Author - LukeTano (from the Jedi Council forums)
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Anakin,

The boy ran at them with the lightsaber that was taken from a Jedi the real Sith Lord killed. We now think he was driven mad, but they honestly thought he was trying to attack them. He ran at them and they fell upon him. We didn't know then. We don't need a trial to kill a Sith Lord, particularly one attacking us with a golden lightsaber....and that was a 1000 years ago, when the Sith supposedly became extinct with his death. Also, the Council has killed Members who go to the Dark Side. I don't like it that they killed that Chiss boy, only about 15, for experimenting with Force lightning and Force choke a coupla times, but maybe he was a danger. The Jedi have taken a vow to destroy the Sith. It almost seems sometimes that in our quest to destroy them, we are becoming more and more like them.

For the past several years, the Dark Side has clouded our thoughts. I think the Sith is nearby, trying to mislead us. Also, I spied on Dooku and Gunray. It would seem that Gunray is mad at the Sith Lord, yet I saw Dooku tell him, "No, he had to do that to keep the Jedi away. They could easily find him...where he's hiding." and Gunray asked "Where?" and Dooku said "I can't say for sure, as he didn't want this falling into the wrong hands...but...oh, Qui-Gon's old apprentice is spying on us...how rude!" and I left and came back when Dooku was gone. Dooku is even more powerful than I imagined from what Qui-Gon told me.

Also, about Qui-Gon, he had a love interest. She got killed. He thought of getting revenge on the ones who killed her, but decided not to. Also, Dooku once got in trouble for having Dark Side information. However, it turned out he was falsely accused and that a friend of his had the real Sith Holocron. His friend got thrown out of the Order. Apparently, they only kill you when you use the Dark Side, possibly on others. That Chiss boy did kill his Master, though it was just in a supposedly-friendly Master-Padawan thing where we match our skills. If you can match mine, they say you are ready for the Trails, though I can say that you're ready even without you doing that. Anyway, the Chiss used Force lightning and unfortunately his Master was touching quite a bit of metal. He slipped, and, since they were kinda on an edge, fell to his death, and the Council sent in the "Jedi Shadows" to take him out. I personally don't like the Shadows.

There is one other thing that the Council is afraid of. They're worried that if the Sith, for a time, said you could marry Padme, I know you like her, don't hide it, I'm not going to tell, and contact your mother, and still have wealth and be allowed to have attachments, at least until they corrupted you, then they'd take it away, that you might consider joining them, to get at what the Jedi Order has denied you.

There's something Yoda, and maybe Qui-Gon, though I think he intentionally didn't notice because I didn't go through with it, thankfully, doesn't know about me. Once, when I was Qui-Gon's Padawan, about your age....I thought that the Council was holding me back...that their strict rules were keeping me from reaching my full potential. I decided that maybe I'd get more respect from them as a Sith than as a Jedi. I got a Sith holocron, the Council has lots of stuff about the Dark Side, for Jedi to know what they're up against...supposedly...and I took one, and was about to use it, but at the last minute decided not to. Qui-Gon I think mighta found out as he said I'd passed the Trial of the Spirit.

There are four Trials, which I'm confident, even if Yoda and Mace stuff have their heads stuck up their lightsabers, that you can complete successfully within the next two years or so.

First,
Trial of Skill

You use your skills with a lightsaber and the Force to combat an enemy. You don't have to cut them in half, though that's how I passed that Trial myself, or even kill them, but you gotta fight them, and...obviously...live.

Second,
Trial of the Flesh

That involves overcoming great physical pain or hardship or loss. It also could be for getting over attachments, something you'll really have to work on. Though...some things you can try to fake. I kinda like Qui-Gon and wasn't too happy about his death. But I hid it from them. Anyway, I got over it quickly enough and they never bothered to doubt me, and I did it anyway, just not immediately, as I wanted to be knighted NOW, and not later, especially since I couldn't train you if I was still a Padawan. He made me promise to train you.

Third,
Trial of Courage

You have to fight really bravely in a battle and likely face an enemy like the Dark Lord of the Sith, or an apprentice, which should be tough for you, as it was for me, or a situation with little chance of success, and win.

Fourth, and last
Trial of the Spirit

You look deep inside yourself. Self-discovery. However, I think there is somewhat of a Sith in you. There was in me. Though I defeated him...at least I hope so... Anyway, I think you do have anger. You do seem mad at the Council. Have you ever though of getting even? Mad at them for doubting you? Once I though of using the Force to levitate Qui-Gon outside the Temple while he was in his underwear after he was kinda harsh on me. Also, I know you feel for your mother, though once I dreamed she died and you lost it. Wait...she was killed. Also, maybe it's not just me. I heard you muttering in your sleep. Are you also dreaming it? Maybe I'm just picking it up from you. I've heard of that where people are dreaming and hear stuff around them and incorporate it into their dream. I know something bad happens to her in your dreams. I think she dies. I can guess that by you yelling "NO, I was too late! and then, worse, yelling "I hate them! I'll kill them! I'll tear their insides out and leave them for the womp rats!" I know something's up. Maybe you're mad at Gunray and Dooku, but don't do this! Maybe it will turn into war, but don't stoop to the level of the Sith. The Council won't be hearing of this; you'd likely be expelled if they did, but still, try to keep that down. I've been quite frustrated with the Council at times, and I won't tell. Maybe they'll come after me too and blame it on me. Also, Qui-Gon didn't get along with them, and they didn't let him on the Council, even though he'd been a Master for quite some time. He also argued with them about knighting me and training you. At the time, I was with the Council, but his death changed me. I decided that if he wanted you trained, you couldn't turn to the Dark Side and that the Council was wrong, something Yoda noticed. Said that I had gotten Qui-Gon's old defiance.

