Anomaly

"Not even the Jedi in the Praxeum could describe it. It's... some kind of perversion of the Force. It isn't the light side nor the dark side. It doesn't affect us biologically but it seems to twist and bend the metaphysics in and around the planet."

- Korto Vos

The Anomaly, also called the Anomalous Force, the Malignant Force, or the Anti-Force was an alleged aspect of the Force which seemed to mysteriously only affect the planet Sirta. It was described by Korto Vos as a "malevolent and aggressive" manifestation of the Force which affected relative time and bent the laws of physics and reality. Though described as a "malevolent" phenomena, the Anomalous Force was considered highly unstable and unpredictable, with no apparent will or conscience of its own.

Effects of the Anomaly
The Anomaly had been a part of Sirta since "the dawn of time". Its nature and existence were first discovered by the Eldell, an ancient civilization who vanished thousands of years before the birth of the Galactic Republic. The Anomaly had an effect on the many physical aspects of Sirta. Its most notable feature was that it "distorted" time, or at least time as it was perceived by a species. Korto Vos theorized that by walking further towards the Rift Valley, a geographical landmark of Sirta, the Anomaly caused time outside of the planet to forward time by 20 or even 500 years, and by walking further away from the Valley time seemed to rewind, to the point that one could even go back to a time wherein the Rakata still reigned.

Since the Anomaly caused time to become non-linear, it was difficult to describe how the day and night cycle functioned on the planet. Sirta seemingly never experienced night and appeared to be in a permanent state of daytime. It was later explained by Vos that the Anomaly did not distort time for the rest of the galaxy, but only time on Sirta and how it was experienced by those who inhabited it. The time distortion on Sirta also caused "duplicates" of the inhabitants of the planet to appear, who could even interact with each other. This further muddled the time on the planet to a degree where the Anomaly continued to destabilize until it produced bizarre results.

Appearances

 * Stargazer