It is a tool, yes, but it is a tool the might of which surpasses all other tools, even your Starkiller. But if we start debating that, we'll end up bickering like Grand Moff Tarkin and Lord Vader.
I'm not saying they didn't play a role or that you didn't work hard. I'm saying it was a confluence of events with so many different variables that got you where you are today. The Force moved through your father, moved through that Imperial officer, moved through you. And, if you are to obtain what I know you truly want, it will be due, in part, at least, in great part, to the fact that the Force moves through me.