Star Wars Confirms the Real Reason the Clone Wars Broke the Jedi
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Star Wars: Obi-Wan #3!
Thanks to Obi-Wan Kenobi's reflections on his past, Star Wars has fully explained why fighting in the Clone Wars destroyed the Jedi. Palpatine envisioned the Clone Wars as the ultimate Jedi trap, and they certainly proved successful; they allowed him to maneuver himself into a position of near-absolute power while the Jedi remained occupied on the Outer Rim. It all built to a climax in the lethal Order 66.
Order 66 was Palpatine's masterstroke. The Jedi had fought alongside the clones for years, and they trusted them completely. What's more, the use of control chips meant the clones had no initial ill-will towards the Jedi — they were simply following orders, sending no signals of aggression or malevolence through the Force. The few Jedi who sensed anything was wrong picked up the deaths of their fellow Jedi, and they were too paralyzed with shock to save themselves. However, there was another element to this trap that destroyed the Jedi as a concept even as they fought for a better world.
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Star Wars: Obi-Wan #3, by Christopher Cantwell, Alessandro Miracolo, and Frank William, sees Obi-Wan Kenobi reflect back on the Clone Wars — finally recognizing the full scale of the trap. "All war — in part, at least — concerns dominion," he has come to realize. " As servants of the Force, we learned that it presides over all, like an unseen current. To seek any kind of dominance is to misunderstand the very nature of the Force." By fighting in the Clone Wars, by becoming warriors and warlords rather than servants of the Force, the Jedi betrayed the light side long before they were killed.
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