(Apologies beforehand. I just got in from the bars, with a girl I was trying my damnedest to be drunk enough to ask out.)
[A write in in support of Laurent's idea]
The debate flows onward.
It's starting to devolve into simple argument.
While you're all Jedi, there's only a few of you left and the paranoia everyone in the holocall has had to develop is letting itself be known as some begin to lash out.
You speak up.
Perhaps it's the calm, even tone. Perhaps it's the sincerity which you're later told your voice carries, but by the sixth word they're all listening.
It's simple at first. Any career officer's observation.
"We're to few for an army." Speakers who were edging towards a shouting match stop. While a few look to almost reflexively begin to argue the point. They neither continue nor interrupt.
"However attacking from the shadows cannot be our way either. Not for long.
We are Jedi.
Defenders, Protectors. A Symbol of the aegis of Liberty. Of Freedom. Of life.
While we are few, the shadows will hide us, and the crowds will conceal us. The Empire's Heavy handed response to any deviation will reveal us.
Short skirmishes. We will be nothing so much as flickering glimpses.
We will rebuild. We will prepare. We will destabilize Palpatine's Tyranny where we can, and keep alight the embers of hope.
Support and Supplement will be our watchwords in this time. A rumor here, A Blurry holo there.
We are a remnant.
But we remain, now, as ever, Jedi.
We will provide that first spark of hope.
Though some may fall,
when we have rebuilt our numbers and the spark is struck, as The Emperor's cruelty is inevitably made wide known.
Those flickers of blade? Those half rumored whisperings of Jedi?
Will be proven.
There will be no more flickers.
No more shadows.
No more resignation.
Across the galaxy. All Sentients will see, and know, and believe.
Not simply hope.
Blades lit. Heads high.
The Army of The light will march again."
