Editing Teepo Paladins (section)

== '''History''' ==

The Teepo Jedi are fairly new in the long history of the Jedi tradition. They are a small, but fanatical branch of the Jedi order. They were founded around the same time that the Blaster became the common sidearm by a Twi'lek master named Nars Teepo. Nars Teepo had a very odd view on life for a Jedi master. He believed in change. He did not think the traditions should remain so static. He believed that the Jedi should change with the times and adopt the use of blaster weapons. This wasn't accepted by the Jedi community and Teepo was shunned from the order for what was assumed to be embracing the Dark side. Teepo took this very hard and took on the life of a hermit dropping from the face of the universe, but he continued to apply his knowledge to the study of the blaster and its applications.

Many of his old friends and companions in the order refusing to let their friend, a distinguished master, fall to the Dark side traveled to him in hopes of convincing Teepo to change his ways. His fanaticism got the better of many of them. He could not be swayed, but instead had many new converts to his ideas. With this new influx of Masters and students the school flourished in a very isolated corner of the universe. Ignored by the rest of the Jedi community it grew but never overtook its humble beginnings.

After many centuries, the Jedi's were called to fight a great evil. This great evil was such a threat that the old order swallowed its pride and called upon the Teepo's for help. The fought side by side as brothers in the Clone Wars only to be wiped out by Palpatine and Vader in the ensuing political chaos. The Teepo's were no more safe than the Jedi's of old. Many masters hid, but were sought out and destroyed. The only thing that kept the smaller school alive was the hermitic tradition of its founder. Many students and Masters were in hiding from the outset of the Clone Wars and this saved them in the massacres that followed.<br />