"I've...never heard of this New York place, but it could be possible. The Force is in itself a sort of all-encompassing energy that exists everywhere and in everything. Some just turn out to be more sensitive to it than others, and even fewer can actually tap into it and make use of it."

And yet it had seemed like there had been so many that had been gathered to learn, to become Jedi. That hurt would never go away, the fact that they were perhaps all gone now.

Cal shakes his head a little. "Nothing bad about that. And people can still do a lot as they are. ...back where I'm from, it's definitely unsafe to be known as a Jedi now. I've spent the past five years hiding what I am because things suddenly changed, and for some reason we've been branded as a threat when we'd been fighting as peacekeepers."