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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...
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...
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