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>>...finding somebody who is Force-sensitive, psychic, and has the
>>ability to handle magic is highly improbable.
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>UF tends to follow one particular Discworld truism: million-to-one
>chances come up nine times out of ten.
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>>...the person in question would either have no life other than
>>training, or be long-lived, on the order of two to three centuries,
>>minimum.
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>Not at all. Talent is inborn. Finding someone who -masters- all three,
>now -that- takes some finding.
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True enough, but I was looking at the time it would take to master all three.

Based on the time from Star Wars to Return of the Jedi, a Jedi can go from student to master in roughly ten years. This is "pressure-cooker" training, though. A more reasonable schedule might run fifteen to twenty years, with the benefit of reducing the risk of falling to the Dark Side. This is full-time training, too.

The time it takes to master telepathy is harder to estimate, depending on how somebody wants to break down what telepathy can do. The telepathic equivalent of the Jedi Mind Trick, putting somebody to sleep, making people think that you aren't there, simple communication, et cetera.

As for mastering magic...that could be a task which takes centuries unto itself. (personally, I'd settle for a spell to keep the rain off of books, so I can read a book outdoors, in the rain, without hauling along a sheeping umbrella.)

So mastering all of these would take anywhere from forty years to centuries. And none of these are fixed arts. They all have the potential to evolve, grow, and change.

Peter Eng