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are you all doing once a jedi attains the rank of master
it means they have mastered the force and supposedly themselves
it is not just about how powerful a jedi is but an acknowledgement of great
wisdom and command of will and emotion which are the
reasons anakin wasn't given the rank of master himself
he had the raw power and the skill but not the emotional control
yet the separatists are led by a former jedi master who lost control of his
emotions and embraced the dark side and now dooku
isn't the only master to have fallen deppa billaba a member of the high
council and former padawan of mace windu has potentially fallen to the dark side
too and is hiding in the jungles of her own cow which also happens to be
the birth world of mace windu as the stern jedi master sets out to find his
rogue former apprentice he transverses through the dangerous
jungle with the young coroon nick rostu and his associates who are
escorting mace to see depa but then from the air
separatist allied government forces attacked them in three gunships
however they were not prepared to deal with someone as powerful
as windu the portion that i'm reading from today is from matthew stover's
shatter point it starts right after mates destroyed
one of the gunships and damaged the other two
enough for them to have to retreat but as mace takes in the carnage that he has
unleashed he realizes at that moment despite the
decades he has served on the council that like depa or even dooku i suppose
he too is not immune to the dark side so the
next words are from mace windu's own mouth
or well his mind what happened next i remember vividly no matter how much i
wish i could wipe it from my mind i couldn't tear my eyes from the two
damaged gunships that by then were mere specks of durastill soaring
into the limitless sky nick followed my gaze and said yeah i
know how you feel shame he couldn't roast all three huh i
rounded on him how i feel i had a sudden urge to punch him an
urge so powerful the effort to restrain it left me gasping
i wanted i needed to punch him to punch him in the face
to feel my fist shatter his jaw to make him
shut up to make him not look at me the understanding in his voice the knowledge
in his cold blue eyes i wanted to hit him because he was right
he did know how i felt it was an ugly shock as he said i'd
wanted to destroy those other gunships too
i wanted to rip them out of the sky and watch them burn no
thought of the lives i'd already taken in the first gunship now thought of the
lives i would take in the other two in the force i reached out towards the
burning wreckage of the ridge face above searching among the flames for what i
can't say i'd like to think i was feeling for survivors
checking to see if there were any people merely wounded who might be saved from
the wreckage but i cannot honestly say that is true i might have just wanted to
feel them burn i also cannot honestly say i'm sorry for
the way the fight turned out though i took their lives in self-defense
and the defense of others neither i nor those i defended are innocents
i cannot honestly claim that my corone companions are
any more deserving of life than were the people in the gunship what i did in the
past i could not call my duty as a jedi what
i did there had nothing to do with peace one might call it an accident of war it
happened that this small band of murderous gorillas accompanied a jedi
master and so the spouses and children of a
gunship crew have suffered a horrible loss
one might call it an accident of war even i might call it that
if it had been anything resembling an accident if i hadn't been trying to
bring that ship down if i hadn't felt the fever in my blood
blood fever the lust for victory to win at any cost
blood fever i feel it even now it's not overpowering i haven't fallen that far
yet it's more a preference an expectation
an anticipation that has been disappointed this is bad
not the worst it can be but bad enough i have long known that i am in danger here
but only now am i beginning to understand how dark and near that danger
is i never guessed how close harun kal has already brought me to that fatal
brink it is a side effect of the force
immersion of ve pod my style grants great power
but at a terrible risk blood fever is a disease that can kill anyone it touches
to use vapod you must allow yourself to enjoy the fight
to give yourself to the thrill of battle the rush of winning this is why so few
students even attempt the style the pod is a path that leads through the
penumbra of the dark side here in the jungle the shadow fringe is
unexpectedly shallow full night is only a step away i must be
very very careful here or i may come to
understand what's happened to deppa all too well
so both mace windu and deppa blabba are the only masters of vapod in the jedi
order mace taught depa so it's possible that it's that lightsaber style's
flirtation with the dark side that makes both her and mace susceptible to its
seductive influences or perhaps there's some strange darkness on horun kao
that is affecting both of the jedi masters in this way though the same
excuse cannot be said of dooku or the other jedi who fell during the
clone wars in this case with mace whether the darkness is an outside
influence or it comes from within him which
we actually know that it does since in the book he does explain
to obi-wan that he created bipod as an answer to his own darkness
it's quite possible that once the jedi became generals
they then began to move themselves away from the light as qui-gon would say they
weren't really trusting all that much in the force
it was all just politics at that point i think palpatine's destruction of the
jedi came from multiple fronts i don't think it was just him alone i
think if they were truly jedi they really would have been able to take
him out but it was their own dogmatic vision
and views or lack thereof that really allowed them to be blinded
by the might of the sith now palpatine did use the dark side to conceal their
vision and then he forced them to become
soldiers and bring war and death across the galaxy
all by manipulating both sides the senate the separatists the more they
fought as traditional soldiers the weaker the light became because the
jedi were abandoning it without truly realizing it
it was only when they had almost destroyed themselves that he finished
the job with order 66. so what do you think of this theory and what do you
think about mace actually falling into the dark side a
little bit because of this flirtation with vapod did the jedi abandon the
light or did they remain true to their ideals to the very bitter end hope you
enjoyed this video catch you in the next one until then
remember the force will be with you
always