Darth Plagueis, part five : How Obi-Wan spilled everything but with a bit of creative thinking convinced a Sith Lord that it was a believable tale
Magistrate Damask scared the shit out of Obi-Wan. It was not that dramatic a comment, because Obi-Wan had met many scary people during his time with Han, including but not limited to the Zigerrian slaver with Force inhibitors who captured him once before Han holed him out of that misstep then pursued them for two months before they managed to lose him; the drug queen who nearly hallucinated Obi-Wan into taking his master head and the subsequent withdrawal – how one could become addict in a single dose, Obi-Wan did not know –; the Twi'lek pirate who tried to pop his cheery then kill him as he would not be enslaved and mind-tricked her into not clasping those cuffs; the Dathomirian witch who popped his cheery then tried to take his head because that was the local custom; that thing he still did not understand with that Hutt on Nal Hutta which he really should not wonder about; the Dark Sider over Nar Shadda which Han killed – again, because Han spent most of his time pulling Obi-Wan out of trouble and Obi-Wan the same in reverse except Han did not seem to need help half as much Obi-Wan did.
While Magistrate Damask was rumored to be scarier than half of them together, Obi-Wan was somewhat immunized to paralyzing fear. The downside was that he did not run away in situations he should have, because they were nearly normal after what he lived with Han. To be fair, Master Dooku was only slightly better than Han most of the days, but brought with him another slew of trouble linked to politics. So Obi-Wan, wholly aware it was A Bad Idea, still sought out Magistrate Damask. The Muun had repeatedly invested in projects who literally ruined or were the cause of death after some time of most of those involved, and came squeaky clean each time an accusation was thrown his way. They were rare as nothing seemed to stick to the Muun, and the accusers often found themselves worse off for their accusation. Half of his staff claimed as holy the ground he walked on and the other half covered in fear they would attract his direct attention. Obi-Wan did not know if the sense of danger he felt in presence of the banker came from having read those stories shortly before meeting him, or if it was something the Muun himself exhaled.
Either were good reasons to cut short this acquaintance before attracting more attention, or spilling more of his guts in the too clean office. It was the plan until Magistrate Damask requested his presence a second then a third time. The second time at least explained why he was interested in Master Dooku and especially why now. The Muun hatred of Jedi was unconcealed and Master Dooku had a long tendency of squirting the line which could lead him to a day deny the Jedi and maybe apprehend the Force with a new perspective. One where whatever conception the Magistrate had was not heretic and to be reported to the Order. The banker had known such success in the financial fields and survived such odds for his climb that Obi-Wan had been nearly sure he was not only Force-sensitive, but also aware of this fact. Coupled with his past experience with the Order and the wariness necessary to have lived so long, Obi-Wan was not surprised he kept silent despite his interest.
Whether he would keep contact with Master Dooku after Obi-Wan provided his own experience would be an indicator as to the reality of their unconventional relationship. An useful one, but it did not mean Obi-Wan was happy share some of his conceptions with Magistrate Damask. "The Jedi are currently the most well-known Force-related doctrine" Obi-Wan started, hands on his laps, sitting with crossed legs on a sofa, a steaming cup of tea on the table before him, while the Muun was looking at him pensively from an expensive armchair opposite to the table. Obi-Wan did not know why they had moved from the office to the patio, but the sofa reminded him enough of his meditation cushion to soothe his nerves. And the tea was good. Not a blend Obi-Wan was familiar with, but soothing, sweet with an acidic hint and odd on the tongue. Not a taste either Leia and Luke favored and which Han treasured for all he did not drink much tea himself, but tea itself brought familiarity to Obi-Wan.
He sorted his thoughts to create a coherent narrative, a brief summary for a being who had probably researched these facts before but assuredly drew another conclusion than Obi-Wan. To this day, he doubted any shared his conception of the Force, for all Han had born a peculiar attention to Ach-To conceptions. "Anyone interested enough in the Force would soon come aware of the Sith. Both doctrines defend the idea the Force has sides. The Living Force centered on the present time and surroundings, and the Unifying Force stretching causality across time and distance are an acknowledged divide in both Orders. They do, however, oppose on the Light Side and the Dark Side, each fueling their use of the Force from a different side. It is, at heart, the center of their millennia long conflict."
