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Who: Ahsoka + You
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Not really (though if you want to find her, she'll be in her room on the Starstruck)
When: idk today

Hey! Soooooo since we're all stuck here, and going outside on this planet kinda sucks bigtime right now, I've been making it a project of mine to try and learn as much as I can about the different cultures of the other worlds people here are from! Particularly Earth, because there's so many of you! Someone told me the collective noun is "Earthlings"? Anyway.

I've been trawling through the media library, but to be honest, I'm not very good at sitting and reading for long periods of time. So I figured, why not just ask you guys instead?

Tell me one (or more!) thing about your home world that you think is culturally significant. It can be traditional, religious, social, or pop culture is fair game too! After all, it's no fun when people are making pop culture references that fly over my head.

The only rule is that you can't say the same thing as someone else. You ready? Go!

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Well, there's always the Lost City of the Jedi... not nearly as cool or important as yours, though.

Edited 2016-05-25 15:11 (UTC)

Let me be the judge of that. And in the very least, the city is important to you, no?

That's right!

The Lost City is a secret city and terraforming station! Kinda like the one on this planet-- only not gone all wrong.

Thousands of years ago, at the end of the Great Sith War, members of the Jedi Order chased this really infamous Sith to the temple on Yavin 4. The Jedi wanted to obtain the end of the Sith and bring the war to an end so badly, they launched a-- well. [She tries to think of a phrasing Felix will understand, rather than sci-fi technobabble.] Let's call it a massive bomb of destructive energy. Yeah. They launched it at the moon. The Sith's spirit was trapped inside the temple while the bomb ravaged the surface of the moon. It was an environmental catastrophe.

The Lost City of the Jedi was built to nurture the it back to health. But at some point, over time, all the organic inhabitants left, leaving the city behind to be manned only by droids.

Hmm. [It seems the Jedi aren't without fault, a fact that, to Felix, Ahsoka seems to demonstrate quite nicely. He could easily point out the hypocrisy in their actions, but he isn't here to start a fight. He's here to learn more about her people]

I imagine this did not actually eliminate the Sith as completely as they had hoped, if it's a threat you still fear today.

[#AWKWARD.]

Oh... no. Well-- obviously not.

[Given their first encounter.]

[He thought as much, and he'll pause so they can both absorb that]

So why is that? Were they really not the last, or is it more than that? I suppose what I am asking is - what creates a Sith or a Jedi? Is it...culture? Training? Are you simply born as one or the other, and if so, how can either side ever cease to exist entirely?

[That's the part he finds the most relevant. If, in her terms, what he is is of no fault of his own, then he feels he shouldn't be condemned for that. Or, he wonders, if there is a possibility that that nature can be changed, to one side or the other.]

No-- no. It's got nothing to do with how you're born.

The Force is-- the Force is energy. Just energy. It can't be inherently... good or bad, all on it's own. Without anyone to use it, it just simply is.

It's the way that a person chooses to use the Force that makes them Sith. I've heard stories about Sith who came back to the Light, but... I don't know if they're anything more than that. The Dark Side is... it's seductive. Powerful. Master Yoda always said... once you start down that path, it's impossible to stop. Ultimate power... corrupts people.

That seems...fatalistic. [And damning to his own case, in her eyes, which is almost worse.]

What about the Dark Side makes it more powerful than how you use it? If it's all the same energy, wouldn't it all have the same potential?

A Jedi's inner strength comes from peace and balance. A Sith's inner strength comes from rage and pain.

That's why the Dark Side doesn't understand the meaning of restraint. Essentially-- you're right, we have the same potential, yes. But the difference between a Jedi and a Sith is that while a Jedi knows that they have the same power-- the power to compel someone to do something they don't want to do, the power to hold someone's life in their hands and extinguish it-- a Jedi would never use it.

We fight only as a last resort, and even then, only to protect themselves or others. When we fight, we don't fight to win, only to neutralise. A killing blow should be avoided at all costs. A Sith doesn't care about any of that. That's what makes them so dangerous.

[Some of that begins to sound a little bit familiar. The Cabalines, too, had sought to prevent that kind of behavior by expunging or condemning anything that might lead to overstepping those bounds, though their methods had proven shortsighted. The Jedi appear to have adopted similar self-limiting tenets]

I understand that power, of any kind, is what you do with it. Or rather, what you don't do with it. Restraint is always something that needs to be taught, and it isn't always something we succeed. Your ancient Jedi clearly made some mistakes as well.

Are the Sith taught to abuse that power, or is simply anyone who isn't a Jedi?

I don't know that it's either. You can be a Force user who isn't a Jedi without being a Sith. I left the Order, so technically that's the category I fall into.

But I don't know that it's correct to say that all Sith are taught either. Some might be. I think for others it just becomes instinctual. Like... their anger or their pain or their desire for power is so great, they can't imagine tapping into anything else.

You left? [While he's tempted to use that against her for her criticism of him, he opts for neutrality. Which is fitting, in his instance]

Why?

It's a really, really long story.

But the short version is that I had some pretty major philosophical differences with the Jedi Council on how things should be run.

I know a little bit about that sort of thing...

[Granted, few Cabalines liked agreed on everything, but he'd never been good at towing the party line even before he'd adopted a few entirely opposing ideas]

Perhaps another time, then.

[It absolutely something he's going to file under matters to investigate at a later date.]

[Ahsoka nods, looking downcast.]

Another time.

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