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The New Jedi System

Character Creation
When creating a new character, your new character will receive a Midi-chlorian count. Midi-chlorians are microscopic life forms that live sybiotically inside the cells of all living creatures. In sufficient numbers, they could reveal the presense of the Force to their symbiont. A random number of midi-chlorians will be assigned to every new character.

How will Midi-chlorians affect me?
Midi-chlorians affect how quickly you grow in the knowledge of the Force. So, until you actually become aware of it's existence, you won't be able to tell how big or small your Midi-chlorian count is.

What advantages does a high Midi-chlorian count give me?
Midi-chlorians will only affect two aspects of the Jedi system: How quickly you progress through the skill trees, and how quickly you become aware of the Force. Midi-chlorian count will simply be a modifier for how much Jedi experience will be gained at a time. They will not affect how powerful of a Jedi you can become or if you can become one at all.

How can I find out my Midi-chlorian count?
There is only one opportunity to find out if you have a high or lower midi-chlorian count. Stormtrooper battalions will often patrol cities under Imperial control. They will randomly test players, on the rate of 1 in 100, for midi-chlorians. Though, they will not reveal how many you have, if you have a significant amount, then they will try to kill you. It will be entirely possible to be tested while having a significant amount, and still escape detection. Furthermore, these Stormtroopers will only test you if you have used 90% or more of your allotted skill points.

Revealing the Force
Simply because you have more midi-chlorians than Anakin Skywalker, doesn't mean that you will just become aware of the Force immediately. A higher value of midi-chlorians will enable you to take less steps to reveal the nature of the Force, but you will still have to search for it. Remember that Obi-Wan Kenobi has become one with the Force, and Yoda is hidden on the planet of Dagobah, which is inaccessible.

In order to become aware of the Force, you must discover it through random luck. Any of the following events could spark your interest in searching for the Force:
1)You collect a broken peice of an ancient Jedi or Sith holocron, and consequently feel a strange aura wash over you.
2)You stumble across a Jedi in hiding, who senses your connection to the Force and reveals himself to you. After explaining a very minimal amount of the Force, he is whisked away by a Stormtrooper battalion, never to be seen again.
3) Upon exploring the different Jedi temples you may feel an energy presence, and discover an ancient artifact buried in the ruins.

Though, this section could be expanded on, all these circumstances yield the same effect. After experiencing one of these situations, you will begin to search for more information on the Force.

Remember that knowledge of the Force is banned by the Empire, and there is little available information on it. You can't simply go down to the Archives and ask for a book on the Jedi order. You would be killed for such a thing.

Now your midi-chlorians will come into play. The more you have, the fewer steps you will have to take to become a Jedi initiate. However, there will be no indication as to how close to becoming a Jedi initiate you are, until that time comes.

You will randomly come across opportunities now to do things that will increase your knowledge of the force. Some examples follow:

Example 1
You are running random quests for generic NPC's such as "a criminal" or "a businessman", and one of the items you retrieve is NOT what you had expected, or had gotten before. Perhaps a shard of a holocron, or some other object with ties to the Force, would be the item you retrieve. You would receive no special message, and if you didn't notice it yourself, then you could potentially turn it in for the quest reward. However, if you did notice it and examine it, you would be one step closer to unlocking Jedi.

Example 2
While harvesting a creature for bone, meat, or hide, you come across an ancient artifact that has become lodged in the creature. After examining this object, you would become a step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the Force.

Example 3
While visiting a cantina, and trying to talk to all the patrons, one might randomly give you the option of run a quest for him. Though, it would have no indication of having anything to do with the Force, you would later feel a stronger connection.

Example 4
Randomly an exploration badge might strengthen your connection to your Force. It would be different for every player, and perhaps no badges at all would ever strengthen your connection with the Force.

These would not be the only case scenarios, and these scenarios would not be guaranteed to strengthen your connection to the Force.