He posed to breath, deciding that subject could be expanded later, and breached the heart of his beliefs "What this dualist conceptions mask, is that they are neither the first nor the soles systems of understanding the Force. On a strict material viewpoint, Force-sensitivity is in every being in form of midichlorian, and while low, the odds one being birthing with an high enough count of midichlorian per cell that he can consciously interact with the Force happens. By convention, one of such being is called Force-sensitive. In the limited populations preceding space-faring stage, there is little chance a Force-sensitive would came across another Force-sensitive in the course of its life and any advance he mays have made is either lost or recorded in bribes in religious texts. However, such populations are subject to two possibilities over time : either the average midichlorian per cell count take a dive and no Force-sensitive will birth afterward unless another factor intervene, or this count will increase in the population, leading to an higher frequency of Force-sensitive births. The best recorded example is the Sith specie, for which awareness of the Force was an evolutive advantage. It ultimately lead to dynasties of Force-sensitives, and the conservation of acquired knowledge, later formulated in a persistent doctrine."
"You postulate harsher living conditions is the basis of cultures marked by the Force" summed the Muun. Obi-Wan nodded "The data are insufficient to validate such a model, but it is the current theory for the emergency of the Sith specie. I believe it cannot be excluded other isolated populations followed the same trajectory and became lost in history or are as-yet undiscovered. Each developing independently without contact and as such liable to create radically different belief systems. What I know is that both Jedi and Sith histories are fraught with theological strife about the Force, and as such their beliefs are not transposable in unexposed culture for they come not from the Force but the heritage of both Orders. Considering the vast difference in beliefs of two Orders who initially sprung as one, there is no telling what systems could exist or have existed outside of their influence."
"I was given to understand Jedi and Sith were mortal enemies" pointed the banker, his keen eyes slightly hazed. Obi-Wan would have wondered whether he should expand his theory, but Jedi-Sith relations were another point of contention he had with the classical viewpoint of the Jedi Order. "Mortal enemies since so long the origin of this enmity has been forgotten and who are quick to point out differences in doctrines, overlooking they have far more in common than separating them. The best example is the teaching format: each Order favor a master-student configuration, and if given possibility will establish a place to begin teaching early students before they are chosen by a master. The Jedi Order always build Temples when they have the numbers for it, and the Sith had numerous incarnation of similar structures, even the True Sith who had limited contact with the galaxy previously to their conquest. Ultimately, those two Orders clashes as much as they do for they are too similar.
"But to return on the previous subject, I believe them to be an exception who later either extinguished, integrated or influenced other cultures based on the Force. Both Orders are the diverging branches of an original Order named the Jedai which was created roughly ten thousand years ago. Little is known of the Jedai nowadays, excepted they built Temples, had a cohesive doctrine and were a multicultural and artificial construct. The truth of their coming together is subject to doubts as by that time there should not have been ships allowing space travel, at least by the standard of our civilization. The most probable possibility is that an external agent belonging to one of the Old Race sent ships to every planet beckoning Force-sensitives to come abroad then lead them all to a single planet, Tython. As ludicrous this story is to tell, multiple cultures have kept traces of those ships who were sometimes the first they saw, a few museums and private collectors still have ten thousand years old transcriptions in Auberesh of these tales and the last ship stopped flying only four hundred years ago" Obi-Wan then posed, because that story sounded like a crackpot to all that had not heard it in their crecheling years, but Magistrate Damask intrigued expression did not change and he intimated him to pursue with a wave of his spiderly hand.
