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“Remember: power alone is not enough. Patience. Cunning. Secrecy. These are the tools we will use to bring down the Jedi.
What good were family or friends if you didn’t have the strength to protect them?
“It can be difficult for you to remember that violence should only be used when all other methods have failed.
“Sometimes the proper, and more difficult, course is not to act. Even the greatest warrior often fails to wait until the moment is right before striking out. That is a mistake we cannot afford to make.”
“Information is a commodity. It can be traded, sold, and purchased. And in the end, credits are only as valuable as the secrets they can buy.”
This was true power: to twist another to your purpose, yet have him believe he was in control. Kel was her puppet, but his pride and ego had blinded him to the strings she used to make him dance.
It is far easier to manipulate and control a single enemy than twenty.
We must let our enemies weaken one another while we stay hidden and grow strong.
To win a world, you must win the hearts and minds of its people,
Much older legends identified Tython as the original birthplace of the Jedi Order over twenty-five thousand years before. According to the tale, priests and philosophers of the world had the ability to draw upon a mystical energy they called Ashla; a power that represented all compassion and mercy in the universe. They were opposed by a rival group that drew their strength from Boga, the manifestation of raw passion and pure uncontrolled emotion.
The stories said that a great war ensued between the two groups, with the worshipers of Ashla emerging victorious.
The first Jedi Knights supposedly had evolved from the survivors of the war, creating the first lightsabers ...
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Ashla and Boga became more commonly known as the light and dark sides of the Force.
