Yeah so, I’d totally be hitting up the dark lord for a little extra juice for my ipods! I guess that’d be one advantage of being dark side, ya know, you can just recharge anything you want… well, since I’m assuming that force lightning is actually electricity. Somehow, when I think of stuff like “the force”, I think “this would be great if construction workers had it!” I mean really, it would give them better control and no need for big fancy machinery. Probably even safer too.
So here’s this week’s discussion topic: What do you think those force users use that force stuff for when there’s not war going on? Mundane practical applications like construction or do they just keep on training “just in case”?
ALSO! Just found out about a little local convention, so I’ll be having a table at LAMEcon this year on Sunday, July 22nd from 9am to 7pm. (click the link for the google map) It’s in the Land O Lakes Library (that’s in Pasco, just a few minutes north of Hillsborough/Tampa area); and they will have a cosplay contest (1-5 member group skits), achievement system with prizes, artist alley (find me here!), trivia contest, panel discussions (ponies), trading cards, video games, and anime viewing room! There will also be another day (saturday july 21st 7-10pm) with an anime dance and costume contest and such (but I’ll be at the sunday one).
Anyways, it’s FREE admission and you can come see me so… good stuff! If you’re in the Pasco/Hillsborough or surrounding areas, you should come on down and join the festivities!
Well JEDI just train and study all day…… Thats why I prefer being a lightside sith……YOU DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT AND NOBODY WUESTIONS YOU!
of all the storylines I’ve played through, lightside sith has been the most fun! it’s like a good guy but working for the badguys! >D
but yeah, what’s the point of having the force if all you’re going to do is study all day? sometimes ya just gotta blow something up!
What do force users do when not at war?
If you’re a sith you go around getting more power for yourself by any means possible (simple).
If you’re a jedi and the Republic regulates force use anything like firearms are regulated in RL, jedi spend all their time dealing with government bureaucracies wanting to regulate their power in ten thousand different ways ;) But no seriously, in times of peace, the jedi are like the Republic’s ambassadors/negotiators/arbitrators/neutral representatives. “____ planet has some problem that they can’t solve? Throw a couple jedi at it and let them solve it.” essentially. In additional they constantly train as you mentioned they might so that they can serve the Republic and propagate the order with further trained knights. In relation to practical tasks, those younglings at the temple who are not selected as padawans or turn out to be too weak to become jedi do exactly that as part of the Jedi Service Corps consisting of the Agricultural Corps, the Medical Corps, the Educational Corps, and the Exploration Corps. Obi-Wan Kenobi was being sent to Bandomeer to be a farmer for the Agricultural Corps when Qui-Gon Jinn chose him. So most jedi do keep training as well as serving as general problem solvers for the Republic while those not fit or not chosen to be knights work at practice tasks.
Well that was during the Republic between 7th battle of Ruusan and Palpatine´s purge…
Before that “peace” was quite rare and Jedi needed everyone they got so no Service corps existed (albeit “healers” were always bit separate.
During New Republic they spent rebuilding, and they were fighting Imperial Remnat, and some wanna-be Sith cults. But Skywalker wasn´t picky since he needed everyone… Tionne Solusar, archivist, had only negligent Force skills which under Old republic would not warrant even service corps.
When Grand Admiral Pelleaon and NR president Gavrisom signed peace threaty between Republic and Imperial Remnat they enjoyed only short time before Yuuzhan-Vong invaded… New Republic selfdestructed with loss of Coruscant.
Galactic Alliance under Cal Omas used Jedi as support for regular army and well tolerated them as vigilates. When Natasi Daala was chief of state she tried to put them in line, but it did not end well… plus Sith resurged again. Chief of state Dorvan then maintained some level of conection with them but even Luke started to hush down their general vigilantism.
Since he realized that Jedi could not be simply permited to do everything without having to deal with all consequences.
