• rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Hey, we’d like to guarantee your child a future of being one of the most important people in the galaxy, with all their needs met as we turn them into space wizards who fight evil.

    According to a lot of “not movies” media, many people who were trained to be Jedi didn’t make the cut. It’s one of those things that required a combination of remarkable effort and sheer talent and most people who were potential Jedi just lacked the raw skill to be considered one. As such, the Jedi had a large support auxiliary of force sensitive attendants and custodians who basically took care of the grunt work of the Jedi order. They weren’t true “Jedi Knights,” but they were a part of the order. They just spent their time scrubbing toilets and doing paperwork rather than banging queens and dismembering enemies of the state with laser swords.

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      I would take any of those jobs over mine any day of the week. I get minor force powers but I gotta plunge a toilet and room and board is free? Yes please.

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        Somewhere, there was some poor Force Sensitive who got just enough of a connection to the Force to get massive anxiety while in the Temple but not enough to leave his gardening job before Order 66.

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        You are also forbidden from fucking and, I would imagine, also masturbating. I think that’s the most interesting question about the Jedi Order: do they let their weird virgin space cultists shoot rope as long as it’s not into a person? I’d imagine not.

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      I feel that there is high potential for someone who is force sensitive besides combat

      Like force healers or a mechanic that can tell the internal structure of a machine and perhaps reattaching a wire without ever having to open it

      Stuff like that I thing would be so cool and I feel it’s highly underutilized

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        a mechanic that can tell the internal structure of a machine and perhaps reattaching a wire without ever having to open it

        Some lightsabers worked that way, in the expanded universe media. You could only turn them on by using the force to toggle an internal power switch.