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Krath Priest Paladorian

An interview with Arion, the new Headmaster

Paladorion: What are your plans for the Shadow Academy?
Arion:
First on the list of things to do is to tear down the old Academy building, so we can build something a bit more aesthetically pleasing.  The old building just seems so very....run down.
Arion: :P
Paladorion: Hehe, is it true that angry novices destroyed the building when there tests weren't graded on time?
Arion: no no.  that had nothing to do with it at all.  though those 'angry novices' are still in the process of rebuilding my laboratory.  They learned the hard way not to mess with things they did not understand.  I doubt too many of them will every pick up the study of Sith Alchemy now.  Pity.
Paladorion: Have you ever thought about using them for testing purpoces?
Arion: What do you take me for?  Some weak-hearted Light Jedi?  Not only have I thought about it, I've done it!!!
Arion: what's the good of having so many test subjects at your disposal if you don't use at least a few of them?
Paladorion: Totally true... (*finally understands why he saw creatures wearing novice robes with purple skins*)
Paladorion: What is the second point on your agenda?
Arion: after rebuilding the Academy (and those purple skinned ones weren't my work, incidentally.  i prefer to give red or blue tones to my experiments....but I digress)
Paladorion: yeah, after the rebuilding
Arion: as I was saying, after rebuilding the Academy, I am planning to completely revamp all of the Courses currently offered at the Academy.  I think we're letting our students off much too easily at this time, and that needs to be corrected.
Paladorion: What is going to happen to the order studies?
Arion: the Order Studies program will remain mostly intact.  We have plans to expand it actually, to provide more instruction to our students.  After all, the more instruction that's available to them, the longer we have them in the classroom...or the laboratory.
Paladorion: or the testing center
Paladorion: is the graduation rank going to change? I would love to see blue skinned Guardians. :)
Arion: or there.....but the Laboratory is really the most important place for the subjects...I mean....students to be.
Paladorion: heh
Arion: no no.  Graduates will still only hold the rank of Novice.  They'll have to work through their various mutations with House and Clan leaders to be promoted further.
Paladorion: ah, ok
Paladorion: What will the new SA building look like?
Arion: I'm not quite sure yet.  We've had several Imperial Architects present plans for the new building, but none of them have appealed to me.  And now we're running out of Architects.....though I have had a new source of test subjects lately....
Paladorion: Is it true that you have been trying to create a new sort of Massassi, warped out of... architects?
* Arion wonders where all of these stupid rumors get started from.
Paladorion: I just heard it somewhere... so it isn't true?
Arion: The Massassi were a fierce warrior race descended from the original Sith race.  Why in the name of the Force would I try to recreate them from ARCHITECTS of all things?!?!?!?!
Paladorion: The ways of the Dark Jedi are mysterious...
Arion: They're really not.  We're usually surprisingly straightforward with our goals....
Arion: Galactic Domination.....Civil Uprising....it's all very simple and to-the-point.
Paladorion: heh
Paladorion: have you already choosen a staff?
Arion: i have, but they're still recuperating from the initial....interview....process.  I shall be announcing my staff once they are fully recovered.
Paladorion: ok. About how much courses will be there once the remake of the SA is completed?
Arion: that has not yet been completely determined.  I'm still pushing through the initial drafts of the proposed changes to the SA.  Once I'm satisfied, the final draft will have to be approved by the Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master before it can be implemented.
Paladorion: ok, I think that was about it
Paladorion: thanks for your time. :)
Arion: np
Arion: :)