Game Theory: Star Wars, How the Force WORKS! (Star Wars Fallen Order)

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, where after a repeated series of defeats trying to predict movies based on film theory. I've decided to throw in the towel and talk about the game here, so a few weeks ago, Steph and I were invited to play three hours of Jedi Falled Order, the new single-player Star Wars adventure, at least the game.

What we got to play was an absolute blast: it has the dungeon crawling and puzzle solving of Zelda mixed with the combat and world structure of Dark Souls, right down to the enemies that respond when you arrest bonfires or as they are known in this game. The meditation points about how fleets of stormtroopers suddenly respawn when you decide to do a squat on the floor for a few minutes is beyond my comprehension, let's chalk it up to creative license because hey, it's a satisfying gameplay loop so NO I'm going to question it. Also, everything allows me to say that this game is the dark soul of Star Wars games and that is not a shameful or inaccurate statement because that is literally how the game is structured, but it is not only satisfying from a gameplay perspective, but which also has a canonical aspect. story that adheres to the Lord of the franchise set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.

The game has you play as Cal Custis, a Padawan who has so far managed to survive Order 66, the extermination of all Jedi across the galaxy when a chance accident exposes your space. Magical abilities, suddenly you are on the planet fleeing by jumping to escape from the hunters that the Empire sends you while traveling, not only are you fighting for your life but you are also trying to complete your training to become a flesh and blood Jedi who means unlocking new

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powers on the fly Now, when we spoke to the developers at the event they invited us to to preview the game, they were pretty cagey about how crazy these force powers would get, but in the time we had to play, I was able to see all your Jedi essentials, like hard push, hard pull, saber throw, or as I like to call it, easy, but there was one that stood out in particular for me, force slow , the reasons this power stood out during my playthrough were the ones you use. he's constantly up for both combat and puzzle solving, but more importantly he's not one that appears all that often in Star Wars media.

No Jedi Academy Force Unleashed, and no, the super Star Wars series for SNES hasn't been forced slow, you see, that's just the game

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to keep up with all the madness on screen, hell, even Lego Star Wars doesn't. It has and if I have been led to believe correctly, you can do anything with Legos, which is why it is such a critical piece. And a unique part of the game now is my chance to break down the science of low strength because the implications for how and why it

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reveal some very interesting things not only about the game but also about how strength works as a whole, how we're .

Much closer to being Jedi than you think, no longer, my friends, we will be limited to using only our force powers on the automatic sliding doors of a grocery store. These are not the Swiss rolls you are looking for to

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t your choice of forced ones. Slowness is interesting as an initial move for the cowl, since within the lore of Star Wars legends it is a dark side ability, at least according to Knights of the Old Republic, the first games in which it appeared in those games. the Old Republic, slowness is in continuum with others. Really scary force skills like force plague tree basically poison your target to death without even touching them, plus slow tends to be a more advanced power in those other games that require significant skill points of the dark side to execute, which makes sense dipping your toes into manipulating time and space should take a little practice, so could all this mean that our hero Kal isn't quite what he seems and At the end of this game will it be revealed that he is some level of Sith master or a descendant of Darth Vader? he said no, no, bad matpat, you know you shouldn't speculate on anything related to history in this universe, it only gets you in trouble, stick to the science and move on, okay, massive history reveals aside what What we know about hull force, slow works well in those past games like Kotor is described as a force power that clouds the mind and makes the target's actions unusually slow.

Now that would explain our opponents' slow behavior; However, that explanation simply doesn't work for what we see in the

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Jedi in the game. Slowness not only affects people, it also affects things. Sure you're slowing down opponents in combat, but you're also using it to solve puzzles, dungeons, and platforming in the overworld. In other words, you are not using your force powers to cloud. the mind of giant piercing pistons that exist on the side of a mountain so that they slow down so you can jump through them, the force is doing something to you or the environment around you to make that slowing effect occur as such.

