To think Jerec, the first notable Miraluka, was actually deemed a blind human at first due to serendipity writing the plot of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II.
@@V.B.Squire Good point, but I expect him to anticlimactically be a failed Inquisitor, or surprisingly, a Jedi loyalist who perishes in the Purges. Such are the variations of Multiverse Theory.
“Now I will have fewer distractions.” - mathematician, Leonhard Euler upon losing his eyesight around age 60. Despite what you’d think would be a massive setback, he became more productive than ever after losing his eyesight in the proceeding decades up to his death. With the help of a team of scribes to write his mathematical papers he ended up producing more really great mathematics than anyone ever in their lifetime and he is now considered the most prolific mathematician to have ever lived. He is one of those beings to know what it is like to lose one’s sight at some point in his life and he didn’t seem to be too adversely effected by it. At the same time as he was producing enough mathematics to fill a small library, he also had 13 children. Although many of his kids died before reaching adulthood, a few of his ancestors won Nobel prizes for work in chemistry, and in physiology and medicine. If you haven’t heard of Euler, and you like history, it’s well worth checking him out. He’s one of the greatest geniuses you’ve never heard of.
Always loved the Miraluka because of their great designs and lore as well as the fact that they’ve been well represented in Star Wars games with Jerec in Jedi Knight and Visas in KOTOR 2
Miraluka are my favorite species in the Star Wars universe. How they interact with the world is very interesting and I really enjoy the thought of a Miraluka Jedi investigator. I hope we get to see more of them in future stories.
I love the Miraluka species as well a very unique race in the Star Wars universe. I was jump for joy when I was able to be one in the old republic online game.
When you said their planet was isolated it made me think of how in the Star Wars galaxy, it seems to usually be better to live on an isolated system; as long as you don't get marked for the location of a secret military base or factory. Even though you lose a lot of wealth and economic power, you seem pretty safe from all the conflict that constantly fills the galaxy. Just do your best to avoid having any major corpo find a rare resource on your planet to exploit.
No eyes to see but they still see more than your average Senator. All serious though, I love the concept of seeing through the force. These fellows are so cool and I really love them and their lore and history. Visas Marr is the best Miraluka
The Miraluka are one of my favorite Species in Star Wars (my main SWOTOR Character is a Male Miraluka Sith Inquisitor), I wish Legends had expanded on them even more. I give them a 7 out of 10 mainly due to Species like the Sith and Chiss having so much Lore about them, had we known even more about them i'd give them a 10.
Something that is simply amazing to me is that it is possible for the blind, via making clicking sounds with their tongue, to learn to echo locate as bats do. To be clear, I am not referring to a phenomenon in Star Wars, but from our real world. I will forever be in awe of a video in which a blind master of echo location is riding a bicycle through a park.
Does anyone else not understand the title of the video? (At time of writing, it is "Why this Near-Human Species that Evolved Past the Need for Sight - The Secrets of the Miraluka"
It makes sense if you remove the word "That" seems like a typo to me and was meant to say "why this near human species evolved last the need for sight"
What about that one female Jedi who survived order 66? Her name escapes me at the moment, but I think she was assigned to a commando squad during the war. Or is she just someone's oc fanfiction character, and I'm confused?
I think naturally force sensitive species (like the Miraluka, Dathomiri, and Sith purebloods) are by far some of the most interesting in this universe! Also is it just me or does "Luka Sene" sound like a Toki Pona word?
These species are unique as they don’t have eyes per say but vestigial eye sockets. Meaning where there should be eyes is just skin giving a hollow appearance. It’s why they wear some sort of covering over them so not to freak other beings out. Often dressed up traditionally or a simple wrap of some type. You can always know when one of these was in a room. Unfortunately they don’t exactly “see” in fine detail, they get a general sense of what’s happening and act accordingly. It’s a hindrance especially for those wanting to pilots or mechanics.
A fun bit, in KOTOR 2, when you go first person with Visas Marr, you will actually see the world through the force. Even seeing the other characters as either red or blue depending on how they lean in the force
What will happened if a Geonosian and a Miraluka interacted with one another? One is from the hive-mind society that dislike anyone who did not pay homage to their Queens and the other one came from the society full of seers that despised those who are ignorance because of their own versions of blindness.
Considering their affinity with the force, I honestly didn't understand why we never saw any Miralukas in any of the movies or shows. Considering their physiology, they wouldn't have been an expensive species to show, being probably even less expensive than Vulcans on Star Trek.
