What if Revan Awakened During Order 66 and Saved Anakin? Let’s explore the depths of it in the video.
Anakin tossed and turned in his bed. Though he shakes his head he can’t shake off the visions of Padmé lying on the bed, her screams of agony echoing across the room. All around her, the Force feels heavy, suffocating, and drawing him in deeper.
He can feel it reaching out to him, trying to grab him and Anakin nearly allows it too, but then something pulls him back, a low booming voice that shouts a warning.
Revan: No you fool, this is not what it seems. You are being misled.
Anakin: What? Who said that?
Revan: Skywalker, the Force trembles around you. Do not give into the darkness for you will take the galaxy with you. This dream is but an illusion.
Anakin: Who are you? Another Sith? What do you want from me?”
Revan: Laughs. I am far more than a mere Sith, just know that I’ve walked the same path you do now. I can guide you in a way no Jedi or Sith can.
Revan gestures and Anakin feels the nightmare weaken. A new vision comes to be and Anakin finds a rocky landscape where a lone figure stands, draped in a long cloak and a red mask.
Revan: Journey here to Concordia. Here you shall find your destiny.
Before Anakin can respond, Revan begins to fade. The vision dissolves, leaving Anakin to make sense of everything that happened. He tells the Jedi Council that he wishes to take a few days off to clear his head and meditate.
Anakin’s careful to mask his arrival on Mandalore as he knows the planet is virtually in a civil war between Maul and Bo Katan and is the Mandalorian Resistance base.
As he steps out and surveys the landscape, Anakin notices how harsh and unforgiving it is. The entire plain below looks barren as if the ground was ripped up.
Revan: Not the most pleasant sight to see, isn’t it?
Anakin whirls around and draws his lightsaber.
Revan: Good reflexes, but unnecessary here. I’ve only come to speak. My name is Revan.
A shiver runs down Anakin’s back as he hears that name. Every Jedi knows the story of Darth Revan and Anakin suspects that this man doesn’t simply share his name.
Anakin: And what are you doing here?
Revan: To teach you. The Chosen One is needed more than ever. I will ensure that balance is achieved. Take a look at the landscape one more time.
Although confused, Anakin obeys.
Revan: This was once a lush land, fertile and green with farms and grasslands running as far the eye can see. But the Mandalorians didn’t value it. They wished to turn this moon into a mine for their war machine. Years of war turned it into this.
Anakin: I’ve read the histories. I know all of this.
Revan: Do you know? Then close your eyes and feel the Force here.
Anakin follows and feels a hollowness in this world. Though there is life, it feels devoid of spirit, broken. It is as if the Force itself is choking in this unforgiving landscape. The pain begins to spread across his body and forces him to break his connection.
Revan: It doesn’t feel so good, does it? We are all connected by the Force, which means our actions have an effect on it, and for beings like us, it can be worse than you imagine. What took decades for the Mandalorians to do, we can do a thousandfold in a matter of days. I’ve seen it once, I will not let it happen again.
Anakin for the first time begins to understand the power of this being. It is not just his connection to the Force, but also the ancientness about him and his wisdom. To learn under him is an opportunity like no other.
For the next few days, Anakin learns more than he ever did in years under the Jedi Order.
Revan reveals the intricacies of the Force not as a dichotomy of light and dark, but as a spectrum, an endless web of connections between all living things. To truly master the Force means drawing on it at different levels as the situation requires.
What truly matters is balancing his power, to use it only when necessary. And to show when it is necessary, Revan shows him how to sense the energy between beings, to see their nature and what is required.
But the lessons do not come without cost. The more Anakin connects, the more he feels the galaxy’s pain, the overwhelming anguish of countless beings suffering in this war. As their training continues, Anakin’s movements become more precise, his understanding sharper. He begins to question the dogmas of the Jedi more deeply, recognizing the limitations of their fear of attachment and emotion.
He could spend a decade there if he wanted to, but he only gets a few weeks as he's summoned by Obi-Wan with urgent news, Ahsoka contacts them and requires their help as she comes into contact with the Mandalore resistance and seeks to help overthrow Maul.
Anakin explains that he’s already in the system for a meditation exercise and will help them. Obi-Wan questions this excuse, but the situation is too hectic for him to question it.
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