The Force

"It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Force is a mythical energy field in the Star Wars universe used by both the Jedi and the Sith for power. Users of the Force had the potential to have any ability it bestowed, though they needed to be skilled or powerful enough to use such abilities to better extent. Abilities where obtained and utilized through intense concentration when a practitioner began using abilities, but it became much easier with time, learning and practice. The Force can enhance natural, physical, and mental abilities, including mobility, such as during a "Force jump" or to slow a fall from an otherwise dangerous height and accuracy. Force powers that are demonstrated include telekinesis, telepathy, deep hypnosis, limited mental manipulation, which could be resisted by other skilled or powerful Force users, enhanced empathy, which can allow users to control animals, clairvoyance, reflexes, precognition, and enhanced speed and resilience. Psionic abilities can be strengthened if users combine their powers with other users, such as using telekinesis on the same object to enhance their telekinetic strength, or combining their extra sensory abilities to overwhelm a strong mind and control it, create a clearer and more detailed Force vision, and enhance overall clairvoyance abilities. For most users, range, mental stress, overall duress, pain, distraction, confusion, haziness, being stunned or surprised, low proximity, lose of focus, attention, concentration, visibility, and overall awareness, and exhausting an ability could limit, weaken or invalidate the use of such an ability, especially Telekinesis. Such instances resulted in Force users resorting to physical combat, especially with the use of a lightsaber.

The Dark Side of the Force
The Dark Side of the Force represents an corruptive and addictive aspect of the Force that is not practiced by the Jedi, who view it as evil. It is connected and drawn to to any intense, negative or aggressive feelings and emotions, such as fear, anger, loathing, bitterness, jealousy, hatred, rage, frustration, greed, intense desire, grief, despair, desperation, contempt, selfishness, pride, hubris, craving, lust, and unrestrained passions. Using these emotions while using the Force enhances these emotions to the point where prolonged usage turns a user to the Dark Side, corrupting their personality and turning them into an evil vestige of their former selves. For some, this process is irrevocable and permanent, with the mind and personality being scarred with mental or emotional corruption. It can turn the user into a sociopath, sometimes with manipulative traits. Worse cases have caused instability and insanity beyond the users control.

While powers are enhanced by the Dark Side, it is more physically overwhelming and corrupting, to the point where the eyes of the users become a luminescent yellow, golden or orange color, sometimes with a fiery red rim. This change can instantly appear and disappear with the mood of the user, with the full use of negative emotions and the Dark Side causing it, and positive or less evil feelings, such as sadness, mercy, remorse or guilt removing it. However, more deeply immersed with the Dark Side the user is, the less likely these changes will reverse. The deepest immersion will cause unnatural aging and deformity, causing the face to sag, wrinkle, and turn white or grey while fingernails and teeth turn yellow. The voice can also change, becoming raspy, ragged and deep. At times of intense emotion, some users voice's could become an inhuman, ghostly, and bestial shriek or feral roar. In some cases, only the eyes changed while the body remained unaltered, as well as the eyes only changing during moments of intense Dark Side emotion and drawing power from negative and intense feelings, especially if such occurrences have happened before.

Mind Tricks
A form of Mind Control, the hypnotic ability to influence and control weaker minds verbal ideas, orders or suggestions, which the victim then repeats then acts upon without hesitation. Some users could even control animals by reaching out with the Force, though they did not need to use verbal ideas, orders or suggestions. If the user used this power with others, they would be able to overwhelm and control the minds of people with strong will.

Force Stealth
Skilled users, especially Dark Side users, can utilize force stealth to mask their force alignment, or even their entire presence from other Force users. This can allow a skilled and powerful user to be in the midst of several powerful and skilled Force users for years with none of them knowing that the user has Force powers or is a Dark Side User. In fact, users of the Dark Side have been able to project this ability to cloud the visions of others and render precognitions useless. In other cases, skilled and powerful users have been able to hide their presence from technological detectors and scanners by manipulating their life signs or brain activity or sending out a jamming signal created from the Force.

Shape Shifting
An obscure, limited and difficult ability, was the Mask technique used by Dark Side users, which could shape shift the individual's appearance, altering the subject at the molecular level. It was mostly used to hide deformity's caused by the Dark Side. Features, age, disfigurations, even species could be concealed with the Mask, though the latter would require an incredible amount of skill to accomplish convincingly. Owing to its molecular nature, the technique lasted until altered, and even a thorough medical examination would not reveal anything out of place, unlike the scars of surgical alterations. Force lightning could destroy this Mask and make it impossible for the user to shape shift again, permanently trapping them in their Dark Side appearance.