The Jedi Order employed a ton of them for administrative roles within the temples. So much so that Order 66 can also be considered a ğ3n0c!ð3 against the species.
It still blows my mind that Order 66 wasn't just a purge against the Jedi, but also an outright ğ3n0c!ð3 against the Miraluka. Because there were a ton of Miraluka that aided the Jedi Order in noncombatant in many of their temples, almost to the point where it could be argued that having a job in the administration side of the Jedi Order was common.
Species wide blindness can happen pretty quickly (i.e., cave fish), but it sounds like they had help. Then again, odd stuff like that happens in The GFFA a lot.
Wouldn't that mean Miraluka would be very bad at fighting droids if they only properly see living beings? How do they know the difference between a droid and a rock?
They can see non-living things and inanimate objects such as droids and buildings because the Force resides in all things. But, due to non-living things not having much of a connection to the Force, they can't see them that well. As Geetsly said, those objects would be hazy to them.
@@jotheunissen9274 you are right in thinking that the Miraluka would have a disadvantage against a droid army that they wouldn't have against an army of living things. But given Geetsly's description of their unique Force connection granting them passive Force sight, with many Miraluka also having foresight capabilities, I am led to believe that they would have precognitive abilities either similar to the average Jedi, or surpassing that of the average Jedi. It is a Jedi's precognitive ability that allows them to block and deflect blaster bolts; perhaps the average Miraluka has enough precognitive ability to know where to not be if they want to avoid getting hit by blaster fire. And like the average Jedi, perhaps this precognition isn't always enough to save you from an army. Perhaps precognition isn't the right word. But it's the closest word I've got so I'm gonna use it.
Miralukas, Cathars, Zabraks, and Humans were very common Jedi during the earlier timeline of the Jedi, though the Cathar would become far less common both because of the Mandalorians attack on their home planet and the aggressive nature of most Cathar.
They may beable to see with the Force, but since they don't have actual eyes, they can't turn their eyelids inside out. Point to eyes here. Also, if you're looking for another spieces to talk about, how about the Roonan?
Jerec, the man who would have been God in Star Wars, had it not been for Kyle Katarn. All he needed was a very long time immersed in the power of The Valley of the Jedi and he would have been a being that far stronger than even Abeloth, The Father, The Son and the Daughter put together. And if you think im exaggerating go look up "Would have the Valley of the Jedi made Jerec more powerful than Palpatine?" Kyle even alluded to the Galactic Empire being a thing of religious might and horror if it were completely reborn under Jerec fully acsended to apotheosis. It would have made Palpatine's Empire look tame and civilized by comparison.
I do love me my Visas Marr. She my bae. My heavily traumatized and dangerous bae who just needs someone who can validate her and renew her hope and help patch her broken heart but if I fail I'll probably end up sliced in half by a lightsaber. Yep, seems perfectly safe and healthy to me, can't see any way this could be a bad idea at all 👍
To think Jerec, the first notable Miraluka, was actually deemed a blind human at first due to serendipity writing the plot of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II.
Time to canonised jerec
@@V.B.Squire Good point, but I expect him to anticlimactically be a failed Inquisitor, or surprisingly, a Jedi loyalist who perishes in the Purges. Such are the variations of Multiverse Theory.
“Now I will have fewer distractions.” - mathematician, Leonhard Euler upon losing his eyesight around age 60. Despite what you’d think would be a massive setback, he became more productive than ever after losing his eyesight in the proceeding decades up to his death. With the help of a team of scribes to write his mathematical papers he ended up producing more really great mathematics than anyone ever in their lifetime and he is now considered the most prolific mathematician to have ever lived. He is one of those beings to know what it is like to lose one’s sight at some point in his life and he didn’t seem to be too adversely effected by it. At the same time as he was producing enough mathematics to fill a small library, he also had 13 children. Although many of his kids died before reaching adulthood, a few of his ancestors won Nobel prizes for work in chemistry, and in physiology and medicine. If you haven’t heard of Euler, and you like history, it’s well worth checking him out. He’s one of the greatest geniuses you’ve never heard of.
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A Near Human race of Daredevils who rely on other senses in a nutshell.
Always loved the Miraluka because of their great designs and lore as well as the fact that they’ve been well represented in Star Wars games with Jerec in Jedi Knight and Visas in KOTOR 2
Miraluka are my favorite species in the Star Wars universe. How they interact with the world is very interesting and I really enjoy the thought of a Miraluka Jedi investigator. I hope we get to see more of them in future stories.
