How powerful, or efficient, is Jedi Precog?

Praeothmin · Post by **Praeothmin** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:03 pm

I see all over the net people always saying that Jedi are unbeatable by anyone without powers because their Precog is so great.

Basing myself on what I see in the movies (Luke's hand in ROTJ, the Jedis killed in AOTC and ROTS), it seems to me that the Jedi Precog (or at least combat Precog) isn't that powerful.
It's a useful tool, but it seems that as soon as the Jedi loses visual contact, his Precog doesn't work as well, if at all.

What do you guys think?

GStone · Post by **GStone** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:14 pm

It seems to me that the more accurate it is, the shorter the time into the future you have to look. Yoda says the future is always in motion, so it's difficult to see and Qui-Gon tell Anakin to focus on the moment and feel, but don't think.

Edit: Of course, once one stops 'feeling' the future, they stop knowing. And Jedi aren't machines. Besides, if one feels the future, that's a very general thing, as opposed to thinking.

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:35 pm

Funny. Most of the precog we see in Star Wars is just about anticipating bolt trajectories and weapon moves.

Which turns out to be nothing more than what very well trained martial artists can do, and what Gun Kata is when it comes to firearms. :)

Besides, I think it requires lots of concentration and focus, and being able to guess, or foresee (whatever you call it) that bolts are going to be fired at you, because you see that dangerous robots or people are pointing guns at you, does cut a lot of the work that has to be done in a case of battle precog.

The true precognition, the meditation one, is possibly useful to get a sample of most plausible futures, but even that is hard, even to the son of Anakin, or Yoda.

TheRedFear · Post by **TheRedFear** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:37 am

Let's put it this way.

Teal'c on Stargate has combat precog at LEAST as good as anything we ever saw a Jedi do.

It's a useful tool, but it's a far cry from Peter Parker's Spider Sense, or the Midnighter's Combat Analysis, or hell, even Batgirl's bodyreading.

And it's obviously not unbeatable, as all the dead Jedi littering the battlefield in the Geonosis Arena, and after the execution order came down proves.