Force vision

Force visions, also known as Force premonitions, were an ability of the Force to see into the past, the future, and other places. It was once possessed by all Jedi but grew rare in the final years of the Galactic Republic. Some Sith also experienced Force visions.
==Description==
Force visions, also known as Force premonitions,Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection were an aspect of the Force, an ability to see into the past, the future and other places. The power of psychometry functioned by giving the Force user a visionThe High Republic (2022) 2 of the past of an object and those who had interacted with it.Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Sith, as Force users, were also capable of experiencing Force visions. Despite their prophetic nature, Force visions were not absolute in their content and could be left up to much interpretation, with the emotions of the witness potentially clouding their judgement on the issue or otherwise causing them to misread the vision.Master & Apprentice Some Jedi attributed this to the future constantly being in motion, with the visions merely warning of what could happen. As such, visions were treated with great caution by the Order. Nevertheless, users of pyschometry were greatly respected as useful allies, with their visions of the past being useful in hunting down fugitives or gathering evidence.
==Users==
===Republic Era===
====High Republic Era====
During the High Republic Era, the Path of the Open Hand, a radical anti-Force wielder cult, was led by the Force-sensitive Elecia Zeveron, who was known to her followers as "the Mother" and hid her own use of the Force. She claimed to receive visions from the Force but, in fact, was little more than a con artist who tried to guide the Path to her own ends.The High Republic: Path of Vengeance
In 382 BBY, the Path undertook a mission to the so-called Planet X, where they hoped to uncover eggs of the Nameless species for use against Force-sensitives as part of their mission to "free" the Force from use. Despite the cult ideals, Zeveron allowed a Force-sensitive Setaran tracker named Calar, who had joined the cult all the same and tried to limit his Force usage, to join the mission as their tracker. As the Path breached the Veil around Planet X, however, he experienced a vision that struck fear into his heart; Calar realized that their mission would have grave ramifications for the galaxy and the Force so tried to destroy their starship, only to be shot dead by pilot Radicaz Dobbs. Later in the mission, Path member Bokana Koss, whose latent Force-sensitivity was unearthed by the visit to Planet X, had a fearful vision of a coming blight to be brought on from their mission, revealing to Koss that their actions were helpful to the so-called Under-Dwellers and terrifying him. However, he was able to shake off that feeling and help the mission afterward.
While she was a Padawan, Mirialan Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh developed a tendency for having Force visions while traveling in hyperspace, which she called "hyperspace visions." They stopped after her Knighting, but she later had one of a Nihil attack on Tiikae shortly before the starship she was travelling on was diverted to assist there. The aging Force-sensitive Mari San Tekka was drawing Rwoh to her, intending to give Rwoh her final hyperspace Path before passing on.The High Republic: Out of the Shadows
====Late Republic Era====
The Wookiee Jedi Initiate Krrsish had a Force vision of Trandoshans and Wookiees fighting,Yoda 4 leading to him becoming distant to his friend and fellow youngling Gheyr, who he foresaw falling to the dark side of the Force.Yoda 5 Jedi Master Dooku had claimed to Gheyr should not tell anyone else of the vision nor openly act on it due to the Order's bias against believing Force visions. Ultimately, Krrsish's fear overwhelmed him, leading to him attacking Gheyr during a trial on Corvair II.
Prior to the Clone Wars, the Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas had foreseen the galactic conflict, but his ideas of raising an army in defense of the Republic had been dismissed as too extreme, leading to his dismissal from the Jedi High Council.Ultimate Star Wars Undeterred, Sifo-Dyas pursued his vision anyways, secretly ordering a clone army from the Kaminoans.
Jedi Master Yoda was able to see into the future, though he understood that Force prophecy was not absolute and that the future was always in motion. His visions led him to foresee the fall of the Jedi in the Clone Wars and even his own death. Yoda once even had a vision of the exact moment Order 66 was issued, but factors including the brevity of the vision, the Jedi Master's wariness towards such visions, and his uneasiness about the clone troopers' genetically-encoded desire to be obedient prevented him from realizing the true import of the brief glimpse.
As the Chosen One, Anakin Skywalker had extremely powerful Force visions in his dreams when asleep, and his visions were never known to be wrong. He foresaw the death of his mother following terrible torture by Tusken Raiders and was unable to stop it, and she died in his arms. Later, he witnessed through the Force his own wife's death in childbirth and was determined to prevent it from happening. However, he neglected to remember the fact that such visions were not absolute; only that what he saw was what might happen. Skywalker fell to the dark side and became Darth Vader to try to prevent it, but instead he caused it to happen; when his wife discovered what he had done, she was horrified and then wounded by her husband in his rage, subsequently dying from medically unexplainable reasons after delivering her children.
Jedi General Pong Krell, during the Clone Wars, foresaw the Jedi Order's destruction and the Republic being "ripped apart from the inside" to become the Galactic Empire. This caused Krell to fall to the dark side and begin sabotaging his campaigns in an effort to become Count Dooku's new Sith apprentice and forge his place in the "new order" he saw coming. However, Krell was unmasked as a traitor during the Battle of Umbara and subsequently arrested by the 501st Legion. Krell tauntingly explained his vision to Clone Captain Rex as he assumed the Umbarans would free him if they captured the base, but the clone troopers chose to execute Krell due to that precise danger, which ultimately never transpired.
