Post-RotJ
if the force was balanced by sith being killed and evil being removed from the galaxy.Does that mean darth Krayt and all the new sith are non canon?? —Unsigned comment by 210.7.31.211 (talk • contribs)
No it means George Lucas is delusional and believes that evil can possibly be removed from the galaxy and made this his divine law in his very own made up galaxy as a way of coping with the obvious fact that this isn't going to happen in the real world. When he says something at odds with all wisdom both in and out of universe, it can be safely disregarded as his own flawed(in this case deeply flawed) point of view and not something that should dictate future Star Wars storyline possibilities. —Unsigned comment by 68.45.186.244 (talk • contribs)
- You'll find opinion has no space here. If you want my two-cents though, I've always worked it as if this eliminated the Sith, not evil itself. Given I tend to disregard most post-books in my games... but that's just an opinion. The official view is that Evil was destroyed. Whether this is all hatred everywhere... that I doubt. I mean, Han Solo had doubt and resentment towards Luke before Leia told him that they're siblings. 68.228.91.250 09:06, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry, but since ALL of star wars IS Lucas' 'very own made up galaxy', how come people in here don't think he has the authority to destroy evil in it? - not meant offensively, I'm just wondering...
I prefer disregarding Lucas.I see it as him simply trying to dictate something he sold the rights to in ways that limit creative writing. —Unsigned comment by 67.96.250.114 (talk • contribs)
The Dark Side is evil, but not all evil is of the Dark Side. There should be plenty of low level non-Force evil left in the galaxy after the Emperor's death. Just no dark side. —Unsigned comment by 86.135.122.192 (talk • contribs)
By killing the Emperor, Vader allowed Luke to start a new Jedi Order where, as Kyle Katarn says, Force powers are not good or evil, it's how their used. Luke and Kyle and the new Jedi use dark side powers such as Force Grip or Lightning. This is the true balance of the Force- the balance of oneself. Occasionally, one bad egg will spring up, but as we've seen in the EU it goes away quickly (sometimes a little too quickly, *cough* Jacen *cough*) allowing Jedi who balance themselves, and thus, balance the Force, to continue and flourish. —Unsigned comment by 216.244.7.139 (talk • contribs)
I don't understand - the 'destruction of the Sith' lasted some, what? 10-20 years (from death of Palpatine to new siths - why have a 1000-year old prophecy of a destruction which lasts only a couple of years? In the greater picture of thousands of years, Anakin's achievement is in this case rather shortlived and non-decisive, so why the prophecy and all? that would imply something that would change the course of the universe for centuries, not for ten years or so...
- Here is my take on all of this, and it is a relatively simple one, but it makes sense: In keeping with George Lucas' official word on the concept of balance -- that the light side is the natural state of the Force's existence, and that the dark is a corruption -- I do believe that those one thousand years between the defeat of the Sith and their rise to power in the person of Palpatine are what caused the Force to become unbalanced in the dark side's favor. Sure, the dark side had certainly existed before then, and sometimes quite prominently: the Rakatan Infinite Empire, the Dark Jedi of the First Great Schism, the Dark Jedi of the Second Great Schism, the entire history of the Sith, etc. -- and it certainly remains prominent after the prophecy's fulfillment as well -- various Dark Jedi, Lumiya's Sith, the New Sith, etc. However, it was that one thousand years of believing the Sith to have been finally defeated once and for all that caused the Jedi to grow complacent, their vigilance diminished, as the Sith prospered in hiding and the cloud of the dark side silently enveloped the galaxy. This is why the Jedi were not ready for the Sith when they finally did resurface, and why just two Sith were able to decimate the entire Jedi Order. It was the existence of the Sith of this particular era -- those who had thrived on that ever-growing dark cloud that the Jedi had willfully allowed to expand right under their noses until it smothered them -- that caused the imbalance in the Force and kept it there, until the Chosen One of prophecy was able to destroy these particular Sith in an extremely unorthodox and unexpected way. 24.3.94.134 23:30, 30 August 2008 (UTC)