If you spend any time on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic forums, you are sure to have seen his passion and prose regarding all things Jedi. You know him as Professor Walsh. Each week (or thereabouts,) Professor Walsh will answer a few reader-submitted questions in order to enlighten us all with the ways of the Jedi. You can submit your own question at the end of the article!
Greetings and welcome! I am the Professor and, as always, here to answer your questions about all things Star Wars.
This week we have a question which I have seen mirrored before by many posters. This question is one that spans tens of thousands of years. This is the truth of Star Wars.
Okay… Maybe not. But we do have a whopper of a question this week.
Akrida asks:
I was wondering how many milenia will it take for Jedi to understand that they can not exist without the Sith around?
This one I can really sink my teeth into. The answer is deceptively simple but requires quite a long explanation. So without further delay lets dive into this particularly vexing conundrum.
First of all… It didn’t take the Jedi long at all to learn this lesson. In fact the Jedi seemed to learn this the first time that they ran into the Sith during the Great Hyperspace War. Now, yes, the Jedi had faced the Dark Jedi who later became the Sith before, but that technically is a different thing entirely.
After the Great Hyperspace War ended, the Jedi and the Republic sought to cripple the Sith Empire. The Jedi were willing to take surrenders but the Sith didn’t really believe in surrendering. The Sith engaged in acts of horror, like killing allies who surrendered or even engaging in suicide attacks against the Jedi and the Republic.
After a long period the Jedi simply believed that the Sith were gone.
This is where lore gets a little dicey.
You see, originally in lore that was the end of the Sith, meaning the true Sith were wiped clean from the Universe and never did return. The Brotherhood of Darkness was actually started by Darth Ruin, who was just a Dark Jedi and not technically a Sith. Darth Bane descended from that line.
There were later survivors of the aftermath of the Great Hyperspace War. There are the Sith of TOR, which we can only assume are eventually purged completely, and then there are the survivors known as the Lost Tribe of the Sith. Both the Sith of TOR and the Lost Tribe survived largely because nobody knew that they were there.
While I don’t see the Jedi engaging in genocide, as some people claim, I have no problem with them destroying the Sith teachings and their artifacts and taking in any who can be redeemed. As horrifying as some people seem to find that behavior we have to remember that these are Sith that we are talking about and the Sith are an entire culture of pretty evil people.
Now I know that people are going to come in and try to pull the moral relativism card here and tell me that I am wrong for seeing the Sith as evil and that they culturally don’t see themselves as evil and what not…
To that I can say, (and thank God that this isn’t the TOR forums because if it was I’d get an infraction for this,) shove that line right up the same hole that your excrement comes out of because moral relativism is the largest pile of bantha poodoo I have ever seen and anyone who actually believes it and is trying to use it to justify the actions of the Sith seriously needs mental help. Plus, Daniel Erickson agrees.
Note: The opinions presented here are solely the opinions of Professor Walsh and not necessarily reflect that of Ask A Jedi.
The Sith, as a whole, are baby eating, child killing, murderers. They are as evil as they get. Seriously the only way that they can possibly get more evil is if they all grew Snidely Whiplash mustaches and started reading Supervillains Weekly. The Sith are, without a doubt, evil within the context of Star Wars.
Basically in Star Wars the Jedi never believed that they could co-exist with the Sith… Mostly because the Sith want to kill every Jedi and then rule the Galaxy. They were never fooled by the offer of peace in TOR and only went along with it because the Republic said to.
So there is your answer.
How many millennium? None. They knew it the whole time.
