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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 167
Message ID: 21
#21, RE: Vulcans, Force, BG--The Revenge Continues
Posted by remande on Oct-25-01 at 09:17 PM
In response to message #18
>Redneck (could -very- easily see the Jedi being founded by Paul
>Atredies himself)

Sure. Think about it. What sort of powers do the Jedi have?

Jedi are exceptional warriors, and have incredible speed and strength (Qui-Gon and Kenobi fleeing droids in Ep 1, Luke able to make incredible anime leaps in Eps 4-5). Prana-bindu insures that BG acolytes have that.

Jedi can command the weak of mind. The BG call that "the Voice".

Jedi can see into the future. IMHO, Jedi fight so well and can do impossible things like parry blaster fire because they do this all the time, fighting a half second into the future. The BG Reverend Mothers (the ones who get high on dead worm puke...er...Water of Life) can do this. Paul, the Kwisatz Haderach, was the first male to be able to do this. The idea of the KH breeding program was that Paul and all his descendents would be able to do this. Jedi simply do this without drugs.

Then again, Jedi are telekenetic; nowhere in the Dune canon do we see this.

As a parting shot: the more I look at Dune and Star Wars, the more I think of the latter as a space opera version of the former.

--rR