A/N: This is an idea that came to me from watching the final story arc of The Clone Wars TV series. I wonder if anyone else has ever considered this notion before? This story can be seen and told from the point of view of any Clone Wars character except for Yoda, Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, or Anakin Skywalker.

Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Dave Filoni and Disney do.


Our lives are all but short and sweet.

We live with zest and desire for life.

But in the end we have to die,

And pass on to the nothingness

That claims almost all of us.

Yes, I said 'almost' all of us.

For 'tis said that three male Jedi Masters and one Chosen One

Will retain consciousness and identity for all eternity.

They will live on as spirits in the Living Force

And influence the future generations of a new family of friends.

And now, I ask you four Force spirits,

Why can't we all have the same privilege?

Why can't we also live as ethereal spirits

To watch the galaxy and influence our loved ones?

Who wouldn't want Padmé and Duchess Satine

To join with their Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi?

Kit and Plo, Mace and Adi, Shaak and Luminara,

Aayla and Barriss, and of course, Ahsoka Tano?

Other Jedi might also like

To join with their legendary icons.

Korkie Kryze and his Mandalorian cadet pals

Would love to see how Mandalore endures

In future history.

One would think that Katooni, Petro,

Ganodi, Gungi, Byph, and Zatt,

Kalifa, O-Mer, and Jinx,

Would be shown mercy by the Living Force.

Why deny life to innocent, short-lived kids?

Even droids like Qutee, Ceefor, Beezee, and Wack,

Might have liked to have lived to celebrate

With Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio.

The countless victims of the Chosen One

And of the Sith Order's future Empire,

Jedi and non-Jedi alike,

Might have liked to have lived after death

To see the end of the tyranny and horror.

But the so-called Living Force sees fit

To erase us all from this plane of existence

While giving a teeny tiny chosen few

Eternity to enjoy their time alive.

Trillions died because of the Chosen One,

Innocents who might have liked

To have lived a full life

And were wiped clean of all aspects of life.

While the Chosen One himself who annihilated us

Gets to enjoy eternal life and happiness.

And it never occurred to him,

Obi-Wan, Yoda, or even Qui-Gon,

That maybe we would have also loved

To have been at the victory celebration

After the fall of the Sith

And it's mighty Galactic Empire.

They seem to have forgotten

That we even existed once upon a time

Just like they did.

Or maybe they just don't care;

Maybe they're so happy for the galaxy's new heroes,

That they think we no longer matter in any way.

Yes, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin Skywalker

Smile their hearts out at Luke and his sister and friends,

While the nothingness where what's left of us dwells

Weeps forever in the damnation of eternal death.

What kind of eternal life is this?

Why them, but not us?

How can the Force that life creates

So callously repay us by erasing our lives?