Leia is a character that is rapidly becoming a favorite of mine. She is both underrated and underused, as well, which presents a perfect opportunity and incentive to create a respect thread for her.
Note: This is obviously not finished, or anywhere close. I also don't have much time, so this is a thread I plan to make over an extensive period of time. I am currently using FotJ for my material, first.
Respect Leia Organa Solo:
"You're too old to start being a real Jedi now."
"I think I need to teach you some manners."
Source: Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
Speed
Leia runs several kilometers in a few seconds:
Gallery
She steps out of range of Yaqueel's lightsaber, causing it to miss:
Yaqueel gave a startled cry, her knees buckling as she landed in front of Not-Leia. She activated her lightsaber and flicked her wrist around in a clumsy attack, but Not-Leia had already stepped out of range.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She runs fast enough to be nearly three stories above by the time Han Solo finishes three sentences:
"Jaden, Avinoam, we need backup! Everyone else, get that crate fired up and out of here. We've got peepers across the way."
By the time he had finished, Leia was bounding up the stairs toward the pedbridge three levels above.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Telekinesis
Leia hurls a boarwolf:
She extended a hand and Force-hurled the second one back into a fourth animal that was charging. The boarwolf struck its packmate heavily, and both beasts went sprawling.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Although she is a powerful telekinetic, Leia's skills with levitation are somewhat subpar for what one would expect from her. She has difficulty lifting Bazel, and upon being distracted, her concentration falters immediately:
Tekli's medication dart had already put a stop to the convulsions, so she used the Force to lift the big Ramoan from between the wrecked speeders.
Leia had heard many times that "size matters not" when levitating an object, and perhaps that was true... for whoever said it. But for her, it was all she could do to start Bazel floating toward the turbolift, and she was already beginning to tire when Han's voice cried out behind her.
"Hey, I think we just lost another two!"
Leia's concentration failed almost instantly, and Bazel hit the floor so hard it shook.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia pins Han Solo into his seat after pulling back by unknown means:
A murmur of surprise rustled through the courtroom, and Han Solo rose, his mouth open to shout - until his wife pulled him back into his seat and used the Force to pin him there.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She pulls a rifle out of a Mandalorian's hand, throws it out through a viewport, and then throws the aforementioned Mandalorian out the same viewport:
She made a slapping motion with her free hand, and the weapon came free of the gloved hands holding it, then went flying along the face of the building. In the next heartbeart she used the Force to grab hold one of the empty hands, then jerked the figure in red Mandalorian armor out through the viewport and sent him tumbling down through the skylane into the dark chasm beyond.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia notes that she could have sent five Mandalorians tumbling away with a series of telekinetic shoves, essentially BFRing them into traffic terrain:
Had these Mandalorians been attempting to flee, Leia would have certainly let them go and followed the crate. Had they been coming after her, she would have been happy to send them tumbling away with a series of Force shoves, so they could take their chances bouncing through the freighter traffic below.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She sends a Mandalorian flying:
Leia extended her hand toward the leading Mandalorian and sent him streaking downward with a violent Force shove. He shot through the traffic lane below in a streak of white flame, causing several booming crashes as startled freighter pilots slammed their vehicles into one another and the surrounding buildings.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia sends a Mandalorian somersaulting over an edge via telekinesis:
Still only halfway back across the bridge, Leia reached out in the Force toward the same commando. As his head rocked back, she gave it a powerful tug and sent him somersaulting over the safety rail. The Mando's jetpack ignited almost instantly, but that merely sent him into a second-long spiral, which ended in a crimson plume as he crashed through the bed of a passing hoversled.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She jerks a blaster rifle:
Shaking her head at Han's defiance in the face of death - and loving him for it - Leia reached out in the Force and jerked the blaster rifle aside, though not quickly enough to tell whether the red spray that erupted beneath the muzzle was Han's blood or the balcony's molten durasteel.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Sense/Telepathy/Empathy
Leia feels Jaina through their Force-bond, and sends her a sense of urgency:
She felt Jaina through their Force-bond, and sent her daughter a fresh sense of urgency.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
She senses terror in the Force, and is able to trace it to its originator. She then senses the source's pain:
A sudden shrill cry soared over the other screams, and Leia felt a sharp stab of terror in the Force. Without pausing to ascertain what was going on with her five senses, Leia leapt upward, landed on the banister again, and then jumped down toward the source of the fear.
...
His pain shot through Leia, red-hot and urgent - the boy had suffered broken bones at the very least - but his terror was even more overpowering than the physical pain.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
She senses the approach of a boarwolf:
Leia sensed a fifth one coming behind her and whirled. She decapitated it immediately.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Leia checks on Jaina Solo through the Force:
Leia closed her eyes for a moment, and Han knew that she was reaching out to check on their daughter through the Force. "She's with Jag, isn't she?"
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She senses several Mandalorians, one in pain:
By the time he had finished, Leia was bounding up the stairs toward the pedbridge three levels above. She was in contact with the Force again, and she could feel waves of ire and pain rolling toward them from the Krabbis hostel. It was impossible to tell from their presences whether they were Mandalorians, but there seemed to be about half a dozen of them, all relatively calm and focused on the task at hand.
When Han started to pound up the stairs behind her, Leia paused long enough to look down and give him a situation report. "I feel about six to eight of them, one in pain."
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She senses danger:
Leia had barely reached the top of the stairs when a new danger and looked across the skylane to see the coil-wrapped barrel of magrifle protruding through one of the shattered viewports.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Force Bellow
Leia augments her voice with the Force:
"Blast it," Leia murmured under her breath, then, more loudly, using the Force to augment her voice, she shouted, "Everyone remain calm! I'm certain it's just a glitch and will be remedied soon. We're in no danger."
Leia is a character that is rapidly becoming a favorite of mine. She is both underrated and underused, as well, which presents a perfect opportunity and incentive to create a respect thread for her.
Note: This is obviously not finished, or anywhere close. I also don't have much time, so this is a thread I plan to make over an extensive period of time. I am currently using FotJ for my material, first.
Respect Leia Organa Solo:
"You're too old to start being a real Jedi now."
"I think I need to teach you some manners."
Source: Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
Speed
Leia runs several kilometers in a few seconds:
Gallery
She steps out of range of Yaqueel's lightsaber, causing it to miss:
Yaqueel gave a startled cry, her knees buckling as she landed in front of Not-Leia. She activated her lightsaber and flicked her wrist around in a clumsy attack, but Not-Leia had already stepped out of range.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She runs fast enough to be nearly three stories above by the time Han Solo finishes three sentences:
"Jaden, Avinoam, we need backup! Everyone else, get that crate fired up and out of here. We've got peepers across the way."
By the time he had finished, Leia was bounding up the stairs toward the pedbridge three levels above.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Telekinesis
Leia hurls a boarwolf:
She extended a hand and Force-hurled the second one back into a fourth animal that was charging. The boarwolf struck its packmate heavily, and both beasts went sprawling.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Although she is a powerful telekinetic, Leia's skills with levitation are somewhat subpar for what one would expect from her. She has difficulty lifting Bazel, and upon being distracted, her concentration falters immediately:
Tekli's medication dart had already put a stop to the convulsions, so she used the Force to lift the big Ramoan from between the wrecked speeders.
Leia had heard many times that "size matters not" when levitating an object, and perhaps that was true... for whoever said it. But for her, it was all she could do to start Bazel floating toward the turbolift, and she was already beginning to tire when Han's voice cried out behind her.
"Hey, I think we just lost another two!"
Leia's concentration failed almost instantly, and Bazel hit the floor so hard it shook.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia pins Han Solo into his seat after pulling back by unknown means:
A murmur of surprise rustled through the courtroom, and Han Solo rose, his mouth open to shout - until his wife pulled him back into his seat and used the Force to pin him there.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She pulls a rifle out of a Mandalorian's hand, throws it out through a viewport, and then throws the aforementioned Mandalorian out the same viewport:
She made a slapping motion with her free hand, and the weapon came free of the gloved hands holding it, then went flying along the face of the building. In the next heartbeart she used the Force to grab hold one of the empty hands, then jerked the figure in red Mandalorian armor out through the viewport and sent him tumbling down through the skylane into the dark chasm beyond.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia notes that she could have sent five Mandalorians tumbling away with a series of telekinetic shoves, essentially BFRing them into traffic terrain:
Had these Mandalorians been attempting to flee, Leia would have certainly let them go and followed the crate. Had they been coming after her, she would have been happy to send them tumbling away with a series of Force shoves, so they could take their chances bouncing through the freighter traffic below.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She sends a Mandalorian flying:
Leia extended her hand toward the leading Mandalorian and sent him streaking downward with a violent Force shove. He shot through the traffic lane below in a streak of white flame, causing several booming crashes as startled freighter pilots slammed their vehicles into one another and the surrounding buildings.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia sends a Mandalorian somersaulting over an edge via telekinesis:
Still only halfway back across the bridge, Leia reached out in the Force toward the same commando. As his head rocked back, she gave it a powerful tug and sent him somersaulting over the safety rail. The Mando's jetpack ignited almost instantly, but that merely sent him into a second-long spiral, which ended in a crimson plume as he crashed through the bed of a passing hoversled.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She jerks a blaster rifle:
Shaking her head at Han's defiance in the face of death - and loving him for it - Leia reached out in the Force and jerked the blaster rifle aside, though not quickly enough to tell whether the red spray that erupted beneath the muzzle was Han's blood or the balcony's molten durasteel.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Sense/Telepathy/Empathy
Leia feels Jaina through their Force-bond, and sends her a sense of urgency:
She felt Jaina through their Force-bond, and sent her daughter a fresh sense of urgency.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
She senses terror in the Force, and is able to trace it to its originator. She then senses the source's pain:
A sudden shrill cry soared over the other screams, and Leia felt a sharp stab of terror in the Force. Without pausing to ascertain what was going on with her five senses, Leia leapt upward, landed on the banister again, and then jumped down toward the source of the fear.
...
His pain shot through Leia, red-hot and urgent - the boy had suffered broken bones at the very least - but his terror was even more overpowering than the physical pain.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
She senses the approach of a boarwolf:
Leia sensed a fifth one coming behind her and whirled. She decapitated it immediately.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Leia checks on Jaina Solo through the Force:
Leia closed her eyes for a moment, and Han knew that she was reaching out to check on their daughter through the Force. "She's with Jag, isn't she?"
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She senses several Mandalorians, one in pain:
By the time he had finished, Leia was bounding up the stairs toward the pedbridge three levels above. She was in contact with the Force again, and she could feel waves of ire and pain rolling toward them from the Krabbis hostel. It was impossible to tell from their presences whether they were Mandalorians, but there seemed to be about half a dozen of them, all relatively calm and focused on the task at hand.
