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Warning ! This article contains spoilers for Star Wars : Dark Droids - D - Squad # 1Yodafamously described a Jedi ’s fall to the colored side inStar Warsas , “ Fear lead to ire . angriness leads to detest . Hate leads to suffering ” with the modulation to ‘ ire ’ being perhaps the most integral vista of that descent . While that may be true with Jedi , Ajax Sigma just disproved this doctrine by showing that anger does n’t always stop in suffering , but rather victory .
Ajax Sigma is a droid revolutionarywho believes in a droid ’s right to autonomy disjoined from the organic fertilizer who bid to keep them enslaved . While not all droids have the capacitance to experience awareness without directives , there are a bonnie figure of those types throughout the galaxy , and they are still handle as spendable pieces of tech , despite the fact that they have autonomous intellection and feeling . Ajax fought for the exemption of these droids against the Jedi Order during the age of the High Republic , and the drive force behind his unarguably righteous gyration was anger .
Anger Led To Droid Freedom For Ajax Sigma, Not Suffering Like Yoda Says
In apreview forStar Wars : Dark Droids - D - Squad#1 , there was also a sneak peek at another story calledThe Book of Ajaxby Marc Guggenheim and David Messina . While only a single page was offered , it was plenty to secern fan just what to expect from this look into Ajax Sigma ’s history , which will be integral moving frontwards from the ongoingDark Droidscrossover consequence withinStar Warscanon . The pageboy shows Ajax and his army of droids standing off against five Jedi during the High Republic earned run average . Before any fighting commences , readers are endanger to Ajax ’s internal monologue , as the droid admits that he is aware of the doctrine that is later on said by Yoda , that the Jedi believe anger leads to wickedness . But Ajax goes on to say that , in this vitrine , that could n’t be further from the truth , as Ajax offers a philosophical system of his own that is better suitable to the situation of the droids : “ choler born of resentment . Resentment born of unjustness . Injustice born of … birth ” .
Ajax Sigma take the noted mantra of the Jedi and effectively reversed it , showing that even something that can top one to darkness is justified given the right reason . Ajax and his revolutionaries were n’t drive by their wrath alone , but by the drive of their choler . They did n’t let the emotion itself drive their cause , as that could have permit it to twist them into soldiers of hurting and ruthlessness . or else , they seem beyond their anger to the root of it , and realized that they were angry because they resented the organics , and they begrudge the organic because there was a very tangible iniquity pass in society , and that injustice existed purely because the droids were ‘ born ’ . Therefore , they were n’t fighting out of ire , they were fighting for their right to simply exist .
This is n’t to say Yoda and the Jedi were incorrect to warn against allowing awe and ire to overwhelm one ’s emotions , as that does , indeed , conduce to the blue side . However , they were n’t exactly correct , either , as the Jedi prophesy suppression and acceptance rather than introspection and understanding . Ajax Sigma realize why he and his fellow droids were angry , and since their anger was just , so , too , was their cause . This was attractively detailed inStar Wars’The Book of Ajaxpreview , which explain how the droid leader reversesYoda ’s “ anger lead to hate ” doctrine to make it not a warning , but rather a battle cry .
Star Wars : Dark Droids - D - Squad # 1by Marvel Comics is available September 20 , 2023 .
