Obiwan Kenobi

Yes, nature and technology. Both are useful and important (Lee). “Life creates it,” and thus, nature is important to its flow (Star Wars V.31). And the Force is always more powerful than technology. In episodes 4-6, let me show how they were used. On Tatooine, the desert planet in 4, I hid, and watched over Luke. When I was struck down and was afterwards only an apparition, I spoke to Luke as he flew in his X-Wing near the end of the film. “Use the Force, Luke,” I said (Star Wars IV.47). He switched off his targeting computer, which had already failed another fighter pilot. The goal was to set off a chain reaction of explosions in the Death Star by shooting two proton torpedoes into an exhaust port, a two-meter target. One young man had said, during the briefing, “That’s too small, even for a computer” (Star Wars IV.42). He did not understand the power of the Force. Luke, by applying his knowledge of the Force, was able to fly in such a way, and fire those proton torpedoes in such a way, that he could avoid his own death by the efforts of Darth Vader, and destroy the Death Star. Because he could feel it “flow through” him, he became the only hope to destroy the “technological terror [the empire had] constructed” (Star Wars IV.20). Having destroyed the Death Star, they returned to the moon, Yavin 4, where the Rebel Alliance had gathered years ago.
Now, since the empire knew the location of the Rebel base, to what place from this very natural habitat would the Rebels go? They would go to Hoth, where the storms rage, and the cold is nigh unbearable. Yes, they would rely upon nature to avoid being found by the emperor. There, it was difficult to adjust the speeders to the cold (Star Wars V.6), the power of technology succumbed to the powers of nature.

When the empire found the rebels on Hoth, it was through a combination of probe droids searching the galaxy and Vader using the dark side of the Force. When Luke was on Dagobah with Yoda, he could see Han and Leia and Chewy, his friends, at Bespin, without the use of technology. Luke was surrounded by living things and his vision through the Force was better than Vader’s who was in deep space.

I might go on into episode 6, and show how Luke and the rebels and the Ewoks were able to overcome evil and technology on Endor. But it’s clear the Force is stronger in episodes 4-6 for people and creatures in nature, and they overpower technology. They rely less on technological powers than does the Dark Side of the Force. My apprentice and good friend, Luke Skywalker, experienced the conflict between nature and technology in his training and growth as a Jedi.