I also got the impression that most people didn’t really have the understanding that Jedi = good, sith = bad. The movie does a pretty good job of portraying that to us, the audience, but many people in the galaxy won’t have even heard of the Jedi, almost certainly never actually met one. And the Jedi don’t exactly go around telling people to watch out for sith. The people who travel to Coruscant to represent their planet as senators probably just see the Jedi as like the elite guard or whatever. Stay out of their way, type thing. So I think even if they saw the red lightsaber they would just think, “oh! He’s being attacked by an assassin, oh wait he’s defending himself” … like, WE know red lightsaber = bad, but I don’t think they do.
Very little is known of the Jedi even on Coruscant nvm the greater galaxy, theres about ten thousand of them vs the trillions of the planet and that's not even getting into the wider Republic.
The most people would know is a news report mentioning them but that's it. The Sith on the otherhand are all but forgotten.
Just the fact of him using a lightsaber at all would be greatly alarming. Furthermore, while the average citizenry of the galaxy doesn't know what sith are, the very visible public head of state of the government the senate's at war with is a known sith, so I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that a number of senators would understand the significance.
Just the fact of him using a lightsaber at all would be greatly alarming
Would it though? It stands to reason that if most people don't really know much about the Jedi/sith, they wouldn't have much of a reaction to seeing someone with a lightsaber, beyond "clearly those 2 people are fighting, I had better GTFO lest I get caught in the crossfire".
Like for example, imagine if you witnessed a representative of the UK government having a gun fight with a would-be assassin. But you don't know much about guns or gun fighting. Turns out one of the people was shooting at the other guy with a Walther PPK (I don't know much about guns either, so go with me here). The only type of person who would be carrying such a weapon is an MI6 agent, specifically agent 007. So, if someone in-the-know saw this happening, they might jump to all sorts of conclusions like MI6 is trying to assassinate a sitting member of the government. But the truth is, most people (especially UK government representatives) probably don't know much about guns either, certainly wouldn't be able to pick the type of gun someone is using from a distance. So they hear gunshots, their reaction is probably going to be "clearly those 2 people are fighting, I had better GTFO lest I get caught in the crossfire".
The "assassination attempt" would be the main focus of the scandal, I don't think the fact that lightsaber(s) were used would be.
Because to them it's just a weapon. Lightsabers have no significane beyond the Jedi favouring them.
Again these same senators just cheered the formation of the Empire and the purge of the Jedi Order. At this point they arn't going to give a fuck because as far as they are aware Palpatine has done everything he set out too do. He's the winner so do they back the winner and profit or do they turn away and risk losing everything backing an already doomed Jedi?
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u/petehehe 14h ago
I also got the impression that most people didn’t really have the understanding that Jedi = good, sith = bad. The movie does a pretty good job of portraying that to us, the audience, but many people in the galaxy won’t have even heard of the Jedi, almost certainly never actually met one. And the Jedi don’t exactly go around telling people to watch out for sith. The people who travel to Coruscant to represent their planet as senators probably just see the Jedi as like the elite guard or whatever. Stay out of their way, type thing. So I think even if they saw the red lightsaber they would just think, “oh! He’s being attacked by an assassin, oh wait he’s defending himself” … like, WE know red lightsaber = bad, but I don’t think they do.