What’s in a name?
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Seriously? O-B-1? That sounds like a droid. If Lucas likes tying everything together then why didn’t he make Obi-Wan the template for the cloned Stormtroopers? Perhaps the Force is non-transferable by cloning. Anyway, whatever.
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I’ve never thought about it before, but y’know, women are unlikely to want to go out with someone whose name begins with “OB”. (as in OB-GYN) I would pass on that, even though I do like Alec Guiness (and Ewan McGregor).
That reminds me of the old joke about Juan, the Mexican Gynecologist, who went to the carnival with three military buddies, Chief Petty Officers from a navy ship, and…
No, you can’t transfer the Force by cloning. Count Dooku tried to transfer Jedi Master Sifo Díaz’s midichlorian-rich blood to General Grievous but that failed to give Grievous any Force powers. Apparently, Dr. Curtis Saxton’s Technical Comments (in Theforce . net) were right about that: Midichlorians are a symptom of your Force level, not the cause. If you are a powerful Jedi, you attract midichlorians in your environment, but they are useless to you.
In the extended universe, it does work. The Emporer comes back- i think twice-Through clones on Byass, until it get’s destroyed by the galaxy gun.
Actually the force is transferable by cloning. You just can’t transfer force sensitivity by mixing blood. In a few of the Star wars books there is a clone of a jedi who has force powers and there are other sith clones in some others.
I had contemplated writing a fanfic where Anakin comes up with the name “Obi Wan” – “O-B” for “Old Ben” and the “1” as a joke that there’s only one Ben Kenobi. I don’t know, I just see a Jedi teenager doing something like that and then to poor Old Ben’s dismay the name sticks. It would have been funny!
The problem is, he’s probably still a virgin because he has a “Jedi Vows situation” going on XD
P.S: Whether or not Force Sensitivity is transferable by cloning or not, that is what Lucasarts leads us to believe with The Force Unleashed 2
Well, the problem here, and in other instances, is that different sources claim different things, and as Lucas has proclaimed *everything* canon…Also, this isn’t a sci-fi story, it’s science-fantasy. The difference is, the science doesn’t have to make sense.
In the early EU novels by Timothy Zahn, the character Joruus C’Baoth is an insane clone of dead Jedi Master Jorus C’Baoth. This character proved fairly early on that is is possible to clone Force Sensitives, but tends to have negative side effects. Also, one of the students in the Jedi Academy trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson, Dorsk 81, comes from Khomm, a planet of clones, and though he was NOT a clone of a Force Sensitive, he was one himself. This proves that clones can end up with Force powers independently of the source genetics, which suggests that the Force itself is NOT genetically inherited, but rather is manifested by some other, as-of-yet identified mechanism.
C’Baoth also cloned Luke from his severed hand and created Luuke Skywalker. It was just like the original in almost every way, including Jedi powers. It was finally defeated when Mara-Jade impaled Luuke with her saber.