So, unless those freaky Midiclorian alien beings somehow inseminated Shmi Skywalker with their God-like alien-microbe sperm, and instead just induced pregnancy, Anakin would technically be a clone of his mother. I mean, that's just how nature WORKS. Without a secondary DNA donor to mix things up, Ani would have to be genetically identical to his mother, his birth a form of mammalian parthenogenesis. Only, you know, developed as a male in the womb.
So, if Vader was half alien, that would explain how powerful he was, and his descendants are.
But if he was a naturally occurring clone of some kind, then wouldn't that mean Shmi was also Force sensitive?
Or was he some other, third option? Like, a parasitic humanoid that developed like a "normal" human fetus, but was completely unrelated to his mother, implanted by "the Force"..? Did somebody roofie Shmi and rape her?
I'm pretty sure this was all hand-waved away as a "miracle of the Force" in the movies, but I'm genuinely curious where the hell Vader actually came from!
OP - technically yes, but the Force is also hereditary, so the parasites could conceivably come from the mother. Which makes more sense than "alien microbes with psychic powers inserted themselves into an unborn, fatherless fetus, because reasons."
Midichlorians made an egg fertilize another egg to select and enhance recessive gene pairings.
Or the stormtrooper cloning program had an experimental arm doing secret implants on backwater worlds and calling them "Force impregnations'
Or the whole 'Force birth' story was a way for Shmi to dissociate from getting raped by Palpatine. Or Snoke.
The whole thing is Jesus metaphor bullshit anyway. While I'd love there to be a dramatic reveal sometime in episode 8 or 9 that actually Anakin's dad was a barback in a Mos Eisley cantina and Shmi made up the Force birth stuff to cover her past as a bit of a slapper, I doubt they'll deal with that bullshit in the films.
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Darth Vader's parentage?
(Anonymous) 2016-05-14 05:04 am (UTC)(link)So, if Vader was half alien, that would explain how powerful he was, and his descendants are.
But if he was a naturally occurring clone of some kind, then wouldn't that mean Shmi was also Force sensitive?
Or was he some other, third option? Like, a parasitic humanoid that developed like a "normal" human fetus, but was completely unrelated to his mother, implanted by "the Force"..? Did somebody roofie Shmi and rape her?
I'm pretty sure this was all hand-waved away as a "miracle of the Force" in the movies, but I'm genuinely curious where the hell Vader actually came from!
Re: Darth Vader's parentage?
(Anonymous) 2016-05-14 05:23 am (UTC)(link)Re: Darth Vader's parentage?
(Anonymous) 2016-05-14 05:32 am (UTC)(link)Re: Darth Vader's parentage?
(Anonymous) 2016-05-14 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)Or the stormtrooper cloning program had an experimental arm doing secret implants on backwater worlds and calling them "Force impregnations'
Or the whole 'Force birth' story was a way for Shmi to dissociate from getting raped by Palpatine. Or Snoke.
The whole thing is Jesus metaphor bullshit anyway. While I'd love there to be a dramatic reveal sometime in episode 8 or 9 that actually Anakin's dad was a barback in a Mos Eisley cantina and Shmi made up the Force birth stuff to cover her past as a bit of a slapper, I doubt they'll deal with that bullshit in the films.