Hi, this is my first time posting something from my brain, but like I can't stop thinking about this. I recently got into a band called Marah in the Mainsail (they're an awesome band, you should check them out), I got really into their album titled Bone Crown, the title track is just amazing, but I want to focus on another song that comes from that album Ember. This is probably a weird way to start a Star Wars post but i need you to stick with me to see the vision. All of this surrounds a young Jedi Knight, maybe they were knighted a few years before the war, maybe they were knighted at the beginning of the war, maybe they were knighted during the war. The point is that most of their training took place during what were considered peaceful times. Death was something they knew about, they had seen the pyres being lit for older Masters, Masters that had died in the field, maybe they had a peer die on a mission, they had seen their Master kill before, maybe they even had to kill someone themselves, a no other way deal, point is that they had never really grieved the death of those they cared about. And then Geonosis, almost 200 Jedi die in a conflict that sparks an intergalatic war, think of how the funeral rights were handled for all of those jedi, all of their bodies brought back to the temple, so many rites that needed to be done that the pyres probably didn't have time to cool, how the smoke blotted out the sky for days(i know we see smokeless pires at the temple in the clone wars show but this is for dramatic effect). And this starts a trend of jedi deaths through out the war, people they knew start dying, they start attending pyres for people they knew, maybe they lose their master during the war, and they're knighted for some act of bravery in the battle that took their Master's life. Death rights seem to be conducted all the times, the pyres lit daily or weekly instead of monthly. They become surrounded by death both in the field and at home and it takes its toll. That's where the lyrics to Ember start "I don't want to go back home, I don't want to see those bodies burn, Sweep up that ash and coal, I don’t want to see, The slow heartbeat of, The ember..." They dread going back home, either to attend the rights of someone they knew, or seeing the pyres lit while they're on shore leave. They start to become disillusioned with the war, At the beginning, they probably saw them and the people they knew joining the war as a necessity, the jedi had stepped in to help in conflicts before, their presence could potentially save so many lives, why wouldn't they join in a fight against people being led by a Sith, they arent going to stand back when people need help. These are all things that Palpatine was probably counting on to get the Jedi involved in the war in the first place. But as time goes on, as the death and darkness that surrounds them takes its toll, they become disillusioned, so many people have died and yet the senate hasn't done anything besides perpetuate the fighting, buying more troops, enacting laws they make governments switch sides, paying into the war machine, while you and the people you care about pay the price. And when things go wrong, the senate doesn't get blamed, the people in the field do, because the senate might pay for the war and tell you where to go and who to fight, the people on the ground hold responsibility for how things go down. "I don’t want to be their scapegoat, Hiding their sins so nobody knows, Keeping them clean from the, Murder they wrought, I don’t want to see, The slow heartbeat of, The ember, Turning their skin to fur coats..." The young knight starts to see why the separatists decided to secede from the Republic, but they won't condone their methods.
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