u/Tupp226

Blind faith is still blind

Sister Argenta murdered Lady Theodora, her reasons for doing so are irrelevant to the conversation.

Lady Theodora was a Rogue Trader, protected under the aegis of a Sacred Warrant of Trade. A Warrant signed, not simply by some Highlords of Terra, but by the Emperor Himself, in His very own blood.

The murder of Lady Theodora was, thusly, an insult to the God-Emperor of Mankind. She placed her own judgement above the judgement of the highest Divinity in the Imperium.

Argenta’s heresy is not impiety. It is presumption.

The arrogance to believe that her judgement is purer than that of those placed above her by Sacred Writ.

She is a cautionary tale. That no matter how pious the purity of your belief, it doesn’t mean you know better than your betters in the Imperium.

\"She has brought you truth, and you would condemn it. The arrogance!\"

The Living Force influences all things, subtly directing the actions of those in the galaxy and directing the course of events in it's never ending quest for "Balance". When Kreia learned this, she understood. The Force is no mere energy field. It is a Tyrant of galactic proportions. How many countless trillions have died in the endless cycle of conflicts as the pendulum swings back and forth between Light and Dark, but never able to find true balance? The Tyrannical Force has the blood of a galaxy on it's metaphysical hands. Understanding this, she came to hate the Force. As long as force sensitives remained connected to it, true free will would never exist. Every action, every choice would have the Force's fingerprint somewhere on it.

Then along comes the Exile. A Jedi who, over the course of a war, built force bonds with every soldier under her command. Who, at the end of that war, felt their simultaneous deaths reverberate through those bonds. All that pain and suffering. It would have killed her. In a moment of blind desperation, she did something unprecedented: She willingly cut herself off from the Force. In doing so she did more than just save her own life. She became free. The only person in the galaxy who could truly claim her choices and actions as her own, unmanipulated by the Will of the Force.

In the Exile, Kreia saw the death of the Force. Or at least the death of it's ability to influence the galaxy. If the Exile could be taught to consciously harness this ability, and taught to understand Kreia's beliefs, then she could share them with her followers. Followers who would only grow as her force bonds spread. Especially those strong in the force would be drawn to her, bound to her, and compelled to learn how to cut themselves off from the force. A new order would form. One that taught freedom from the Force. Maybe it would take hundreds of years, thousands even, but if Kreia could succeed in making the Exile the first domino, all the others would inevitably fall, one day there would not be a single sentient in the galaxy connected to the Force. It would have no one to influence. It would die in silence, forgotten. And the Galaxy would be free to follow whatever path it chose for itself.

Kreia would die, passing on her final lesson to the Exile.

Unfortunately for her, the Exile then went on to ignore that lesson and use her ability to bond with force sensitives to rebuild the Jedi Order, because KOTOR 2 is set in the past and continuity already says the force doesn't die and the jedi rebuild, so.... *wet fart*