Is the Force in droids? Do they midi-chlorians?

What about that droid on Tatooine that blew up? I heard someone had spilled midi-chlorians on it to make it force-sensitive? How does that work?

 

Y'know, I was actually thinking along these lines, except I was applying the thinking to trying to explain just why Roganda's son was able to manipulate machines in Children of the Jedi. The only thing I could come up with was this - the machine had to have sentience or some memes of sentience. The machines that were controlled within the novel were droids, namely R2-D2, who has been shown to have a rather active and unique personality. Whether he's sentient or not is highly debatable, but there is a certainly a mimicry of conscience about him. The only other thing I can really remember him moving around was the Eye of Palpatine, which, by itself, wasn't a sentient machine, but it did have a sentient mind within it (Callista) controlling it's every move. The only other way I could possibly think of him controlling it was if he was actually using the Force to go into a droid's mind and reprogram it, but we're getting into some very high-level and intricate Force ability that I doubt even the greatest Jedi Masters would find easy.

Perhaps it's not so much the genetic makeup of an organic being that harbors midichlorians that is required for Force manipulation, but perhaps the existence of something at an atomic or "psychological" level that controls the ability of something as part of the Force.

Of course, the easiest way to get around this is to say that as midicholorians are a part of all things in the galaxy, then machines themselves, being artificial, were made from materials that contained midis and thus, at the very least, have "ghosts" of midicholorians within them, if not outright have Force receptors. Being non-sentient and not "living," they themselves cannot actively use the Force, but being connected to it allows them to be manipulated by Force users.

 

>>"What about that droid on Tatooine that blew up? I heard someone had spilled midi-chlorians on it to make it force-sensitive? How does that work?"<<

Skippy the Jedi Droid, from an issue of Tales. It's outside of continuity. Basically, when Owen buys Red, he has a premonition of what will happen if R2 is not bought instead, and blows himself up to save the Galaxy.

 

The only droids I know of that can touch the Force are the JK bio-droids from The Cestus Deception. It's been a while since I read the book, but the droids are somehow 'powered' in the Force through the use of Force-sensitive eel things. The JKs could do little more than anticipate an opponent's actions, and the eel wotsits turned out to be pacifists in the end.

 

According to Skippy, the Jedi Droid from SW Tales #1, the grease in his gears had an unusal amount of midi's, causing him to be able to feel the Force.

 

Will anyone believe me if I said I wasn't even thinking of Skippy when I made this thread?