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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morgenstern" data-source="post: 267425" data-attributes="member: 5485">My sense is that midichlorians -have- to be harmless symbionts attracted to or more easily reporducing inside those who are sensitive to the Force. I suggest they can't be the source of the Force, as the Force exists and can be influenced in areas far, far away from a planetary biosphere. No one has ever sugested there is "less Force" in space to my knowledge. Further, I don't think the can instill forces sensitivity, because  they (like the suspiciouly similarly named mitocondrea) appear to be present in at least some quantity in every one, so if I were an evil planatary governor, what's to stop me from pulping a sizable portion of the populace and throwing the mess into a centerfuge to skim off pure power?Likely they a a small 'sign' of ability or potential and a relatively unimportant marker at that, which was lost when the Jedi went into decline.Far more amusing is why would the Jedi Council look forward to "one who shall bring balance to the Force" when there are 10,000 odd Jedi and only 2 Sith. 10,000. 2. Uh such a being would either have to revive the Sith order to a tremendous degree or kill an awful lot of Jedi...Which Darth Vader does.So successfully that there are only 2 Jedi (Obi-wan and Yoda) during the seconnd trilogy. Indeed, I'm now convince Obi-wan allows himself to be struck down by Vader for no other reason than to create a job opening for Luke as a Jedi...My 2 (sith) cents.</blockquote>

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