I have been very busy at work and had no time to load anything on my blog. I will try to utilize scheduler thingie to post something so I don't have "dead air" for a couple of days. Stuff like that can kill a blog.
I shamelessly cribbed this from "The Angry Staff Officer"....well blame Mac for this.
Scene: the ghostly apparitions of the Jedi Council can be seen
seated around the room in the familiar circle of the Jedi council. Yoda
shifts uneasily in his small seat, which is odd, because he’s a ghost .
Yoda: “So, wondering as to why we are here, you are.”
Qui-Gon Jinn: “We’ve gathered the Joint Council for Jedi
Lessons Learned together today for one single purpose: to find out what
went wrong. For thousands of generations we were the peacekeepers of the
Galaxy. We maintained law and order. We brought justice to planets that
had never known it. We used the Force for good, saving countless lives.
And then, in the span of just one generation, it all ended. How?”
Anakin clears his throat awkwardly.
Qui-Gon: “Well, yes, there was that…whole business. But that
was a symptom of the overall problem. And we’ve already forgiven you
for your, er, confusion.”
Anakin: “Awfully kind of you. I mean, I did kill Master
Windu…and massacre the Younglings…and kill really quite a lot of Jedi
when I was Vader. Sorry about that, Ben.”
Obi-Wan Kenobi: “Yeah, okay, man. Just chill out, we’ve
already said it’s water under the proverbial catwalk that we all hang
off of at some point in our careers.”
Mace Windu: “In order to figure out what happened, we’re
going to have to do some root cause analysis. Our first step is to do an
after action review, the kind we used to do with the Clone Army.”
Ki-Adi-Mundi: “Great memories with those guys. Until they killed us.”
Kit Fisto: “At least you got to die in the field, I got killed by a damned politician. A fat and nihilistic one, at that.”
Plo Koon: “Look, it’s not so glorious; I got shot down in space. Pretty undignified way to go when your own troops kill you.”
Yoda: “Bicker and argue, we must not, over who killed who.
Answers we are here for. Master Obi Wan will read the rules for the
After Death Report.”
Obi Wan stands up, looking tired.
Obi Wan: “Okay, we all know the rules here. What was
supposed to happen, what did happen, what went right or wrong, and what
we can do better next time. This isn’t a Force bitch-fest -”
Qui-Gon: “Language, Padawan!”
Obi Wan: “Qui-Gon, I’m not your Padawan anymore, remember? You died. Sort of one of the reasons we’re here.”
Saesee Tiin: “Back in my day, we used to do three sustains and three improves. I don’t know what this kind of thing is.”
Ki-Adi-Mundi: “That was the way the Galactic Marines would
do it, too. But I also saw where it was ‘Issue: Discussion:
Recommendation.’ What say you, Padawan Kenobi?”
Obi Wan: “Guys, I’m not a Padawan anymore. Hell -”
Qui-Gon: “Language!”
Obi Wan: “I AM A JEDI MASTER. I WENT ON MISSIONS WITH YOU ALL. AND OUTLIVED YOU ALL.”
Yoda: “Outlived not all, did you.”
Obi Wan sits down, puts his head in his hands, and is heard to swear audibly and prolifically.
Mace Windu: “Master Obi Wan is right, we must
adhere to the process. How do we expect to have any lessons learned to
ensure that this doesn’t happen again?”
Ahsoka Tano: “Guess I’ll start off…Um, what was supposed to
happen: The Jedi Order was supposed to keep peace and justice in the
Galaxy for all time, using the Force for good, and not allowing their
micromanaging and risk aversion to tank the entire thing, and especially
not let Mace Windu get all into my business.”
Adi Gallia: “Well that got personal fast.”
Stass Alli: “You’re telling me, cuz.”
Eeth Koth: “Um, well, she’s not entirely wrong. Looking
back on it now, we did kind of get all cooped up in our own selves in
that tower. We spent more time either arguing with each other or
fighting the Republic’s wars than we did actually listening to the
people of the Republic.”
Oppo Rancisis: “And we probably could have communicated better.”
Mace Windu: “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.”