I love the Miraluka species as well a very unique race in the Star Wars universe. I was jump for joy when I was able to be one in the old republic online game.
I wonder if Drax's Art of Invisibility by Standing Incredibly Still will be effective to counter the Miraluka.
This needs to be Comment of the week. I laughed so hard
just as much as it affects everyone else I suppose
Asking the real question.
When you said their planet was isolated it made me think of how in the Star Wars galaxy, it seems to usually be better to live on an isolated system; as long as you don't get marked for the location of a secret military base or factory. Even though you lose a lot of wealth and economic power, you seem pretty safe from all the conflict that constantly fills the galaxy. Just do your best to avoid having any major corpo find a rare resource on your planet to exploit.
The Miraluka a species that is truly unique in the truest sense of the word.
Using the Dark Souls 3 Fire Keeper as a Miraluka was amazing
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No eyes to see but they still see more than your average Senator.
All serious though, I love the concept of seeing through the force. These fellows are so cool and I really love them and their lore and history. Visas Marr is the best Miraluka
The Miraluka are one of my favorite Species in Star Wars (my main SWOTOR Character is a Male Miraluka Sith Inquisitor), I wish Legends had expanded on them even more. I give them a 7 out of 10 mainly due to Species like the Sith and Chiss having so much Lore about them, had we known even more about them i'd give them a 10.
Something that is simply amazing to me is that it is possible for the blind, via making clicking sounds with their tongue, to learn to echo locate as bats do. To be clear, I am not referring to a phenomenon in Star Wars, but from our real world. I will forever be in awe of a video in which a blind master of echo location is riding a bicycle through a park.
Geetsly: We're gonna take a closer look at the Miraluka.
The Miraluka, who can't see: Am I a joke to you?
Aayla secure has the most beautiful eyes. 😍 My soldier stand attention.
The Miraluka are in my top three favorite Star Wars aliens. Up there with the Kel Dor and Zabrak.
I forgot that Visas Mar was stacked.
good times playing Kotor 2 as a kid in 2005
A fascinating race(and one of my favorite races) from a galaxy far, far away....
Their unique trait is pretty cool!
Does anyone else not understand the title of the video? (At time of writing, it is "Why this Near-Human Species that Evolved Past the Need for Sight - The Secrets of the Miraluka"
It makes sense if you remove the word "That" seems like a typo to me and was meant to say "why this near human species evolved last the need for sight"
And yes it threw me at first too 😂
Honestly this makes me wish I had this ability. I know it sounds crazy as hell but still😂
What about that one female Jedi who survived order 66? Her name escapes me at the moment, but I think she was assigned to a commando squad during the war. Or is she just someone's oc fanfiction character, and I'm confused?
I think naturally force sensitive species (like the Miraluka, Dathomiri, and Sith purebloods) are by far some of the most interesting in this universe! Also is it just me or does "Luka Sene" sound like a Toki Pona word?
Gave up their eyes and diverted all that energy for seeing into baking cakes. Great cakes.
These species are unique as they don’t have eyes per say but vestigial eye sockets. Meaning where there should be eyes is just skin giving a hollow appearance. It’s why they wear some sort of covering over them so not to freak other beings out. Often dressed up traditionally or a simple wrap of some type. You can always know when one of these was in a room. Unfortunately they don’t exactly “see” in fine detail, they get a general sense of what’s happening and act accordingly. It’s a hindrance especially for those wanting to pilots or mechanics.
Visas marr is one of my favourite characters. I thought she was very cool in KOTOR
Guess the Miraluka don't like to see eye to eye with others.
I see what you did there.
I see what you did there. But that sounded messed up.
- sigh -
We can see what you did there thru the Force
I’ve been waiting for this video for 2 years🥲
❤️ :0
A fun bit, in KOTOR 2, when you go first person with Visas Marr, you will actually see the world through the force. Even seeing the other characters as either red or blue depending on how they lean in the force
What will happened if a Geonosian and a Miraluka interacted with one another? One is from the hive-mind society that dislike anyone who did not pay homage to their Queens and the other one came from the society full of seers that despised those who are ignorance because of their own versions of blindness.
Considering their affinity with the force, I honestly didn't understand why we never saw any Miralukas in any of the movies or shows. Considering their physiology, they wouldn't have been an expensive species to show, being probably even less expensive than Vulcans on Star Trek.
