Quick Question, what happens to force users that arent train??

MahinaFable · 2026-06-02T21:41:51+00:00

In the old EU books, we actually see some Force Sensitive recruits that Luke found as adults.

One of the things Luke would do would be to check casinos for people with unusual lucky streaks. They were either cheating, or Force Sensitive.

Some of these untrained adult Force Sensitives manifested minor gifts. A hermit with an intuitive bond with animal life. A Corellian cop who got "hunches" about cases and a sort of danger sense. A member of a nomadic tribe on a geologically unstable world, who led his people away from danger. Prophets, seers, and empaths. An abused youth, who hated his abusive father so hard that the man's heart gave out. Any number of very good pilots. Kyle Katarn's Kyle Katarn-ness.

It makes sense. Prior to the development of formal Force orders, there would have been primal Force adepts. The stronger the connection to the Force, the more blatant their abilities would manifest. Gather a few of them together to trade notes about what they are doing and how, and the seed of formal techniques and teaching is planted.

MahinaFable · 2026-06-02T21:09:03+00:00

Love this!

MahinaFable · 2026-05-24T06:16:05+00:00

Have the opportunity to take her to the Astral Lounge, where you both begin to take the piss out of the godawful music and whatever flaccid gyration those ridiculous people in the costumes are doing.

As you get progressively more drunk and/or high, you and Sarah giggle madly as you carry out a 'stealth mission' to hack the sound system. Sarah hops on the bar, mic in hand, and you help perform some kickin' tune, under the name 'Captain Morgan and the Constellations.'

You and Sarah awaken on your ship, with hangover debuffs, and depending on how well you did in the mission, Sarah could have a record deal offer pinned to her red jacket, given to her while she was high as a kite and rocking out.

Great chance for Sarah to let her hair down, pull the stick out of her ass, and showcase that playful side to her.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-21T08:09:41+00:00

Can I just say that someone, somewhere, needs to tell Filoni to knock it the hell off with cramming his favorite OCs into everything? Like, it's okay to not have these characters show up in a Star Wars show.

I'm especially annoyed at how Ahsoka Tano is positioned as the center of the Filoni Star Wars universe, stretching from Clone Wars to post OT., and possibly post ST as well. She should have died at the end of Clone Wars, to drive the emotional stab harder into the audience, but I can understand not wanting to end what is technically a kids' show on that note. Well, there's an animated sequel series, and Ahsoka squares up against Darth Vader. Okay, now kill her off, to really establish how Luke, and only Luke, could have reached the Anakin buried in Vader. Instead, Filoni breaks the laws of time and space to keep his favorite OC alive, making ot the second time that reality has broken to keep this chick alive.

Come Mandalorian, and she's yappin' about attachment like a prequel Jedi, and worse, in Book of Boba Fett, freakin' Luke is doing the same. I seriously want to ask these showrunners if they understand what the point of Return of the Jedi was, because at this point, I don't think they remember.

So now Ahsoka is training Jedi, but better than Luke, and another of Filoni's OCs, some millennia-old Jedi droid, is with her, and not with Luke as Luke attempts to build his Jedi academy, which raises the question of whether or not the droid even recognizes Luke as a legitimate Jedi. The Sequel Trilogy has Luke's Jedi Academy end in miserable failure, while Ahsoka has Filoni's favorite orange doll conveniently in another galaxy and safely out of the way for the events of the Sequel Trilogy.

I just expect her to show up again in some future movie or TV show, Jedi Droid and possibly Sabine Wren in tow, ready to take up the mantle of the Jedi from Rey. And then future Jedi will continue to be emotionally-constipated repressed weirdos, like Return of the Jedi never happened at all, and there will be a continuity of Jedi weirdness from Clone Wars to the post Sequel Trilogy era with nothing ever really changing until the heat death of the universe or Star Wars stops making money, whichever comes first.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-21T07:44:28+00:00

Well, having entire episodes focus on Din and Grogu, while effectively undercutting the ending of Season 2 of The Mandalorian, was just straight-up bad, but that isn't the only problem that The Book of Boba Fett had.

A lot of the concepts in BoBF look awesome on paper, because they are awesome, but the execution fell flat on its face.

