Order of Shasa
Order of Shasa
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**Title**Order of Shasa
**Small Text / Caption**A Selkath Force tradition devoted to the protection of Manaan, shaped by ancient Sith deception, planetary independence, and the complicated legacy of Revan.
**Heading**Overview
**Standard Text**The Order of Shasa is a Force tradition and protective institution native to the Selkath of **Manaan** (https://www.starforgerp.com/galaxy/planets-moons/manaan). Unlike the Jedi or Sith, the Order developed around the interests and historical experiences of a single people and world rather than a galactic mission. Official SWTOR material presents its members as Force-wielding guardians of Manaan whose influence has extended into planetary defense, diplomacy, isolationism, and decisions concerning contact with offworld powers.
Its history begins with one of Manaan's most serious encounters with outside interference. During the Jedi Civil War, the Sith secretly manipulated Force-sensitive Selkath youths and attempted to turn them against their own society. Revan uncovered the deception, and one of those youths—Shasa—later became the leading figure in an uprising that drove the Sith from Ahto City. The Force-using tradition that followed came to bear her name.
For roleplay, the Order is particularly useful because its identity cannot be separated from Selkath history. A Shasan character is not simply an alternative version of a Jedi or Sith. Their training exists within a society shaped by Manaan's long concern with independence, neutrality, kolto, foreign intervention, and the consequences of trusting more powerful galactic states.
**Image / Photo — Optional**
**Suggested Placement:**Below the introductory text.
**Suggested Subject / Description:**An SWTOR-era scene of Selkath Force adepts on or beneath Manaan, emphasizing the world's immense ocean, Selkath architecture, and the Order's connection to planetary defense rather than using imagery that resembles a conventional Jedi temple.
**Heading**Origins & Founding
**Subheading**The Sith Deception
**Standard Text**During the Jedi Civil War, Sith operating from their embassy on Manaan secretly recruited and manipulated Force-sensitive Selkath youths. The Sith presented themselves as teachers while intending to use those recruits to advance Sith influence over Selkath society. Revan exposed what was happening and convinced Shasa and the other students that they were being deceived.
The episode left an obvious legacy. Manaan had attempted to remain neutral while permitting both Republic and Sith representatives to operate in Ahto City, yet one of those powers had exploited that access to interfere directly with Selkath youth and internal affairs. Later suspicion of foreign Force traditions therefore developed from experience rather than abstract isolationism.
**Subheading**Shasa and the Uprising
**Standard Text**Official SWTOR history describes the resulting tensions as leading to an uprising under Shasa, who had by then become a capable Force practitioner. The Sith were expelled from Ahto City and their embassy was destroyed. In the years that followed, increasing numbers of Selkath looked to the Force-wielding Order named for Shasa for guidance.
The Order did not respond to Sith interference by placing itself under Jedi authority. Its development instead reflected the belief that Force-sensitive Selkath should possess a tradition capable of serving their own people without making Manaan dependent upon either of the galaxy's dominant Force orders.
**Small Text / Caption**Continuity Note: The broad history of Shasa's uprising and the Order's later importance is established directly by SWTOR. More detailed descriptions of the Order's earliest training system come from supplementary Old Republic-era Legends material.
**Heading**Beliefs & Purpose
**Subheading**Protection of the Selkath
**Standard Text**The clearest recurring principle behind the Order of Shasa is protection of the Selkath and Manaan. SWTOR repeatedly associates the Order with the defense and interests of the planet, while supplementary Legends material makes this principle even more explicit by describing the safety of the Selkath as an adept's foremost responsibility.
That purpose should not be reduced to simple militarism. Protecting Manaan may involve combat, but it can also involve identifying manipulation, preserving independence, advising Selkath leaders, protecting knowledge, controlling access to sensitive locations, investigating threats, or deciding when contact with outsiders serves the planet better than isolation does.
This creates a useful tension for characters: protecting a society does not always produce agreement about what protection requires.
**Subheading**Independence & Neutrality
**Standard Text**The Order developed within Manaan's broader tradition of guarding its political independence. After the Sith were expelled from Ahto City, the Order supported removing the Republic embassy as well, seeking greater separation from the galactic conflicts that had repeatedly brought outside interference to Manaan.
Neutrality should therefore not be confused with indifference. The Selkath have strategic resources, territory, laws, history, and lives they intend to protect. A Shasan adept may oppose Republic or Imperial interference not because they consider both governments identical, but because neither government's priorities automatically outweigh Manaan's own interests.
