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Holy holy holy holy holy holy crap crap. Good job Silly Dan. --MarcK [talk] 04:36, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks. I didn't think it would get so long.... — Silly Dan 04:38, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)
  • One note: There's an alien seen in the Alliance of Free Planets meeting in Star Wars 90: The Choice who may or may not be a Gotal. I suspect this, plus the Gotal in "Truce at Bakura", was the main source for claiming Antar 4 was in the Alliance of Free Planets at the time. But it's not clear, so I'm not adding the appearance. — Silly Dan 13:56, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Didn't some author put it that the Gotals didn't like Force users because use of the Force could cause Gotals pain?

• Late response: that's in The Truce at Bakura. —Silly Dan _(talk) 02:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Alternate quotesEdit

Here are a couple of possibilities for the main quote. None of them are stellar, but I offer them as alternatives anyway:

jSarek 05:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

• These are good quotes. They should be used for section headings if not as a lead. I especially like the third one. --Eyrezer 09:42, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Switching to the third one. —Silly Dan _(talk) 21:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
    • The first one has been added as well. The second isn't all that good, however: for every source that says "maybe they could pick up the Force" there's another which says "yes, they definitely could" (like The Truce at Bakura, The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons, and Nightlily.) —Silly Dan _(talk) 02:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Gotals sensing the Force Edit

There are contradictory sources which talk about how Gotal sensed the Force:

• Alien Anthology and Ultimate Alien Anthology say "a number of Jedi scholars believed that a properly trained Gotal may even be able to detect the Force," but both Jedi and Imperial research was "inconclusive."
• Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races and The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook say nothing.
• The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons describes the reaction to the Force as "painful" compared to the "unpleasant 'buzzing' sensation" they pick up from droids.
• The Databank says "Gotals detect the Force as an indistinct buzzing."
• Elusion Illusion apparently says the sensation was painful. (I haven't read it.)
• The Essential Guide to Alien Species says "it is said that they can even detect the Force, although this has yet to be proven."
• In The Truce at Bakura, Luke passes a Gotal guard. Remembering that Gotals felt the Force as a "vague buzzing" in their horns, he moves quickly past him to avoid causing the Gotal a headache.
• In Nightlily: The Lovers' Tale, Feltipern Trevagg perception of a Jedi Master as "a buzzing, shimmering sense", "a thick, strange buzzing in his cones that he had been told long ago" signified the Force, "a rushing, buzzing sensation in his cones, [a] strange humming confusion, almost like the presence of a high energy machine", and a "roar ... like the drumming of a high-desert gravel storm." Never specifically described as painful, though. —Silly Dan _(talk) 23:36, 25 June 2007 (UTC)