#The force

[fanfic-obsessed]

Historical choices

This idea starts on Kamino. Well before the time of the prequels. 

As with all my ideas, ignore any part of canon that contradicts it. 

Tipoca City became the capital of Kamino after the flood. It was never meant to be the Capital city. In fact it was not built to be a city at all. Tipoca was built as a remote research station, long before the flood. It was the first genetic research station for the Kaminoans.  

The very first project…how to prevent Force Sensitivity in their own people. For many reasons, all based on superstition and bigotry, the Kaminoan government decided that having Force sensitivity was undesirable and wanted it stopped.  The initial project, lost to the tides of time, took all the Force Sensitives they could get their hands on (though there were many adults captured, unfortunately Force Sensitive children and babies were easier to source) and began to experiment, with all the horror that that entails. 

By the time the scientists had a ‘breakthrough’ many decades later, everything that subjects endured had sunk into the location, darkening the Force as only that kind of pain and horror can. 

The scientists called it a breakthrough, removing Force Sensitivity from the Kaminoan genetic code and generations later the project had been forgotten, and it is assumed that Kaminoans simply were not Force sensitive. This is not quite true. What those initial scientists did was make Force Sensitivity above a specific threshold, well below the level to actually be considered Force Sensitive, toxic to Kaminoans. 

The funny thing is that after the genetic treatments to ‘remove’ force sensitivity, miscarriages among the Kaminoan population (which at that point was still reproducing, not cloning) shot through the roof, often including the death of the mother/carrier (I have no idea what the Kaminoans called the egg producer). At the same time the Force is not simply in sentients, it is also a vital part of the lifeblood of the planet.  There is a careful balance that the Force maintains which was utterly fucked by the mass death, and continued death, of any Force Sensitive Kaminoan.  While the connection is never made, these imbalances are the cause for the global warming that eventually floods the planet, also the violent frequent storms.  It is this and the birth rate issue that caused the Kaminoans to start cloning and genetic experiments to survive (All the while they kept including the genetic code that turned Force Sensitivity toxic). 

Even as their reputation as cloners grew, they never cloned sentients other than themselves (And there were no Force sensitive Kaminoans now). So they never realized that The Force on Kamino (in particular Tipoca City, but across the planet) had grown dark, violent, and feral. It is noted that animals cloned on Tipoca city tend to be more aggressive than normal, but that is not really noticeable given the contracts they were getting.

Not until the cloning of Jango Fett begins.  The Clones are near human and, though Jango Fett is not particularly Force sensitive, they are the first sentients since the treatment was completed for whom being touched by the Force was not lethal (since the Kaminoans no longer remember that the particular piece of genetic code was artificial, then never think to add it to the Fett clones).  The Force on Kamino curls around the clones, it loves them with desperation and the long lasting memory of the last time its children walked the surface. The Force ensures that every Fett clone is Force sensitive. 

To the trainers and Jango Fett there are a number of spots on Tipoca City that feel…deeply haunted. The more superstitious refuse to enter some of the oldest parts of the city, including where the growth tubes are located (no one is left alive to know but the growth tubes are placed in the oldest labs, where the subjects of the first scientist endured horrors beyond imagining).  

To be clear, the Force on Kamino is of the dark side. It is corrupted.  It is suffering and horror and despair leaching like poison into groundwater. It is a beaten, hurting animal biting anyone who comes close to prevent being hurt again. It is a feral thing that can not distinguish between friend and foe. And the Clones belong to it. 

This comes to a head when the majority of the CC batches are six.  One of the trainers spits out that the Jedi would also think the clones were just useless meat droids. And the Force on Kamino may have been a feral thing, a thing of suffering,  but it was also connected to the rest of the Force and it knew that the Jedi would love its children. 

It whispered this to the children, curling around them. One of the children, who would one day be Fox, glared up at the trainer and spat out that the trainer was lying.  The trainer, reacting more to the tone than the words, struck CC-1010. 

The Force on Kamino reacted. It had suffered the trainers to live because they were making it’s children strong. There had been no decommissioning or reconditionings because the Force was working to ensure its children performed exactly as they should.  But now the trainer had hurt one of its children, and not for training, but for speaking.  The barely leashed violence broke free and roared through the clones. The clones, empowered and driven by the Dark, this vicious protective energy built of the suffering from long before, took the city. It did not matter that the oldest of them were barely physically 8. Within 4 hours there were not any trainers left in Tipoca City (Jango Fett had been off planet on a bounty). Within 6 hours there were no Kaminoans either.  Within three days the Clones were the sole living sentients on Kamino.

Jango Fett came back three weeks after that to a very changed landscape. He is allowed to land because Boba (the toddler that he still is) does consider him a father.  The children, and they are all still children, have not eaten anything solid in two weeks (The Force is sustaining them, also the Force does not know what are good child rearing practices for near humans-it has existed long enough that it can’t even really tell the difference between child and adult in near humans).  The clones are now clearly something OTHER and very unsettling besides, but they all call him dad and he gets the creeping sensation that Jango was not allowed to deny them (Very much ‘oh no these ARE your children (threat)’).  The Force start playing with Clone ages (trying to figure out the best age for each clone to be for ‘their’ Jedi, the Kamino Force is invested in the Clones getting whatever they want and knows some Jedi will love the Clones dearly). 

