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Thread: trying to find some background on TKA, its history and relation to swg
"And just my 2 cents for those of you quoting Canon does it really matter? Considering we are playing a mmoRPG? Which essentially puts it into the non-Canon arena"
This is an officially licensed Star Wars game. That in itself makes canon essential. Some aspects of the game actually got approval from Lucas himself (regarding Jedi).
Thank you all that have contributed to the info, and Windsplitter.... thank you for all the work you had to do to create this post.
Warrant Officer II D'Lure
Rebel
TKA/Master Artisian
TravonLepen wrote:
This is one great thread to keep bumped..... I suggest all new Teras Kasi students to read it, as well as anyone new to the forums.
No reason to bump, all you have to do is ask to have it included in the Useful Threads Sticky
Message Edited by XwingRogue3 on 08-24-2004 01:15 PM
"The sisters [referring to the 'Pike Sisters'] are masters of the Bunduki martial art called teräs käsi, or "steel hands". When they were young, their mother sent them to Bunduki - a world in the Pcanth Reach conquered by the Epicanthix - for an education with the learned Followers Of Palawa, a secretive group of hermits highly revered there. While the twins leared much about history, great literature, and the philosophies of hte Pacanth Reach cultures, they also learned physical discipline and the art of combat without weapons. The Pike Twins mastered these martial arts and quickly rose through the ranks of teräs käsi students, recieving many honors from their teachers. Instead of using this martial arts discipline for the better good of society, as they had been instructed, the Pike sisters set out to use their talents for personal profit."
However, they were not an order used to watch the jedi at all, they were very much more like many different "buddist-like" monk orders here in real life, teaching peace and harmony through extinsive physical and mental training and discipline. Honing the mind and body as one, but also focusing slightly more on knowledge, intellect, and insight, for without these things, the physical disciplinemeans nothing. Fighting is a last resort, and to use the teräs käsi for the betterment of society is the only "correct" use of that power.
That info corresponds pretty closely to what is on the TKO web site. There's very little official source material on the history of TK, but that info is real.