Deep Force Echo
SenseUniversal- Cost
- 2 FP
- Activation
- Action
- Range
- Touch
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 7+
Effect
As an Action, you touch an object, surface, or location and draw out a stronger impression of recent events imprinted in the Force. You perceive up to three brief flashes of sensory and emotional impressions chosen by the GM, each tied to a significant event that occurred here within roughly the last 24 hours (or longer at the GM's discretion). These flashes may reveal broad details such as the rough number of creatures present, their emotional state, a strong image, or a distinct sound or phrase. For the next 10 minutes, you have advantage on Investigation checks made to piece together what happened in this area. Using Deep Force Echo on the same object or location again before you finish a Long Rest does not reveal additional information.
At the Table
A Padawan kneels in a scorched cantina booth, presses two fingers to the durasteel table, and spends 2 FP. With a single Action she draws out the echo: three flashes the GM feeds her — six rough silhouettes crowding in, a spike of cold fear, and one snarled word, "Crimson." For the next 10 minutes she rolls Investigation with advantage as the party reconstructs the ambush. She won't get more from this table until she's had a Long Rest, but she already knows who to hunt.
In the Lore
Deep Force Echo is a refined application of psychometry, the Sense-discipline talent for reading impressions an event leaves imprinted on the Force. In Legends, Jedi like Quinlan Vos were famed for psychometric ability, reading objects and places to relive past events — though the Jedi Order distrusted the gift, wary that laying one's senses bare to another's emotions could open a path to the dark side. The power is canon as well: Vos demonstrates it in the Clone Wars to track his quarry, and in current canon Cal Kestis relies on it throughout the Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor games, touching objects and surfaces to glimpse memories tied to them. As a Universal Sense power it carries no inherent Light or Dark alignment — it is a perceptive discipline of insight and clarity, equally available to a Jedi investigator piecing together a crime scene or a darksider tracing an enemy's steps.