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monition ! This article contains plunderer for Star Wars : The High Republic - Shadows of Starlight # 1The geological era of the High Republictakes plaza some 200 years before theStar Warsprequel trilogy , yet even so , it was during that time whenYodaaccidentally predicted Palpatine ’s emanation to business leader , and by elongation , the capitulation of the Jedi . Not only that , but Yoda even pinpoint precisely how and why Palpatine would acquire .
The story ofhow Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine became the Emperoris told in theStar Warsprequel trilogy as well as within theClone Warsseries . Palpatine ( using his Sith alias , Darth Sidious ) recruited Count Dooku to launch a separatist hunting expedition of united system seeking self-sufficiency from the Galactic Republic . It was all a ruse to create terror across the wandflower that could be used to control senator into granting Palpatine more ungoverned power for the interest of security . However , no one knew it at the time , including and specially the Jedi . When it was discovered inEpisode IIIthat Palpatine was secretly a Sith Lord who was meet both sides of the war for the sake of throwing the beetleweed back into an age of Sith domination , he was confronted by four Jedi Masters and penis of the Council - and Palpatine remove every one of them . This bankruptcy to cease Palpatine was the concluding nail in the Jedi ’s corporate coffin , just as Yoda knew it would be . During the historic period of the High Republic , Yoda explicitly says that if the Jedi Council could not handle one honest-to-goodness human being , then “ perhaps the Jedi Council , we should not be ” .
Yoda Believed The Jedi Order Deserved To Fall If They Couldn’t Stop Palpatine
InStar Wars : The High Republic - Shadows of Starlight#1 by Charles Soule and Ibraim Roberson , Yoda recruit the avail of a man who was once a Jedi Knight , but who fell to the dark side . The man ’s name is Azlin Rell , and when Yoda brought him before the Jedi Council , they immediately draw their lightsabers . Yoda tells his peers to let down their lightsabers immediately , and that Azlin was no threat to them . In fact , Yoda went on to say that if he was a threat , then the Jedi Council should be dissolve immediately , saying , “ If the full Jedi Council can not deal one unarmed old man , perhaps the Jedi council , we should not be ” .
While it is true that Palpatine was n’t exactly unarmed when he was confronted by just four fellow member of the Jedi Council in Revenge of the Sith , the larger tip Yoda was making still stand . Yoda was saying that the Jedi Council should be solid enough to guide the entire galaxy towards the luminance , and that nothing - particularly one old man - should be able to break them . Just in the bearing of a single dark sider , the intact Jedi Council of the High Republic geological era respond in fear , which is a chemical reaction altogether untoward of the Jedi - specially from masters . In a way , the Jedi Council of the prequel trilogy era did the same affair , by wrick their Jedi Knights into soldiers for the Republic . They dread the threat of the Separatists , and in doing so , were blinded to the true threat that lurked within their midst - that of one ‘ unarmed ’ old man .
The comparison here is mostly metaphorical , with the main lesson being that if a individual agent of darkness can destroy a pillar of light , then that pillar was n’t firm enough to stand on its own in the first station . However , the words Yoda used were eerily literal , as both Azlin and Palpatine were both relatively unarmed old men who stood before the Jedi Council as dark siders . So , with this seemingly innocuous scuttlebutt made in an attempt to calm tensions during times of stress , Yodaaccidentally predicted Palpatine ’s ascent 200 years early .
Star Wars : The High Republic - Shadows of Starlight # 1by Marvel Comics is available now .
