Mechu-deru

Mechu-deru was a rare Force power that allowed the user to sense the complex structures of technology, and allowed for intuitive understanding of how complicated structures, including machinery and circuitry, fit together. Some Jedi — especially Jedi tech experts — used this ability to strip down, and then rebuild and upgrade a vast variety of machinery, from blasters to hyperdrives. Sith also used a variant of this ability, Mechu-deru vitae, which infused mechanical objects with the energy of the dark side of the Force.

Belia Darzu used the skill to create and control an army of Technobeasts, in a process called Mechu-deru vitae. Darth Maul used the skill to modify the protocol droid C-3PX into an assassin droid and create his Dark Eye probe droid; he may also have used it to create a crude spider-like lower half for himself shortly after arriving on Lotho Minor. Irek Ismaren used a similar ability to control the Eye of Palpatine. Arca Jeth used a variation of it to destroy droids rather than control them.

Behind the scenes
The name "mechu-deru" was created for The Essential Guide to Episode I, but after its cancellation, was used in The Emperor's Pawns.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
 * Darth Bane: Rule of Two
 * Darth Plagueis
 * Children of the Jedi
 * Children of the Jedi