Plant Surge
EnergyLight- Cost
- 3 FP
- Activation
- Action
- Range
- 30 ft (15 ft radius)
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 7+
Effect
As an Action, you pour the living Force into the plant life of a 15 ft radius area centered on a point within 30 ft, and roots, vines, and branches surge into sudden, grasping growth. The area becomes difficult terrain for the duration. When you cast the power, and again at the start of each of your turns while you concentrate, every creature in the area must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your Force DC or be Restrained by clutching vines (a Restrained creature can use its action to repeat the save and break free). In a barren place with no plant life to call on, the power has no effect.
At the Table
The party is pinned in a Kashyyyk understory when the Jedi Consular spends 3 FP and Action to call Plant Surge on a point 30 ft out, erupting a 15 ft radius of grasping roots. Three advancing trandoshan slavers fail their Strength saves against her Force DC and are Restrained by clutching vines, and the whole tangle becomes difficult terrain that strangles their charge. Each round she holds concentration, the snare clamps down again at the start of her turn — one slaver burns his entire action to wrench free, only to be re-grabbed the next round. The catch: try this on a bare durasteel landing pad and nothing happens — no plant life, no power.
In the Lore
Plant Surge belongs to the Alter discipline of Force tradition — the art of reaching into living things and bending growth itself, a close cousin of the broader Control over the living Force. In Star Wars Legends it appears as a recognized Force technique for accelerating and commanding plant life, the same life-attuned current that let Jedi draw strength from the green of a world like Kashyyyk or the overgrown wilds of Felucia. It sits firmly on the Light side, an expression of harmony with the living Force rather than domination, and is favored by Consulars and naturalist Jedi who treat a forest as an ally rather than a battlefield. Where a Sith might wither and corrupt, a Light-side practitioner coaxes the surrounding flora into a sudden, grasping bloom.