This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The High Republic #10.
It's becoming clear the Jedi and the Sith, the greatest heroes and villains of the Star Wars saga, had exactly the same weakness. The Jedi and the Sith are yin and yang, light and dark. Little by little, Lucasfilm is revealing the history of these two ancient orders - and just how much they had in common. The first Jedi were agents of balance, not servants of the light side. Star Wars: The Last Jedi unveiled a mural of the Prime Jedi, founder of the Jedi Order, and he was presented as the light in the darkness and the darkness in the light.
But the dark side has always been seductive, and according to Lucasfilm's Secrets of the Sith, the Jedi suffered a schism millennia ago. A breakaway faction devoted themselves exclusively to the dark side, calling themselves the Sith, and they established a Sith Empire that ruled the galaxy. The remaining Jedi concluded the dark side was too dangerous, and so committed themselves only to the light side. Ever since then, the Jedi and the Sith have been at war - and yet, curiously, it's gradually becoming clear they have the same weakness.
This is made abundantly clear in Star Wars: The High Republic #10, by Cavan Scott and Georges Jeanty. It sees two Jedi, Keeve Trennis and Terec, sent undercover to infiltrate the pirate group known as the Nihil who have caused chaos across the galaxy. It's hard not to see this as one of the most absurd missions imaginable; neither Jedi has any experience in espionage, and worse still they have no idea what they're getting caught up in. The Nihil possess a Force predator they call the Leveler, a monster that hunts Force-sensitives and consumes their very midichlorians. The Jedi don't know about the Leveler, but they are aware some Nihil creature just killed one of their greatest Jedi Masters. The mission is reckless and ill-considered, a perfect demonstration of the Jedi's overconfidence. Unsurprisingly, it goes terribly wrong.
The word "overconfident" perfectly describes the Jedi Order, not just in the High Republic Era, but even in the time of the prequel trilogy. They were so confident of the rightness of their cause, of their ability to win the day, that they were easily manipulated by Palpatine. The Sith Lord's plans culminated in Order 66, with the clone troopers turning on the Jedi because of inhibitor chips implanted within them; but, as seen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the clues were all there for the Jedi to figure out the truth and prevent the massacre happening. Their overconfidence blinded them.
But, ironically, this same weakness is shared by the Sith. Palpatine serves as the perfect example because he came to believe himself too powerful to ever be defeated. He orchestrated that risky duel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader on the second Death Star, where Luke called him out on his overconfidence. This was Palpatine's undoing, just as it had been the Jedi's before him, because he never realized his servant Darth Vader could be redeemed - and so his plans suffered their most catastrophic setback. The one weakness - overconfidence - brought down both the Jedi and the Sith in Star Wars.
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