"It is how they're made. And its a rite of passage, one you can't do before you're ready." He remembered Tenel Ka, her impatience, his arrogance, the loss of her arm. She hadn't been ready and she'd hurried it and it had cost her. "I made both of these" he said indicating his lightsabers. "One at the Jedi Acadamy and one...later." He didn't think he needed to explain further than that either. "They are the measure of what we do are they not, we create these and then we're strong enough, isn't that it. Its the first hurdle."
As for the Emperor and Vader. "They were fools Galen, too caught up in the lust for power. The Empire wasn't built on any good intentions. It was Palpatine's ego that had done it." And Mara had once compared him to the man, before he'd killed her with a poison, she'd told him he was more vile than Palpatine. And who knew, maybe he had been. "They saw the Force as you say, as a weapon, a tool to further their goals. While the Jedi see it as something stronger than them. They have to use it to protect those who cannot. But I don't believe that. I haven't in a long time."
"I'm strong in the Force Galen. Stronger than any of my generation. They called me the Living Jedi Dream once, but I wasn't. Not the Jedi dream. And maybe the Force chose me. But the path of the Jedi was lost to me. I...learned a lot over the years and its not for me. And I won't deny I walked the path of the Sith. I was called Darth Caedus. I lead the Galactic Alliance and I did a lot of things I'm not proud of, a lot of things. And I was killed for it. I died. But in between, oh inbetween, I think I had it. It's just there Galen, its in everything but we are lucky enough to be able to call on it."
"People are good and people are evil, they choose and act. Don't you see? They turn the Force to light or dark, there's no other way it makes sense. We are taught, we learn, and then we choose and act. Does that make sense to you?" he asked walking closer as he spoke.