Will of The Force (Star Wars / Worm)

[CapCaverna]

Where's the 20-30 billion figure from? I could maybe see 20-30 billion having the potential for force sensitivity, but certainly not actively using it. Wasn't the Jedi order at its height during the clone wars and before like 10 or 10s of thousands?

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Well, that depends on if you're using canon or Legends as a base, heck, it even depends on which canon you're using.

In canon, we don't see a lot of Force sensitives besides the Jedi (well Clone Wars introduced a lot... if you consider it canon, then there's the Disney canon... whatever, you get the idea.)

Anyways, in legends, races like the Miralukas were entirely force-sensitive, every single one, and they weren't the only race, the Sith (actual red-skinned tentacle-beard race, not the religion) were a Force sensitive race, and there were others I don't immediately remember.

The Chiss used Force sensitive children to guide their spaceships kinda like the spice in Dune, but the children tended to lose their ability when they got older.

Really, there's a discussion about Force sensitivity fading with age if it's not used, and just using one skill not being enough, but requiring actual training to remain or grow.

The Jedi were few in number, around 10k or so during the prequels, but they were basically the Olympians of Force use, the guys who played in the first league and could smash everyone else easily, but they were far from the only Force users in the galaxy. In legends, there are a ton of Force small Force sects or just people who used the Force in some way but didn't have the training or the knowledge to use it in others.

So, yeah, I guess you could say there are a few billion in the galaxy if you want, it's just confusing, what with all the levels of canon Star Wars has.




Anyway, I just want to say Vista is not developing the Force, people have been talking about it, but it wasn't actually my intention to make it appear as she had, probably gonna try and change the chapter a little to make THAT more clear.

For now, Dinah is the only one that's developing abilities with the Force, and even those are fairly weak, she's not even at the level a Jedi would recruit her as a baby right now.

 

[The Unicorn]

Where's the 20-30 billion figure from? I could maybe see 20-30 billion having the potential for force sensitivity, but certainly not actively using it. Wasn't the Jedi order at its height during the clone wars and before like 10 or 10s of thousands?

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The Jedi Order was one of many thousands of force user sects the Jedi knew about and an untold many others they didn't. They also had many more than a mere 10s of thousands - even there being only just tens of thousands of Jedi Masters and nights as active combatants seems ridiculously low for how they are seen in canon, maybe if that was just the number of those who were based from Crouscenet, not all the order it would make sense.

 

[Zai9000]

Where's the 20-30 billion figure from? I could maybe see 20-30 billion having the potential for force sensitivity, but certainly not actively using it. Wasn't the Jedi order at its height during the clone wars and before like 10 or 10s of thousands?

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I made an estimated number by factoring in the galaxy's population. The Jedi Order cannot travel the entire galaxy in search of force-sensitive beings, can it? Remember that the galaxy has quadrillions of sentients, and even when they want to bring in babies, some parents will justifiably be violent against Jedi attempts.

 

[Thomas Bennett]

I was thinking more along the lines of the reaction that people would have when he starts talking about Palpatine, the horror that they have about Anakin basically being Mastered into his attack dog, only for Anakin to say that he wasn't Mastered not because Sidious COULDN'T, but because Sidious didn't need to. The sheer nightmare fuel of a man being so good at manipulating people that he doesn't even need mind control powers to get the job done. And then they learn about how Anakin was broken out of that madman's control and how the poor man has been trying to move away from what he was as Vader, only to be forced back into that mindset time and time again by both the PRT and the villains.

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"This is what he is like trying to be a GOOD guy."

 

[Honoa51]

Oh, if Dinah is still looking for a name, is "Overwatch" free? It's got the gun and 'prophecy' sort of theme going. Also, it sounds kind of cool.

 

[Sunny_cat]

I got to be honest, I don't think Anakin learned anything about public perception from Palpatine.

A known Master who "kidnapped" a child and refuses to release her into the custody of the heroes? WE know that Protectorate and PRT ENE are a den of idiocy and incompetence dressed in a shiny clothes with pretty labels, and Ani has no interest in harming 'his' youngling but it looks BAD. Really BAD. Jack Slash kidnapping Bonesaw bad or worse, Heartbreaker BAD.

So yeah, I would have agreed with the PRE and Protectorate that the child needed saving if I didn't have all the facts.