When Han started to pound up the stairs behind her, Leia paused long enough to look down and give him a situation report. "I feel about six to eight of them, one in pain."
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She senses danger:
Leia had barely reached the top of the stairs when a new danger and looked across the skylane to see the coil-wrapped barrel of magrifle protruding through one of the shattered viewports.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Force Bellow
Leia augments her voice with the Force:
"Blast it," Leia murmured under her breath, then, more loudly, using the Force to augment her voice, she shouted, "Everyone remain calm! I'm certain it's just a glitch and will be remedied soon. We're in no danger."
Leia is a character that is rapidly becoming a favorite of mine. She is both underrated and underused, as well, which presents a perfect opportunity and incentive to create a respect thread for her.
Note: This is obviously not finished, or anywhere close. I also don't have much time, so this is a thread I plan to make over an extensive period of time. I am currently using FotJ for my material, first.
Respect Leia Organa Solo:
"You're too old to start being a real Jedi now."
"I think I need to teach you some manners."
Source: Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
Speed
Leia runs several kilometers in a few seconds:
Gallery
She steps out of range of Yaqueel's lightsaber, causing it to miss:
Yaqueel gave a startled cry, her knees buckling as she landed in front of Not-Leia. She activated her lightsaber and flicked her wrist around in a clumsy attack, but Not-Leia had already stepped out of range.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She runs fast enough to be nearly three stories above by the time Han Solo finishes three sentences:
"Jaden, Avinoam, we need backup! Everyone else, get that crate fired up and out of here. We've got peepers across the way."
By the time he had finished, Leia was bounding up the stairs toward the pedbridge three levels above.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Telekinesis
Leia hurls a boarwolf:
She extended a hand and Force-hurled the second one back into a fourth animal that was charging. The boarwolf struck its packmate heavily, and both beasts went sprawling.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Although she is a powerful telekinetic, Leia's skills with levitation are somewhat subpar for what one would expect from her. She has difficulty lifting Bazel, and upon being distracted, her concentration falters immediately:
Tekli's medication dart had already put a stop to the convulsions, so she used the Force to lift the big Ramoan from between the wrecked speeders.
Leia had heard many times that "size matters not" when levitating an object, and perhaps that was true... for whoever said it. But for her, it was all she could do to start Bazel floating toward the turbolift, and she was already beginning to tire when Han's voice cried out behind her.
"Hey, I think we just lost another two!"
Leia's concentration failed almost instantly, and Bazel hit the floor so hard it shook.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia pins Han Solo into his seat after pulling back by unknown means:
A murmur of surprise rustled through the courtroom, and Han Solo rose, his mouth open to shout - until his wife pulled him back into his seat and used the Force to pin him there.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She pulls a rifle out of a Mandalorian's hand, throws it out through a viewport, and then throws the aforementioned Mandalorian out the same viewport:
She made a slapping motion with her free hand, and the weapon came free of the gloved hands holding it, then went flying along the face of the building. In the next heartbeart she used the Force to grab hold one of the empty hands, then jerked the figure in red Mandalorian armor out through the viewport and sent him tumbling down through the skylane into the dark chasm beyond.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia notes that she could have sent five Mandalorians tumbling away with a series of telekinetic shoves, essentially BFRing them into traffic terrain:
Had these Mandalorians been attempting to flee, Leia would have certainly let them go and followed the crate. Had they been coming after her, she would have been happy to send them tumbling away with a series of Force shoves, so they could take their chances bouncing through the freighter traffic below.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She sends a Mandalorian flying:
Leia extended her hand toward the leading Mandalorian and sent him streaking downward with a violent Force shove. He shot through the traffic lane below in a streak of white flame, causing several booming crashes as startled freighter pilots slammed their vehicles into one another and the surrounding buildings.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia sends a Mandalorian somersaulting over an edge via telekinesis:
Still only halfway back across the bridge, Leia reached out in the Force toward the same commando. As his head rocked back, she gave it a powerful tug and sent him somersaulting over the safety rail. The Mando's jetpack ignited almost instantly, but that merely sent him into a second-long spiral, which ended in a crimson plume as he crashed through the bed of a passing hoversled.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She jerks a blaster rifle:
Shaking her head at Han's defiance in the face of death - and loving him for it - Leia reached out in the Force and jerked the blaster rifle aside, though not quickly enough to tell whether the red spray that erupted beneath the muzzle was Han's blood or the balcony's molten durasteel.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Sense/Telepathy/Empathy
Leia feels Jaina through their Force-bond, and sends her a sense of urgency:
She felt Jaina through their Force-bond, and sent her daughter a fresh sense of urgency.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
She senses terror in the Force, and is able to trace it to its originator. She then senses the source's pain:
A sudden shrill cry soared over the other screams, and Leia felt a sharp stab of terror in the Force. Without pausing to ascertain what was going on with her five senses, Leia leapt upward, landed on the banister again, and then jumped down toward the source of the fear.
...
His pain shot through Leia, red-hot and urgent - the boy had suffered broken bones at the very least - but his terror was even more overpowering than the physical pain.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
She senses the approach of a boarwolf:
Leia sensed a fifth one coming behind her and whirled. She decapitated it immediately.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Leia checks on Jaina Solo through the Force:
Leia closed her eyes for a moment, and Han knew that she was reaching out to check on their daughter through the Force. "She's with Jag, isn't she?"
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She senses several Mandalorians, one in pain:
By the time he had finished, Leia was bounding up the stairs toward the pedbridge three levels above. She was in contact with the Force again, and she could feel waves of ire and pain rolling toward them from the Krabbis hostel. It was impossible to tell from their presences whether they were Mandalorians, but there seemed to be about half a dozen of them, all relatively calm and focused on the task at hand.
When Han started to pound up the stairs behind her, Leia paused long enough to look down and give him a situation report. "I feel about six to eight of them, one in pain."
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She senses danger:
Leia had barely reached the top of the stairs when a new danger and looked across the skylane to see the coil-wrapped barrel of magrifle protruding through one of the shattered viewports.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Force Bellow
Leia augments her voice with the Force:
"Blast it," Leia murmured under her breath, then, more loudly, using the Force to augment her voice, she shouted, "Everyone remain calm! I'm certain it's just a glitch and will be remedied soon. We're in no danger."
Leia is a character that is rapidly becoming a favorite of mine. She is both underrated and underused, as well, which presents a perfect opportunity and incentive to create a respect thread for her.
Note: This is obviously not finished, or anywhere close. I also don't have much time, so this is a thread I plan to make over an extensive period of time. I am currently using FotJ for my material, first.
Respect Leia Organa Solo:
"You're too old to start being a real Jedi now."
"I think I need to teach you some manners."
Source: Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
Speed
Leia runs several kilometers in a few seconds:
Gallery
She steps out of range of Yaqueel's lightsaber, causing it to miss:
Yaqueel gave a startled cry, her knees buckling as she landed in front of Not-Leia. She activated her lightsaber and flicked her wrist around in a clumsy attack, but Not-Leia had already stepped out of range.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She runs fast enough to be nearly three stories above by the time Han Solo finishes three sentences:
"Jaden, Avinoam, we need backup! Everyone else, get that crate fired up and out of here. We've got peepers across the way."
By the time he had finished, Leia was bounding up the stairs toward the pedbridge three levels above.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Telekinesis
Leia hurls a boarwolf:
She extended a hand and Force-hurled the second one back into a fourth animal that was charging. The boarwolf struck its packmate heavily, and both beasts went sprawling.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Although she is a powerful telekinetic, Leia's skills with levitation are somewhat subpar for what one would expect from her. She has difficulty lifting Bazel, and upon being distracted, her concentration falters immediately:
Tekli's medication dart had already put a stop to the convulsions, so she used the Force to lift the big Ramoan from between the wrecked speeders.
Leia had heard many times that "size matters not" when levitating an object, and perhaps that was true... for whoever said it. But for her, it was all she could do to start Bazel floating toward the turbolift, and she was already beginning to tire when Han's voice cried out behind her.
"Hey, I think we just lost another two!"
Leia's concentration failed almost instantly, and Bazel hit the floor so hard it shook.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia pins Han Solo into his seat after pulling back by unknown means:
A murmur of surprise rustled through the courtroom, and Han Solo rose, his mouth open to shout - until his wife pulled him back into his seat and used the Force to pin him there.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She pulls a rifle out of a Mandalorian's hand, throws it out through a viewport, and then throws the aforementioned Mandalorian out the same viewport:
She made a slapping motion with her free hand, and the weapon came free of the gloved hands holding it, then went flying along the face of the building. In the next heartbeart she used the Force to grab hold one of the empty hands, then jerked the figure in red Mandalorian armor out through the viewport and sent him tumbling down through the skylane into the dark chasm beyond.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia notes that she could have sent five Mandalorians tumbling away with a series of telekinetic shoves, essentially BFRing them into traffic terrain:
Had these Mandalorians been attempting to flee, Leia would have certainly let them go and followed the crate. Had they been coming after her, she would have been happy to send them tumbling away with a series of Force shoves, so they could take their chances bouncing through the freighter traffic below.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She sends a Mandalorian flying:
Leia extended her hand toward the leading Mandalorian and sent him streaking downward with a violent Force shove. He shot through the traffic lane below in a streak of white flame, causing several booming crashes as startled freighter pilots slammed their vehicles into one another and the surrounding buildings.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia sends a Mandalorian somersaulting over an edge via telekinesis:
Still only halfway back across the bridge, Leia reached out in the Force toward the same commando. As his head rocked back, she gave it a powerful tug and sent him somersaulting over the safety rail. The Mando's jetpack ignited almost instantly, but that merely sent him into a second-long spiral, which ended in a crimson plume as he crashed through the bed of a passing hoversled.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She jerks a blaster rifle:
Shaking her head at Han's defiance in the face of death - and loving him for it - Leia reached out in the Force and jerked the blaster rifle aside, though not quickly enough to tell whether the red spray that erupted beneath the muzzle was Han's blood or the balcony's molten durasteel.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Sense/Telepathy/Empathy
Leia feels Jaina through their Force-bond, and sends her a sense of urgency:
She felt Jaina through their Force-bond, and sent her daughter a fresh sense of urgency.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
She senses terror in the Force, and is able to trace it to its originator. She then senses the source's pain:
A sudden shrill cry soared over the other screams, and Leia felt a sharp stab of terror in the Force. Without pausing to ascertain what was going on with her five senses, Leia leapt upward, landed on the banister again, and then jumped down toward the source of the fear.
