Lit Jedi/Sith artillerists

I kinda like the idea of a Jedi chaplain, though. Back when the Thrawn Trilogy was still a thing, I thought C'baoth had been just that to House Palpatine.

 

Uh, how are those any dumber (let alone the dumbest thing in TCW) than the, like, zillion other tech-y versions of medieval weapons in Star Wars?

 

The Gungan tech is peculiar that way. "Oh, we just happen to have massive reserves of plasma lying around. Let's make some catapults and bolas outta that." Because when I think about the 4th stage of matter, my first that is that's gotta go in a wheel-drawn cart behind a pack animal.

 

It's pretty clear the Gungans have most basic needs covered in other ways. They may not have developed ways to refine or otherwise make complicated use of plasma, so they just stick it in their cool semipenetrable membranes and throw it at things.

 

Jedi acted like police, more than military. You could conceivably think of the Temple Guard as military police.

As for human resources, Jedi Recruiters and, by extension, the Acquisition Division, seemed to do the heavy lifting in low-level HR work.

The big question mark out of the following is CBRN. Despite the use one could get out of a lightsaber-wielding CBRN specialist, were there "go-to" Jedi for those missions that required CBRN training on top of basic Jedi combat training? Or were missions involving CBRN awarded to Jedi/Sith regardless of whether they were trained in CBRN ops in the first place? (Writing or RPing as a Jedi/Sith CBRN specialist would probably be closer to how people usually write about/play Jedi/Sith)

Kazdan Paratus was perhaps the closest thing to a Jedi tank mechanic, even though he worked with droids much more than he did vehicles. You'd otherwise have NFU guys like Jackar Bowmani, presumably working under Paratus and the like. And the Technical Division took care of vehicle maintenance as they did the rigging of parachutes, and all tech maintenance for the Order in general. This means that, at best we know for which branch of the Order they worked. But beyond that information, we know not whether Jedi actually repaired tanks, parachutes and other equipment for the other Jedi, or they left it to the NFUs in the Technical Division.

So this is the answer to these questions to the best of my knowledge.

 

That was because the Galaxy had been at war for nigh a thousand years and technology had been drastically reduced. It would be like if a war on earth lasted a millennium starting with advanced weaponry and ending with weaponry from the Stone Age. At least that's how I interpreted it.

 

Or maybe the jedi wanted something less clumsy or random then a blaster?

 

He's referencing the new Sith wars where Jedi were portrayed as using bows and arrows. Well not just Jedi but common soldiers as well.

 

so was I

I don't remember that.

 

I seem to recall in either the comics or one of the essential guides what looked like a regular soldier wielding a spear.

 

Or just as Temple Guards.

Is your question whether there were Jedi who specialize their Jedi training and Force talents towards certain areas, or whether Jedi have skills outside of just being Jedi?

 

Don't be silly, no self-respecting Jedi would go Chem Corps. They all scored highly enough on their accessions packets to branch Jedi in the first place, they wouldn't sully that with CBRN work.

 

I believe my original question was more about Jedi who specialized their Jedi training and Force talents towards certain areas.

 

Do you think you can fid the pic? As I recall so did some jedi wield non-lightsabre close combat weapons and there was hard to differ the jedi from the non jedi just going by look.

 

I don't know how to upload it but I have the picture saved.

 

Got it - yeah, I just don't think the Jedi would be able to reconcile it. Your list of answers there, however, involved a lot of things an individual Jedi might know how to do but which are not necessarily something that is a "Jedi skill."

 

Wouldn't a Jedi/Sith with pyrokinesis capability be able to act as a living flamethrower on the battlefield?

 

"A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defence, and occasionally to cause needless pain and anguish by burning people to death"

 

There were the Force-guided/accelerated missiles that the Jedi used in the NJO.

In The Art of TFA, there was concept art for Kylo Ren levitating a bunch of rocks and smashing them into an X-wing to destroy it during the battle around Maz's castle. Still wish that would have been in the movie. Would have added to Kylo's power, and dealt with the fact that in the movie as is there are no Resistance casualties at all.

 

It seems to me that canon uses of the Force in combat are rather... boring and unimaginative.

 

How do you mean?

 

I mean that, when you've got such powers at your disposal, surely you can fight more creatively than they do. Basically, all we've seen in the movies are jumps, Force pushes, telekinesis, and ONE instance of Force dash.

 

Well, technically 3 examples of Force dash, as Luke used that power in combination with Force jump to get out of the carbon-freezing chamber, and Anakin did it to save Obi-Wan from Dooku's killing blow in AOTC

 

Lets be patient, the new canon is still in it infancy, and kylo ren stopping a blaster bolt mid air is imaginative, its not even an idea from the old canon

 

What would you like to see them do?