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[resnipstance]

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!

Comments

[resnipstance]

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.

[lord_wizard]

[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?

[resnipstance]

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.

[lord_wizard]

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?

[resnipstance]

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.

[lord_wizard]

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.]

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka nods, looking downcast.]

Another time.