...
His pain shot through Leia, red-hot and urgent - the boy had suffered broken bones at the very least - but his terror was even more overpowering than the physical pain.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
She senses the approach of a boarwolf:
Leia sensed a fifth one coming behind her and whirled. She decapitated it immediately.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Leia checks on Jaina Solo through the Force:
Leia closed her eyes for a moment, and Han knew that she was reaching out to check on their daughter through the Force. "She's with Jag, isn't she?"
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She senses several Mandalorians, one in pain:
By the time he had finished, Leia was bounding up the stairs toward the pedbridge three levels above. She was in contact with the Force again, and she could feel waves of ire and pain rolling toward them from the Krabbis hostel. It was impossible to tell from their presences whether they were Mandalorians, but there seemed to be about half a dozen of them, all relatively calm and focused on the task at hand.
When Han started to pound up the stairs behind her, Leia paused long enough to look down and give him a situation report. "I feel about six to eight of them, one in pain."
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She senses danger:
Leia had barely reached the top of the stairs when a new danger and looked across the skylane to see the coil-wrapped barrel of magrifle protruding through one of the shattered viewports.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Force Bellow
Leia augments her voice with the Force:
"Blast it," Leia murmured under her breath, then, more loudly, using the Force to augment her voice, she shouted, "Everyone remain calm! I'm certain it's just a glitch and will be remedied soon. We're in no danger."
Leia is a character that is rapidly becoming a favorite of mine. She is both underrated and underused, as well, which presents a perfect opportunity and incentive to create a respect thread for her.
Note: This is obviously not finished, or anywhere close. I also don't have much time, so this is a thread I plan to make over an extensive period of time. I am currently using FotJ for my material, first.
Respect Leia Organa Solo:
"You're too old to start being a real Jedi now."
"I think I need to teach you some manners."
Source: Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
Speed
Leia runs several kilometers in a few seconds:
Gallery
She steps out of range of Yaqueel's lightsaber, causing it to miss:
Yaqueel gave a startled cry, her knees buckling as she landed in front of Not-Leia. She activated her lightsaber and flicked her wrist around in a clumsy attack, but Not-Leia had already stepped out of range.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She runs fast enough to be nearly three stories above by the time Han Solo finishes three sentences:
"Jaden, Avinoam, we need backup! Everyone else, get that crate fired up and out of here. We've got peepers across the way."
By the time he had finished, Leia was bounding up the stairs toward the pedbridge three levels above.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Telekinesis
Leia hurls a boarwolf:
She extended a hand and Force-hurled the second one back into a fourth animal that was charging. The boarwolf struck its packmate heavily, and both beasts went sprawling.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Although she is a powerful telekinetic, Leia's skills with levitation are somewhat subpar for what one would expect from her. She has difficulty lifting Bazel, and upon being distracted, her concentration falters immediately:
Tekli's medication dart had already put a stop to the convulsions, so she used the Force to lift the big Ramoan from between the wrecked speeders.
Leia had heard many times that "size matters not" when levitating an object, and perhaps that was true... for whoever said it. But for her, it was all she could do to start Bazel floating toward the turbolift, and she was already beginning to tire when Han's voice cried out behind her.
"Hey, I think we just lost another two!"
Leia's concentration failed almost instantly, and Bazel hit the floor so hard it shook.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia pins Han Solo into his seat after pulling back by unknown means:
A murmur of surprise rustled through the courtroom, and Han Solo rose, his mouth open to shout - until his wife pulled him back into his seat and used the Force to pin him there.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She pulls a rifle out of a Mandalorian's hand, throws it out through a viewport, and then throws the aforementioned Mandalorian out the same viewport:
She made a slapping motion with her free hand, and the weapon came free of the gloved hands holding it, then went flying along the face of the building. In the next heartbeart she used the Force to grab hold one of the empty hands, then jerked the figure in red Mandalorian armor out through the viewport and sent him tumbling down through the skylane into the dark chasm beyond.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia notes that she could have sent five Mandalorians tumbling away with a series of telekinetic shoves, essentially BFRing them into traffic terrain:
Had these Mandalorians been attempting to flee, Leia would have certainly let them go and followed the crate. Had they been coming after her, she would have been happy to send them tumbling away with a series of Force shoves, so they could take their chances bouncing through the freighter traffic below.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She sends a Mandalorian flying:
Leia extended her hand toward the leading Mandalorian and sent him streaking downward with a violent Force shove. He shot through the traffic lane below in a streak of white flame, causing several booming crashes as startled freighter pilots slammed their vehicles into one another and the surrounding buildings.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Leia sends a Mandalorian somersaulting over an edge via telekinesis:
Still only halfway back across the bridge, Leia reached out in the Force toward the same commando. As his head rocked back, she gave it a powerful tug and sent him somersaulting over the safety rail. The Mando's jetpack ignited almost instantly, but that merely sent him into a second-long spiral, which ended in a crimson plume as he crashed through the bed of a passing hoversled.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She jerks a blaster rifle:
Shaking her head at Han's defiance in the face of death - and loving him for it - Leia reached out in the Force and jerked the blaster rifle aside, though not quickly enough to tell whether the red spray that erupted beneath the muzzle was Han's blood or the balcony's molten durasteel.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Sense/Telepathy/Empathy
Leia feels Jaina through their Force-bond, and sends her a sense of urgency:
She felt Jaina through their Force-bond, and sent her daughter a fresh sense of urgency.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
She senses terror in the Force, and is able to trace it to its originator. She then senses the source's pain:
A sudden shrill cry soared over the other screams, and Leia felt a sharp stab of terror in the Force. Without pausing to ascertain what was going on with her five senses, Leia leapt upward, landed on the banister again, and then jumped down toward the source of the fear.
...
His pain shot through Leia, red-hot and urgent - the boy had suffered broken bones at the very least - but his terror was even more overpowering than the physical pain.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
She senses the approach of a boarwolf:
Leia sensed a fifth one coming behind her and whirled. She decapitated it immediately.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Omen
Leia checks on Jaina Solo through the Force:
Leia closed her eyes for a moment, and Han knew that she was reaching out to check on their daughter through the Force. "She's with Jag, isn't she?"
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She senses several Mandalorians, one in pain:
By the time he had finished, Leia was bounding up the stairs toward the pedbridge three levels above. She was in contact with the Force again, and she could feel waves of ire and pain rolling toward them from the Krabbis hostel. It was impossible to tell from their presences whether they were Mandalorians, but there seemed to be about half a dozen of them, all relatively calm and focused on the task at hand.
When Han started to pound up the stairs behind her, Leia paused long enough to look down and give him a situation report. "I feel about six to eight of them, one in pain."
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
She senses danger:
Leia had barely reached the top of the stairs when a new danger and looked across the skylane to see the coil-wrapped barrel of magrifle protruding through one of the shattered viewports.
Source: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
Force Bellow
Leia augments her voice with the Force:
"Blast it," Leia murmured under her breath, then, more loudly, using the Force to augment her voice, she shouted, "Everyone remain calm! I'm certain it's just a glitch and will be remedied soon. We're in no danger."
Durge is a very formidable Bounty Hunter - and will be the first non-Force sensitive I create a respect thread for. Credit to Silver2467 for the scans from Clone Wars Adventures - essentially, the scans including Grievous.
Respect Durge:
Strength
Durge lifts an AT-TE from one side with a pike, using only one hand:
He slams into Obi-Wan Kenobi's speeder with enough force to shatter Kenobi's pike and knock his helmet free:
Durge grabs Obi-Wan's speeder and wields it as a weapon:
Durge bashes Obi-Wan:
Durge smashes a table:
Durge sends clones flying with his sheer strength:
Durge yanks on a pair of attached cables, overpowering a squad of clones and causing them to fall:
Durge wrecks some clone troopers:
Pimp slapping a Jedi:
Durge throws Obi-Wan:
Durge wrecks a clone:
Durge punches Grievous with tremendous force, causing him to slide across the floor with enough force to knock over a bust of Dooku and heavily crack a statue behind it:
Durge punches Anakin, then grabs him and sends him flying with his strength:
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Speed
Durge repels repeated lightsaber strikes from Obi-Wan, showing good reaction and combat speed:
Durge dodges a blow from Obi-Wan:
Durge activates his jetpack, seemingly generating an afterglow:
Durge purportedly sees Obi-Wan and other Jedi in slow-motion:
Durge leaps over a lightsaber strike from Anakin which was able to generate an afterglow:
Durability & Regeneration
Durge stands in fire with no detrimental effects:
Durge withstands an entire company of clones firing at him, as well as a rocket, but is revealed to still be alive and capable of fighting:
Durge is blown apart from the inside by Kenobi's Force Repulse, but he eventually reconstitutes himself:
He withstands a blaster shot straight through his head, and only flinches (he sustains no permanent damage or effects):
Durge stands in lava with no discomfort or detrimental effects:
Durge withstands Grievous hurling him with tremendous force. Durge is smashed through numerous objects at a high velocity but suffers no perceptible damage or effects from the ordeal:
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He withstands several glass shards hurled at him via telekinesis:
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Durge is hit by a tremendous explosion of nine grenades. His helmet is torn off and he is launched into a mindless rage, but he is still capable of fighting:
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Anakin's lightsaber blows appear to glance off Durge and have no real effect:
Darth Malgus is simply a powerful character that I feel like creating a respect thread for. Credit goes to Intrepid37 for all material from The Third Lesson. The lightsaber duels are also credited to Intrepid37, as I copy-pasted material he posted since I didn't want to type out the entire duels.
Respect Darth Malgus:
"I fight because that is what I was made to do and the Empire is the instrument through which I realize my purpose. The Empire is war made manifest. That is why it is perfect."
Power
Malgus's battlefield feats have never been duplicated:
Malgus submitted utterly to the dark side, and doing so made him an exemplary warrior. His battlefield feats have never been duplicated.
Source: Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side
Darth Malgus is the most dangerous embodiment of the dark side that Satele Shan has ever experienced:
"There in the hangars I encountered the most dangerous embodiment of the dark side I have ever experienced-the man who would later be known as Darth Malgus."
Source: The Journal of Master Gnost-Dural
Darth Malgus is one of Emperor Palpatine's most powerful predecessors:
In his quest for domination, Darth Sidious tracked down what remained of five pivotal Sith texts written by his most powerful predecessors.
Source: Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side: Official Synopsis
As a member of the Dark Council, Darth Malgus is one of the most powerful Sith Lords in the Sith Empire:
You returned to Grand Moff Regus to find him in a heated discussion with Darth Malgus, a member of the Dark Council.
