Control Difficulty:Moderate

Note:Characters consumed by the Dark Side may not use this power.

Required Powers:Hibernation Trance

Effect:Emptying his mind and allowing the Force to flow through him, a user seems to be in deep meditation and is oblivious to his surroundings. Characters in emptiness may not move or take any action except to try to disengage from the power.

While using emptiness, a character is difficult to sense or affect with the Force. When another character attempts to use a Force power on a character in emptiness, add the control roll to the sense difficulty. If there is no sense roll involved, add to the control difficulty. This is added regardless of the character's willingness to be affected by the power or not.

Once the character comes out of emptiness, he recieves a bonus equal to +(6 minus the number of Dark Side Points) for a period of time equal to the time spent in emptiness.

While in emptiness, characters deyhdrate and hunger as they would normally. Some initiates have died because they could not bring themselves out of emptiness. To come out of emptiness, a character must make a Difficult control check at a time delcared upon entering emptiness. A check to come out may be made when either the allotted time has passed, an hour has elapsed past the allotted time, or the character's body takes damage more serious than stun.