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I'm working my way through the Jedi Quest books. I'd read the first two and then I think I got busy with work and didn't read for a bit and picks up something else when I did. There's this passage in book 2 The Trail of the Jedi that has Anakin making an argument for colonization and I'm kinda going can someone please Gibbs-slap this teenager?
Obi-WAn Kenobi put a hand on Anakin's shoulder as he too, leaned forward. "I'd forgotten how beautiful it is."
Anakin glanced at his Master. Despite his beard, his face suddenly looked young, even younger than when Anakin had met him five years before, when Anakin was nine years old. Obi-Wan had been a Padawan then, just like Anakin was now. No doubt Obi-Wan was remembering his other trips to the planet, the ones he had taken with his own Master, Qui-Gon Jinn.
Wren Honoran, their Jedi pilot, nodded. "I always forget until the next time I see it. It takes your breath away every time."
"It's amazing that it hasn't been colonized," Anakin said.
"It was given in trust to the Senate by it's own goverment," Obi-Wan explained. "Only small tribes of natives still inhabit it. A Senate committee handles requests to visit. Only the Jedi and small groupbs of beings can visit at any one time. Access is strictly controlled. That way Ragoon-6 will remain unspoiled, as the goverment wanted. There are no air lanes, no factories, no cities."
"The Ragoons never allowed colonizers to settle," Wren said. "Their own population sicked and dwindled until finally there was only a handful left. They could no longer keep out all those who wanted to come. They knew they would have to give up what they loved most in order to save it."
"But if they'd just allowed colonizer to come, they could have kept their planet," Anakin pointed out.
"Yes, but they chose not to. The beauties of their world were too important to them," Obi-Wan explained. "To keep the planet unspoiled was their first goal."
"They sound selfish to me," Anakin said. "They wanted to keep their planet beautiful for themselves and a few others."
"Or perhaps they were wise," Obi-Wan said. "It is not for us to say.
Anakin turned his gaze back to the planet's surface and sighed under his breath. One of the hardest things he found about becoming a Jedi was suspending judgement. To Anakin, things were good or bad, smart or stupid. Obi-Wan had this maddening way of not taking a stance on things.
"If I had a planet that was truly my homeworld, I wouldn't give it away. I'd want to be able to come back whenever I wanted," Anakin said.
Then it goes into Anakin not believing that Tatooine or the Temple on Coruscant is his home and him deciding that his mother is home to him. Part of me wants to shake Anakin and be all wtf kid while another part of me is going there is no way the Empire respected that agreement.
Obi-WAn Kenobi put a hand on Anakin's shoulder as he too, leaned forward. "I'd forgotten how beautiful it is."
Anakin glanced at his Master. Despite his beard, his face suddenly looked young, even younger than when Anakin had met him five years before, when Anakin was nine years old. Obi-Wan had been a Padawan then, just like Anakin was now. No doubt Obi-Wan was remembering his other trips to the planet, the ones he had taken with his own Master, Qui-Gon Jinn.
Wren Honoran, their Jedi pilot, nodded. "I always forget until the next time I see it. It takes your breath away every time."
"It's amazing that it hasn't been colonized," Anakin said.
"It was given in trust to the Senate by it's own goverment," Obi-Wan explained. "Only small tribes of natives still inhabit it. A Senate committee handles requests to visit. Only the Jedi and small groupbs of beings can visit at any one time. Access is strictly controlled. That way Ragoon-6 will remain unspoiled, as the goverment wanted. There are no air lanes, no factories, no cities."
"The Ragoons never allowed colonizers to settle," Wren said. "Their own population sicked and dwindled until finally there was only a handful left. They could no longer keep out all those who wanted to come. They knew they would have to give up what they loved most in order to save it."
"But if they'd just allowed colonizer to come, they could have kept their planet," Anakin pointed out.
"Yes, but they chose not to. The beauties of their world were too important to them," Obi-Wan explained. "To keep the planet unspoiled was their first goal."
"They sound selfish to me," Anakin said. "They wanted to keep their planet beautiful for themselves and a few others."
"Or perhaps they were wise," Obi-Wan said. "It is not for us to say.
Anakin turned his gaze back to the planet's surface and sighed under his breath. One of the hardest things he found about becoming a Jedi was suspending judgement. To Anakin, things were good or bad, smart or stupid. Obi-Wan had this maddening way of not taking a stance on things.
"If I had a planet that was truly my homeworld, I wouldn't give it away. I'd want to be able to come back whenever I wanted," Anakin said.
Then it goes into Anakin not believing that Tatooine or the Temple on Coruscant is his home and him deciding that his mother is home to him. Part of me wants to shake Anakin and be all wtf kid while another part of me is going there is no way the Empire respected that agreement.
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