Source: The Old Republic: The Challenge of War
While the undying Emperor serves as the unquestioned leader of the Empire, the twelve members of the Dark Council oversee the daily workings of their vast civilization and speak in the Emperor’s name. Each is among the most powerful Sith in the galaxy; to hold a seat on the council is the highest honor and the greatest position of influence a Sith can attain.
Source: The Old Republic: Codex Entry: The Dark Council
In the Emperor's absence, the galaxy's most domineering, powerful, brilliant, and cunning Sith lead the Empire's path to glory.
Source: The Old Republic Encyclopedia
"The Dark Council are the galaxy's most powerful Sith."
Source: The Old Republic
Dark Rage/Force Protection/Speed
Dark Rage is a Force power that allows a dark sider to increase his strength, speed, resiliency, and resolve. Force Protection is the passive (and sometimes active) enhancement of a Force sensitive's durability to varying superhuman degrees. Force Speed is the passive (and sometimes active) enhancement of a Force sensitive's speed to varying superhuman degrees.
Malgus folds a Jedi in half with a kick that sends him five paces back:
Malgus got his blade up in time, parried, and slammed a kick into the Jedi’s mid-section. The blow folded the Jedi in half, sent him reeling backward five paces.
Source: Deceived
Malgus's Force-enhanced strength enables him to grab a female Jedi by the throat and slam her into the floor:
He parried the chop of a human male, leapt over the low slash of an orange-skinned Togruta female, severed the hand of the third, a female human, disarming her, then grabbed her by the throat with his free hand and slammed her into the floor with his Force-enhanced strength.
Source: Deceived
Malgus grabs a Jed, lifting him into the air and squeezing him to death:
He ducked under a slash from the male, lunged forward, and took the Jedi by the throat. He lifted him from his feet and held him suspended in the air, gagging. The Jedi’s brown eyes showed no fear, but did show pain. Malgus roared, squeezed hard, then dropped the body and stood over it, blade at his side, breath coming hard.
Source: Deceived
Malgus sends Ven Zallow flying ten meters with a Force-augmented kick:
Malgus spun into a high, Force-augmented kick that hit Zallow in the chest and sent him flying backward ten meters.
Source: Deceived
Malgus jumps a large vertical distance and lands with enough force to shatter stone:
He stepped to the doorway, drew on the Force, activated his lightsaber, and leapt out into the dark.
A ROAR, heavy with hate and rage, pulled Aryn’s eyes skyward. Malgus descended like a meteor. His cape flew out behind and over him, a comma of darkness, and he held his lightsaber in a two-handed grip. Power went before him in a wave of visible distortion. The shuttle out of which he had leapt flew off into the night sky.
Aryn fell fully into the Force, raised her defenses, took a fighting stance, and parried Malgus’s two-handed overhand slash. Still, he landed in a cocoon of power, hitting the ground in an explosion of might that shattered the stones around them and turned them into a hail of shrapnel.
Source: Deceived
The force of Malgus's blows makes Aryn Leneer's arms quiver:
The force of the Sith’s blow made her arms quiver, but she gave no ground.
Source: Deceived
Malgus lands a physical blow on Leneer with enough force to send her slamming into a rock ten meters away where she spits out a mouthful of blood:
She was unready for the blow. The Force-augmented impact exploded a spark shower in her brain and sent her cartwheeling away from Malgus; she slammed into a rock and landed on her side ten meters away. Adrenaline pulled her to her feet, though she swayed unsteadily. She spat a mouthful of blood and held both lightsabers at the ready.
Source: Deceived
He drives Leneer to her knees:
Malgus’s strength drove her to her knees.
Source: Deceived
Malgus kicks Leneer in the face, stunning her and causing her to lose teeth and see double:
He pushed her blade to the side with his own and kicked her in the face. The strength behind the blow blew through her defenses, caused her to see stars, loosed teeth, and sent her head over heels backward. She landed on her knees, stunned, seeing double.
Source: Deceived
Malgus kicks Adraas with enough force to break ribs and send him flying into a column with enough force to split it:
He vented his rage in a continuous roar as he unleashed a furious series of blows: an overhand slash that Adraas parried; a low stab that Adraas barely sidestepped; a side kick that connected to Adraas's side, broke ribs, and flung Adraas fully across the narrow axis of the hall. He crashed into a column and the impact split it as would lightning a tree.
Source: Deceived
Malgus kills Angral and physically crushing his trachea:
"You called her a mongrel," Malgus said. He removed his gauntlets, took Adraas by the throat, and began to squeeze. "To my face you called her that. Her."
Adraas blinked, his eyes watering. His mouth opened and closed but no sound emerged.
"You are the mongrel, Adraas." Malgus bent low, nose-to-nose. "Angral's mongrel and you and those like you have mongrelized the purity of the Empire with your pollution, trading strength for a wretched peace."
Adraas's trachea collapsed in Malgus's grip. There was no final cough or gag. Adraas died in silence.
Malgus rose and stood over Adraas's body. He pulled on his gloves, adjusted his armor, his cloak, and walked out of the manse.
Source: Deceived
He cracks a marble table by slamming his fist down:
In the hall outside, he slammed a fist down on the secretary’s desk, putting a crack on the marble top.
Source: Deceived
Malgus kicks a Jedi into a building:
Malgus loosed a furious series of overhand strikes that forced the Zabrak to retreat rapidly. Sidestepping a stab from the Jedi, Malgus rode his motion into a Force-augmented spinning side kick that hit the Jedi in the ribs and sent him cartwheeling into the wall of nearby building. Source: The Third Lesson
An injured Malgus snatches Aryn's lightsaber as quick as a sand viper:
Despite his wound, the Sith slapped aside Aryn’s Force-hold on the blade and snatched it out of the air, as quick as a sand viper.
Source: Deceived
Malgus forms a shield out of his lightsaber:
The red line of his weapon spun so fast in his hand it expanded into a shield.
Source: Deceived
He forms a red smear with his blade:
He closed the distance between them rapidly. The red line of Malgus's lightsaber moved so quickly it blurred into a red smear.
Source: The Third Lesson
Malgus perceives dozens of blaster bolts with perfect clarity (which can be interpreted as seeing them in slow-motion), and proceeds to kill three soldiers via returning their blaster fire:
Malgus, nested deeply in the Force, perceived the dozens of bolts and their trajectory with perfect clarity. Without breaking stride he whipped his blade left, right, angled it ten degrees, and turned three bolts back on the soldiers who’d fired them, killing all three.
Source: Deceived
Malgus withstands a missile blast and continues to fight and wreck Republic troopers, and defeat Satele Shan. Following that, he withstands a concussion grenade directly to the face, but is not particularly harmed in any manner. Satele then proceeds to throw Malgus into a cliff with enough force to dislodge some of the stone, and proceeds to unleash a Force blast that shatters the entire cliff. Malgus not only survives, but fueled by his rage, later fights and defeats a pair of Jedi (see below in the Combat Skill section):
Malgus is one of the greatest Sith Warriors in the Empire:
Even before the Great War, Malgus was widely regarded as one of the greatest warriors in the Sith Empire.
Source: The Old Republic Encyclopedia
As an apprentice, decades from his prime, Malgus defeats Satele, who is bailed out by her master. Later, both Malgus and his master Vindican duel Satele's master, Kao Cen Darach. Darach impales Vindican, leaving an enraged Malgus to kill the Jedi Battlemaster:
Malgus duels Satele once more, and once again holds the advantage. This time, Shan is bailed out by Jace Malcolm, allowing her to utilize her Tutaminis-amped Force powers to defeat Malgus:
A heavily injured Malgus duels and defeats a Jedi, then defeats another with Lightning:
He closed the distance between them rapidly. The red line of Malgus's lightsaber moved so quickly it blurred into a red smear. The Jedi parried again and again, the sizzle of blade on blade resounding through the ruins. Malgus's onslaught - a blizzard of slashes, cuts, and stabs - allowed the Jedi no room for a counterattack. The Jedi retreated before the offensive, desperately intercepting Malgus's blows.
Malgus could have ended the Jedi in any of several ways, but he needed the satisfaction of a lightsaber kill.
Malgus's lightsaber traced glittering red arcs through the air. He spun, slashed, stabbed, pushing the Jedi backwards. But always the Jedi parried. He seemed to be biding his time.
He was baiting him, Malgus realized. Feigning weakness.
Malgus relented in his attack, backed off a few steps, and reached out through the Force. Immediately he felt the faint, intentionally suppressed signature of another light-side user to his right. The Jedi's ally was hidden in the rubble, moving closer.
Malgus loosed a furious series of overhand strikes that forced the Zabrak to retreat rapidly. Sidestepping a stab from the Jedi, Malgus rode his motion into a Force-augmented spinning side kick that hit the Jedi in the ribs and sent him cartwheeling into the wall of nearby building. At the same time, he reached out with the Force for the hidden light-side user, brushed aside the resistance he felt, and pulled the Jedi out of hiding.
A human male in his twenties rose up out of ruins, dangling like a fish on the hook of Malgus's power. His legs kicked futilely; the green blade of his lightsaber cut at empty air; he gagged as Malgus's power squeezed shut his throat.
"Vorin!" shouted the Zabrak.
"So much for your ambush," Malgus said, and closed his fist, crushing Vorin's windpipe. He let the body fall to the charred earth. A flash of anger, quickly suppressed, shot from the Zabrak as he bounded over the rubble at Malgus. Malgus watched him come, his red blade held slack at his side.
At 10 meters, Malgus extended his free hand and loosed veins of blue Force lightning. They struck the charging Jedi: swept through his defenses, swirled around him, and began to burn flesh.
Shouting with pain, the Jedi leaned forward into the lightning - teeth bare, blue blades held before him - and staggered toward Malgus. Despite his burns, he came onward. One step, another, another, but he was failing, wilting in the heat of the lightning. Malgus channeled more power and the Jedi fell to his knees, screaming. The lightning spiraled around the Zabrak, blasting dark holes in his body. The lightsabers fell from his hands and he writhed in agony, screaming his pain into the sky.
Malgus ended his attack. The Jedi, ruined, fell to the ground and rolled over onto his back. His breathing sounded worse than Malgus's.
Malgus strode to his side and stood over him.
He found that he admired the Jedi's mettle.
He deactivated his lightsaber.
Source: The Third Lesson
Malgus duels and defeats Ven Zallow in a fairly close fight:
Malgus duels and essentially defeats Aryn Leneer in a decent fight:
Aryn fell fully into the Force, raised her defenses, took a fighting stance, and parried Malgus’s two-handed overhand slash. Still, he landed in a cocoon of power, hitting the ground in an explosion of might that shattered the stones around them and turned them into a hail of shrapnel. Unflinching, Aryn deflected them with the Force as she parried another slash from Malgus. The force of the Sith’s blow made her arms quiver, but she gave no ground.
