General Discussion & Suggestion Thread

SPOILERS!
Opinion: Rey was the force opposition to Kylo Ren. See, the force is about balance. Yin-yang. Snoke even mentions it it TLJ. The more powerful the dark becomes, the more powerful the light does. Up until the beginning of TJL, there are 4 force users: Kylo, Snoke, Rey, and Luke. The force is divided among them, split between light and dark. The force focused on Rey because the Force as an omni-potent/cient/present character knew Rey was the best option as a nexus of force energy.

I hope any of that made sense. Also, I'm open to alternative interpretations, but that's what my friends and I came up with.

As far as personal training, I personally drew on prequels amd the clone wars series as inspiration for training in a galaxy full of force users. But this was 2007 time frame for me. I spent a full year writing and training my force user character.

I treated it like learning how to paint. At first you suck, painting stick figures and anime eyes. But as you progress you move to scenes with depth and color and hidden features. Then you find a style and method that you like and you geep getting better.

I mean that's the theory, I still suck at painting.

So, I was going to post, and then I saw posts here... after having a read of the discussion I figured I should drop by and provide some further insight.



As far as the ship is concerned, it comes down to a matter of balancing things out. The faster you are, the less armour you will have, since the greater mass you have will affect speed and handling. Yes, even in a vacuum, weight matters.
So the big things to consider, are weapons and speed. Now, if you are using a baudo class, be mindful of the fact that no two Baudo’s were ever alike. Their shape, speed, power output, etc. is all dependent on how you lay it out. If you had a ship designed with the gun and speed layout you described, the power plant would be designed to match it.
Unlike most other canon ships, the Baudo is unique in the sense that its kind of a way for some custom tech to exist in Star Wars.

Under regular circumstances, yes, most ships can be modified in almost unlimited ways. Most of the big ticket items that we are concerned about, is offensive power, defensive power, speed, and special equipment based on the ships size. Power plants and their output is more background noise that we just agree could take the extra load.
And when you think about it, some energy supplies are the same size, regardless of their output (eg: a 200w computer power supply is the same size as a 1000w power supply. A V6 can sometimes take up the same space as a V8 in a car.)

Most of what you have described would be fairly reasonable once you figure out the size of the ship. But I would have to give a more definitive answer when I more thoroughly read it. But nothing seems to out of the ordinary.

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Now, when it comes to the Force and training, there is a couple things I want to address.

SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE TLJ NOVEL.

I am still reading the novel of TLJ, but it and the novelisation of TFA both touch upon Rey’s abilities a bit more in-depth then the movies do. Simply for the fact that the narrative word is easier to convey certain emotions and thoughts that a movie can’t quite do.
Anyway, I digress...
I actually got done reading part of the novel where Rey is on Ahch-To remeniscing about her encounter with Kylo and how he read her mind and she was able to read his. There is a couple of things to note, the first being that Kylo/Ben is a rather divided person (or a whiney teenager, depending on personal opinion). Meaning his emotions are sometimes split between the light and dark, something he was still struggling with throughout the events of TFA. The second, is that Rey mentions that she felt the ability awaken somewhat, but that she did not have much control of it.

So, pretty much you have this fairly experienced force user who is swinging between the dark and light, trying to extract information from an untrained mind. Now, putting aside any discussion on how sentient the Force is. You have something of a catalyst here for powers to start awakening and manifesting themselves in strange ways.
These awakening powers are a big part of why Rey seeks Luke out (aside from the Resistance needing him as a legend to rally behind). She even states as much on a number of occasions, that she has felt something awaken within her and she needs training to control these powers.


I’m not sure if that rambling really helped any, or even addressed much, but it is something to consider.

Now, as far as actual training goes, the general premise is that for most people, you are taught a power, and by training in its use (like the example Dees used) you improve in its use. Now, that does not mean that you can’t have powers and abilities awakening in battle. But eventually you will have to practice and train yourself in their usage to get better and stronger with them.
I think a couple Wookiee pages do mention stuff about training with the Force, but I couldn’t say for certain which ones.

Its probably worth noting that how a Force User trained from birth might learn to use their powers, would be different to how a teenager or adult would discover and learn to use their powers. I would be more inclined to believe an adult would feel powers awake than say a child. Both would require a teacher to help train and guide them in learning to control and use new abilities.

So... writer engagement. Luxeria mentioned running polls. While we have tried running them in the past, and they haven’t done so well, what does anyone else think?
Either with regards to polls or other ways to try get some more engagement.