I am Qui Gon Jinn. I am a Jedi Master. Something tells me that I am one of the last of an old breed. The Old School, rather. Anyways, this is my story, this is the story that I have never told anyone else.
Like all Jedi, I never met my parents. Like all Jedi I grew up in the Jedi Temple, apart from the outside world, training with the force, preparing for the day when I would become a Padawan, and eventually a Knight.
I was a Jedi Knight, one of those mysterious people that protects and guards the Republic, following the tradition of a thousand Generations. I was one of the two Jedi, myself and my padawan, asked by the Supreme Chancellor to go to Naboo, to resolve the Trade Blockade dispute.
I was one of the two Jedi who traveled from there to Tatoinne. It was there that I discovered the boy. Anakin. The boy who was destined to bring balance to the Force. There that I first fought Darth Maul, and discovered that the Sith were in fact quite real, though thought extinct for a thousand years.
I should have listened to the Jedi Council. If I had, the boy would never have become Darth Vader, the slaughterer of the Jedi, and Dark Lord of the Sith, leader of the Great Jedi Purge.
I didn't. And Anakin Skywalker became the most powerful Jedi to join the Sith. He became the Sith that brought the Jedi order to its knees. He became the sith that help turn the republic into the Empire.
I was conscious of the Living Force. I was not conscious of the future. That was my mistake. I caused the downfall of the Republic, but more important, the Jedi order. It was I who plunged the galaxy into darkness. It was I, Qui Gon Jinn, who is responsible for the death of hope. The death of a dream of freedom for the galaxy.
I must train Obi wan Kenobi to defeat the Sith. I must train him to find the child that will fulfill the prophecy.
I am Qui Gon Jinn. I am a Jedi Knight. I am one with the force.