The Force and thermal protection

Enola Straight · Post by **Enola Straight** » 2003-12-10 04:10pm

IN SW:TPM Quai-Gon Jinn plunges his lightsaber into a blast door up to the hilt, rendering the door white-hot molten metal.

The molten metal must be sveral thousand degrees hotter than ambient temperature, yet his hands...only inches away from the radiant heat...are unburnt.

Are Jedi capable of generating a low level thermal protection aura around themselves?

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-12-10 04:23pm

I think we can look at Luke surviving as long as he did in the subzero cold of Hoth and attribute it to his force abilities. He was out there almost as long as Han's Taunataun and it froze to death while Luke was still alive (albiet in a delerium) and he was untrained.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2003-12-10 04:39pm

Think about blaster bolt deflection. What factor might be involved there? Heat? Ya think?

There's yoru answer.

(As for Stravo's given that they can generate and dissipate energy, warming themselves should not be difficult, no.)

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-12-10 04:51pm

Having done a fair bit of welding, I can tell you that only decent leather welding gloves (1/4" thick or so) are necessary to keep heat away for short periods, even from a few inches away. Although granted, we're talking about vastly more area giving off heat than a little puddle an inch across.

Be that as it may, the heat deflection shown by Jinn is probably not sufficient to deflect blaster bolts, which should be far higher intensity. Bolt deflection is indicitive of better protection than the TPM incident.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2003-12-10 05:02pm

If you go from the EU, some Jedi can actually absorb energy and convert it into use with their Force powers, though if they don't use it fast the energy does its thing to them anyway.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-12-10 05:06pm

Not to mention Yoda absorbing/deflecting megajoules of lightningy death from the Count (although there may be a bit more bizzaro Force influence there).

kornstar08562 · Post by **kornstar08562** » 2003-12-10 05:59pm

We see vader stoping blaster bolts with his hand in the scene where he says i would be an honor if you would join us in ESB that had to of been some force related ability

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2003-12-10 06:04pm

kornstar08562 wrote:We see vader stoping blaster bolts with his hand in the scene where he says i would be an honor if you would join us in ESB that had to of been some force related ability

Well... Yeah. How could it not be a Force ability?

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2003-12-10 06:14pm

The feat used by Yoda, Vader and Qui-Gon is all the same. It is the converting of one energy into an other.
Yoda used it, to gain extra power (it didn't go otherwere).
Vader fired it into to wall in a blast (good seen in a frame-by-frame)
Qui-Gon obsiously used it to shield hiself from the extra heat not be be channeled.

This all is one feat, called:
Force Absorb

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-12-10 07:58pm

Rogue 9 wrote:
kornstar08562 wrote:We see vader stoping blaster bolts with his hand in the scene where he says i would be an honor if you would join us in ESB that had to of been some force related ability
Well... Yeah. How could it not be a Force ability?

Obviously the laser blast failed to penetrate the navigational deflector in Vader's hand.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2003-12-10 08:17pm

There's also Jacen's bit at the end of Destiny's Way.

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2003-12-10 08:25pm

I never looked too closely at any freeze-frames or anything, but it always looked to me like the molten part of the doors actually came into contact with one of Qui-Gon's hands.