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BRANCHING OFF THE PREVIOUS POST AGAIN I’d imagine that Miraluka brains have specialized a bit away from being identical to human brains? Like since Force sight replaced physical sight I’d assume that some of the information from that lights up the visual cortex like physical sight would, but would things like “seeing” Force alignment and usage and stuff just work like a color overlay, or would it be an experience that human brains just aren’t equipped to parse? I kind of HC the latter because it seems like that ought to be a somewhat different kind of information. Apparently inanimate objects also appear as somewhat translucent in Force sight. I’d imagine that could get pretty confusing if you’re not used to it; I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the Miraluka brain was dedicated to sorting out occlusion as a result.
Then there’s color vision. The wiki says Miraluka don’t have any but there’s no source and I feel like they might just be going with how it looks in, say, KotOR 2– which I already think is a simplification (and is also coming from Visas, whose Force sight ability has been damaged.) I could see it going either way– on the one hand, how does the Force tell what color of light something reflects? but on the other hand, if it couldn’t provide the user with that information, then how would Force sight and no physical eyes be a viable adaptation in a species descended from humans, which relied on color vision for things like “do not eat the bad” and “recognizing a thing that will eat you”? I kinda lean towards Miraluka having some form of color vision because of the latter issue, though it may not be remotely the same spectrum that humans see anymore.
Another consideration is whether lighting conditions make any difference– I’d assume they don’t. Presumably light sources have some appearance, but I doubt actual light levels factor in– which probably means Miraluka get their Circadian rhythm from other cues. (Why would they need to be diurnal, actually? Is there an advantage to any given schedule when you can see what’s coming regardless? Climate’s one, I suppose, and it depends at least initially on the schedules the animal life keeps– both prey and any domesticated animals that are relied on.) It’s a really weird thought to never be able to “turn off” your vision like closing your eyes does.
In conclusion: how do Miraluka, what the fuck?
HEY HI MIRALUKA HEADCANON TIME!
As I see it, the Force adds a spiritual/emotional/psychological dimension, making it a force (hehe) that is affected and reflects metaphysical reality into material space. There are lots of ways to make electricity, but only the Force is the one where a person being involved in it makes it happen just because they want to, without having to do anything to coax electricity by making an environment for it to happen. The Force is why a battleground that’s been left for hundreds of years might still have less life in it than the surrounding areas, where things grow without the negative dark energy of horrible death around it just fine.
So where that comes into Miraluka is that what you see through the Force is emotional and spiritual reality, which through the Force, is a definite concrete property that all things have. A berry can reflect malice. Not as strongly as like, someone who’s in the act of murder, but you can look at it and be like “Nope, I shouldn’t eat that!” because there’s a little bit of that murder-intent in there, in the Force.
Since the Miraluka aren’t super far removed from humans, the parts of their brain that in a human process visual information have been evolutionarily jury-rigged to connect up to processing what they “see” in the Force, so they experience it in pretty similar terms to what humans experience, so when they see dark side stuff, it goes through the part of the brain that in humans would register as the color red and it sends back “Oh yeah, that’s red” and they see the color red. So they have color vision, but it has no relation to wavelengths of light.
Also, given that this is a world that has figured out how to connect up your nervous system to a mechanical prosthetic so that it works essentially as the thing, it’s possible that you can hook up a Miraluka brain to some cybernetic eyes and they’d be able to see through those the same way that humans would, and it’d look just the same as if you hooked up a human to the same eye. The difference is that the Miraluka would think that everything looks super fucked up and would probably hate it, since it’s just distracting and weird, though it would probably wouldn’t be unheard of for Miraluka who have poor Force sight for whatever reason to get cyborg-eyes so they can see literally at all. But their brains would have a tough time getting used to it.
I also think that a Jedi (even a blind non-Miraluka Jedi) wouldn’t see the Force the same way that a Miraluka does, as it would take training and intent to see the Force, since their brains aren’t hooked up to read Force seeing as Light seeing, so they’d process it differently, spending a little more time on what exactly that means that it looks that way in the Force, whereas a Miraluka would look at it and be like “yeah that’s what it looks like so what”
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