Blades locked, sparking, their eyes met.
Malgus’s dark eyes burned with a rage that knifed through her. The anger he radiated was tangible to Aryn, made the air feel greasy, polluted. But she felt something else in it, something unexpected, an odd ambivalence.
“I know why you’ve come,” he said, his voice a hiss from behind his respirator.
She forced words between gritted teeth. “You killed Master Zallow.”
“And now I will kill you, too,” he said. “In the same place I killed him.” He leaned into his blade, pushed her back a step, and unleashed a Force-augmented kick at her ribs.
But she was the quicker, and a flip sent her over his head and fifty meters away, deeper into the mountain of ruins where her Master had died. She landed in a crouch atop one of the broken columns sticking out of the rubble.
“You will find that difficult,” she called, and answered his anger with a wave of her own. “I assure you of that.”
Malgus gestured with his left hand, and the column she stood on began to shake. She leapt off it to another nearby, then another, then another, leapfrogging her way across the ruins, back toward Malgus.
When she landed atop a large chunk of stone ten meters from the Sith, he made a cutting gesture with his free hand and two pieces of statuary rose from the rubble and rushed toward her from either side. She leapt into the air and they smashed into each other beneath her, spraying shards of rock. She landed atop the remains, lightsaber ready.
Malgus growled, leapt through the air from his perch toward hers. She slid to the side of his downward slash and his blade split the stone at their feet. She unleashed a crosscut that would have decapitated him had he not ducked under it.
She flipped up and over him onto another piece of rubble, fifteen meters away. Taking telekinetic hold of a large stone near Malgus, she flung it at him. He never moved, simply held his ground and split the incoming rock in two with his lightsaber. Red sparks and bits of stone rained down
Aryn could not find her calm. She was fighting angry, but did not care. Snarling, thinking of her Master, she bounded across the hill of rubble, leaping from one chunk of rock to another, closing the distance with Malgus. He answered her charge with one of his own, the two of them jumping across the gravestones of the Jedi Order until they closed to within striking distance.
Aryn stabbed low and Malgus slapped her blade out wide, reversed his motion, and unleashed a backhand swing at her abdomen. She leapt over it, pulling her legs in tight, and loosed a two-handed overhead strike as she came back down. Malgus parried crosswise with his blade and stepped into a Force-augmented side kick aimed at her ribs. She caught the kick with her free hand, closed her arm over his leg, spun, and flung Malgus twenty meters from her. He flipped in midair and landed atop the cracked face of the Odan-Urr statue that had once lined the processional approach into the Temple.
She took the hilt of Master Zallow’s lightsaber in her off hand, crouched, and bounded into a leap toward him. He watched her come and at the apex of the leap’s arc, he thrust his left hand at her, roaring, and veins of Force lightning squirmed toward her.
Ready for it, she activated Master Zallow’s lightsaber, used it to form an X with her own, and intercepted the lightning on the two blades.
His power met her will. The lightning twisted around the glowing blades. The force of it stopped her downward descent and held her aloft in the air for a moment, suspended on a column built of the dark side.
And then she overcame it. The lightning dissipated to nothingness and she, unharmed by it, fell straight down, landing on her feet atop a shifting pile of rubble and deactivating Master Zallow’s blade.
The moment she landed, Malgus was upon her, his blade slashing, stabbing, spinning. He tried to use his superior strength to force her off the stone, off balance, but she answered his strength with speed, sidestepping his blows, leaping over them, parrying, unleashing her own flurries. The hum of their weapons through the air, the sizzle of crossed blades, merged into a single song of speed and power.
Aryn and Malgus locked blades.
“I am more than your match, Sith,” she said over the sparks of their joined lightsabers.
“Your Master was not,” Malgus said, grunting, and shoved her with a telekinetic blast of such force that she flew backward and slammed into the rock and rubble. She used the Force to cushion the impact, but she still landed on her back and the impact blew the breath from her lungs.
Malgus leapt high into the air, shouting with rage, his blade held high for a killing stroke. She rolled aside as he came down and his blade sank to its hilt in the rubble of the Temple. She leapt to her feet and unleashed a backhand crosscut at his throat. He got his blade free and vertical to parry it, but at the same time she pointed the blade end of Master Zallow’s lightsaber at Malgus and activated it.
He must have sensed his danger at the last moment for he slid partially aside. Still, the green line of Master Zallow’s blade pierced his armor and side and elicited a snarl of pain and rage. Before Aryn could follow up, Malgus drove an open hand into the side of her face.
She was unready for the blow. The Force-augmented impact exploded a spark shower in her brain and sent her cartwheeling away from Malgus; she slammed into a rock and landed on her side ten meters away. Adrenaline pulled her to her feet, though she swayed unsteadily. She spat a mouthful of blood and held both lightsabers at the ready.
Malgus stood astride the ruins, his blade sizzling, eyeing the smoking hole in his armor, the furrow in his flesh.
Seeing an opportunity, she did not hesitate.
Using the Force to guide it, she hurled Master Zallow’s lightsaber at Malgus. The blade cut a glittering green arc through the air as it spun end over end toward Malgus’s head.
Despite his wound, the Sith slapped aside Aryn’s Force-hold on the blade and snatched it out of the air, as quick as a sand viper. He deactivated the blade, held the hilt in his hand, studied it. He looked up and over at Aryn, his eyes burning. She imagined him smiling under his respirator.
“This weapon did not avail him and it will not avail you.”
The sound of an engine pulled Aryn’s head around. She whirled, her blade ready, and saw the Armin speeder roaring out of the sky like a comet, Zeerid in the driver’s seat. T7 sat in the rear. He came in too hard and the thrusters could not completely stop the speeder from slamming into the ruins. Metal creaked. Dust flew up.
“Aryn!” Zeerid called. “Get in!”
Zeerid looked past her to Malgus, seemed to consider unloading a blaster shot, but thought better of it.
“Come on, Aryn!” Zeerid shouted, and T7 backed him up with an urgent whistle. “Please. You said you would help me.”
She hesitated.
Malgus looked at her, brandished Master Zallow’s hilt, a taunt to keep her there.
She made her decision.
She wanted to efface the smugness she’d heard in his tone, to see in his eyes what she had seen in Master Zallow’s. Killing him was not enough. She wanted to see him in pain. She just had to figure out how to do it.
She leapt high into the air and landed beside Zeerid in the speeder.
“Death is too easy, Sith,” she called to Malgus, the venom in her tone surprising even to her. “I am going to hurt you first.”
The words left a bad taste in her mouth. She felt Zeerid’s eyes on her and dared not look him in the face.
Malgus, too, seemed almost puzzled, to judge from his furrowed brow and the tilt of his head.
“Go,” she said.
Zeerid accelerated and started to turn the speeder.
Anger went forth from Malgus. He reactivated Master Zallow’s blade and hurled it after them. Zeerid tried to wheel out of the way but the blade curled and kept coming at them. T7 beeped in alarm.
Aryn watched the weapon spin, felt it, and before it reached the speeder, she reached out with the Force and snatched it from Malgus’s mental grasp. The weapon turned upward over the speeder and descended hilt-first into her hand as Zeerid rose into the night sky and sped away. She deactivated it.
She looked back one last time to see Malgus standing atop the ruined temple, his blade in hand, his cape fluttering in the wind. He looked like a victorious conqueror.
And she hated him.
Source: Deceived
Malgus duels Aryn Leneer again, winning with Force Lightning:
She did not wait for Malgus. She bounded across the hangar, her speed augmented by the Force, the lines of her blades leaving a blur of light in their wake. Malgus held his ground, blade ready.
She stabbed low with her primary blade, high with her secondary. Malgus leapt over both, flipped, landed behind her, and crosscut for her neck.
She ducked under it while spinning into a reverse leg sweep that caught his feet and tripped him. When he hit the ground, she rose, turned, raised both blades, and drove them down in a parallel overhand slash. Malgus somersaulted backward, and Aryn’s blades cut gashes in the floor of the hangar. Sparks flew.
Malgus bounced up from the somersault and loosed a telekinetic blast that lifted Aryn from her feet and blew her across the hangar. She slammed into one of the shuttle’s bulkheads, but used the Force to cushion the blow so that it did no harm. Bouncing off the cool metal, she charged Malgus. As she ran, she cast first her own lightsaber at Malgus, then Master Zallow’s, using the Force to guide both.
The attack caught Malgus unprepared, and Aryn’s blade bit into his armor. Sparks flew and Malgus winced, snarled with pain. He ducked under Master Zallow’s blade, and Aryn recalled both to her hands as she ran. The moment she had them, she cast them both at Malgus again.
But this time he was ready. Augmenting his speed with the Force, he flipped high into the air and out of the way of both. She anticipated his movement, however, bounded forward to cut him off and landed a flying kick in his chest. He used the Force to diminish the blow’s impact but it drove him back a step and she heard his breath hitch through the sound of his respirator.
He recovered, roared, raised his blade high to cut her in two, and brought it down. But she had already summoned her own blade back to her hand and interposed it in a parry.
Malgus’s strength drove her to her knees. She held out her other hand and pulled Master Zallow’s blade to her hand, stabbed for his stomach with it.
Malgus sidestepped the stab, though it skinned his armor and showered sparks. He pushed her blade to the side with his own and kicked her in the face. The strength behind the blow blew through her defenses, caused her to see stars, loosed teeth, and sent her head over heels backward. She landed on her knees, stunned, seeing double.
She rose, swayed on her feet, seeing four blades in her hands rather than two. Something was in her mouth and she spat it out—a tooth, the root forked and bloody.
“You are a child to hate,” Malgus said, his tone incongruously soft as he stalked toward her. “Your anger barely smolders. You are a fraction of what you could be.”
She needed time to recover her senses, some distance from Malgus. She backflipped high into the air and landed atop the Imperial shuttle. Her mind was beginning to clear.
“Your Master was also misguided. He thought to defeat me with calm, but failed. You thought to defeat me with anger, but carry too little, despite your loss.”
Aryn’s vision began to clear. She felt more herself.
“Be grateful for that, Jedi. Anger exacts its own price.”
Again she felt the odd sense of sympathy or pity adulterating the otherwise pure hate flowing from Malgus. His eyes went to Eleena, her body crumpled on the landing pad’s floor.
