[Vesuvius]

In the game Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, the main character, Kyle Katarn goes and visits the Valley of the Jedi to be reawakened to the Force that he "put away" in his past. Later on in the game, we are attacked by Dark Jedi that also just paid a visit the Valley. Now they are all awakened in the Force. Now what happened here, really? Did they go there and the Valley just flipped a swith on in their minds? Was it like a baptizm where even if you had no Force power, you were suddenly saturated with it? Or was it (shakes head) the rapid inhalation of those dreaded midichlorians? And where was this place in the PT and OT? What's stopping anyone from going there, hanging out for a while and coming out far more powerfull than Anakin?

This topic is all in good fun. Enjoy!

[Icey]

It's like a mythical pirate treasure, (since all Star Wars is, is a costume drama). It can only be found by those who've been there before (or found that guy's map that was all over his cieling). Sure everyone can get there and it's no real problem, but you can't find it because plot dictates it. Much like pirate treasures.

The very same reason why there isn't paparazzi or any kind of press in the Star Wars universe. Or really any kind of information networks it appears (not considering the EU) because, it's all costume drama. In space. It has more to do with the Roman Empire than Science Fiction.

[Vesuvius]

nice one Icey. I was also thinking that if you stayed in the Valley for too long, would you be so powerfull that you'd be a danger to others as well as yourself? Much like Tetsuo from the movie and manga AKIRA? He got massive because of all the power in his body that he could not control. Is it worth being a Jedi now?

[Icey]

You propably become so full of it, that you become on with the force and cease to exist. There is only so much storage capacity in every person before it spills over. So yes, very much like Tetsuo without the blowing up into meaty clumps before dying and killing a lot of stuff.

There would however be a very easily felt disturbance, I'd imagine. And you'd have to go into that tower thingie to focus the force into you, because it's a magic tower.

[Vesuvius]

Magic Tower, nice I was thinking though, wouldn't this place call out to Luke in the OT? He was already Force sensitive but why not have him go there and really open up his Force powers, then train with Yoda and stop all that whining? I still thnik that Yoda could always teach him something new and give Luke even more guidance because he has so much power. That way Luke could throw away doubt easily if he was more powerfull.

[Icey]

Oh ho ho ho! Two possible reasons. Again, the Pirate Treasure logic, think Isla de Muerto from Pirates of the Carribean, it's a secret magic place that none know the path to (Kyle, I think shows him later on where the Valley is, or atleast tells him of it. And Luke does not take a sip of power) save the Wizard, I mean Jedi that told Kyle's dad and hid his Saber along with the map at his place.

The other is that Yoda would most likely think that the surge of power would be too great for Luke to handle at once and might push him over to the Dark Side much like his father. As we all know, power corrupts, especially when it comes easy.

[Vesuvius]

Ah, good call my Icelandic aquantance. "power corrupts, especially when it comes easy." Very well spoken. I've got a question for you (or anyone that reads this): If you went to the valley of the Jedi, what role of Jedi would you take up (Dark, Light, Rogue, Bounty Hunter, etc) what color would your lightsaber(s) (or dual) be, and how would you handle things?

Make it entertaining or serious, all in good fun!

[Icey]

I'd become like a rouge playboy that uses the force more to manipulate people and things to suit my purposes. (and make my life easier) People will throw roofs over my heads, cook for me, as well as I'll get to eat for free at fancy restaurants, sleep at the presidential suites and cause dramas for me to resolve when bored. Heck I might even assist people when the mood would strike me. As for a lightsaber, I'd go for a very compact (just big enough to fit into my palm, without me cutting off my fingers) hilt with a silver blade.

And that's just in reality, I'd be tossed into the Star Wars Universe, I'd pretty much do the same thing, except I'd become more of like a trickster wanderer, never doing too big stuff to cause a fuzz.

[Vesuvius]

I would be a Jedi with two dark purple lightsabers, but I would mainly use just one for most battles. I'd use both with a culmination of Force Speed and slice through entire cities! I would take up the job of assassin for hire. I could retrieve and detain someone for money, but that would be a waste of my skill with a lightsaber. I would work for the Jedi Academy too because you know they need someone knocked off somewhere in the galaxy. I would work alone. I would be good, but the Academy would keep students away from me because of my asignments.

[barend]

In the game Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, the main character, Kyle Katarn goes and visits the Valley of the Jedi to be reawakened to the Force that he "put away" in his past. Later on in the game, we are attacked by Dark Jedi that also just paid a visit the Valley. Now they are all awakened in the Force. Now what happened here, really? Did they go there and the Valley just flipped a swith on in their minds? Was it like a baptizm where even if you had no Force power, you were suddenly saturated with it? Or was it (shakes head) the rapid inhalation of those dreaded midichlorians? And where was this place in the PT and OT? What's stopping anyone from going there, hanging out for a while and coming out far more powerfull than Anakin?

This topic is all in good fun. Enjoy!

if such a place existed i would take a cushion, a thermos of black coffee, and good book and just sit there until i had saped every last drop of dark power in the place.


i wouldn't even leave to go to the bathroom until i'd at least gained the ability to spit blaster fire.

[Dorothy]

i'd at least gained the ability to spit blaster fire.

Can't you already do that?

I would gain massive power, then I would go out and become a quadruple agent, betraying both sith and jedi equally until I had brought TRUE balance to the force (i.e. they recognized my position as supreme being), and would then inundate everyone with endless piles of pointless forms to fill out. And then I would become a smuggler and smuggle stuff. The End.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too.