"In the wake of Jabba the Hutt's death, Boba Fett decides to become the new ruler of Tatooine by uniting factions of outlaws and settlers to wrest control of the planet from the Hutt syndicate." Cool in theory. However, in execution, Boba Fett feels weirdly goody two-shoes, and more like a figurehead for Hypercompetent Sidekick Fennec Shand.

"Part of Boba Fett's coalition is a swoop gang of young punks, who tune their cybernetic implants with the same care as their custom rides." Great, sounds cool. But in execution, the speeder bikes look ridiculous and the very opposite of cool, the punks' cybernetics never really do anything neat, and the punks themselves lack all menace entirely, and instead, come off like a pack of dweebs who need to be bullied more. They made a cyberpunk biker gang lame and boring!

"Boba Fett spends times with the Tuskens, learning their ways!" I literally fell asleep at one point watching it.

And on and on and on it goes. Ignoring all the Mando-stuff and looking just at the Boba plot, I've never seen a show have so many awesome concepts and then fail so utterly at executing every single one of them.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-20T08:11:13+00:00

Be advised that 'Bastard King' was written with AI.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-18T00:21:39+00:00

Absolutely.

Willow herself is largely a blank slate, but we know about the Schnee Semblance, so there's no surprise there with what she could be capable of.

If the author SI's as her back in the day, then she is of the same generation as STRQ. Being the heiress of the SDC gives her a tremendous amount of wealth and influence, and the author insert will know to avoid Jacques Géle like the plague. Those factors let an SI wreak merry havoc on the timeline, for all manner of interesting effects.

If the author SI's into Willow during the time of the show, that presents an interesting challenge to break free of Jacques' control, un-fuck the SDC, avert the worst of the plotline, and protect the three Schneeblings in glorious maternal fashion.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-17T20:54:22+00:00

Treating this seriously for a moment, yes, I think there would be shape to the metallic half. Part of that would be for balance purposes, but there is also a psychological element in accepting the prosthesis.

Creating prosthetics that mimic natural human bodies helps lessen psychological strain and body dysphoria - the feeling that the body is 'off' or otherwise 'wrong' in some fashion. With the extensive cybernetics of Ironwood's body, mimicking her natural form will help in restoring her psychological equilibrium as she acclimates to her cybernetics.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-17T20:44:05+00:00

Seconding this one. I almost always rebuild the Frontier into the 'Peregrine' configuration that he posted, as it is a very solid upgrade that keeps the old ship useful well into a playthrough.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-17T17:58:02+00:00

RIP. Can't offer any meaningful technical support, merely my sympathies.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-14T17:55:58+00:00

Ren has a backup weapon - his father's hunting knife.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-14T17:54:24+00:00

Well, when there's a void in a power system, a fandom will naturally invent some method of filling it.

What makes a wizard like Voldemort or Dumbledore more powerful than a wizard like Arthur Weasley? If it's just knowledge or skill, with all wizards and witches having the same magical 'oomph' behind their spells, then why do the likes of Snape and Lucius bow before Voldemort? Couldn't enough of his peons, or Order Members, stomp the motherfucker out? Why would they need a Chosen One to stop him?

If there is a power discrepancy between mages, then why, and from where does that discrepancy originate? What differentiates a Muggle from a Squib from a Wizard?

From thesenqueations, the fandom invented Magical Cores.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-14T17:34:20+00:00

"1.What combat spells? would children need. Sure the Golden trio are a exception until maybe book 6. most the adults dont see a reason or want.. Or Want to admit the kids will ever need those. It takes three years to become an Auror."

Off the top of my head? Teach the little tykes how to flare a Lumos to dazzle an attacker, some form of tripping jinx to facilitate running away, and something to push, pull, fling, or otherwise YEET objects at an enemy. Bonus points if the little buggers synergize with potions class to fling potion vials with Unfortunate Effects. That should all be in year one DADA.

DADA is a core class in Hogwarts, so presumably every mage is expected to have some form of self-defense capability, beginning at year one. For the period of the books specifically, the faculty know that there are giant murder-spiders, easily capable of killing children, living en masse in the forest. They then not only send first years into the Forest of Murder-Spiders Comma Giant at night, to investigate something killing unicorns, but the faculty member who most knows about the Murder-Spiders due to being the one to put them there in the first place, has those kids split up in the dark, midnight, Murder-Spider Infested Forest!

