With the release of Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 4, we got a deeper look into Fortress Inquisitorious
than we ever have before.
Even though we’ve visted the location previously as Cal Kestis in Jedi: Fallen Order, we’ve
never been this deep into the fortress… and what we saw down there was absolutely
horrifying…
But why did Vader and the Inquisitors keep this Jedi in amber below the fortress?
Well, there are three answers and they were all equally as shocking.
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So the first confirmed reason for the Inquisitors taking Jedi from the purge and storing them
in amber is for luring in other Jedi survivors.
This is something we saw prominently in Star Wars: Rebels, where the Empire purposely leaked
out fake footage of Master Luminara Unduli out to the Galaxy, hoping that any survivors
would try to meet up with and rescue her.
The plan actually worked, and Kanan Jarrus along with Ezra bridger were lured out to
the Galaxy’s toughest prison, called The Spire on Stygeon Prime.
This is the same prison that Darth Sidious put Maul in after he absolutely bodied him
and Savage Oppress after they took over Mandalore.
When Kanan and Ezra walked into the cell that Luminara was supposed to be in, a cold presence
washed over Kanan…
He knew something wasn’t right.
And then moments Later, Luminara faded into a coffin type structure on the wall, confirming
that she wasn’t in fact real.
It was just a projection of her, made by the Inquisitors.
Or maybe her presence in the force was actually real, and preserved by putting her body in
amber, and not allowing the Midichlorians to escape…
Equally terrifying possibilities.
And then, the Grand Inquisitor himself walks into the cell, ready to execute Kanan and
Ezra.
And if you actually look inside of the little coffin structure that Luminara’s corpse
is held in, you can kinda see the the amber in it, just like under the fortress on Nur.
The chilling thing about this is that we still don’t know how Luminara was caught.
We know she was serving on Kashyyyk alongside Master Yoda in the final moments of the Clone
Wars, but after that, her story goes dark.
We don’t know why those Clones on Kashyyyk specifically were ordered to capture Luminara
and not kill her, but maybe we will find out in the upcoming Bad Batch Season 2.
Now after that we have the second, and possibly even darker reason for keeping this bodies,
Palpatine’s Project Harvester.
Project Harvester was a secret program that went back all the way to the time of the Clone
Wars, where Palpatine sent out bounty hunters to kidnap force sensitive children across
the Galaxy.
From that point, they would then be trained from their very young age with Dark Side values
in order to turn them into ruthless servants of the Dark Side, and Inquisitors when they
grew up.
To put this plan into motion, Palpatine hired Cad Bane to first break into the Jedi Temple
vault and steal a holocron containing a list of force sensitive children across the galaxy.
With this information, he then stole away the children on the list, posing a Jedi and
brought them to a secret facility operated by Palpatine.
Thankfully, Sidious’ plan was eventually discovered by Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker,
but this unfortunately wasn’t the last of it.
After the creation of the new Galactic Empire, the Grand Inquisitor was sent to an orphanage
on the planet Gaaten to steal the force sensitive children which were believed to be there.
Luckily for them, there was an Order 66 survivor named Kira Vantala there, and she managed
to drive him away with the help of the kids.
Not to mention, Eeth Koth’s own Daughter was stolen from him by the Inquisitors and
Darth Vader, after he was tracked down to his home on a remote planet after Order 66.
Eeth Koth begged and cried for his daughter’s life to be spared, but Darth Vader doesn’t
show mercy.
He slaughtered the former Jedi council member and took his daughter into Project Harvester.
Now as we can see from the Youngling inside of the amber at Fortress Inquisitorious, not
all of the children collected by this program are being turned straight into inquisitors.
Maybe this specific youngling wasn’t ruthless enough, or maybe the Inquisitors simply found
a different use for him in the amber, possibly to help lure more surviving Jedi out from
the shadows, like they did with Master Luminara.
Whatever it is, it’s clear that project Harvester and the luring system that had Luminara
captured are all connected to this central tombsite for the Jedi.
And that also leads into another question.
Are the Jedi inside the amber under the fortress actually dead?
We know that when people are placed into Carbonite they manage to survive, so maybe something
similar is going on here.
Maybe these Jedi were captured at the time of order 66, like Luminara was, and they have
yet to see their use…
It’s possible that this is yet another connection to the ongoing Palpatine Cloning and Dark
sciences program.
