War Stories: Mace Windu

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"War Stories: Mace Windu"
by Christine Anderson

Hello.

The name is Windu. Jedi Master Mace Windu. I earned the title, I'd appreciate it if you'd use it. I fought at Geonosis; I've fought a lot of places since then. I have been a Jedi all my life. Our way is the only one that I know, and we are losing it. Day by day, step by step, inch by inch, it is slipping away from us.

I am the Jedi who could have stopped it. And I am the Jedi who did not do so.

I saw the shatterpoint of the Clone Wars, and knew that if I struck it at just the right moment, I could turn the tide. Stop this madness before it began. But I could not do it. The shatterpoint I saw was a man I once called friend. In that moment on Geonosis, I could have averted the war if I had only raised my lightsaber and killed, not Jango Fett, but Master- no, Count Dooku. It would have cost my life to strike that shatterpoint, but that is unimportant. What Jedi would not have sacrificed themselves for that chance? Which even of the citizens of the Republic who fight alongside us would not have given their lives for this? One life, to stop the war.

The war rages on, because I could not kill a friend.