I'm new to this system, and am reading over the Bind Force Power. A question came to my mind as I read over the description. "If the user used any Dark Side Force pips to generate Force pips, the target also suffers 1 wound per Force pip spent on the check (ignoring soak)."

Now, I'm not quite sure how to interpret this. Say I'm rolling three Force dice to use Bind on a single target, and get a total of 5 Force pips, a couple of which are Dark Side pips. I spend a Destiny Point to use the Dark Side pips so that I can deal damage. At the very least, I can tell I'm doing at least 1 damage here from the Dark Side pip spent to activate the basic power. But would I deal an amount of damage equal to the pips rolled (Effectively "spending" them purely for the purpose of dealing damage), or would I have to spend additional pips by triggering the Range, Magnitude, Control, and Strength upgrades in order to do additional damage? If the former is the case, I can see this being a pretty effective Dark Side power, since it can deal damage that ignores soak. But if the latter is true, then it means having to trigger a lot of upgrades that might not fit the context (Magnitude when I'm only facing one enemy, Range when the enemy I'm already facing is in Short range already).

Also, I'm curious if Duration would increase the duration of the damage as well, effectively allowing you to Force Choke someone over the course of several turns, or just the disorient from Strength and the strain from Control?

Yeah, you can't just "spend" pips on nothing, just to get damage. You have to spend them on stuff, namely to activate upgrades.

Keep in mind that this damage ignores soak!

Per the rules, the Duration upgrade only affects the immobilized and staggered effects.

Thanks. I'm used to playing a couple other FFG things where you can spend things on nothing (X-Wing, mostly. Spending Focus tokens to convert zero eyeball results, ect), so I wasn't really sure how the rules worked out here. Kinda makes me wonder why Force Choking two people allows you to deal more damage to each of them than just trying to Force Choke a single person. You'd think it would kind of be the other way around. But I digress.

Thanks again for the clarification.