Star Wars timeline help, how to build an Empire in 20 years Options

[Erebus]

[Lord Ver'an]

It is pretty clear that a force-sensitive person could easily be rejected from the Jedi Order in the Old Republic because he or she was not just right; too old, too angry, too emotional, etc. This means that there was a decent-sized pool of force-sensitive people for the Empire to recruit dark jedi from easily, because it would not be difficult to get at the Jedi records as to who was force sensitive but passed over.

In addition, it is clear that the Jedi missed some force-sensitive bloodlines altogether, as indicated by the number of Jedi that pop up over the decade or so following the origional movies. Several dozen potential jedi surface, indicating the possibility of nearly that many blood-lines that survived the purges.

What I think happened was the the Empire contacted all of the force-sensitive people passed over by the Jedi and all the ones it could find on its own and then turned them against the Jedi Order. Most of these died killing off the Jedi. Others were probably killed by the Emporer for various acts of disobedience. A few more show up after the origional movies in various novels.

In addition to dark Jedi, there were many highly skilled bounty hunters, as was mentioned before. Fett's armor and armor like it, although rare, allowed them to match Jedi, as is seen in the movies. In addition, the Empire built various assassin droids.

Once the afore-mentioned propoganda campaign kicked in and the weaker Jedi were killed off, the Empire just clamped down whenever Jedi were sighted. The Jedi would quickly find themselves alone in the galaxy.

[Catsnightmare]

[Erebus]

[CountZero]