“Here’s what Bail was right about. The Jedi were good. Like all of us, they failed to secure the peace. They were drawn into the war like everyone else, and their hands were not clean. If I can accept the blame for my part, they certainly earned their share, too. But”—she spat the word and nearly laughed at her own stridency—“for thousands of years they could have ruled the galaxy, and instead they chose to serve. They had their own vested interests, their own ways of politicking. But they believed their power came with an obligation to live humbly, to do good without asserting authority.
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