A report by Jedi Master Jonyna Si, Sentinel of Harmony
I sit here buried in reports. The war front, the relief efforts of the Service Corps, the Medical Corps. Master Amani has done her best to split the work, but now as the sun sets on Coruscant, both of us are tired after days of work.
I won't pretend to be a saint. I was a rebel long before I considered myself a jedi, and I still hold that spirit in me.
But one of the reports I've received was a general critique of the NJO, and the GA as a whole.
They call us tyrants, that our democracy is failed, that our order is violent and that we treat ourselves as warriors rather than heroes.
I'm not of this time. 900 years ago, I was born before the fall of the First Republic, in the waning days of the Clone Wars. When I came of age to become a jedi, I was sent out to join the ranks of the order. Instead, I was met with blaster fire by clones, and the rise of the first Galactic Empire.
I watched the first Jedi Order fall, with my own young eyes. I watched them die out, one by one.
For twenty years, I dreamed of a world where the jedi could return. Of a galaxy not ruled by tyranny.
For twenty years, I fought as best I could, trained under circumstances unfamiliar to most, and attempted to make my dream a reality.
In the end, I only succeeded in failure. Led my team into a fight we could not win, and ended up frozen for 900 years.
When I awoke, the war had been won. The order had been restored, not by my hands, but by the hands of a farmboy from Tatooine, a backwater world most couldn't name on a galactic map.
The world I awoke to wasn't perfect. The GA never has been, and never claimed to be, but it was a paradise compared to what I had come from.
I don't claim to be perfect myself. I fund war materials, I fight with a vigor most would call unworthy of a jedi, and I carry myself in a manner the jedi order I had dreamed of joining when I was a kitten would consider uncouth.
But I do so because I believe the GA is the best option. A government that at least attempts to be good. Attempts to do right by it's citizens, and pride itself on democracy.
Hapes was a mess. I won't deny that. To call it otherwise would be a bold face lie, and I'm not here to lie. I'm here to let the truth speak. Again and again, the GA has attempted to do right by it's citizens, and failed. Woostri, Hapes, Tython, Empress Teta. It's easy to point out the failings of a democracy, military, and jedi order in recent memory.
But it's a lot harder to remember their successes. The Defense and Restoration of Coruscant, the Second Great Hyperspace War, the reclamation of Ukatis and it's restoration. Jedha, Kiffu, Corellia.
The Alliance isn't perfect, by no means, but to call it a failed state only strengthens the position of our enemies. The Sith seek to subjugate us. The Crusaders seek to burn us. Not just the Alliance, but Naboo and the Foundation.
If those attempting to rebel against the Imperial States of the galactic stage truly did care about their cause, then they would focus on those imperialistic, nihilistic forces, not squabble against those trying to hold them back.
My mother was a Shadow. During the fall of the Republic, she taught me a lesson, a code, to live by.
Do Good, even when it is inconvenient.
Protect the Innocent, for you are their shield.
Fight Evil where it stands, with both kindness and fury.
Above all else, survive. You are one of few. Do not let the Light die out.
I still live by those ideals.
I still believe the Alliance does as well.
~ Signed
Jonyna Si, Tenacity Cell of the Rebel Alliance, Jedi Master of the New Jedi Order
