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Come to think of it why do jedi/sith never use their telekinetic powers to fly? Or levitate? Or do that trick of riding a thing they are holding up?

Come to think of it why do jedi/sith never use their telekinetic powers to fly? Or levitate? Or do that trick of riding a thing they are holding up?

"I know what I have to do," he said. "But – I don't know if I have the strength to do it."

"Let me help," Han offered.

Ben's head twitched, and he nodded slightly.

Han reached out, putting his hand on the lightsaber, then wrenched it out of his son's grip and threw it off the walkway.

"Father!" Ben yelped. "What did you just-"

"What?" Han replied, shrugging insouciantly. "I gave you a lot of help, kid."

"But that's not-" Ben began, then stopped, then tried again. "I didn't mean-"

"What did you mean, then?" Han asked.

"I meant… I need to let the past die, dad," Ben said. "I wanted help killing my past, by stabbing it in the side with my lightsaber!"

Han looked down.

"...you mean my side, right?" he asked.

Ben was silent.

"Ben," Han said, more insistently.

"Yes," Ben admitted.

"And you didn't tell me that was what you wanted to do because…?" Han pressed.

"Because you'd say no," Ben mumbled.

Han nodded. "Right in one," he said. "But, you know… I never got a chance to actually talk to you about why you did the whole… murders, thing. We can talk about it, maybe."

"You won't accept me," Ben said, his gaze wandering around as if trying to work out where he could look. "The things I've done-"

"You remember how the story of Darth Vader ends, right?" Han asked. "Heck, kid, I've killed a lot of people myself. Once shot a guy first, if you can believe that."

The old smuggler looked reminiscent for a moment, then shook his head. "But, anyway, we should probably get out of here, the whole room's rigged to explode."

"It's what?" Ben asked.

"Can you two please hurry up!" Rey shouted. "Poe is literally airstriking the place right now!"

Han grabbed Ben's hand.

"This way!" he said. "We can work this out later – though, who is Snoke, anyway? We don't know much about him."

Several stormtroopers opened fire on the two running Solos, apparently having decided that Ben wasn't sufficiently Ren any more, and the blaster bolts stopped in mid-air.

"I don't actually know, myself," Ben admitted, as Chewbacca triggered some of the explosives and shouted something obscene at the stormtroopers. "Look, why are you blowing up the room?"

More explosives went off, and Poe Dameron flew through the hole before starting to blast everything in sight.

"Uh, step one, blow open a hole in the power regulator," Han said. "Step two, blow up the power regulator. Step three… find a way to leave before the planet explodes."

He grinned at his son. "The last step's always the tricky one. Come on!"

Uh, step one, blow open a hole in the power regulator," Han said. "Step two, blow up the power regulator. Step three… find a way to leave before the planet explodes."

That's a very Skywalker plan, with the irony being that the Skywalker present is the only one not in on it.

Because the Cloak of the Dark Side was obscuring foresight to that extent. That's right, the movies had Sidious dumbing down the entire Jedi Order.

There was a Sith thing planted

The Jedi Temple was built right on top of a Sith Shrine. Though it's possible Palpatine slipped something in there.

Right, I forget which came first.

"...of course, a separate but related issue is what it's going to be like afterwards," Obi-Wan said. "In principle the Republic and the Jedi Order could probably accept the existence of Sith so long as we actually knew who they were and they weren't trying to destroy us. It's the fact that the first Sith we met in a thousand years tried to run Anakin over and cut Qui-Gon's head off as an opening move that's soured us towards them a bit… but are you really going to be content as someone whose whole job is to die for Sidious?"

"But we're getting off topic," Obi-Wan said, turning to look at Palpatine. "Chancellor, what about this as a starting point? Your emergency powers were granted to resolve the crisis, and I'm sure you want to abandon them as soon as possible… so why not take away the whole reason why the individual systems in the Confederacy had problems with the Republic to begin with? Freely allow the departure of any system which wishes to do so, under the emergency powers legislation; enact a progressive tax, one which hits the Core worlds harder owing to their greater ability to pay, to sustain a carrier based navy able to hunt pirates more effectively than conduct occupations or orbital bombardment, and have the navy established on a sector-federal two-level model?"

