Star Wars Explains Why Lukes Jedi School Was Always Destined to Fail

Star Wars Explains Why Luke’s Jedi School Was Always Destined to Fail

In describing how the Sith have restructured the galaxy, Lady Qi’ra perfectly explains why Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Academy was doomed to failure.

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Star Wars Explains Why Lukes Jedi School Was Always Destined to Fail

Warning: contains spoilers for Star Wars: Crimson Reign #1!

The Star Wars comics just perfectly explained why Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Academy was always destined to fail. Crimson Dawn’s Lady Qi’ra serves as the unlikely source of information, laying out her theory of the galaxy – and why the Sith must be defeated – decades before Luke builds the school.

After defeating the Empire, Luke Skywalker attempts to train a new generation of Jedi. As the last Jedi in the galaxy, he sets out alone to build an academy. In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, it’s revealed how Luke’s academy rose and fell, ending in ashes. Most fans blame Skywalker for his failure, and rightly so. Despite decades of meditation and training, Luke yields to the Dark Side for a moment, and that’s all it takes for his work to come crashing down. Fearing Ben Solo’s power and connection to the Darkness, Luke considers killing the boy. Ben retaliates and burns the school to the ground, killing any students who won’t join him. In despair, Luke vows to let the Jedi die. Although it’s clear that attacking Ben Solo is Skywalker’s fatal mistake, the entire academy was built on a philosophy more akin to the Sith way than that of the Jedi.

In Star Wars: Crimson Reign #1, by Charles Soule and Steven Cummings. The opening act shows Qi’ra’s business pitch to her fellow syndicate members. To explain the purpose of the Crimson Dawn, she employs a visual aid that perfectly demonstrates why Luke’s Jedi Academy failed. First, Qi’ra summons an image of a blue mountain range. She explains that power in the galaxy should be like a mountain range. “Many peaks,” she says, “none dramatically higher than any other. The people who live on them free to climb as high as they can, and all those centers of power contending with and compromising with the others.” Qi’ra then contrasts this image with a large red pyramid representing the Sith. The pyramid displays the actual power dynamic of the galaxy, as determined by the Sith. Atop the pyramid sits Darth Sidious, crushing all beneath him as “the only truly free person in the galaxy.” While a million miles away from Sidious in intent, Luke set his school up in the same way.

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Star Wars Explains Why Lukes Jedi School Was Always Destined to Fail

Although unintentionally, Luke models his academy after the Sith. As the only remaining Jedi Master, he answers to nobody and isn’t required to compromise. When he discovers that Ben Solo is struggling with the Dark Side, he has nobody with whom to deliberate. Therefore, a life-or-death decision falls solely on one Jedi, just as decisions as to Ben’s tutelage have all been his call. Even in the hands of Luke Skywalker, that’s a dangerous amount of power for a Jedi, and as with the Sith, his apprentice rebels. It was never Luke’s desire to sit atop the pyramid, but the lack of Jedi meant that his relationship with the next generation couldn’t form an equitable “mountain range,” and Kylo Ren was born.

Although Luke Skywalker is primarily responsible for the downfall of his school, it isn’t all his fault. Previous generations of Jedi deliberately sat in councils rather than giving any one member too much power, but his situation as the last Jedi left him with no option besides running the academy alone. However, regardless of the circumstances, a Jedi Order modeled after the Sith is a recipe for disaster, and Luke Skywalker’s pyramid was always going to crumble.

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