Feel free to penalize the following for complexity, but if you bother to spend your time reading this rather than working on MoR, don’t dismiss it out of hand.
If I remember correctly, I always thought midichlorians were an interface for the Force-kinda like how MoR magic only pays attention to people with a certain gene marker, but the gene marker is not the cause of magic.
As a plot device, midichlorians do a fairly good job explaining why not just anyone can learn to be a Jedi, PROVIDED the munchkinny idea “inject midichlorians into wannabe Jedi” never occurs to anyone.
There is a fair amount of evidence that munchkin-type ideas simply do not occur to wars-universe folks on anything resembling a regular basis.
“That’s impossible, even for a computer”.
“If something isn’t in our archives then it doesn’t exist”
“I once made the (???) run in 15 parsecs”. (cough/snicker/cry/wince/hairpull/letsmockhansolosactor).
Now. As for the counter to that-aka bigger ships and the death star…
Palpatine spurred the development of the deathstar, and the process by which the plans were developed are never shown. If you already know how to build a deathstar, building some puny star destroyers is relatively easy.
Palpatine is easily classed as a “mutant”. As for the insects who helped develop the death star, they are never seen again, and otherwise spend their time acting like Romans.
Furthermore: a rough (very, very rough) calculation I did a while back indicated that star destroyers have the same turnspeed you get if you take a large Republic ship and naively scale it up, if you are limited by hull integrity.
There’s also the whole attitude about droids, which I always thought was suspicious (“droids can’t think”, well c3p0 and R2D2 display some intelligence between the two of them...) but makes even less sense in light of the stuff i’ve read about AI.
tl:dr: hypothesis: mecichlorians(explains why not just anyone can be a jedi):requires anti-munchin mechanism, for additional complexity penalty(but there is evidence of existence of anti-munchink mechanism, though not enough to pin down the details of said mechanism).
As a plot device, midichlorians do a fairly good job explaining why not just anyone can learn to be a Jedi, PROVIDED the munchkinny idea “inject midichlorians into wannabe Jedi” never occurs to anyone.
It seems fairly obvious to me that midichlorians are what you get when someone heard of mitochondria, and someone else renamed it because they realized that it wouldn’t work that way with actual mitochondria.
You cannot, of course, give people mitochondria by injecting them. So I really wouldn’t expect it to be possible to give people midichlorians by injection either.
Feel free to penalize the following for complexity, but if you bother to spend your time reading this rather than working on MoR, don’t dismiss it out of hand.
If I remember correctly, I always thought midichlorians were an interface for the Force-kinda like how MoR magic only pays attention to people with a certain gene marker, but the gene marker is not the cause of magic.
As a plot device, midichlorians do a fairly good job explaining why not just anyone can learn to be a Jedi, PROVIDED the munchkinny idea “inject midichlorians into wannabe Jedi” never occurs to anyone.
There is a fair amount of evidence that munchkin-type ideas simply do not occur to wars-universe folks on anything resembling a regular basis.
“That’s impossible, even for a computer”. “If something isn’t in our archives then it doesn’t exist” “I once made the (???) run in 15 parsecs”. (cough/snicker/cry/wince/hairpull/letsmockhansolosactor).
Now. As for the counter to that-aka bigger ships and the death star… Palpatine spurred the development of the deathstar, and the process by which the plans were developed are never shown. If you already know how to build a deathstar, building some puny star destroyers is relatively easy.
Palpatine is easily classed as a “mutant”. As for the insects who helped develop the death star, they are never seen again, and otherwise spend their time acting like Romans.
Furthermore: a rough (very, very rough) calculation I did a while back indicated that star destroyers have the same turnspeed you get if you take a large Republic ship and naively scale it up, if you are limited by hull integrity.
There’s also the whole attitude about droids, which I always thought was suspicious (“droids can’t think”, well c3p0 and R2D2 display some intelligence between the two of them...) but makes even less sense in light of the stuff i’ve read about AI.
tl:dr: hypothesis: mecichlorians(explains why not just anyone can be a jedi):requires anti-munchin mechanism, for additional complexity penalty(but there is evidence of existence of anti-munchink mechanism, though not enough to pin down the details of said mechanism).
(Yes, I know this is an old post.)
It seems fairly obvious to me that midichlorians are what you get when someone heard of mitochondria, and someone else renamed it because they realized that it wouldn’t work that way with actual mitochondria.
You cannot, of course, give people mitochondria by injecting them. So I really wouldn’t expect it to be possible to give people midichlorians by injection either.
Han’s “lying”/”obvious misinformation” (draft/final script’s description of that line, respectively) is brilliantly retconned in the EU, though.