Institute for Jedi Criminology (Jedi Renaissance)

The Institute for Jedi Criminology, formerly the Draay Estate was a massive compound located Coruscant, serving the residence of the Draay family. Originally established as the residential palace of the influential entrepreneurs of the Draay family. Following the death of the estate fell into the hands of his wife, Jedi Master  who established a secret Jedi sect within the walls of the estate. Training seers and Shadows to ensure the Sith never returned to the galaxy, Lady Draay was eventually killed along with her Covenanteers when her retainer,, betrayed her and attempted to declare himself a Sith in 3,963 BBY. Abandoned and ruined, the estate fell into the possession of the Jedi Order and was quickly forgotten as the institution suffered its own internal problems over the next several decades. Remaining a husk of its former beauty in a formerly glamorous district of Coruscant, the estate was not remembered until 5 BBY, when records of the Order's possession of the property resurfaced. Following a thorough inspection of the premise and an effort to reclaim the artifacts forgotten within the ruins, the Order rebuilt the compound for use as a base for the investigation branch of the Order.

The reign of the Draays
Constructed in the year 5,601 BBY by the famed Coruscant capitalist Lured Draay for his new wife, Druela Draay, the Draay Estate was a sprawling work of towers and buildings meant to house the Draay family and their business offices at the heart of galactic society. Erected on Coruscant's 5,000th level in a premiere district of entertainment and wealth, the estate was the jewel of the district and the paragon of opulence for the locals. A testament to the wealth of the Draay family, Draay imagined that each of his sons and grandsons would continue to expand the complex for generations; to ensure this he bought up four city blocks and enclosed the estate within a massive walled court. Constructing rolling hills and forests atop the roofs of the blocks he had recently acquired, Draay ensured that his legacy would live well past his own mortality.

By the time of the the scion of the Draay family,, resided within his family's estate alongside his new wife, , and his parents. One of the most powerful Human families within the Jedi Order as well as the Galactic Republic, socialites could expect to rub shoulders with famed Senators, Galactic Court Justices, members of the Jedi High Council and even the Supreme Chancellor on occasion. Following his parents deaths in a Sith conspiracy at the start of the war, Barrison Draay led an assault against the Sith in retaliation. Leaving his wife to watch over their holdings while he went off, Draay never returned from the battle, dying in a Sith ambush. Widowed and filled with pain, Kryndra Draay withdrew from public life and closed herself within the estate, with no one but her newborn son,, and the family's loyal retainer,. Initially, whenever the Order called upon her services in the hopes that she would train a Jedi, Draay refused outright. It wasn't until they sent her the young that her mood softened. After several years of isolation, Draay began to surround herself with young Force-sensitive children with the gift of farseeing, particularly Miraluka children. During this time, Draay began formulating the idea of creating a small sect within the Order comprised mainly of Seers who would track down signs of the return of the Sith and quickly and quietly put an end to them. With the help of Haazen, Draay trained several WatchCircles designed to detect potential signs of a Sith resurgence as well as several Shadows who would then seek out the source of the disturbance and neutralize it. Helping to make several Jedi loyal to her fall off the radar of the High Council and acquiring real estate through cooperation with business partners and even some of her students such as the Feeorin, Draay soon had a covert army of Covenanteers dedicated to her so-called Jedi Covenant.

As her son Lucien and the First WatchCircle maintained a base on the planet of, Draay was betrayed by Haazen and placed in suspended animation within her sleeping chambers. Under Haazen's control, the Covenant began gathering the Sith artifacts so that he might study them and use them to destroy the Sith, the Jedi and the Republic. Following the First WatchCircle's clamorous murder of their students whom they believed may have eventually become Sith, the High Council began to show suspicion as to the dealings of the Draay family. It wasn't until the Jedi Master revealed his allegiance to Kryndra Draay and the existence of the Covenant that the High Council could act with any certainty, and act they did. Raiding the facility, the High Council unwittingly fell right into Haazen's trap. Having gained control of the orbiting Republic fleet, Haazen directed the fleet to open fire on the estate's skybridge, obliterating many Jedi and Covenanteers alike. With the estate in ruins and the Jedi in retreat, Lucien Draay, the last of his bloodline, saw Haazen for the monster he truly was and slew him in combat. Disappearing from the galactic scene, Draay left the estate without any known inheritor and it was quickly seized by the Order so that it might search the ruins for any artifacts of value or concern. Before a thorough investigation could be conducted, all out war broke out once again and the estate was quickly forgotten.

