When Darth Bane appeared in the Clone Wars as a vision to Yoda, we cheered!
Finally!
The creator of the Rule of Two was now a solid piece of Star Wars canon.
And no matter what happens, as long as the Clone Wars is canon, so is Darth Bane!
A lot of us know the stories of the legendary Sith lord, but we have to wonder, what did
Darth Bane figure out that the Jedi could not?
Well, it turns out, he got everything right about his philosophies of the Force.
Welcome, everyone!
I’m Gerald!
The Force is the Force, or so we’ve been told.
Neither Jedi nor Sith will falter from their beliefs to admit this fact.
Both factions, Jedi and Sith believe that there is a light side of the Force and a dark
side.
The other thought is that there is only the Force.
It all depends how it is used.
For the Jedi only practice the light side of the Force.
Any dabbling in the dark side would be heresy against the Jedi Order and would spell certain
doom for those learning the dark ways.
For a Sith…concentrating on the Dark Side of the Force means power.
But they have no rules against practicing the light side.
Although most reasons for practicing powers like Force healing would be for a selfish
reason.
If they ever used that type of ability.
For example, if Darth Sidious had healed Darth Maul and gave him the Darth Vader treatment,
it would only be because he needed Maul to further his own plans.
Not because he cared for the Sith Assassin.
but then you have those in the middle, such as the Bendu.
Beings with great Force sensitivity that just want to be left alone.
Not because they see themselves as better than the others, but rather they understand
the nature of the Force and they know what great power can do.
Power, that’s a funny word when it comes to the Force.
Jedi condemn those seeking power.
Yet they take children at a very young age to teach them to harness the power they are
born with.
Teaching them to become strong in the Force.
But to understand this way of thinking and how hypocritical it seems on the surface,
the word power, in most cases spoken by the Jedi, is speaking of political power.
Power of domination over other life forms.
But then we question Anakin Skywalker when he says he’s more powerful than Obi-Wan
Kenobi.
He isn’t talking about a hierarchal standing.
He’s talking about his abilities in the Force.
Attuning themselves to the Force at a greater level is something all Jedi strive for.
Hence the meditations and training.
So, why did it seem like such a bad thing for Anakin Skywalker to understand his powers
in the Force were greater than that of his master?
Whether the statement was true is irrelevant.
It’s something Jedi strive for.
But then there is the other side…the Sith.
The Sith understand, as the Jedi, that Force attunement gives them power.
It’s true in the Jedi, as well.
The Force gives them a power that most other beings can’t even comprehend.
But the Sith take it to the extreme.
Not only do they crave to gain all they can from the Force, but they also use it to dominate
all other life forms.
But, like I said, power is a funny word when it comes to the Force.
We know the Force flows through all living things.
And some are more in tune with it than others.
But can the Force become weak if too many beings are able to wield it?
Wow!
That’s a deep thought.
And a lot of Star Wars fans will say “NO!”
That the Force is endless.
Infinite even.
Let’s think about that word…infinite.
If the Force is manifest higher in a being with more Midichlorians, and it is a symbiotic
relationship with all living things, is all of life infinite?
It’s hard to imagine that there is an immeasurable amount of life.
That it goes on forever.
If we take all of life on Earth, because we don’t know of life beyond that, it can be
measured.
There is a number we could associate with how much life is on our planet.
From microorganisms and into the life forms like whales.
We could potentially measure it with a number.
It may take a century to count but life on Earth is not an infinite number.
So, in turn, the resource on Earth is not unlimited, it too can be measured.
And we now know the earth can support approximately 10 billion humans before it begins to run
out of resources.
And I’m not talking about oil, the lifespan of that is likely much shorter.
Just talking about food and oxygen producing plants.
When we think of life on a galactic scale, there would still be a measurable number.
Note: galaxy…not universe nor multi-verse.
So, if the Force feeds on life, just as life feeds on the Force, it would be safe to say
that the Force is not infinite.
“The Force is created by all living things.”
Now, I’ll go back to my question, could the Force become weaker with more beings able
to wield it?
Well, it only makes sense that it would.
If life creates the Force, then more people using it would cause it to weaken as more
and more have the ability.
Case in point, the dark side of the Force became overwhelming to the Jedi in the Star
Wars prequels. 10’s of thousands of Jedi were wielding the Force at the time.
But there were only a few Sith practicing the Force.
