Tedryn Holocron

"...some teachings of the holocron can be dangerous before you are ready."

- Vodo-Siosk Baas to Exar Kun

The Tedryn Holocron, or Bodo Baas's holocron, or Vodo-Siosk Baas's holocron, or simple the Jedi Holocron was an important Jedi holocron created over four thousand years before the Battle of Yavin by Jedi Master Tedryn.

Properties
The Holocron, a glowing cube that sits comfortable in the palm of the hand, combines crystalline formations and hardware. Its metal parts are embossed with curious designs suggesting great antiquity. The inner crystals sensed the affiliation of the Force-user to the Light side.

Any Force-user could activate the holocron by touching the design on its side.

The holocron produced a primitive holograms of Bodo-Baas.

It was a Jedi teaching device, an interactive wisdom source.

The knowledge in the Holocron can be accessed by anyone to a certain extent. On the most superficial level the Holocron is merely a recording device, a collection of record with interactive holograms of the authors. However, the greatest portion of the wisdom can be unlocked only be a Jedi Knight. The inner organic crystals were the key to the deeper levels of knowledge. Not even a Sith Lord, like Emperor Palpatine has the power to reach its rectricted information.

The prized Tedryn Holocron was tailored toward helping Jedi Masters penetrate the secrets of the Force. Even beings already trained in the Jedi ways benefit greatly from such a source of learning.

Gatekeepers
The first known gatekeeper of the Tedryn Holocron was Vodo-Siosk Baas, a Krevaaki Jedi Master and Jedi historian. His hologram introduced Exar Kun to the recent history of the Sith, including the Naga Shadow and Freedon Nadd. Four thousand years later he spoke about Exar Kun, Ulic-Qel Droma and the Great Sith Wars to the students of Luke Skywalker in the Jedi Praxeum. Later Luke asked Baas about the fate of Exar Kun, and the gatekeeper told him that Kun slew his own master, Vodo himself, when he tried to bring his apprentice back from the dark side. Vodo-Siosk Baas was the last invoked gatekeeper, since the spirit of Kun destroyed the holocron, before Baas could reveal his fate.

An other gatekeeper spoke to the apprentices of Luke how the young Yoda became a Jedi.

Tha last gatekeeper of the Holocron was Bodo Baas, a descendant of Vodo-Siosk Baas. His hologram explained a partial story of Ulic-Qel Droma and the prophecy written by Bodo's master. Later Baas suggested that anchient Jedi artifacts may be found on Ossus, an old Jedi teaching center, and they could found survivors of the Great Jedi Purge.

Contents

 * At some point when he was around a thousand year old, Ood Bnar recorded his prophecies in the Holocron.
 * Vodo-Siosk Baas about the dark side, Naga Sadow's escape, dark lords, exiles, Korriban's temples, Freedon Nadd, Onderon, unidentified human
 * According to Obi-Wan Kenobi, the holocron contains thousand-year-old secret and the some of the most secret Jedi history and teachings.
 * According to Bodo Baas, three Jedi tried to conquer the dark side by learning its secrets and every one of them perished. The holocron contains their stories: one of them is Ulic-Qel Droma.
 * Luke found some clues in the Holocron, which made him believe that some Jedi survived Vader's program of extermination.
 * The Holocron revealed to Luke that planet Ossus in the Adega system was a center of Jedi learning for thousands of years.
 * Stories of the young Yoda becoming a Jedi.
 * Information about the origins of the Jedi and Sith
 * Information about the earliest conflicts of Jedi and Sith
 * Vodo-Siosk Baas about the Hundred-Year Darkness
 * Odan-Urr about the Great Hyperspace War (His sources above his experience were: Jori Daragon, Anavus Svag and the Dark Holocron)
 * Bodo Baas about the saga of Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma : According to the Holocron, Ulic disappeared for a number of years and returned as a high priest of the Krath. The Krath split into three groups, leaded by Satal, Aleema and Ulic. The latter two formed an alliance and assaulted Republic words.
 * Prophecy of Bodo Baas's Master about the Skíwalker twins and the reborn Emperor Palpatine.

Old Republic Era
The Holocron was created over four thousand years prior to the Battle of Yavin, before the Great Sith War, possibly by Tedryn, a Jedi Master, whom the artifact was names for.

By 3,997 BBY Vodo-Siosk Baas inherited the Holocron and imparted it with his knowledge and memory, forming part of a long line of Jedi who would contribute to the Holocron. One day, he found his Apprentice, Exar Kun questioning the holocron about Freedon Nadd, a fallen Jedi and the Sith, a darksider cult. Baas turned off the device, because the hidden knowledge of the dark side was meant only for Jedi Masters.