DE… I think you once again sold me on being sith! XD
PK, guess that means you always gotta be on the ready huh? good bit of lore though! >D
If I had the force, I would use it for mundane things, like picking up my controller, changing the game disc (And with 74 games as of now on disc, that is no easy task) turning things on and off and basicly scaring the hell of people. If I had the force, the only way I would have to get out of bed, is to use the bathroom or go to the gamestore.
lol!!! something tells me this is what would happen if everybody had the force.
I would definately use my force powers to pick up the remote from across the room….
Yes, I am lazy. So what ? O.o
hmm, wonder if you could grab a beer from the fridge with the force… my god, we would never have to get up!
I have always wonder that ligtning is too obvious way of attack… and too clumsy…
I would simply focus on few arteries inside enemy´s brain… and punch few holes in them letting blood mess up his brain. almost instant DEATH if target is choosen properly.
yeah, lightning is kind of an odd thing to use (though the military just invented a laser guided lightning bolt that goes in a straight line… not practical until we get better batteries or energy production, but still neat).
like, if you were grounded or had some sort of faraday armoring, lightning wouldn’t even phase you. and the energy requirements to build that up inside your body to begin with would probably give you some serious hankerings for a snickers bar! or 2… or 50!
what I always thought would be most efficient would be something like a focused force choke, like you’re talking about. if you can lift someone up by the neck, then certainly you could just squish their brains. or even just their heart. constrict the lungs like a snake even.
but I guess that all goes on the assumption that the force could penetrate the body. from the movies, it just looks like they could only effect the outside of the body so I’m not overly sure how the mechanics work. but if you could dive inside the body, there’s really not a lot anyone can do to stop you and most of the things you can do would cause instant death.
also… why the heck can these jedi/sith pick up super heavy objects with the force, like a tank or something, yet nobody seems to use it to draw and quarter a fellow. like, the energy needed to lift a few ton object off the ground as a heck of a lot less than the energy needed to tear an extremity off the body.
sigh, PK… sometimes I wonder if we’d make better siths than jedis >)
The force can affect the inside of the body but to do something like pinch blood vessels inside the brain of another during battle would require way to much focus and precision without sith sorcery (not just force use but sorcery and some of that sith sorcery gets REALLY REALLY CRAZY like zombies crazy). Jacen used the force to physically destroy the mind of the former Queen Mother Ta’a Chume without killing her to stop her meddling and trying to take back leadership of the Hapan Consortium. It is also easier for force user to sense and defend against something that is trying to be done to them when it is inside them instead of coming at them from outside. So yes, you can just blow up the person’s brain with the force but against a force user in combat you would have to be much more powerful than them to be able to do it without them being able to defend against it as they have an easier time defending against it than you have doing it. (also jedi healers can heal others so there is another way the force can affect inside another’s body)
As for why lightning, because if you want to actually do something with the force, you influence the force to add energy to something. The force can be used to make something hotter adding thermal energy directly to it, or to make something move by adding kinetic energy to the object or the environment around it, or electricity (lightning) by adding electrical charge (a form of energy) to something or to the environment. As to why lightning is used over the others by the sith, I can think of one obvious reason. It hurts a heck of a lot. What do sith love more than making an enemy suffer and writhe in pain? They literally feed off of that pain and suffering. Just blowing out their brain with no pain or suffering they don’t get that.
As for the why not just simply tear the enemy apart with the force, against a non force user there is no reason you can’t do it, but against force users it is again easier to defend against than external attacks as your adding kinetic energy to the inside of someone making it easier to sense and defend against. You can push someone with the force just by creating a shockwave in the environment around them, but that wouldn’t work to tear them apart. It could work if you’re ridiculously powerful and focused such that you could create multiple different shockwaves at the same instant in the air strong enough and in the right directions to have the air motion itself tear them apart, but at that point you can just plaster someone to a wall with a single shockwave that is ridiculously powerful. So not hard against non force users but against force users there are better ways to get them if you’re powerful enough to get them like that in the first place.
ya know, lightning is also pretty psychologically devastating too! I mean, it’s loud, it hurts like you said, and it’s just an unpredictable and destructive force of nature. to just toss it out from your hands has to mess with peoples’ heads!