Master Yoghurt
Jun 16th, 2001, 03:47:26 AM
Unfortunately, very few technical details are known about that ship. However, this is what I could find:
<a href=http://www.thegjo.com/temp/chu-schm.jpg>Ship shematics</a>
CHU'UNTHOR: Jedi Training Ship
Crew: 10,000 Jedi
Manufacturer: Republic Fleet Systems
Height: 40 meters
Length: 2 km
Width: 1 km
Primary Role: Jedi Carrier
Primarly Used By: Jedi
Chu'unthor is a cruiser that dates back to the days of the Old Republic, Luke Skywalker discovered this ship's rusting wreckage on Dathomir. Chu'unthor was an immense ship at 2 kilometers long, a kilometer wide, and atleast 40 meters tall, the Chu'unthor had room for nearly 10,000 Jedi Students. It had hundreds of rooms for exercises, lightsaber sparing, and other rooms. The ship also had several immense librays full of information on the Jedi Knights. The Chu'unthor was a smartly built ship, because when people travel in space for long peroids of time they began to get a sense of confinment, so Chu'unthor had long corridors and high ceilings, and rooms the had glass domes to get read of this problem. They held classes in the open domed rooms, and by doing this it gave the Jedi Trainiess a double boon. It alleviated the sense of claustrophobia, but it also constantly reminded the Jedi's of the stars that they will be traveling among to defend against evil one of these days. After Luke Skywalker defeted the Night Sisters he found out the ships history that it had been build just four centuries ago to gather Jedi Students. Chu'unthor's mission was cut short when it crashed on the planet of Dathomir, which is the home of the witches, the decendants of the Jedi named Allya, and these witchs had mastered the unique attunement that Dathomir had to the force. The damaged Chu'unthor had been surrounded by the witches and rancors, and Master Yoda had saved a young girl named Rell, and the two negotiated a truce. The Chu'unthor and its reader tapes were to be left behind but the Jedi were free to leave, and Yoda asked Rell to keep the disks hidden untill a young Jedi came back to free them from the Night Sisters rule. Three centuries later Luke Skywalker fulfilled Yoda's ancient prophecy and Rell gave him the tapes from Chu'unthor, and thus providing the foundation for his Jedi Academy on Yavin 4.
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During the times of the Old Republic, the Jedi were in great number throughout the galaxy. Many planets had Jedi training temples, but there were also a few space-based training areas. One of these was the huge Chu’unthor, which had been under the command of Yoda and a few other Jedi Masters.
The Chu’unthor measured two kilometres long, a kilometre wide, and forty metres tall. There was enough room to train 10,000 students, with areas to hone each of the Jedi’s skills. Workshops allowed the students space enough to build their lightsabres, while sparring rooms let them train with their new weapons. Meditation is a big part of becoming a Jedi, and special meditation rooms let the students attune themselves with the Force. In short, the ship would give the students all that they needed to know, so that when they received their call to step out into the galaxy alone to help others, they would be able to do so to the best of their abilities. Libraries made sure the soon-to-be-Jedi knew all there was to know about the alien civilisations of the galaxy, from languages to art; Jedi teachings to theoretical and advanced sciences; literature to history.
By the time Luke arrived on the planet Dathomir, the Jedi ship was four centuries old. The ship’s mission had been to find young Jedi throughout the galaxy, and to train them on board. This was made easier by the way the Chu’unthor had been constructed. It is well-known that alien species, indeed even the most seasoned spacers, sometimes find starships claustrophobic. To alleviate this, the Jedi ship was built with wide corridors and high ceilings. Large viewports and domes were scattered throughout, and classes were held in large rooms that looked out on to the stars. This served two purposes: firstly, the young Jedi would not feel closed-in and cut-off from the stars, and secondly they would also remember that what they were learning was not just for themselves, but the good of the galaxy.
Unfortunately the Chu’unthor tragically crashed on Dathomir, a planet that was strangely in tune with the Force. The Nightsisters that populated this planet had learned how to harness the Force, and used it to gain power and control the rancors that ran wild on Dathomir. When the huge ship crashed, the Nightsisters surrounded and attacked it. Thankfully Yoda managed to negotiate a truce with a young witch named Rell, whose life he had saved. The truce meant that the Jedi had to leave their reader tapes behind, but at least they were free to go.
Unbeknownst to the Nightsisters, Yoda had asked Rell to hide the reader tapes. He told her that one day a Jedi would arrive on Dathomir and rid it of the evil Nightsisters, and that she should give him the tapes. The Jedi was Luke, and he did indeed fulfil Yoda’s prophecy. Rell gave Luke the reader tapes, which he used as a foundation for his Jedi praxeum on Yavin Four.
Not all prophecies come true, although some are still to be fulfilled. The story of the Chu’unthor showed what can happen if one never loses faith in something one knows might happen.