Battle Meditation
A difficult ability which enhances focus, concentration, awareness, and removing mental stress or exhaustion of power. the most powerful and skilled users could overcome physical or emotional duress, mental stress, pain, distraction, confusion, haziness, being stunned, discomfort, lack of range or low proximity and lose of focus, concentration, visibility, overall awareness, as well as exhaustion of their powers. This resulted in their prowess being restored while the user is in combat, though such an ability is very difficult to master.

Extrasensory Perception
The Force gives its users with discipline and subtlety of mind an extra sensory awareness and emphatic abilities that the user can use to gain, analyze, and interpret direct visual information about an people, location or physical event in the future, effectively giving them precognitive abilities and premonitions. They can sense and scan the minds, thoughts and emotions of others and the nature of memories that others around them are experiencing. Their abilities allow users to sense the presence of others, especially other Force users and even track them. Blood relations can further enhance these abilities. Also, users could feel negative occurrences happening or sense that danger would personally effect the user in the future. Unfortunately, this awareness is limited and what information that is found is not always in full detail and in fragments. Those who where not skilled with their enhanced awareness would possibly not experience such vision or senses at all. Alternatively, users can feel immediate danger in their present, usually when it is in their vicinity and can react to it quickly. This gives them instinctive reactions that allows them to easily dodge or counter danger. Sense abilities allowed Force users to immerse themselves in the environment, Which can allow them to use the Force to operate as their senses when their own physical senses are strained, blocked, or impaired. Such way resulted in Jedi learners where helmets that blocked their eyes and had them use the Force to see and react quickly during lightsaber training. Force users could combine their mental and extra sensory powers to enhance them, to the point of creating clearer visions or overwhelming strong minds and controlling them. This ability can be strengthened if users combine their powers with other users, thereby enhancing the clarity of their visions and their ability to interpret them.

Telepathy
Such an ability allowed a user with discipline and subtlety of mind to mentally transmit or receive information to and from another. Force user, even from vast distances, including from one end of a galactic system to another. A strong enough transmission could allow a user to project their own ideas and will into that of a victim with a weaker mind and therefore control the victims mind, though an order or idea needed to be verbally conveyed to the victim. This hypnotic suggestion, or mind control, came to be called the Mind Trick. Some users could even forcibly extract and transmit information, thoughts, ideas, orders, and visions to and from others minds, which could be painful for the victim. Trained Force users, and possibly more mentally resilient people in general, can resist this mental manipulation. Users can feel memories and feelings accompanied by them, to the point where the user can scan the thought and memories of those close to them, especially other Force users. Blood relations can further enhance these abilities. Sense abilities allowed Force users to immerse themselves in the environment. Force users could combine their mental and extra sensory powers to enhance them, to the point of creating clearer visions or overwhelming strong minds and controlling them. Some users could even control animals by reaching out with the Force, though they did not need to use verbal ideas, orders or suggestions. This ability can be strengthened if users combine their powers with other users, thereby extending their range of transmission and reception, as well as being able to control the minds of people with strong will.

