[CaptainCrunch]

I think saying the Jedi are peaceful isn't quite right, and their whole peaceful contemplation of the Force really only happened recently in terms of galactic history.

I know its Legends, but basically

The first Jedi Schism happened when some Jedi said, hey we're not studying all aspects of the force and we found a way to increase personal power, we'd like to start a school and study it peacefully while still living up to the Jedi ideas. The Jedi response . . . That's hearsay and started a war and wiped out the Dark Jedi.

The second schism was pretty much the same, Jedi that were didn't feel that they were studying all aspects of the Force. So the Jedi declared holy war wiped out most of them, then banished a few who eventually found Korriban and conquored the Sith species. They focused on Empire building and forgot about the Republic and Jedi, and the way back to the Republic. Eventually they recovered that and invaded. Were beaten back by the Republic and the Jedi convinced the Republic to declare a war of genocide and killed every Sith Man, woman and child that they could find and bombed Korriban and its great temples and Sith history out of existence.

A few Sith escaped and settled on Droumand Kaas, this is where the Sith made it a core tenant that they would wipe out the Jedi in the name of Revenge.

Revan and Malik were Jedi who got involved in the Mandalorian War lead a almost religious war as Jedi against the Mandalorians and lured them into a trap and used a planet killing weapon to kill them all.

The Sith came back from that and tried to exterminate the Jedi, and failed.

The whole Sith Empire Republic War happened. Even though the Sith declared a cease fire when they sacked Corsucant and bombed the Jedi Temple. The Jedi broke the cease fire leading to a greater war.

We later had a war between the brother hood of darkness and the Jedi. The Jedi decided to recruit and arm child soldiers to fight in the war. The war lead to trillions of innocent civilian deaths as the Jedi and Sith were fighting their religious war and didn't care about non force users.

The Ruusan reformation came along. The Jedi lost their standing in the Republic Military and the Republic Military vanished.

Bane created the rule of two with Darth Zannah. He was patient and cunning and content to hide in the shadows. The Jedi learned that a Sith survived, and instead of trying to redeem Bane or capture him, they went after him with murder in their eyes. They thought they killed him, instead they unknowingly murdered a clearly wounded innocent man (Zannah's brother). Declare victory.

However the Jedi continued to conscript Children, and in their arrogance continued to go out on campaigns to basically reform the galaxy as they wanted it to be.

When Anakin said in his mind the Jedi were evil . . . from a certain point of view (see what I did there) he was right. The Jedi were the cause of it all, promoted genocide, murdered, recruited child soldiers, caused mass casualties among non force users and didn't care because they continually hide behind prophecy and the will of the force that they interpret themselves.

Palpatine did the galaxy a favor by wiping them out. to me though the whole bringing balance to the force should have been no Jedi and no Sith.


Palpatine also used the truth as a weapon, in the opera house scene he nailed the Jedi in every sense.


The Jedi and Sith have identical goals, peace and justice. The Sith just have the radical add on that the strong should rule the non force users to reach this goal. While the Jedi flounder around in a misguided series of campaigns that lead to nothing.



He was also right, as much as the Jedi talk about not having fear or anger. The Jedi were terrified of losing their power and wealth and sense of entitlement that they were the interpreters and defenders of what they thing the Republic should be.