Force Capabilities

[Reece Thompson]

Jedi say that midiclorians (however they're spelt) allow people to use force powers.

So, would it be possible to take the blood of a force user, inject it into yourself and have force powers??

[☠War☢Gerbil☠]

well they did that for General Greivous, but it didn't give him force powers, it just helped him stay alive and possibly enhanced his combat ability.

Then again, Greivous didn't have a blood circulatory system, so perhaps if you pumped midichorian rich blood into an actual body...it might work.

[Reece Thompson]

Hmmm....

In that case, why didn't the stick Jedi blood into the clone army.

Imagine how quickly the clone wars would've been won if all the clones could shoot lightning and heal themselves... lol.

[hoenn]

I think it would have givin them temprary jedi powers.
Blood goes through the heart and excanges bad oxygen blood with good oxygen.
I think after a while the medi-chlorians would have been been used up since the cells reproduce natrually but since the body is unnattural would have been unable to produce new cells so whatever new blood that was transfused would wear off relativly quickly.

[sparrow]

In that case, why didn't the stick Jedi blood into the clone army.

Because it doesn't work.

[Reece Thompson]

If only it did.

Although.... it would've made Order 66 alot funnier.

[Jace]

Midichlorians are just some crap that was thrown into Episode I to give Force users a biological reason for being able to manipulate the Force, which wasn't needed at all.

It's like trying to justify why a mage can throw fireballs, its just plain silly.

[Apillis]

The Sith tried doing that before: boosting people with midichlorians when they had a lack of them, including doing so with clones... it didn't work. Instead, bad things happened that made even the Sith step back and say, "Well, that was pretty fooking stupid of us."

[Karl the Unfettered]

There's a rare variant of spice (Kessel spice, I think) that temporarily enhances your senses and perceptions with the Force. It was in a book, and I have no idea which one it was anymore.

Nothing to do with midichlorians, of course, but that could be why it makes more sense.

[Zessus]

It's called Glitterstim, and it first appeared in the Jedi Academy trilogy, specifically in Jedi Search. But it was popularized through the Han Solo trilogy (all three volumes, in its case), which is probably what you're thinking of.

It is extremely addictive Spice, and its components augment a person's consciousness to a higher state, which gives them telepathy. It's more of a scientifically/evolutionarily achieved telepathy, as opposed to supernaturally achieved (ie, the Force). So it doesn't give you a "Force boost".

[☠War☢Gerbil☠]

Mar 9, 2011 17:36:02 GMT -5 Jace said:

Midichlorians are just some crap that was thrown into Episode I to give Force users a biological reason for being able to manipulate the Force, which wasn't needed at all.

It's like trying to justify why a mage can throw fireballs, its just plain silly.

That may be so Jace, but they're still counted as canon.

Mar 9, 2011 16:18:05 GMT -5 @hoenn said:

Blood goes through the heart and exchanges bad oxygen blood with good oxygen.
I think after a while the medi-chlorians would have been been used up since the cells reproduce natrually but since the body is unnattural would have been unable to produce new cells so whatever new blood that was transfused would wear off relativly quickly.

^ that's a good explanation

[Kella]

xD Pheer the wrath of the biology geek. Here it comes.

In general, there are serious issues injecting yourself with anyone else's blood. If they don't have the same kind of proteins that your blood does, your body will fight that blood like it's an infection. This is why blood type is so important, especially when people need blood transfusions.

Then you have the star wars universe, where there are lots of species -- most of whom would not have interchangable blood. There's problem one.


As for midichlorians, every cell of every life form has them. (Except for some weird faction during the New Jedi Order, but that's beside the point). So, it's not just having them that's important, it's having a lot of them. Theoretically, if you injected yourself with someone else's blood, and your body didn't reject it, then you could increase your overall midichlorian concentration for a little while.

Until, that is, those cells die -- as all cells do. Then you'd be back to whatever midichlorian-per-cell count you had before.

Blood only makes up about 7% of your total body weight (about six quarts) so even if you got hooked up to an IV, drained out ALL of YOUR blood, and added someone else's blood...

The results would be measly at best. There are way more cells in the rest of your body than in your blood, and those cells with their low midichlorian counts would dilute any boost you'd get from the blood.


So there's a bit of science as to why all those in-universe attempts failed, whether they were actually thinking of said science when they wrote them or not. :3

[☠War☢Gerbil☠]

*claps for Kella* ;D ;D ;D

to tack onto what you said Kella, wookieeP says this: "A misconception exists that rather than being indicators, midi-chlorians actually are the Force or create it; there is no canonical basis for this belief."

[Reece Thompson]

Wow. How do you find all this out.

OK, How many rodians has Han Solo shot in his lifetime?

[Casual]

OK, How many rodians has Han Solo shot in his lifetime?

Enough to screw in a lightbulb.