They would either have been forced to swear to secrecy by Palpatine on pane of death or be assassinated by him. Remember Palpatine was dictator for life.
Really all of em? And all their confidants? And every senator family or ruling family of a world, both active and those fallen down a peck or two, who've been ruling for centuries and presumably told their succesors about the Jedi? And every royal guard organisation who've learned about their existance at some point and kept datafiles in case they ever needed to deal with a jedi?
In Jabba’s case, he was alive during the Prequels era anyway (Hutts have a very long lifespan) and at that time their power was so great the Empire couldn’t afford to fight both them and the Rebel Alliance at once.
The prequels era was 20 years ago, I'd assume plenty of crimelords would still be alive, long lived hutt or not. And given that Jedi frequently get send to deal with particular nasty syndicates I'd assume especially the more powerfull ones would be aware of them. Plus, even a barely trained jedi would be worth his weight in gold to say a smuggling ring, imagine how easy it is to pass customs when you can just mindtrick them.So I'd imagine several of them would try to get a rogue jedi on their side, or to hide every force sensitive kid they come across to absorb them into their own ranks before the jedi find em.
They all were killed by Anakin in Episode III
My point is more that they were two random lords within the trade federation. It's to illustrate how widespread the knowledge must have been.
We don’t know how long Toydarians live for, so Watto may have died of old age by that time.
I'd assume he's not the last of his species.
Palpatine didn’t do it all on his own, he had dark-side-trainee Inquisitors and other followers to do a lot of his dirty work for him during the Imperial age. Rather than Palpatine himself destroying all knowledge of them, think of it as the entire Imperial armed forces doing it.
They can't even take down the rebels and you want me to believe they can thought police the entire empire?
Every database, both private, corperate and govermental? Every crime syndacite that had to deal with a jedi or got its own rogue force user? Every naturally force sensitive race? Every force cult on every single backwater planet, some of which haven't seen space travel in decades? Every family of planetary rulers, galactic senators etc. with a lineage of centuries or millenia who's been told about the Jedi just in case? Every military who's either fought against or with force users? Every random individual who's had a personal connection with Jedi in the past ~50 years or so cuz they served as a mercenary/criminal/etc. connection for a jedi? The childeren of those individuals who got taught the cool story about that time dad killed a big alien with a magic space knight?
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they can remove it from most official public records (some public records would probably escape them though, there's a 1.3 million planets after all, and only so many inquisitors). But private records or (secret) military records would be far harder to expunge, even with the help of his inquisitors. And that's just official records, that still does nothing to surpress the actuall knowledge people have. And 20 years is too short for it to fade into the realm of fairy tales, even if you just look at humans and ignore the races that can become 100's of years old or those that are so naturally force sensitive that anything less than wiping them out wouldn't be enough.
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