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Logos is an organic, living starship capable of independent thought. It forms a symbiotic relationship with its pilot, a near-telepathic link. It is composed predominantly of biological components rather than manufactured materials, giving it a distinctive organic appearance. It can also slowly heal from space battle damage over time.

Characteristics

Zonama Sekot’s seed partner chamber.

While the Jedi Master Tannil, as the original owner of the ship, was able to individualize the Logos, each ship created by Zonama Sekot maintains several similar qualities as determined by the planet itself. Logos shares a similar configuration to the other ships created by Sekot, including the standard three lobed design, while still exhibiting the rugged, squat schema that Tannil envisioned.

The larger central lobe contains the crew areas, as well as the bulk of the ship’s systems, while the two outboard lobes contain the engines. Unlike many other Sekotan ships, these engine pods do not directly flank the main fuselage and are instead mounted outboard on the ends of the wings. Tannil made this choice during construction as he felt it would allow for the craft to use varied engine thrust settings to offer high maneuverability. This change also forced the main sensors to be mounted within the short wings that join the cockpit and engines as opposed to their traditional mounting place on wingtips.

The internal systems of the ship bond the various seed partners with organoform circuits in order to interface the organic and inorganic components. These circuits are very similar in nature to the crystalline structures used by Darth Bane in his endeavour to recreate holocrons through moving microscopic hairs of crystal in line to form a latticework of data storage. Like holocrons, these are similar to the interlinked web of neurons in the brain. As a result, the organoform circuits aboard ‘’Logos’’ offer massive data storage potential and contain a nearly complete copy of the Jedi Archives on Coruscant.

Despite being unarmed, the vessel’s speed and durability give it a survival edge in combat. The massive infusion of Force energy it received, first from the Jedi and later from the Arconan Sith, allow it to act as a focus to amplify the force abilities of the pilot within it. This functions much like the Sith Meditiation Spheres created by the ancient Sith Empire millennia ago.

Traits and Abilities

• Jedi Archive

The Logos contains within it's databanks one of the few nearly complete, unaltered copies of the Jedi Archives in existence. This copy of the archival data dates from the last time the ship interfaced with the archive at the Jedi Temple in 29 BBY.

• Meditation Sphere

As a repository of Force energy, both light and dark, the ship can also fulfill a function much like the ancient Sith Meditation Spheres. While inside the craft, a Force user can initiate a nearly unbreakable battle meld with others. In addition, the meditating Jedi's other Force abilities are also increased, especially those that involve sensory perception and situational awareness.

• Living Sekotan Ship

In addition to exhibiting many abilities and qualities that are unique, the Logos also displays all of the qualities of a more traditional starship build on Zonama Sekot. The living ship's sentience has been corrupted by the Dark Side and those who wield it, yielding a mind that is just as depraved as any Sith.

History

Early History

Leor Hal.

The origins of Logos lie with the human Jedi Leor Hal, a Master exiled from the Jedi Order in 132 BBY. He was exiled not for falling to the Dark Side or breaking the Jedi Code, but simply for advancing the Potentium view of the Force to others, a philosophy branded as heresy among the Jedi by Grand Master Yoda. Leor Hal wandered for many years, eventually coming upon the living planet Zonama Sekot. At his behest, groups of Ferroan and Langhesi colonized the world in 89 BBY. He became their Magister and, together with the planet itself, they created the Zonama Sekot Shipbuilders. The shipbuilders would go on to create the first of the living ships sold to off-worlders.

In 81 BBY the Jedi Order made a request for a ship, which was denied by the spurned Hal. The Jedi then attempted to buy a ship for an exorbitant sum, but even that was rebuffed by the exile. It wasn't until a Jedi Knight named Tannil requested a ship, three years later, that the former master relented. Tannil was a near-human male raised in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant from infancy. Trained in the teachings of the Jedi Consular, Tannil was a gifted healer. Tannil and Hal had been friends since they were both very young, when Leor Hal had chosen the way of the saber and Tannil the path of the healer. Tannil desired one of the living ships for the goal of furthering his own understanding of the Force. Knowing no one had more respect for life than his childhood friend, Hal allowed the sale, but made Tannil promise that the ship would not become a tool of the Jedi Order.

During the ship creation process, the Jedi Knight attracted ten seed-partners, a record that would not be broken until Anakin Skywalker attracted twelve seed-partners half a century later. Once completed, Logos was not nearly as fast as Anakin's ship Jabitha would be, but it was much more robust.

Jedi Masters Tannil and Zepchen.

By the time of the Invasion of Naboo, partially due to the insights Logos had provided him, the Consular had ascended to the status of Jedi Master. In the intervening years, Logos had served as Tannil’s personal shuttle and meditation chamber, traveling across the Republic and even into the Unknown Regions. Cryn Zepchen, a human female who had also achieved the status of Jedi Master, was often Tannil's companion on many of his journeys. A gifted healer like Tannil, it has been speculated that she and Jedi Master were secretly engaging in a relationship with one another. Definitive proof, however, has not been found.

Were it not for Tannil and his fellow Jedi Master, Logos would have likely perished along with the rest of the living ships produced by Zonama Sekot in 29 BBY, when the living world came under attack by the forces of Commander Wilhuff Tarkin and fled into hyperspace. As a result of this jump, the lifeline that connected all of the Sekotan ships to their planet of origin was severed and the ships began to die.

The Jedi trying to save their ship.

Traveling from Coruscant to Rhen Var, Logos dropped out of hyperspace suddenly. Cryn and Tannil could feel something was wrong, the ship radiating weakness and ill health as it never had before. The Jedi Masters, both healers of great skill, began applying their ability to the living vessel. They poured as much power to it through the Force as they possibly could, yet Logos continued to worsen. Floating in the nothingness that exists between star systems, both Jedi Masters knew they would perish if the ship died. Faced with the possibility of both their deaths, Tannil choose to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Tannil poured his heart and soul into Logos, far past the point of exhaustion. He continued to give his life force to the ship, long after there was nothing left for him to give, past the point of continued survival. He infused the living ship with both the Force and his own essence, merging with the sentience of the ship. Sacrificing himself for ’’Logos’’ and Cryn, it was a testament to his life's work. Cryn, having tried to stop him, was left alone, until she realized that her partner's life force was within the ship itself.

It was after this experience that Cryn Zepchen officially withdrew from the Jedi Order. She spent the next decade traveling aboard Logos, first continuing on to Rhen Var and then to ever more remote worlds. Comforted by Tannil's presence in the ship, she felt surrounded by life, and being there helped deepen her own understanding of the Force and her beloved healing arts.