It seems that that is the main storyline of Star Wars Overall right now, with the Rise
of Skywalker showing the Snoke tanks, the Mandalorian showing the similar tanks in the
imperial facility, and then the Bad Batch introducing multiple new Cloning Facilities,
including Palpatine’s secret storehouse on Mount Tantiss.
Mount Tantiss was the location where Palpatine stores his greatest treasures and artefacts,
and was a very important site in his cloning process.
So although the Kenobi show doesn’t have a direct relation to that storyline, It’s
possible that the tomb scene was inserted to further push forward the dark sciences
storyline.
We know that pretty much everyone inside of the amber at the fortress is force sensitive
if they’re all Jedi, so maybe these are Palpatine’s first attempts at essence transfer
into a clone body.
Obviously the long line of Canon material coming before this tells us that the Cloning
of force sensitives is incredibly difficult, so essence transfer probably is too.
This is likely why palpatine needs so many different bodies and has them all stored down
below the fortress.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Palpatine had his own collection of Jedi frozen in Amber
at his secret base on Mount Tantiss.
Consdering it’s deep connection to cloning and dark sciences, he probably has a chamber
there ready for experimentation.
Maybe Snoke himself was a combination of a few different Jedi… mace windu is snoke
theory is back lads!
But again, let me know what you think about this theory down in the comments below, it
could be the single connecting thread throughout all of these star wars tv shows on disney+.
They’re all eventually leading up to a cinematic climax in the movie theatre either way.
Now another really scary possibility is that these bodies really do still give off their
force signature, like we saw earlier, and that they’ve put at the bottom of the fortress
to lure Jedi.
Just like what they did with Luminara, maybe these Jedi bodies are concentrated into one
location to signficantly enhance their presence in the force.
This would make it incredibly easy for any Jedi survivor to sense, and would likely be
very effective at luring them out of their hiding spot…
Imagine feeling the signatures of hundreds of Jedi, each calling out in the force…
You’d likely think that they were all captured and placed into a prison…
As the Grand Inquisitor said, the Jedi can’t help who they are…
If a Jedi survivor of Order 66 really believed that all of his fellow Jedi were being held
captive, he would likely come and attempt a rescue.
Once they arrived at the location however, that hope and optimism would soon turn to
dread as they realised that these Jedi were not being held captive, but instead being
held frozen in time.
Now the final possible explanation and the most boring is that these are just trophies
of Palpatine and Vader’s success in destroying the Jedi.
This would actually make sense, as those steeped in the Darkside are very commonly seen to
take trophies of their victories.
Even General Grievous had a trophy room stored on his ship, commemorating all of the victories
he had in battle.
Even his own lightsaber collection was a sort of a trophy collection if you really think
about it.
Considering there is only limited space in the fortress, these would have to be the most
highly prized Jedi killed during Order 66 that are stored here.
Clearly they’re not most of the big named ones, so these are probably the best they
could get.
Plo Koon’s body was probably destroyed in his fighter, Aayla Secura’s was probably
eaten on the wasted of Felcuia by Rancors after her clones killed her and much worse
for the others.
So that would explain why there aren’t too many big name Jedi in the fortress in this
scene.
As for Terra Sinube, well sadly, he would likely have been inside the temple itself
during Order 66.
At this old age, he’d likely be doing research or study in the Jedi archives, rather than
out on a battlefield fighting in the Clone Wars…
For this reason, he would have been an easy target, and even though you shouldn’t underestimate
the wise master, even he couldn’t fight back the absolutely horde of 501st Clone Troopers
that rushed into the temple during Operation Knightfall.
Such a tragic way to go for a wise and old Jedi master.
If we ever do get his story, I’d say he was quietly reading in the Jedi libary when
the Clones barged in and immediately killed him.
Whether he even had enough time to put up a fight or not is hard to tell, and whiever
way it went, its horrible to think about.
But what do you guys think about this.
Were you disgusted to see the Jedi bodies, including that of Master Terra sinube down
there?
Do you think something much darker is going that any of us currently think?
Let me know down below in the comments, as I’ll be reading all of.
And that draws this chilling video to a close.
I really hope you enjoyed, and if you did, hit that subscribe button and leave a like
and I will see you in the next one.
If you made it this far, make sure to comment down below, thank Mister Terra Sinube.
He will be greatly missed, especially with his light blue saber cane.