#Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force

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Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force - Jedi starfighters fly past the Jedi Temple on Coruscant by Tommy Lee Edwards

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Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force - Exar Kun kills Odan Urr by Tommy Lee Edwards

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Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force

We now know that Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo married in secret in the year 22 B.B.Y., just after the Battle of Geonosis. It was only after the astromech droid R2-D2 divulged recordings of Anakin and Amidala that contemporary scholars became aware of their relationship. It is almost a certainty that Anakin told no one of his marriage, and subsequent interviews with Amidala’s relatives have determined that family members were also oblivious.

After Leia Organa Solo discovered the identity of her mother, she realized that Pooja Naberrie—a former representative of Naboo and a friend she had known since her service in the Imperial Senate—was not only Padmé Amidala’s niece but also her own first cousin. In 35 A.B.Y., Pooja Naberrie recalled meeting Anakin when she was a child, just prior to the Battle of Geonosis:

I was just a little girl, only four years old, when I first saw Anakin. Oh, my. I thought he was the most handsome man I’d ever seen, and so tall! My memory of him is entirely from a child’s perspective, and I still envision him as a giant.

I was at my grandparents’ home with my sister Ryoo, who’s two years older, when he came to Naboo. He came walking up the street with Aunt Padmé, and they brought an R2 unit. Ryoo and I always got so excited when Padmé would visit, because we sometimes didn’t see her for months at a time. And if you’re four and six years old, months can seem like years! Anyway, if I remember right, I think Ryoo and I must have thought that Anakin had brought the droid to us as a because we just started dancing around it, right there in the street outside the house. We were so silly.

I’d overheard someone say that Anakin was Padmé’s bodyguard, and I don’t think I thought there was anything strange about that. Padmé was often accompanied by a security officer named … Oh, my, what was his name? Ty? No, Captain Typho! Anyway, I just imagined that Anakin was Padmé’s boyfriend. I thought they both looked so beautiful together.

Well, Ryoo and I were just heartbroken when we learned that they weren’t staying at the house. They left just a few hours later for the Lake Country. I recall our mother saying something about Padmé needing to get away from the city and rest for a few days. We cried because we wanted the droid to stay and play with us!

A few days later, I remember there was some concern in our house about no one knowing where Padmé was. She and Anakin had been staying at a retreat in the Lake Country, but then they’d left without telling anyone where they were going. My mother was a bit frantic until a few days later, when she received word that Padmé was alive and well.

It wasn’t long after that that Padmé returned to Naboo with Anakin, and that was the second time I met him. I remember that encounter more clearly because of the way I reacted when I saw that his right hand had been replaced with a prosthetic. The fingertips were made of a gold-colored metal, and I thought it looked cold. And there were exposed wires. I guess it may have been just a temporary prosthetic. When my family and I greeted him and Padmé, I couldn’t stop myself from staring at his new hand. And then I looked up into his eyes.

He looked … well, I thought he looked angry, and I just started crying. Maybe he was angry, but in hindsight, I’m certain it had nothing to with me. My mother apologized for my behavior, but Anakin said there was no reason for anyone to be sorry. He knelt down beside me, held out his left hand to me, and asked me if I’d put my hand in his. I did. He smiled and gave my fingers a gentle squeeze, then said, “That’s for good luck, so we’ll all hang on to our fingers from now on.” I’m sure he just wanted to make me feel better, and he did. But I still felt so awful for him for losing a hand.

And then, three years later, Padmé was dead. It was awful. She was so young. And no one in our family seemed to know how she had died, or at least no one told us. My sister and I did learn that there had been assassination attempts, and that was why Anakin had been acting as her bodyguard.

At her funeral, I didn’t just weep for her. I thought Anakin was dead, too. We’d heard that the Jedi had attempted to overthrow the Republic, and that most of the Jedi had been killed. To Ryoo and me, Anakin was our hero. We couldn’t imagine him doing anything wrong. I had all sorts of fantasies about how he might have been killed or injured while trying to save Padmé, or that he’d gone into hiding because he refused to participate in the so-called Jedi takeover. Silly dreams.

But all that was … How long ago? About fifty-five years, I think. And now, my dear friend Leia Organa Solo tells me about her discovery that Padmé was her mother, and of what became of Anakin. My head is still reeling. I’ve known Leia ever since we both served in the Imperial Senate, and to think that neither of us ever had the slightest inkling that we were first cousins.

