I had always sort of assumed that there were literally thousands (millions?) of Jedi in the galaxy. I mean, a galaxy is a big damn place to keep order in.
But from seeing Episode 2 it seems like there’s not all that many. Certainly not enough so that an entire galactic population can be aware of them.
Anyway have the scoop?
Huh?
Where’d you get the idea that people didn’t know about the Jedi?
And yes there are over a thousand Jedi at the time of Prequels.
Apparently there was supposed to be 200 at the arena battle at the end of AOTC but it looked more like 40 to 50 but oh well.
I’m not getting the idea that people didn’t know about the Jedi. I’m saying that 1000 Jedi simply aren’t enough to police a galaxy. There are thousands or millions of worlds in the Republic. Even with 1000 Jedi that doesn’t lead to everyday exposure of Jedi to the populace of the Republic. There would have to be millions of the bastards.
Jedi aren’t the Galaxy’s police force. Ecah planet has their own police and militias (as evidenced by Naboos security forces in Epi 1)
The Jedi are like arbitrator warriors representing the Republic as a whole.
They don’t patrol the Galaxy looking for problems to solve, they are dispatched to locales.
The Jedi are more like high-profile FBI investigators, with diplomacy and such thrown in for good measure. They seem to answer solely to the Senate, most directly the Supreme Chancellor. Theyt deal with threats against the whole republic.
I think “Galactic Texas Rangers” would be a more appropriate description.
Wow, I’d forgotten about this.
Well, I feel the way I did when I realized that the warp drive in the old generation Star Trek really wasn’t fast enough. My technical manual said warp speed was the speed of light times the warp number cubed. That meant Warp 9 (She canna take it, Captain!) was only 729 times lightspeed. And that’s nowhere NEAR fast enough for what they were doing.
So, call it 2000 Jedi.
Say there’s 10 million worlds in the Republic.
That’s 5000 worlds per Jedi.
Unless most of those worlds are incredibly passive and require no assistance those are going to be some jet-lagged Jedi.
Those who master the force are impervious to the effects of jet lag.
Well, Christ. Sign me up! I’ve done too much travelling in my life not to want that particular skill.
“They only sent one Jedi?”
“You only had one riot.”
They don’t seem to wander much, after all, each one has to go to Tatooine at least once per movie.
It seems that most of the planets can handle thier own problems well enough without requiring outside help. Its only exceptional crcumstances that require a Jedi.
This seems like a fair enough conclusion. I mean if a planet-wide trade embargo/blockade thing only warrants one Jedi and one Padawan, well, I don’t imagine that they dispatch them for just anything.
Well, OK, I’ll buy that.
But it took MONTHS to scope that problem out.
No wonder they don’t free slaves. Who has the time?
To perform an unkilling of a dead thread…
In Terry Brook’s Episode I book it says:
Assuming that Brooks has it right (and I would like to think that Lucas or someone else in the know at least cursorily vetted the book) each Jedi would, on average, be responsible for ten worlds. You would, of course shunt more away from peaceable worlds to regional hot spots.
If Anakin/Vader is going to single-handedly thin the Jedi heard down to two by the end of Episode III he is going to be one busy little camper.
Oh, I bet he has help.
You beat me to it, Threadkiller. Actually, the number I had was 9,000, but we’re the only ones with actual numbers at all, so I think we’ve answered the OP.
There was a 17 day gap between my post and the one before it. My question is: How much did I beat you by?