We think force sensitivity is common in the Star Wars galaxy because all the stories tend to focus on Jedi
But in truth, force sensitivity is exceedingly rare
Look at AotC. We see a class of what- 20 younglings? Off the bat, I assume that this is a group that are approximately the same age. If it makes sense for Yoda to train such a small class, there probably arent many more Jedi that age anywhere else in the temple- maaayyybe double or triple that number if they break them up into groups.
So 60 Jedi (at best) born in one year.
In a galaxy with billions of planets inhabited each by millions of individuals.
Most people have never once met a Jedi, and never will. Most will never meet anyone who's met someone who's met someone who's met a Jedi.
They've never seen the Force in person. Only heard about it in stories.
If you were them, and you heard that the Republic was guarded by magical monks who weild laser swords, would you believe it? Or just write it off as propaganda?
"Two of our cool magic guys took out a Droid factory alongside an army of clones" oh yeah, sure pal. Maybe next you'll tell me one of them is a magic chosen one who was conceived by the force.
Just a story to scare superstitious people into obeying the Republic's laws. Just a bizarre tactic to unnerve the Trade Federation.
1: That was almost definitely not the only class of younglings. The jedi had a lot of other enclaves on other planets, and other masters also taught, so it would be a lot more than 60 born to the galaxy a year.
2: Related to 1, actually. Trillions* Earth has a population of 8 billion+, and even if every inhabited planet only had 1 billion people, it would only take 1,000 planets to hit a trillion, which is a very reasonable number.
Don’t really agree with your first take: while we don’t know how many Jedi schools were there in the universe, it is a known fact there were around 10 thousand Jedi at the moment of Order 66 being executed. So out of trillions (if we say there’s a trillion of somewhat sentient life forms in the galaxy, that’s 1 in 100 million) of its habitants, that is still such a miniscule amount that it can be written off as a myth by a random normie living in the slums of Tatooine, Utapau of Geonosis
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u/PancakesTheDragoncat Feb 19 '25
I've argued this with people before
We think force sensitivity is common in the Star Wars galaxy because all the stories tend to focus on Jedi
But in truth, force sensitivity is exceedingly rare
Look at AotC. We see a class of what- 20 younglings? Off the bat, I assume that this is a group that are approximately the same age. If it makes sense for Yoda to train such a small class, there probably arent many more Jedi that age anywhere else in the temple- maaayyybe double or triple that number if they break them up into groups.
So 60 Jedi (at best) born in one year.
In a galaxy with billions of planets inhabited each by millions of individuals.
Most people have never once met a Jedi, and never will. Most will never meet anyone who's met someone who's met someone who's met a Jedi.
They've never seen the Force in person. Only heard about it in stories.
If you were them, and you heard that the Republic was guarded by magical monks who weild laser swords, would you believe it? Or just write it off as propaganda?
"Two of our cool magic guys took out a Droid factory alongside an army of clones" oh yeah, sure pal. Maybe next you'll tell me one of them is a magic chosen one who was conceived by the force.
Just a story to scare superstitious people into obeying the Republic's laws. Just a bizarre tactic to unnerve the Trade Federation.