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Could a Force-sensitive engineer create a machine that runs on the Force?

There is technology Luke found that can detect a Force-sensitive by projecting an aura around the person, so if tech can detect and interact with the Force, can it also run on or generate it?

There's a few things in Star Wars powered by the Dark Side. The Star Forge is a good example.

What's a star forge?

That thing from KOTOR. Giant shipyard that draws its material from a sun.

There is also the Jedi Testing Screen, it is used in Episode 1 to test Anakin. These screens have no buttons and are operated by Jedi mind powers.

Nightbringer wrote:There is also the Jedi Testing Screen, it is used in Episode 1 to test Anakin. These screens have no buttons and are operated by Jedi mind powers.

That's nothing important, just a normal datapad. The buttons are most probably *under* the casing of the datapad instead of sticking through it like they normally would; it only takes a minimal push in the right place to trip them. And it doesn't run off the Force either.

Elheru Aran wrote:

Nightbringer wrote:There is also the Jedi Testing Screen, it is used in Episode 1 to test Anakin. These screens have no buttons and are operated by Jedi mind powers.

That's nothing important, just a normal datapad. The buttons are most probably *under* the casing of the datapad instead of sticking through it like they normally would; it only takes a minimal push in the right place to trip them. And it doesn't run off the Force either.

Or maybe it just cycles through the images automatically?

All Rakatan technology was Force-driven, not just the Star Forge.
This is why they regressed back to the stone age when they lost their connection with the Force.

I remember the comic on Ulic Qel-Droma and Exar Kun had some cases of "Dark Side Alchemy" and other kinds of magic. That might not work in the case of machinery, but it's a possibility. It doesn't seem like you could actually create machinery that draws on the force, unless it was a living being.

The easiest way to achieve this would be to have a crank attached to a dynamo; you'd use telekinesis to turn the crank. That qualifies as Force-powered machinery.

I find it doubtful that machinery can run off the Force without an organic Force-sensitive present. It simply goes against the very idea of the Force.


Yes, the Star Forge is steeped in the Dark Side, but it's also a giant shipyard.. that.. draws off from a sun. Doesn't that last part give somthing away?

The Star Forge was practically a living being in itself. According to the Rakatan computer you find in the low levels of the Temple of the Ancients:

In many ways the Star Forge is like a living entity. It feeds, it hungers, it draws on the energy flowing through all living things - what you called the Force the last time you were here.