As Aryn prepared to leap at Malgus, he held forth a hand, almost casually, and lightning sizzled through the space between them. Aryn interposed her lightsabers, but the power in the lightning exceeded anything she had felt from Malgus before. It blasted through her defenses and both lightsabers flew from her hands. The lightning seized her, lifted her up, and threw her from the top of the shuttle.
As she flew toward the deck, she smelled burning flesh, heard screaming, realized that it was her flesh, her screams. She hit the ground hard and her head bounced off the ground. Sparks erupted in her brain, pain, and everything went dark.
Source: Deceived
Malgus duels Adraas, defeating him with Lightning:
Lord Adraas stood within the open doorway. He wore a black cloak over his elaborate armor.
"Malgus," Adraas said, his voice showing surprise, but his tone turning Malgus's name into an insult. "You were in the Unknown Regions."
"I am in the Unknown Regions."
Adraas understood the implication. "I knew you would come one day."
"Then you know I am here for you."
Adraas ignited his lightsaber, shed his cloak. "For me, yes." He chuckled. "I understand you, Malgus. Understand you quite well."
"You understand nothing," Malgus said, and stepped into the room
Malgus felt the hate pouring off Adraas, the power, but it paled in comparison to the rage and hate roiling in Malgus. In his mind's eye, he saw Eleena's face as she died. It poured fuel on the flames of his rage.
Adraas, too, stepped into the room. "Do you think that your presence here is a surprise? That I have not long foreseen this?"
Malgus chuckled, the sound loud off the high ceiling. "You have foreseen it but you cannot stop it. You are a child, Adraas. And tonight you pay. Angral is not here to protect you. No one is."
Adraas scoffed. "I have hidden my true power from you, Malgus. It is you who will not leave here."
"Then show me your power," Malgus said, sneering.
Adraas snarled and held forth his left hand. Force lightning crackled from his fingertips, filled the space between them.
Malgus interposed his lightsaber, drew the lightning to it, and started walking toward Adraas. The power swirled around the red blade, sizzling, crackling, pushed against Malgus, but he strode through it. The skin of his hands blistered but Malgus endured the pain, paid it as the price of his cause.
As he walked, he spun his blade in an arc above his head, gathering the lightning, then flung it back at Adraas. It slammed into his chest, lifted him bodily from the ground, and threw him hard against the far well.
"Is that your power?" Malgus asked, still advancing, cloaked in rage. "That is what you wished to show me?"
Adraas climbed to his feet, his armor charred and smoking. A snarl split his face.
Malgus picked up his pace, turned the walk into a charge. His boots thumped off the wood floor of the hall. He did not bother with finesse. He vented his rage in a continuous roar as he unleashed a furious series of blows: an overhand slash that Adraas parried; a low stab that Adraas barely sidestepped; a side kick that connected to Adraas's side, broke ribs, and flung Adraas fully across the narrow axis of the hall. He crashed into a column and the impact split it as would lightning a tree.
Adraas growled as he climbed to his feet. Power gathered around him, a black storm of energy, and he leapt at Malgus, his blade held high.
Malgus sneered, gestured, seized Adraas in his power, and pulled him from the air at the apex of his leap.
Adraas hit the ground in a heap, his breath coming in wheezes. He climbed to all fours, then to his feet, favoring his side, his blade held limply before him.
"You hid nothing from me," Malgus said, and the power in his voice caused Adraas to wince. "You are a fool, Adraas. Your skill is in politics, in currying favor with your betters. Your understanding of the Force is nothing compared to mine."
Adraas snarled, started to charge toward Malgus, a last-ditch attempt to salvage his dignity if not his life.
Malgus held forth his hand and the rage within him manifested in blue veins of lightning that discharged from his fingertips and slammed into Adraas. The power stopped Adraas's charge cold, blew his lightsaber from his hand, caught him up in a cage of burning lightning. He screamed, squirming in frustration and pain.
"End it, Malgus! End it!"
Malgus unclenched his fingers and released the lightning. Adraas fell to the ground, his flesh smoking, the skin of his once handsome face blistered and peeling. Again he rose to all fours and looked up at Malgus.
"Angral will avenge me."
"Angral will suspect what has happened here," Malgus said, and strode toward him. "But he will never know, not for certain, not until it is too late."
"Too late for what?" Adraas asked.
Malgus did not answer.
"You are mad," Adraas said, and leapt to his feet and charged. He pulled his lightsaber to his fist and activated it. The attack took Malgus momentarily by surprise.
Adraas loosed a flurry of strikes, his blade a humming, red blur as he spun, stabbed, slashed, and cut. Malgus backed off a single step, another, then held his ground, his own blade an answer to all of Adraas's attacks. Adraas shouted as he attacked, the sound that of desperation, filled with the knowledge that he was no match for Malgus.
Finally Malgus answered with an attack of his own, forcing Adraas back with the power and speed of his blows. When he had Adraas backed up against the wall, he crosscut for his head. Adraas ducked under and Malgus cut a column in two. As the huge upper piece of the column crashed to the floor and the balcony lurched above them, Adraas fell to one knee and stabbed at Malgus's chest. Malgus spun out of the way and rode the spin into a chop that severed Adraas's arm at the elbow. Adraas screamed and clutched his arm at the bicep while his forearm fell to the floor along with the column.
Malgus had taught the lesson he'd come to teach.
He deactivated his lightsaber, held up his left hand, and made a pincer of his fingers.
Adraas tried to use his own power to defend himself but Malgus pushed through it and took telekinetic hold of Adraas's throat.
Adraas gagged, the capillaries in his wide eyes beginning to pop. Malgus's power lifted Adraas from the floor, his legs kicking, gasping.
Malgus stood directly before Adraas, his hate the vise closing on Adraas's trachea.
"You and Angral caused this, Adraas. And the Emperor. There can be no peace with the Jedi, no truce." He clenched his fist. "There can be no peace, at all. Not ever."
Adraas's only answer was continued gagging.
Seeing him there, hanging, near death, Malgus thought of Eleena, of Adraas's description of her. He released Adraas from the clutch of his Force choke.
Adraas hit the ground on his back, gasping. Malgus had a knee on his chest and both his hands on his throat before Adraas could recover. He would kill Adraas with his bare hands.
"Look me in the eyes," he said, and made Adraas look at him. "In the eyes!"
Adraas's eyes showed petechial hemorrhaging but Malgus knew he was coherent.
"You called her a mongrel," Malgus said. He removed his gauntlets, took Adraas by the throat, and began to squeeze. "To my face you called her that. Her."
Adraas blinked, his eyes watering. His mouth opened and closed but no sound emerged.
"You are the mongrel, Adraas." Malgus bent low, nose-to-nose. "Angral's mongrel and you and those like you have mongrelized the purity of the Empire with your pollution, trading strength for a wretched peace."
Adraas's trachea collapsed in Malgus's grip. There was no final cough or gag. Adraas died in silence.
Source: Deceived
Malgus holds his own against strike teams as large as four, composing of either the Hero of Tython, the Barsen'thor, the Voidhound, and Meteor for the Jedi Strike team, or Darth Nox, the second Emperor's Wrath, Cipher Nine, and the Grand Champion of the Great Hunt:
"Malgus's lightsaber form was flawless, but he let his anger and desperation cloud his fighting. He faltered, and I followed through."
Source: The Old Republic
Telekinesis
While severely injured and years before his prime, Malgus blasts away several tons of metallic rubble that was part of two buildings:
Malgus stood in a pocket under a mountain of rubble, legs bent, the power from his upraised hands preventing several tons of duracrete and steel from crushing him. Dust made his already troubled breathing more difficult. He coughed as the words of his father echoed in his mind.
He'd been sloppy, so lost in his need for revenge that he'd failed to properly evaluate the Jedi's power. He'd surrendered his reason to bloodlust. But no more. With an effort of will, he contained his anger, controlled it, made it a whetstone against which he sharpened his power. Using the Force, he blew the rubble up and away from him. It fell with a crash into the adjacent buildings. A Force-augmented leap carried him out and over the heap. The Jedi's eyes widened as Malgus hit the street. Malgus sneered and charged.
Source: The Third Lesson
Malgus pulls a Jedi out of hiding and kills him:
At the same time, he reached out with the Force for the hidden light-side user, brushed aside the resistance he felt, and pulled the Jedi out of hiding.
A human male in his twenties rose up out of ruins, dangling like a fish on the hook of Malgus's power. His legs kicked futilely; the green blade of his lightsaber cut at empty air; he gagged as Malgus's power squeezed shut his throat.
"Vorin!" shouted the Zabrak.
"So much for your ambush," Malgus said, and closed his fist, crushing Vorin's windpipe. He let the body fall to the charred earth.
Source: The Third Lesson
Malgus hurls a boulder in front of his troops and rolls it twenty paces ahead of their progress:
Enraged by such cowardice, I hurled a boulder from the mountainside onto the path in front of us. I then slowly rolled it twenty paces ahead of our own progress, using focused mental energy channeled through the dark side.
Source: Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side
Malgus unleashes a Force Scream which buckles a transparisteel viewport, and causes a crew's ears to bleed. It also overloads the fuel cells of several Aurek starfighters, destroying them:
The strength of my scream buckled the bridge's transparisteel viewport and left the crew's ears bleeding. More gratifyingly, my rage overloaded the fuel slugs of an incoming wave of Aureks. The bright bursts of their deaths raised a smile.
Source: Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side
After killing a pair of guards with his lightsaber, Malgus blasts a guard into a wall hard enough to crush his bones and kill him:
He crosscut the guard before him, putting a black canyon in his chest, continued the swing through the guard on his left, and with his left hand used a blast of power to drive the third guard into the Temple wall hard enough to crush bones and kill him.
Source: Deceived
Malgus utilizes Lightsaber Throw, killing two guards:
Malgus felt the sudden surge of terror in the two soldiers up on the ledge to his left, felt them take aim in sweaty hands, start to squeeze triggers. He flung his lightsaber at them, guided it with the Force in a flickering red arc that cut both of them down, then recalled the blade to his hand. He deactivated it and hung it from his belt.
Source: Deceived
Malgus hurls a Padawan into a column of stone with enough force to leave her collapsed with a bleeding nose:
Malgus drew on the Force and with a blast of power drove the Padawan across the hall and into one of the towering columns of stone, where she collapsed, blood leaking from her nose.
Source: Deceived
Malgus sends a Jedi skidding across a hall into a pile of rubble with a Force blast:
Leaping high over the male’s cross-slash, Malgus landed behind the Togruta, who parried his lightsaber strike but could not defend herself against a Force blast that sent her skidding across the hall and into a pile of rubble.
