Star Wars has just discovered the way the emperor Palpatine confused the hunt for the Jedi after order 66

Order 66 was to be the master to kill Jedi. In Star Wars History is often painted as the rapid and decisive end of the Jedi order. But Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #7 It overturns the narrative one on his head, revealing a much more disordered truth about the galaxy immediately after the purge.

Yes, the initial massacre was devastating, but the follow-up plan of the emperor Palpatine to trace the survivors was incredibly primitive and, frankly, sentenced from the beginning.

Instead of launching a methodical hunting in terms of galaxy, the nascent empire was based on goffi tactics that clarify because so many Jedi lived to fight another day.

In Vader #7 LegacyThe first phase of the “great” Palpatine Purge Jedi reduced to the distribution lists. Imperial officers and clones soldiers have literally delivered names and physical descriptions of “possible Jedi survivors” to local magistrates and everyday citizens. It was very far from the subsequent precision and ruthlessness of the inquisitor.

The defects were obvious. A galaxy with countless species and wildly different apparitions meant that a description could combine dozens, if not hundreds, of people. Even the accurate details could quickly become useless while Jedi changed their names, cut their hair, abandoned the clothes and merged with the crowd. The comic book even shows an official transmission by Palpatine himself who offers gifts for “any traitor Jedi that still survives”.

Although integrated to encourage suggestions, this tactic could easily return against. Offering “more generous” payments for information could try some to transform a neighbor, but it could be equally easily inspired false leads, wasted resources and open challenge.

Many citizens still saw Jedi as protectors of the Republic, and others simply wary of the new regime. Instead of collaborating, some could protect the fugitives or feed the disinformation of the empire. This is exactly the way in which the hidden path was born, an underground network to smuggle Jedi safely.

Rewarding on a public sizes system was wildly inefficient. Palpatine’s first strategy was missing from the precision and concentration necessary to sweep away the survivors sensitive to strength, which is why the inquisite became a necessity.

Inquisitous was not a team that sensitize the strength, often the former Jedi themselves, have formed to eradicate and eliminate survivors. According to the direct command of Darth Vader, these hunters did not need civil help or raw descriptions. They could hear their goals through strength, monitoring fear, presence and even hidden connections.

The problem of the sensitivity of the force takes place Vader #7 Legacy Through the character Grana, who reveals that he can perceive Kylo Ren’s identity because he was “right there in the front of [his] mind. “It is a perfect example of the type of psychological detection and based on the strength that the inquisitors would subsequently arise.

Unlike clone soldiers or sizes, the inquisitors have been invested personally in their missions. They had a revenge against the Jedi and were modeled in Palpatina tools and Vader will. They worked secretly, did not depend on unreliable people of the place and brought fear wherever they went.

The initial hunt of Palpatine for the Jedi after order 66 could have started with chaos and false steps, but the absorba of Inquisitius transformed the Jedi purga from a man’s amateur hunting into a cold and calculated extermination. Without them, the Jedi order may have survived much greater number.