WILGA wrote:I agree with KirkSkywalker that if we assume that the FORCE is generated and controlled by the midichlorians and that for the FORCE to become effective, billions of beings have to be infected, it is probable that there is no force in the Milky Way.
For one, even with our technology from today, we would know if there is anything unusual in our cells.
And then there is the question how these midichlorians could have spread.
Even in the Star Wars galaxy, the midichlorians could only have "infected" the whole galaxy because there is interstellar travel. Otherwise, on whichever planet these midichlorians have evolved, they couldn't have left the planet.
But because there is no travel between the Star Wars galaxy and the Milk Way, there is no feasible way, how the midichlorians could have reached the Milky Way. (On asteroids they probably would have needed more time than the universe is old)
Insofar, only visitors / invaders from the Star Wars galaxy could bring midichlorians to the Milky Way.
But then it would need time until enough people are infected that the FORCE these midichlorians are generating gets strong enough to be effective.
The midichlorians of the visitors alone wouldn't probably be enough to create a strong enough FORCE field.
And these midichlorians would have the problem, that they would be recognized in the Milky Way as what they are and that the inhabitants of the Milky Way would fight a midichlorian-pandemic.
Consider “Operation: Annhilate!” where I noticed a similarity in the fanfic, of those parasites having killed Kirk’s brother; in that episode, collective parasites from another galaxy were infesting people. However they were clearly virulent and harmful; but if the midichlorians were relatively benign, then they might be able to pass under the various biofilters and escape notice as harmless particles, ordinary mitochondria etc.
So: what if the Sith-agents were sent to the galaxy in droves, and they spread midichlorians to every planet where life existed— and those midichlorians multiplied geometrically?
Immediately, they could begin using collective bio-energy to gain an advantage over other micro-organisms to replace normal bacteria etc-- as well as influencing the actions of their carriers.
This would take “Operation: Annhilate!” to a galaxy-wide level—and would require that the UFP likewise invade the SW galaxy and wipe them out at their source.
Otherwise, their cycle of violence and savagery would continue forever, spreading throughout the universe.
Here, Kirk might find himself in the middle of such a takeover, or in an advanced stage of it; the greater the advance, the more that Force-users could use that power to advantage—it only depends on how much the invasion advanced before the UFP became suspicious of it.
Again, at first the midichlorians could appear benign, even benevolent in aiding knowledge, healing etc; then of course the Dark Side would appear, at which point it might be too late to reverse the invasion before they had taken over the galaxy… save for a few, of course ;-)
