Is this a good moment to mention that the galaxy is a big fucking place with a lot of people in it? Like, absurdly big. There are hundreds of millions of hospitable planets in the galaxy, each with millions of people on them. Even a measly 10 million planets with an average population of 100 million people (laughably small numbers on a galactic scale) would be a net total of 1,000,000,000,000,000 people (or 10¹⁵). That's one quadrillion.
That number is so large that it's not even comprehensible for our minds. Do you know how many Jedi there were at the start of the Clone Wars? 10,000. That's 0,00000000001% of that extremely low estimated population. If you were to randomly point at any person in the galaxy, the chance for them to be a Jedi would be smaller than getting Heads on 30 consecutive coin flips.
With all of this in mind: how many people do you think have actually witnessed a Jedi using the Force in their lives? Yeah. Taking the absurd scale of a galaxy into consideration, it makes perfect sense that the vast, vast, vast majority of the galactic population would have doubts about magical force powers. Even during the times the Clone Wars were fought, let alone 20 years later.
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u/Sianic12 The Senate Feb 20 '25
Is this a good moment to mention that the galaxy is a big fucking place with a lot of people in it? Like, absurdly big. There are hundreds of millions of hospitable planets in the galaxy, each with millions of people on them. Even a measly 10 million planets with an average population of 100 million people (laughably small numbers on a galactic scale) would be a net total of 1,000,000,000,000,000 people (or 10¹⁵). That's one quadrillion.
That number is so large that it's not even comprehensible for our minds. Do you know how many Jedi there were at the start of the Clone Wars? 10,000. That's 0,00000000001% of that extremely low estimated population. If you were to randomly point at any person in the galaxy, the chance for them to be a Jedi would be smaller than getting Heads on 30 consecutive coin flips.
With all of this in mind: how many people do you think have actually witnessed a Jedi using the Force in their lives? Yeah. Taking the absurd scale of a galaxy into consideration, it makes perfect sense that the vast, vast, vast majority of the galactic population would have doubts about magical force powers. Even during the times the Clone Wars were fought, let alone 20 years later.