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Star Wars Adventures: The Weapon of a Jedi revealed that Obi-Wan Kenobi gave Luke Skywalker another lesson after the events of A New Hope.
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Star Wars Adventures: The Weapon of a Jedi #2 by Jason Fry, Alec Worley, Ruarui Coleman, Chris O’Halloran, on sale now.
Obi-Wan Kenobi never stopped trying to help Luke Skywalker, even after his physical demise at the hands of Darth Vader. Although the movies depicted how Obi-Wan guided Luke to the planet Dagobah to find Yoda, there was another lesson he gave to Luke before directing him to his next teacher. Luke’s need to connect more intimately with the Force led him to the planet Devaron where he discovered the ruins of Eedit, an ancient Jedi temple where Obi-Wan taught Luke more about the ways of the Force.
Once Luke arrived at the temple, he realized that although it was badly damaged, he could still learn something from the ruins. His first test was pulling a lever that was too high up to reach. Knowing that the Force was needed to pull it, Luke began spending hours trying to muster the power to telekinetically pull the lever. But after a full day of trying he was no closer than he had been when he started. This led to Obi-Wan speaking to him again.
He reminded Luke that the Force was in all things and that the easiest way to connect with it was to feel it in all the living things around him. So Luke took a moment to feel the life flowing through the animals, plants, and insects, sensing the Force all around him in much greater detail. And sure enough, the lever was pulled down, revealing multiple training remotes.
Luke began practicing with them, rehearsing his old lightsaber combat forms as he tried to deflect the remotes laser blasts. But try as he might, he could not keep up his defenses for more than a few minutes. Luckily, an offhand comment from C-3Po reminded Luke of the last lesson Obi-Wan gave him before he died.
Kenobi had wanted Luke to defend against the remotes on the Millennium Falcon while blinded, not to make the training more difficult, but because Luke’s eyes could deceive him, seeing movements and attacks that weren’t coming or being distracted by everything else. Realizing that Ben’s lesson was to trust the Force, Luke began to deflect the remotes while keeping his eyes closed. Not only did he successfully keep the remotes at bay for hours, but Luke began to trust in the Force more.
The trust he learned here came in handy later. When the Empire tracked Luke down he and his friends managed to fend them off, but when Luke’s guide, a mysterious figure called the Scavenger, turned on him, Luke was in danger of being defeated. Things only got worse when the Scavenger used a flash grenade to blind Luke.
But he had underestimated the young Skywalker. By that point, Luke had learned to not rely solely on his physical senses. Trusting the Force, Luke managed to evade what would have been a fatal blow from the Scavenger before knocking him into a crater, ending his threat for good.
It seems like a small first step when considering the capabilities of the Jedi. But Luke learned perhaps the most important lesson any Jedi could: that a Jedi does not guide the Force, it guides them. Ben’s first lesson to him was about learning to work with the Force instead of trying to control it.
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