Sunday, June 12, 2016

[bafalspi] Midichlorian long game

If we are to believe George Lucas's story, the midichlorians saw or foresaw that Palpatine was, or was going to become, too powerful, so they engineered the conception of Anakin Skywalker to assassinate him, to bring balance to The Force.  Their plan did eventually work, though through tremendous convolutions: Anakin had to become the Emperor's confidante, beget a son (Luke), and only though his love of his son would he find motive and opportunity to turn and kill the Emperor.  Killing the Emperor came at extremely high cost: the deaths of almost all the Jedi as well as a galactic civil war.  The midichlorians are either extremely cold hearted in how they achieve their objectives, or the Emperor must have been extremely important to kill.  (One wonders how much worse things would be, or could be, if their plans failed and The Force became extremely unbalanced.  Maybe the universe would have ended.)

And through all this, the Emperor, both possessing prescience and knowledge of The Prophecy, was still unable to foil the midichlorians' plan, and in fact walked right into their fatal trap.

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