Force Inverse

> He’s inverted the flow of the Force? Impossible! That would mean he’s defied the very nature of the Force itself!
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> ━Jedi Master Quinn Maru after witnessing the Force Inversion

**Force Inversion**, simply referred to as the **Force Inverse**, or **the Inversion** was a well-known dark side Force power created by Darth Deceptious. The ability required an immensely deep connection to the dark side of the Force and allowed its user to pervert the flow of the Force. It was first revealed at the First Battle of Tython where the Sith Emperor temporarily corrupted the powerful presence of the light side of the Force and warped it into the presence of the dark side, thus the term inversion was applied.

After its use following the First Battle of Tython, Darth Deceptious would later perfect the ability to permanently invert the presence of the light on a world, though it required a long ritualistic process. The Inversion required an immensely strong connection to the dark side, most likely as a direct result of its nature to defy the “will of the Force”, leaving its only practitioner as its creator. The Inversion could be detected as Force power levels fell into the negative, the dark side of the Force whereas the light side of the Force was a positive level.

Upon his sudden disappearance and later death, Darth Deceptious left behind a Sith Holocron containing the process in which the Inversion could be applied to his own revival. While the Holocron contained the key to his revival, its true purpose was that the Emperor did not truly die, rather he infused the very Holocron with his spirit, using the Holocron itself as a means to shield his presence. Ultimately so, the Jedi Order would retrieve this Holocron following the Sith Empire’s collapse without their leader and the disappearance of key leadership, and lock it away within the Jedi Vaults. For centuries, the Holocron would remain sealed, without any individual being able to open it. Sometime after the rise of the Galactic Empire, the current Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious and his apprentice, Darth Vader, would attempt to open the Holocron, believing it held the Emperor’s plethora of secrets and research but to no avail. After the fall of the Galactic Empire, the Holocron was recovered by the Rebel Alliance but turned up mysteriously missing shortly after and ending up in the hands of a Sith cult. However, the Holocron would be found open, its contents empty. His spirit had already left, possessing one of the cultists.

The Holocron contained the only recorded information of the process to utilize the Force Inversion, as well as the only known method to utilize the Inversion with a group of dark siders. While the ability was powerful, it came with one unforeseen circumstance: as a consequence of the Emperor’s dark nature, the Inversion could be inadvertently triggered through his host bodies, forcibly awakening the sleeping spirit of the Dark Lord if the host itself is put into a state of shock, trauma, or more so, in a near-death scenario. This is due to the fact that the Emperor’s spirit acts as a self-defense mechanism while it recovers.

This forceful Inversion has only been used once by the renegade Sith Lord Darth Varek, ultimately leading to Varek’s death at the hands of an erratically and forcefully awakened spirit.