Laying abandoned for many millennia, the estate managed to go by unnoticed; the once glamorous district on Coruscant fell into decay as well following the orbital bombardment and many of the skyscrapers in the vicinity collapsed or were abandoned as crime ran rampant in the area. Surviving the destructive forces of the Sith Empire during the Great Galactic War, the estate's walls protected it from looters, in addition to its still functioning defensive perimeter shields. Wild things came to live in the ruins however, and nature could not be kept out of the damaged interior. Collapsed towers were grown over with moss and vines snaked up the massive heights. Secret tunnels below the main complex, which took up level 5,000, were left sealed off preventing looters from entering into the even the lowest levels of the superstructure.

Reconstruction
It was not until the year 5 BBY that Jedi Grand Master Tomac Moorcé was reminded of the Draay estate by Padawan Damon Carlyle as they walked through the Temple of the Grand Masters as part of a lesson on the history of the office. While admiring the bronzium likeness of the ancient Grand Master Vrook Lamar Carlyle inquired into the fate of the site of the conflict which occurred concurrently with the Revanchist movement which eventually launched the Jedi Civil War. Looking into the Order's records, Moorcé noticed several missing decades of information and order the Jedi responsible for the Order's accounts to begin researching the missing bookkeeping records. It wasn't until the year 1 ABY, in the wake of the hard fought Battle of Yavin, that the Grand Master and his companions were able to travel to Coruscant and search the estate. Having been rediscovered by the Order's accountants, the Grand Master entered the estate through the sealed main entrance and began searching the ruins for artifacts with a team of archaeologists and his companions. While searching a small tower in one of the more stable regions of the estate his apprentice, Galen Marek, happened upon the holocron of, a member of Kryndra Draay's First WatchCircle. One of the most significant early finds, the Grand Master left the compound and waited for future reports on structural integrity and possible future use. When the Builder Corps reported that the complex could be renovated and reconstructed rather quickly, Moorcé presented the project to the High Council and asked for ideas as to the facility's new purpose. After careful meditation and reflection, the High Council decided to create a new headquarters for investigatory operations within the Galactic Core. Moving from smaller offices within the Temple Precinct several kilometers away, the Jedi investigators were eager to receive word from the Council of Site Preservation and Construction that the compound was habitable.

Once renovations were complete, the newly branded Institute for Jedi Criminology opened its gates to the Jedi investigators who operated in the Core Worlds. Equipped with vast databanks filled with constantly updated criminal biographies, Coruscant Security Forces' network of contacts and broadcasts, state-of-the-art equipment designed by Jedi at Anil Kesh, libraries and research facilities, as well as detention cells, the new facility was ready for immediate use. Along with investigators, the complex was home to several Shadows operating within the Core, and was protected by agents of the Order's Security Corps.

Layout
Designed to be the jewel of the district, the expansive complex was constructed largely of pink stone that could be seen clearly from over three kilometers away. Consisting of sixty-seven towers and one hundred and ninety individual buildings, the estate was constructed on four city blocks on the 5,000th level of Coruscant, the surface level at the time of construction. Located behind a towering wall, the mansion housed several thousand rooms and included rooftop gardens protected from intruders by armed guards and a complicated array of security fences and shielding. The levels beneath estate proper which formed the superstructure of the building and sank down to the crust of Coruscant were also owned by the Draay Trust and secured against intruders with permanent security gates and barriers. An arboretum, the estate housed many exotic trees and bushes, with gardens and tree-dotted plazas between buildings.

Following the Jedi reconstruction of the estate, the new criminology academy housed state of the art equipment used to locate and detain criminals, as well as crime prevention workshops. Many towers were stripped of their lavish furnishings to make way for laboratories and research rooms. Meditation chambers honeycombed the complex while its lower levels were transformed into detention cells. The main building of the complex came to house the main academy, as well as Council Chambers for the Council of Judgment and the Security Council; the latter of which making the academy its permanent home. The main precinct housed a massive database of active criminals working in and around the Core, and maintained datafiles on their records and last known location as well as other data. In cooperation with Coruscant Security Forces, the Institute was assigned a liaisons officer who worked to make sure the Jedi and the Security Forces worked in sync with each other on certain investigations. The complex's perimeter wall was monitored by members of the Security Corps, with armed guards posted around the clock at each of the four main gates and the eight primary hangars.