As you know, Shaak Ti is a Council Member, and she trusts you. It's not the whole Council against you.

Anyway, it's happened! Gunray has sent Palpatine a letter saying that:

I've had it with your mediocre leadership. You promise many things, but they're all lies! I've had enough of waiting for you to help us out! Dooku will make a far better Chancellor than you, Your Most Unworshipfullness! Well, you'll no longer be any trouble to us! Neimodia has left the Republic!

And I think the rest of the Federation may soon join Neimodia. I think Dooku may at least know who the Sith is. Likely he's become a Dark Jedi. How else could he possibly be this close and do such things against the Republic? Maybe he thinks he does know better, and perhaps he does, Qui-Gon said he was very wise, but something doesn't seem right. However, Dooku was a Master and we couldn't get a thing out of him. Also, Yoda believes me, but says it's too soon to act.

Anyway, I also overheard Gunray say that "He promised to make that invasion of ours legal! He betrayed us! I don't know how we can trust him!" He was talking on a holo to Dooku. Also, he bowed before someone. The guy's voice sounded creepy, and somewhat familiar. I think that perhaps this Sith Lord is someone here. Though I doubt it's Palpatine. Why would he attack his home planet of Naboo and also waste all this time? Sure Sith are known to do cruel and odd things like that, but it just doesn't make sense. Also, Palpatine condemned Dooku. If Palpatine is a Sith Lord, his powers must be stronger than Yoda's to keep up such a charade, and I doubt anyone, except you of course, can beat Yoda. But the Sith Lord is...or was...a member of the Senate or the Courts. There's no doubt now.

Also, if you want to know what the Sith are:

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The Code of the Sith
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.

If you must know, I think the whole chain thingy is about being able to completely obliterate your conscience and care for no one, except yourself of course, and have the power to back it up. I can't see you doing that, so Yoda and Mace can go sit on their lightsabers, turned on, and stop doubting you.

Also, not even Council Members are above turning. Dooku was one and it seems he's become a Dark Jedi.

Also, I've had a coupla dreams where you soon, within the next ten years, become a Council Member, though you'd be too young. Odd.

And Jedi Masters (And Council Members) Plo Koon, Jocast Nu, Oppo Rancisis, and Even Piell have also told me that they trust you.

Oh, and I think they'll soon let me on once you're knighted.

Also, I keep dreaming you get assigned a Togruta Padawan. Don't know why. But it would mean, if you have a Padawan, then I'm a Master and likely a Council Member, so you'll have another Council member that trusts you.

Also, Dooku is hoping to get you to join his cause. It's not exactly a secret how much of a success you are. Yoda even admitted that you might equal him some day, though he mainly just said "Hope to beat me he does? A chance he might have. Yes. Though keep practicing he should."

Mace said, "He will become a great Jedi, greater than you or I, or even possibly Grandmaster Yoda. His chances of becoming Grandmaster after Yoda dies are very high to almost certain, just as long as he doesn't defect to the Dark Side, or get killed. I don't quite trust him yet, though I do think he has a great chance of becoming a great Jedi. I'll give him that. It's just that my Padawan once betrayed me and I'm always slow to trust risky cases, hey, he did have ten more years of attachment then the rest and could give into emotions and fall like my Padawan did."

Your Master
Obi-wan Kenobi

It won't be more than two years before you can go on your own missions and prepare for the Trails.

Palpatine is acting friendly, though I think he's really mad about Nemodia. I think he may try to get them back by Force, but the Senate won't have it. He'll need more power than them to do it. Yes, if there's a war, for sure the Jedi Order will find itself caught in the middle. Anyway, Master Cifo Dias, a friend of Dooku's, died mysteriously a few years back and I'm wondering if Dooku may have had a hand in that. Could Qui-Gon's Master be the new Sith apprentice. I doubt it. Dooku may be defecting on the Code, but he wouldn't betray the Order...at least I don't think so. Also, your friend Padme is advocating an avoidance of war...yet I think Gunray still holds a grudge about the whole "New Treaty" thing on Naboo 8 years ago. And she may also, by denying the war that Gunray hopes to create, stop systems from thinking that the Republic is cruel by forcing Gunray to come back and joining him. I think she might be in danger. Already a bomb went off in her Palace. Also, she just left as the Queen. She is now a Senator. However, she still is probably going to be a target. And with Dooku playing along, she could be killed...where he intends to...which I can't see how he would, even if he's gone enough to become a Dark Jedi, I can't see him actually attacking us, even if he does use the Dark Side, which I haven't exactly seen proof of yet. The Council is thinking of assigning you to protect her if the attempts on her life continue. Are you up to it?

And no, I don't think you will be a Sith and I don't think Palpatine is a Sith Lord. And the whole iron lung thing, probably too much bantha steak. I dreamed I turned into a tapdancing krayt dragon. I gotta ignore these things. I shouldn't have told you them.