If Leia hadn’t told me herself, I don’t think I ever would have believed that Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader. It’s just so … so entirely inconceivable that that lovely young man could have become Vader. And yet that’s exactly what happened, isn’t it? To think I held his hand. His good hand. Oh, my.

i have one braincell and it is constantly occupied with the twins going to naboo and meeting padmé's family

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HANG ON HANG ON HANG ON--

WARREN FU is Sifo-Dyas?!?! No, seriously. This is not me headcasting. He really actually stuck his own face on the character as a joke.

Story per the Legends Sifo-Dyas wookiepedia entry: The first visual appearance of Sifo-Dyas was in The Eyes of Revolution comic featured in Star Wars: Visionaries. The story was written and drawn by Industrial Light & Magic concept artist Warren Fu, and as an easter egg, or inside joke, Fu used himself for the face of the Jedi Master. Artist Chris Trevas noticed Fu's likeness in the comic while doing research for his own illustration of Sifo-Dyas in Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force. For the sake of continuity, and respect for a fellow artist, Trevas contacted Fu to reprise his role for the Jedi vs. Sith illustration as well.[13]

Holy shit, yeah, I see it.

How am I just finding this out?!

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Can I just yap for a minute of your time?

(This post is about starwars)

Cool

So in my neverending absorption of discourse & pop culture

Pictured Me:

I have come across a dumbass take that people have started to dislike Light side vs Dark side of the force

I say cowards!!

I think it stems from the desire for further nuance in a property that a person already loves which is commendable but that's going about it in the wrong way

With how people like to explain it having the Light Side of the Force be all good and wholesome is no good while having the Dark Side corrupt and be evil is boring and one note so the essential idea is do away with the morality of the magic system let anyone do anything and have it be a moral thing that a character doesn't use force lightening

For something like Star Wars, the media I initially was inspired to make this idk essay, this would immediately take away most of the fascinating conflict for those who would want power even for a noble cause, the classic Taboo Powers stories (cite: Lord of the Rings, Warhammer, Full Metal Alchemist, The Wheel Of Time, most dark magic in stories actually)

But maybe it doesn't have to be, the biggest problem is... what would you replace it with?

Now I'm not some Brando Sando fan that must learn everything about a magical system there can just be magic; I see it told most people want The Force to be a neutral... force which wouldn't move the plot forwards at all. You could explore the ideological differences between the sith and jedi (and whoever else) to explain why they do what they do, something they already have done

There's books and comics that put in less abstract terms why characters (sith/jedi) do the actions they do only difference most of the time when the force is used by said character they tend to act more dramatically

(Just a personal note but since Star Wars is a space opera and honestly it's kind of genius to have an in-universe explanation as to why a character acts in such melodramatic ways)

But with the force you can have a Jedi trying to make the correct decision while the pressure from his backstory and tension with the pressure to fall to the dark side mounts in equal measure

Or

Have a Sith reconcile with the fact they keep slipping lower and lower maybe it's the situations they've been put it maybe it's the dark side they use like a drug

Another factor I'll touch on real quick is how tied to emotions the force is, generally how it's presented is Sith will go from 0-100 faster but a Jedi can push further because they've mastered stoicism so them ramping up from their might take longer but often they are just stronger and able to apply it consistently able very funny contrast for characters and how if you took away the alignment thing you'd get rid of an important motivation for staying in control

Another reason is because many folks enjoy when a Sith with all their cool powers are nuanced and actually are making some good points... I don't like this, again in general you can explore this in pure ideology although it falls apart in practicality, both Obi-Wan & Dooku are wise mentors guiding young hot blooded warriors you know what the differences Dooku is willing to let his mentee fly off the handle whenever while Obi-Wan will and does chastise his

Back to the point though practically speaking memes aside Anakin is good at thinking things over (he just picks goes with his heart anyways most the time) while Ventress is INCAPABLE of long term planning and i think that is helped with the expression of the force as an alignment charter thusly

Like with all good dark magic The Force plays on one thing above all else

AMBITION!