I'll need another explanation here, which means it's time to get to the root of the force, one of its fundamental elements, something that takes space magic and turns it into something real, something physical, something pseudoscientific, which means we have to talk. of midichlorians, yes. well everyone rolls their eyes yeah midichlorians are still canon in this franchise and are one of the only physical links that exist in the Lord who ever explained what sets Jedi apart in an anatomical physical sense here it is qui-gon jinn to cool off. we about what they are Withey Florian is a microscopic life form that resides within all living areas and we are symbionts with it without the midichlorians life could not exist we would not have knowledge of the force that continually speaks to us telling us It will be okay, then That quote gives us a lot to work with their life forms independent of us but they live within our individual cells in a mutually beneficial relationship, they are essential to life and they are also essential to connecting with the force and that is An important distinction is not the force itself, the force is what gives the Jedi their path, it is an energy field created by all living beings around us, it penetrates the midichlorians, they are just a form to which we are connected and we take advantage of that energy.

It's also worth noting that, in franchise lore, children suspected of being force-sensitive are tested for the presence of midichlorians at the cellular level. at 20,000 midichlorians per cell, so they're working with almost 10 times more force and power sensing capability than regular nerf herders, highest midichlorian count ever, you guessed it, Anakin Skywalker, now the Implications of all this information are huge, which means. that within the Star Wars franchise midichlorians are a real biological entity that can be detected measured and whose presence directly correlates with the strength of a force power in the anatomy of a Jedi midichlorians are like small living Duracell batteries that light the next leap of force and it's not just me overthinking things midichlorians are based on a true story here it turns out that sometimes reality is stranger than fiction because George Lucas didn't have to invent presence of a small organism that lives inside all of our cells and gives us energy those things already exist lucas-based midichlorians in the mitochondria the cellular organelle you may remember from 8th grade biology let's face it, it's probably the only cellular organelle you remember from 8th grade biology simply because it had in itself, a strong mark, mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, they suck up that endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi bodies and fire, there's one more of them that I'm forgetting about, obviously , not the nucleus and chloroplasts, show their great brain energy and leave it in the comment below anyway, this idea that George Lucas was inspired by real-life biology has been floating around for years, but finding the source actual primary proving that it was directly inspired by mitochondria is actually very difficult, it took a lot of research, but I did it.

I will finally find it according to an interview with George Lucas in an E online article from May 11, 1999. Thanks to the Wayback Machine for allowing me access to it. He said this quote. I would say that more than anything else I am taking the idea of ​​symbiosis. relationships and trying to demonstrate it in a more concrete way mitochondria. Yes, the interviewer actually completely missed the boat on that topic. Mitochondria is a loose description of mitochondria, which are components necessary for cells to divide. They probably had something coming out one day. to do with the beginnings of life and how one cell decided to become two cells with a little help from this other little creature that arrived without which life could not exist are necessary for us we are necessary for them end of quote from there as The story goes that Lucas took the name mitochondria and fused it with the word chloroplast to give an answer to what powers all the abilities of the Jedi Force, the midichlorians, but it is not just the name and the vague concept of being a power what connects the Dots here Mitochondria also have their own DNA, which means they are just their own organism that lives inside our own cells in a symbiotic relationship like midichlorians.

Can I stop and talk about how weird science is for a minute? They're made of atoms, right, and atoms are no joke, like ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine six percent empty space, but then it goes further, to the right, the electrons in Separate atoms cannot touch each other because the negative charges repel each other, so we basically can never touch anything else even though we feel like we are touching other things in the world and our cells have little cellular creatures smaller than They live inside them, so as humans we are really a vacuum of empty space that can never touch anything and we are home to billions of other cells that have come together to build us a human being, basically a glorified apartment building for us. little microscopic organisms, it's just weird, I mean sure the force is cool and all that, but real life is just crazy when you think about it, but I digress much later and come back to the topic.

Kandra can be measured in a blood count, just like midichlorians, they are essential for life and responsible for being sources of energy for the body again like midichlorians and they exist in every person just like midichlorians exist in every individual, for To quote Dave Filoni, showrunner of Star Wars Rebels, in an interview he did with the Fangirls Go Rogue podcast, any idea what the forest is. you just know, an extension of the talks I had at George when he was a kid. I think they probably all had the strength and just didn't believe that midichlorians actually prove that theory says we all have degrees, so what does it all mean?

