AnnaIn my ongoing deep dive of Star Wars history, I’ve now found the Jedi equivalent of libertarians and… yeah, that really shouldn’t be surprising.
“It’s only evil if it’s done with evil intent, otherwise it’s just sparkling midichlorians.”
Okay that joke may not make as much sense if you don’t have full context, but I just wanted to say “sparkling midi-chlorians.”
I can’t remember what they’re called, so I can’t easily look them up again (oh, darn), but in short they were quasi-Jedi that believed that using the Dark Side of the Force wouldn’t corrupt you if you didn’t have evil intent. Basically they thought they could do whatever they wanted as long as they were nice about it and that was fine. Things like murder via Force choke or lightning. Or just murder. #StarWarsLore
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Are you thinking of Gray Jedi or Gray Force Users?
Are you thinking of Gray Jedi or Gray Force Users?
@MisterMadge No, though there is a huge amount of overlap, depending on how that phrase is being used. They were followers of Potentium or something like that. They posited that the Force is just the Force, with no light or dark, no matter how you used it, but what mattered was your intent when using it. Somewhat reasonable on the surface, but canonically incorrect and ripe for abuse all over.
@MisterMadge of course, there’s also an argument to be made that the Jedi themselves were canonically incorrect in their view of the nature of the Force, believing it to be 100% light side and that the dark side is just a corruption of that. When they say “balance in the Force” they mean “lack of corruption” in it; the Force in its natural state.
@MisterMadge However, according to Lucas and a few stories that have been told and are considered canon, there are three sides to the Force. We see this in a couple of Rebels episodes, actually. There’s Ashla (the light), Bogan (the dark), and Bendu (the middle). The Force, like most things, is a spectrum.