Telekinesis
The general ability to influence and manipulate a physical system without physical interaction. It is the ability for a Force user to create, distort and manipulate motion, momentum, overall mechanical energy and fundamental physical forces, such as kinetic energy, friction, pressure, as well as sound waves, and sonic waves, all forms of magnetism, air currents, air pressure and air pockets. This allowed the user to move, summon, lift, stop, catch, push, pull, grip, collapse, compress, repel, wrench, pry, loosen, crush, strike, break, and otherwise control any physically movable targets, as well as creating seismic energy, tremors, vibrations, magnetic force shockwaves, sound blasts, barriers, and fields of pure mechanical energy and fundamental physical forces, vaccuums, physical impulses, and concussive, impactive, and explosive forces without any physical contact. Using this ability is usually accompanied by loud rumbling or crashing noise, possibly due to expansion of rapidly heated air, just like thunder. It can also mean that sound waves are being intensified, which could result in a shockwave or sonic boom or sonic blast. The user is capable of controlling the action or process of movement at which anything moves. For a sufficiently skilled or powerful practitioner, the size, number, or weight of the target did not matter, with some users being able to manipulate large structures with this power. It is utilized through intense concentration when a practitioner began using it, but it became much easier with time, learning and practice. In addition, telekinesis could be used to amplify the sense of touch beyond physical contact and allow the users to feel their surrounds in detail without touching any of it with their skin. This could allow a user to grip whatever they could telekinetically touch and feel. The user could also telekinetically feel what they did not see, allowing them to feel the inside of an object, or even a living creature, as well as other fundamental physical forces, or vibrations in their vicinity. Users of this can enhance their telekinetic strength by combining their powers with other users. For most users, range, mental stress, overall duress, pain, distraction, confusion, haziness, being stunned, low proximity, lose of focus, attention, concentration, visibility, or overall awareness, and exhausting the ability could limit, weaken or invalidate the use of the ability. Such instances resulted in Force users resorting to physical combat especially with the use of a lightsaber. Alternatively, a Dark Side user could use pain while tapping into the Force to enhance their powers. Although, through the use of telekinetic touch and Battle Meditation, a process which enhances attention, focus, range, concentration, awareness, and removing stress or exhaustion of power, the most powerful and skilled users could overcome this. Some more skilled and powerful users have used the ability with no apparent concentration, or could harm a person while only knowing where they were and communicating with them on a screen. One standard ability was attracting or summoning an object to the user even if they do not see the object in question. This ability resulted in the user gaining magnetic abilities to cause an object to fly into the users hand, sometimes without having to see their target. Basic and weaker uses are summoning or repelling small objects, cease the motion and mobility of a moving object, causing objects to fly or float in the air, manipulating inner workings and controls of technology, as well as of certain mechanisms, such as a door, telekinetically use controlling mechanisms such as switches, buttons, levers, or power source and control technological systems, including lightsaber controls, causing objects to fly or float in the air, slow a fall from an otherwise dangerous height, and physically moving others with the intent of harm, which could physical strike them, or simply knock them down. Advanced uses of telekinesis are to stop projectiles and falling objects or debris mid air, cease all motion and momentum in a target, and freeze a moving object, structure or person in place, levitating and almost flying, harming a victim from vast distances, while communicating with them on a screen, creating contained, tremor like events where ever the user is, generating powerful vibrations, physically moving others with the intent of harm, which could involve send the target flying through the air, lifting a target to towering hieghts, making all small objects in the vicinity float in the air, distorting gravity, and manipulating, lifting, throwing or breaking large, sometimes towering structures. The ability also resulted in variants such as Force Push, utilizing a physical impulse and explosive force in a certain direction, unlike its sub-variant, Force Wave, which utilized physical forces in multiple directions. Dark Side users were more malicious when using the ability, as they used for destruction and harming victims. The worst uses of telekinesis was considered squeezing or crushing a victim to torture or kill them. Some would not apply fatal pressure to the neck in order to torture the victim. Some who used this ability would lift the victim into the air by the neck to choke them. This usage came to be known as Force Choke. They also tortured others by crushing, or otherwise damaging organs and bones, or specifically targeting parts of the body. Inflicting damage on a target could also  be used with less power to simply strike a target telekinetically, though other attacks could be powerful enough to break necks or fatally damage organs, such as the heart. These malicious and painful methods were used for intimidation and even punishment by certain Dark Side users.

Force Push
An ability of the Force that is used in an offensive or defensive manner. It can be used to varying degrees, from simply moving or nudging a targets to physically repelling the target, sending them flying through the air and causing serious injury. Using this power with others can enhance its effects beyond either of the participants natural ability. Using this ability is usually accompanied by loud rumbling or crashing noise, possibly due to expansion of rapidly heated air, just like thunder. For most users, range, mental stress, overall duress, pain, distraction, confusion, haziness, being stunned, low proximity, lose of focus, attention, concentration, visibility, or overall awareness, and exhausting the ability could limit, weaken or invalidate the use of the ability. Such instances resulted in Force users resorting to physical combat especially with the use of a lightsaber.

Force Choke
Sometimes known as Force grip, is a Force power commonly fueled by dark emotions such as fear, anger, and hatred. It is used to grip the neck or throat and strangle the victim with the Force, rendering them unable to act. Sometimes the person would be lifted off the ground by the neck using Force Choke. Using this ability is usually accompanied by loud rumbling like thunder. The power is generally used at close range, but in rare instances the target could be choked at a greater distance if they are seen through a viewscreen. Depending on the degree or power applied, the effects of a Force choke would result in either death, unconsciousness, or simply leaving the person gasping but still conscious. Alternatively, this ability could be utilized without using dark, negative or aggressive emotions. At this point, it could simply be using telekinesis to grip and squeeze the neck or throat to incapaticate opponents without truly harming or killing them. For most users, range, mental stress, overall duress, pain, lose of focus, attention, concentration, overall awareness, visibility, and exhausting the ability could cause limitations in use of the ability. Range was a major issue for most users while more skilled and powerful users only needed to be aware of their target and their location, as well as being able to see them.

Tutaminis
A skilled and powerful user of the Force had the ability to dissipate, convert, negate absorb, deflect, harness or redirect concentrated energy such as blaster bolts, lightsaber blades, or even Force Lightning, with physical contact. A user could touch or catch this energy with their hands and then manipulate it by either dissipating, deflecting or absorbing it into themselves, the last effect could actually partly heal or otherwise strengthen the body to some extent. While some could be overwhelmed by the energy they tried to manipulate, others managed to control it. Some users could even convert the energy they held into another energy, such as turning a blaster bolt into electricity.