"Nowadays, most cultures integrating the Force hail from a mix of indigenous beliefs and influences of either the Jedi, the Sith, or the Jedai. I myself come from a mixed line. I would be most curious about your own origin, Magistrate Damask". The Muun hand clasped pensively around his own teacup while Obi-Wan profited of the respite to take a sip. "The Damask clan is known in Muunilist to be more. More resilient, more quick, more strong, more insightful, the list go on, and spouses are chosen based on this criteria. I guess we replicated on a smaller scale your model of increasing midichlorian count. We were not aware it had a name before the Jedi came and took a look at my daughter. Never told anything about me, mind you. And after that… let's say we would not allow another Jedi near one of our children." So that was how the Muun first made the link between the Force and his own abilities, thought Obi-Wan. "By mixed line, you mean that your first master came from an indigenous line?" queried the banker. "My line is nearly as mysterious as my master but as far as I am aware, no. There have just been a succession of events involving individual hailing from either or both Jedi and Sith who have each greatly influenced my master line." The Muun raised a surprised eyebrow "How did you maintain such a configuration for more than a thousand years?".
"Significantly less time than a thousand years" answered Obi-Wan, then he hesitated at telling more but Magistrate Damask seemed genially curious in his query and it would only be polite to answer after he had shared insights of his own origin. It was not a tale Obi-Wan had ever told, for it was one of the most confusing Han ever gave and he frankly doubted it would be welcomed by the Jedi Order or even Master Dooku or Master Nu. But Magistrate Damask did not share their reduced perspective of the Force, or at least his beliefs were flexible enough to seek another viewpoint. It would be good to be able to get it out, for once. Besides, he could do it Han way, shrouding the tale in mystery. Watching people attempt to decipher was a pastime Obi-Wan had a slight inclination too, having learnt on his master knee the art of dazzling an interlocutor. Nodding, he put down his cup and started weaving the first layer of mystery "I am not able to backtrack very far due to a succession of early deaths and the farther, the less I know" he warned.
"The oldest member of my line I am aware of was a long-lived hermit who spent his later years on Dagobah. A swamp planet subject of interesting distortions in the Force, home to a few nexus of either sides of the Force forming a very confusing read and a challenging study ground for a Force-sensitive. Said hermit was either a Jedi having left the Order to seek a different perspective of the Force, or the student at an unknown number of degree from such an individual. I know neither his name, his specie, or how long ago he lived, and that is true for most of the individuals of my line. Hints are he formed a few students whose lines extinguished before his reclusion, leaving no students behind them to carry their teaching. Their numbers, names and deeds were ultimately lost, and only two are remembered with some precision. The eldest of whom was a fencing master of great skills, a talented wordsmith and strategist, whose early name was forgotten but who is remembered under the Sith name of Darth Tyrannus.
"The youngest was a mystic known as Gon, a wanderer of the galaxy and student of many doctrines, an attentive follower of the Living Force and an Ataru Master. He was so attentive to the Force he could sometimes pierce the Veil which currently encroach the galaxy, but never discerned it as an artificial construct. Gon had formed two students who died before him, and had started teaching a fourth at the time of his death. His third student was named Ben, a senior padawan whose formation was nearly finished by the time the pair crossed path with a human named Skywalker, Gon brief fourth student and Ben first. Gon pecked a bit too close at the Veil while searching the Force, and attracted the attention of a surviving Sith line. We know little of their origin, excepted they were survivors of the last Sith War, having stewed in the shadows and bidding their time. The latest Sith Lord, however, thought this strategy exceedingly cautious and proved more aggressive towards Jedi, or at least Jedi he could cull without retribution. His arrogance had a sound foundation, for he was a fearsome duelist, his ability to manipulate near unmatched and the strength of his lightning well-remembered. But he had a fatal flaw: he believed himself so superior to other beings he repeatedly underestimated his opponents and this defect also led him to use then discard many apprentices, never considering them as his successors, but tools in his service. The sole being he seemed to have feared was his master, whom he killed in his sleep for he feared his talents at shaping reality through the Force. He later bragged about this death, recruiting one of his apprentices.