Around 590 BBY, Bodo Baas inherited the holocron and reorganized every single recording. At the same time, using primitive hologram technology, he added the records of teachings and history of the Jedi, which was collected by a group of Jedi in the Adega system.

Around 300 BBY, it was believed to have gone missing.

Imperial Period
In 19 BBY during the Great Jedi Purge, Emperor Palpatine's agents brought Jedi Masters before him to be questioned and tortured for forgotten secrets and cures, that could help him to reach the eternity. The Dark Lord executed Master Ashka Boda and captured the Tedryn Holocron. Palpatine used the secrets in the holocron to cheat death with the dark side and cloning technology, and he recorded some of the holocron's secrets in his Book of Anger. However, the greater portion of the ancient knowledge remained hidden from the Dark Lord, because it was accessible only by Jedi Knights. He considered the Holocron to be only a collection of anchient record.

Sometimes later, Obi-Wan Kenobi, the first master of Luke Skywalker described the Holocron to his apprentice, son of the Anakin. Kenobi thought the holocron could help reestablish the Jedi Order.

Rediscovery for the New Jedi Order


In 10 ABY, Leia Organa Solo was captured by the reborn Emperor on his throneworld, Byss. The Sith Lord showed his holocron to the Jedi, meanwhile he unsuccessfully tried to corrupt her to the dark side. When Leia escaped, leaving Luke Skywalker to finish off the clone, she stole the Holocron. On board the Millennium Falcon she listened to Bodo's version of the downfall of Ulic Qel-Droma. Leia was filled with apprehension, for she didn't know whether there is hope for Luke, or he had gone too far in the dark way.

After the battle of Mon Calamari Leia returned to the Pinnacle Base to rest, and she used the holocron again. She asked Bodo about Luke's future, but the gatekeeper revealed that it was too cloaked in mists and shadows to tell. At last he retold a propfecy written by his own master. Moments later a fleet of Star Destoyers lead by the Eclipce dropped out of hyperspace above the Pinnacle Moon. The reborn Emperor demanded Leia and the Holocron for a discussion of truce. Leia seemingly accepted his term, but left the Holocron at the Base, in her chambers. She dueled Luke, his brother gone to the dark side, and drove him off the dark way. Together they confronted Palpatine and fulfilled a thousand year old prophecy.

Later Luke found clues in the Holocron indicating possible survivors of Vader's program of extermination. He spent many week searching for Jedi until he found Kam Solusar, a fallen Jedi on the space city of Nespis VIII. Meanwhile Leia spent many hours with the Holocron while Luke was away, Baas told her that Vima-Da-Boda could help them.

Luke learned from the Holocron that ancient Jedi artifacts were possibly located on Ossus. Before heading out with Kam Solusar to investigate, Kam also encountered the holocron. Rather unimpressed with the small cube, he was taken aback when it sensed him and activated. The image of Baas gave some cryptic wisdom, and instructed Kam and his fellow Jedi to have patience. On Ossus, the Jedi met Ood Bnar, an anchient Jedi Master whose prophecies are stored in the Holocron. With the help of the native Ysanna, the Jedi found a Jedi library wich remained undisturbed for four thousand years.

In 11 ABY, Luke Skywalker held the Holocron in his room, what he occupied years before as a pilot. He gathered his twelve students in the grand audience chamber of the Massassi temple for a formal opening of the Jedi praxeum. He invoked Vodo-Siosk Baas hologram to teach something to his apprentices. The anchient Krevaaki Jedi Master spoke about the Great Sith War, Exar Kun and Ulic-Qel Droma, and warned the students to beware of the temptations of conquest. Luke repeated this kind of lesson a few times, and Baas spoke about the heroic adventures of anchient Jedi Knights and aout their battles against the dark side. Later Luke tried to get more information about Exar Kun, but the spirit of the Dark Lord interrupted the Vodo-Siosk Baas by destroying the Holocron.

The Holocron was often referred to as Bodo Baas's holocron, but the New Jedi Order officially called it Tedryn's Holocron to avoid confusion over Vodo-Siosk Baas and Bodo Baas, and also to honor their predecessor.

It became known as one of the greatest Jedi Artifacts of the Modern Era, but was destroyed in 11 ABY by the resurrected spirit of Exar Kun on Yavin 4. Although it was destroyed, transcripts and copied data were kept and maintained by Tionne Solusar and saved at the new Jedi library on Ossus.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith 1: Masters and Students of the Force
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War
 * Dark Empire 5: Emperor Reborn
 * Dark Empire 6: The Fate of a Galaxy
 * Dark Empire II 1: Operation Shadow Hand
 * Dark Empire II 3: World of the Ancient Sith
 * Jedi Search
 * Dark Apprentice
 * I, Jedi
 * Dark Apprentice
 * I, Jedi

Notes and References
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