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The Slave Who Makes Free: An Anakin Skywalker Quest

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[x] Voices, tell me more, one of you is proud to be a Jedi, and one of you is proud not to be one. I seek both of your wisdom as someone becoming a Jedi but not raised to become one.

Who better to guide Anakin's path than the legacy he is destined to leave behind?
 
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I am slightly concerned that both of the voices we heard are statements from canon Anakin's time as Vader (one was Luke, the other Ahsoka, I am pretty sure).

I was not expecting visions of a dark future as Darth Vader already. I wonder if this is a similar thing to Luke's vision at Dagobah, were the Force is warning about Anakin's possible dark path? Either way, I find this a bit concerning, and I am a bit wary of accepting those visions as truth as a consequence.
 
[:V] "Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!"

[X] You imagine a kinder, fairer world. Among the threads and voices in the darkness, see if you can find a path to it.
[X] Reflect on the path you've taken, and the one that is to come.
 
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[X] Meditate on who you are, and who you wish to be.

Obi-Wan advised radical honesty. I think it's worth a try.
 
[X] Hear. Feel. Think.

Final Fantasy 14 reference!

[X] Reflect on the path you've taken, and the one that is to come.
[X] See yourself in Grievous' place. The steps that brought you here, the flames that drive you, the loss that defines you. The young Jedi opposing you. How did it come to this?
[X] You imagine a kinder, fairer world. Among the threads and voices in the darkness, see if you can find a path to it.
[X] Remember the stories of your mother and look back, back, and further still.
[X] Meditate on who you are, and who you wish to be.
[X] Turn on your flashlight, and look for crystal. It's why you're here, is it not?
[X] Look upon the infinite possibility of Anakin Skywalker and know the finite truth of your present self.
[X] Let go, let the Force wash away everything.
 
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[X] You imagine a kinder, fairer world. Among the threads and voices in the darkness, see if you can find a path to it.
 
[X] You imagine a kinder, fairer world. Among the threads and voices in the darkness, see if you can find a path to it.
[X] See yourself in Grievous' place. The steps that brought you here, the flames that drive you, the loss that defines you. The young Jedi opposing you. How did it come to this?
[X] "I am a Jedi, like my father before me." That voice, those words...you are drawn to it for some reason. The voice is one you have never heard, and yet it is familiar. You have to know who spoke, and why.
 
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[X] Remember the stories of your mother and look back, back, and further still.
-[X]Tatooine was free once, before the first Depur came. You don't know who it was, you cannot know, but from the first Depur came the first slave, and from the first slave came Ekkreth. This is a story older than bone, older than blood, older than stone. Look, listen, hear the wind for it remembers where you can't. You are free now, freer than you've ever been, but that comes with a price. To be free is to be Ekkreth, to be her eyes, her hands, her mouth, her kindness, her teeth. You cannot kill the Depurs, not all of them. They are cruelty and malice, indulgence and apathy. So long as there are chains there are Depurs, but so long as there are Depurs there is Ekkreth.
-[X] Look, see the broken chains around you. The chain of Tatooine, who's last link you hold as a reminder. The chain of the Depur, broken with pain and steel, in the old way, in the only way. The chain of your fury, nebulous and unforged, but waiting for the fires to smelt it. You are free, freer than you've ever been, but Tatooine was free once. The chains are still there, as are the Depurs, and they hunger for you, for you are Ekkreth.
-[X] Listen, listen, for the Depurs want you deaf. Look deeply and without bias, for the Depurs want you blind. Be gentle and kind, for the Depurs want you cruel. Learn, for the Depurs want you stupid. Talk, for the Depur wants you silent. Love truely for the Depurs would twist even that into a chain.
-[X] No matter where you go, you will be of Ekkreth, for she was cunning and full of tricks. Not matter how you rise you will be of Ekkreth for she was there when you had nothing. No matter how you stumble you will be of Ekkreth for she loves you still.
-[X] Find your blade Sky-Walker.
 
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"I would want to make them hurt," you admit quietly, still looking down at Obi-Wan. "We've suffered so much, while they sat around getting fat off of everything they took from us. I'd want to hurt them for it."
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Anakin is aware of who he is.

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You nod. "Because if I were with the people I love, they'd tell me that freedom is more important. Right now, the Kaleesh are getting a chance that Tatooine never got: a chance to live without Masters. You could stay here, and keep killing people in a war you've already won. Or you could go back to them and help them make the most of it."
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But there's more important things then a desire for revenge.

