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July 18 - August 7, 2022
The living Force was the energy that connected all living things to one another, but the cosmic Force was the galaxy itself and was wide and vast.
You’re trying to make people feel better, trying to ease their pain. It’s less a bad thing and more that you’re overstepping. People should be allowed their emotions, to deal with them as they see fit. You’re taking that choice away from them.”
“You’re telling me no one in the galaxy can do what she can do?” Nan said, giving the Oracle’s pod a sidelong glance. “Not in hundreds of years. There are some ancient texts that reference it being a trick of the Jedi and their long-gone enemies the Sith, but who knows what is true and what is fable.”
My mother used to say politics was where truth went to die, and I’m starting to get what she meant.” Vernestra blinked in surprise but didn’t have time to parse Sylvestri’s logic.
giving earnest chase, using the Force liberally so that each stride propelled her twice as far as normal. Using the Force in such a way wasn’t advisable, as it was a great way to wear oneself out,
Stellan Gios always does what’s best for the Order.” Reath wanted to ask, “What about what’s best for the Force?” but he had a feeling he would not like the answer to that question.
“I think that maybe they cut themselves off from too much of life, so that the things they fight for are ideas, not people. It’s not a bad thing. I guess that must just be how it is when you see all of the galaxy and its secrets laid out before you in distinct degrees of good and bad.”
it’s about understanding the truth of a thing. Do you know why people join the Nihil?” “Because they’re monsters?” Jordanna laughed. “No, because we all want a place to belong. The Nihil have given the castoffs and losers of the galaxy a home. They’ve given people with nothing something, and that is a very powerful thing. Are they bad? Of course. But they’re bad because it’s all a lie based around violence.”
“There is a great deal of space between the will of the Force and the will of either the Republic or the Jedi Order.