Luminara Unduli: “Okay, yes. What did happen. Well, it was
going so well until Qui-Gon adopted Anakin as his Padawan and then the
whole thing went…what is the phrase they use on Tatooine? Ah yes, ‘tits
up.'”
Aayla Secura: “Phrasing! But, yes, you are correct. And what
went right or wrong? Well, it all went wrong. We got complacent.
Somehow we neglected to have guards at the Jedi temple to stop Emo Dude
-” She gestures at Anakin “- from taking out his angst on all the Younglings.”
Kit Fisto: “And we also somehow never noticed that Senator Palpatine was a Sith. Under our noses the entire time. That’s embarrassing.”
Eeth Koth: “We also should’ve worked on our tactics fighting
as a group. While we can do the general thing fairly well, when we
fight together as a group of Jedi, it’s really sloppy.”
Plo Koon: “If we’re doing a root cause analysis here, I’d like to offer hubris out as a pretty probable cause.”
Saesee Tiin: “And then there was the lack of communication…lies and whatnot.”
Yoda: “For
the greater good, it all was.”
A robed figure emerges from the shadows. He lowers his hood to reveal Luke Skywalker.
Luke: “You are all, without a doubt, the worst at this I
have ever seen. And I’ve watched Rebel troops give AARs – most of them
can’t even count, let alone reason. That’s what happens when you get a
Rebellion, you get desperate. And you get a Rebellion when one group of
people decides that they know what’s best for everyone else. Namely, the
Jedi.”
Obi Wan: “Luke, are you just mad that you weren’t on the distribution list for this meeting?”
Luke: “Honestly, Ben , I’m more annoyed at you and Yoda
lying to me for all the times you were alive and then even after that.
You let me kiss my sister! Not cool, guys!”
Yoda: “In error, we were, yes. But rash you were -”
Luke: “Master Yoda, I’m gonna stop you right there. ‘Rash’
is sending in an apprentice up against his father with absolutely no
backstory, like that critical piece that he was my father. ‘Rash’ is
saying that I was your only hope, but knowing I had a sister, AND THEN
NOT BOTHERING TO TELL ME ABOUT HER UNTIL I ASKED A DIRECT QUESTION WHEN
YOU WERE LITERALLY DYING.”
Mace Windu: “This is why you never allow the junior officers into an AAR.”
Luke: “I swear to the Force, Mace, I will kill you again.
You, the man who could’ve ended the whole thing if you’d learned how not
to micromanage or develop peripheral vision so you would’ve seen dad
getting all crazy. Or maybe stopped crushing every single Jedi that
messed up. Heads up, risk aversion creates an atmosphere of atrophy and
fear. And fear – if I remember correctly from when I was doing
handstands during my training – leads to the Dark Side of the Force. As
does lying. Ben. Ben. Ben. Lying is bad.”
Anakin: “He’s right, you know.”
Everyone: “SHUT UP.”
Obi Wan: “Look, yes, you’re right. And you’ve got every right to be angry. But you did win in the end, remember.”
Luke: “That was due to shit-luck -”
Qui Gon: “Language!”
Luke: “- and lots of really good flying from Han and Wedge, and Leia being smarter than all of us.”
Obi Wan: “Yes, she always did seem wiser.”
Luke: “And I didn’t really win, did I? My own apprentice pulled a dad and killed all my other students.”
Anakin: “Really sorry about all the bad examples I set, really.”
Luke: “Yes, Dad, we got it, geez – put a mask on it, will ya?”
Obi Wan: “You did suffer some setbacks. But where does that leave us now? You are the last Jedi. What can you learn from our mistakes?”
Aayla Secura: “He can learn to communicate – to share all information. Mission command, I think it’s called.”
Mace Windu: “He can learn to be a master of the operational art; present the enemy with multiple problems and multiple dilemmas.”
Qui Gon: “He can learn to be humble and not presume he knows what’s best.”
Yoda: “And use the Force, must he.”
Luke: “Master Yoda, I’ve been using the Force for some time now.”
Yoda: “Using the Force you have been, but not to its full potential. I will now show you the full Power of the Force.”
Yoda gestures to the door and R2D2 rolls in.
Yoda: “Luke, R2D2 the Force is.”
Luke: “I f***ing knew it.”
Qui-Gon: “Language!”
Good one! :-)
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