Ripples and Waves: Jedi Council

The Jedi Council had many meetings in the time leading up, during, and after the 'Naboo Crisis', such that many of the masters were starting to tire of all the meetings. But the incidents during the whole affair had lead them to the point where they could not just ignore some of the issues highlighted during the events. The dark side had clouded the future enough that the attempt to kill two of the Jedi with a sneak attack had not been foreseen, the shakeup in the senate likewise, the real blindside had been the sheer number and strength in the force of those that escaped Tatooine. If it had just been one or two such force potentials found on a backwater planet, then they would have shrugged it off as the veil across the force disrupting their traditional methods, but as it was, the methods had outright failed, and failed hard.

Ever since the Reformation Act had come into effect after the events at Ruusan the Jedi had given up much of their power and had become subservient to the senate, but they did gain the ability to canvas worlds for force potentials to train them at the main temple on Coruscant. However with the uncovering of such a large group of strong potentials, the more expressive voices in the halls of the temple were starting to speak out about with the system not working then a new group of force users could spring up seemingly out of nowhere and jeopardize even that, leaving the order a withering sect with no power and far to many shackles and protocols they had to follow.

The unrest was even more focus on the fact that the republic itself seemed shaken after the events, as with the heartfelt speech from the Naboo queen for help, rejected by the senate and causing the vote of no confidence, then the Queen going back on her own and seemingly gathering her planet up and rising against their oppressors and winning! This sent a message that the republic will not and does not care for your planets, even under a blatant and unlawful invasion, that they will not give help, and drag their feet in even thinking about it, and that you had to rise up to protect yourself. All in all, the events spoke to the revolutionary parts of many sectors, and the upswing in planetary and sector defense forces spoke that the public had lost much faith in the republic. The seeds of secession had been planted deep with the events, and everywhere the Jedi went, they had heard stirrings and rumours. As the order as it currently sat was tied to the senate and the republic, if the ancient political structure collapsed, it just might take the order with it.

Independent sect of Jedi, such as the Corellian branch would weather such storms undisturbed, but the council itself did not feel entirely comfortable in resting their hope with the mostly removed branch, as such contingencies were made, and some of the more obscure options that had been in place, but unused, since the Ruusan reformation were dusted off and put into motion. If one planet such as Tatooine could hide such a force of potentials unfelt, then they needed a way of taking a closer look at the planets that order Jedi hardly looked though, that meant that branching of the order to create a new enclave to look through the places unseen and forgotten was needed, and to do so in a way that was not tied to official republic presence. How fortunate for them that some of those that had walked away from the temple officially were in such a position to do so using the methods that had lain dormant for almost a millennia.