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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 2224258" data-attributes="member: 10948">Arias looked at Kia, unmoved by her glare."You exaggerate my comments.  The Jedi were noble, this is true, but they were not without fault.  I did not suggest that they themselves were incompetent, only their methods.  I said that the Jedi were poorly trained because the very code that they followed and glorified was their very weakness.  A Jedi was taught to only become as powerful as was necessary to protect the weak.  Centuries of relative peace made them complacent, and when a real conflict found them, they were unprepared and were destroyed.  Miera and I were Jedi once.  We helped maintain peace in the galaxy for a time, and served  the Republic with distinction in the Clone Wars.  Yet we were looked down upon by our own order.  Unlike our bretheren, we did not limit ourselves in our training and did not forsake our emotions.  Because of this, we were able to find love with one another, and the fleets and armies under our command never lost a system to 'the enemy'.  You speak of history, but do you truly understand what you speak of?  Unlike the rest of the Jedi, who blindly followed the council, which blindly followed the Supreme Chancellor, I questioned this 'grand crusade' our order was on.  I examined past events, and the course of the war, and eventually found that the entire war was the last step in a grand, elaborate plan to overthrow the Republic.  But by the time we realized Palpatine's plot, it could not be stopped.  Even if we were to reveal our findings to the Jedi Council, they would never beleive us.  We had disobeyed their mandates and found love and strength outside of their restrictions, and even though we remained loyal to the Jedi, we were scorned.  The individual Jedi was strong, but as a whole, the Order was fragile.  Because of their self-imposed limits, they could not forsee or prevent their downfall until is was too late.  The thousands of Jedi were destroyed not by an army or a great fleet, but by one man.  Noble though they were, their nobility was no shield against their demise.A lightsaber is simply a weapon.  Nothing more, nothing less.  It is the warrior who weilds it that gives it worth, not the weapon itself.  I carry one because a lightsaber is a powerful weapon with which I have significant skill.  If they are tools of the Jedi as you say, why do you carry one?  Would you disgrace the memory of those who fought in died in your defense by wielding one of their 'sacred' weapons?"Arias turned to Aasan.  "What of you?  You fought along side a Jedi.  You were present throughout the whole ordeal of the Jedi Order's destruction.  What is your take on what happened?"</blockquote>

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