chosen thirteen individuals, who are expected to sit on the cil as cil Members, who govern our cities and the smaller hiddelements, they are the ones who filter the important decisions from the less important ohis is basically equivalent to the Jedi cil. They will only bring the important decisions in front of the apostles who are the rank.

  The apostles are the iors of past knowledge, they are the hearth of the order, in a sense. Where the past meets with the present, and creates a new symbiotic reunion. There is no such thing as the cil of the apostles. The reason for this is that, that most of them are free spirited, and etric. Well, I should have said, that there are no apostles cil anymore, since like most of them never appeared at any gathering. In any case they are hard to deal with, and I know that I am no exception to the rule either. Happy now? It is expected to ask one apostle in any major ge in the order's ws before they are implemehat is why one Apostle had to be alresent at the temple city, of Unity for the order to fun normally.

  The Immortal cil Members are the in the line, a cil member who achieved immortality after death and chose to fulfill this duty even from the beyond. This is equivalent to the Jedi High cil on Corust, where the main decisions are made. Every temple in the Jedi order has a cil, but the cil on Corust is the heart of it all.

  The Immortal cil is the equivalent of this, and they filter the most important decisions, which will eventually be brought to the attention of the Living Grandmaster.

  This is the role that I am expected to fulfill. The Living Grandmaster is the third highest authority of the order. I veto any request to create new w's, or forward new decisions that will affect the ey of the order. The main duty of the Grandmaster is however to guard the memories, therefore I have trol over all aspects of the archive, I share and take knowledge from members of the order. To do such ges, I he acceptand help of the Grandmasters cil, where the orders immortal grandmasters decide the final decision to permit such drastic measures. To actually create any ge in memories, I he help of oher grandmaster at least.

  This is created in such circumstances as to stop evehought of the possibility that a grandmaster may use his power for his own gains. It is really unlikely for such a thing to happen, sihe grandmaster didates are culled meticulously and chosen through plicated trials that are not known by the didates and therefore they 't prepare themselves to it.

  It is also stated in the w, that a grandmaster only be chosen from the ranks of apostles. The reasons are pretty obvious, each apostles is beyond any doubt of loyalty towards the order. The archive in itself is a great and permaeique for ditioning. The new holder will always i the base beliefs and ideals of the order in their purest form. This makes them almost physically incapable to go against those cepts. It would damage their core personality, a in areme break down of existential crisis.

  People, without force sensitivity 't take the position of grandmaster either, this is no surprise to anyone I hope.

  So we arrived at the st and highest deaking circle in the order. The cil of the Immortal Grandmasters. They are basically my superiors, and I am mostly expected to do their bidding and even if I am not, I have to report to them my personal decisions and they tell me to get the fuck off with my shhted delusions and cull my stupidity.

  Sigh... You see, my master was a grandmaster too, he now likely joihis circle, I just had a few fshbacks from his iion with the spirits of old grandmasters.

  It is going to be iing for sure, if nothing else...

  There is not much else to tell about them, they are etrid annoying, not just because I am their direct subordinate who has to silently bear their daily grudges.

  Sigh... Yes, I know... I am trying to delude myself...

  Nevermind that, to the , yes above this cil is still something. The Three Seers, we don't really know what they are. I mean, they are force spirits of faceless entities. They ge to any possible form and they always appear together. I like to think about them as the mystical part of the force. We don't actually know when they appeared, we all share a sense of familiarity with them. As if they were always here, with us. The thought is kind of scary holy.

  They are teachers to us all. They almost always find us individually when we are struggling with a heavy decision. They create trials for us, trials that open an opportunity to face reatest fears and ge our mi in the process.

  One of the seers is dark side oriented, one is light side, and there is one which stays in the middle. Their work and presence here have long since proven effective and useful for our order. Their tinuous advice, and support have paired with their incredible fht mao defend the order from many tragedies.

  In any case, they are the soul, the tangible mysticism of our cherished order. The great teachers sent by the force, to guide us to a better future. They always tinue and tirelessly challenge us to be better. This is the greatest blessing that the force give us.

  Now, that is the description of our military, but there is still something we didn't talk about. That is nothing else, then the military of the not force sensitive citizens. Sihe beginning of our order thanks to Revan's fame and war achievements through the Mandalorian wars we have created a great and incredible close e with a few tribes of traditional Mandalorian warriors. Their first representatives were the warriors who fought against Revan armies aher lost the battle or joio our cause after witnessing his battle capabilities.

  We are greatly ied to these tribes because they were the ones who helped us to build our first temples and first cities ter. It was a long time before we mao find the lost city of Unity that serves as the tral temple of our order today.

  We have many smaller cities and operation bases and even temples throughout many different gaxies now, but this wasn't always the case.

  Our demographic statistics show us, that about seventy pert of our current citizens are of mandalorian ins. They were the desdants of those three inal tribes.

  The tribes were named as Silver Spike, Space Delirium and Blood Wargs. Over the past thousands of years, they have however been pletely assimited. The 's names and traditions are kept alive, mostly for the respect of past achievements. Today no one will drow a bde to defend their ame as all three s have intermingled with one ao such a degree that it is basically impossible to differentiate.

  There are other races living here beyond mandalorians of course, but they represent the waste majority.

  Anyway, what I wao say, is that our military is mostly built to use three dimensional mandalorian battlegear. It was in fae of the principal agreements of the tribes. They wished to hoheir skills against force users to absolute perfe ted it, and sihen often cshed with them in mock battles.

  Funnily it is our only inal sport. Mock battles between force users and gray guards you eve on the winners in pool-room's around the city. My favorite team would be the Silver Hors a gray guard team, I think... but I might be swayed by the enthusiasm of my master. We used to watch prerecorded battles ba the old Sith temple were I was traihose were the times...

  However, Nizzal was interrupted ihoughts as the sounds of footsteps approag echoed through the darkness. Somewhere behind her little isnd of light and green. She opened her eyes, and stood up, ready to meet up with the mysterious intruder.