Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
Reemergence of the Sith negates everything leading up to Vader tossing Palpies into an abyss. It reduces Vader and Luke's victory to a mere vanity.
Luke is essentially a monk, like Ben and Yoda. No children, thank you very much. Aside from that, it is stupidly unimaginative and over sentimental for Luke to name his kid Ben or Leia to name her son Anakin. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid and sappy sentimental crap.
I can get that.. but to play devil's advocate....
Luke's victory is against Darth Bane's sith Order. The rule of two. he ended those. there is no depreciation of his victory in this sense.
Beyond that, the Galaxy at large at one time had entire civilizeations of Sith. Their teachings and ideas and artifacts liter the galaxy. It's entire;y possible for someone to find one of those, a holocron, a book, a temple, ETC, and become a self taught sith.
Additionaly. the new sith, the "lost tribe" in the novels who are the reemergence are from Exar Kun and Darth Revan's era. a good thousand years BEFORE Darth Bane's rule of two, and Sith purge.
You see, during the sith conquest of the known galaxy, a LARGE warship was exploring in the unknown regions. it got into a firefight, and lost, being forced to run. its engines failed, it fell out of hyperspace, and crashes into a world that has VERY LIMITED technology. Many of the sith on the warship do not survive. MOST of the technology dosn't survive the crash, and the ship is damaged beyond repair.
No shuttles, not any other Lightspeed capable vessels on this world.
The sith Take over using what advanced technology they have left, are embraced as gods by the fairly primitive people of this world, and carve out an old sith empire era civilizeation on this planet for 1000's of years, interbreeding with the indiginous people of the world.
Time passes, and eventualy the planet is rediscovered by a FTL capable vesstle, allowing the sith to re-enter the galaxy. they take up piracy, start stealing ships, and start to spread.
This is where the "New Sith" come from in the EU novels.
As for Ben skywalker....
Luke was "too old" to begin the training and indocternation. Yoda told us as much. He became a jedi spiritualist. Similar to Modern day Martial arts masters, and the like.... who have families. Luke was never taught the whole " Never Love, don't marry, the jedi are your family now etc" that the "younglings" are indoctornated with.
Hell, it was his Love for his father that saved him in the end.
I find it too unbelieveable that he would not seek companionship after the events of ROTJ... witnessing the death of his father seconds after he gets him back.
as for naming a child after a beloved freind.. well.. real people do that to.
Hell, my son share's my Father's name.
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