Jedi are meant to except restraint and structure while Sith are all about

Without ambition you make a shitty sith

And without stoicism you can't focus your powers as a jedi

But like Slaanesh in Warhammer excess takes over, constantly dipping into the powers of the sith makes it harder and harder to remain stoic in trying situations and getting angry giving into temptation becomes exponentially easier its also why it takes jedi so fucking long to start acting some of the most powerful jedi like Yoda will wait for a yonk and this is also in its own way a flaw helped codified by the swings the force makes people deal with

Anyways this was a really long post I'll be back to my regular sillylilyposting soon

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TIL Shmi Skywalker and Mace Windu are the same age, born in 72BBY

[phantomchick]

"Scorn become him well, and appetite and defiance becomes him well The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him."

"Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition... And wonders within there yet."

"He is action and power, The flush of the known universe is in him,"

"A vessel of pure Force the Chosen One will be, more powerful than any Jedi in history."

"The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion."

"Trust in the force, do you?"

“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.”

"Hallelujah to the grace, and the body, and every cell of us all"

"For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship."

"…And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as THE SON OF THE SUNS." ―Journal of the Whills, 3:127

"Dukkra ba Dukkra"

"The energy between all things. A tension, a balance that binds the universe together."

"Stars, galaxies, how are things from within Infinitely, Infinitely."

"Ekkreth, the slave who makes free"

"May the force be with you"

Anakin's pupil is scratched by a lightsaber, and he starts to see the force 👀

gift for @vandervoiz as part of the Vaderkin Creative Exchange, organised by @vaderkin-is-a-lightning-rod!

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Time Line according to Star Wars Jedi vs Sith: The Essential Guide To The Force (by Ryder Windham)

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Before Darth Sidious's demise at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, the Dark Lord of the Sith used his own genetic code as a template for a series of Spaarti-generated copies; clones meant to serve as a vessel for his spirit in the event of his original body's destruction.[16] Through the Force, Sidious had the ability to transfer his own essence into another living organism. Without a host, however, his spirit could not remain in the corporeal plain of existence.[17] Furthermore, years of over-reliance on the dark side of the Force caused Sidious's soul to have a cancerous effect on his clones, effectively causing them to age at a rapidly accelerated rate. Hence, none of the subjects were able to house their template's dark essence for more than a short period of time.[16]

Prime Clone, History, Legends - Wookiepedia

16.) Dark Empire

17.) Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force (real-life book)

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SO WHAT ARE JEDI HEALERS LIKE IN CANON? The subtitle of this project was literally, “Started making it.  Had a breakdown.  Bon appetite.” because Star Wars lore is a mess of about five distinctly separate continuities and hardly anything has been devoted to this particular niche of Jedi worldbuilding.  I spent a few hours hunting down sources, most of which were just one or two lines, at most a whole entire single paragraph! of information, and not much on how Force healing actually works. This is fair, primarily the Force is about the emotions the user puts into it, that’s the core, central theme of what the Force means to Star Wars worldbuilding, rather than nitpicking details about hard rules of how it works.  Further, the Force isn’t full of hard and fast rules on a bigger scale, it depends on the person, it depends on their mood, it depends on whether it’s a Tuesday or a Friday, because it’s about serving core themes, not about serving a system of magical rules. That said, here’s what we know of Jedi Healers specifically in canon, both as a group within the Jedi Order and as an ability of the Force.  This post will mix together Legends and Disney/Lucasfilm canon, as well as include RPG books that are not meant to be sources of canon, because the whole point of this is to give worldbuilders some tools to start with, should you want!  HAVE SOME FUN WITH IT, PICK OUT WHAT YOU LIKE, AND BUILD UP FROM THERE.  \o/ KNOWN JEDI HEALERS: - Rig Nema (Lucas canon, Disney/Lucasfilm canon) - Stass Allie (Disney/Lucasfilm canon, as a healer) - Barriss Offee (Legends canon as a healer, Disney/Lucasfilm canon as working with healers) - Mill Alibeth (Disney/Lucasfilm canon) - Nahdar Vebb (Fantasy Flight Games canon, as a healer) - Vokara Che (Legends continuity) JEDI HEALERS ROLE IN THE JEDI ORDER: Jedi healers seem to be fairly rare and they were regarded as fairly precious:

(Jedi vs Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force / Legends canon) Note:  In this instance “Old Republic” = prequels era, and while this snippet is Legends, Rhinnal has been mentioned in Disney/Lucasfilm canon in The Rising Storm.  In the FFG books, the Jedi established a chapter house on Rhinnal for many patients that was still in use and had been expanded during the prequels’ Jedi Order’s time.  So, the Jedi have Halls-of-healing-esque houses on other places beyond Coruscant. Jedi Healers were regarded as the most sensitive Jedi of all:

(Wild Space / Legends Canon) JEDI HEALERS’ STRUCTURE: Rig Nema was a Consular Jedi, which was a Jedi that devoted themselves to the study of a science or diplomacy, where she was a dedicated doctor.  Jedi specializing in healing seem to often withdraw from any combat duties, as well as they fall under this specialized role within Jedi career paths.