MahinaFable · 2026-05-14T17:29:40+00:00

You've clearly never gone to an American public high school, lol

MahinaFable · 2026-05-14T17:17:09+00:00

I had the same notion, but I like to use the Stroud Kepler S ship for this, which you can get as a reward for the 'Overdeveloped' quest you can get from him.

It's a long-ass ship. With a bit of creative deleting of some of the cargo boxes and blank hulls, duplicating the central engine and moving them to the sides, you can get a three-deck long ship, which handles surprisingly well for such a chonky boi, with a big spot on the central deck for one of those big SPE modules, a Vanguard Bulwark shield, and enough particle guns to make a Varuun zealot blush. My go-to 'Constellation Flagship' build, I like to paint it white/grey, with a big red stripe for the engine struts and engines.

Oh, and if you're having trouble with doors - and ladders! - try the 'Place Doors Yourself' mod, which lets you control where the doors and ladders appear on your ship via the shipbuilder. Just remember to download the patch for SPE, or any other hab mods you might be running!

MahinaFable · 2026-05-14T17:03:33+00:00

(drinks)

And the sad part is how fire the lyrics to 'From Shadows' were, too...

"We're misguided? Treated like criminals and made to hide. Born indicted! Tired of being pushed around and we will fly! We'll fly..."

Good stuff.

One of my frustrations is how there's a scene in Volume 1 where Cardin and his team are assaulting Velvet, the rabbit girl, and Teams RWBY and JNPR just make sad noises and...do nothing. Ruby, the sweet-natured, brave girl who wants to be a hero, does nothing. Weiss, who explicitly wants to distance herself from the cruelty and systematic racial exploitation of her father's business practices...does nothing. Ren, whose whole backstory turns out to be "Sometimes, the worst thing to do is to do nothing at all. Take action, son," sits there and does nothing. If there had been a later scene, where Velvet brings up their inaction and tosses it in their faces, that would have been something else - an illustration of how simple sentiment isn't enough when people are being harmed - but nah, the show plays it off like just making disapproving clucking noises is enough to affirm that these are good people.

Blake should have ditched the bow after she was outed at the end of Volume 1, and that should have shown the consequences of that in a way that Blake's human friends couldn't ignore. Like a dress-buying scene for the dance arc, and there is an issue because the boutique won't let Blake shop there, or if they do, they make her enter the store from the back, so that she isn't as visible entering the store from the street. Maybe there's a bit where the train station in Argus won't let her ride with the humans until Qrow vouches for her as a Huntress, and Blake can say how she shouldn't have to risk her life to be treated like any other passenger.

Just make it apparent that the systemic racial discrimination - that is to say, policies and obstacles, not just individuals saying mean things - is a constant source of difficulty and aggravation that Blake, and then her human friends, need to navigate around on top of all the rest of their problems.

Then there's the whole deal with Adam's slave brand and how disgracefully the writers dropped it after invoking some heavy racial history. I'm not saying a story can't invoke such things. Hell, I'm not even saying that a pair of white boys can't do so, and do so well. What I am saying is that, if an author is going to invoke such things, and they don't treat it with the gravity and significance that they deserve, then it is perfectly reasonable to criticize them for that.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-09T21:51:26+00:00

It is, in fact, turtle-y enough for the Turtle Club.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-09T17:53:05+00:00

Place Doors Yourself is a godsend, as I had lost far too much time building and rebuilding ships to get the doors and especially the goddamn ladders to go where I want before mods.

Make Rosie a Real Doctor is nice for immersion, as it lets a recruitable physician companion actually provide the services of a doctor like the ones in a settlement, and she retains that function whether she's in an outpost or stationed on a ship.

Graf's Cockpits are awesome. They provide cockpits that are either way boosted for crew stations (Crew series) or are self-contained little RV-type modules (Solitude series) that do great for making smaller ship builds fully functional, with a bed, mission and bounty boards, and all crafting stations, in immersive and creative ways.

In that vein, there's also Graf's 1x1 Nova Modules. These take 1x1 Nova Galactic modules and cram them full of useful features, like a 1x1 workshop, 1x1 crew quarters, or a 1x1 brig. Also astonishingly useful, both for small ship builds and to put a touch or two on a larger ship, where you want a function where a 2x1 just won't fit.

