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Topic	Should magical ability be hereditary?
ParanoidObsessive 06/16/18 7:30:53 AM #11:	TigerTycoon posted... Makes more sense than The Last Jedi claiming The Force is distributed to wherever the plot requires it. Ehh. It's always been established canon in Star Wars that the Force is literally everywhere, and that the ability to sense and influence it is theoretically inherent in every living thing. While it's also implied that being really strong in the Force like Anakin/Luke/etc is rare, it's also implied that even something as mundane as "being lucky" is a subconscious manifestation of the Force, so there's a metric shitton of people in the universe who are at least potential Force users. Or who are actively using the Force every day of their lives without even realizing it. Then you get into implied questions of the nature of training (ie, training to be a Jedi may make a person's innate connection to the Force stronger, but someone would have to have been fully manifested as a Force user long before the Jedi existed to create the Jedi in the first place) and opportunities (ie, in the Old Republic the Jedi would track down children strong in the Force and train them to be Jedi, but for the last few decades many of those people will essentially have lain dormant with no one to teach them - but they'd still have their inherent affinity, and some of them could easily manifest on their own in some way with or without a teacher). If anything, perhaps the lesson of the sequels should have been that there will ALWAYS be those who can use the Force in the universe, and that without a group like the Jedi to shepherd and police those people, it's almost an inevitability that Dark Side users like the Sith would arise again (and worse, because the "new Sith" would effectively lack the self-control and limiting factors like the "Rule of Two" to keep them in check - now imagine dozens of Force-powered warlords scattered across the galaxy, raising their own private armies, and waging war on each other to establish final dominance). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:903365302] in Should mag... [t:76719156]...</cite> <quote><cite>TigerTycoon posted...</cite> <quote>Makes more sense than The Last Jedi claiming The Force is distributed to wherever the plot requires it.</quote> Ehh. It's always been established canon in Star Wars that the Force is literally everywhere, and that the ability to sense and influence it is theoretically inherent in every living thing. While it's also implied that being really strong in the Force like Anakin/Luke/etc is rare, it's also implied that even something as mundane as "being lucky" is a subconscious manifestation of the Force, so there's a metric shitton of people in the universe who are at least potential Force users. Or who are actively using the Force every day of their lives without even realizing it. Then you get into implied questions of the nature of training (ie, training to be a Jedi may make a person's innate connection to the Force stronger, but someone would have to have been fully manifested as a Force user long before the Jedi existed to create the Jedi in the first place) and opportunities (ie, in the Old Republic the Jedi would track down children strong in the Force and train them to be Jedi, but for the last few decades many of those people will essentially have lain dormant with no one to teach them - but they'd still have their inherent affinity, and some of them could easily manifest on their own in some way with or without a teacher). If anything, perhaps the lesson of the sequels should have been that there will ALWAYS be those who can use the Force in the universe, and that without a group like the Jedi to shepherd and police those people, it's almost an inevitability that Dark Side users like the Sith would arise again (and worse, because the "new Sith" would effectively lack the self-control and limiting factors like the "Rule of Two" to keep them in check - now imagine dozens of Force-powered warlords scattered across the galaxy, raising their own private armies, and waging war on each other to establish final dominance). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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