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[Star wars]The force and cybernetics

Do cybernetics limit,decrease or erase ones ability to use the Force?If so then by how much?For example Maul lost his legs and Vader lost all his limbs and his lungs were damaged,so did they loose their potential and did their power decrease?
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It's hard to say, and it doesn't really scale well with the only known person we know had actual potential lost. Anakin for example didn't lose any potential when he lost his arm to Dooku, but he *did* lose potential at Mustafar - over half of it, in fact, despite the fact that he didn't lose over half of his body. George Lucas said that Anakin went from having the potential to be twice as powerful as Palpatine, to only being capable of about 80% of Palpatine's power.

We've never heard anyone say that Maul or Luke or any of the others who lost body parts lost any of their potential.

In the Legends novel *Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader*, the author tries to reconcile this with a musing from Palpatine - that the loss in potential was possibly entirely psychological; that the fateful duel on Mustafar broke Anakin as much mentally as it did physically.