"I told you that where I'm from there are people who are sensitive to the energy around us," he says. "We call this energy the Force and those of us who are trained to properly wield it are called Jedi. The Jedi, about ten thousand of us in all, were tasked with being peacekeepers for our galaxy, but in the three years before I arrived here, the galaxy was in the midst of a war."
He pauses, considering how best to tell this story, then says, "We had a Galactic Senate. Any planet that wished to be part of the government, the decisions, they were welcome to have a representative in the Senate. It was democratic and while it was far from perfect, it was fair. Someone was working to undermine the entire system. To overthrow it. At first they were called the Separatists, but in the end, there was a single man at the root of it all. He wanted to make himself Emperor."
This is a story a few people in Darrow know, coming from the same galaxy, but it's not a story he's told in such broad terms. Klaus knows he was a general, he knows many of Obi-Wan's stories, but he's not sure he's ever explained the entirety of the war. It's much more broad and much less personal, but it explains a great deal.
"They had an army of what we called battle droids. Not particularly intelligent opponents, but easy to build," he says. "I spent three years as a general in the Grand Army for the Galactic Republic. There was always someone trying to kill me and my men."
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He pauses, considering how best to tell this story, then says, "We had a Galactic Senate. Any planet that wished to be part of the government, the decisions, they were welcome to have a representative in the Senate. It was democratic and while it was far from perfect, it was fair. Someone was working to undermine the entire system. To overthrow it. At first they were called the Separatists, but in the end, there was a single man at the root of it all. He wanted to make himself Emperor."
This is a story a few people in Darrow know, coming from the same galaxy, but it's not a story he's told in such broad terms. Klaus knows he was a general, he knows many of Obi-Wan's stories, but he's not sure he's ever explained the entirety of the war. It's much more broad and much less personal, but it explains a great deal.
"They had an army of what we called battle droids. Not particularly intelligent opponents, but easy to build," he says. "I spent three years as a general in the Grand Army for the Galactic Republic. There was always someone trying to kill me and my men."