‘Star Wars’: why did the Jedi ignore the surviving Sith?

In one of the scenes of ‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace’, Jedi Master Ki-Adi Mundi is skeptical of Qui-Gon Jinn when he conveys to the Jedi High Council his suspicion of having faced a Sith: “Impossible, the Sith became extinct a millennium ago,” the stubborn master responds. As on other occasions throughout the prequels and other products, Mundi demonstrates his blindness to reality. In ‘The Acolyte’, a series that takes place almost a hundred years before the rise of the Empire, The canon of the saga has been questioned, as some thought it would break it. Of course, it has not been like that and it is explained with crystal clarity in the season finale.

This article contains spoilers from the final episode of ‘The Acolyte’.

Master Vernestra Rwoh has something to hide

The fight started with Ki-Adi Mundi’s own cameo in ‘The Acolyte’. Gathered as an emergency, the Jedi try to discover who the Force user who is killing some members of the Order is. In that sequence, nothing is said about the Sith, not even the slightest mention. The suspect is being treated as a possible seditious fellow or Jedi splinter. The master is also not part of the delegation that travels to Brendok in search of the acolyte, so he is not a witness to the massacre that occurs shortly after.

The final explanation is shown at the end of the season. Teacher Vernestra Rowh conducts the investigations in secret, even behind the back of the Galactic Senate, which costs her a harsh reprimand from one of the senators. When the last witness—Master Sol—dies, Vernestra herself is in charge of constructing a fictional story about what happened. He does not inform the Senate of his Padawan’s fall to the dark side, in what seems an attempt to safeguard the integrity of the Jedi Order, still surrounded by a kind of divine halo. It is invented that Master Sol rebelled and was responsible for this entire situation, an unpleasant incident now resolved.

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What does he tell Master Yoda in the last scene? That remains to be seen, but what is clear is that the Jedi Council remains in the dark, all while Qimir, his acolyte, and Sith Master Darth Plagueis scheme in the shadows.

The first season of ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ is now available in full on Disney+.

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