Stumbling On Shattered Glass

The figurine was crafted from a piece of wood and decorated with bits of shell inlay.

According to the Cleveland Museum of Art:

The subject, size, materials, and naturalistic style suggest that this small sculpture was made by one of the nomadic peoples of Western and Central Asia—perhaps the Scythians, who, with the Medes, conquered the Assyrians.

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Mechu-Deru is a Force ability that involves machinery. It is quite rare as technology isn’t alive and most Jedi would struggle to interact with it using the Force. The principle behind it is that one places one’s own Force energy into it and thereby communes with the machinery.

Unsurprisingly, Anakin is significantly skilled at mechu-deru. It is one of his greater areas of strength in the Force and he has used it, instinctually, from a young age. Anakin finds that beyond his skill in programming, mathematics, engineering, and just being a general grease-monkey and gear-head, he can place his hands on any machine, channel the Force into, see what’s wrong and know how to fix it. Better yet, he can see how it’s been made, how it should be, and how to go about making it better. He loves doing it. It’s just so satisfying.

I would say that Anakin appreciates mechu-deru on another level, however, that goes beyond mere enjoyment. As discussed in this post, Anakin struggles a great deal with ‘excess’ from the Force. Being able to channel the extra Force into machinery must help him manage being as powerful as he is. He probably keeps things to fiddle with in his pockets for those times when he’s overwhelmed and doesn’t know how to channel it. In fact, you can tell when Anakin is getting too much ‘background noise’ when he pulls out a tiny project from his belt, his comm if he’s desperate, and starts fiddling with it to drain away the surplus Force. This is why moving meditation is Anakin’s favourite form of meditation and why he goes straight to his Starfighter when he needs to focus, because when the Force is pounding him, (and he was never taught how to handle that), he can relieve himself of it, to a small extent, by pushing it into the machinery he works with.

The void has chosen

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