"He had at his side what is by our reckoning his first apprentice but could have been, for what we know, the latest of many. A Juyo specialist of some skill, but with limited ability in the Force compared to his successors. No match, by any length, for his master, but more than able to kill Jedi. We do not know whether the Sith Apprentice took initiative or was sent by his master, but he felled Gon. Ben grievously wounded the Apprentice in vengeance, leading the Sith Lord to discard him and he was believed dead for some years, at which point he made a reappearance.
"Gon death fractured the teaching line. Ben took Skywalker as his padawan, and Darth Tyrannus theorized the Sith resurgence based on the Apprentice appearance and fighting style. He took on himself to backtrack the trail which ultimately lead him to the Sith Lord, who was coincidently seeking a new Apprentice. After Tyrannus accepting this position, both teaching line became inextricably linked, for all they stayed divided a long time. It is unclear whether the hermit retired to Dagobah at that time, or in the years to come.
"The discarded Apprentice resurfaced shortly after the end of Skywalker padawanship, having suborned another Dark Sider and a group of Mandalorian warriors, which he used to arrange a trap for Ben. Ben escaped but his love interest, another Mandalorian, was slain in the process. It was a brief but bloody conflict. It is unclear whether it is Ben parting blow, a disagreement with the Mandalorian, or the Sith Lord tying loose ends who ultimately dealt with the Apprentice. Most probably a combination" said Obi-Wan, stifling a yawn.
"Meanwhile, Darth Tyrannus was plotting his master downfall, aware he currently lacked the means to end a Sith Lord. He had amassed wealth, a bothersome collection of Dark Side artefacts and a little following of Dark Siders, amongst whom a Dathomirian witch he considered nearly an apprentice, but that was a role he reserved for another. He sought Ben out, hoping to convince him to join and avenge Gon. Ben was a talented negotiator and he had proved a good war leader during the events surrounding his love interest death, and while he had little outlandish talent in the Force excepted his mind trick, his mastery of Soresu was near unprecedented. He proved able to withstand without loss fights with duelists and Dark Siders of various power alike and I believe it was this advantage as well as emotional ties who attracted Tyrannus.
"Ben former padawan, Skywalker, was the opposite. He had little patience for words and less eloquence, but accomplished feats in the Force which many would not been able to match and his Djem So grew from a standstill with Ben to ultimately deal with Tyrannus. They were at the time a renowned pair in a Jedi teaching line that stretched farther than four live individuals, and they were also by the end of the conflict two of the three survivors of said line. In those loss were Skywalker brief padawan, who turned her back to both sides during the strife against Tyrannus." Obi-Wan blinked, surprised to have mentioned Fulcrum for he knew little of her excepted Luke had looked at her with reverence for all they never met. Fulcrum was not a turning point of his teaching line, excepted for her skill at surviving Sith Lords until her luck failed her. She was one of the many Jedi who had failed to strike down a fallen member of her line, and paid the price for it, but was ultimately right in that turning back was possible. He cycled the Force through his limbs and reached for more tea to wash the tiredness away, then spoke again in a musing tone:
"It was a fratricide and ultimately useless conflict which profited none save for the Sith Lord. The Jedi were drawn apart and even sometimes against each other, and progressively killed nearly to the last. Ben fought off attempts at being turned while attempting to pull to his side Tyrannus near apprentice. The hermit sought to mediate and failed due to Skywalker, then spent the rest of the conflict tracking the Sith Lord whose existence Tyrannus had revealed him. Said Sith Lord did not remain unaware of the conflict and discovered Skywalker existence: he spent most of three years mingling amongst Jedi none aware he stood before them and was manipulating them to extinction, engineering Skywalker turn and failing to arrange Ben death. Skywalker slaughtered off most of the opposition. Tyrannus was busy attempting to turn Ben and kill Skywalker once he understood he was at risk of being replaced.
