So, I’ve been doing some research and rereading the Jedi Apprentice books. Bandomeer and Melida/Daan are just the gifts that keep on giving, aren’t they?.
Anyway, Star Wars world building is a catastrophe, isn’t it? So much stuff doesn’t make any sense.
Granted, the JA books are now Legends and no longer Canon, but still in what world does a system make sense, where kids have to chase after Knights and Masters to ask them if they want a padawan? There’s so much wrong with that.
Anyway, on to the Councils. Which ... make even less sense.
So, there’s the Council of Reassignment and the Council of First Knowledge.
Both Councils have five members each and some of these council members also sit on the High Council. Considering that there are roughly 10.000 Jedi, and probably at least 1.000-2000 kids, that’s a very small number. Especially if some do double duty.
I mean, my current home town as roughly 3.500 citizen and we have twelve people on the city council, plus the major and his staff.
The Council of First Knowlegde is responsible for the Jedi Academy, the Temple Archives, the Holocron Vaults and the eradication of the SIth and all Sith articfacts. And the Shadows.
Acording to wookiepedia, as part of their duties regarding the Jedi Academy, they not also handle the education of the younglings and padawans, but also offer advice and help to knights and masters in need.
Five beings handle all of that. Really? Just the Academy would require more if one considers the age-range covered. And the various species found in the Star Wars universe.
They must have a massive staff in the background. Which makes me wonder if Jedi Knights make up that staff or if they recruit their staff from the various corps. Why is there no Administration Corps? Or a Kitchen Corps? Someone must provide all these Jedi with food. Which, considering the wide array of races, sounds like a momentous task.
The Caretaker of First Knowledge has their position for live or unless they decide to step down. That puts way too much power in the hand of one person for a long time. Master T’un, who sits of the Council of First Knowledge has been .
Again, according to Wookiepedia most members on the Council were from long-lived species. Supposedly because they had the experience and the knowledge to advice and guide knights and masters asking for their help.
Maybe that’s a personal thing, but I’m a fan of term-limits for elected or nominated positions in government or the judiciary.
Then there’s the Council of Reassignment. They handle the Service Corps and ... Jedi younglings unable to find a master.
So, initiates and their training and education is handled by the Council of First Knowledge, but when they can’t find a master (by chasing after them and pestering them?), they are somehow somewhere handed over to the Council of Reassignment? Who then finds them a place? Somewhere?
Reading through all of that, I also ended up wondering if masters wanting to take on a padawan were in any way of form screened or tested for suitability. Or if they had to classes on pedagogy?
Lots of stuff to consider and lots of fodder for fanfics.