Ymrais

Well as someone who collects swords, I can tell you that normal blades have weight to them, a lightsaber all the weight is just in the hilt. That's a big difference. One of my co-workers tried holding one of my collection incorrectly near the pommel and insisted that nobody could use it because it was too heavy, he probably would have injured himself had I not showed him the proper way to hold and swing the blade. Most of your party members were able to use vibroblades. Someone who has experience with other blades would probably learn easier than someone who's never touched even a regular sword, the difference is the balance and being able to put the blade where you want it when you swing. Knowing where the blade is without looking. They offer fencing courses at some universities, it does not take decades to learn swordsmanship. Get involved with a local SCA group (medieval re-enactment)sometime, they build fake swords and armor and have competition. As far as the force abilities go, it didn't take Luke long to learn how to deflect stingshots from the training remote, much jedi knowledge had been lost by then and he had to slowly reconstruct the teachings after Ben's death, but what Ben tought him en-route to Alderaan was easily picked up. Although they glossed over this, hyperspace is not instantanious and it would take hours to months to get from one end of the galaxy to another (movies don't have that kind of time so they skip ahead a bit). I think the game engine does a reasonable job considering that some pen and paper things just can't be done with a computer. You should check out the d20 players guide sometime, during the rebellion era of play, you could only start down the path of a jedi guardian after 2nd level in another class and it would be slow going without a teacher (much the same circumstances). You certainly couldn't advance to knighthood (7th level) until you've undergone some sort of trial or test by someone with more advanced training. Part of that includes building a lightsaber something that must be done before 7th level.

Your source for this information? I re-iterate and quote: Power of the Jedi sourcebook page 70: "Where their eyes would have been, Miraluka have nearly featureless eye sockets that they prefer to cover with decorative cloth." Furthermore, Ultimate Alien Anthology sourcebook page 97: "All Miraluka are born without eyes." Perhaps you are thinking of the Arkanians who have solid white eyes.

Same thing happened to my game at one point. Of course I had broken out of the cutscene/visas fight just before this. I had it happen another time when I entered the ebon hawk, and kreia shows up to give me a prestige class, she was no longer in the port dormatory (stuck in a wall I think), the fix was to actually finish the visas fight the one time, and exit and re-enter the ebon hawk the second time.

That's not the impression I got. How can a force bond form if you can't manipulate the force? How can two people who can't feel the force experience a bond? Why would the masters seek to remove the force from one who cannot feel the force? The exile can create force bonds both with force sensitives and non-sensitives. The exile carries with them the pain of the death of a world, pain great enough to have killed the exile had they not stopped listening to the force. The masters believed that the exile was a wound, and empty void that would draw upon the force from others with a hunger, believing it to be of the dark side. The wound was created by the death of those the exile had bonds with, and the death of a world. But there also seemed to be overtones that the grand scale of death created a loud noise of the background of the force such that it drowns out the force itself. The fact that in some of the dialogue options with Krea early on seem to mention the force sounding as if it's coming from a great distance (hard to hear over the din of pain) I think the masters were being arrogant. Certainly they've killed too, which contributes to the problem they accuse the exile of. Death is a natural thing, maybe not always naturally caused but it still happens, and it would still diminish the force. Perhaps they don't sense the force in the exile because the pain of loss drowns it out? The ithorian force adept senses the exiles pain, I also think force sensitives would have noticed if the exile was siphoning from them, the force bond could be likened to a power conduit and you can usually tell if a wire is live and which direction current is flowing. The exile however is used to the pain and can hear the force over the sound. You can't sever what's not connected in the first place. The masters attempting to sever the MC from the force would have failed if the MC wasn't already part of the force. If the exile truely is outside the force, then they'd only sever the bonds in which case the exile could just form new ones. If the MC severs themselves again before the council attempts to cut them off how could they touch the force in the MC where they need to in order to sever the tie? Most of the other expanded universe that deals with the subject seems to suggest that they don't take the force away so much as they put blinders on the target. Again how can they see where to put the blinders if the MC disappears from their force sight? If Krea were severed by the masters, and by Sion and Nihilus how did she regain her power? Or did she never really lose her power and just lied to the exile? How can two force stripped persons create a force bond if neither can use the force? I never got the impression that the exile couldn't feel the force, just that the masters were blinded by their own misconceptions. Their own superiority which is what allowed Krea to get the drop on them.

The pen and paper star wars d20 RPG "power of the jedi sourcebook" goes into detail about her species. If I recall correctly, they are near-human, however they evolved to use the force to see and have no eyes, (skin covered empty sockets).

How long does the combat go on when you ask her this? I ask because I may have encountered a bug. We both had no life left and it kept going on and on for quite some time. I could not break out except to violate the rules of the duel and using force heal. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that we both have the hitpoint regeneration feat, or that I had broken out of another script (the fight with Visas so that I could prep myself).