Biggs Darklighter - Force Sensitive?

After reading the "Empire" comics and the Truth about Biggs Darklighter, I have to wonder if he is Force Sensitive in some way.

After he kills the beast on Yavin IV while he, Dantels, and that old lady are looking for the antidote for Hobbie, it says that he experienced something by killing the beast eye to eye and has entered some higher state of awareness.

After that, the pilots blast into space after the Death Star. He senses something strange about the "Different" Tie Fighter that Darth Vader is flying and feels compelled to protect Luke at all costs.

To add to that, he does take out a tie fighter while carrying a gun floating around in space.

These things seem above the ordinary person and I wonder if it has ever been suggested that Biggs may have been force sensitive?

Thoughts? Bashing? Anything?

Carnage

 

I just finished the Darklighter volume of Empire and I thought the same thing.

Also, the fact that the instant he dies, Hobbie awakes from his coma and says, "Biggs?"

 

Add me to the list of people who had that same idea.

 

I think the intended reading is that his battle with the creature on Yavin, and his looking it in the eyes as it died, let him touch the Force, and had something akin to Force-sensitivity for the remainder of his short life.

The shot at the TIE was apparently heroic, Solo-level luck, but not actual Force use.

 

The only thing that really points toward force-sensitivity is the odd feeling he has about Vader. Hobbie's awakening I just took as dramatic effect, and the feeling he gets from the death of that monkey thing is something anyone might experience in such a situation.

 

I would agree with you if the three were not in rapid succession and basically triggered by Biggs following his Conscience and doing the right thing in spite of what his actual plans for his life were. It seems convienient of a time for him to start feeling "As alive as he has ever felt."

Then again, sometimes a Spade is just a Spade. Even us Non-Force users have had those days or weeks where everything was just going great. Really came through at work or school, helped a friend, met a girl (or guy) and just ended up high on life in general. I guess we will probably never know for sure, but I am glad that a few people stood up and admitted to seeing it how I did.

Carnage

 

I just kind of figured not so much that he was Force-sensitive as that he got in tune with the Force somehow when that happened, something linked to the death of the creature and his upcoming death. Not Force-sensitivity so much as a Force-experience.

 

Forceophany?

 

Something like that.

 

There are different levels of Force sensitivity. Perhaps he was more Force sensitive than the average human, but not to the point that it would be a marked difference most of the time.

 

Yeah, it's because of Luke. Luke gives the force through osmosis to everyone he meets, apparently.

Maybe this is why there are 40 million force users only a few decades after his death. He's been around. Before Luke's extensive travels, it took him 25 years to find under 300 force users.

 

Does Empire count towards official continuity? I thought it was more akin to the Infinities stuff, like "What If" storylines, that are fun reads, but you understand they don't count....

 

No, they're 100% grade C canon, same as every other bit of EU material.

 

Yeah, aside from Tales issues 1-20, a few parts of Tales 21-24, and the actual "Infinities" issues, I think that everything Dark Horse wrote/is writing is considered Canon.

There is some really good stuff out there in Comic land. I myself prefer Novels and wouldn't have dreamed I'd be buying comic books...but aside from trying to FIND the comics I have had a really great time with them lately.

Carnage

 

Biggs just smoked some strange plant they found out in the jungle while hunting for the antidote.

 

So Tag and Bink are canon? Yipee!

 

I really need to check out Tag and Bink on Wookieepedia or something. I have no idea what they are about, but I see them referenced enough.

Carnage

 

I honestly believe they should be.

They were in an indestructible mandalorian iron part of the Death Star when it blew.

 

They're listed under Infinities, so... noncanon.

Besides, they were actually in TIE fighters (or a shuttle, I forget which) when the Death Star blew, IIRC.

 

In that case, so do I. You saying I'm Forceful?

Years ago I was playing pool in some Hutt armpit. I could never master the art of aiming or shooting, but on one occasion, maybe two, I was aiming when suddenly all went lightheaded. The ball shot into a hole like a turbolaser. It was literally like my hand moved on its own accord, and I was a spectator, although I hear that is what they call Beholders in Faerun too. Everyone stared, struck silent.

It was like the reaction Skywalker got when Djo blurted his slaying of Ocheron.

 

That could be, but I'm already using that as my explanation for Lando playing Sabacc with 1,000 meter long vacum breathers in The Cave of Thonboka, and for just about everything that happened in the first Lando book. I'd hate to use the same explanation twice, know what I mean?

 

i thought that as well. especially the vader bit!

maybe the creature was one of exar kuns experiments, and was force sensitive, and tranfreed its force into biggs... no? ok then.

 

Besides, they were actually in TIE fighters (or a shuttle, I forget which) when the Death Star blew, IIRC.

Ah, ah, ah, no they weren't Rogue Follower. If you read Issue Two, you discover that Tag and Bink traded places with two other pilots, right before Vader sent them out in TIEs.



EDIT: Though they did die on the Death Star II when it exploded, resulting in their Force ghosts...

 

I was half-right---they were in a shuttle.