Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: LAST COMMAND Predictions ( SPOILERS! )
From: <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 22:51:38 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Penn State University

More prediction of THE LAST COMMAND : Read further if you dare.

   ( SPOILERS!, that is, of events in HTTE and DFR )
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- based on my recent rereading of HTTE and -my discovery of
the passage where it states that the ysalamiri are being
-sent to Wayland for the Mt.Tantiss project.  I still might
do so, but my -reason for hesitation was that this seems
pretty definite and it will kind -of spoil things for people
who might like to figure this out ( or see it -happen in LTC
) on their own.



-in every way.  One possibility I considered was the
full-scale cloning of -ysalamiri and humans separately (
assuming that the Spaarti equipment could -handle ysalamiri
as well as humans ), followed by the assignment of a
-ysalamir to each individual trooper ( with the ysalamir
attached by a -framework similar to those used by Thrawn,
Pellaeon, etc.  on Wayland ) so -that the Force-dead zones
around each ysalamir would somehow screen the -presence of
the assembled Imperial minds.  Perhaps assignment to each
-trooper is not mandatory; we know that a group of ysalamiri
acting in -tandem can produce an anti-Force bubble of great
size.

This is certainly possible, but why would the Imperials go
to all the trouble of cloning ysalimiri when they can just
drop by Myrkr and pick them up by the hundred?  They seem to
be endemic, and I doubt that the Empire would worry about
the environmental impact removing a species would have ...

- Another possibility is that the Emperor's technology
provides for some -kind of synthesis between human and
ysalamir biology, perhaps linking the -two forms into a
permanent symbiosis of sorts.  Then, the coupling between
-the Force-displacement of the ysalamir and the screening of
an intelligent -Imperial mind would be stronger.  - Yet
another possibility would be that Thrawn has the technology
to -isolate that component of the ysalamir's biology which
produces the anti- -Force bubble, and implant it into human
subjects during the cloning process.  -This would
conceivably produce humans who could create
Force-displacement -bubbles at will or who were surrounded
constantly by such bubbles.  And these -humans could
conceivably become "invisible" to Force-users like
Skywalker.


Either of these is a possibility, although my money is on
the possibility that Thrawn can isolate the genetic material
which controls the ysalamiri's force powers, and implant it
- surely the Alliance would have spotted any simbiosis when
they removed the armour of the troops Luke examined at the
end of DFR?  I guess only Zahn knows for sure.

- As you suggested, the ysalamiri could be themselves
"Force-sensitive" -( or even "Force-users" in a way ), which
seems to provide a neat solution -to the vornskr-ysalamir
predator-prey problem.  In this case, there would -be an
added bonus to the inclusion of ysalamiri "powers" in the
Imperial -clones - they would be both Force-sensitive and
screened from detection -via the Force.  My original reading
of the ysalamiri, however, did not -lead me to consider that
they might be Force-"using" themselves; I assumed -that the
bubble around each ysalamir made this impossible.

This begs the question - _how_ do ysalimiri push back the
Force?  Equal and opposite reactions, and all that.  They
may have perfected a way of using their Force abilities to
cloak them.

- Also, the possibility exists that the bubbles can be
"turned on and off" -at will, making Force-use by the
creature in question a much simpler matter.  -In any event,
the fact that the ysalamiri have such an adaptive,
biological -effect on the Force implies that there is some
mental connection with the -Force at the level of actual
"use", so this general idea does not seem too -far-fetched.

Possible, although why such a trait would have evolved (if
it did evolve) in the ysalimiri is perhaps more problematic.
No, I think the bubble is there for good, once it is
established.  Now, what if Thrawn had more than one reason
for wearing an ysalimiri around Joruus C'Baoth?  He was able
to control Mara's actions to an extent when they met ....



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