(The Visual Encyclopedia / Disney/Lucasfilm canon) In Legends, the Jedi Healers worked with the MedCorps Jedi, as well as the were in leadership roles in the Temple’s infirmary and on worlds like Rhinnal and H’ratth.

(The Jedi Path / Legends canon) Note:  The Service Corps are tricky, because Legends established them just after The Phantom Menace came out, before even the second movie of the prequels had arrived, much less TCW or anything.  Which means much of the content that came later had a tendency to contradict itself, as well as they do not exist at all in Lucas’ canon, and they are only mentioned in deeply obscure reference guides in Disney/Lucasfilm canon (and no mention of aging out--which further cannot work the same way, as TCW and Dooku: Jedi Lost establish that 14 year olds are young for Padawans and that 17+ isn’t rare for Padawans), but have never appeared in any book or comic yet.  All of which means:  Feel free to use them!  Source material is a buffet that you get to pick and choose from!  But be aware that some things are fundamentally incompatible from one continuity to another, and the Service Corps is a big one of those. Within the Jedi Order, there was a sub-order of the Knights who practiced healing arts, called the Circle of Jedi Healers:

(The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia / Legends canon)      “Seated on the Jedi High Council due to her invaluable role as a Jedi Consular, Master Stass Allie is gifted not only in diplomacy and Lightsaber combat, but also Force healing. As a member of the Circle of Jedi Healers and overseer of the Medical Corps, she continues to hone her healing abilities even while deployed as a general for the Galactic Republic in the Clone Wars.” (Complete list of Force Collection cards / Continuity status unknown, probably Legends as it started in 2013) Not all Jedi had to be dedicated healers to work with the medical clinic.  In Disney/Lucasfilm canon, Barriss Offee often spent time helping injured Jedi, because she found healing to give her solace.

(Stories of Jedi and Sith / Disney/Lucasfilm canon) Though, in Legends, Barriss was more directly a healer, working under Stass Allie in the Circle of Jedi Healers, where she specialized in disease rather than surgery.

(Star Wars Databank / Legends canon) Similarly, when Mill Alibeth finds her place within the Jedi Order, at Yoda’s suggestion that she use her abilities for specialized medical and spiritual assistance for war-wounded Jedi, she’s not necessarily Master Nema’s Padawan, it’s not so formalized as that, showing that there’s a lot of flexibility within the Jedi Order’s studies and paths.

(Brotherhood / Disney/Lucasfilm canon) JEDI HEALERS’ ABILITIES: While Jedi healers focus on medical training, they also train Jedi in the main components of Jedi philosophy, like greater control and insight.  When Mill Alibeth begins training with Rig Nema, she gains greater mastery over herself and the insight she has into Anakin in their meditation together:

(Brotherhood / Disney/Lucasfilm canon) In addition to Jedi healers being rare, it seems like it was taxing for them to directly use Force healing, because it drained them personally.  While much of Kylo’s ability to revive Rey seems to come from that they were a dyad (and this would not be possible with other types of Force Healing, so other Jedi could not do that particular thing), Rey does do some Force Healing, where she must calm herself and center herself to do it properly, and it takes energy from her to accelerate healing. It’s not much here, she doesn’t need to recover from it, but anything more significant and likely she would have.  So, Jedi healers have to be careful about how much they give of themselves when healing others.  This is also why Grogu collapses after healing Greef in The Mandalorian.

(The Rise of Skywalker novelization / Disney/Lucasfilm canon) Another Jedi healing ability is the Healing Trance, which would accelerate their natural healing process.  While in this trance, because their heartbeat and breathing slow, they can appear to be dead to others, and they’re unaware of the world around them.  Depending on the climate, they can last anywhere from a week to a month within this trance, without outside hydration being given to them.

