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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3244869" data-attributes="member: 14159">Here's how I saw the Jedi being pretty much being erased from history:First, the official government story is that the Jedi were religious fanatics who started the Clone Wars as an elaborate plot to sieze power.  After all, Dooku, the public face of the Separatists, was a Jedi, and Windu et al tried to arrest Palpatine at the end.  So, some spin doctoring puts a lot of the blame for the war as a Jedi plot.  A lot of tie-in media during the prequels implied that there was building public frustration with the Jedi, including over things like their policy of taking infants away for training (ostensibly with parental permission, but pressured into it) and the Jedi were shown to have a certain pride or overconfidence in their abilities much of the time, like Jocasta Nu's opinion of their archives, or Mace Windu refusing to believe the Sith could have returned without Jedi notice.Second, with the HoloNet mostly offline and heavy media censorship, pro-Jedi archives and media find themselves censored and confiscated.  A generation of children are raised knowing of the Jedi only as fanatical religious warriors who tried to conquer the Galaxy by overturning the Republic, forcing Palpatine to rebuild it into the Galactic Empire to ensure that nothing like that would ever happen again.Third, a lot of people do remember the Jedi, like long lived races like the Wookiees, but a lot of the races more sympathetic to Jedi find themselves enslaved or otherwise persecuted.  Actually, it is canon (thanks to the novel Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader) that the reason wookiees were enslaved was as a sanction against Kashyyyk for providing sanctuary to fugitive Jedi.So, through vigorous censorship, control of public education, and ensuring people who were sympathetic to them were largely ostracized, enslaved or marginalized the Jedi went from being seen as Heroes of the Republic to being a largely forgotten group of religious terrorists.  Not everybody forgot about them, Bail Organa and the Alderaanians remembered the Jedi, but a young smuggler like Han Solo had probably never met a force-wielder before Obi-Wan, and had been told most of his life they were fanatics, myths, or exaggerated in their ability.</blockquote>

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