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, l imited mental manipulation, 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.

The Force is made up of Midi-Chlorians, a microscopic life form that runs through all beings. Only those with a high Midi-Chlorian count can use 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 negative emotions, such as fear, anger, hatred, rage, greed, intense desire, craving, lust, and unrestrained passions. Using these emotions while using the Force enhances these emotions to the point where prolonged exposure and usage turns a user to the Dark Side, corrupting their personality and turning them into an evil vestige of their former selves. While power are enhanced by the Dark Side, it is more physically overwhelming and corrupting.

Psionic Abilities:

 * Jedi Mind Tricks: 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.
 * 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 mental stress, pain, discomfort, lose of focus, concentration, awareness visibility and 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. 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 danger in their present, usually when it is in their vicinity and can react to it quickly. 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 Jedi 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 ability for a user to to create and manipulate mechanical energy and fundamental physical forces, such as kinetic energy, friction and pressure, as well as air currents, air pressure and air pockets. This allowed the user to move, lift, stop, catch, push, pull, grip, repel, loosen, crush, strike, break, and otherwise control any physically movable objects and living targets, as well as creating seismic energy, tremors, vibrations, physical impulses and explosive force without any physical contact. 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, pain, attention concentration, overall awareness, visibility, and exhausting the ability by using it repeatedly, could limit their own personal usage of it and their abilities therefore lost efficacy if the user is under duress. Therefore, a user of telekinesis was in danger if they where subject to pain, mental stress, or lost attention, focus and concentration while utilizing their power, as the ability then becomes invalidated. When their powers were exhausted, or rendered invalidated by stress or lose of attention, focus, concentration, or physical awareness, range and visibility, users needed to resort to physical combat, resulting in 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, 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. Basic and weaker uses are summoning or repelling small objects, 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 or power source and control technological systems, including lightsaber controls, slow a fall from an otherwise dangerous height, and physically moving others with the intent of harm, which could involve send the target flying through the air, physical strike them, or simply knock them down. Users of this level of telekinesis have shown able to stop projectiles and falling objects or debris mid air, 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 and making all small objects around float in the air, 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.
 * 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. 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.
 * 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, disperse, or redirect the electricity with their bare hands.

Physical Abilities:

 * 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. 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.
 * 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 feats with ease and develop the ability to do them by simply using the Force. 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. 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, 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. 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 to strength 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.