"A Jedi will come to destroy the Sith and bring balance to the force"That is it, that is the prophecy. Pretty clear cut right? Simple and direct and not much room for interpretation? Except Sith isn't a species, well not anymore, nor is it a planet or a person. Sith is a idea. Its a religion,a philosophy, a way of life. and its really hard to kill a idea.So which sith order is it talking about? The legends and Canon Old Republic timeline is still mainly the same and even has some of the same events happening around the same time (construction of the temples on Yavin, hundred years darkness, sacking of coruscant) just without the names attached. Its also mostly the same when it comes to the history of the sith (Again in broad strokes and only missing the familiar names).Dark Jedi left the order in the hundred years of darkness, found Korriban, created their own sith empire, fought the republic, fought their self, fought the republic again and created a empire, etc over and over untill finally nearly destroying their self and being reduced to a single master and apprentice by Darth Bane.So which of those sith orders is the prophecy talking about? Because when they were fighting each other they didn't even really have a single unified ideal. And Bane's order is drastically different than every one that had came before. IF I may pull from Legends for a second Kun, Addenu, Bane, the Sith Emperor, and the Revan all had drastically different ideas of what it meant to be sith.So before we even get to Palpatine and Anakin the prophecy is confusing. If it was worded in a way that makes it clear its talking about fixing the problems the sith made that put the force out of balance that would be easier to understand but right now its talking about wiping out a entire idea. One that isn't even the only darkside group in the galaxy, just the largest and strongest.But lets say it just means all the sith from any era to simplify things. Well ok but what about the people that come after it? Their were a lot of sith in the galaxy who left around a lot of holocrons, artifacts, writings. What about someone coming after Palpatine and finding one of those and taking up the mantel of the Sith? Maybe one of Rey's future students has a interest in the past and picks up a holocron. Would that be breaking the prophecy? They Sith were destroyed but now they would be back because someone resurrected the order.What if a dark jedi in the future or a inquisitor just decides to call their self a Sith. Since its a religion/philisophy you can't say someone isn't a sith if they identify as such. Sure they may not have been trained as a Sith so their claim to it is debateable but they are still going around saying they belong to the order. The Sith have rarely had a unified vision so would that make them any less of a Sith than the dozens of independent Sith warlords?Or take Kylo and Snoke. They aren't Sith because they don't call their self Sith. We don't know what their motivations or ideology are and how they differ from the Sith at the moment. But we do know that they are powerful darksiders who have thrown the force out of balance (to the point where Rey was created) and destroyed the Jedi. Well that seems to have undone what Anakin and the prophecy said would happen. But it doesn't break it because...they don't call theirself sith?What about a whole group that saw theirself as the true remains of the Sith and the Bane line as pretenders, a sort of Sith Remnant out in the unkown regions. Would that break the prophecy?I just that that the prophecy makes a lot more sense if we think of it as stopping the sith from breaking the balance of the force during a single point in time when they are at their height (under palpatine and his master) instead of killing off a entire idea/religion. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/2zRb23w
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