At the end of the Clone Wars, Maul had a vision of Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side and transformation into the Sith apprentice of Darth Sidious. In an effort to prevent Sidious from turning Skywalker into his apprentice, Maul orchestrated a civil war on Mandalore, hoping to draw him out and kill him along with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Ahsoka Tano, Skywalker's former Padawan, later had a vision of Skywalker's fall as it occurred, but only realized that "something terrible" had happened, and the issuing of Order 66 meant she had no further time to think about the vision as she was immediately thrown into a fight for her life.
Depa Billaba was able to receive visions during meditation and to pass them on through touch to her Padawan, Caleb Dume. Dume was taught that visions were difficult and nearly impossible to interpret; one's emotions could cloud them and it took training and discipline to see things clearly. He later passed on these teachings to Ezra Bridger during the Imperial Era after his Padawan misinterpreted his first vision.
===Imperial Era===
In 4 BBY,Star Wars: Galactic Atlas Jedi Padawan Ezra Bridger experienced a dark Force vision when he was in the Lothal Jedi temple. Bridger fell from a cliff that was inside the temple, and he his vision made him fall in his room that was on the Ghost. He walked outside and into the hallway, where he heard the Spectres talking about his lack of Jedi knowledge and training. Zeb Orrelios found Bridger spying on what the Spectres were talking about, Sabine Wren questioned how long Ezra was hearing them. He crossed his shoulders and replied "long enough." As Bridger and Orrelios started an argument, Bridger began to realize he was experiencing an illusion. He became angry and ran away from the Spectres. After running away, the Grand Inquisitor appeared and the door of the Ghost went shut. The Inquisitor ignited his lightsaber and killed the Spectres. The door opened afterwards, and the Inquisitor slowly chased Bridger on the Ghost. Suddenly, Bridger was then pulled into space and was back in the Lothal Jedi temple.
Luke Skywalker had a vision on Hoth after he escaped from the cave of a wampa. In it, Obi-Wan Kenobi appeared and directed him to travel to Dagobah where he would find Yoda and learn the ways of the Force from him. Once on Dagobah, he experienced another vision, one of his friends suffering in a city in the clouds. Although his training was incomplete, he rushed to aid his friends, ignoring the warnings of both Yoda and Kenobi, who warned that such a decision was rash and that he needed further training. His duel on Cloud City ended in failure, losing his lightsaber and right hand to Darth Vader.
Returning to Cloud City to retrieve his lightsaber, Skywalker had a force vision of events in his past and future, including seeing a hooded figure tell him to follow his destiny. The vision convinced him to abandon his hunt for his lightsaber to instead save his friend Leia Organa, whom he saw in the vision encased in carbonite.Star Wars (2020) 4 The hooded figure, he later learned, was a former Padawan named Verla.Star Wars (2020) 5
Darth Sidious was able to use the dark side to peer into the future and manipulate events on a galactic scale to suit his ends. Despite this, he was unable to foresee his own demise when Darth Vader turned from the dark side to help his son Luke overthrow him.
===New Republic Era===
In 28 ABY Luke Skywalker, sensing the darkness within his nephew Ben growing in glimpses during his training, decided to probe Solo's mind as he lay asleep. He learned that Snoke had turned his apprentice's heart to the dark side, and experienced a brief dark vision that Solo would bring nothing but death and destruction and leave Skywalker's loved ones in anguish. In a flash of defensive instinct, Skywalker thought he could stop that future and for a brief moment of pure instinct he raised his lightsaber to destroy him, believing that it was the only way to halt his descent into darkness and prevent the end of everything he loved. This instinct was gone almost the second that it had come, and Skywalker was immediately filled with shame.
Solo had already awoken to see his uncle standing over him with his lightsaber raised. Confused and angry, Solo pulled his own lightsaber to him in self-defense and attacked Skywalker, using the Force to pull down the hut on top of him. Solo emerged from the hut and screamed toward the temple, asking Skywalker why he had done it, and in his anger bringing down a lightning strike with the Force that destroyed the temple and set it on fire. When Skywalker came around, he emerged from the rubble of the hut to find his temple destroyed, with his other apprentices either killed or vanished along with Solo. This effectively left Skywalker the last of the Jedi once more as he was after the death of his own master, Yoda, decades earlier.
===Resistance Era===
Rey experienced a Force vision of her past and future upon touching the lightsaber that once belonged to Anakin Skywalker. While training with Luke Skywalker on Ahch-To she had another vision, this one of multiple mirror images of herself.
Supreme Leader Kylo Ren of the First Order had visions that led him to find shards of archaic lore in the old bases of operations once owned by Snoke, his master and predecessor whom he had killed, leading him to discover that a darker force was behind Snoke's power:Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary the returned Darth Sidious. When Ren confronted Sidious on Exegol, Sidious conjured a Force vision before Ren that allowed him to witness the rise of the Sith Eternal's fleet, the Final Order, from beneath Exegol's ground surface. The image eventually disappeared and switched to the marching of Sith troopers before Ren set aside the vision.Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition
While in the Emperor's Throne Room amidst the ruins of the second Death Star on Kef Bir, Rey had a vision of a dark side phantasmStar Wars: The Lightsaber Collection—herself as a dark side user—when she touched the Emperor's Sith wayfinder.
After the death of his mother Leia, who had sacrificed her life to save her son, Ben Solo encountered a memory of his deceased father Han Solo on Kef Bir. Solo, whom Ben had slain during the Battle of Starkiller Base, encouraged his son to give up the dark side and fulfill what Leia had been fighting for most of her adult life. Following his deceased father's impassioned plea, Ben Solo renounced the dark side of the Force, later traveling to Exegol in order to help Rey defeat the resurgent Darth Sidious, once and for all.
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