However, as explained by Madelin Sun in this Crimson Reign comic, the next step was to make it a crime “to even be aware of the Force.” This was part of a long-term strategy to keep people from passing info along (more on this in a minute), but it also had a short-term benefit of helping the Empire target and call those who were “willing to die for their beliefs, in an effort to bring back the light, to expose the truth.”
The Imperials saw this as a grisly “process of elimination” because most of those who were left were “not willing to die for their beliefs” and were “apathetic” and fearful people “just trying to get by.”
Summing things up, Sun explains that “it’s not that the Jedi are forgotten” but that “the very idea of them is a death sentence,” so anyone who does remember won’t say anything about these Knights or the Force.
This helps Palpatine take the Purge to the next level because it goes far beyond simply murdering the Jedi. He kills their very memory as a way of ensuring that nobody follows in their footsteps and tries to take him down.
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