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Think about it. The earliest Legends works are filled with EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, and even after they ironed that out there was still a lot of ContinuitySnarls before the Disney reboot. The galaxy is really big, so I'd imagine a lot of people hadn't gotten their facts straight. That Marvel comic where Vader and Anakin are seperate characters? Made before the galaxy discovered they were one and the same. ''Splinter of the Mind's Eye''? Whoever wrote it didn't know Luke and Leia were siblings. The anti-Jedi, pro-Mandalorian/clone trooper slant in Karen Traviss's works? Imperial propaganda from before the Mandalorian Uprising and was subsequently suppressed.

I thought about this idea when I read about the Sith Emperor. In his attempts to gain absolute immortality, the Sith Emperor purged himself of his own emotions and senses, separating himself from the rest of the universe and convincing himself (justifiably I might add) that he is a god. In addition, because of his fear of death (one of the very few fears he has left), he is willing to go to any lengths to escape it, including linking his consciousness with those of other beings and crushing them so they become his fanatically loyal thralls (at one point he was able to gain mental domination over thousands of other Sith and convert former Jedi to the Dark Side with his presence alone, including Revan. However, while he may seem like a simple over-powered villain, I noticed that his quotes bear an odd resemblance to the nature of the force. For example, the wiki pointed out his desire was to experience everything in the form of destroying a Galaxy, traveling to other galaxies, and becoming anything he desired. Whether it be a farmer, a diplomat, an artist, a chef or a simple man, he wants to live infinite lives seeing the universe for eternity. And what is the force? A ubiquitous power that surrounds and permeates all life in the galaxy, connecting them all. The last time time the Sith Emperor appeared before his death he was basically an eldritch abomination whose very presence could turn the most powerful creatures into extensions of his own will, and whose mind nearly transcended the limits of {{Blue and Orange Morality}} until only the basest desires remained (hunger for power and fear of losing it). Additionally, this is also similar to what happened to Gigyas in Videogame/{{Earthbound}} where he becomes incapable of thought once he gains vast cosmic power. From this, I can conclude that the Force is a result of a previous power-hungry individual's successful attempt to alter the universe at the most fundamental level and become the most dominant thing in the universe, at the cost of their individuality, emotions and self-awareness. He would be an intrinsic part of all life, including a farmer (Luke Skywalker), a diplomat (Leia Organa), or a simple man (Anakin), influencing their goals and journeys yet being manipulated by them in turn (Light and Dark side). This means that any Sith's (including Palpatine's) desire for absolute power is self-destructive. Even if they got what they wanted, they wouldn't have any conventional mind left to even enjoy it. Had the Sith Emperor plans gone into fruition, he would have eliminated what scant emotions he had left and become an all-powerful vegetable.

As shown in KOTOR and KOTOR 2, the conflict split the Jedi Order as the more idealistic Jedi Knights flocked to Revan's banner in saving the galaxy from the Mandalorian invaders, and that in many ways set up for the darkness to come in the following centuries and millennia. The Jedi Council had been correct about a corrupting influence behind the Mandalorians working to undermine them, as TOR shows, though as the KOTOR games make abundantly clear, if Revan hadn't acted, [[TheExtremistHasAPoint the Republic would have promptly fallen]] to the Mandalorians, and who knows whether or not they would have allowed the Jedi to continue practicing their faith and upholding galactic law as peacekeepers? Thus, following the Ruusan Reformations, the Jedi of the prequels era tend to be more learned than Jedi of previous generations, with access to their enormous archives dating back to 25,000 years of history and all the holocrons and other sources of historical information they'd accumulated, so that by the time the Separatists had raised a droid army, the Council decided [[MyGreatestFailure it wouldn't repeat the mistakes]] that had so badly fractured the order several thousand years prior, and possibly herald a new coming darkness that would likewise last for centuries and millennia - they would challenge this threat head-on alongside the Republic military, but they would also secretly work behind the scenes to expose the dark forces working against them, unaware as to how expertly the Sith had redefined themselves in the thousand years since, and the rest, as you all know, is history!