Baylan Skoll Quotes

Baylan Skoll: One parting lesson, Shin. Impatience for victory will guarantee defeat.

Shin Hati: You won’t help?

Baylan Skoll: Your ambition drives you in one direction, my path lies in another.

Shin Hati: Do you miss it? The Order.

Baylan Skoll: I miss… the idea of it. But not the truth, the weakness. There was no future there.

Shin Hati (about Sabine and Ezra): Do you know the one she seeks so desperately?

Baylan Skoll: Bridger? No, he’s too young. Comes from a breed of Bokken Jedi trained in the wild after the Temple fell.

Shin Hati: Like me.

Baylan Skoll: No. He was trained as a Jedi. You I trained to be something more.

Shin Hati: Won’t our alliance with Thrawn finally bring us into power?

Baylan Skoll: That sort of power is fleeting. What I seek is the beginning, so I may finally bring this cycle to an end.

Shin Hati: And that beginning is here?

Baylan Skoll: If the old stories are true.

Baylan Skoll: When I was a bit older than you are now, I watched everything I knew burn.

Shin Hati: The Jedi Temple?

Baylan Skoll: I couldn’t make sense of it at the time. As you get older, look at history, you realize it’s all inevitable. The fall of the Jedi, rise of the Empire. It repeats again and again and again.

Baylan Skoll (to Ahsoka): Your legacy, like your Master’s, is one of death and destruction.

Baylan Skoll (to Ahsoka): It is an unfortunate evil, but speaks to a greater truth. One must destroy in order to create.

Baylan Skoll: The only reason I’m here is to secure the future.

Ahsoka Tano: For you?

Baylan Skoll: Something far greater.

Baylan Skoll (to Morgan): Faith? I lost that a long time ago.

(Ahsoka and Sabine are coming their way…)

Morgan Elsbeth: Is that a note of fear in your voice?

Baylan Skoll: Experience.

Baylan Skoll: To kill her will be a shame. There are so few Jedi left.

Morgan Elsbeth: Sentimental?

Baylan Skoll: Truth.

Shin Hati: What happens when we find Thrawn?

Baylan Skoll: For some, war. For others… a new beginning.

Shin Hati: And for us?

Baylan Skoll: Power. Such as you’ve never dreamed.

Captain Hayle: If you don’t mind me saying, it’s quite a surprise meeting Jedi out here.

Baylan Skoll: Our existence remains a mystery to most, Captain Hayle.

Captain Hayle: I bet it does. You put on a good show, but, uh… I don’t buy it.

Baylan Skoll: I don’t understand.

Captain Hayle: You’re no Jedi. Just some overconfident Imperial trash who just pushed their luck too far.