["I don't know how to be anything but a Jedi." It's a sentiment Ahsoka understands deeply. When she'd first walked away, when she walked down those Temple steps... she'd felt the same way. Not just on that particular day, either. For weeks, even months after. But through her time here, she's slowly learning how. It doesn't happen overnight. It happens with time, and patience.
Ahsoka shakes her head.]
The current problems within the Order don't just stem from forgetting our true purpose. Though... that is a part of it. But they also come from the way the Order is structured now. Our rules and regulations, our dogma. We say that only the Sith deal in absolutes, but isn't that an absolute in and of itself? Our thinking is too black and white. Too dogmatic. Nobody listens. We should be flexible, but instead we're brittle. There's no room for change, or understanding, or evolution.
[This is something Ahsoka has thought on a long time. It isn't a conclusion she's come to overnight. It's something she initially rejected, an opinion she actively fought against. But many hours of arguing, of defending the Order's way of doing things with so many people-- with Luke, with Vima and Nomi Sunrider-- have highlighted the real problem.]
Even if you remind the Order where their real duties lie [and Ahsoka already knows that Barriss's methods won't] the deeper problem will still remain. You're right that the Order needs to change, but not in the way that you think.
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Ahsoka shakes her head.]
The current problems within the Order don't just stem from forgetting our true purpose. Though... that is a part of it. But they also come from the way the Order is structured now. Our rules and regulations, our dogma. We say that only the Sith deal in absolutes, but isn't that an absolute in and of itself? Our thinking is too black and white. Too dogmatic. Nobody listens. We should be flexible, but instead we're brittle. There's no room for change, or understanding, or evolution.
[This is something Ahsoka has thought on a long time. It isn't a conclusion she's come to overnight. It's something she initially rejected, an opinion she actively fought against. But many hours of arguing, of defending the Order's way of doing things with so many people-- with Luke, with Vima and Nomi Sunrider-- have highlighted the real problem.]
Even if you remind the Order where their real duties lie [and Ahsoka already knows that Barriss's methods won't] the deeper problem will still remain. You're right that the Order needs to change, but not in the way that you think.