Individual members may still disagree over how strictly that principle should be applied. Trade, war, humanitarian necessity, personal relationships, and immediate threats can all make isolation more complicated in practice.
**Subheading**The Legacy of Revan
**Standard Text**Revan occupies an unusual place in the Order's history. Revan was not its founder, but intervention during the Sith manipulation of the Selkath made Shasa's later independence possible. SWTOR subsequently describes the Order as following a doctrine influenced by Revan's values and characterizes that outlook as morally pragmatic.
That influence should not make the Order interchangeable with the later **Order of Revan** (https://www.starforgerp.com/lore/organizations/order-of-revan). The two organizations arose under different circumstances, served different communities, and developed different purposes. Shared admiration for aspects of Revan's legacy does not make them branches of the same movement.
For a Shasan character, Revan's importance is most useful as a historical question: what lessons did the Order draw from someone who had been both Sith and Jedi, yet ultimately exposed Sith manipulation on Manaan?
**Subheading**Light, Dark & Pragmatism
**Standard Text**Supplementary Legends material describes the early Order as developing teachings centered on peace and defense while struggling with a difficult inheritance: its first instructors had learned some of their techniques from the Sith before discovering that they had been manipulated. Those sources portray the Order as attempting to avoid domination by either Jedi or Sith teachings while dealing seriously with the dangers of the dark side.
For StarForgeRP, this is more useful than describing the Order simply as a "gray" Force tradition.
A character may inherit teachings shaped by both suspicion of Sith corruption and reluctance to surrender Selkath autonomy to the Jedi. That does not mean light and dark are automatically treated as equally safe, interchangeable sources of power, nor does it establish that modern Shasan adepts all share one precise philosophical position.
**Small Text / Caption**Supplementary Legends Lore: The detailed description of the early Order's struggle between light-oriented ideals and techniques inherited from Sith instruction comes primarily from the Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide. SWTOR confirms a pragmatic, Revan-influenced doctrine but does not fully restate this early philosophy.
**Heading**Membership & Training
**Standard Text**Official SWTOR material consistently presents the Order of Shasa as a Selkath institution. Its history, mission, and authority are all rooted in Manaan and the protection of the Selkath rather than the recruitment of Force-sensitive beings throughout the galaxy.
Supplementary Legends material goes further and describes formal membership as restricted to Force-sensitive Selkath on Manaan. That provides a strong default for StarForgeRP characters, although SWTOR itself does not provide a modern admissions handbook or explain whether every historical membership rule remained unchanged centuries later.
A believable Shasan background should therefore answer more than whether a character is Force-sensitive. Consider how the Order discovered them, what connection they have to Manaan, who trained them, what responsibilities accompanied that training, and how much experience they actually possess.
**Subheading**Training
**Standard Text**The modern SWTOR games do not provide a comprehensive curriculum for Shasan adepts. Broader Legends material portrays the early Order as comparatively small and still developing its own methods after separating from Sith influence. Teachers instructed newer students while the institution gradually established practices of its own.
That history is useful for roleplay because it suggests a tradition in which practical instruction, mentorship, cultural knowledge, survival, and responsibility to Manaan can matter as much as the formalized structures associated with the Jedi or Sith.
It does not justify unrestricted Force ability. A Shasan character should still possess training appropriate to their history, experience, and teachers. Belonging to an unusual tradition is a source of context and limitations as well as distinctive abilities.
**Subheading**The Rite of Fira
**Standard Text**Supplementary Legends sources describe a formal initiation known as the Rite of Fira. An initiate considered ready for full membership undertook a dangerous task connected to the Hrakert Rift and created a personal fira from material recovered there. Completion of the weapon marked the initiate's acceptance into the Order.
The rite connects several parts of Shasan identity at once: Manaan's environment, the consequences of the Jedi Civil War, personal discipline, self-reliance, and the responsibility to defend the Selkath.
Because SWTOR has not clearly re-established the precise rite as a universal modern requirement, StarForgeRP should treat its continued use during the present setting as compatible supplementary lore rather than an unquestionable contemporary rule.
**Heading**The Fira
**Standard Text**The fira is the traditional weapon most closely associated with the Order in supplementary Legends material. It is described as a curved sword constructed through a dangerous process associated with Manaan's underwater environment and incorporating cortosis-bearing material capable of improving the weapon's resistance against lightsabers.
Its significance is more useful than its game statistics.
