![]() ![]() The council told him that he should meditate on it, figure out if he used it for the right reasons, and whether he would use it again. Knowing what he did would be frowned upon by the council, Plo approached the council and told them that he didn’t use the power out of hate or anger, but with control and instinct. He discovered his power during a mission to capture a criminal named, Dreed Pommel, using it to knock him unconscious. His version of force lightning is called Electric Judgment and it was a yellow/orange color instead of blue. If you don’t remember him I linked his death from Revenge of the Sith to his name. Although they can’t produce the powerful lightning, they can deflect and absorb the lightning, just like we saw Yoda do in the prequels ( watch).Īs it turns out, one Jedi was able to produce a facsimile, Plo Koon. What he is saying is that it is possible to produce a copy, or something similar to force lightning, but the power of Sith lightning would not be possible for a Jedi unless he gave himself up to the Dark Side. He goes on to say that lightning “requires strength of a sort only a Sith can command because we accept consequence and reject compassion” (Luceno pp. In the book Star Wars: Darth Plagueis, Plagueis states, “A Jedi…can be trained to produce a facsimile, but not true Sith lightning”. To find the true answer to why the Jedi can’t use force lightning, we need to turn towards Palpatine’s old master, Darth Plagueis. This definition tells us that only dark side users can utilize this power… but why? Plagueis It seemed to work super well for Dooku and Palpatine, why wasn’t everyone using it?įorce lightning is defined as “as power that force users, such as the Sith, could conjure through the dark side”. When I got into Star Wars at a young age, I remember wondering why Jedi never used force lightning. We know what it is when we see it… the electrical lightning bolt that the Sith Lords shoot out of their fingertips.
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