After the Clone Wars came to an end and the Jedi Order was taken out by their own Clone
Troopers during Order 66, a few very small pockets of Jedi survivors held hope that one
day they would be able to restore the former glory of their order, and restore light to
the galaxy…
One man however had sworn his new life to ensure that the Jedi would never rise again,
and that darkness would remain, Darth Vader.
When Vader discovered a Jedi master had survived with a group of Padawans on a remote, low
profile space station, he travelled there and chillingly tried to turn the master to
the dark side and betray his young Padawans…
So, let's breakdown how Darth Vader coldy lured a Jedi survivor to the Dark Side, and
pushed him too far…
The story begins on a sparse, dusty space station deep in the outer rim, where a Jedi
master named Gira is heaving and breathing heavily, doing everything in his power to
defend his group of Jedi Padawans.
After surviving the Jedi Purge, this master graciously took any youngling, Padawan or
fellow master he could find and brought them together to protect them…
Unfortunately however, his run of luck had just come to and end.
Imperial troopers have entered his hidden base, and no matter how many he is able to
repel, failure is sadly on its way…
there are too many troopers.
As the bodies of his fallen students dot the landscape around him, burning with the smoke
of blaster bolts, he tells himself that this is his duty…
No matter what happens, he will do anything for their safety.
As the brave Jedi Master holds his glowing blue lightsaber above the dozens of stormtroopers
he has managed to kill, he is growing too tired to continue fighting much longer.
Gira immediately calls over his comms unit to the base commander that he’s been working
with, warning him that although he’s managed to hold the stormtroopers up for now… the
remaining Padawans need to get to the escape ship immediately or face certain death.
In response, all he hears is a call to get him to the southern airlock.
While travelling towards the airlock, the brave Jedi Master senses that stormtroopers
aren’t his only problem anymore, the Empire has dispatched Lord Vader himself to the scene,
with the goal of wiping the Jedi from the face of the galaxy.
In an absolutely monstrous display of skill and power, Gira unleashes his blue lightsaber,
swinging and lunging in every direction to kill any stormtrooper who gets in his way,
including taking their heads off.
The Master then continues slicing through the stormtrooper with fury before calling
out to the base commander ,warning them that there are simply too many.
At this point, Gira is willing to give his life for the remaining Padawans on the station.
As he moves deeper into the station, Gira tells the Base Commander that he should have
warned him that the stormtroopers had arrived…
In response, the commander gives a very… concerning response, telling the Jedi that
they must have moved…
As the master kneels down to inspect the bodies of his dead padawans and defenders, he asks
the commander “You are manning the security cams, yes?” the commander responds with
a simple yes.
This infuriates the Jedi master, leading him to ask “So why were these men shot in the
back?
You could have warned them?”...
At this point however, none of that mattered anymore, the pure embodiment of cold darkness
had arrived, and had brought his blood red blade with him.
Gira was forced to duck and wave in an instant, with Vader’s red blade coming for his head.
While jumping and evading, the master recounted his Jedi teachings, which say that fear leads
to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to…
He is cut off before can finish by Darth Vader, who finishing by telling him it leads to suffering.
Vader is obviously speaking from experience…
That little bit of Anakin under the suit is coming out.
As Vader faces down the Jedi menacingly, they immediately lock blades, swinging and jabbing
at each other in a fight of light versus darkness.
Gira continues blocking the red lightsaber of Vader realizing in his mind that Vader
is so much stronger, more ruthless and relentless than himself.
He can feel his own calmness giving way to a deep panic.
And Vader can immediately sense this fear inside Gira, and feels it turning towards
hate.
The dark side is closing in on the Jedi.
Vader then slams the Jedi Master into a nearby wall with immense force, before walking over
to him and demanding that he join the dark side…
He will let this Jedi live, but on the condition that he fills himself with darkness and joins
vader.
Gira of course refuses this offer outright, but inside himself, he knows that he is feeling
the temptation.
He knows that Vader cannot be beaten, so why die now, never knowing if his sacrifice would
be worth something?
He believes that if he accepts this offer from the Dark Lord, there might be some chance
that his padawans will be spared…
As the two continue their fierce battle, Gira calls out to Vader, warning him that it doesn’t
matter what happens now, whether he lives or dies, he will fight to the death to save
his Jedi students.