A Shasan character carrying a fira may be carrying evidence of training, initiation, cultural belonging, or responsibility to the Order. Losing, inheriting, recovering, repairing, or refusing such a weapon could therefore have personal meaning beyond its effectiveness in combat.
A fira should not be treated as proof that every Shasan adept is superior to a lightsaber wielder. Cortosis-related resistance can create interesting circumstances, but equipment should not replace training, experience, or the uncertainty of roleplay.
**Small Text / Caption**Supplementary Legends Lore: The Rite of Fira, detailed construction process, and precise properties of the weapon come from licensed Legends RPG material rather than detailed SWTOR-era exposition.
**Heading**Role on Manaan
**Standard Text**The Order of Shasa has historically been more than a secluded school of Force-users. Official SWTOR material shows it influencing major decisions concerning Manaan's relationship with the outside galaxy. After Shasa's uprising, the Order became an important source of guidance within Selkath society and favored removing remaining foreign political influence from Ahto City.
Centuries later, the Order also participated in Manaan's cautious return to galactic contact. An SWTOR codex account describes a delegation from the protective Order of Shasa being persuaded to meet with an offworld diplomat and eventually supporting the conversion of a surviving surface platform into the Mercantile Plaza, helping reopen controlled trade with the wider galaxy.
This makes the Order especially valuable for political RP. Its members need not be senators or government officials to have opinions about who gains access to Manaan, what constitutes an unacceptable foreign presence, when compromise becomes necessary, or how much risk the Selkath should accept in exchange for trade, security, or outside assistance.
**Subheading**Defense
**Standard Text**The Order is also repeatedly associated with planetary defense. During the period preceding the later Imperial offensive against Manaan, an Imperial intelligence report identified the Order as the Selkath's small body of Force-wielding combatants. The same report portrayed its members as secretive and poorly integrated with conventional Selkath military forces, although those judgments came from a hostile Imperial source and should not be read as neutral descriptions of the Order's competence or motives.
For roleplay, the distinction between the Order and ordinary military authority is useful. A Shasan adept might cooperate with soldiers during a crisis without belonging to their chain of command. Conversely, disagreement over strategy, foreign assistance, secrecy, or acceptable losses could produce conflict even between people attempting to defend the same world.
**Heading**Galactic Relations
**Subheading**Jedi
**Standard Text**The Order owes part of its origin to Revan exposing Sith manipulation, but it did not respond by becoming subordinate to the **Jedi Tradition** (https://www.starforgerp.com/lore/force-traditions/jedi-tradition). Supplementary Legends material specifically presents Shasa as wanting Force-sensitive Selkath to receive guidance without making Manaan dependent upon the Jedi.
This does not require hostility between individual Jedi and Shasan adepts. Cooperation, respect, philosophical disagreement, curiosity, distrust, and personal friendship are all possible. The important distinction is institutional independence.
A Jedi encountering the Order should therefore not assume that unfamiliar Force training is unfinished Jedi training waiting to be corrected.
**Subheading**Sith
**Standard Text**The Order's relationship with the **Sith Tradition** (https://www.starforgerp.com/lore/force-traditions/sith-tradition) is inseparable from its origins. Shasa and other future adepts were trained under false pretenses by Sith who intended to manipulate them, and that betrayal became part of the historical experience from which the Order emerged.
That history gives Shasan characters strong reasons to be wary of Sith promises, recruitment, concealed motives, and attempts to present domination as education or protection.
It does not require every individual adept to react identically to every Sith they meet. Personal experience can strengthen, complicate, or challenge inherited suspicion.
**Subheading**Galactic Republic & Sith Empire
**Standard Text**Manaan's relationship with both the **Galactic Republic** (https://www.starforgerp.com/lore/factions-powers/galactic-republic) and **Sith Empire** (https://www.starforgerp.com/lore/factions-powers/sith-empire) has repeatedly been shaped by the planet's strategic kolto resources and determination to retain political independence. The Order's history reflects the same tension. It has opposed foreign interference while also participating in decisions that allowed limited diplomatic and commercial contact when isolation no longer served Manaan's interests.
For a Shasan character, "neutral" therefore need not mean that the Republic and Empire are morally or politically indistinguishable. It can instead mean that allegiance to Manaan comes first.
A character might distrust Imperial intentions more deeply because of Manaan's history while still refusing Republic demands that infringe upon Selkath sovereignty. Another might believe temporary cooperation with one power is necessary to protect the planet from the other. Those disagreements can exist without abandoning the Order's central concern for its own people.
