Let's discuss Sith and Jedi battle meditation (not what you think it is!) from the Star Wars Darth Bane novel.

You might think battle meditation is about Qui-Gon Jinn meditating infront of Darth Maul, or something like that, but it actually isn't anything like that at all. It doesn't have as much to do with one sitting and meditating, as much as it does controlling an entire war through the force. Thrawn theorizes that Palpatine used battle meditation during Return of the Jedi, and when he died, that's when things went sideways. It's only a theory, but it does make you think.

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