The Jedi Order employed a ton of them for administrative roles within the temples. So much so that Order 66 can also be considered a ğ3n0c!ð3 against the species.
For real just throw a blindfold on and call it a day
It still blows my mind that Order 66 wasn't just a purge against the Jedi, but also an outright ğ3n0c!ð3 against the Miraluka. Because there were a ton of Miraluka that aided the Jedi Order in noncombatant in many of their temples, almost to the point where it could be argued that having a job in the administration side of the Jedi Order was common.
Miralukas were pretty cool; 9/10.
The facelessness is a bit disturbing, but that is okay. There are far wore things out there.
Great video!
The Senate evolved in his ABSOLUTE power.
Been waiting for a video based on this character and their people.!! Epic breakdown.!!
Not even the Senate could evolve to have no sight.
Species wide blindness can happen pretty quickly (i.e., cave fish), but it sounds like they had help.
Then again, odd stuff like that happens in The GFFA a lot.
Wouldn't that mean Miraluka would be very bad at fighting droids if they only properly see living beings?
How do they know the difference between a droid and a rock?
Machines give off heat, so it's possible and droids do make noise.
They can see non-living things and inanimate objects such as droids and buildings because the Force resides in all things. But, due to non-living things not having much of a connection to the Force, they can't see them that well. As Geetsly said, those objects would be hazy to them.
@@jacoblansman8147 but their sense of hearing would be heightened to the point that they would know.
@@jacoblansman8147 Exactly what I mean
They would instantly be gunned down against a platoon of droids
@@jotheunissen9274 you are right in thinking that the Miraluka would have a disadvantage against a droid army that they wouldn't have against an army of living things. But given Geetsly's description of their unique Force connection granting them passive Force sight, with many Miraluka also having foresight capabilities, I am led to believe that they would have precognitive abilities either similar to the average Jedi, or surpassing that of the average Jedi. It is a Jedi's precognitive ability that allows them to block and deflect blaster bolts; perhaps the average Miraluka has enough precognitive ability to know where to not be if they want to avoid getting hit by blaster fire. And like the average Jedi, perhaps this precognition isn't always enough to save you from an army.
Perhaps precognition isn't the right word. But it's the closest word I've got so I'm gonna use it.
Miralukas, Cathars, Zabraks, and Humans were very common Jedi during the earlier timeline of the Jedi, though the Cathar would become far less common both because of the Mandalorians attack on their home planet and the aggressive nature of most Cathar.
They may beable to see with the Force, but since they don't have actual eyes, they can't turn their eyelids inside out. Point to eyes here.
Also, if you're looking for another spieces to talk about, how about the Roonan?
Roonan? Aren't they those bulbous headed aliens from TCW 2008, with notables like the Jedi Halsey and a senator named, hehe, Aang?
@@michaelandreipalon359 All of that is correct. You really know you're stuff. :)
@@zexalbrony4799 I try to manage.
my favorite species!!!!
great to see that you've done them justice.
Miraluka are an underrated species.
An entire race of Paul Atreides?
They are one of my favorite races in star wars
Nice
Think how nightmarish it would be to be born whitout sight/hearing and speech. I can’t even imagine
Jerec, the man who would have been God in Star Wars, had it not been for Kyle Katarn. All he needed was a very long time immersed in the power of The Valley of the Jedi and he would have been a being that far stronger than even Abeloth, The Father, The Son and the Daughter put together. And if you think im exaggerating go look up "Would have the Valley of the Jedi made Jerec more powerful than Palpatine?"
Kyle even alluded to the Galactic Empire being a thing of religious might and horror if it were completely reborn under Jerec fully acsended to apotheosis. It would have made Palpatine's Empire look tame and civilized by comparison.
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If I couldn't see or hear or speak I'd probably just give up on life not going to lie😅... There'd be not very many things to do anymore
Awesome episode
Edit. I rank them a 9
Love your channel. 👍
Can you cover the Cathar species all types of Cathar please coz no one else has 😢 thankyou
The monk guy was miraluka? I thought he was simply a blind human 🤔.
Still don't understand why the Force took their eyes 😅 plenty of OP force users have all their senses.
Has no eyes: also has eyebrows.
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I do love me my Visas Marr. She my bae. My heavily traumatized and dangerous bae who just needs someone who can validate her and renew her hope and help patch her broken heart but if I fail I'll probably end up sliced in half by a lightsaber. Yep, seems perfectly safe and healthy to me, can't see any way this could be a bad idea at all 👍