**Heading**Current Status
**Standard Text**The Order of Shasa survives well into the SWTOR era. During the events surrounding the Revanite crisis, official SWTOR material identifies it as Manaan's guardian organization and records important visitors operating on the planet with its approval. Later Imperial intelligence prepared before the renewed assault on Manaan still describes the Order as an active, secretive body of Selkath Force-users.
What SWTOR does not provide is equally important.
The available material does not establish a complete modern hierarchy, reliable membership total, named present-day supreme leader, comprehensive training curriculum, or detailed account of the Order's internal condition after every later conflict on Manaan. StarForgeRP should therefore avoid inventing such information as established lore.
At the present StarForgeRP continuity point, the safest approach is to treat the Order as a surviving Selkath Force tradition whose exact modern organization remains deliberately underdocumented. That uncertainty creates room for characters and local stories without requiring community-created details to be mistaken for SWTOR canon.
**Heading**Roleplay Considerations
**Standard Text**When creating or interacting with a character connected to the Order of Shasa, consider:
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* What does protecting Manaan mean to them? Defense, diplomacy, isolation, intelligence gathering, cultural preservation, negotiation, or something else?* How were they discovered and trained? Who taught them, and how long have they actually studied the Force?* How strongly do they support Manaan's traditional neutrality?* What experiences have shaped their opinion of the Republic and Empire?* What does Shasa's history mean to them: founder, liberator, warning, cultural hero, or something more personal?* How do they understand Revan's legacy without becoming a Revanite?* What lessons does their tradition draw from the Sith deception that led to the Order's creation?* How do they react to Jedi who may genuinely want to help but belong to another powerful offworld institution?* How do they react to Sith whose tradition is historically connected to the Order's founding trauma?* Do they possess a fira, and if so, what does the weapon mean to them beyond combat?* Which teachings do they accept, question, reinterpret, or reject?* What happens when protecting Selkath interests conflicts with protecting an individual outsider they care about?* Have Manaan's repeated wars and foreign interventions strengthened their isolationism, or convinced them that complete isolation is impossible?* What responsibilities does membership create? Who expects something from them, and what happens if they refuse?* What part of the wider galaxy do they understand poorly because their training and priorities were centered on Manaan?
**Standard Text**A strong Shasan character should feel connected to the Selkath and their history rather than using the Order only as access to unusual Force powers.
The tradition is particularly well suited to stories about cultural obligation, political independence, suspicion and trust, inherited trauma, competing interpretations of duty, contact with outsiders, defense of home, and the difficult question of when pragmatism becomes compromise.
**Heading**Common Misconceptions
**Subheading**“The Order of Shasa is a branch of the Jedi.”
**Standard Text**It is not. The Order developed specifically as an independent Selkath tradition. Revan's intervention helped expose the Sith deception that preceded its creation, but the resulting institution did not become part of the Jedi Order.
**Subheading**“The Order is basically Selkath Sith.”
**Standard Text**Its founders were exposed to Sith training, but the Order arose after that manipulation was discovered and the Sith were driven from Ahto City. Its enduring purpose is associated with protecting the Selkath and Manaan rather than advancing Sith domination.
**Subheading**“The Order of Shasa and the Order of Revan are the same movement.”
**Standard Text**They are separate organizations. The Order of Shasa is a Selkath tradition rooted in Manaan and Shasa's uprising. The later Order of Revan developed under different circumstances and eventually became the Revanite movement involved in the events of Shadow of Revan. SWTOR notes ideological influence from Revan in both contexts, but that does not merge their histories or membership.
**Subheading**“Neutral means the Order does not take sides.”
**Standard Text**Manaan's neutrality concerns independence from competing galactic powers, not an obligation to remain passive. The Order has participated in uprisings, planetary defense, diplomatic decisions, restrictions on foreign influence, and decisions concerning contact with the wider galaxy.
**Subheading**“The Order is simply a Gray Jedi tradition.”
**Standard Text**That label is too broad to explain what makes the Order distinct.
Its identity comes from Selkath history, Manaan, Shasa's uprising, distrust of foreign manipulation, protection of its own people, and a pragmatic Force tradition that developed outside Jedi or Sith control. Those circumstances are more useful for roleplay than assigning the Order a generic label based on where someone imagines it sits between Jedi and Sith.
**Subheading**“Every Force-sensitive Selkath belongs to the Order.”
**Standard Text**The Order is a major Selkath Force tradition, but Force sensitivity and formal membership are not the same thing. A character still needs a believable history explaining whether the Order discovered them, whether they accepted training, whether they remained on Manaan, and what relationship they have with the institution.
