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Standard techniques

These abilities would be common to all force users with higher abilities available after being trained by a knowledgeable master or through any standard jedi/sith teaching device/information. A force users level would also be related to time spent training with the various disciplines and their aptitude with the area. It is highly unlikely for even a trained Jedi Master to be fully proficient at all these abilities, some may not have any skill in a particular area.

Lightsaber Proficiency – The ability to weild a lightsaber both offensively and defensively in combat.

• Novice - Can perform basic attacks and defensive moves witht he blade and counter some ranged attacks with alot of concentration.

• Adept – Further training has allowed the force user more precise control of the blade and their attack and defensive skill is more refined. The wielder is more in tune with the force and can defend against ranged attacks with the blade more effectively.

• Master – A true duellist who can wield their lightsaber like an extension of their own body. Their defensive skill matches their offensive and they can take on and defend against multiple opponents both up close or ranged.

Empathy – The ability to focus or block out feelings of other beings whether sentient or not. Used to sense deception or aid in diplomacy, also provides limited communication through sensing others emotions.

• Novice - Can detect basic emotions from others and can protect their own emotions through hard concentration. Allows a force user to block out stray emotions from others through concentration.

• Adept – Can detect deception in others and block others reading themselves with basic concentration. Can project limited emotional senses to others as a form of communication and receive and understand similar messages.

• Master – Can read emotions of others with ease, with sufficient concentration can defeat barriers put up from lesser force users and effectively block all attempts to be read themselves. Can more successfully project feelings and thoughts to others bordering on telepathy but still limited to impressions rather than words.

Telekinesis - The ability to lift objects or manipulate things using the force. This includes such things as throwing and retrieving a lightsaber during combat.

• Novice – With great concentration can move objects and call objects to themselves.

• Adept – With concentration can manipulate items such as switches and can move objects with more precision. Manipulation of multiple objects takes great concentration still.

• Master – Can move items at will and with precision enough to handle more complex tasks. Can utilise their telekinetic control to harm others using techniques such as choke.

Healing – The ability to ignore or improve the jedi’s own bodily condition using techniques of the force alone.

• Novice – A simple healing trance can be utilised to aid healing of simple injuries or sickness. This requires total concentration.

• Adept – More serious injuries can be healed using a healing trance as well as the ability to drop their bodies into a sort of stasis slowing down all their bodily processes. Allows a jedi to draw on the force to give their bodies energy to continue when injured and shunt aside pain.

• Master – Can heal much faster using the above techniques and allows the jedi to apply these healing abilities to others with full concentration. A jedi with this level of control can also assist with disease and poisons in themselves and others although this too takes great concentration.

Mind Control – The ability to affect others minds through implanted suggestion.

• Novice – With a lot of effort can put some power behind their words making weak minded people take notice. At this level the effects would be fleeting without continued suggestion and concentration.

• Adept – The effects of their control are stronger taking less effort to implant and able to put more effect into basic speech using the force to make their words seem more important. This can be used to assist the force user to manage of groups of people inspiring them or dampening their spirits. Can project certain instincts to non sentient animals to force an instinctual behaviour.

• Master – The ability to force others to do as you wish through strong suggestion, this ability can also be used to make entire groups of people not notice or forget the force users presence. This level of control also allows the force user to directly affect a persons mind to skew their perception or even affect permanent memories.

Energy manipulation – The ability to channel and project energy through their bodies using the force.

• Novice – Can absorb small amounts of energy into their body with great concentration and manipulate simple energy to activate or short a electrical device.

• Adept – Can absorb more powerful energy into their bodies and in some cases channel this back harmlessly elsewhere or project this as a form of attack.

• Master – Can absorb high levels of energy such as blaster bolts into their bodies with no physical effect and can project energy from their bodies in a powerful attack in the form of lightning.

All of these abilities are questionable as to whether they are light or dark dependent upon how they are taught and the intent behind them when used and this would be down to someones character progression. A good example would be how Darth Vader could use healing to repair his broken body but his darkside power fled him when he felt the joy of being healed and thus his injuries returned.

Meditation is not a jedi specific skill, meditation is a common practice for all people to empty their minds of mundane things and open themselves its just with Force users this enables them to more fully connect with the force and experience things such as flashes of the future or past and think more clearly.