Genetics

Maybe not in the PT era but in the Sith Wars and the ones who are rejected because they had no master do mate.

here's something more to add to the equation, perhaps midi-clorians equate to mitochondria, in that case the average person would get the majority of their mitochondria from their mother... if you get enough you're force sensitive, if not tough luck. in this case it would be sort of a big craps shoot who lucked out and who is stuck without the "gift". especially if the numbers of midiclorians in normal people is usually small. it would have to be a lucky turn of events that put all the midi-clorians from the original cell in the end ovum after all those rounds of meosis.

Anakin apparrently would be the exception, since the force apparently forced multiple midi-clorians into the cells that made him. My big genetics question if this is what happened, is where did that Y chromosome come from?

I always assumed that midi-chlorians and genes were counted apart when it comes to the analysis of Force-powers. And to do so, I always assumed that the biological father of Anakin was either Darth Plaugeis or the Force itself.

Since midi-chorlians APPEAR to be hereditary, we can assume they are genetic. So Force powers and talents CAN be passed on, though at different degrees to different children.

If Glentract is right, and Plagueis is the "father" of Anakin, does that mean he had sex with Shmi? Apparently not.

He used the Force and Sith alchemy (or something) to arrange the midi-chlorians on a genetic level to create Anakin. But that doesn't necessarily mean he implanted his OWN DNA into Shmi.

Yeah, the whole child of the force thing was a little too much for me. Lucas went all messianic on us.

Plaugeis may have used bits from his own DNA to make his Sith alchemy.

Key-word, "MAY," have. Since it remains unknown we can hardly continue the case.

In RotJ Luke says "The force is strong in my family. My father has it, I have it and my sister has it." I think that shows that if you hvae a force sensitive parent or parents you're likely to be stronger in the force. And one more thing they are allowed to mate in the NJO.

Were they allowed to mate in the Sith Wars era?

Originally posted by Twilight Janick
Were they allowed to mate in the Sith Wars era?

Well... Nomi had a husband so yes.

I think they weren't allowed to mate in KotOR. Because Bastila mentions it a couple of times. Not like she say's "The Jedi Council won't allow me to love you Revan!". She just says stuff like "Such feelings are beneath me". Leading me to believe that she thought she had mastered her feelings. And that Jedi were not allowed to mate, that or she was just afraid to love a Sith Lord.

Originally posted by Akechi Misuhide
Well... Nomi had a husband so yes.