It has to do with my initial question about low strength. I'll consider that maybe the slow force is not so much about making someone else slow, but about making yourself really fast, suddenly your movement and reaction speed speed up, making the world around you. seems slower relative to your own perception think about the matrix is ​​it bullet time or Spider-Man or Quicksilver's spider sense everything in the X-Men movies that would help explain how both people and machines suddenly seem to move at a snail's pace while simply establishing that the force is an aura based on biologically attuned energy, technically speaking it shouldn't have any kind of impact on inanimate objects, but if a heated battle suddenly requires a massive explosion of energy and power that can be explained by the power of the cell, the mitochondria or if we are talking about the power of the force, the midichlorians and you know how we just discussed that everyone in Star Wars has midichlorians, but the Jedi have about ten times as many, this has been clearly demonstrated that athletes havesignificantly more mitochondria than non-athletes When we worship NBA players or marvel at Elliott's tiptoe gaze under our marathon, we're really worshiping their millions of mitochondria that allow them to hit those sick dunks and whatever the equivalent is in marathon of a sick mate, they have more mitochondria, which means they have more energy reserves running through their body, allowing them to perform almost superhuman feats.

Midichlorians as the powerhouse of the force could explain how force users could literally run faster and jump higher than their average. the-mill stormtrooper and also explains how Kal is able to achieve the low force ability we see in the game with up to 20,000 Energizing Force batteries per cell helping him move at incredibly fast speeds. He moves so incredibly fast than the world. around them slows down in relation to their tremendous momentum, in fact non-athletes have a similar number two, the midichlorian numbers of normal people again up to about 2000 per cell, highly trained athletes can have double this number .

The Raz Jedi have approximately ten times the number of a normal person, but of course, the Jedi are capable of jumping ten times higher than a normal athlete, so maybe everything is proportional, but where this connection of the midichlorian mitochondria is becomes even more interesting is how we can take advantage of it. The mitochondria count may increase. time with athletic training that allows you to learn new skills run faster jump higher essentially level up your athleticism, especially with endurance activities like running marathons, this corresponds directly to the idea that the more you train in the woods, the more skilled you become. you come back because you can grow your midichlorians the same way you can grow mitochondria in your own cells, as Dave Filoni says.

I go on to explain in that same Fangirls gone Rogue podcast interview I mentioned earlier, if I train in martial arts, can I learn martial arts? Yes, in

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to improve my glory count in that regard, will I be as good as Bruce Lee? I'm not sure there's going to be an upper limit to what you can do without the natural gift, no knee training will make me as athletic as

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basketball player Karl-Anthony Towns and especially I won't be as tall, but I still can. Get closer to his jet. I like the powers of basketball.

If I put my mind to it, it is exactly as we see it with the complete one. The presence of mitochondria is linked to aging, with fewer mitochondria leading to a faster aging process, which could explain why for a long time. Force users like Yoda can live to be extremely old. He was 900 years old when he disappeared in the original trilogy. After all, the midichlorian mitochondria connection might solve that part of Jedi lore. In short, the

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Jedi order. and all of Star Wars Canon has honestly been playing a Jedi mind trick on you. There is real science behind all of this.

Because slow, in fact, could mean fast strength. The midichlorians or the mitochondria, call it what you want, suddenly become supercharged, becoming almost full. every cell in your body with greater energy if your senses increase your energy peaks and you are in the zone able to feel and react to everything around you as if it were happening in slow motion and you don't have to take my word for it. They actually talked about being in the area and they'll say, well, I've only been in the area twice in my entire professional sports career. Jedi are in the zone most of the time, but they are rare and it takes training and discipline without these things is dangerous, so if you want to be more than just a supermarket Jedi, get out, go to a gym, increase your strength.

Mitochondria, i.e. midichlorian count, extend your life and achieve the space wizard status you were always meant to have. Trust only in the force, but hey, that's just a theory, a game theory, thanks for watching and as a quick reminder, Star Wars Jedi Falled Order is available right now on Xbox PC and PS4. Check it out right now through the link in the top line of the description and see you next week in two very special episodes. Oh, it's super exciting, but until then remember may the force always be in your favor.