(Jedi vs Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force / Legends canon) JEDI HEALERS WITH THE FORCE VS TECHNOLOGY: The Jedi Order of the prequels seems to balance between technology and the Force, that both have their place in healing.  In the episode “Voices”, Rig Nema relies on medical scans to show Yoda’s physiology, as well as a tank of dark liquid (either a bacta tank or a sensory deprivation tank, both would be useful for Jedi who need calm and no distractions to connect to the Force) to help him, but it’s balanced with his connection to the Force being plumbed, it’s not focused only on technological means.

JEDI HEALERS HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR: In addition to being extra sensitive, Jedi Healers would be spending time in places that were soaked in pain and suffering, just by the nature of injured people’s anguish.  Not only would they face the difficulty of dealing with a patient’s pain directly, Force-sensitive means being psychic, as in that pain literally soaks into the walls around them.

(”The Jedi Who Knew Too Much” / Lucas canon / Disney/Lucasfilm canon) It’s intense enough in places that have a bad accident and those feelings linger, it’s a hundred times worse in places where people are always in pain or dying.  Jedi Healers aren’t just subjected to the person’s suffering that’s right in front of them, but the thousand patients before them that have left their emotional imprint on the walls, the floor, the ceiling, the pillows, the bed, the very air around them. HALLS OF HEALING/MEDICAL WINGS:

The Medical Center and Infirmary seem to be located about halfway up the left-hand side of the main ziggurat: "Medical center and infirmary, staffed by Jedi Medical Corps.” (Complete Locations | Disney/Lucasfilm canon)

“The Jedi Temple's Halls of Healing were beautiful. They had lofty ceilings and enormous windows that spilled golden light over the blue and green and rose-pink walls and floor. Imbued with the Force's most gentle aspects, with love and nurturing and peace, they were full of perfumed flowers and green growing things, with the music of running water and the vibrancy of life renewed. They were the perfect retreat for those who were broken in body and mind, a place where the ugliness of suffering was washed away.” (Wild Space | Legends canon)

It’s difficult to get a sense of the size of it in The Clone Wars, but it seems to be fairly big, given the diversity of what we see of it, there may be more hard scientific areas and more gentle healing areas, both:    - Obi-Wan’s transformation into Rako Hardeen is in an area with multiple cordoned off areas with doors that can be fogged over. (The Clone Wars | Lucas canon , Disney/Lucasfilm canon )

Likely the same area in the episode “Voices”, it seems like it’s in an area of the Temple that’s a hallway away from windows facing the outside. (The Clone Wars | Lucas canon, Disney/Lucasfilm canon)

 Anakin and Mace share a recovery room, which has a different style from the other infirmary rooms, done in different colors and with softer lighting, indicating that they have gentler recovery rooms versus the active medical problem areas It has a window looking out over Coruscant, indicating that it’s near the edge of the ziggurat, likely an area for less critical patients and meant to promote healing. (The Clone Wars | Lucas canon, Disney/Lucasfilm canon)

 Yoda is put in the infirmary in an area that looks to be the same area, but also has a separate area for a bacta tank, which seems to be at least possibly similar to the same area Depa was in when she was submerged in bacta. When Anakin walks into the room (and later he and Yoda walk out), we see what looks like sky through a window in the background of the outside hallway, possibly indicating this was near the edge of the ziggurat as well.  (The Clone Wars | Lucas canon, Disney/Lucasfilm canon)(Kanan: The Last Padawan | Disney/Lucasfilm canon)

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There is a bittersweet twist to the fate of the Mundi family.

The book Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith - The Essential Guide to the Force reveals that Ki-Adi-Mundi had living descendants during the New Republic era, meaning that some, possibly all of his family survived - though it's possible Ki-Adi ever found out.

My thoughs about the battle of Cerea.

Sir, how did you managed to not fall after all that happened...

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Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith - The Essential Guide to the Force - Vergere meets the Yuuzhan Vong on Zonama Sekot by Chris Trevas

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

The Ysanna were a species of Force-sensitives native to Ossus, in the Outer Rim. Descended from Jedi survivors of the cataclysmic supernova that left Ossus barren, many of the Ysanna’s traditions reflected the tenets of the Jedi Order. Although primitive, they were resourceful, and some warriors were able to direct weapon projectiles with the Force.