"It ended in a triumph for the Sith Lord : Tyrannus dead by Skywalker hand in a fight he staged off, Skywalker his new apprentice to which he bestowed the name of Darth Vader. It must have been an incredible rush of the Dark Side, for it was not the first time Skywalker brushed that line, nor was it the first time he killed a powerful Dark Sider. On the planet of Mortis he had once felled one of the last celestials, a being calling himself "the Son". Based on Sith inheritance, it should have been an obvious hint, but the Jedi members of my line were woefully ignorant of the Sith at that time. Tyrannus had been the most insightful on the subject before his turning.
"The Dark Side come at an heavy price for members in my line. It costed Vader his wife, his children, three limbs and confined him in a body-trapped breathing suit. He killed the first, the second were taken by Ben shortly after his maiming in a fight Vader would have won had he not tipped to arrogance under the high. The last was his first taste of his new master kindness. Skywalker was powerful. By midichlorian count, one of the most powerful beings of his time, but he never reached his full potential. He was too impulsive and too angry to be a Jedi, and once he became a Sith Apprentice, he was ill-chanced enough to have a Sith master trying to hold him back at every turn." Obi-Wan felt the need to add more, but truthfully there was nothing important to say on the subject he knew of, so he dived on the next part, taking a gulp of tea to shake the clinging tiredness.
"The hermit confronted the Sith Lord and their fight ended in a draw, the hermit retiring definitely to Dagobah. Ben took custody of Vader two children: Luke and Leia, giving the second one to an Alderaani family while he raised the first as his padawan. I believe Leia had later some exposure to Ben for she followed his footsteps as a talented negotiator. For near twenty years Ben managed to withhold their locations from Vader, until he failed and Leia was caught fleeing. Ben and Luke mounted a successful rescue which nevertheless costed Ben his life and a long chase across the galaxy by Vader. It is during that period of time the siblings met my master, who had participated in the rescue. Vader proved able to overpower the three of them, so to resolve their disparity of skills, Luke sought first the tutelage of the hermit of Dagobah until his passing, then parleyed with his father. Leia and Han both disagreed, having suffered under Vader torture."
"Did they not seek other Jedi?" asked the Muun, the whisper slithering through a veil of tiredness Obi-Wan had been unaware extended so much. The Force sluggishly flowed through his limbs, but it only cleared briefly his mind. Instinctively, he raised his cup to his mouth, then answered "Everything my master told me let me think they avoided other Jedi to the best of their ability, sometimes masquerading as Temple Jedi, but most of the time favoring disguise. A schismatic outshot not too keen to be revealed to Shadows, with enough links with the Dark Side, even discounting Sith entanglement, they would have been hunted down as Dark Jedi had their existence been known. They preferred going to the ground each time they felt threatened." The banker nodded, his eyes unwavering and Obi-Wan felt a sliver of fear creep along his spin. Unsettled, he opened his mouth and continued, attempting to distract either himself or the Muun. Obi-Wan was not sure and did barely ask himself the question.
"Luke knew Vader for three years when the Sith Lord reacted, staging another confrontation. He nearly killed Luke before Vader took advantage of the opening and dealt him a grievous blow. Sith Lords are a whole different league than regular Dark Siders and much harder to kill. Vader tried and it costed him his life for he died of the wounds he sustained in the fight soon after, but he did not manage to kill his master completely. Destroyed his body and most probably complicated his recovering, but the Sith Lord survived, having found a way out of death by jumping conscience in cloned bodies. Weak and frail, but alive and plotting his revenge. I know not the technics Vader used in this fight for they are lost to my line. I am only aware killing a Sith Lord directly is as good as an invitation to get possessed." Obi-Wan faltered a bit, uncertain as to why he was spilling this particular titbit but felt compelled forward. He took a gulp of the tea brand Magistrate Damask had kindly offered him at the beginning of their conversation, avoiding the eyes of his interlocutor. But there was no danger, was it? He would have felt it. He pulsed his Force presence through his body, cycling out the weariness – a lesson of battle meditation following a week of daily Force-shaping would do that – and fastened his shields who seemed to have loosened sometimes in the conversation. The banker was still observing him with unnerving eyes looking straight at Obi-Wan, so he started again and did not ponder longer about his shielding.
