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Delvo · 4th May 2008, 01:23 PM

In Episode I, Quai-Gonn says that if the Skywalkers lived in a more civilized part of the galaxy, Anakin would have been found by the Jedi and taken in already before he got to the age he was then. This suggests that the frontiers are good places for Sith to find apprentices, but doesn't explain how the established users of the Force, of either kind, actually find new Force-users in either type of region. They're such a tiny minority of any population that there has to be a way to narrow it down.

In the books which are set sometime after the fall of the Empire, Luke and the gang are searching for trainees for Luke. Their main method of narrowing it down to a number Luke can actually meet and check with the Force himself seems to be scanning news reports for signs that anybody is absurdly lucky and thus might already be using the Force on some untrained level. But this generally works best with adults or older minors, not very young children, and it wouldn't be very reliable, so it isn't how the Jedi did it.

But what really made me curious was that, whereas I had once thought that the Jedi and Sith Lords pretty much accounted for all Force-users, there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of more new ones that we didn't hear of before. Every time some writer thinks "Hey wouldn't it be cool if there were someone who was strong with the Force but nobody knew about, and then suddenly (s)he came out of hiding in the middle of some bigger conflict...", we get another new one. In the movies, we get not only Darth Maul but also General Greevus. In the cartoon Clone Wars mini-series, we get some black-&-white character with a hissing voice. In the books, we find out that the Emperor actually had some unspecified but large number of semi-trained "Emperor's Hand" folks and one of the Grand Admirals could also use the Force at least well enough to stand against an Emperor's Hand. And now I've seen a magazine cover talking about Darth Vader's secret apprentice. So where are all of THOSE Force-users coming from? How do the Sith find them and keep the Jedi from doing so?

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Delvo Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: USA: Posts: 439	Finding potential Jedi/Sith in a galaxy of muggles In Episode I, Quai-Gonn says that if the Skywalkers lived in a more civilized part of the galaxy, Anakin would have been found by the Jedi and taken in already before he got to the age he was then. This suggests that the frontiers are good places for Sith to find apprentices, but doesn't explain how the established users of the Force, of either kind, actually find new Force-users in either type of region. They're such a tiny minority of any population that there has to be a way to narrow it down. In the books which are set sometime after the fall of the Empire, Luke and the gang are searching for trainees for Luke. Their main method of narrowing it down to a number Luke can actually meet and check with the Force himself seems to be scanning news reports for signs that anybody is absurdly lucky and thus might already be using the Force on some untrained level. But this generally works best with adults or older minors, not very young children, and it wouldn't be very reliable, so it isn't how the Jedi did it. But what really made me curious was that, whereas I had once thought that the Jedi and Sith Lords pretty much accounted for all Force-users, there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of more new ones that we didn't hear of before. Every time some writer thinks "Hey wouldn't it be cool if there were someone who was strong with the Force but nobody knew about, and then suddenly (s)he came out of hiding in the middle of some bigger conflict...", we get another new one. In the movies, we get not only Darth Maul but also General Greevus. In the cartoon Clone Wars mini-series, we get some black-&-white character with a hissing voice. In the books, we find out that the Emperor actually had some unspecified but large number of semi-trained "Emperor's Hand" folks and one of the Grand Admirals could also use the Force at least well enough to stand against an Emperor's Hand. And now I've seen a magazine cover talking about Darth Vader's secret apprentice. So where are all of THOSE Force-users coming from? How do the Sith find them and keep the Jedi from doing so?