Source - Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force (Art: Tommy Lee Edwards; 2007)

First Appearance - Star Wars: Dark Empire II 3 (1995)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

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Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis in official Star Wars art: 2007 - 2021

Illustration from Jedi vs Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force by Chris Trevas Darth Plagueis original cover by Torstein Nordstrand Darth Plagueis Brazillian edition cover by Two Dots Darth Plagueis Essential Legends edition cover by Qistina Khalidah

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The book Jedi vs. Sith: Star Wars: The Essential Guide to the Force confirms that Ki-Adi-Mundi still had living descendants during the new Jedi Order, which means that at least some of his family survived (if you want to be optimistic, it's possible they all survived). However, Mundi believed them all to be dead, and it's unknown if he ever found out that they weren't.

In legends Ki-Adi-Mundi had 4-5 wives (Wookieepedia has conflicting info) and 7 daughters. Apparently 2 of the wives are named Shea and Mawin, and one of the daughters (through Mawin) is named Sylvn. Does anyone know if there are canon names/info on any of the others, or are they OC free real estate?

[padawanlost]

I saw the Padme gif you post where she asks Anakin if Jedi are allowed to love and wanted to know are they allow to?

Anakin’s answer always seemed wishy-washy about it.

Yep. Here’s the thing, detachment, as the jedi supported, didn’t allow for romantic (or even familial) love. 

Who wept their tears on the inside, where they would not be seen. To weep for a fallen comrade was to display unseemly attachment. A Jedi did not become attached to people, to things, to places, to any world or its inhabitants. A Jedi’s strength was fed by serenity. By distance. By loving impersonally. [Karen Miller. Wild Space]

Nobody asked the obvious—whether clone troopers were everyone else or not. Joc looked from Ahsoka to Rex and back again. “What’s wrong with attachment?” he asked. “Why can’t you have attachments? You mean love, right?” Ahsoka looked at the clones wide-eyed but in slight defocus, as if she was trying to recall something. “Love is acceptable,” she said at last. “But not attachment.” “What’s love if it isn’t attachment?” “Attachment is … putting personal relationships first, caring about the people you love so that it influences how you act.” Ahsoka seemed to be picking her words carefully. Coric stared back at her. “You know, it affects your judgment.” [ No prisoners by Karen Traviss]

“After the Jedi Masters decided that it was too dangerous to train anyone familiar with fear, anger, and any other emotion that might lead to the dark side, it was agreed that Force-sensitive juveniles, adolescents, and adults would no longer be eligible for enlistment or conscription. Instead, they sought out and adopted Force-sensitive infants who would be raised and trained at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant; to prevent any emotional attachments that might cloud judgment, most recruits would never have any subsequent contact with their families.” [ Ryder’s Windham’s Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]

Anakin was just desperately looking for a loophole. Of course, if by love Anakin meant sex then he was fine. He could have all the sex in the world with Padmé, he just couldn’t fall in love with her or marry her :P

“Jedi Knights aren’t celibate. The thing that is forbidden is attachments and possessive relationships.” George Lucas.

“But ol’ Pellaeon’s just having a spot of romance, if you know what I mean. It’s not like he gets attached to any of them, is it? Is romance allowed? Can you have a spot of romance if you don’t get attached?” Ahsoka’s stripes became more vividly colored, embarrassed. Yes, she obviously did know what Coric meant by romance. It wasn’t the word he usually used for it, but Ahsoka was only a kid, and Rex had decided from the start that talking about that sort of thing was something best left to her Jedi Masters. Yes, General Skywalker, I think that’s a job for you, sir. It wasn’t a clone’s duty at all. “Romance,” Ahsoka said stiffly, “is acceptable. Jedi are not … celibate. Just … no attachment.” [No prisoners. Karen Traviss]

He felt his fingers fist. Don’t you lie. Not about this. Don’t you dare.  “You love her.” Monotonous blasterfire filled the silence between them. Then Obi-Wan nodded. “Yes, Anakin, I love her. But I was never in love. For a short while Taria and I needed each other. And when we no longer needed each other, we parted—and remained friends.” So that was how it worked, was it? Stay aloof, stay detached, never let yourself feel too much, too deeply, and the Order didn’t care? So if Padmé and I pretended we weren’t in love … [Karen Miller’s Star Wars: Clone Wars Gambit: Siege]