Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-2601:8C:4300:1B71:A817:FA6D:72A6:F5CE-20180126032648/@comment-25012056-20180131111421

KingTotalWar wrote: Midi-chlorians are inside organic things, which is why force users can even tap into the force. If you lose parts of your organic self, such as Darth Vader losing all his limbs, you lose part of your strength in the force as you don’t have as much of it within you. Darth Vader was much weaker in the force than Anakin was. Had Anakin not had all his limbs cut off (so basically if he beat Obi-Wan) he would have been the most powerful Sith Lord to have ever lived.

That's not why he was weaker. He was weaker because he was broken: all he had left was Palpatine. It's explicitly stated that many Sith, incuding Darth Plagueis and Darth Gean, were not hindered by the loss of parts of their bodies and in fact increased in power after the fact. The number of midi-chlorians you have determine how receptive to the Force you are, not how powerful you are. If you were powerful before, losing a limb won't make you any less powerful, though it might make it harder to use. As I said earlier: Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker both reached the peak of their power after losing hands their right hands. They didn't decrease in that regard at all.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 11:14, January 31, 2018 (UTC)