Combustion
EnergyUniversal- Cost
- 2 FP
- Activation
- Action
- Range
- 60 ft (10 ft radius)
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 5+
Effect
As an Action, you focus on a point or an unattended object within 60 ft and hyper-excite its molecules, causing a violent explosion. Creatures within a 10 ft radius of that point must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC = 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Wisdom modifier). On a failed save, a creature takes 3d6 fire damage; on a success, it takes half damage. Combustion does not ignite terrain or create ongoing flames.
At the Table
Three battle droids cluster behind a fuel crate sixty feet down the corridor. You spend 2 FP and lock onto the crate, hyper-exciting its molecules until it detonates in a violent burst. Every droid within 10 feet of that point makes a Dexterity save against DC 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Wisdom modifier — the two that fail eat the full 3d6 fire damage, the one that dives clear takes half. No lingering flames spread down the hall, so your slicer is free to sprint through the wreckage the next round.
In the Lore
Combustion is one of the rare Force techniques that turns the Alter discipline directly against matter, agitating a target's molecules until they ignite. In Star Wars Legends it is most associated with the dark side: a telekinetic pyrokinetic power that let trained Force-users burst flammable objects into flame from a distance and, in its most feared applications, set living tissue alight. It sits in the same family as other Legends fire powers such as Force fire, drawing on the Alter (telekinesis) tradition rather than on conjured energy. Because deliberately igniting a living being was regarded as a corrupting act, the discipline was overwhelmingly a dark-side technique; the rare light-side practitioners who understood the underlying principle of exciting matter tended to restrict it to objects and obstacles rather than people. In SWURPG it is rendered as a Universal energy effect, a focused, one-time blast rather than a sustained inferno.