Force Projection
EnergyUniversal- Cost
- 3 FP
- Activation
- Action
- Range
- 60 ft
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 1+
Effect
As an Action, you create an illusory projection of yourself in an unoccupied space within 60 ft that you can see. The projection looks and sounds like you, mimics your movements and speech, and can move up to 30 ft on your turn as you direct it (no Action required). It cannot attack, use Force powers, or physically interact with objects. The projection lasts for up to 1 minute while you maintain concentration. You can see and hear from the projection's space as well as your own, but you do not gain any additional actions through it. Creatures that suspect the illusion can use an Action to make an Investigation check (DC = 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Wisdom modifier). On a success, they recognize it as an illusion. Any attack automatically hits the projection, causing it to vanish instantly.
At the Table
Pinned down by stormtroopers across a hangar, the Padawan spends 3 FP and an Action to conjure an illusory double in an empty space 50 ft away — close enough to draw fire, since any attack that lands on the projection auto-hits and pops it like a bubble. While she stays hidden and holds concentration, she walks the double 30 ft up the catwalk each turn to scout the next room, seeing and hearing through its eyes. One sharp-eyed sergeant gets suspicious and burns his Action on an Investigation check (DC 8 + her proficiency bonus + her Wisdom modifier); he beats it and calls the bluff — but by then she already has the intel and a full minute of misdirection banked.
In the Lore
In canon, the definitive Force Projection is Luke Skywalker's climactic feat on Crait in The Last Jedi, where he projected a flawless, fully convincing image of himself across the galaxy from Ahch-To to stall Kylo Ren and the First Order while the Resistance escaped — a duel won entirely by illusion, the strain of which cost Luke his life. The technique belongs to the Force's subtler "Alter" traditions of illusion and mind-affecting power, the same family that includes the classic Jedi mind trick. In Legends, long-range telepathic projection and crafted Force illusions appear among advanced Jedi and Sith adepts alike, used for scouting, deception, and contacting distant allies. As a Universal power, it carries no inherent Light or Dark charge — only the intent behind the deception does.