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**Small Text / Caption**A Selkath Force tradition devoted to the protection of Manaan, shaped by ancient Sith deception, planetary independence, and the complicated legacy of Revan.
**Heading**Overview
**Standard Text**The Order of Shasa is a Force tradition and protective institution native to the Selkath of **Manaan** (https://www.starforgerp.com/galaxy/planets-moons/manaan). Unlike the Jedi or Sith, the Order developed around the interests and historical experiences of a single people and world rather than a galactic mission. Official SWTOR material presents its members as Force-wielding guardians of Manaan whose influence has extended into planetary defense, diplomacy, isolationism, and decisions concerning contact with offworld powers.
Its history begins with one of Manaan's most serious encounters with outside interference. During the Jedi Civil War, the Sith secretly manipulated Force-sensitive Selkath youths and attempted to turn them against their own society. Revan uncovered the deception, and one of those youths—Shasa—later became the leading figure in an uprising that drove the Sith from Ahto City. The Force-using tradition that followed came to bear her name.
For roleplay, the Order is particularly useful because its identity cannot be separated from Selkath history. A Shasan character is not simply an alternative version of a Jedi or Sith. Their training exists within a society shaped by Manaan's long concern with independence, neutrality, kolto, foreign intervention, and the consequences of trusting more powerful galactic states.
**Image / Photo — Optional**
**Suggested Placement:**Below the introductory text.
**Suggested Subject / Description:**An SWTOR-era scene of Selkath Force adepts on or beneath Manaan, emphasizing the world's immense ocean, Selkath architecture, and the Order's connection to planetary defense rather than using imagery that resembles a conventional Jedi temple.
**Heading**Origins & Founding
**Subheading**The Sith Deception
**Standard Text**During the Jedi Civil War, Sith operating from their embassy on Manaan secretly recruited and manipulated Force-sensitive Selkath youths. The Sith presented themselves as teachers while intending to use those recruits to advance Sith influence over Selkath society. Revan exposed what was happening and convinced Shasa and the other students that they were being deceived.
The episode left an obvious legacy. Manaan had attempted to remain neutral while permitting both Republic and Sith representatives to operate in Ahto City, yet one of those powers had exploited that access to interfere directly with Selkath youth and internal affairs. Later suspicion of foreign Force traditions therefore developed from experience rather than abstract isolationism.
**Subheading**Shasa and the Uprising
**Standard Text**Official SWTOR history describes the resulting tensions as leading to an uprising under Shasa, who had by then become a capable Force practitioner. The Sith were expelled from Ahto City and their embassy was destroyed. In the years that followed, increasing numbers of Selkath looked to the Force-wielding Order named for Shasa for guidance.
The Order did not respond to Sith interference by placing itself under Jedi authority. Its development instead reflected the belief that Force-sensitive Selkath should possess a tradition capable of serving their own people without making Manaan dependent upon either of the galaxy's dominant Force orders.
**Small Text / Caption**Continuity Note: The broad history of Shasa's uprising and the Order's later importance is established directly by SWTOR. More detailed descriptions of the Order's earliest training system come from supplementary Old Republic-era Legends material.
**Heading**Beliefs & Purpose
**Subheading**Protection of the Selkath
**Standard Text**The clearest recurring principle behind the Order of Shasa is protection of the Selkath and Manaan. SWTOR repeatedly associates the Order with the defense and interests of the planet, while supplementary Legends material makes this principle even more explicit by describing the safety of the Selkath as an adept's foremost responsibility.
That purpose should not be reduced to simple militarism. Protecting Manaan may involve combat, but it can also involve identifying manipulation, preserving independence, advising Selkath leaders, protecting knowledge, controlling access to sensitive locations, investigating threats, or deciding when contact with outsiders serves the planet better than isolation does.
This creates a useful tension for characters: protecting a society does not always produce agreement about what protection requires.
**Subheading**Independence & Neutrality
**Standard Text**The Order developed within Manaan's broader tradition of guarding its political independence. After the Sith were expelled from Ahto City, the Order supported removing the Republic embassy as well, seeking greater separation from the galactic conflicts that had repeatedly brought outside interference to Manaan.
Neutrality should therefore not be confused with indifference. The Selkath have strategic resources, territory, laws, history, and lives they intend to protect. A Shasan adept may oppose Republic or Imperial interference not because they consider both governments identical, but because neither government's priorities automatically outweigh Manaan's own interests.
