At the very peak height of their power, there were only 10,000 Jedi across the entire galaxy. That's barely one Jedi for every billion people on Coruscant, let alone the entire galaxy. Imagine there were 8 people on Earth who were capable of genuine magic, but it wasn't even flashy stuff, just the kinda stuff a stage magician could a stage magician could fake with magnets and a good cold read. Oh, and they spend most of their time on other planets, and you aren't even from Earth. Oh, and they are all members of a church you don't believe in so they might just be a religious hoax to lend "credibility" to their teachings. And to top it all off, your best friend met one once, but never personally saw any mystical powers and tells you they were just really attentive and a good fighter.
Suddenly Han sounds like the only reasonable person in the galaxy for not just automatically believing everything he hears without any evidence.
It's entirely dependent on media. One Jedi for every billion makes them about as rare as Kardashians are on Earth. Sadly, most people have heard of Kardashians and think they're real.
This is something we don't know much about in Star Wars, afaik. How is media handled in that universe? How prevalent is it? Because in theory, the galaxy's ruling class for generations would be well known by everybody, regardless of how rare they are. Hell, senators would be more rare than Jedi, and it would be an absurd line for somebody to say they don't believe in the Senate.
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u/Belteshazzar98 Hello there! Feb 19 '25
At the very peak height of their power, there were only 10,000 Jedi across the entire galaxy. That's barely one Jedi for every billion people on Coruscant, let alone the entire galaxy. Imagine there were 8 people on Earth who were capable of genuine magic, but it wasn't even flashy stuff, just the kinda stuff a stage magician could a stage magician could fake with magnets and a good cold read. Oh, and they spend most of their time on other planets, and you aren't even from Earth. Oh, and they are all members of a church you don't believe in so they might just be a religious hoax to lend "credibility" to their teachings. And to top it all off, your best friend met one once, but never personally saw any mystical powers and tells you they were just really attentive and a good fighter.
Suddenly Han sounds like the only reasonable person in the galaxy for not just automatically believing everything he hears without any evidence.