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Originally Posted by Delvo  We're told by Qui-Gonn that the Republic was able to identify Force-users throughout the Republic while they were very young. The Emperor and Darth Vader apparently could do so too, since the Emperor had that whole "Emperor's Hand" program going where he'd even find relatively weak Force-users without much Jedi potential and train them a bit to do his "special" work for him. They certainly had incentive to find them wherever they could, at least to kill them even if not recruit them, especially the more powerful ones who didn't become Emperor's Hands. |
Well with that they weren't a threat to the Palpatine and Vader because they weren't trained and probably didn't know they could use the force. Take Corran Horn for example. He didn't know he was a force adept until he found out who his real father and grandfather were and then found his grandfather's lightsaber.