What if Yoda turned to the Dark Side
Posted: 2011-07-09 11:40am
What would have happened if Yoda turned to the Dark Side after Order 66?
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Lets say after he gets into the Jedi Temple and sees the slaughtered children, he realises that everything he's done and built over the centuries has been for nothing. He realises he's not strong enough to take on Palpatine, so turns to the Dark Side to avenge his failure.Darth Fanboy wrote:At what point after Order 66 are we talking about?
pg 305 wrote:At this moment, Yoda turned, and Dooku gasped. Whether it was the play of the holomonitors, beaming their views of bleak space and distant battles, or some other trick of the light, Yoda's face was deeply hidden in the shadows, and for one terrible instant, he looked exactly like Darth Sidious. Or rather, it was Yoda as he might have been, or could yet become: a Yoda gone rotten, a Yoda whose awesome powers had been utterly unleashed by his connection to the dark side. In a flash Dooku saw how foolish he had been, trying to urge the old Master to the dark side. If Yoda every turned that way, Sidious himself would be annihilated. The universe had yet to comprehend the kind of evil that a Jedi Knight of nearly nine hundred years could wield.
"Why couldn't we see this attack on the Senator?" Mace pondered, shaking his head. "This should have been no surprise to the wary, and easy for us to predict."
"Masking the future is this disturbance in the Force," Yoda replied. The diminutive Jedi seemed tired.
Mace understood well the source of that weariness. "The prophecy is coming true. The dark side is growing."
"And only those who have turned to the dark side can sense the possibilities of the future," Yoda said. "Only by probing the dark side can we see."
pg 76
Yup. Thanks!hongi wrote:Is this it?
"Why couldn't we see this attack on the Senator?" Mace pondered, shaking his head. "This should have been no surprise to the wary, and easy for us to predict."
"Masking the future is this disturbance in the Force," Yoda replied. The diminutive Jedi seemed tired.
Mace understood well the source of that weariness. "The prophecy is coming true. The dark side is growing."
"And only those who have turned to the dark side can sense the possibilities of the future," Yoda said. "Only by probing the dark side can we see."
pg 76
This second quote takes place as Anakin is attacking the Tusken camp. Apparently this is the point at which Yoda probed the Dark Side, allowing him to see Anakin's rage and Qui-Gon's warnings.Attack of the Clones novelization pg 168 wrote:“Has Master Yoda gained any insight as to whether or not this war will come about?” he asked, somewhat changing the subject, though he felt it was all very connected. Finding the assassin, making peace with the separatists—all of these things would allow him to focus more closely on Anakin’s training and would keep things at a more even keel around the troubled Padawan.
“Probing the Dark Side is a dangerous process,” Mace stated. “I know not when he will choose to begin, but when he does, it is quite possible he will remain in seclusion for days.”
Attack of the Clones novelization pg 168 wrote:Deep in his meditations, peering through the dark side, Master Yoda felt a sudden surge of anger, of outrage beyond control. The diminutive master’s eyes popped open wide at the unexpected strength of that rage.
And then he heard a voice, a familiar voice, crying, “No Anakin! No! Don’t! No!”
It was Qui-Gon. Yoda knew it was Qui-Gon. But Qui-Gon was dead, had become one with the Force! One could not retain consciousness and sense of self in that state; one could not speak from beyond the grave.
But Yoda had heard the ghostly call, and in his deep meditative state, his thoughts focused as precisely as they had ever been, the Jedi Master knew he had not been mistaken.
He wanted to focus on that, then, perhaps to try to follow that call back to the ghostly source, but he could not, overwhelmed again by the surge of rage and pain and…power.
He made a noise and lurched forward, then came out of his trance as his door opened and Mace Windu rushed in.
“What is it?” Mace asked.
“Pain. Suffering. Death! I fear something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker is in pain. Terrible pain.”
He didn’t tell Mace the rest of it, that somehow Anakin’s rush of agony manifesting itself in the Force had somehow tapped into the spirit of the dead Jedi master who had discovered him. Too much was happening here.
That disembodied familiar voice hung profoundly in Yoda’s thoughts. For if it were true, if he had heard what he was sure he had heard…