Yoda var inte redo att besegra Sith, vilket var ganska mycket den främsta anledningen till att de behövde en riktig Jedi.
Som en konsekvens var Yodas huvudjobb att träna upp den nya modellen Jedi som skulle vara. Han insåg det vägen tillbaka under sin kamp med Palpatine / Sidious (SPOILERS !?) i slutet av ROTS.
Anledningen till att han sitter i djungeln är att han väntar på att Kraften ska styra Lukas till honom
When right is the time for skills to be taught, to us the living Force will bring them
För Obi-Wan gjorde styrkan redan det i form av R2-D2 och Leias fantastiska sånghologram.
ROTS novelization av Matthew Stover täcker det i detalj.
In that lightning-speared tornado of feet and fists and blades and bashing machines, his vision finally pierced the darkness that had clouded the Force.
Finally, he saw the truth.
This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most implacable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known …
just—
didn’t—
have it.
He’d never had it. He had lost before he started.
He had lost before he was born.The Sith had changed. The Sith had grown, had adapted, had invested a thousand years’ intensive study into every aspect of not only the Force but Jedi lore itself, in preparation for exactly this day. The Sith had remade themselves.
They had become new.
While the Jedi—
The Jedi had spent that same millennium training to re-fight the last war.
The new Sith could not be destroyed with a lightsaber; they could not be burned away by any torch of the Force. The brighter his light, the darker their shadow. How could one win a war against the dark, when war itself had become the dark’s own weapon?
He knew, at that instant, that this insight held the hope of the galaxy. But if he fell here, that hope would die with him.
(Chapter 20)
och
“My failure, this was. Failed the Jedi, I did.”
He spoke to the Force.
And the Force answered him. Do not blame yourself, my old friend.
As it sometimes had these past thirteen years, when the Force spoke to him, it spoke in the voice of Qui-Gon Jinn.
“Too old I was,” Yoda said. “Too rigid. Too arrogant to see that the old way is not the only way. These Jedi, I trained to become the Jedi who had trained me, long centuries ago—but those ancient Jedi, of a different time they were.
Changed, has the galaxy.
Changed, the Order did not—because let it change, I did not.”
(Chapter 21: A New Jedi Order)
... och slutligen frysde den specifika anledningen Yoda sin gamla rynka rumpa i träsken istället för att hoppa runt staplarna, hämtar och slår av händerna. eller annars rebeling : han väntade på att Force skulle få Skywalker-barnen till honom, för träning:
“Jedi training, the sole source of self-discipline is not. When right is the time for skills to be taught, to us the living Force will bring them. Until then, wait we will, and watch, and learn.”
(Chapter 21: A New Jedi Order)