Discussions Jedi Survivors and The Rebel Alliance

My first post. Anyway I was wondering about the relationship if any between the surviving Jedi and the Rebel Alliance. I haven't read every comic or book so there might be things I don't know but I was wondering why didn't surviving Jedi join the rebel alliance? I assume most of them supported it but it doesn't seem like all of them joined. Also I know the alliance wasn't founded by Jedi and wasn't a Jedi organization but did the Rebel's have any knowledge or sympathy to the Jedi and view them as victims of the Jedi or feel indifferent about them? Basically was their any relationship between Jedi survivors and the Rebel Alliance?

 

Welcome and nice idea. I believe Yoda says somewhere along the line that once he's gone that Luke would be the last of the Jedi, so perhaps there were no other survivors, save Obiwan, who was already dead. EU says otherwise I know. Do you think your thread might be better suited to the EU rather than the CT?

 

Yes I just joined so I wasn't sure where to put this. My bad.

 

Not at all. I'll just shift it over to the EU section.

 

Bail Organa was a founding member of the Alliance and knew all about Yoda and Obi-Wan still being around and all about Luke and Leia. Even knew who Vader really was. To me he was always part of a plan to safeguard the twins until they could (either or both) begin training to help destroy Vader and the Emperor. What was left of the Jedi and the beginnings of the Alliance were very much intertwined. Many citizens believed the propaganda that the Empire spread about the Jedi being traitors, but many more were just too afraid to say different. I think the majority of the Alliance were sympathetic to the Jedi and saw them as victims of the Empire. We saw in the OT that they still used "May the Force be with you" as a mantra years after the Jedi were gone. Jax Pavan was one Jedi who fought for an early Rebel Alliance cell on Coruscant. There are no doubt more, but I'm drawing a blank right now.

Just remembered, you could also include Kanan Jarrus.

 

Well I believe that the Rebel Alliance was founded and started gaining ground later during the Empire era while most of the Jedi were wiped out before that time.

 

No one's mentioned Rahm Kota yet? Even without them, I would imagine the rebels (everyone else, not just the leaders and founders) would see past the deceptions in which the famed jedi, guardians of the republic and the galaxy, were coincidentally revealed to be evil traitors around the same time that the Empire's totalitarian policies emerged.

 

I was going to mention Rahm Kota but then I thought everybody probably already knows about him anyways. xD

 

I don't want to be awfully rude, but despite my anger about what they did to the original EU (OEU) I consider TFU an abomination and everything it presents - a complete BS.

 

Outside of Yoda and Obi-wan, I think Shaak Ti is the most significant survivor, as a member of the Jedi Council. Like the others though, she stayed in exile on another planet. I'd say most if not all survivors stayed clear on the Rebel Alliance, because it would make them instant targets. Former Jedi, Ahsoka Tano, has real potential to become a member though.

 

Ashoka Tano never existed, because her existence quite contradicts with the "mighty" canon. Although the last season of TCW kind of made some interesting and dark episodes, involving her losing faith in the order and eventual abandonment, but the one and only fact, that they made her Darth Vader's padawan, is what ruined the whole series. GL took a huge dump on his own "vision". Seems almost as if he was influenced by a kid to glue a teenager to Anakin's side. If only they had made her just an occasional sidekick to Anakin, a sort of padawan him and OBW often come across. That sort of way. Obviously they lacked imagination.

 

Actually the Clone Wars are part of Disney's new canon so Ashoka is as canon as anything else in SW.

Also don't worry about it people have said much worse about TFU and it hasn't bothered me. I recognize many like and dislike it and I won't argue against anybody's personal opinion ( unless it's wrong ).