During the heat of the Clone Wars, the Jedi Order began rushing Younglings and Padawans through the
rankings, often skipping their Jedi trials, in order to increase their forces and produce
more Jedi Commanders and Generals to help with the war effort against the separatists. Unfortunately
however, despite the processes being much faster and much more easy, some Jedi Padawans simply
weren’t good enough to be promoted. So, I’m going to breakdown the story of the three Jedi Rejects
who were able to defend their homeworld from the vicious onslaught of the separatist droid army.
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The story begins on the distant outer rim world of Dantooine,
where three members of the Jedi Order are living out their lives as farmers
after failing to progress any further in their Jedi training. After failing their Jedi training
at the academy on Coruscant, these younglings were reassigned to the Jedi Service Corps, and
further to the Agriculture Corps. Because of this, they were forced to move to the planet Dantooine
and serve the Jedi Order in other ways, instead of becoming a Jedi Knight, and being a peacekeeper.
While one of the farmers, named Wass, was ploughing his luscious green fields,
he is quickly shrouded in darkness, as he looks up to witness a fleet of
separatist ships entering the atmosphere of Dantooine. This sends Wass into a deep panic,
causing him to sprint back into the nearby housing area, where the other Jedi rejects
were also living, and contributing to the small little community that they had formed.
As Wass arrives inside the large building, he frantically shouts to
the others that “they’re here”. The rest of the Jedi failures are incredibly confused,
asking “who? The Jedi?”, but Wass quickly responds telling
the group that the separatists have arrived at their peaceful settlement.
The others are in complete disbelief that the separatists would attack such a peaceful world,
and even go as far to say that they would rather them attack the Jedi Academy on Coruscant,
which they were of course kicked out of. In response to this, Wass kicks some sense into
the group, telling them that it doesn’t matter, but they do need to evacuate everyone immediately.
And let me know in the comments down below, after you’ve finished the story,
which of the three is your favourite failed jedi.
Unfortunately, before they can go forward with the evacuation,
a horde of B-1 battle droids quickly cuts the group of kids off, leaving them surrounded,
with nowhere to run but back inside, where they will be trapped and easily killed.
Because of this, Wass then suggests that the group clear a path through the battle droids,
but the boy next to him, Zac, responds, saying “How? We don’t have weapons!”.
Wass then Quickly responds, saying “we have them outnumbered,
but only if you ask your friends for help”. Zac and the girl have
absolutely no idea what Wass is talking about, causing them incredible confusion.
Immediately following this, one of the B-1 Battle droids reports to his commander that they are
picking up a serious amount of unusual tectonic activity. The B-1 commander then responds to this,
asking “What? This planet has no history of tectonic activity”, but is quickly cut off
by the sound of a thumping horde of Dantooine creatures. The massive animals then bulldoze
the entire unit of B-1 battle droids, crushing them and breaking to the bits. The young force
sensitive female is absolutely shocked by this, asking how Zac was able to pull off such a thing.
Wass then tells her that Zac is particularly attuned to the force ability known as animal
bond or animal connection, which allowed him to tame the beasts to his will and direct them as he
wished. This of course is also the same ability that Ezra Bridger used in Star Wars Rebels,
and that Obi-Wan Kenobi used on Ryloth in the Clone Wars series.
Moments after this, Wass and the girl rush out of the building, past the totally destroyed battle
droid units. As they do this however, the girl asks Wass why they aren’t running towards the
Jedi airships above, which is their only way to safety. Wass quickly responds, saying “I’m not
running. We got kicked out of the academy, I’m not letting them kick us out of here”.
He then tells the girl to get the other Jedi rejects into the airship, while he rushes
towards a nearby tractor. As the two rush off in their separate directions, a flurry of blaster
fire is quickly hurled in their direction, as another group of droids quickly move in.
Wass manages to dodge the incoming fire, leaping into the nearby tractor, but as he is mounting it,
the ignition key unfortunately drops out of his pocket and onto the green grass below.
He very soon realizes his mistake, sending him into a panic, as the blaster fire from the
droids continues to ring out all around him, but he quickly spots the key on the ground.
While this is happening, Zac is lying lazily on the luscious grass, with his animal friends,
and is quickly ambushed by a unit of B-1 battle droids. In the same way, the young girl is also
ambushed, with the battle droids chasing her back to cover inside of the nearby storehouse.
Once inside, the girl then drops to her knees, with tears streaming down her face,
reminding herself over and over again to master her own fear.
As this is happening, Wass then uses all of his previous training and casts his past failures
out of his mind, attempting with all of his might to use the force to grab the key to the tractor.
Cutting straight back to the girl, she manages to harness her power in the force and surrounds
herself with levitating farming tools, as Zac is completely surrounded by the B-1 Battle droids.
The B-1 commander then firmly tells the young boy “We have you surrounded”,
but Zac has a smile on his face, and responds “That’s what I was going to say”,
before revealing that he was once again able to use his animal connection force
ability to surround the battle droids, with his animal friends.
The young girl inside the storehouse is also completely surrounded,
but she is able to continue using her force power to summon a metal pipe to her hand,
while the other farming tools are levitating around her.
Moving back to Wass, he finally manages to break through his struggle and harness his
force telekinesis to grab the key, and use the tractor to crush the B-1 battle droids,
sending them fleeing in horror.
After this, the girl is able to use the metal pipe as a replacement for a lightsaber,
gracefully deflecting the blaster bolts fired at her, and using it to slice the
battle droids in two. She does eventually become overwhelmed by the immense fire against her,
but she is able to use her full potential in the force to destroy each of the droids,
with a thumping crash. It’s honestly so awesome to see this group be able to use
their force powers for something meaningful, despite being kicked out of the Jedi academy.
Soon after, Zac arrives with his animal friends,
and travels atop them to collect Wass, who he can sense is in the outer fields, through the force.
Once they ride out to the fields, they witness Wass going absolutely crazy, destroying droid
tanks and intending to stay on Dantooine, giving the others an opportunity to escape.
Zac however says that “sacrifice is a Jedi trait… But we do not abandon our own”.
As Wass continues to wreak havoc on the droid forces he begins to lose hope,
but knows that what he is doing will save the lives of many of his fellow Jedi. Fortunately for
him however, the Jedi airship quickly approaches him, casting a large dark shadow over the area,
bringing a smile to his face, as he now knows that he will live to serve another day as a Jedi.
Finally, the Jedi airship is able to land safely and collect the young boy,
safely bringing him aboard and reuniting him with his fellow Jedi from the agriculture Corps.
Once aboard, Zac calls to set a course for coruscant. Wass
is pleasantly surprised by this, realising that they are being taken back to the Jedi Academy.
And to end the story, Zac says “of course, I’d say it’s about time we graduated”,
as they zoom through hyperspace on a course back to the Jedi temple.
Once there, they will very likely receive a direct, automatic promotion because of their
brave actions on Dantooine, and those actions will likely count towards their Jedi trials.
Let me know down below if you think this group of failed Jedi will eventually go on to become
great Jedi and graduate to become full Jedi Knights. Either way,
they were probably slaughtered by Anakin inside of the Jedi temple if they did go back,
so maybe we should hope they weren’t accepted back into the main Jedi order.
So that was the story of the group of Jedi rejects,
who banded together and used the force abilities they didn’t realize they could
to defend their farming settlement on Dantooine, in the name of the Jedi Order.
But let me know what you thought of the story down below. Who was your favourite!?
Also make sure you let me know down in the comments what you think the
girl jedi should be named. As is pretty common with these stories,
many of the characters are sadly never given a name.
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