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Spoiler warning for the novel Dark Disciple.
Putting this on the Questions and Answers board instead of Content Revision.
Anyway… I was wondering if the stuff below is evidence enough to consider Force Lightning natural.
Darth Senate's (Palpatine) Force Lightning conducted throughout a ship:
Engines exploded into flame and spit smoke. His Master raised his hands, forming one into a claw emitting jagged bolts of Force lightning that connected him for a moment to the ship. Vader imagined the interior of the craft lit up with the bolts of his Master's power, the pilots screaming and writhing in pain as the dark side seared their flesh. The Emperor clenched his other hand, taking a mental hold on the ship with the Force. Vader, too, lifted a hand and reached out with the Force toward the other ship.
~ Lords of the Sith
The effects of Dooku's Force Lightning:
[Link to Wikipedia article on lightning injuries]
Violently, she shoved Vos away, putting the Force into the movement so powerfully that he was hurled across the room. As he struck the wall, he heard a terrifyingly familiar sound: the sizzle and crackle of Force lightning.
Dooku stood, his teeth bared in a savage snarl of victory. Ventress was caught in the most violent bolts of Force lightning Vos had ever seen. They danced and crackled about her hungrily, almost like living creatures. Her body spasmed and her face contorted into a mask of absolute agony. Blood trickled from her ears, eyes, and nose.
"Asajj!" Vos cried, leaping between Ventress and Dooku. He activated his lightsaber, deflecting the Force lightning back onto Dooku. The count's eyes widened in comprehension a split second before his own weapon turned on him, disloyal, as things of the dark always were. Dooku was flung back and lay on the ground, screaming and trembling, then lying still as the bolts faded.
Ventress lay unmoving on the floor. Her clothes-and her body itself-emitted wisps of smoke. "No," Vos moaned. She was breathing, but her pulse was thready and she was still, so terribly still. "Asajj...no...no...!"
Vos simply nodded. He might still be executed. He would certainly be taken back to the Council in chains. But none of that mattered. Everything that mattered was here, right before him. He felt raw in this moment - cracked open and laid bare. His senses were heightened and he was almost painfully aware of everything: the smell of blood and scorched flesh; the steady slip of tears down his angular cheekbones, and their salty taste; the coppery tang of blood and fear in his mouth. He saw that strange patterns now decorated Ventress's bone-white skin; traces of darker flesh that looked like lightning bolts. The Force lightning had marked her for its own.
~ Dark Disciple
^ Dooku's Force Lightning causes her blood to boil and her blood vessels to burst as do real life lightning strikes. And it causes marks on her body called "Lichtenberg figures" which are also seen with real life lightning strike victims. His Force Lighting also singes her clothes and her flesh.
These figures are described again later on in the novel:
Asajj Ventress's face was tranquil. Her hair had been washed and combed. Her arms, their injuries repaired, had been folded over her midsection. They still bore the dark tracings of the Force lightning that had claimed her life, but the marks were oddly beautiful, spidery and graceful.
~ Dark Disciple
^ This was days later when Quinlan Vos and Obi-Wan Kenobi were performing the last rites of Ventress. Dooku's Force Lightning leaves long term marks on her body. Clearly Lichtenberg figures. These are known to persist on the body for days.
~ OwO ~
So what do you people think?
Putting this on the Questions and Answers board instead of Content Revision.
Anyway… I was wondering if the stuff below is evidence enough to consider Force Lightning natural.
Darth Senate's (Palpatine) Force Lightning conducted throughout a ship:
Engines exploded into flame and spit smoke. His Master raised his hands, forming one into a claw emitting jagged bolts of Force lightning that connected him for a moment to the ship. Vader imagined the interior of the craft lit up with the bolts of his Master's power, the pilots screaming and writhing in pain as the dark side seared their flesh. The Emperor clenched his other hand, taking a mental hold on the ship with the Force. Vader, too, lifted a hand and reached out with the Force toward the other ship.
~ Lords of the Sith
The effects of Dooku's Force Lightning:
[Link to Wikipedia article on lightning injuries]
Violently, she shoved Vos away, putting the Force into the movement so powerfully that he was hurled across the room. As he struck the wall, he heard a terrifyingly familiar sound: the sizzle and crackle of Force lightning.
Dooku stood, his teeth bared in a savage snarl of victory. Ventress was caught in the most violent bolts of Force lightning Vos had ever seen. They danced and crackled about her hungrily, almost like living creatures. Her body spasmed and her face contorted into a mask of absolute agony. Blood trickled from her ears, eyes, and nose.
"Asajj!" Vos cried, leaping between Ventress and Dooku. He activated his lightsaber, deflecting the Force lightning back onto Dooku. The count's eyes widened in comprehension a split second before his own weapon turned on him, disloyal, as things of the dark always were. Dooku was flung back and lay on the ground, screaming and trembling, then lying still as the bolts faded.
Ventress lay unmoving on the floor. Her clothes-and her body itself-emitted wisps of smoke. "No," Vos moaned. She was breathing, but her pulse was thready and she was still, so terribly still. "Asajj...no...no...!"
Vos simply nodded. He might still be executed. He would certainly be taken back to the Council in chains. But none of that mattered. Everything that mattered was here, right before him. He felt raw in this moment - cracked open and laid bare. His senses were heightened and he was almost painfully aware of everything: the smell of blood and scorched flesh; the steady slip of tears down his angular cheekbones, and their salty taste; the coppery tang of blood and fear in his mouth. He saw that strange patterns now decorated Ventress's bone-white skin; traces of darker flesh that looked like lightning bolts. The Force lightning had marked her for its own.
~ Dark Disciple
^ Dooku's Force Lightning causes her blood to boil and her blood vessels to burst as do real life lightning strikes. And it causes marks on her body called "Lichtenberg figures" which are also seen with real life lightning strike victims. His Force Lighting also singes her clothes and her flesh.
These figures are described again later on in the novel:
Asajj Ventress's face was tranquil. Her hair had been washed and combed. Her arms, their injuries repaired, had been folded over her midsection. They still bore the dark tracings of the Force lightning that had claimed her life, but the marks were oddly beautiful, spidery and graceful.
~ Dark Disciple
^ This was days later when Quinlan Vos and Obi-Wan Kenobi were performing the last rites of Ventress. Dooku's Force Lightning leaves long term marks on her body. Clearly Lichtenberg figures. These are known to persist on the body for days.
~ OwO ~
So what do you people think?
