The purpose of Jedi/Sith training is to make one more in touch with one’s inner symbionts and perhaps increase one’s physicality and coordination to better match the inner power. Midichlorians are all powerful and devoutly respected but are apolitical, neither good nor evil.

Did Midichlorians ruin Star Wars?

Midi-chlorians made becoming a Jedi something that you had to be chosen for, rather than earn. They also grounded one of the most enigmatic elements of the Star Wars universe and made it clear that such fantastic ideas were never going to appear again.

Do Star Wars fans like Midichlorians?

Disney was well-aware of how fans reacted to Midichlorians, and by and large, Star Wars has ignored Midichlorians ever since George Lucas introduced them in the prequels. One fan even said, “Honestly I think this was the best possible way to bring Midichlorians back.

Of course, they were named after the Star Wars invention. In 2006, a lab in Milan, Italy, discovered a new type of bacteria that lives inside the mitochondrial organelles of ticks — a new depth of symbiosis never observed before. So, yes, midichlorians are indeed bacteria. Technically.