Star Wars - Shatterpoint
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Jedi are keepers of the peace. We are not soldiers.
If we become soldiers, we will be Jedi no more. f Yet I do not despair.
She was wrong about some things, too.
You see, she got lost fighting someone else's war. She was fighting : the wrong enemy. | The Separatists are not the true enemies of the Jedi. They are ene- Jj mies of the Republic.
It is the Republic which will stand or fall in the I battles of the Clone War. f Even the reborn Sith are not our enemy. Not really. f Our enemy is power mistaken for justice.
Our enemy is the desperation that justifies atrocity.
The Jedi's true enemy is the jungle, Our enemy is the darkness itself: the strangling cloud of fear and despair and anguish that this war brings with it. That is poisoning our galaxy. This is why my dreams of Geonosis are different now.
In my dreams, I still do everything right.
But I do in my dreams exactly what I did in that arena.
If the prophecies are true-if Anakin Skywalker is truly the Chosen One, who will bring balance to the Force-then he is the most important being alive today. And he is alive today because my Jedi instincts were working just fine.
Because my mistake on Geonosis wasn't a mistake at all.
If I had done as Depa said I should have-if I had won the Clone War with a baradium bomb on Geonosis-I would have lost the real war. The Jedi's war.
Anakin Skywalker may be the shatterpoint of our war against the jungle.
If he is-if Anakin is the being born to win that war-it does not matter if every other Jedi in the galaxy dies.
As long as Anakin lives, we have hope. No matter how dark it gets, or how lost our cause may seem.
He is our new hope for a Jedi future.
May the Force be with us all.
The End