From: ikonoqlast@gmail.com   
      
   Recently YouTube recommended a video of a sword fight from a movie   
   (Zaitochi).  I have long considered a revision of Star Wars, and this gave me   
   parts of the puzzle.     
      
   What role do my pseudo 'Jedi' serve?  Samurai.     
      
   The 'Jedi' order is a lawful-neutral (sometimes/often doing bad things)   
   Praetorian guard for the Republic.  There are other 'Force' users who aren't   
   Jedi though.  Not 'Sith', they may very well be good guys.     
      
   So my Jedi have real powers, but whence do they derive?  What are they?  They   
   obviously use swords in a universe with energy weapons, why?  Where do   
   non-Jedi with force powers get them?     
      
   I think the powers derive from a substance I'll call 'spice'.  One dose will   
   either awaken force powers permanently or do nothing (as in most people).  The   
   powers are mostly precognitive, on a very short time scale (a second or two).    
   Hitting a precog    
   with a gun is very hard (sorry, no lightsaber deflection).  But powers   
   interfere with each other, so swords are viable.     
      
   Thoughts?  Problems?     
      
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