Yep. In the EU, force powers without training tend to be a bit like a really creative mind with no skill to express it–pretty mediocre. And the Jedi training was pretty much the best around, even though other traditions (like the witches of Dathomir) did have ways of helping force-users direct their energies.
On the other hand, as we saw with young Anakin, force powers can manifest themselves as skills in other areas. For all we know, he could have become a galaxy-famous podracer, and nobody would ever have realised it was because he was force-sensitive.
Speeds are definitely much faster-than-light, but we also don’t know exactly how far Mustafar is from the Core, do we? I don’t think they establish that.
We don’t know an exact distance, but we do know that Mustafar is an Outer Rim world (comprised of those worlds farthest from the center of the Empire) and that Coruscant is located at Hypersapce Coordinates (0,0,0), or the very center of Imperial Space. So, they’re likely pretty far apart.
Oh, certainly. I sort of tied those two together in my mind.
Oh, I didn’t remember that they called Mustafar an Outer Rim planet. In that case, yeah… either Anakin is tough even when combusting, or that was a bit of Lucas’s handwaving.
Oh, I didn’t mean that as a correction. Just an addition to the list, because you’re right about Anakin Skywalker probably going in that direction if he’d remained undiscovered.
Wouldn’t hot magma cauterize the wounds just as well?
Fanwank possibility: Anakin knew how to go into a trance state through the Force, that slowed his body’s metabolism down enough that he could last until Palpatine arrived.
I was under the impression that a surgeon uses some heated instrument to close blood vessels off in an operation, and lightsabres can sear through metal can’t they? Doesn’t someone cut through a door with one at some point? I can’t truly remember as those new films poisoned the others to me and I haven’t seen them in years.
Yes, in Phantom Menace Qui Gon and Kenobi cut through a door. However, in ANH, when Ben whacks off the arm of the guy in the bar, there’s lots of blood on the floor. Methinks that the cauterization ability of the lightsabre is controlled by a plotoanium crystal.
<fanwank>Well, obviously Aqualish[sup]1[/sup] flesh is simply uncombustible.</fanwank>
[sup]1[/sup] The species name of Walrus Man (the victim of Obi-Wan’s casual saberplay) is the Aqualish. The actual personal name of the particular Aqualish who lost his arm is Ponda Baba. Many Bothans died to bring you this information…many neurons in my brain that could be storing otherwise useful information are occupied in keeping stuff like this around forever.