Individual members may still disagree over how strictly that principle should be applied. Trade, war, humanitarian necessity, personal relationships, and immediate threats can all make isolation more complicated in practice.
**Subheading**The Legacy of Revan
**Standard Text**Revan occupies an unusual place in the Order's history. Revan was not its founder, but intervention during the Sith manipulation of the Selkath made Shasa's later independence possible. SWTOR subsequently describes the Order as following a doctrine influenced by Revan's values and characterizes that outlook as morally pragmatic.
That influence should not make the Order interchangeable with the later **Order of Revan** (https://www.starforgerp.com/lore/organizations/order-of-revan). The two organizations arose under different circumstances, served different communities, and developed different purposes. Shared admiration for aspects of Revan's legacy does not make them branches of the same movement.
For a Shasan character, Revan's importance is most useful as a historical question: what lessons did the Order draw from someone who had been both Sith and Jedi, yet ultimately exposed Sith manipulation on Manaan?
**Subheading**Light, Dark & Pragmatism
**Standard Text**Supplementary Legends material describes the early Order as developing teachings centered on peace and defense while struggling with a difficult inheritance: its first instructors had learned some of their techniques from the Sith before discovering that they had been manipulated. Those sources portray the Order as attempting to avoid domination by either Jedi or Sith teachings while dealing seriously with the dangers of the dark side.
For StarForgeRP, this is more useful than describing the Order simply as a "gray" Force tradition.
A character may inherit teachings shaped by both suspicion of Sith corruption and reluctance to surrender Selkath autonomy to the Jedi. That does not mean light and dark are automatically treated as equally safe, interchangeable sources of power, nor does it establish that modern Shasan adepts all share one precise philosophical position.
**Small Text / Caption**Supplementary Legends Lore: The detailed description of the early Order's struggle between light-oriented ideals and techniques inherited from Sith instruction comes primarily from the Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide. SWTOR confirms a pragmatic, Revan-influenced doctrine but does not fully restate this early philosophy.
**Heading**Membership & Training
**Standard Text**Official SWTOR material consistently presents the Order of Shasa as a Selkath institution. Its history, mission, and authority are all rooted in Manaan and the protection of the Selkath rather than the recruitment of Force-sensitive beings throughout the galaxy.
Supplementary Legends material goes further and describes formal membership as restricted to Force-sensitive Selkath on Manaan. That provides a strong default for StarForgeRP characters, although SWTOR itself does not provide a modern admissions handbook or explain whether every historical membership rule remained unchanged centuries later.
A believable Shasan background should therefore answer more than whether a character is Force-sensitive. Consider how the Order discovered them, what connection they have to Manaan, who trained them, what responsibilities accompanied that training, and how much experience they actually possess.
**Subheading**Training
**Standard Text**The modern SWTOR games do not provide a comprehensive curriculum for Shasan adepts. Broader Legends material portrays the early Order as comparatively small and still developing its own methods after separating from Sith influence. Teachers instructed newer students while the institution gradually established practices of its own.
That history is useful for roleplay because it suggests a tradition in which practical instruction, mentorship, cultural knowledge, survival, and responsibility to Manaan can matter as much as the formalized structures associated with the Jedi or Sith.
It does not justify unrestricted Force ability. A Shasan character should still possess training appropriate to their history, experience, and teachers. Belonging to an unusual tradition is a source of context and limitations as well as distinctive abilities.
**Subheading**The Rite of Fira
**Standard Text**Supplementary Legends sources describe a formal initiation known as the Rite of Fira. An initiate considered ready for full membership undertook a dangerous task connected to the Hrakert Rift and created a personal fira from material recovered there. Completion of the weapon marked the initiate's acceptance into the Order.
The rite connects several parts of Shasan identity at once: Manaan's environment, the consequences of the Jedi Civil War, personal discipline, self-reliance, and the responsibility to defend the Selkath.
Because SWTOR has not clearly re-established the precise rite as a universal modern requirement, StarForgeRP should treat its continued use during the present setting as compatible supplementary lore rather than an unquestionable contemporary rule.
**Heading**The Fira
**Standard Text**The fira is the traditional weapon most closely associated with the Order in supplementary Legends material. It is described as a curved sword constructed through a dangerous process associated with Manaan's underwater environment and incorporating cortosis-bearing material capable of improving the weapon's resistance against lightsabers.
Its significance is more useful than its game statistics.
A Shasan character carrying a fira may be carrying evidence of training, initiation, cultural belonging, or responsibility to the Order. Losing, inheriting, recovering, repairing, or refusing such a weapon could therefore have personal meaning beyond its effectiveness in combat.
