Originally posted by tdtd
She wasn't a wound in the force Fishy, she bound her life to the wound in the force.
She wasn't a wound in the force like Nihilus or the Exile were that is true. However Nihilus used his technique in a very limited way against all the assassins that served Sion and Sion himself. They absorbed the force of those around him how ever limited it may have been, they in no way had the power or the potential of Nihilus or the Exile and they couldn't do the same thing.
However Master Vash describes this too in her holocron, when they are near their enemy's they constantly get weaker. Slowly but steadily, dragging out a fight with them will weaken their opponents, Kreia was around Nihilus a lot too, and he did use his technique against her once, so it is very possible that he ate the force from a part of her too... Possible, not necessarily true.
I still stick by the theory that she needed the Exile but I haven't looked into it enough to say for sure..