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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Even at the height of the Republic, Jedi were rare. They were a few thousand among a galactic population of trillions. After the Empire took over you had two force users in the entire galaxy until Luke showed up, and then he was the only one until Ren/Rey. Jedi were mythical to a lot of people before their order was destroyed, not surprising that grew after their destruction
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Remember that the Jedi were incredibly powerful and the 10,000 were a pretty overwhelming force in a Galaxy where there weren't standing armies.
Palpatine's brilliance was that he created an environment where the Jedi weren't facing local threats, they were facing a massive army in the field (Conferation), and then another mass army in the Grand Army.
But prior to that when it was Canon, the Repbulic was pretty much demilitarized after the Sith/Jedi war on Ruusan where millions of innocents died when the Sith and Republic put armies in the field.
It took an entire army of basically millions of clones and droids to wipe out a few thousand jedi.