"Luke was unaware of the Sith Lord survival and trained a succession of students, the first of them being his sister Leia. My master was initially an outsider of their line, but he met Ben briefly, assisted in the training of Leia and wed her. They had a son, which they named after Ben. I am given to understand that during that period my master and Luke scourged every Temples they could come across, seeking forbearers wisdom, before parting ways. My master joined Leia on a nomadic lifestyle and Luke settled the foundation of a new Order. It was not to be, as Luke only trained two other students: Ben and Rey. My master was invested in both training, the later part for Rey and the earlier for Ben. Rey was either the daughter or granddaughter of the Sith Lord, depending on how a clone is considered in genealogy." The fix gaze of Magistrate Damask unsettled him, so he shifted his own to the large window and the midday rays hitting the opposite building in a overbright light.
"Shortly after Luke started his academy, Ben revealed he had become the latest student of the Sith Lord who had finally come around Vader ploy to keep him dead. He had recruited an ally, a Dark Sider by the name of Snoke whose place in the lineage is unknown and origin unclear. With their assistance, Ben slaughtered every living being in the academy, including Luke. He then surprised Han and nearly killed him, and as such my master missed most of the fighting, recovering from a lethal wound which failed to end him. The circumstances of Leia death are unclear, but I know Snoke was killed by Ben and Rey. For an unknown reason, the Sith Lord had decided Rey would make a better Apprentice than Ben, which the later understood before he was dealt with. He joined force with Rey, which gave them an unexpected boost. Rey and Ben formed something called a Dyad, which in practical terms meant their synergy decupled their fighting prowess against the Sith Lord. They defeated him exploiting his resurrection technic, at the cost of Ben life."
The light was blurring the building now, and Obi-Wan blinked slowly, searching for something to say about this fight, but Han had been tight-lipped about that part excepted to say it was pure madness. The words slipped his lips, his sight a bright white roofed by a descending black. "My master only told me the bare minimum of that fight when I questioned him on our teaching line. He was sparse on words on both the beginning and the most recent events. I know Rey survived this fight and vowed to follow Luke path, naming herself after him, but that she failed in circumstances I am not privy of. By the time I met my master, she was dead, and he was alone".
Obi-Wan blinked as one of the last ray of sun fell on his eyelids. Dusk was falling on Coruscant through the large window, he remarked with surprise, as he had not thought he had spent that much time speaking. His neck felt stiff so he cycled his Force presence and reached for his cup, sipping the warm beverage. He must have closed his eyes an instant, but visibly not that long for Magistrate Damask had not moved an inch and did not call him out. "To be last" said the Muun in a pensive tone "I dare not imagine such a fate. My clan is an extensive one and to lose any of his members would be a blow I would stench in blood. To lose so many at the hand of one another would be a tragedy." Obi-Wan shook away the last of his tiredness as the Magistrate eyes posed themselves, inquisitive and nearly kind, on him. "And yet you call them all kin".
Obi-Wan ducked his head, both as an acknowledgement and to soothe the stiffness of his neck. He felt slightly light-headed so his answer was bold and would have costed him had he voiced it to a Jedi "In the end, it is what we all are. In my line, amongst trained Force-sensitive at large. Kin, however we would love to deny it." "Kin who would kill you or stole your children are not fit to be called kin" rebuked the Muun in a sharp tone addressed not to Obi-Wan but the world at large. "Aye. But the memory make it easier. That neither the hermit of Dagobah nor Darth Tyrannus ever tried to kill each other for all their beliefs were opposites. To pursue a nephew as an apprentice in memory of a lost brother, the last resort of a twisted love. To stand along one brother for all you disapprove of his decision. Kinship, memory. But to forget? To eschew a grand-uncle never met and solely aim to slew what he became? Or to remember that even cowed by a Sith Lord who wanted a tool more than an apprentice, children are a duty. I'll rather stand with those I can call kin, for many have forgotten we are."
