Alaris Prime Jedi Academy (Jedi Renaissance)

The Jedi Academy of was established by members of the Jedi Order during the  on the moon of the planet. Established as a fortress by Jedi Master Awwaar, the Wookiee declared himself Lord of the Kashyyyk system and led forty loyal Jedi Knights with him to protect his home system from the Sith Empire. Holding court within the battlements of his fortress, Awwaar trained all Force-sensitives born in or near the system, maintaining them as part of his banner men. His Court, comprised of Jedi Masters loyal to him, reigned supreme in the system and drove out Sith and slavers alike. Successors to the lordship maintained the castle for centuries, never once letting it fall into the hands of the Sith. This streak of success was not to last, as the castle finally fell into Sith hands in 968 BrS when the Empire decimated the Republic forces assisting in the battle and drove the Jedi out of the system.

Forgotten over time, the ruins of the fortress academy were rediscovered in the decades leading up to the Clone Wars when Jedi on assignment to the world discovered the ruins and quickly identified it as a former location of their Order. Seeking to establish a foothold in the system once more, the Order reopened the academy as a small chapter house, but it was quickly forced to close after an attack by the Commerce Guild. When the war concluded, the Order returned to the site and rebuilt it in its entirety, establishing the fortress as a Ranger Academy. Once more, Jedi began to circulate through its halls serving as Rangers of the system and protecting all of its worlds.

A Wookiee fortress
When the threat of war began in 2,003 BrS with the formation of a new Sith Empire, Jedi Master Awwaar petitioned both the Republic Senate and the Jedi High Council to bolster their armies and lead an assault against the fledgling Empire before it gained to much momentum. When all requests were rebuffed by the government and the Jedi, Master Awwaar left Coruscant in disgust, with forty fellow Jedi in his wake. Returning to his homeworld, Awwaar sat down with the system's government and outlined his belief that without intervention the Sith Empire would grow into a very real threat. Because the Republic refused to intervene, Awwaar declared that he would build a kingdom worthy of his heritage and defend the system from the Sith and their thralls. Accepting Awwaar's offer, the system's government granted him the use of the largely unpopulated moon over Alaris as his throneworld. Raising a massive keep within a sprawling complex, the Jedi began training warriors and soldiers to fight for them against the Empire should they ever advance on the system. Producing ships and weapons, Awwaar's fiefdom set its sights on the primary threat from within the system: Dosha and its native people, the Trandoshans. Fearing that the long-time aggressors would invite Sith involvement in the system, Awwaar ordered his fleet to blockade the world and prevent any ships from arriving or departing the planet.

Awwaar's reign lasted 123 standard years before he became one with the Force. His successor and son, Frachanh was quite like his father and highly spiritual. A devoted Jedi and philosophical soul Frachanh did not revel in fighting as many of his subjects did, and left the militaristic decisions to his Minister of War, Master Vekis Montag. Expanding the fortress, Frachanh built several additional towers and an expansive library building was erected around a mighty wroshr tree on the northern side of the grounds. Despite his wise leadership, Frachanh became unpopular when he opened the academy to Forceful Trandoshan children. When he appointed a Trandoshan Jedi Master to his court, the Wookiee government voted to disbanded the fiefdom and only lost the measure by a few dozen votes in favor of the Jedi. When Frachanh died in 1,335 BrS, he left no Force-sensitive children to succeed him. Instead the heir was chosen by lottery by the Court, with the government putting pressure on them to chose a Jedi with a more militaristic bent. Selecting Master Fahrua to take up the mantle of Lord of the Kashyyyk system, the Wookiee was a vicious dueler and a dangerous fighter. When Sith raids began to increase in the system, Fahrua's forces met them in battle, slaughtering them to the man and nailing their skins to the walls of the fortress. When the Jedi High Council became aware of this, they dubbed Fahrua fallen and stripped him of his rank. Dismissing the censor as illegitimate due to the High Council's inability to properly lead the Order, Fahrua continued with his aggressive policies and in doing so rallied the system around him.

The wisdom of his predecessor would not be felt until 968 BrS when the Sith launched a massive assault on the system in retaliation for centuries of barbarism by the Wookiees. Smashing Fahrua's forces at Kashyyyk, the Sith stormed Alaris Prime and knocked down Fahrua's doors, skinning him alive and slaughtering his family. Putting the keep to the torch, the fortress burned and was completely abandoned. With the Lords of Kashyyyk vanquished, Alaris Prime was left uninhabited and the old Jedi facility was lost in the jungles.

Rediscovery
When a colonization effort in 3 BrS brought the Wookiees into conflict with the Trade Federation, representatives of the Jedi Order were dispatched to the moon to settle the debate and end the fighting. As Master Ayessa Links and her Padawan, Xel Airhart were searching the jungle they stumbled across the ruined curtain wall of the fortress and after a short investigation of the site, discovered the library tower and a few remaining holocrons. Realizing that the site was once operated by the Order, they reported their finding to the High Council and after the fighting on the moon was concluded, archaeologists were sent in to conduct an official investigation. Discovering a holocron outlining the reigns of each of the Jedi Lords, the Jedi recovered countless more holocrons, datatapes, portraits, statues, and other priceless artifacts.

In the wake of the strange events on in Year 3, the High Council announced plans to reopen Jedi outposts across the galaxy. As Watchman of the Kashyyyk system, Grand Master Yoda traveled to Alaris Prime to oversee the construction of several halls at the site of the old fortress. Rebuilding the entrance gate and several small outbuildings on the grounds, the Wookiees set up obstacle courses and challenges around the fortress' old bridges and terraces which wound through the canopy of the surrounding jungle. When a group of fifteen Jedi Initiates arrived under the care of Master Mavra Zane, she began assisting Yoda in their group training at the new outpost. The facility was not open long before the moon was attacked by agents of the Commerce Guild. After a brief skirmish, the outpost was left in ruins and several students and Wookiees dead amid the ruins of the old fortress.

Over two decades later, the Order returned to Alaris Prime to reestablish their academy on the world. Using the foundations of the old fortress, the Wookiee contractors rebuilt the old Jedi castle, expanding its dormitories and installing new, state-of-the-art technology to bring it into the modern galaxy. As a Ranger Academy, the Jedi stationed at the facility were Jedi Rangers; these Jedi traveled around the system patrolling the space lanes and interacting with local governments and authorities in order to keep the peace. Discovering Force-sensitives amid the populations of the worlds of the systems, the Rangers would have their blood tested before sending them to Ossus for training. While no new inductees trained at the academy, many Knights and Masters would visit seeking solitude or specialized knowledge of the system. Many Jedi botanists sought out the academy for its access to the mighty wroshr trees native to Kashyyyk, while other Jedi scientists yearned to discover the secrets of the Wookiees themselves.

Layout
Built as a castle fortress, the original building was built of wroshr wood and heavy black stone. A central rectangular keep was surrounded by fifteen towers which reached up into the canopy of wroshr trees that thrived on and around the grounds. Building around nature, the buildings themselves were built alongside trees and jagged rocks, separating the academy from the polished, even landscaping of most other facilities operated by the Order. The library tower was a vast structure that encompassed a mighty tree, made of wood and durasteel supports, the thirty-level library consisted of terraces and balconies typical of Wookiee architecture.