The Jedi Order, and the thousands of Knights and Masters that it produced, continually
attempted to balance out serving the Force itself while also maintaining its commitment
to bringing and maintaining justice within the Republic.
This of course sparked many debates among many Masters throughout the Order’s era,
with some arguing the Jedi were not forceful enough to bring genuine change and justice
to those in need in the galaxy; while others believed the Jedi were getting too involved
in galactic politics and were straying away from the original core beliefs that the founders
of the Order had intended.
Perhaps one of the best known debaters on this issue during the final years of the Jedi
Order was Qui-Gon Jinn, who more often than not, let the force itself guide his actions,
rather than the wishes of the High Council.
Despite his effort, Qui-Gon never was fully able to commit to the force in the complete
manner he desired; whether it be due to his raw Human emotions that got in his way, like
the one time he went out of his way to prevent the love of his life from dying despite feeling
in the force that her time had come; or attempting to work within the rules of the Jedi Order
itself and making small compromises from time to time to appease the High Council.
While Qui-Gon argued for and made the effort to fully let the force guide his actions,
there was one Jedi Master that actually did completely accomplish this feat.
She not only was possibly rewarded by the force itself for her full devotion to the
mystical element, but likely had one of the most impressive track records for helping
those in need as well.
Her name was Jedi Master Fay, and despite her young looking appearance, she was centuries
old, which was a possible result of the force as a reward to her complete commitment to
it.
After learning the basics of how to use the force at the Jedi Temple, Master Fay decided
to leave her peers and fully allow the force guide her destiny.
As a result, over the years she went on to save thousands of beings in need within the
Outer Rim, even preventing and ending entire wars that took place on chaotic worlds.
What’s even more impressive, is that it was said she never raised her lightsaber for
combat, with it also being believed that she didn’t even own one, as she had no use for
such a weapon.
She likely never killed any being in her entire long life as well, for perhaps those who fully
devote themselves to being guided by the force itself would never need to.
Despite her long departures from the Temple and likely refusal of being ordered around
by the High Council, she was hated by no one, as her actions spoke highly for her successes.
Qui-Gon looked up to her and likely strived to become like her one day, but unfortunately
never got the chance to do so due to his early death.
Master Fay’s final mission came during the early stages of the Clone Wars.
The Force guided her to the Volcanic planet of Queyta, where she didn’t know what her
purpose was for being there until she met up with a group of Jedi that were formally
assigned a mission on that planet.
They were there to obtain an antidote to counter against a new, devastating Separatist virus
that was unleashed and tested earlier in the war.
Believing the force had brought her to the planet to help obtain the antidote that would
likely save millions of lives, she joined in with everyone else on the mission.
During the mission, the group of Jedi encountered two of Dooku’s agents: Ventress and Durge.
As explosions and chaos erupted, each member of the original Jedi group started to fall
one by one, with one Master having the unfortunate death of being fully dunked into lava.
In the end, only Fay and Obi-Wan Kenobi remained alive.
Still determined in getting the antidote from Ventress who had taken it earlier, Fay summoned
the force and struck Ventress with dozens of small metal scrap, which penetrated her
entire body.
Standing before the injured Ventress, Fay used the force to fade her mind away until
the dark assassin fell into unconsciousness.
But before the two remaining Jedi could make their escape, Durge appeared from above and
turned their position into another massive fireball explosion.
With her concentration broken from Ventress at the moment, the dark assassin was able
to awaken and strike against Fay from behind.
Two red bladed lightsabers penetrated Fay’s heart and she was left for dead on the ground
as a result.
Obi-Wan on the other hand barely hanged on from a cliff right above lava, but was spared
by the two Separatist agents as Dooku had other plans for the Jedi Master.
When Dooku’s agents left, Master Fay was able to use what little strength she had remaining
to help Obi-Wan up from the cliff’s edge.
The patch of ground they were both on started to sink, meaning they would have to make an
incredibly far jump to stable, high ground.
Fay knew Obi-Wan wouldn’t be able to make it out alive with the antidote at hand all
on his own, so she sacrificed herself by giving him the last of her strength so he’d have
enough power to make the massive jump.
When she finished, she fell over before Obi-Wan and peacefully died, joining her brothers
and sisters in the Force.
Obi-Wan was able to make it off the planet safely with the antidote.
He would never forget her sacrifice, believing that had she not made it the force truly may
have kept her alive forever.
Mace Windu comforted Obi-Wan, by telling him that by sacrificing herself for him to live
with the antidote, she ultimately saved millions of lives.
The one thing that both she and the force she served would have wanted.