Force storm ( wormhole ) Force storm was a volatile dark side Force power capable of creating hyperspace wormhole s that were able to displace objects across vast distances and tear apart the surfaces of entire planets . Storms were incredibly difficult to control once unleashed and required mastery in many different Force disciplines . A Sith artifact called the Darkstaff was known to have created one of these storms during a critical battle in the New Sith Wars . The storm annihilated the Dark Lord Darth Rivan ' s Battlelord army and transported him not only through space , but forward in time as well , to the Light and Darkness War , where the Sith Lord met his fate . Emperor Palpatine discovered the technique almost a thousand years later . He described it in " The Book of Anger " , the first volume of his " Dark Side Compendium " . He used the technique six years after his first death at the Battle of Endor to capture the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker from Coruscant . Palpatine ' s pride and confidence in the ability eventually proved fatal during the Battle of Pinnacle Base when he lost control of a storm and was consumed by it . Description . One of the most powerful known Force abilities in existence , Force storm was capable of violently destroying the fabric of the space - time continuum by opening dimension - altering rifts in the universe . The power allowed a Force - user to generate unique hyperspace wormhole s , violent blue vortices of Force energy known as Force storms , anywhere from less than one hundred meters to over one kilometer in diameter . Force storms could devastate the surfaces of entire planets and consume whole fleets of starships . Storms could also safely transport living beings across the galaxy in a short span of time and , if used in conjunction with certain Sith artifacts , could send a being forward in time . The creation of a Force storm required the user to concentrate an almost palpable degree of anger and hatred into a tangible manifestation of dark side power . There was considerable danger involved in the generation of a Force storm ; those who could not control what they had unleashed were often themselves consumed and destroyed . If the person generating the storm was killed , the storm dissipated in minutes . Storms could also be conjured across great distances . Emperor Palpatine was able to send one storm over thousands of light year s from Byss to Coruscant . Before being able to successfully create and control Force storms , a potential user had to be extremely proficient in the ways of the Force , including instinctive astrogation . Applications . The earliest known usage of the Force storm technique was sometime during the first hundred years of the New Sith Wars . During a pivotal battle on Almas , the reigning Dark Lord of the Sith , Darth Rivan , obtained possession of a malevolent and semi - sentient Sith artifact known as the Darkstaff . Leeching Rivan ' s Force energy , the Darkstaff conjured a violent Force storm that demolished the Sith Lord ' s Battlelord army . Rivan , caught in the eye of the storm , was transported through time and space to a battle during the Light and Darkness War between the Army of Light and the Brotherhood of Darkness , over one thousand years later . Bereft of the Force , Rivan was easily slain by a Force - sensitive warrior . Around this time , the Jedi Council classified Force storm as a dark side technique due to its potential for abuse . The power also received a mention in the Jedi training manual " " . In one particular copy of the book , Luke Skywalker made a note that the ability had the power to " kill planets " . Almost a thousand years later , Emperor Palpatine was able to develop the technique himself , which he described in the first volume of his compendium of dark side lore , " The Book of Anger " . In 10 ABY , a reborn Palpatine sent Force storms out to numerous star systems throughout the galaxy after unifying the various feuding Imperial factions formed after the Battle of Endor . One such storm was sent to Coruscant to retrieve the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker during a crucial battle in the Imperial Civil War . The " Millennium Falcon " and her captain , Han Solo , encountered the storm in Coruscant ' s upper atmosphere , but Solo wrote it off as simply a magnetic storm . A short time later , the New Republic EF76 Nebulon - B escort frigate " Antares Six " had a close brush with the storm above Coruscant . A crew member aboard the " Antares Six " notified Captain Syub Snunb that he detected a hyperspace wormhole fifty times the size of their ship opening up close to them . The " Antares Six " attempted to avoid the incoming storm , but the energy interference from the storm prevented the ship ' s systems from responding . The storm passed right by the " Antares Six " and headed toward the ruins of Coruscant ' s Imperial City , indiscriminately destroying any New Republic and Imperial vessels in its path . Sensing a disturbance in the Force , Skywalker was able to detect the storm , as well as the malevolent force behind it , as it dropped out of hyperspace . The Jedi insisted that his allies on the planet abandon him and allow him to face the storm alone . Skywalker and his astromech droid , R2 - D2 , watched as the storm came for them , tearing apart the surface of Coruscant and destroying or damaging much of the Imperial Palace in the process . The two were safely carried off by the storm and deposited in an Imperial dungeon ship , from which they were transported to Palpatine ' s fortress world Byss . Six years later , Coruscant had still not recovered from the devastation caused by this storm . Not long after Skywalker ' s capture , Palpatine accompanied a taskforce , led by his flagship " Eclipse " , to the New Republic headquarters on the Pinnacle Moon in an attempt to capture Skywalker ' s sister , Leia Organa Solo , who had stolen a Jedi Holocron from him . After Palpatine was defeated by Skywalker in a duel , he poured his rage into the creation of another Force storm , one far more powerful than the one he used to capture Skywalker from Coruscant . The storm headed toward Pinnacle Base and began obliterating the New Republic fleet , destroying twelve ships within moments . Skywalker and Organa Solo countered Palpatine by catching him off guard and cutting him off from the dark side with a wave of light side energy . Severed from his hatred and rage , Palpatine lost control of the storm and was ultimately consumed by it . After devouring the " Eclipse " and the Emperor with it , the storm dissipated within moments . Users . Few beings were known to possess the knowledge and skills needed to create Force storms . The Darkstaff had the ability to create a storm with the power to transport an object forward in time , provided that it had access to a vast reservoir of Force energy from which to draw . In " The Book of Anger " , Palpatine claimed that he could create these storms from sheer acts of will , although he confessed that he could not completely control them . Years after writing the text , Palpatine boasted that he could finally control his Force storms completely , but in the end , his overconfidence proved fatal . Skywalker later found a recording of " The Book of Anger " buried beneath the rubble of the Imperial Palace and pondered Palpatine ' s meaning behind the creation of " storms . " Palpatine ' s Dark Side Adepts also had the ability to create these storms , though they had limited control over them . Practitioners of the light side of the Force , such as Jedi , also had the ability to conjure Force storms if they banded together , but in doing so were at an extremely high risk of being corrupted by the dark side . When deciding where to establish his Jedi Praxeum , Luke Skywalker was concerned that one of his students could inadvertently create a Force storm while experimenting with the Force , and so he chose the remote moon Yavin 4 to reduce the number of potential casualties . Behind the scenes . Force storm was created for the 1991 – 1992 comic book series " Dark Empire " , written by Tom Veitch and illustrated by Cam Kennedy , in which it appeared in the and . The Force power was given an expansion in Michael Allen Horne ' s " Dark Empire Sourcebook " and was featured in the audio adaptation of " Dark Empire " . It also received its own entry in Dark Horse ' s . It was later referenced in the " Dawn of Defiance " adventure " Echoes of the Jedi " , wherein it was connected with the fall of Darth Rivan . Force storm should not be confused with other Force powers of the same name , such as the weather phenomenon created by the Dathomiri Nightsisters in " The Courtship of Princess Leia " , or a certain variation of Force lightning introduced in " " . Additionally , the power that the Jedi Dorsk 81 uses to push Gilad Pellaeon ' s fleet of Star Destroyers out of the Yavin system in the novel " Darksaber " is erroneously referred to as a Force storm in " " . Although the audio drama identifies the magnetic storm Solo encounters in Coruscant ' s upper atmosphere as the Force storm sent by Palpatine to capture Skywalker , this Force storm did not actually drop out of hyperspace until some time later , when it brushed past the " Antares Six " . " The Official Star Wars Fact File 125 " states that Skywalker and Organa Solo released a " storm of light - side energy " that destroyed the " Eclipse " , despite the fact that all other sources indicate that they simply forced Palpatine to lose control of his own storm . In a 2016 interview , Tom Veitch stated that " The Emperor can ' t create Force Storms at will . They are in fact a phenomenon that occurs rarely , when the minds of two great Force users meet and struggle with each other at a distance . "