The Fact Concerning the Galaxy’s Historical past

If you actually give it some thought, Star Wars has been mendacity to you from the very starting. In 1977’s A New Hope, some important reveals are made in regards to the galaxy’s historical past. Nonetheless, they’ve truly change into much less true over time (however in a great way).

In A New Hope, Luke Skywalker learns about his father, the Jedi Order, and the Republic from Obi-Wan Kenobi. Whereas he clearly warps the reality about Anakin Skywalker and would not reveal the complete image to Luke, it is also change into fairly obvious 48 years later that Obi-Wan wasn’t being truthful about Star Wars‘ galactic historical past both.

Star Wars Has Been Completely Mendacity About The Galaxy’s Historical past

In A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi claims that the Jedi Knights have been “the guardians of peace and justice within the days of the Republic”. He additionally says that they served the Republic for over a thousand generations earlier than the Clone Wars and the “Darkish Instances” of the Galactic Empire.

Consequently, the implication right here, earlier than every other Star Wars media, is that there have been generations of nice peace earlier than Palpatine’s Empire, one thing we now know is intrinsically unfaithful.

48 years later, we have seen a number of examples of strife and battle previous the occasions that led as much as the Empire. For instance, we all know from Assault of the Clones that the Republic was reformed after a disaster solely a thousand years earlier than the prequels, alluded to by Chancellor Palpatine amid fears of imminent warfare with the Separatists (The Clone Wars).

Likewise, current years have proven us the Excessive Republic Period units solely tons of of years earlier than the prequels, that includes main conflicts that noticed whole sectors of the galaxy being minimize off from the Republic. In essence, we now know that Kenobi’s recollections of Star Wars‘ previous have been way more idyllic than the harsher, darker actuality.

Star Wars’ Largest Lie Is The Whole Level

Having mentioned that, that is truly an ongoing lie that is smart given the context of your complete Star Wars franchise and its ongoing wrestle with what’s successfully nostalgia for days gone, no matter what the fact actually was.

In any case, what number of occasions have we seen battle come up within the Star Wars galaxy that stems from a want to recapture one thing that was misplaced or destroyed?

Luke Skywalker tried and didn’t carry again the Jedi Order, having ignored the issues that caused its undoing. The First Order was an try to revive “order” via fascism and the authoritarian rule of the Empire, ignoring all of the corruption and flawed techniques that equally contributed to its demise.

Even the Jedi Order itself clung to their ideologies and dogmas of the previous within the face of a altering galaxy. Sarcastically, one might even argue that Lucasfilm itself has an issue and an overreliance on nostalgia, although not less than in-universe it is a good downside to have in a story sense.

Nostalgia lies, as the reality is all the time much less nice than the nostalgic reminiscences, and it is completely fascinating to consider how that concept has consistently been taking part in a task since 1977.