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Obi-Wan smiles then, calm and patient as always, but also, perhaps, just a little bit smug. "Check your mask."

Grievous tilts his head curiously, and raises a four-fingered hand to run it across the skull-faced mask. It comes away blackened with carbon soot—from a clean, precise lightsaber burn running in a line from temple to jaw.

Understanding dawns. "You allowed yourself to be injured to strike a decisive blow," Grievous realizes.

"A Jedi's life is sacrifice," replies Obi-Wan.
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Obi-Wan out here showing his life philosophy while fighting and it's great.

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"We are not the Banking Clan, Khagan Grievous," Obi-Wan says. "We are not even the Senate. We are Jedi."

"And we stand up for hope in this galaxy," you add. "No matter how much it hurts."

Hope is what he needs now, more than anything. If he is to accept a peace, he must believe that better things are possible.
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Anakin showing off his understanding of people very well.

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What he asks is more than merely difficult; it is nearly impossible. The Republic moves ponderously even at the best of times, and fulfilling his demands would create a precedent that could be used against the interests of some of the galaxy's most powerful figures. A year is a vanishingly short span of time in which to change the course of a civilization.

But given the things you have already done in your short life, and the things you still plan to do?

You can work with "nearly".
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The Republic can suck but that doesn't mean they shouldn't try.

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But you do have one more thing to ask: "Your witness. The one who couldn't be here. What was their name?"

His eyes meet yours, and for the first time, there is something in them besides fury.

"Her name," he says, "was Ronderu lij Kummar."

And with that, he turns his back to you, making the name of his beloved his parting words.
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Anakin and Obi-Wan have earned Grevious's respect.

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What you realize is this: to perceive Chara Vaere in the Force is to perceive the galaxy through her eyes. And the galaxy as she sees it is a single point of light—not the Captain herself, but her homeworld of Coruscant, the heart of the Republic—floating alone in a sea of darkness. Some places are close enough to it to bask in its glow; others are shrouded in infinite night. The waves of barbarism lap ever upon the shores of civilization, and thanks to you (as she sees it), the tide has risen today.

To Captain Chara Vaere, the darkness cannot be changed. It cannot be made into anything other than destruction and chaos. It can only, with enough courage and luck, be pushed back.

It strikes you as a deeply depressing way to think.
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She's a republic loyalist who firmly belives that it's the only thing that keeps the Galaxy from being a hellhole.

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"I see," says the Professor, his servos whirring as he nods. "I'm glad to know his family's been prospering. He was a good lad. Solid head on his shoulders. A bit stuffy, but that's upper-level Coruscanti for you."

Captain Vaere stares at him, utterly nonplussed. "He was commissioned twenty-five thousand years ago."

"Twenty-four thousand, nine hundred and eighty-six," replies Professor Huyang, "but who's counting?"
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The professor is absurdly old.

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But the silence that follows is deafening. The Knights and the Professor clearly want you to find your own way forward, and it seems that whatever your friends went through in the ice caverns, they don't wish to speak of it so soon.

"Thanks, everybody," you deadpan. "Very helpful."
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Anakin's deadpan was great.

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"Ordinarily," says Obi-Wan, "you're meant to receive some wisdom here about the responsibility a Jedi bears in carrying a lightsaber. But I don't think there are any words that can drive that point home more than what we've just been through. Grievous showed us both that the galaxy is more complicated than a simple, binary divide between peace and conflict. Remember that lesson as you go on."
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Anakin learned a lot from that experience.

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"I am a Jedi, like my father before me," promises a young man's voice from one side, while to the other a woman snarls, "I am no Jedi!"
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Visions of the future that's neat.

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[ ] Write-in
In an infinite universe, all things are possible.
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Welp shit.
 
[X] Let go, let the Force wash away everything.
[X] Look upon the infinite possibility of Anakin Skywalker and know the finite truth of your present self.
[X] Ask the force "what was lost, and what was forgotten?"

radical acceptance
 
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[X] Reflect on the path you've taken, and the one that is to come.

Ah yes:
-General Grievous appears
-He's about to kill a lot of people
-Him and Obi-Wan beat the crap out of each other
-In the end, he gets away without doing the mass murder but he'll be back
Classic
 
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