[BenLurkin]

" Han Solo doesn't believe they exist, and a high-ranking officer in Darth Vader's own Death Star believes they are a silly superstition. "

This is because the Jedi were never meant to be a galactic MI6 operating out of a mega mosque -- only 20 years earlier.

[dangus]

Yes, and Luke and Leia weren’t supposed to be brother and sister; Darth wasn’t supposed to be their father; and so on and so on. The game is trying to fix the horrific plot holes that the later movies created.