A fira should not be treated as proof that every Shasan adept is superior to a lightsaber wielder. Cortosis-related resistance can create interesting circumstances, but equipment should not replace training, experience, or the uncertainty of roleplay.
**Small Text / Caption**Supplementary Legends Lore: The Rite of Fira, detailed construction process, and precise properties of the weapon come from licensed Legends RPG material rather than detailed SWTOR-era exposition.
**Heading**Role on Manaan
**Standard Text**The Order of Shasa has historically been more than a secluded school of Force-users. Official SWTOR material shows it influencing major decisions concerning Manaan's relationship with the outside galaxy. After Shasa's uprising, the Order became an important source of guidance within Selkath society and favored removing remaining foreign political influence from Ahto City.
Centuries later, the Order also participated in Manaan's cautious return to galactic contact. An SWTOR codex account describes a delegation from the protective Order of Shasa being persuaded to meet with an offworld diplomat and eventually supporting the conversion of a surviving surface platform into the Mercantile Plaza, helping reopen controlled trade with the wider galaxy.
This makes the Order especially valuable for political RP. Its members need not be senators or government officials to have opinions about who gains access to Manaan, what constitutes an unacceptable foreign presence, when compromise becomes necessary, or how much risk the Selkath should accept in exchange for trade, security, or outside assistance.
**Subheading**Defense
**Standard Text**The Order is also repeatedly associated with planetary defense. During the period preceding the later Imperial offensive against Manaan, an Imperial intelligence report identified the Order as the Selkath's small body of Force-wielding combatants. The same report portrayed its members as secretive and poorly integrated with conventional Selkath military forces, although those judgments came from a hostile Imperial source and should not be read as neutral descriptions of the Order's competence or motives.
For roleplay, the distinction between the Order and ordinary military authority is useful. A Shasan adept might cooperate with soldiers during a crisis without belonging to their chain of command. Conversely, disagreement over strategy, foreign assistance, secrecy, or acceptable losses could produce conflict even between people attempting to defend the same world.
**Heading**Galactic Relations
**Subheading**Jedi
**Standard Text**The Order owes part of its origin to Revan exposing Sith manipulation, but it did not respond by becoming subordinate to the **Jedi Tradition** (https://www.starforgerp.com/lore/force-traditions/jedi-tradition). Supplementary Legends material specifically presents Shasa as wanting Force-sensitive Selkath to receive guidance without making Manaan dependent upon the Jedi.
This does not require hostility between individual Jedi and Shasan adepts. Cooperation, respect, philosophical disagreement, curiosity, distrust, and personal friendship are all possible. The important distinction is institutional independence.
A Jedi encountering the Order should therefore not assume that unfamiliar Force training is unfinished Jedi training waiting to be corrected.
**Subheading**Sith
**Standard Text**The Order's relationship with the **Sith Tradition** (https://www.starforgerp.com/lore/force-traditions/sith-tradition) is inseparable from its origins. Shasa and other future adepts were trained under false pretenses by Sith who intended to manipulate them, and that betrayal became part of the historical experience from which the Order emerged.
That history gives Shasan characters strong reasons to be wary of Sith promises, recruitment, concealed motives, and attempts to present domination as education or protection.
It does not require every individual adept to react identically to every Sith they meet. Personal experience can strengthen, complicate, or challenge inherited suspicion.
**Subheading**Galactic Republic & Sith Empire
**Standard Text**Manaan's relationship with both the **Galactic Republic** (https://www.starforgerp.com/lore/factions-powers/galactic-republic) and **Sith Empire** (https://www.starforgerp.com/lore/factions-powers/sith-empire) has repeatedly been shaped by the planet's strategic kolto resources and determination to retain political independence. The Order's history reflects the same tension. It has opposed foreign interference while also participating in decisions that allowed limited diplomatic and commercial contact when isolation no longer served Manaan's interests.
For a Shasan character, "neutral" therefore need not mean that the Republic and Empire are morally or politically indistinguishable. It can instead mean that allegiance to Manaan comes first.
A character might distrust Imperial intentions more deeply because of Manaan's history while still refusing Republic demands that infringe upon Selkath sovereignty. Another might believe temporary cooperation with one power is necessary to protect the planet from the other. Those disagreements can exist without abandoning the Order's central concern for its own people.
