"You are right in that," Obi-Wan says quietly. "My people and I face a threat to our own survival. In my time we are all but extinct, and those that survive are in hiding." Fighting wasn't really an option unless they wanted to be dead. It wasn't something he liked to think about, but it was true. Here at least they had a reprieve. The Jedi could be themselves without having to worry about someone hunting them down.