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Originally Posted by Monahammer
The thing about the power differentiation of the Jedi/Sith at different time periods that gets me is the lack of general knowledge about these individuals. By the original trilogy, 99.9% of people have no idea what a jedi is, or what the force is, and they seem to have vague notions of "wizardry" or something similar. BUT, the events of the clone wars are a mere 30 years removed... at most. The Jedi were the generals of the clone war. There are no doubt countless living individuals who have seen the Jedi do amazing things using the force. Darth Vader is also chilling and people are DEFINITELY going to be talking about the crazy imperial dude who frequently displays massive force powers in public environments.
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That's an interesting point, Remember that after Order 66, nobody talked about the Jedi probably for fear of Imperial Intelligence arresting them in the middle of the night. Meanwhile Compnor was busy removing the Jedi from history. So by the time of the height of the Empire, there were whole generations that hadn't seen or heard about the Jedi and what they did.
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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I dunno, it all just seems to wild for me. If there was a space wizard rolling around who routinely killed people with telekenesis, I feel like everyone even slightly aware of galactic ongoings would be aware of this person's existence, and thus of the Jedi. When the force powers were more muted, I could understand the lack of galactic understanding. But when the powers are so obvious, how do we explain the seeming yokel level stupidity of pretty much everyone in universe. Han is a perfect example. This is a guy who has been actively avoiding the empire as a smuggler, involved in crime circles, attended the academy, remembers elements of the clone wars, and he has NO idea what a jedi or the force is? even at all? Sus.
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He was aware of the Force, he just didn't believe the stories. Remember that Han was born towards the end of the Clone Wars for example. He wasn't educated and people didn't talk about the Jedi. Also there weren't space wizards running around, most were dead, and probably Vader wasn't showing many force powers as he didn't need to, Palpatine maintained the guise of a benevolant injured Dictator. He didn't stand on the balcony force frying people while yelling "Zappity, Zappity". Probably there were only a few people that knew he was a Sith Lord. One being Vader and the other being Mas Adendu (sp?) I don't even know if a guy like Tarkin knew he was a Sith.
Probably the only messaging in Imperial History about the Jedi wasn't that they were all powerful beings and Generals. But that they were a religious order that fought as Generals in the Clone Wars, but they betrayed and attempted to over throw the Empire and kill the Chancellor so they could install a repressive theology based government akin to Tom Cruise become president. But you didn't see videos of the Jedi in the Clone Wars unless they were heavily edited to show the worst. You didn't see them in books.
Also frankly Palpatine's plan was so good that people that had survived didn't focus on the Jedi heroism or altruistic actions, but they they tried to over throw the government and attempted to murder a popular leader that was left scarred and barely survived the encounter.