Occlus continues to fly the ship until they are entirely out of the planet's gravity well and could enter hyperspace safely.

"Unless jumping to hyperspace would fill in the final piece, I would prefer to return to the planet now."

"No, go ahead."

Trance, again, and after several minutes she pulls out her sketchbook and traces a top-view outline of the ship from the top, then begins drawing in the gravity conduits.

Occlus lets the autopilot handle most of the work involved in getting the ship back down, and watches the kobold's sketch take shape.

When she's done she offers Occlus the pad. "What I'm seeing is mostly there; I still don't know what it is. I'm kind of limited in what I can do with it - the planet has one too that's very similar, and it changes when you turn it off and turn it back on again. But I think if you were able to leave that on all the time, I'd be able to link a portal to it and have the portal's destination follow the ship around."

"That is the ship's artificial gravity system. It is not designed for prolonged operation in natural gravity wells like those generated by planets. I will look into altering it so that it can be safely left on, but that will likely take considerable time."

Nod. "I can sync this universe up to Milliways for a while, if there aren't any regulars here-and-now to be inconvenienced by that; I'll have to ask Bar. I'm thinking about syncing it up for a week or two anyway, that was the other thing I wanted to talk to you about."

"How does this 'syncing' work?"

"I leave a little portal open somewhere, either from there to here or from here to there, and it keeps time moving the same way in both places. Otherwise it doesn't; if I just go back to Milliways and then teleport here, it might be a hundred years in the future or a hundred years in the past, and there's no way to get to a specific time."

"I have no objections as long as the portal is small and somewhere I can watch it. But I suspect it will take on the order of months to years to solve the problem and then implement the solution."

"I'll need to sync you to my world, in that case, and I can check back every season or so."

"That will be fine. If you appear in my hallway, I can arrange to have a droid there that will direct you to my current location."

Now they have landed, and Occlus is going to go back inside to see what progress her team has made.

...all right, she'll talk to Occlus about Jedi-related infosec later, then. It's probably a better idea to get some background information from Bar first, anyway. She finds someone reasonably in charge looking, waits for them to stop being busy, asks where she should put this end of the portal so it can be watched, is pointed to the correct person to ask this of, waits again, and eventually gets back to Milliways.

First order of business: sleep. Second, though: What does Bar have on Sith and Jedi? Any textbooks? Those are probably a good place to start; propaganda-ridden, of course, but in a case like this, what won't be?

There are a variety, ranging through the several thousand years of history these groups apparently have. Some are written by Sith, more by Jedi, and there are even a few by apparently neutral parties.

Where would she like to focus her studies?

She'll limit it to overviews at first, until she has better questions than 'what is their deal?'. One by a Jedi and one by a Sith, to start; say the most popular of each written within the last twenty-five years.

It seems that the Jedi and the Sith were once part of the same proto-group of Force-sensitives, millenia ago when the nature of the Force was first beginning to be explored. An ideological schism split the group, and the faction that would become the Sith fled to the rim of the galaxy, while those that would become Jedi stayed near the core. Each developed in isolation, until technological progress made travel easy and routine, and brought them back into contact. The rift in philosophies had only widened during their time apart, and war was an inevitable consequence. The conflict has continued, sometimes intermittently and through proxies, until the present day.

How reasonable of the proto-Sith.

What else can she find out about this philosophical difference?

It seems to stem from the manner in which each faction accesses the Force. The Jedi do so through clarity and selflessness, the Sith use passion and selfishness. Sith characterize the Jedi way as foolish and weak, Jedi call the Sith misguided and evil.

Rrrr??? That is a really weird way to divide those concepts up; passion/selflessness and clarity/selfishness would make much more sense, if one has to divide them up in the first place, which, why?

Not that she's going to take the time to look for an answer to that question at this juncture; it's not going to solve the actual problem here.

Misguided how? Evil why?

As an extension of their philosophy, the Sith don't care about anyone but themselves. Even intra-faction, infighting has cost them almost as much as external conflict. There are countless reports of Sith atrocities, war crimes and the massacre of civilians. Some Sith sources seem proud of some of these.

...

All right. What's the range of Sith responses to the atrocities? Is this a bad to worse scenario, or are they more all over the map?

(Of course when the expanding humans found the Sith they didn't, like, stop, that would make too much sense. Seriously, what is it with humans and having a collective death wish?)

Response range from "well done, those scum deserved death" to "you should have killed more" to "meh".

Well then.

When both sides in a conflict agree on something, it's pretty safe to assume it's true.

All right. Jedi next. To what degree are the clarity-rather-than-passion guys also assholes? This one might be a little harder to determine - try the neutral-party stuff, this time, and also look into their magic system to see if there's something they could have done in that first encounter before jumping right to 'magical swords'. (There is anyway, it's called 'talking', but that one she already knows about; what else are they skipping?)

At their best, the Jedi are the exemplars of peace and justice their propaganda claims them to be. At their worst, they are responsible for atrocities as bad as any of the Sith's. All in the name of the greater good, of course. Jedi history tends to quietly gloss over these incidents. 

As for their magic system, the category of "things the Force can do" is quite broad. Potentially relevant are the heightened empathic sense many Force-users possess and the technique known as "mind trick".

Mind trick? That sounds pretty horrifying, but on reflection she can probably set her defenses up well enough that it won't be very dangerous to be around someone who can do that. If she decides to make an attempt at detangling this whole mess rather than just washing her hands of it, anyway. (Also, she has a better idea now of why Occlus jumped so quickly to fighting. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes.)

Atrocities. Okay. Focus on the less scary thing. Can she figure out anything about how they handle those aside from 'cover them up'? Say, what happened with a particularly well known one, and what happened with a particularly unknown one, as recently as Bar can find good information about? With a particular focus on what happened to the Jedi who made the decisions there.

The less well-known cases seem to sort of disappear, and the Jedi involved are seldom mentioned again. It's unclear what happened to them. Of the well-known cases, one in particular stands out. Around three hundred years ago, there was a Jedi by the name of Revan who instigated some sort of civil war. The Jedi Council eventually captured Revan, but was unwilling to just kill them. So instead, they were brainwashed and implanted with a false personality. This worked for a while, but the real Revan eventually reasserted themself and went on to heroically save the Republic from an invasion. The Jedi consider this a redemption story.