Thinking about the destruction of Ilum again, thinking about a planet thatâs been sacred to the Jedi for millennia after millenia, thinking about all the kyber crystals that were there, that theyâre semi-sentient rocks, they feel joy and pain. That Luke visits Ilum in the most recent comic and thereâs nothing left as the Empire strip-mines it, only pain and suffering now. Luke is a child of the Jedi, who has been stripped of his heritage through the Jediâs genocide.
Cal Kestis visited Ilum only five years after the Jedi Purge, where the Empire has already desecrated this place that he says was once so beautiful, that he remembers Master Yoda taking the younglings there and how the light would shine into the caves and you can hear how much it meant to him. And you see the devastation all around Cal, that thereâs still a kyber left for him, but the planet is dying.
Ilum is a planet that is home to the kyber crystals, the planet itself must be in synch with the Force that they grow so readily there, more than anywhere else in the galaxy. And the Empire is destroying it, to harvest crystals against their will (the crystals wonât reveal themselves to Jedi unless theyâre meant to be found, unless they want to be found, which the Jedi respect, but the Empire just bulldozes and scrapes and claws and rends their way in, taking them heedless of what the crystals are screaming at them) and killing the planet.
Even while Jedi can sneak onto the planet, feel the dying of it all around them, they canât do anything. And thatâs horrific, to take all those crystals just to make a planet killer weapon.
But what really hurts is knowing what happens to Ilum. Once all the kyber has been stolen, the Empire abandons it, leaves it out in the unknown territories, until the First Order finds it. The First Order finds it and turns it into Starkiller Base.
Another desecration of a planet that was once so very alive and connected to the Force, a planet that was beautiful and spiritually sacred.
And then itâs blown to pieces because the First Order made it a star systems killer.
Whatever healing Ilum might have done, whatever chance it had to regrow itself, to let go of all the pain and suffering it had been through, to find its way back to balance and harmony, whether it took a thousand years or a million years, that chance is gone now.
Ilum can never heal, because thatâs what the galaxy did to it. And Iâm sad about Star Wars planets again.
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