Jango makes it another 6 months before he ‘sneaks’ away to make a panicked call to the Jedi Temple (He knows he screwed up), trying to make it their problem instead of his. Prior to this he made several attempts to call Dooku but none went through. He is chased down and told that The Force (called Buir/Protector by the Clones) allowed him this far because it knew that he would call the Jedi, but that it is time to return home now. 

There was a wandering Jedi, Master Faye, closer so she came to Kamino and was immediately given the feeling that she would care for the clones or else.  The Force on Kamino is still a wild, feral thing and the Clones are that much more aggressive for their connection to it. However the innocence of the clone children, now that they are not being trained for war any longer, has also been bringing balance back to the Force on Kamino. As they behave as children do, they have begun to drain away the leftover suffering, bringing light back to the Force. 

Some of the storms have even begun to ebb. 

It is still a bit of a horror show that Jedi now have to deal with, also children (who may be more than a little eldritch) who committed at least one Genocide. But there is hope.

[allskywalkerswhine]

in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says "kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ". you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda

[jkl-fff]

Jedi Teacher: Padawan Windu, that was amazing! How were you able to take out that rampaging rancor so easily?

Mace Windu, who has Force Shatterpoint which allows him to see where and when to strike: I just hit the glowing weak spot. It's not that hard.

Jedi Teacher:

(Mace Windu, holder of the rare Jedi skill called "Video Game Vision".)

[amarcia]

Mandala.

My ocs Cirz and Enah. [previous comic with them]

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

Text is based from an end scene of the movie Mandala 1981

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

Obi-Wan's shit eating smirk is EVERYTHING.

[winterinhimring]

So I recently saw a post with a screencap of this scene in it:

And good heavens. Is this not a perfect visual metaphor of Obi-Wan's role in the entire Star Wars universe? Supporting the wounded Light, unable to stop her from dying, but still steadfastly good and patient up to and through the darkest hour, waiting (though he doesn't know it, yet) for that Light to be reborn in a padawan?

[twinterrors29]

Cody has mastered literal psychological warfare, having learned how to project intense emotions at the perfect times to distract his Force-sensitive opponents

his primary use of this skill is, of course, to bug his General during boring meetings

[bbygirl-obi]

(possibly) hot take: force sensitivity isn't a hereditary trait, nor should it really be. the skywalkers are the exception, not the norm. and they're only the exception because, you know, anakin's dad was literally the force. he was literally force jesus. he's literally half the force. i cannot emphasize enough how much he cannot be used as an example for normal force sensitivity

[gffa]

“Jedi will just say, ‘Oh, this was a test from the Force.’ when anything happens or say ‘May the Force be with you.’ to someone who’s not a Jedi.” I mean, yeah, they do.  Because the Force is a demonstrable, provable thing that tests Jedi all throughout their lives and moves through them and bolsters them.  That’s literally how it works in-universe, the Jedi aren’t just going on faith that the Force exists or that it sends them trials, it’s literally what the Force does to Luke on Dagobah, the Jedi on Ilum, Ahsoka and Kanan and Ezra on Lothal.  The Jedi are not pulling “the Force is testing me” out of their asses, it’s genuinely just what the Force does.

[kanansdume]

"The Force is in everyone, so anyone can learn how to use it!"

The Force is in everyTHING, plants and animals included, but I don't see Ahsoka picking up a bantha apprentice any time soon.

The whole POINT of "the Force is in everything" is to say that there is VALUE in everything in the galaxy, to see the connections between every person, plant, and creature. Not to say that literally everyone can USE the Force. The Jedi learn to love as equally as they can because they CAN see those connections in a way nobody else can, they can FEEL those connections so viscerally. There's so much about the Jedi that's so dependent on them being Force sensitive, on that being something that ONLY they can do, and the way they're completely undoing all of that in this show is starting to feel very intentional and I hate it.

[artist-issues]

I love how everyone understands that Anakin Skywalker had to become Vader, and we love Vader, and simultaneously, everyone wishes Anakin Skywalker hadn't become Vader

[thewriterowl]

The Force: And I give my granddaughter all the wisdom and strength in the galaxy. With a heart of fire ready to forge true justice in the stars. A core of warmth and nobility and integrity who can become a goddess should she wish.

The Force: And for my grandson, who has a heart of forgiveness and such gentle kindness, will have the soul of a garden with the hands of a warrior who will show by kind example and not by brute strength and will change worlds with endless sunlight.

Everyone Else: And what do you give your son?

The Force, after the sixth genocide, 800th "read" Force message, burnt to a crisp and still screeching about Obi-Wan done by said son: Apparently the fucking audacity.

[thejedipost]

Still. Not. Over. This. Episode! 🙌🏼

[amarcia]

He too, was a star, and the light that shone from him was the Force

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

I read Shadows of Mindor and I really liked Luke's musings on the Force in the book so I had to draw something. Other doodle under the cut:

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

Jedi telekinesis makes me feral because this is a thing.

The fact that they can hold without holding. The fact that they can cradle their own crystal souls without touching. Like the crystal is a firefly they're cupping with a grip so light it's actually light itself.

They can hold butterflies without killing them. The hands wielding the unfathomable power of the universe can be the gentlest of hands, gentler than a breeze.

It looks so magical and soft and peaceful qsdfghgfdfghfds I love them

[twinterrors29]

Alpha-17 learns of the existence of Force-suppressants and immediately says, not on MY Jedi

and immediately starts building up Obi-Wan's immunity to them without telling him

fortunately, this comes in extremely handy throughout the war, what with the frequency with which Obi-Wan gets captured, which makes Alpha-17 unbearably smug