Eventually, dependent on your midi-chlorian count, you would become revealed the Force, and a Jedi Master, who has been watching you through the Force, would seek you out. He would then take you to the Jedi Enclave.

The Jedi Enclave
The Jedi Enclave is where few of the Jedi who have escaped the wrath of the Empire have hidden themselves. They rarely leave the confines of the Enclave, and when they do, they shroud themselves in secrecy, hiding their identity from agents of the Empire. Here is where you will progress from Initiate to Padawan learner: through a series of quests in a Theme Park setup.

There will be a few Jedi Masters, and more Jedi students in the Enclave. You can learn from all of them, except for a few students who would just be there for filler content. Of course you could talk to the students, and they might just give lore information. Furthermore, there would be a corrupt Jedi Master amongst the Jedi Enclave.

The Dark Side
Every Jedi will start in the Light Jedi Enclave, but after running a series of quests for the corrupted Jedi Master in the Enclave, you will begin to notice a more sinister element to his tasks. Eventually, he will try to persuade you to learn the ways of the Dark Side. This is your option to choose a Dark Side role. If you choose yes, then you will receive a waypoint for the Dark Jedi Enclave and continue your training there. If you do not, then you will simply continue training at the Light Jedi Enclave.

Note: Any Light Jedi who decides they are going to role up on the Dark Jedi enclave will find themselves in a heap of trouble amongst many Dark Jedi Master NPC's ready to fight. It would not be a good idea in other words to pay the Dark Jedi Enclave a visit, if you have not first accepted the path of the Dark Side. Also, upon choosing the Dark Side path, you will have approximately 5 minutes to leave the Enclave before the Light Jedi become hostile towards you, as they can sense the Dark Side flowing from you.
Completeing Initiation and becoming a Padawan/Apprentice
After you have completed the Theme Park content, whether that is the Dark Side Enclave or Light Side Enclave, you will awarded the rank of Padawan if you are Light Side or Apprentice if you are Dark Side.

As a Padawan, you train your skills by completing tasks and fighting creatures, gaining experience. This experience, as stated before is modified based on your midi-chlorian count. This is where you will really figure out how high your midi-chlorian count is. Again, midi-chlorians will only affect how quickly you progress through the skill boxes of the Jedi profession.

XP Gains
As mentioned earlier, midi-chlorians will have an affect on how quickly you gain experience from completing tasks or being victorious in combat. How drastically if affects the XP rate would have to be balanced. The midi-chlorian count would serve as a direct modifier in the gain of Jedi experience.

-Edit-
I recently stumbled across information on Wookiepedia about the range of Midi-chlorians. The average human had around 2,500 and the average force-sensitive user had right around 5,000. Anakin Skywalker had over 20,000, but was FAR greater than any Jedi ever before or after.

So, to revise my formula, I am setting the bare minimum midi-chlorians to 2,500 and the maximum to 15,000 (no one should be able to be on the level of Anakin Skylwaker because he was conceived by midi-chlorians).

So the new equation then becomes y = (1 + (n/m) / k) * o, where y = new xp, n = midi-chlorians, m = mean average of midi-chlorians ((min + max) /2), k = constant modifier, and o = original xp amount.

let m = 8750, k = 100, and o = 3000.

n = player's midi-chlorian count, y = new experience:
n = 2500, y = 3009
n = 4000, y = 3014
n = 6000, y = 3021
n = 8000, y = 3027
n = 10000, y = 3034
n = 12000, y = 3041
n = 15000, y = 3051

It would need to be worked out so that a player at minimum midi-chlorian count would take twice as long as a player at the maximum. Both cases would be exceptionally rare, maybe never seen.

Becoming a Knight
You would have Knight trials just as in the original system. Hunt down rare spawns, and defeat them, all the while not being detected as a Jedi. Though, the Dark Jedi Knight trials may be a little different in what it is you must hunt down.

Congrats, you now have a full template system and can engage in the FRS which would be another thread entirely.