Inquisitor Plothole

I haven't seen the latest episode (don't worry, you haven't spoiled anything not already known to me), but perhaps it could come down to some sort of liquidation performed by either Vader or the Emperor due to a fear of their power or something? Like maybe they started the group for their specific purpose, but that evolved into something of their own cult as time went on (Dark Side influencing their lust for their own power perhaps), or some perceived weakness of both Vader and the Emperor due to events in Rebels, Rogue One, or ANH caused them to attempt an overthrow.

On the subject of Vader and the Emperor coming to fear their power, I'm somewhat thinking of what happened to the Knights Templar who (to really brush over a lot of the details) had lost their original purpose/usefulness and yet had far too much power for the likes of some European rulers. They were basically rounded up, charged, tortured and killed, and the order disbanded. Maybe something similar transpired prior to ANH?

I do agree the main issue with adding content in prequel stuff does have the hazard of then having to answer the question as to why the stuff never came up in the OT.

I'm also waiting to see if TFA and anything we may learn of the Knights of Ren might shed some light on this... if they even have any relation to the Inquisitors.

 

There are only a few inquisitors; I wouldn't be surprised if there are mucking about during the events of the OT.

 

I don't see this as a plot hole at all. There's PLENTY of time to tell the story of the Inquisitors. As @alex said, there seem to be very few of them, and we've already killed off one of them.

 

How many do we figure? At least twelve, given the mentions of the "Fifth brother" and the "Seventh sister", if those pertain to anything? So possibly eleven left?

 

I'd like to think that one of the Force Sensitive/ Jedi trained (or in-training) members of the Rebels crew killed them off. But who says they wouldn't have been around during the time of ANH? The comics are changing up a lot of things in regards to Canon - (mild spoilers!), including when and how Luke and Vader first met. More Inquisitors could be explored within the comics and killed off there. Or maybe they went rogue and went into hiding or were destroyed by the Sith like @John Crichton suggests. Did something major and potentially dark happen? Most likely. But not necessarily. At this stage, I'd just say enjoy speculating and keep an open mind!

Genuinely curious - where did you get that number? Or the number 12 for that instance?

 

#RougeOne will fill in the gap! 99% sure!

 

He added 7 and 5 to get 12 and subtracted 1 from the dead leader to get 11. I'm not sure the grand inquisitor was numbered, but it makes some sense. I could go either way.

We can do a little bit better. There is a math principle that says that if you randomly select an object, numbered N, your safest bet is to guess that the population has a size of 2N. This gives us 14 sisters and 10 brothers for an order with about 24 people. Mind you, this is a super crude approximation, but is the best we can do with only 1 sample point.

Dave Filoni said something interesting in a recent interview. Is there a 7th brother? He doesn't know. If the numbering isn't separated by gender (by the way, shouldn't there be non-binary aliens in star wars? Not necessarily transgendered, but like a 3rd gender or asexual species? what would they get called?) then the best estimate may be 12. I'm too far removed from my math training, but I was thinking double the average of the 2 data points.

 

As @alex mentioned, I just put those two numbered "siblings" together. No one's sure of how many of each there are, and the best we can do is make educated guesses as to how many there can be.

On that point, for the life of me I don't even know where the "Fifth" and "Seventh" designations came from -- they just seemed to appear from some publication I didn't catch and now those are their names on the Wookieepedia.

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Well, we could always take him out of the count and that'd make it a nice baker's dozen.

Does kind of make me wonder if the Sith or Vader/Palpatine had any kind of "significant numbers" thing they followed.

 

hopefully we will see the last of the Inquisitors die in Rogue One

 

I just read an article that stated they are a group of seven, not twelve. I'll try to find it again. On that note, seven Inquisitors, seven Knights of Ren. Just let it in...

 

Gotcha, gotcha! Thank you both! I would have assumed that there would have been seven minimum (if SS she's the lowest rank) with fourteen (equal groups of both brothers and sisters) being a better guess, but who knows!

Can you cite that source for me?

 

Hm, it would seem odd to do it in such a manner, because to say someone is the seventh sister would imply six other sisters exist (or existed) before her. Then again, if they're obsessed with the number 7, they could ignore gender in regards to the numbering. And apparently (from what I'm seeing now) 7 has quite a bit of significance to several real world religions, mythologies, and cultures.

We still don't know if they're tied to the Knights of Ren though. Hopefully either TFA will explain that or (more likely) a novel or something shortly after.

 

Ok. It's an io9 article entitled Star Wars Rebels just sent shockwaves across the entire star wars galaxy, and it states that "the implication is that there are at least seven." And I guess that's speculation. Here is a screen shot of the paragraph: so it's not proven, just speculation.

 

I could see it trying to be explained away in R1.

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How can you explain his forehead growing and his eyes changing colors?

 

Its these kind of questions I wish people would ask Dave and others when they get face time.

Are there Six other Sisters or Seven Inquisitors total?

Someone should post on that hottie patottie Andi Gutierrez's twitter to ask on Rebels recon.
You know what? Good idea. I just tweeted her.

 

It seems evident to me that the Sith are not aware of all Jedi at all times; when Vader encounters Ahsoka, both he and the Emperor seem to have been genuinely unaware that she was still alive. So I don't think we should necessarily be surprised that Inquisitors never found Luke or Leia. As for hunting down Luke after he becomes known to Vader, I doubt that Vader would have left the task of hunting down and/or turning the man he suspects or knows is his son to an Inquisitor.

I think it's plausible that the Inquisitors still exist during the OT. It's a big galaxy, and, in some ways, they're pretty peripheral to the story being told there. I think it's equally plausible that the end game for Rebels is the total destruction of the Inquisitors, possibly with the sacrifice of the entire crew, or its Force wielding members.

 

It's easy to explain. Hunt Luke was a task for Vader, it was personal.