[Noelyci is a force sensitive who has rejected the old jedi way of doing things and strives for balance, seeing dark and light as artificial aspects of the force, yet he is familiar with the Jedi code and traditions, having done much research into what he is. A seer.]

"The crystal is the heart of the blade. The heart is the crystal of the Jedi. The Jedi is the crystal of the Force. The Force is the blade of the heart. All are intertwined: The crystal, The blade, The Jedi. You are one."

I can't help it. Every time I modify my sabre I recall those words. I didn't come through the traditional system. I rejected it, and I'm glad I did. But the simple meditation and intense focus needed to create a lightsaber is one best enacted by the repetition of the way you learnt in the first place. And truly that benediction is one of the things the Jedi got right. No seperation into dark and light, no distinction between tool and wielder. The force is the heart is the blade is the person.

An unbalanced person produces unbalanced flow. It's an interesting thing, understanding the Force this way. We who are cursed/blessed with the ability to modify the flow are in turn shifted and sorted by it. It's like being a fish in the streams I so love on talus. The fish lives in the water, changes the water, to a degree even determines the flow of the water by shifting things with it's tail. Yet it cannot escape the flow, nor stop it. Doing so would damage itself fatally. So the flow continues, both guiding and being changed by those of us who can see it.

I finally attained the components the old documents described... Putting them in the Chu Gon Dar Cube and activating it with the flows produced a crystal of indescrible beauty. The lava of the planet seemed to be suspended in it's heart, neither cooling to obsidian, nor burning my hand. The crystal flowed and shifted, maintaining a balance in it's orange heart. I took it back to my workshop, trying to trace the flows through the crystal's heart. It intrigued me all the way back to Talus.

I prepared my workbench and began the simple coda while removing the safety locks on my blade. Extracting the green crystal I'd grown so fond of... I was glad it still spoke to me, just not as loud as this new one had begun to. I gently attached the power cell to the alignment mechanism and sealed it back up while finishing the coda.

The blade is gold and red, shifting endlessly, like the lava the crystal resembles. Devia said it looked like life itself. It's interesting to wield. The lattice is in constant flux, it requires presence and effort to keep the blade in balance. Yet I've been espousing balance in the force for so long that it almost seems like a perfect fit. Time to go hunting....