Force Lightning
A Dark Side Power, this ability created or shot blue or purple electricity from the hands or fingers. With its purely degenerative nature, the electricity could deform, fatally shock or electrocute, and otherwise severely harm the victim. The amount of power, lethality, and overall shock from the electricity could be determined by the user, who could use it to cause agonizing pain to the victim. It could simply be used to stun or knock out a target, as well as physically repel them in the same manner as Force Push, all the while delivering an incapacitating shock to the target. Skilled or powerful Force Users could deflect, absorb, harness, negate, disperse, dissipate, or redirect the electricity with physical contact, such as touching or catching it with their hands.

Augmented Vitality
Force users of any age have naturally high stamina, endurance, strength, overall physical capabilities throughout their lives when using the Force, to the point where all or most users have naturally high acrobatic abilities, even while disabled or elderly. These abilities remain potent with little or no physical maintaining. This makes them able to physically exert themselves for hours in any way, though they can eventually become exhausted and need rest and sustenance. As previously stated, skilled and powerful users can possess unnatural vitality and physical abilities even in old age or while being severely crippled or otherwise disabled. Not even the degenerative power of Force Lightning can weaken this vitality.

Augmented Strength
The ability for the user to generate far greater force through physical contact and exertion. Force Users can use this, and even combine it with telekinesis, to jump several feet in the air, as in a Force Jump and to not be affected by a fall from an otherwise dangerous height or at great velocity. These abilities remain potent with little or no physical maintaining. Using telekinesis, a user can reduce or enhance their own momentum and motion, and therefore exert greater force. They can also use it to some extent in their attacks, to enhance their striking force, to the point were a skilled and powerful user could harness their power to strike or kick a target and send them flying backwards without much physical exertion. A skilled and powerful user can resist weight to some extent and can lift matter several times their own weight with ease. In addition, many skilled and powerful Force users can exert themselves for longer periods than normal while not being truly strained by effort. Age does not seem to hinder such abilities at all for most users. For Dark Side users, intense and aggressive feelings such as pain, anger, hatred, frustration and rage enhanced overall physical strength, but at the cost of awareness, reaction time, mental strength, and analytical thinking capabilities.

Augmented Mobility
Force users naturally have enhanced speed agility, reflexes, dexterity, balance, equilibrium, coordination, jumping ability, momentum and overall motion and can develop such a abilities through establishing a stronger connection to the Force. These abilities remain potent with little or no physical maintaining. Users are able to perform acrobatic and gymnastic feats with ease and develop the ability to do them by simply using the Force. Most users therefore had enhanced, sometimes inhuman jumping, leaping, and lunging abilities. Trained and powerful users are able to leap from one building top to another or to higher walkways several feet above them in a single bound. The user possesses incredible strength in their legs, allowing them to run, jump, kick or otherwise push off a surface with strength and physical force at a superhuman level. Combined with a users intuitive abilities, said user develops an enhanced reaction time by sensing immediate dangers in their vicinity and then using their mobility to avert or counter said danger. The user's physical instincts and enhanced reaction time make them able to seamlessly react to immediate danger, though focus, attention, concentration, visibility, and overall awareness can limited, weaken and nullify this abiity. Also, users can also be overwhelmed by a danger, even if they sense it or react to it. Also combined with extra sensory perception, Force enhanced mobility could improve accuracy, and furthermore, marksmanship to nearly unnatural levels with enough focus. Age does not seem to hinder such abilities at all for most users.

Augmented Resilience
Users of this have great stamina, endurance, and overall survivability. Physically, a skilled and powerful user is less vulnerable to physical damage and has a slightly greater resistance to injury, stress, pain, sickness, exposure, lack of air, or otherwise harmful trauma, temperatures, exposure to harmful environments, or toxic substances, all the while still functioning normally and slightly undeterred. They can withstand physical and mental pain and trauma and can even resist its effects if they are strong or skilled enough in the Force. In most extreme cases, users are able to survive for days or longer in isolation without sleep, shelter, food or water by relying on the Force alone. A user was even able to influence the amount of air their body needed and survive without it for extended periods of time. Arguably the most powerful usage, the user could go into a hibernation trance that reduced their need for food, water, and air, allowing a user to survive for days in this comatose like state. In addition, a user can survive the most extensive and grievous wounds far longer than normal by accessing the Force. This latter effect was prominent for Dark Side users, as they used their pain and negative emotions, such as anger, hatred, frustration and rage, to strengthen them as they tapped into the Force for sustenance. Despite this, a Force user could not become invulnerable through the Force, though Dark Side users could learn to siphon energy from other powerful Force users and significantly prolong their lives. Age does not seem to hinder any such abilities at all for most users.