Why would they even keep the artifacts? Why not just throw them into the nearest star?
Honestly, it makes sense in a peculiar way.
If that were possible, then the Jedi would be able to make stars that emit Lightside Rays and make everyone happy and good forever. They do not because they cannot, ergo the Sith cannot make artifacts of such power.
Amusingly I could see the embedded stuff working in Indacelios quote.
The Sith can have someone who can consume planets, but the Jedi do not have anyone like that.
That's because the pre-Disney EU was hot garbage that should be largely ignored.
According to the Quest (which is what matters here), Nihilus was a thing, as a result the point of the Jedi and Sith having different Force Powers available to them still stands.
Not to mention the mendicant orders in Catholicism, like the Franciscans and Dominicans.
Technically, the Shapers of Kro Var are probably able to make water -- elemental powers are basically their thing. There's also the Baran Do Sages, who specialize in nature manipulation -- mostly related to the weather, but that presumably includes water manipulation on a massive scale given that they're apparently able to calm hurricanes and such.
It's even more 'literally what Atris did', since it's not artifacts so much as it is a collection of Sith holocrons, which get stored in the Holocron Vaults next to the main Jedi Archives or in the Holocron Chamber within the Tower of First Knowledge. On the plus side, at least the vaults are accessible by any Jedi Master, so there's less opportunity for one person to hoard the holocrons' knowledge and become corrupted, plus there's oversight and restrictions on accessing them. OTOH... the Jedi seem to have forgotten the whole 'passive dark-side influence' is a thing.
The Jedi are warriors. They can't do things like fight slavery and stuff if they limit themselves to charity work.
...What the hell.
I was reading 'Shades of Gray', a Star Wars story over at SpaceBattles, and came across this passage:
This struck me as typical "but from my point of view the Jedi are evil" whining, so I looked it up.
Except the text is true.
Per the wiki, "Master Vookto used his powers of elemental summoning to cleanse the planet with twin pillars of water and fire." According to the sidebar info, the casualties from the battle include:
Recall that Lianna is an ecumenopolis -- that is, a city-planet like Coruscant or Taris. Again per the wiki, its population is 5.6 billion. However, this number is sourced from Mission to Lianna, which is a RPG supplement based on the original trilogy. That means that 5.6 billion is the number of inhabitants that survived the battle -- actually, not even that, 5.6 billion is the population after the planet had two decades to recover and repopulate.
Compare to other ecumenopolises around the galaxy:
So we're looking at an initial population that probably exceeds 100 billion, reduced to 5 billion or so in a single battle. That means Master Vookto's attempt to "cleanse the planet" was responsible for most of 95 billion deaths.
- Alsakan (Core): 1 trillion inhabitants
- Denon (Inner Rim): over 500 billion inhabitants
- Karideph (Outer Rim): over 88 billion inhabitants
- Metellos (Core): 900 billion inhabitants
- Nar Shaddaa (Hutt Space): over 85 billion inhabitants
- Skako (Core): between 100-500 billion inhabitants... decades after the Clone Wars ended
And the Republic considered this a "victory", because the CIS didn't get its hands on a Sienar Fleet Systems starfighter facility.
...95 billion deaths, to protect a single
factory?!
And then the Jedi have the audacity to honor Master Vookto with a funeral pyre, over the ashes of the planet he personally destroyed?
1. Who destroyed the planet?
As were the Shaolin Monks, they were followers of Buddhism who were renowned as warriors, but there have been stories of monks fighting off bandits that threatened villages, deposed corrupt officials, and in one famous case, fought the army of a corrupt Emperor who tried to force the Shaolin to send warriors to join his army.
I counter this assertion that it solved "all the Galaxy's problems" by pointing out the existence of the Hutts, Black Sun et al.
No, the Jedi had their own Military Forces and Structures before the Ruusan Reformation, but they completely disabled them and then placed themselves under the supervision of the Supreme Chancellor to alay fears that the Jedi were building up to conquering the Republic through military force.
