u/EmperorTrajan117

Me personally I like the Pre-Ruusan Jedi Order the Best, they were the perfect combination of the Prequel Era’s Structure and Centralization, while also allowing marriage and families like in Luke’s Jedi Order. That’s not to say either of the other two were bad or inferior, they both had their strengths (despite what many anti-Jedi pundits claim), I just see the Pre-Ruusan Old Jedi Order as the best of both Worlds.

I’ve read Traitor and I just don’t understand the love for Vergere’s philosophy. Aside from the fact from saying there is no Dark Side, she also tells him to embrace his pain, both of which sounds like something Palpatine or any other Sith would say. Those who defend the philosophy also seem to have forgotten what she first said; *“Everything I tell you is a lie”* so by her own admission, her entire philosophy is B.S. Now i don’t agree with the retcon in LOF of making her a secret Sith (in fact there’s a lot of LOF that I dislike), but i do appreciate that it shows how her philosophy, however well meaning it was, was shown to be twisted into making Jacen fall to the Dark Side. Saying that there is no Dark Side flies right into the face of Lucas’ clearly binary philosophy of the Force. It’s more moral relativism garbage that is picked up by edge lords who just want to be anti-heroes and trash talk noble orders like the Jedi.

I was born on the Outer Rim World of Corrino; my homeworld was in a constant state of unrest. Whether is was Zygerrian Slavers, or various Pirate fleets, or our world’s warlords fighting for dominance, it was a time of chaos. The Old Republic did nothing about it. The Jedi were a little better, but they couldn’t be there all the time. The Clone Wars, I thought, would change that….until a coalition of Warlords and won our planet’s autonomy and the Republic allowed them to remain in power as long as they supported the Republic. In other words, they were free to squabble among themselves and exploit the people as long as they supported the Republic in the war….when the Empire came, I was at first skeptical…but soon o saw the Empire crush the Warlords, I saw Imperial Stormtroopers and regular troops defeat warlords who had previously been thought to be invincible, I saw the empire in four laws in places where local law-enforcement was too scared to go to…. it inspired me to join the military… and that’s how I have come to be a Captain on a Cruiser to this day. The Empire has brought Order and Peace to my home world in a way that it has not seen in many centuries. I am forever grateful for them.