Force-powered machinery?

Enola Straight · Post by **Enola Straight** » 2006-04-11 02:05am

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?

Shadowtraveler · Post by **Shadowtraveler** » 2006-04-11 02:27am

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

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2006-04-11 02:36am

What's a star forge?

Shadowtraveler · Post by **Shadowtraveler** » 2006-04-11 02:39am

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

Nightbringer · Post by **Nightbringer** » 2006-04-11 06:58am

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.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-04-11 10:10am

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.

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2006-04-11 10:13am

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?

Cao Cao · Post by **Cao Cao** » 2006-04-11 10:30am

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.

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2006-04-11 10:13pm

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.

Cykeisme · Post by **Cykeisme** » 2006-04-12 05:41am

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?

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2006-04-12 06:22am

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.