I was thinking about the Inverse Ninja Law, (AKA the Law of Conversation of Ninjitsu), and how it might apply to Jedi (facetiously, of course).

The Law: The fewer Ninjas there are in a fight, the more dangerous they are. i.e. If there's a horde of ninjas, they'll each fall easily, but if there's only one, hoo boy, you're in for a fight.

Now does this translate to Jedi?

Yes it does. Check it out:

Exhibit A: The Battle of Geonosis
Never do we see more Jedi die in one place than the time they're all gathered in a big arena. Droids, yes, droids take Jedi down left and right. They should have just sent one Jedi, then Dooku would have really been in trouble.

Exhibit B: Anakin's fall to the Dark Side
Ever wonder why Anakin needed to slaughter the Jedi in the Jedi temple "to be powerful enough to save Padme?" Inverse Jedi Law at work. By Reducing the number of Jedi in the galaxy, he automatically becomes more powerful. This also explains why Sidious issued Order 66.

Exhibit C: Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker: Great Jedi or the Greatest Jedi? Now we know how he managed to be so awesome. He was the only Jedi around in the whole galaxy!

Exhibit D: The Sith Rule of Two
Darth Bane realized that the Sith were weak because there were so many of them. By eliminating all of them, he could become way more powerful. (But he did keep a backup Sith, just in case).

Exhibit E: Dooku vs Anakin and Obi-Wan
In their fight in ROTS, Anakin and Obi-Wan were doing alright when they were double teaming Dooku, but Dooku made the mistake of incapacitating Obi-Wan. Then Anakin really turned it on and won the fight handily. (No pun intended, but it would have been if I'd thought of it sooner )

Exhibit F: Sidious vs Four Jedi Masters
In Palpatine's office, Sidious managed to kill two out of four Jedi Masters almost instantly. Since there were only two left, the third took a few more seconds to kill, but it wasn't until it was down to just one, Mace Windu, that it became an extended fight sequence.


So yeah. Turns out the power of a force user is inversely proportional to the number of Force users on their side in any given vicinity.


P.S. Before you respond with a logical counter-argument, read this post again, but in a slightly sarcastic tone, then you'll get my point.