*Snerk* Makes a body rather want to kick the Force, doesn't it? Or it does me, anyway. Well. The Force and the collective Jedi Order, for being such blind idiots about the "NO LIVES OUTSIDE THE ORDER rule" (as you put it). I'm always amazed that more people don't see this (that the Jedi are inviting their own extinction, I mean, in much the same way the Sith constantly invite their extinction, by being so fundamentally imbalanced), but then, unfortunately, I find most people are too busy trying to assign blame for what happens (and generally and quite stupidly, in my rather less than humble opinion, placing it on poor Obi-Wan) instead of trying to comprehend why it happened - and why it keeps on happening, if you read the EU. Anyway, my point is that I really liked this piece and it reminds me of my own thoughts on the subject and I snickered at all the sideways authorial interjections, so thank you for posting it!