[CaptainCrunch]

Yeah, there were a couple of things that made me crazy about the original EU. you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a former Jedi. Now it was complicated because for most of the original EU there wasn't an order 66. But Palpatine created this brilliant plan where he used a war to thin out the Jedi, then laid an insidious plan where the very troops that they lead became their executioners. But the more Jedi that survived the worse the plan looked.

However in Dark Lord Rise of Darth Vader during a conversation between Vader and Palpatine where Vader just wanted to kill Jedi. Palpatine basically told him that the Jedi weren't a threat anymore, that they were hiding away and doing penance for their arrogance, and that nobody would help them if they stuck their head out because the Empire had effectively made the Jedi the villains.

I would expect that most Jedi knew they were completely played and extremely vulnerable and were content to live in a tent in the outer rim.

Yoda in ROTJ said don't underestimate the Emperor. He knew that even he couldn't beat the Emperor or the Sith because the Jedi in their arrogance expected the Sith from 3000 years ago, and the Sith had evolved.

In the new EU, there were a lot less Jedi that survived Order 66, and now the Empire had the Inquisitors who weren't as powerful as Vader or the Emperor and weren't Sith, but they were former Jedi that hated the Jedi, and sticking your head up was just a bad idea.

Even Kanan really didn't want to announce his Jedi status, but was forced into it. Ashoka worked with the early rebellion and didn't run around announcing it.

I loved the idea of order 66 and the eradication of the Jedi leaving only a handful out of the 10,000 knights that swamped the galaxy. The idea of the Sith taking joy in the Jedi who surived running for their life.

But to Palpatine the biggest threat to him wasn't the Jedi, it was a rebellion that he had a hand in creating.