Source: Deceived
He kills a Jedi with Choke:
Another Jedi stepped in front of him, blue blade held high. Malgus barely saw him. He simply extended a hand, pushed through the Jedi’s insufficient defenses, seized his throat with the Force, and choked him to death. Tossing the body aside, he moved toward Zallow.
Source: Deceived
Malgus shatters a column with a Force Scream:
Anger refilled him, overcame him. A shout of hate, raw and jagged, burst from his throat. Power went with it, shattering a nearby column and sending a rain of stone shards through the room.
Source: Deceived
Malgus uses Lightsaber Throw in an attempt to kill Ven Zallow. Zallow avoids the lightsaber, but is hit by a Force blast that leaves him lying prone in a pile of rubble:
Malgus, burning with hate, flung his lightsaber at Zallow. He guided its trajectory with the Force, and it spun a sizzling path through the air at Zallow’s neck. But Zallow, riding the momentum of his attack on the second Sith, leapt into the air and over the blade.
While Zallow was still in the air, Malgus unleashed a blast of energy that caught the Jedi unprepared and sent him crashing downward into a pile of rubble. He lay there, prone.
Source: Deceived
Malgus lets loose a telekinetic blast that sends doors flying and bodies slamming into various objects, as well as lurching the transport he was riding on:
When the crowd did not respond to his demand, he slammed a fist into his palm and let anger-fueled power explode outward from his body. Screams sounded as the blast shoved everything away from him in all directions.
Bodies flew backward, slammed into one another, into the walls, against and through windows. The transport he’d rode on lurched from the blast. The doors of the medical facility flew from their mounts and crashed to the ground.
Source: Deceived
Malgus casually sends two pieces of statuary flying:
When she landed atop a large chunk of stone ten meters from the Sith, he made a cutting gesture with his free hand and two pieces of statuary rose from the rubble and rushed toward her from either side. She leapt into the air and they smashed into each other beneath her, spraying shards of rock.
Source: Deceived
Malgus looses a telekinetic blast that sends Aryn Leneer flying across a hangar:
Malgus bounced up from the somersault and loosed a telekinetic blast that lifted Aryn from her feet and blew her across the hangar.
Source: Deceived
Malgus blasts a pair of guards into a wall with enough force to crack their bones, killing them:
He drew on the Force, gestured as if he were shooing away insects, and sent both of the troopers flying against the wall of the manse hard enough to crack bone. Both sagged to the ground, unmoving. The black eyes of their helmets stared at Malgus.
Source: Deceived
Malgus telekinetically holds a dropship in place, even when the thrusters are engaged:
He reached out with the Force as Razor continued its rise, tried to take it in his mental grasp. Its ascent slowed. He held forth both of his arms, made claws of his hands, and shouted with frustration as he sought to hold back the power of the ship’s thrusters.
He felt a tightness in his mind, the string of his power being drawn taut, stretching, stretching. He would not release the ship. Its thrusters began to whine. He held it, teeth gritted, sweat soaking his body, his breath a dry rattle through his respirator.
And then the string snapped and the ship flew free, lifting clear of the roof doors.
Source: Deceived
Malgus telekinetically hurls the Jedi/Sith strike team. At various points in his fight, Malgus Chokes all but one member of the strike team, dueling them individually. Since the strike teams can compose of the Wrath and Nox or the Barsen'thor and the Hero of Tython, this is a most monumental showing of telekinetic proficiency:
Malgus kills two Padawans as well as a Jedi Knight with Force Lightning:
Malgus, not to be outdone, picked a Jedi Knight at random, a human female ten meters away, held forth his left hand, and discharged veins of blue lightning from his fingertips. The jagged lines of energy cut a swath through the battle, harvesting two Padawans as they went, until they caught up to the Jedi Knight and lifted her off her feet.
She screamed as the lightning ripped into her, her flesh made temporarily translucent from the dark power coursing through her. Malgus savored her pain as she died.
Source: Deceived
Malgus disarms Aryn Leneer with Lightning that blasts through her defenses, seizes and lifts her, and then throws her over the top of the shuttle, burning her flesh in the process:
As Aryn prepared to leap at Malgus, he held forth a hand, almost casually, and lightning sizzled through the space between them. Aryn interposed her lightsabers, but the power in the lightning exceeded anything she had felt from Malgus before. It blasted through her defenses and both lightsabers flew from her hands. The lightning seized her, lifted her up, and threw her from the top of the shuttle.
As she flew toward the deck, she smelled burning flesh, heard screaming, realized that it was her flesh, her screams. She hit the ground hard and her head bounced off the ground. Sparks erupted in her brain, pain, and everything went dark.
Source: Deceived
Malgus disarms Adraas with flesh-burning Lightning:
Malgus held forth his hand and the rage within him manifested in blue veins of lightning that discharged from his fingertips and slammed into Adraas. The power stopped Adraas's charge cold, blew his lightsaber from his hand, caught him up in a cage of burning lightning. He screamed, squirming in frustration and pain.
"End it, Malgus! End it!"
Malgus unclenched his fingers and released the lightning. Adraas fell to the ground, his flesh smoking, the skin of his once handsome face blistered and peeling
Source: Decevied
He kills a Jedi with Lightning, burning his flesh and disarming him in the process:
At 10 meters, Malgus extended his free hand and loosed veins of blue Force lightning. They struck the charging Jedi: swept through his defenses, swirled around him, and began to burn flesh.
Shouting with pain, the Jedi leaned forward into the lightning - teeth bare, blue blades held before him - and staggered toward Malgus. Despite his burns, he came onward. One step, another, another, but he was failing, wilting in the heat of the lightning. Malgus channeled more power and the Jedi fell to his knees, screaming. The lightning spiraled around the Zabrak, blasting dark holes in his body. The lightsabers fell from his hands and he writhed in agony, screaming his pain into the sky.
Malgus ended his attack. The Jedi, ruined, fell to the ground and rolled over onto his back. His breathing sounded worse than Malgus's.
Source: The Third Lesson
Malgus incapacitates Jace Malcolm with his Lightning:
Malgus brings down an entire Strike Team (composing of either Darth Nox, the Wrath, Cipher Nine and the Grand Champion of the Great Hunt, or the Hero of Tython, Barsen'thor, Meteor and Voidhound) to their knees with Force Lightning:
Malgus overrides the power core of his space station with merely a gesture, initiating the self-destruct sequence.
Emergency warning: Power core overrides engaged. Self-destruct initiated.
Source: The Old Republic
Malgus claims that only he can reverse the effects of the self-destruction sequence:
The blast will wipe out your fleet, and only I can deactivate the station's destruction cycle.
Source: The Old Republic
Telepathy
Malgus causes doubt in one of The Old Republic protagonists, potentially Nox, the Hero of Tython, or Barsen'thor:
Malgus is filling [player]'s mind with visions of doubt!
Source: The Old Republic
The doubt weighs heavily on [player], they must face their destiny!
Source: The Old Republic
Concealment
Malgus utilizes Force Concealment:
He focused on keeping his Force signature suppressed. He did not want anyone to learn of his presence prematurely.
Source: Deceived
Force Sense
Malgus senses a hidden Jedi with the Force:
The presence of a light-side Force user bumped up against his Force sensitivity, a sudden flare in his perception.
[...]
He reached out through the Force, probing for the light-side presence he had felt.
At first there was nothing, and he wondered if he had been mistaken, or if the light-side user had perceived Malgus and suppressed his power. But then...
There.
He felt it as an irritation behind his eyes, an itch only violence could scratch. He shed his cloak and stepped to the edge of the landing ramp. The wind pulled at him. Anger swelled in him, buoyed him up. The Force anchored him in place. He pinched his comlink again.
Source: The Third Lesson
Malgus senses mines in front of him:
Leading the remaining troops up the mountain trail, a tremor in the Force echoed through me. The defenders of Ord Radama had placed mines on the path.
Source: Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side
Malgus senses the deaths of Darth Venemal and a hundred thousand of his soldiers:
"I could do nothing to halt its fall into Ord Radama's gravitational pull. Minutes later, it impacted at the center of Livien Magnus.
At that instant, I felt Venemal and a hundred thousand other life-forms roar with pain and then fall silent."
Source: Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side
Malgus senses Aryn Leneer coming out of hyperspace above Coruscant:
MALGUS FELT A FLASH of discomfort, the irritating needle stab of a light-side user, the feeling oddly similar to that which he had felt when he’d fought Master Zallow in the Temple. The feeling lasted barely an instant and disappeared, leaving only a sensory ghost in its wake.
This is a fervently discussed topic in the battles forum that often has a number of explicit and implicit conclusions arrived at by all manner of users on this forum, and thus also has explicit and implicit consequences derived from said conclusions. I think anybody could understand that Darth Sidious and Darth Plagueis were relatively close in regards to one another in terms of power, skill, etc., making this a worthwhile discussion topic that comprises of a number of different elements and factors which all need to be scrutinized carefully - and that will be the purpose of this blog. I do not declare this to be canon or infallibly correct; this is just what it is - my opinion, and nobody's opinion is infallible. This topic is also worth discussing because all of the quotes where Sidious was listed as the most powerful Sith Lord of all time take place after TPM, when his powers increased, and no source indicates TPM Sidious is the most powerful Sith Lord, at least, at the time he killed Plagueis (except Sidious's own monologue, but we can dismiss that as egotistical talk), and Plagueis, by feats, was the most powerful Sith Lord up to and of that time (the only other contender with Plagueis, Caedus, came much later). Therefore, this is a completely reasonable discussion.
To start, let me address the circumstances of Palpatine and Plagueis's real confrontation - the one that happened in canon, as explicitly described in Darth Plagueis. As most or all of you are probably aware, Darth Sidious never confronted and killed Darth Plagueis in a realistic encounter, but rather chose to slay Plagueis in the latter's sleep. This has been known to audiences since the time of Revenge of the Sith, which Palpatine himself indicated, and this became reiterated throughout sources since. However, this wasn't simply a backstab with a lightsaber while Plagueis was sleeping - in fact, Sidious never brandished a lightsaber. In any case, Plagueis woke up, after Sidious utilized Lightning on him and disabled his breathing apparatus - but Plagueis initially wished to test himself, hence why he didn't actually defend himself, but of course, his midi-chlorian manipulation failed him and he couldn't save himself. He did later unleash a telekinetic storm which damaged the room itself, but Palpatine was unaffected and used Choke to kill Plagueis slowly. Pretty much everything else was just talking on Palpatine's part.