If you take a gallon of water into the desert, you could survive on it a couple of days alone.
If you take that same gallon of water into the desert with 10 of your closest friends,
that resource will run out much quicker.
And this is why the Jedi were becoming weak during Palpatine’s rise.
The Sith ranks once numbered just as high as the Jedi, until they were defeated, and
Darth Bane created the rule of two.
There were two main reasons he did this.
The first is the thirst for power every Sith seemed to possess meant their own destruction
from within.
The power to dominate life being one of their aspirations.
But I said power was a funny word when it comes to the Force.
And that brings me to the second reason Darth Bane created the rule of two.
Really, in a certain light it’s the same as the first reason.
The more Sith using the Force, the weaker they would become.
This meant the Sith would have to operate in the shadows until such a time that they
could defeat the Jedi.
But with the dark side of the Force now being concentrated into only two Sith Lords, two
Sith could potentially be more powerful than a thousand Jedi.
But this doesn’t account for other Force users.
Jedi and Sith aren’t the only ones using it.
For instance, young females of the Chiss Ascendancy, called Sky-Walkers could use the Force to
navigate the dangerous Chaos…aka the Unknown Regions.
But these young children would lose the ability into their teenage years.
Chiss warships could use hyperspace travel but only for short jumps.
Then there are the Nightsisters of Dathomir.
It’s highly debated whether their dark magic is actually the Force, but we will assume
it is, as Star Wars mythology bases itself on the Force.
The Nightsisters used a version of the dark side, and they were able to wield it without
the dark side consuming them.
Thus, weakening the Force further.
Especially aspects of the dark side.
When most of these witches were wiped out, it helped Palpatine grow in strength.
As I said in the beginning, the Force is the Force.
It all depends how it’s used as to the results and future of its user.
And this could mostly be true.
But let’s look at it from the standpoint of our own known physics and religions.
The idea of the Jedi and the Force isn’t unfamiliar to our world.
It is actually based on eastern religions and philosophies.
If the Force is just that, then energy in our own world would be just that...energy
is energy.
But we know that is not true.
There are multiple forms of energy, electric energy, nuclear energy, and even dark energy
and matter.
Then there is spiritual energy.
Whether that’s a God or Devil collecting souls or just that our consciousness is made
up of energy that returns to the universe when we die.
So, maybe the Force isn’t just the Force after all.
Maybe it’s just a blanket word used to describe the abilities given to those sensitive enough
to harness it.
Maybe the dark side and the light side of the Force are separate energy fields.
But being sensitive to the Force allows for both to flow through its users.
Thus giving a moral compass to those able to wield it.
Or rather a choice of which energy field to tap into.
It’s evident that both flow through its users, as it’s easy to fall to the dark
side, even after decades of training in the light.
So, when we think of how Palpatine was able to rise to power, we have often debated it.
Well, if the Jedi had done this or that, they wouldn’t have been eliminated.
But in reality it wouldn’t have mattered.
Yes, the Jedi became arrogant, and they got involved in a war that should have been left
to the warring factions.
But their real downfall came from their weakness in the Force.
Yoda even says the dark side clouds everything.
With the tens of thousands of Jedi wielding the light side, and only a couple Sith wielding
the dark side, the energy had become weaker in the Jedi, and stronger in the Sith.
When Palpatine was defeated on the Death Star, how many Jedi were around?
Not tens of thousands…there were only a few remaining Jedi.
He wasn’t defeated by an army.
He was defeated by one.
Then we could also go back to the argument that the force is unlimited…infinite…eternal.
And that may be true.
But look at the events in the Star Wars stories.
The Sith were few and toppled the Jedi and the Republic.
The Jedi were many and were almost erased from existence.
Then, the Jedi were few and toppled the Sith and the Empire.
This idea could be the reason Luke Skywalker was so powerful.
But the question could be asked, then how was Anakin Skywalker so strong in the Force
if the light side was weak?
Simple, the stronger dark side was always present in Anakin.
And when he was at his strongest, it was the dark side that fueled him.
We know this.
We’ve seen his anger when he’s fighting.
Count Dooku even mentions it in their last duel.
But I’d like to know what you think.
Are the dark side of the Force and the light side separate?
Or two sides of the same coin?
To me, Darth Bane figured it out, and his plan worked.
The Jedi were defeated and the Sith ruled again.
When the Jedi would begin to recover, the dark side would rise again to stop it.
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