How Palpatine Really Turned The Entire Galaxy Against the Jedi
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Star Wars: Crimson Reign #3!
In the latest Star Wars story from Marvel Comics, it's revealed how Palpatine was able to turn the galaxy against the Jedi. There was a time when the light of the Jedi shone brightly across the galaxy. But by the prequel era, that light was dimmed. The Jedi had withdrawn to a single temple on Coruscant and — as Ahsoka Tano discovered after she left the Jedi Order — they were entirely unaware of the fates of everyday civilians.
And then came Order 66, which almost wiped out the Jedi. Palpatine used modified recordings of his confrontation with three Jedi Masters as evidence the Jedi had been attempting a coup, and the entire galaxy turned on the Jedi. Soon a thousand generations of heroism had been forgotten, erased from the history books, with the Jedi remembered only as traitors to the Republic and enemies of the Empire. The scale of Palpatine's deception was breathtaking — and Star Wars: Crimson Reign #3, by Charles Soule and Steven Cummings, explains just how he was able to pull it off.
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The issue tells the story of the Archivist, a scholar who studied the Force and specialized in the dark side. In one key scene, she reflects back on Palpatine's success, and concludes he was able to turn the galaxy against the Jedi because he understood what they meant to the people. "I believe, for most people who thought about it at all, the light side represented the way they wanted to live and act," she observes. "The dark side was more closely connected to how they were." This matters, she goes on to explain, because it means people always hated the Jedi just as much as they loved
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