Force Echo
SenseUniversal- Cost
- 1 FP
- Activation
- Action
- Range
- Touch
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 1+
Effect
As an Action, you touch an object, surface, or location and sense emotional imprints left behind. You learn one of the following: • the strongest emotion recently tied to the object or place; • whether violence occurred here within the last hour; • or the general identity or emotional state of the most recent creature to interact with it. This effect cannot reveal precise memories or detailed images.
At the Table
A Padawan, sweeping a ransacked cantina backroom for the bounty hunter who blew through an hour ago, kneels and presses a palm to the overturned table. For 1 FP as an Action, she touches the surface and lets the Force Echo speak: she asks whether violence occurred here within the last hour, and the imprint answers cold and sharp — yes, and fresh. No vision, no faces, just the raw emotional residue, but it's enough to put the party on the trail. One Touch, one beat of focus, and a dead room starts talking.
In the Lore
Psychometry — reading the emotional and historical imprints left on objects and places through the Force — is a well-documented Sense ability across Star Wars lore. In Legends, the Jedi archivist and explorer Quinlan Vos is the most famous practitioner, able to glean memories and impressions from items simply by touching them. The technique carries into current canon as well: in The Clone Wars, Vos reads the recent presence of Ziro the Hutt from a glass the Hutt had handled, and in the video game Jedi: Fallen Order, Cal Kestis involuntarily relives painful memories upon touching objects and lightsabers tied to the dark side. Ahsoka Tano displays the same gift in the Ahsoka series, drawing the recent past from a damaged object to trace Sabine Wren's fate. As a Sense-discipline application, it belongs to neither the Light nor the Dark exclusively — it is a perceptive, investigative use of the Force open to any sensitive tradition, reading what the living have left behind rather than altering the world. (The Jedi Order nonetheless cautioned against using it on weapons of violence, fearing the imprinted emotions could draw the reader toward the dark side.)