User:Brandon Rhea/Force Wars

The Force Wars was a war. They did stuff.

Prelude
So here’s how I see it. It was mentioned a few posts up that the Chatos Academy and the Followers of Palawa are just on our page but not Wookieepedia. Not really. There are no conclusive links, but Wookieepedia says that “Many ancient and semi-legendary organizations have been proposed to be the forerunners of the Jedi Order, including the Order of the Dai Bendu, the Followers of Palawa, and the Chatos Academy. For our purposes, I think we should establish this as fact. These were the original groups that came together.

So these three groups came together on Tython, along with all the rest of the galaxy’s “best philosophers, priests, scientists, and warriors.” I don’t think the rest of these guys should initially have been from a faction. I think over a period of a few years, maybe a few decades, these people started to talk to one another because they were becoming aware of the Force, what it was, and what it meant for those who were more attuned to it. After some time, they decide that in order to learn more they could come together on Tython. Considering it’s in the Deep Core, I think we could establish that the Force was strong on the planet, hence why they all chose to gather there.

Once they all gathered they started to learn more about the Force. What did they learn? We can establish that in more detail, since we’re just looking for broad ideas right now. Now, between this time and the beginning of the Force Wars, we have about ten thousand years. During these ten thousand years, I’d like to think of this as a “period of enlightenment,” an extremely long renaissance, if you will. It’s an explosion of new ideas, philosophies, practices, etc. At first, I think most people would have different yet similar views, similar enough to keep them working together. It’d be like modern religion. There are billions of Christians, but a lot of them have different ideas. Even within Catholicism and Protestantism there are different ideas, but they’re similar enough to keep everyone together.

Eventually, some people want to learn more about the stronger powers of the Force. These people are NOT evil. Their intentions are very good. They want to use it to further the knowledge of the Force for the benefit of everyone. That said, considering they start finding out about the dark side, called the Bogan, they get greedy, they get selfish, and they become dangerous. Canon says they are “seduced,” key word, by the Bogan. They can’t start off as evil people. They are, as it says, seduced by a power that they did not fully understand, and their noble quest for more knowledge ended up becoming their dangerous quest for more power.

Now I don’t think these guys are just going to outright attack the light siders. Something needs to happen to push them over the cliff. I think perhaps that when the light siders see the dangerous practices that these guys are following, they decide to outlaw such teachings. After all, societies ban things that they think are dangerous. Crack and personal nuclear missiles aren’t exactly at your local supermarket!

The Bogan guys, who weren’t really a true threat before, now become a threat, because they take this outlawing not to just be a condemnation of their practices but a personal condemnation of they themselves. It’s a betrayal to them, they feel outlawed, they feel like criminals. Now they want revenge, and they want to dominate the knowledge of the Force so they can practice what they want. The good guys don’t want them to do that, so then we reach an impasse. Each side has conflicting goals for dealing with the other side. What happens in situations like that? War. In this case, the Force War begins.