But what happened to Agri-Corp?

[neotoma]

For those of you who read the EU Star Wars novels, what do you think happened to all those cast-off Force-sensitives the Jedi had shuffled off into the Agri-Corps after Palpatine took over?

I mean, if the man can get the Jedi labeled as traitors and destroy the Temple, is is he going to let hundreds of partially-trained not-quite-Jedi wander around? Especially when they are conveniently boxed up into marginal and isolated worlds far away from the Galactic Core?

On the other hand, if any of those partially trained Agri-Corps people survive the establishment of the Empire, would they drift into the Rebellion?

After all, they are Force-sensitive and were Jedi-raised. Even though they were dismissed from the Order, they wouldn't exactly be pleased with the Purge -- if only in a "they killed all the Jedi, am I next?" way.

Could this explain the older man in ANH (ETA: General Dodonna, as it turns out), the one who briefed the pilots about the Death Star? He finished his explanation with "May the Force be with you" -- a bit of an odd wish if the Jedi were completely discredited and their teachings suppressed. Could he have been a former Jedi initiate? (He probably has a name and a backstory, but Lucas is terrible about naming characters in the credits only.)

And after RotJ, does Luke wind up with Agri-Corps workers gravitating to him? They are partially trained after all, and the Jedi Order (ie Luke) could certainly use the help getting re-established. It's not like he had more than a year or two of training himself, all told. Instruction from blue!ghosts can't be that helpful, especially considering one of them is former Sith who never made it to the rank of Master and another has only ever manifested as a voice...

Comments

[twistedchick]

We don't know that the Jedi teachings were discredited *outside the Empire*. We only know they were discredited among the people around Darth Vader and Moff Tarkin. That would seem to me to indicate the possibility that they were still alive, if only as folk wisdom, within the Rebellion.

Anything is possible (including that the actor is the uncle of Ewan McGregor...)

[dphearson.livejournal.com]

But here is the thing:

That like being raised by Catholic priests and then being told "So sorry, no brotherhood for you."

Many rejected priests wannabes become the most virulent of atheists- or actors ( Levar Burton!!) It also brings to mind the period after the French Revolution, where many minor nobility turned against their lieges and saw them murdered for the good of the newly formed Republic.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

But there are two points that work against them becoming 'atheists'.

One, Force-sensitives always feel the Force. It would be like trying to deny light exists.

Two, they were raised in the expectation that they were to serve -- but it is pretty clear from the get go that not all Younglings go on to become Knights -- and they know no other culture.

I think that more than a few of them might have turned Dark and served the Emperor willingly, though. That's a definite possibility.

[dphearson.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Good point.

And I think it is possible that some of them did serve Palpatine, especially in the early days if Palpatine made the Jedi order look corrupted and weak.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Well, in the EU (which I don't always regard as canon), Palpatine did have Dark Force Adepts serving him. They had to have come from somewhere.

But I do like the idea of a lot of AgriCorps people running scared right into the arms of the Rebellion.