Palpatine stared at Obi-Wan for at least ten seconds.

"...he's a Sith Lord," he said, yet again.

"Oh, shut up," Dooku replied. "You're a Sith Lord and I don't see you doing anything constructive."

Obi-Wan glanced at Palpatine.

"...you know," he began. "I'm quite sure you'd need to note that on your financial disclosure forms, your Excellency."

Huh, yeah, that makes sense; someone with that level of power COULD indeed do all the "oh I'm afraid I'm not able to do that" stuff

It does happen occasionally, but usually they restrict themselves to superjumps. Presumably it's just not very energy-efficient, or requires distracting amounts of concentration, or something.

That's a very Skywalker plan, with the irony being that the Skywalker present is the only one not in on it.

Han learned a lot from his friends and family over the years.

headcanon it's a combination of Image issues (telekinesis is them 'holding something remotely, which doesn't eactly work well on yourself, since you'd lack leverage) & self-referential paradox

That's a very Skywalker plan, with the irony being that the Skywalker present is the only one not in on it.

At times, the in-laws are worse than the actual in-laws. Not sure what Cliegg Lars' thing was

Then his mind went completely blank.

He couldn't remember the name of the guy he was meant to be giving emergency powers to.

He couldn't remember the name of the guy's office.

Boss? No, no, that wasn't right… big bombad boss-man? No, that wasn't it either!

The whole room seemed caught in a singing tension, and Jar Jar wasn't sure if he was thinking quickly or if everyone was staring at him and that just made it worse.

Then he had a sudden realization.

The point of these emergency powers was to make it so they could rescue Padme and Anakin and Obi-Wan – and the boss guy whose name he couldn't remember hadn't wanted them, he'd said so, he'd just said it was necessary to cut through all of the gridlocken arguing.

But – but it didn't have to be the boss man guy.

"-Jedi Master Yoda!" Jar Jar finished, in a gasp, then practically collapsed back on the seat of the senate pod.

Cheers and shouts immediately filled the Senate hall, calling for the approval of the motion, and Jar Jar swallowed because he felt short of breath.

This public speakin' business was way scarier than fighting an army! And that was plenty scary enough itself, too…

Palpatine's eyes twitched, and he forced himself to relax his hand.

He had been… outplayed. Disastrously so. In a way he had absolutely not anticipated.

That idiot gungan had seemed like the perfect patsy, and it had been so important to his plans that everyone agree with the need for the emergency powers… and that nobody suspect how much he dearly wanted and needed the authority to cut through the factionalism in the Senate.

It had taken decades of work to create that factionalism, of encouraging different groups to vote strategically to obfuscate their preferred courses of action on different subjects, so that nobody but himself was aware that three quarters of the Senate would vote according to his wishes because so many of them were persuaded that he was their highest placed and most secret ally.

All to create the gridlock that emergency powers would be needed to cut through.

But now… now that idiot gungan had ruined everything. Someone had pulled his strings so masterfully that Palpatine couldn't even see them.

But now… now that idiot gungan had ruined everything. Someone had pulled his strings so masterfully that Palpatine couldn't even see them.

And good for Palpatine too - after all, he didn't want emergency powers, he even said so, so he should be ecstatic.

"Outplayed, I have been. Days of quiet, over mine are."

So... Does this make Yoda the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, or just the Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic for the duration of the war?

Interestingly it's my understanding that the entirety of Rise of Skywalker takes place over about 16 hours. Given multiple FTL journeys take place over the course of the film and they basically do a lap of the galaxy (Ajan Kloss to Pasaana to Kijimi to Kef Bir to (Ach-To or Ajan Kloss) to Exegol in 16 hours) it really makes the galaxy feel about as hard to cross as a moderately sized city.