The Jedi and the Sith continue locking their blades, with fury until Vader eventually gets
the upper hand and knocks Gira to the ground, leaving his lightsaber melting through a nearby
wall, making him completely defenceless.
The fight is lost.
Darth Vader warns the downed Jedi that this fight is now over and that he doesn’t have
to die.
His Master, Darth Sidious has a use for every dark sider…
Whether that be as an inquisitor or an acolyte, he wants to purge light from the Galaxy.
Vader breathes heavily and warns the Master that if he embraces the Dark Side he will
spare the padawans.
With this option on the table, Gira stares death in the face… he has to take this option
if it means his Padawans will survive and live to see another day.
Despite already making up his mind in his head, he calls out to Vader, telling him he
must be lying.
With the darkness seething inside of him, he justifies joining Vader by saying that
if he manages to stay alive, maybe he can fight off the dark side from within.
Vader responds to him by saying that he has no use for lying, and that if he surrenders
to the dark side now, he will withdraw his troops and keep the Padawans alive.
In a final cry of pain, with Vader’s red blade right at his throat, Gira demands that
Vader swear to keep his promise, and if he does…
Gira will join him in the darkness.
Vader then immediately retracts his lightsabers and says that he swears it…
The two then shake hands, and Gira agrees to join Vader’s side…
Gira has just betrayed all of his teachings, all of his wisdom and all of his experience
to save his young Padawans.
As he stands up, Vader tells him to come over to the monitoring screens to witness him holding
up his end of the bargain.
Gira can feel the cold despair settle into his bones.
He knows that he will never again escape the fear and anger of the dark side, but as he
watches his Padawans jet off in the escape ship, he tells himself that somehow, in some
way it was worth the sacrifice.
Following this, the Jedi master receives a call on his comms device from the station
commander, demanding that he be able to speak with Lord Vader.
As he hands the comms unit to Vader, he hears a chilling sentence come out of Vader’s
mask….
“Commander, are the explosives you set on the escape vessel charged?...
“Yes, lord Vader”...
A chill goes through the body of the JEdi Master, realizing that Vader and even his
commander has just betrayed him in the worst possible way.
He the rages with anger telling Vader that they swore to serve each other.
Without hesitation however, Vader orders the commander to proceed with the explosives,
and ignite the charges.
Vader then tells the weeping Jedi that his base commander swore allegiance to Vader earlier
on, once he already saw that they were doomed to fail… and unlike the Master Jedi, he
put no price on his service… which is also how Vader was able to ambush the Jedi with
such ease.
Finally, Vader breaks off his promise by saying that it meant nothing against the duty to
his master.
Moments later, Gira’s body clenches with darkness as he sees the escape ship with all
of his padawans on board, explode into a huge yellow fireball of molten hot metal and smoke.
He gave himself to darkness for nothing.
He broke his faith and his duty for absolutely nothing.
He was betrayed just like that.
Completely resigned to his fate, Gira demands to know why Vader bothered making that fake
deal if he just wanted the padawans dead, to which the dark lord responds that it was
easier this way.
His master Sidious, to possess rather than destroy… and because Gira served only to
save his students, that is impure and unworthy of Palpatine…
As Vader walks off into the darkness of the station corridors, he tells Gira that he has
more than killed him, he has totally broken him and left him as an empty shell.
In Vader’s final act, he says that when he leaves here he will serve only his master…
His duty is to serve Palpatine no matter what, the only pure form of service…
Not the impure goals of the Jedi…
As the Jedi Master reflects on his mistakes he knows he has failed his padawans in the
worst possible way…
Vader and Palpatine don’t need his service…
His duty should have remained only to the Jedi children, and not to anyone else.
Finally, realizing that he has absolutely nothing left in this galaxy, no duty, no goal,
he is finished.
He lifts the hilt of his lightsaber up to his cold chest and takes one final breath.
With the weight of his failure crushing him and the realizing that he has failed, he ignites
the glowing blue blade and impales his heart…
He will embrace his failure and serve no longer…
And that is the end of Gira’s tragic tale…
The man who lived only to serve his padawans, betrayed that service and gave it to the dark
lord… all for nothing…
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