Legends of a Fall: Introduction to the Museum Studies Edition. PG: Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padmé, others

[wyncatastrophe]

Disclaimer: George Lucas owns Star Wars.  This story is purely a work of fan fiction, and I am not making any profit from it.

Author's note: Written as a congratulatory gift!fic for attanagra, who totally deserved it!!!!! [/wild cheering] This particular (re)introduction won't appear in the "framing" effort; but since it is fairly common for chapters of

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I love it! I love it! I love it!

[attanagra]

I love it. I've been fascinated for awhile by the way the Empire destroyed and transformed pre-Imperial history. And it's an interesting way in which we, the fans, were in the same boat as the characters for a long time. We didn't know any more about their past than they did. And then we got the prequels and now we know so much more, and are left amazed that they knew so little. It's as if we thought we knew what that loss of the past was like for the characters, because we had the same lack of knowledge, but we (maybe I should be saying "I") weren't really conscious of it as a loss, just as an absence. Only when we learned about the past did we become aware of what a gaping wound the Imperial era really was, that so much could have been lost or suppressed so completely

Re: ZOMG YAY YOU LIKED IT

[attanagra]

I don't know about "blocking off"? text, but this comment thread is long enough that it's making each comment really long and narrow, which is always a pain, so we could always start a new one.

Re: ZOMG YAY YOU LIKED IT

[wyncatastrophe]

I say open a thread on sw_meta, with a link to the original discussion? Or I could copy/paste this thread into an entry post there (I think). Then we could simultaneously a) have a new thread and b) invite others to participate.

Thoughts? Approval? Alternative suggestion?

Oh, hey, I figured out how to make it open a new window for replies. Yay?

[wyncatastrophe]

So:

1) Did the Republic Jedi make a distinction between non-Jedi force users like the Fallanassi and so on?

It seems to me like they at least make a distinction between Force-sensitives and heretics. It is the difference between lack of training and improper training; under some interpretations of Jedi doctrine, therefore, the sort of "let it happen" Lorethan approach to Force-sensitivity - in which it is simply a part of being, rather than an integral part of religious doctrine, would fall outside formal Jedi philosophy. There is no such thing as Lorethan "doctrine," and therefore there cannot, under a strict interpretation, be such a thing as Lorethan heresy. Hardliners, however, would certainly eye them with suspicion - and Ryn, who has been around Jedi philosophy enough to do some thinking on her own, would be in a more hazardous position than most: a little philosophy is a dangerous thing, so to speak.

2) Yeah, that concerned me, too. But my copy of No Prisoners is back home, so I can't really delve more deeply into