It does not work that way. Not all have the requisite spark to be nurtured. All are welcome, all may follow - but not all can be empowered. I had to learn the new word for it: gen-e-tics. Something in our...what was it...yes, dee enn eh.
[Which, ironically, is technically entirely true. Blood cannot be gotten from a stone, nor can the Force be imbued upon those who cannot feel it at all. It has not a damned thing to do with actual genetics, of course. Oh, the Jedi of old relied on counting Midichlorians or some such nonsense in an attempt to quantify it - but she could raise someone up whom the Jedi would never have considered training, with just the tiniest spark. And oh, had she.]
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It does not work that way. Not all have the requisite spark to be nurtured. All are welcome, all may follow - but not all can be empowered. I had to learn the new word for it: gen-e-tics. Something in our...what was it...yes, dee enn eh.
[Which, ironically, is technically entirely true. Blood cannot be gotten from a stone, nor can the Force be imbued upon those who cannot feel it at all. It has not a damned thing to do with actual genetics, of course. Oh, the Jedi of old relied on counting Midichlorians or some such nonsense in an attempt to quantify it - but she could raise someone up whom the Jedi would never have considered training, with just the tiniest spark. And oh, had she.]