SPECULATION Did Snoke Force drain Luke?

I'd be massively shocked if this Force draining idea isn't in the trilogy in some way...


This is how I think it goes down:

A thousand years ago (which could just mean a very long time ago), something happened on Jakku at a particular site that was significant for the galaxy.
Jakku was once a rich and fertile planet which was turned to dust.
Palpatine excavated the significant site when he became Emperor, buried something there and had Rax guard it.
When Palpatine died and Rax orchestrated the Battle of Jakku, he took whatever was there away with him.
A few years later and Rey is born - with incredible power. And it seems that this signifies life returning to Jakku (the flower growing in the AT-AT).
In Aftermath, Tashu, Palpatine's adviser, talks about the ancient Sith power of Force draining.

I believe that a long long time ago, either a direct connection to the Force/the Dark Side or whatever occurred on Jakku - maybe through some kind of Force tree. A similar tree existed on Ahch-To where the Jedi built there first temple. They worshipped the tree and connected to the Force through it. The twin tree, on Jakku was abused by the Sith who built their first Sith temple there. They plundered the tree for its power, connecting them deeply to the Dark Side (making them very powerful). This abuse of the tree drained the Force itself from Jakku rendering it dead. Later, the Jedi defeated the Sith, took the Force tree or a sapling and perhaps took it to another of their temples.

Many years later Palpatine learns of this. He of course acquires the Force trees and takes one back to Jakku where he buries it again - hoping to connect with the Dark Side itself and become supremely powerful - draining the Force from all life and empowering himself with it. It'll take time for the tree to grow however and he dies before he can use its power. Rax however, takes over. The power the tree provides him mutates him. He becomes utterly corrupted and becomes Snoke.

Then, after the tree is removed, the Force/life begins to return to Jakku. Rey is born and during her time on Jakku, near the source of where the tree was, is imbued with great power (we know from Shattered Empire that the Force trees themselves can offer Force power).

Previously, the Empire under Palpatine's guidance sought to weaponise the Force tree and find a way in their research/weapons facility to use it to force drain environments and people. Rax/Snoke succeeded in this and used it on Luke. This weakened Luke but he managed to escape (after witnessing the destruction of his Jedi students) and he goes to the First Jedi Temple to heal by the original Jedi force tree and hopefully one day return to destroy Snoke. Luke knows he is the only one with the knowledge to stop Snoke so it was imperative to remain in exile, even when his friends and family were in grave danger. Finally, a girl turns up with a signal that the Force has indicated it is time to strike back against the Dark Side....

--- Double Post Merged, Dec 1, 2016, Original Post Date: Dec 1, 2016 ---

Edit: It might be however that Rey's father worked for the Empire at the research facility and after being betrayed by Rax, took the tree himself. That's why Rey was born so powerful. She was born in the presence of the tree. Rax, desperately needing the tree to heal himself/get more power turns to Tashu (who he frees from prison) and discovers more about the Force draining that he [Tashu] spoke of in Aftermath. Otherwise, Rax simply frees Tashu to help him plunder the Force tree/Force draining weapon.

 

Force tree in Shattered Empire.
Force tree spotted on Ahch-To.

It's happening. Accept it.

 

Wookiepedia:

An ancient Force-sensitive tree grew at the heart of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, a massive ziggurat that acted both as a school and a monastery for the Jedi Order. After the Clone Wars, when Darth Sidious declared himself Emperor of the galaxy, the temple was converted into the Imperial Palace and the tree was removed. Fragments were kept in a secret Imperial base, from which they were later recovered by Luke Skywalker and Shara Bey.

 

Ha! Thanks!

Yes, the idea lends itself to how they designed the Starkiller base but also provides a future weapon that is different a more deadly - a weapon that doesn't just destroy but literally absorbs the force for someone use as if they're a god. This is the kind of power I imagine Palpatine craved and singing that would make episode IX exciting without regurgitating another Death Star idea!

"The ability to destroy a plant is insignificant next to the power of the force".

The fact they mentioned force draining, brought in Force trees and have alll this stuff on Jakku that links into both gives me great confidence in his theory.

 

You know, the name of the track for when Luke enters the cave on Dagobah is "The Magic Tree".
I'd forgotten that.

In an official behind the scenes picture of a concept art meeting for TFA there was a picture of said scene in the background. I theories a number of times that this place would figure somehow in the sequels. I also wondered if here would be more detail given about why Yoda was in Dagobah.

What if the "evil tree" was the reason? What if he was guarding it? What if Luke is in Ahch-To for similar reasons? And what of the two trees that Luke discovered in Shattered Empire with Shara Bey? Luke was surprised that there were two trees. And was specifically looking for the tree that Palpatine stole from the temple on coruscant. I'm wondering if these trees come in pairs (twins) and provide both light and dark energy to those that are around them.

We know that the trees can imbue people with the force itself. So I think there is a chance that, if Palpatine did indeed place another tree on Jakku, that he would've sought ways to do the opposite with them and/or imbue himself permanently with greater power/immortality. He just missed the chance but Snoke didn't - though it corrupted him totally. Perhaps...