**Heading**Current Status
**Standard Text**The Order of Shasa survives well into the SWTOR era. During the events surrounding the Revanite crisis, official SWTOR material identifies it as Manaan's guardian organization and records important visitors operating on the planet with its approval. Later Imperial intelligence prepared before the renewed assault on Manaan still describes the Order as an active, secretive body of Selkath Force-users.
What SWTOR does not provide is equally important.
The available material does not establish a complete modern hierarchy, reliable membership total, named present-day supreme leader, comprehensive training curriculum, or detailed account of the Order's internal condition after every later conflict on Manaan. StarForgeRP should therefore avoid inventing such information as established lore.
At the present StarForgeRP continuity point, the safest approach is to treat the Order as a surviving Selkath Force tradition whose exact modern organization remains deliberately underdocumented. That uncertainty creates room for characters and local stories without requiring community-created details to be mistaken for SWTOR canon.
**Heading**Roleplay Considerations
**Standard Text**When creating or interacting with a character connected to the Order of Shasa, consider:
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* What does protecting Manaan mean to them? Defense, diplomacy, isolation, intelligence gathering, cultural preservation, negotiation, or something else?* How were they discovered and trained? Who taught them, and how long have they actually studied the Force?* How strongly do they support Manaan's traditional neutrality?* What experiences have shaped their opinion of the Republic and Empire?* What does Shasa's history mean to them: founder, liberator, warning, cultural hero, or something more personal?* How do they understand Revan's legacy without becoming a Revanite?* What lessons does their tradition draw from the Sith deception that led to the Order's creation?* How do they react to Jedi who may genuinely want to help but belong to another powerful offworld institution?* How do they react to Sith whose tradition is historically connected to the Order's founding trauma?* Do they possess a fira, and if so, what does the weapon mean to them beyond combat?* Which teachings do they accept, question, reinterpret, or reject?* What happens when protecting Selkath interests conflicts with protecting an individual outsider they care about?* Have Manaan's repeated wars and foreign interventions strengthened their isolationism, or convinced them that complete isolation is impossible?* What responsibilities does membership create? Who expects something from them, and what happens if they refuse?* What part of the wider galaxy do they understand poorly because their training and priorities were centered on Manaan?
**Standard Text**A strong Shasan character should feel connected to the Selkath and their history rather than using the Order only as access to unusual Force powers.
The tradition is particularly well suited to stories about cultural obligation, political independence, suspicion and trust, inherited trauma, competing interpretations of duty, contact with outsiders, defense of home, and the difficult question of when pragmatism becomes compromise.
**Heading**Common Misconceptions
**Subheading**“The Order of Shasa is a branch of the Jedi.”
**Standard Text**It is not. The Order developed specifically as an independent Selkath tradition. Revan's intervention helped expose the Sith deception that preceded its creation, but the resulting institution did not become part of the Jedi Order.
**Subheading**“The Order is basically Selkath Sith.”
**Standard Text**Its founders were exposed to Sith training, but the Order arose after that manipulation was discovered and the Sith were driven from Ahto City. Its enduring purpose is associated with protecting the Selkath and Manaan rather than advancing Sith domination.
**Subheading**“The Order of Shasa and the Order of Revan are the same movement.”
**Standard Text**They are separate organizations. The Order of Shasa is a Selkath tradition rooted in Manaan and Shasa's uprising. The later Order of Revan developed under different circumstances and eventually became the Revanite movement involved in the events of Shadow of Revan. SWTOR notes ideological influence from Revan in both contexts, but that does not merge their histories or membership.
**Subheading**“Neutral means the Order does not take sides.”
**Standard Text**Manaan's neutrality concerns independence from competing galactic powers, not an obligation to remain passive. The Order has participated in uprisings, planetary defense, diplomatic decisions, restrictions on foreign influence, and decisions concerning contact with the wider galaxy.
**Subheading**“The Order is simply a Gray Jedi tradition.”
**Standard Text**That label is too broad to explain what makes the Order distinct.
Its identity comes from Selkath history, Manaan, Shasa's uprising, distrust of foreign manipulation, protection of its own people, and a pragmatic Force tradition that developed outside Jedi or Sith control. Those circumstances are more useful for roleplay than assigning the Order a generic label based on where someone imagines it sits between Jedi and Sith.
**Subheading**“Every Force-sensitive Selkath belongs to the Order.”
**Standard Text**The Order is a major Selkath Force tradition, but Force sensitivity and formal membership are not the same thing. A character still needs a believable history explaining whether the Order discovered them, whether they accepted training, whether they remained on Manaan, and what relationship they have with the institution.
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