The Muun scoffed, pity in his eyes, telling Obi-Wan he was a fool and his beliefs were naïve at best. Obi-Wan was alright with being a fool, most of his teaching line had been and been great nonetheless for all their suffering. "Kin who killed each other for millennia. By your words, Jedi and Sith are kin, but what kinship between them for all their shared roots? How many tales in history to match those of your line?" said Magistrate Damask not in a mock or a taunt, but more of a stilted passive rage, disabused and still coolly angry. It touched him, understood Obi-Wan, things related with kinship were a serious subject for Muuns, and the banker did not appear to be exempt for all he was not of Jedai descent. So, because his interlocutor was scary and slightly pissed, Obi-Wan backed his declaration by a calm tone, not condescending but not provoking. "No tale or grand song, no written word to air a weakness or a breach to the Code and faith of both Orders. But small gestures, respect? Who is to say there was not in that hike in caves between two Sith and the next grandmaster of the Jedi Order? During that fight with the very same grandmaster and a Black Councilor against the arguably most powerful Sith in history? In that day-long fight when a Sith and a Jedi debated theology and ended this fight without shedding blood? Between an eschewed Jedi turned Sith, forming an eschewed Jedi into the one who built back the Jedi Order? Do you truly believe there was not?"
"Let's do a purely theorical exercise padawan. If, as you yourself said, the Sith are not gone, what do you believe the Jedi would do if one were to spring in the middle of Coruscant? Welcome them with a hug?" "Naturally not. The Jedi would dispatch Shadows who would most probably die as Sith Lords are a whole more dangerous than mere Dark Siders, but overwhelming numbers may do the trick in the end. Unless the Sith Lord suck them dry first" he added as an afterthought. Palpy had tried it on Rey and was the measuring scale Obi-Wan was using when thinking about Sith Lords. "And what would you do in the same situation?" "I'll run" answered Obi-Wan with no hesitation not falseness.
The Muun reclined in his armchair "You blackmailed me" he pointed out. "And with all respect Magistrate, while you have probably the same reach as a Sith Lord I believe I would have a better chance of earning an immunity card from a Jedi-hating Muun than from a Sith Lord"
The last references Obi-Wan threw are:
1 Four thousand years ago, the Jedi Satele Shan and two Sith got trapped together in the middle of a Jedi-Sith war and agreed to stop fighting the time to get out. The Sith insisted she should join their side as she was a direct descendant of Darth Revan (with Bastilla Shan). She rather became grandmaster of the Jedi Order.
2 After near fifty years of fighting in the same war, the Sith Emperor, Darth Vitiate, launched a second invasion by his second secret empire of Zakuul, decimating both Republican and Imperial armies. It led to oddest alliance between the grandmaster of the Jedi Order, a legendary Jedi, a member of the Black Council (the Sith equivalent of the High Council) and the Hand of the Emperor to put Vitiate down. The Black Councilor publicly eschewed his own Emperor during that time.
3 Sygen Sarik, originally a Sith Lord, joined the Jedi Order after a day-long lightsaber fight and theological debate with a Jedi Master.
4 Arren Kae was the Jedi Master of Revan. Exiled from her Order after Revan started the Mandalorian war, she discovered a Sith library and took the name of Darth Traya. After Revan second disappearance tracking the Sith Empire, she found a former follower from Revan during the Mandalorian war and formed her to kill both the remaining Jedi and New Sith (as opposed to the imperial Sith or True Sith), then Traya herself, making Meetra Surik the apprentice of a Sith Lord, and one of the only surviving Jedi at that time, who would later help Bastilla Shan to rebuild the Jedi Order.
Sadly, all this references are non-canon following Disney buying the license. Which was a shame, because the games Knight of the old Republic are jewels (I did not play either of them, so there may be inaccuracies)