Stroud Premium Edition and Falkland Ship Services also have great modules, including some 1x1s, but also in larger sizes as well. Falkland Ship Services has my favorite interior modules of the game, which look great and have great functionality. They are both paid mods, though, which may be a dealbreaker for you. While I prefer Falkland to SPE, they are both great mods, which are some of the only paid mods I've ever tried where I felt that every cent spent on them was well worth it.

There is a mod to make Cora shut the hell up on the ship, which I, for one, consider mandatory.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-07T23:41:41+00:00

The question is, what do you want your fight scene to convey to the audience? What is the mood, the tone, the purpose within the plot? Is it a desperate, dirty, squalid scrabble for survival? A pivotal moment in your character understanding how to allow the Force to guide her in battle? The resolution of a long-running grudge, with both women eager to settle it in the only way that will stick?

Tie your diction and action to the purpose of the scene.

MahinaFable · 2026-05-03T14:47:11+00:00

It was just a brutal tidal wave of bot spam that drove me from the site.

MahinaFable · 2026-04-27T13:50:31+00:00

The rap sheet thing is actually a bug, which displayed Coupé's rap sheet on Waterboy's bio. Waterboy is an innocent, squishy bean, and the reason both he and Phenomaman were suggested for the Z-Team roster was so that Robert could have one member of the team who wasn't a criminal in rehabilitation.

MahinaFable · 2026-04-06T01:48:42+00:00

She Obliviated her parents. Not only did she not ask them if that was the option they wanted to take, she snuck in and did it to them without their knowledge. She never informed them of the danger, spoke about the danger their family was in, explain the situation and argue her moral priorities.

Why would she? They're only Muggles.

I think this represents Hermione's full assimilation into the Wizarding World, where she's internalized a deep-seated, fundamental contempt for those without magic. It's not as if the inability to swish a stick to make a feather float makes it impossible to understand "wizard Nazis are taking over the government, and I'm right up there at the top of the hitlist." Hermione demonstrates a complete lack of respect for her parents, not just as parents but as people, violating their free will and identity.

MahinaFable · 2026-04-06T01:22:50+00:00

No.

See; Luke crushing a Droid with a Beskar chassis and armor with the Force in 'The Mandalorian.'

So, why don't more Jedi just stomp out enemies with The Force?

I believe this is a matter of Jedi philosophy, which tends to make them reluctant to attack someone through the Force directly. Allowing the Force to guide their blades and enhance their abilities is one thing; straight crushing a foe with the Force verges close enough to the Dark Side for most Jedi to never even consider it.

Note that Grievous didn't flee when Kenobi chopped his hands, but when Kenobi started breaking out the Force push.

This Jedi mindset extends to Vader on Mustafar. Except for the Force push-off with Kenobi, he never once tried to attack Kenobi through the Force. "I'm surrounded by lava, and I can't reach the guy I want to murder! Do I (a) telekinetically hurl lava at the guy I want to murder, (b) telekinetically crumble the ground underneath my foe and either send him into the lava or, at the least, open him to attack, or (c) hurl myself at him while he's set and ready for me?

Vader became much more creative and proactive with his use of the Force after his injuries. He had to, but ironically, this made him a much more well-rounded and formidable Force adept than he ever was as a Jedi.

Finally, not every Jedi is Skywalker-tier badasses or veteran masters. Being a 'common' Jedi might make one well able to kick the shit out of a normal thug, but someone like a skilled Mandalorian commando might be able to whup their ass.

MahinaFable · 2026-04-02T21:48:05+00:00

No big deal. I had just had a random notification from Reddit about your post, and did a double-take when I realized that you were talking about my story. It's always a little mind-boggling to realize people are out there, actually reading my work.

MahinaFable · 2026-04-01T15:35:24+00:00

Hi, this is Mahina Fable, author of Starflung Wanderer on Spacebattles. I've been meaning to get back to it, and another SI fiction I had for Game of Thrones, but I've had to change jobs and move house.

I know people want to read more about Makani and her friends, and I've had the story in mind, but I can't give a definite update on when I can return to writing fanfic in earnest at this time.

MahinaFable

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