[member="Matthew Mar'Tin"]
good luck with that. With an open community, you're going to have force users. At least my character is Force sensitive, but isn't trained and probably never will be. I think I'd prefer her to not be trained to use the Force, but rather become aware of the implications, learn how to meditate to ease her war stress, and beyond that just keep using the passives that Force sensitivity tends to provide, like quicker reflexes and uncanny intuition... nothing really special.
As for having an Empire over my shoulder, I'm on the fence about it. If it ins't plot-locked and a viable rebellion can be done and massive undermining efforts can be perpetrated to gut them from the inside out prior to the grand end-game battle series without someone telling me it cannot be done because it hasn't been long enough and the galaxy hasn't suffered enough yet, then I'd be more for it. If it's the opposite, then I'd have my reservations and advise against it.