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this controversial view of the Force was observed by many beings in the farthest reaches of the galaxy, especially during the last years of the Old Republic. The theory behind the Potentium was that all living things held the potential to create newer and better living things. Each birth represented a new form, and each death returned living beings to the Potentium for renewal. Believers in the Potentium theory held that the Force, and the galaxy in general, were given a master plan which was inherently good, and that there was no evil side to the Force. There was simply the Living Force. A being's position with in the Potentium - which was at once the beginning and the end of all things - could not be obscured by training and discipline. Those who followed the Potentium belief claimed that the Jedi Masters of the Old Republic rejected its existence because accepting it would mean accepting that they weren't needed to combat evil. About a hundred years before the Battle of Naboo, the followers of the Potentium were forced out of the Jedi Order. The Jedi Council explained that the banished Jedi failed to understand that the Jedi Order was not about exploring the limits of the Force, but using what was known to protect peace and justice. The discovery of the living planet Zonama Sekot led many followers of the Potentium theory to believe that Sekot itself was the embodiment of the Living Force, created to safeguard its purity.