Star Wars Reveals One Force Power Anakin Skywalker Wishes He Had

Star Wars has introduced a new Force power – one Anakin Skywalker would have wished to possess. Back in 1977, shortly after the unexpected success of the first Star Wars film, George Lucas began to lay the groundwork for his franchise. Lucas came up with the idea of midi-chlorians right from the start, and he intended certain races to be more powerful in the Force than humans. “Their brains are different,” he explained in his notes. “They have more midi-chlorians in their cells.“

Master Yoda’s still-mysterious species appears to be one example, because to date all examples of that race have been remarkably Force-sensitive, and Master Yoda’s own midi-chlorian count was exceeded only by Anakin Skywalker’s in the prequel era. The old Expanded Universe established this has led to certain races possessing a unique and distinctive relationship with the Force, one that has presumably evolved as a result of their natural environment, and Disney’s canon has absorbed the idea. Cavan Scott’s novel Into The Rising Storm, set 200 years before the events of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace during the High Republic Era, has introduced one new race whose Force-power would have been envied by even Anakin.

The book introduces a character named Udi Dis, whose race, the Talortai, are all strong in the Force. They evolved in a star system plagued by meteor storms, and as a result, as they began to explore their star system, they developed a unique talent known as “pathfinding.” As the novel explains, “All Talortai had an innate sense of direction, feeling the vibrations of the cosmos in their bones, but Dis’s navigational skills were off the chart. Thanks to his talents, he could feel the location of every asteroid in the field. He didn’t need maps or even a navidroid. All he needed was the Force.“

Udi Dis was one of the few Talortai to embrace his Force power, with the rest of the race coming to shun the Force and retreating back to their meteor-battered homeworld. It’s probably a good thing for the galaxy they did, because it really isn’t hard to imagine how destabilizing a factor they’d have been in galactic conflicts such as the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War. After all, in a starfighter dogfight, a Talortai pilot would have been able to sense the precise location of every starfighter, unsurprised as pilots juked to dodge their shots, impossible to shake off when they were in pursuit. As formidable as Jedi pilots like Anakin Skywalker were, even Anakin Skywalker would have been outclassed by the Talortai. Whatever factions they chose in the Star Wars saga would have had a massive advantage.

What’s more, it’s easy to imagine the ways in which Anakin Skywalker would have used this power when he became Darth Vader. In The Empire Strikes Back, for example, he’d never have lost the Millennium Falcon when Han Solo flew his ship into the asteroid field, and Han’s trick of hiding his vessel against the hull of Vader’s Star Destroyer would have failed. It’s a good job Darth Vader didn’t possess the power of the Talortai – because the greatest villain of Star Wars would have been impossible to defeat.

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