For example, as it turned out, the EU, having overlooked (or having been unaware of) a quote by Lucas which spoke of the Rule of Two having been in effect for thousands (plural) of years, jumped to the conclusion that the Rule of Two had only been in existence since the Sith had been believed extinct. But that created a plot hole not caused by TPM itself.
I did wonder about that as the recent Rebels's finale seemed to indicate that the Sith temple was built with the Rule of Two in mind, despite it being several thousand years old.
I suppose that could be somewhat open to interpretation as it could simply be a safeguard so that an apprentice can't betray and murder their master to gain the station's power as it takes both of them to use the thing.
I don't recall if there was any direct reference to how long Bane had been dead in the final season 6 episodes, so there's no way to tell from that.
If nothing else it would account for how Yoda could know of the Rule of Two if it existed *before* the fall of the last Sith Empire.
Also, we do not know precisely when the Sith ruled the galaxy. It could easily have been prior to the thousand generations spoken of by Obi-Wan in ANH.
Not for an absolute fact, no. But consider the confluence of events: the Republic being (re) founded, a full scale war comes to an end, a dark age of the galaxy ends, a galactic army is disbanded and the Sith are presumed wiped out forever. The Republic part alone is enough to conclude that something else was in charge of the galaxy in this dark age. It's hardly a massive leap given the small mountain of circumstantial evidence that said institution was the a Sith Empire.
As a small aside, in '
Escape from Kadavo' Sidious refers to Sith Empires; plural. Now that could mean the Sith ruled the galaxy on more than one occasion, had smaller earlier empires prior to conquering the galaxy or that at some point, multiple Sith Empires existed in competition.
That last one certainly seems credible in a pre-Rule of Two era. They were said to be prone to in-fighting so I can see various Empires fracturing as various Lords made bids for personal power, switching sides and stabbing each other in the back. Pick one or all of the above I suppose.
Technically the first time we get a sense of the Jedi being considered myth is in E4 when Han disavows their existence as hocus pocus.
Again, it wasn't the existence of the Jedi he was doubting, only the veracity of their beliefs and abilities. Hence "simple tricks and nonsense."
Barfly's or not, Anakin must have thought they'd understand the reference otherwise he wouldn't have said it.
I never said they wouldn't. My point was that them knowing what a Jedi is when they see one cut someone's hand off isn't reasonably comparable to Rey and her situation. They did know for an absolute fact Jedi were real (what they thought of them is another matter) but Rey didn't know it for an absolute fact because she couldn't. Apples and oranges.
Think whatever you like but IMO, unless the Emperor wiped millions of minds of their existence, not enough time passed between E2 and E4 for knowledge of the Jedi to have passed into myth.
OK, this strawman crap is getting old.
At no point have I said that the *whole galaxy* magically forgot they even existed, just that's it's reasonable that after half a century, their existence may fall into doubt
*at the fringes of civilization*.
Remember that the Jedi weren't just killed, everything about them was suddenly taboo, owning Jedi artefacts became very illegal and speaking of them openly was probably a good way to get a visit from the space gestapo. In a climate like that, it shouldn't be surprising that the flow of accurate information on the subject became highly disrupted. Plus, from the outside they were pretty mysterious even before that state of affairs.
Note that several people would incorrectly refer to lightsabers as "laser swords" and even
presumably well educated people would address them as "Master Jedi" regardless of their actual rank, simply because they don't actually know much of anything about internal Jedi matters.
