Order of Shasa

The Order of Shasa is a Selkath Force tradition rooted in Manaan. Founded after Sith manipulation of Force-sensitive Selkath during the Jedi Civil War, it developed around the protection of its people and the need for instruction independent of foreign control.

Its early teachings pursued peace and defense while confronting the influence of its founders’ Sith education. That difficult inheritance gives the Order a distinctive place among the galaxy’s Force Traditions: protecting a community requires judgment about the powers used in its defense and the people trusted to provide guidance.

During the Jedi Civil War, Manaan accommodated Republic and Sith embassies in Ahto City while attempting to maintain neutrality. Its supply of medicinal kolto made the planet valuable to both powers.

The Sith secretly recruited and manipulated young Selkath, including Shasa, intending to turn their trainees into instruments of political control. Revan exposed the deception. Shasa subsequently became the leader of an uprising that expelled the Sith from Ahto City and destroyed their embassy.

Protection of the Selkath takes precedence in Shasan teaching. The Order’s early doctrine connected that responsibility with peace and defense, but its founders had learned techniques from the Sith. Rejecting their former instructors did not immediately erase the habits and temptations of that education.

Early accounts describe a search for moderation between light-side ideals and inherited dark-side practices. This was an unresolved spiritual struggle. A protective motive could coexist with dangerous methods, and the usefulness of a technique could make its influence harder to question.

Teachers & Students

Shasan education connects an adept with a teacher and the history of Manaan. Accounts of the tradition describe storytellers passing planetary history to younger generations, making cultural memory part of the Order’s continuing purpose.

At its founding, the Order possessed few extensively trained instructors. Teachers were sometimes only slightly more experienced than their students. That describes the early institution; the formality and breadth of instruction centuries later remain uncertain.

For a contemporary character, establish the particular mentor, community, and period of instruction behind their abilities. Familiarity with Shasan history, partial training, and completed initiation represent different relationships with the tradition.

Specialized Disciplines & Limits

Legends accounts associate the Order with heightened awareness of deception, a mind-affecting technique called the Progenitor’s Call, and a telekinetic technique known as waveform. These disciplines complement its distinctive weapon tradition.

The Rite of Fira marks an initiate’s admission to full membership through the construction of a personal weapon. In its traditional form, the initiate swims to the wreck of the kolto harvester destroyed by Revan in the Hrakert Rift, retrieves cortosis-bearing hull material, and uses the heat of underwater volcanic vents to forge a curved sword.

The resulting fira is resistant to lightsaber blades. Its construction joins physical danger, craftsmanship, and a reminder of the circumstances that brought the Order into being.

The Order belongs to Selkath cultural life and maintains an identity distinct from the Jedi Tradition and Sith Tradition. Its protective responsibilities have included diplomacy, but those responsibilities do not establish authority over every Selkath community or government decision.

Shasa’s early outlook allowed for seeking help from trusted Jedi or reputable traditions such as the Jal Shey when dark-side influence threatened the Order. StarForgeRP also preserves accounts of Shasan adepts receiving such counsel. These relationships leave room for advice and cooperation without establishing external control of Shasan teaching.

Diplomacy & the Mercantile Plaza

After Imperial bombardment devastated Manaan’s surface settlements, the Selkath withdrew beneath the ocean. Advocate Mahreen, a diplomat from Dac, spent years persuading an Order of Shasa delegation to meet with her.

The resulting negotiations secured the conversion of a surviving platform into the Mercantile Plaza, where kolto could be exchanged for offworld goods. Trade later expanded to include the Empire despite Republic objections.

The Order’s participation demonstrates a diplomatic role in Manaan’s renewed contact with outsiders. Its history encompasses negotiation as well as resistance to foreign influence.

The Revanite Crisis

Keeper Ortuno and other Shasan adepts defended the underwater research installation encountered during the Revanite crisis. The facility’s experiments involved Rakatan technology and the conspiracy associated with Gorima, Darth Arkous, Colonel Rian Darok, and the Order of Revan.

Their involvement establishes a connection between particular Shasan practitioners and the operation. The wider Order’s knowledge, authorization, and internal response remain uncertain.

The Order of Shasa and the Order of Revan have separate origins. Revan’s role in Shasa’s founding history does not make Shasan membership a Revanite affiliation.

The Later Imperial Invasion

Before the later invasion of Manaan, Darth Xarion described the Order as a secretive body of Selkath Force-users and predicted that its members would resist alignment with the planetary government or military.

His report is an adversary’s assessment, marked by open contempt for the Selkath. It provides evidence of Imperial expectations without settling the Order’s actual strength, internal opinions, or conduct during the crisis.

Present-Day Continuity

The Order survives beyond the invasion in StarForgeRP’s shared present. Its contemporary leadership, numbers, and arrangements for teaching remain uncertain.

Begin with a Selkath practitioner’s education and responsibilities. Give their connection to the Order a personal foundation: someone who taught them, people whose welfare matters to them, and experiences that shaped their judgment about outsiders.

• Who recognized the character’s potential, and why did their teacher accept them?

• Which lesson about protection or independence most strongly influences their decisions?

• What have they learned to do reliably, and which disciplines remain beyond their experience?

• Have they completed the Rite of Fira, and what does their weapon preserve about that experience?

• Which teacher, student, relative, community, or former companion still matters?

• What responsibility, failure, or disagreement remains unresolved?

• When might they need an outsider’s knowledge, assistance, opposition, or judgment?

A recovered archive could challenge a mentor’s account of the past. Salvagers might return a fira with an inconsistent explanation of its discovery. A research agreement could offer valuable assistance while requiring access to a sensitive site.