Now, what does this indicate? For most, it would mean that Sidious was either too weak or too cowardly to kill Plagueis, hence why he opted to intoxicate Plagueis first, giving him a free strike. Furthermore, Plagueis completely neglected to defend himself in the early stages of the confrontation, which may lend credence to the idea that Plagueis may have been able to defend himself if he had tried. However, all of this is just implication and speculation - granted, reasonable speculation, but still speculation. Plagueis later utilized a telekinetic storm which failed to do anything to Sidious, although, of course, he was obviously not in his peak condition and by that time, incapable of unleashing his full power. The manner in which Sidious killed Plagueis is nothing short of cowardly, for some, but then, if this is an indication that Sidious was no match for Darth Plagueis, then Plagueis killing Tenebrous while the latter was occupied and not in a direct lightsaber confrontation would, using that logic, indicate that Plagueis was no match for Tenebrous. This sort of logic is just incorrect. The manner in which Plagueis and Tenebrous were killed are not indications of their respective apprentices' inferior power, but simply a method of assuring their deaths, and they did so just as the dark side whispered to them to do so. So Sidious killing Plagueis in his sleep is not conclusive of being unable to kill him in a combat scenario, just as Plagueis killing Tenebrous when the latter was preoccupied is not conclusive of being unable to kill him in a combat scenario, especially since feats suggest otherwise.
But while Plagueis' feats exceed Tenebrous's, do Palpatine's feats, by this point, exceed Plagueis'? Before I discuss that, though, there are also a number of sources which may or may not seem to favor one party in terms of who was more powerful. For Sidious, sources have indicated he expired Plagueis after possessing the skill and ability to do so:
In truth, Palpatine was well versed in the ways of the Force, having been apprentice to Darth Plagueis the Wise, a Sith Lord who was a master of arcane and unnatural knowledge. In true Sith tradition, Palpatine murdered his Master upon receiving the skill and ability to do so.
Source: The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Sidious served for many decades as the apprentice of Darth Plagueis, learning diligently at the feet of his Master. Once he possessed all of Plagueis' secrets, he retired him.
Source: Insider #88: Heritage of the Sith
Credit to Silver2467
"My own Master, Darth Plagueis, made the grave error of teaching me too much, at which point he became unnecessary."
Source: Jedi vs Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
However, at a closer examination, none of these actually say anything about Palpatine being more skilled or more powerful. All it says is that Palpatine could have killed Plagueis - and he did. These sources may be canon, but none of them portend that Palpatine is more powerful than Plagueis or could have won in a real fight.
Plagueis is supported by an interview with James Luceno (that I can't even find anymore) in which Luceno indicates Plagueis may have won if there was a real duel between them. As much as Luceno should be respected for his works, which are some of the best in SW EU altogether, external interviews are not directly canonical (from what I can remember), but it is worth noting and putting into mind anyway. So, really, they're pretty much even in this regard, which forces us to delineate the victor by virtue of feats.
Now to uncover who has the better feats, they are more or less even in the physical areas. For strength, Plagueis's best feats would be striking through armored torsos and smashing helmeted skulls of Maladians, which he accomplished while injured and possibly holding back:
Others Plagueis felled with his hands by snapping necks and putting his fists through armored torsos.
...
The wait lasted only until Plagueis attempted to unleash lightning. His second subsidiary heart failed, paralyzing him with pain and nearly plunging him into unconsciousness. The assassins wasted not a moment, throwing themselves at him in groups, though in a vain attempt to penetrate the Force shield he raised. Again he rallied, this time with a ragged sound dredged from deep inside that erupted from him like a sonic weapon, shattering the eardrums of those within ten meters and compelling the rest to bring their hands to their ears.
In blinding motion his hands and feet smashed skulls and windpipes.
Source: Darth Plagueis
For Palpatine, his strength feats at this time would be either jumping through closed doors to land on a table in the following room, or tearing the limbs off and smashing the skulls of guards before he received any training in the Force. The latter feat is probably superior:
Then: through a warren of expensively appointed rooms to another set of closed doors, from behind which issued the sounds of a banquet in progress—one that had probably commenced hours earlier and wasn’t meant to end until hours later, with the deaths of Senator Palpatine, Hego Damask, and the other Muuns an accomplished fact.
Now Sidious gave full vent to his ire. Crashing through the doors, he landed in the center of a table covered with plates of grains and grassy plants and surrounded by a herd of grazing Gran, whose boisterous laughs froze in their throats.
Source: Darth Plagueis
Once more Sidious allowed his memories to unfold, and he relived the crime—the event, as he had at last come to think of it. His father's limp and bloodied body. The smashed skulls of the bodyguards.
...
“Fool,” Plagueis derided him. “Success doesn’t come from summoning help from the Force, but from taking control of it and generating the power from within yourself.” He sighed theatrically. “Still, I’m somewhat encouraged by the progress you’ve made. Mere centimeters from me now, almost within arm’s reach. Soon I’ll be able to feel your breath on my neck and perceive the heat of your rage—your desire to kill me, as if by doing so, you could lay claim to the authority I embody.” He paused but didn’t move, much less glance over his shoulder. “You want to strangle me, like you did your poor, misunderstood mother; tear me limb from limb as you did the bodyguards. Fair enough. But to do so you will have to make a greater effort, Apprentice.”
Source: Darth Plagueis
Comparing Palpatine's latter strength feat and Plagueis's - they're roughly even. To be honest, the feats themselves evince a roughly even level of strength, or Plagueis is slightly superior, but looking at the circumstances surrounding the feats, they're extremely impressive. Plagueis had already suffered severe injures:
Plagueis pressed his right hand to the right side of his neck to discover that a disk had made off with a considerable hunk of his jawbone and neck, and in its cruel passing had severed his trachea and several blood vessels. He cupped the Force against the injury to keep himself from lapsing into unconsciousness, but he fell to the floor regardless, with blood pumping onto the already slick stone circle.
...
Sith techniques had helped him perform chemical cardioversions on his other two hearts, but one of them was working so hard to compensate that it, too, was in danger of becoming arrhythmic.
Source: Darth Plagueis
Sidious's feats, of course, occurred before he had received any training in the Force, which meant that this feat not only occurred before Palpatine had learned to fully apply his Force abilities to augment his strength with proper skill, but this also occurred before Palpatine's own Force reserves had reached their peak (up to TPM). Given the restricting conditions imposed on both of parties at the time these feats were performed, they are incredible showings, and, frankly, there's not much disparity here at all. Strength is even.
Durability can be somewhat related to strength - neither is necessarily a direct indication of the other, but one's strength can be somewhat indicative of one's endurance, and vice versa. And, to be honest, I don't see much of a disparity in their physical resilience either. Plagueis was unaffected by a Quara and Kaleesh's attempts to attack him with their teeth and claws, and this was also before his prime:
Now Zuto and PePe dived at the Muun from both sides and actually managed to get a hold on him. But it was as if the Muun had turned to stone. The Kaleesh and the Quara attacked with teeth and claws, but to no perceptible effect.
Source: Darth Plagueis
For Palpatine, he appeared to be capable of being unaffected by a thirteen-story fall:
The Malastare ambassador’s residence occupied three mid-tier stories of a slender building located at the edge of the government district. The front of the residence looked out on the stand-alone Galactic Courts of the Justice Building, but the rear faced a narrow canyon that was more than fifty levels deep and off limits to traffic. Following directions furnished by Pestage, Sidious rode turbolifts and pedestrian walkways to a meager balcony ten levels above the upper story of the residence. His fury notwithstanding, he would have preferred to linger until nightfall, which came early to that part of Coruscant, but he was certain that the Gran were expecting word that the Maladians had satisfied the terms of the contract, and he couldn’t risk having them flee for the stars before he got to them. So he lingered on the balcony until it and the walkway in both directions were unoccupied, then jumped from the overlook and called on the Force to deliver him safely to a narrow ledge that ran beneath the lowest floor of the residence.
Source: Darth Plagueis
I'd say Palpatine's feat is somewhat better, but then, Plagueis also wasn't in his prime, so they might still be only even. Regardless, while their sheer durability might render them capable of exchanging physical blows without inflicting any real harm (and the likelihood of them throwing punches or kicks in their fight is dubious enough anyways). Additionally, both of them have withstood weeks without food, water, or rest, and both have fought on for hours without tiring, which can speak to their stamina - fatigue will never be a pertinent issue in a confrontation between the two of them.
Regarding speed, Plagueis has a number of impressive showings, but Sidious has not only rivaled them, but somewhat superseded them. Plagueis has kept up with Tenebrous, somebody fast enough to nearly knock Plagueis over by virtue of sheer speed in the onset of his dash - not easily, as he was definitely strained, but then, he also wasn't in his prime, but to be fair, all of Plagueis' best speed feats occurred around this time:
Nearly knocked over by the swiftness of Tenebrous’s departure, Plagueis had to call deeply on the Force merely to keep up.
Source: Darth Plagueis
To rival this, Sidious has kept pace with Plagueis himself:
In mad pursuit of their prey and all but taking flight, the two Sith, Master and apprentice for eleven years now, bounded across the grassy terrain, their short capes snapping behind them, vibroblades clenched in their hands and bare forearms flecked with gore; blood caked in the human's long hair and dried on the Muun's hairless brow. Twisting and swirling around them was a herd of agile, long-necked quadrupeds with brown-and-black fur; identical and moving as if possessed of a single mind, leaping at the same instant, reversing direction, cycloning gregariously over the short-napped savanna.
“This is not a chase,” Plagueis said as he ran, “this is a summoning. You need to get behind the eyes of your target and become the object of its desire. The same holds true when you summon the Force: you must make yourself desirable, fascinating, addictive, and whatever power you need will be at your command.”
Blended into the herd, the animal Sidious had fixed his sight on would have been indistinguishable to normal beings. But Sidious had the animal in his mind and was now looking through its eyes, one with it. Alongside him suddenly, the creature seemed to intuit its end and tipped its head to one side to expose its muscular neck. The moment the vibroblade stuck, the creature’s eyes rolled back and grew opaque; hot blood spurted but quickly ceased to flow—the Force departing, and Sidious drawing its power deep into himself.
Source: Darth Plagueis
Plagueis has ran fast enough to appear as a blur to 11-4D, who was capable of avoiding blaster fire:
The Woebegone had just reverted to realspace when 11-4D’s audio sensors registered unusual sounds from aft: an activation click, a prolonged hiss of energy, a dopplering slash, a stuttering exhalation of breath. The sounds were followed by a sudden outpouring of heat from the corridor that accessed the cargo bays and what might have been interpreted as a gust of wind. Only by adjusting the input rate of its photoreceptors was the droid able to identify the blur that raced into the cabin space as a male Muun dressed in a hooded robe, trousers, and softboots that reached his shins.
...
Only 11-4D’s ability to calculate trajectories and react instantaneously to danger kept it from being on the receiving end of any of the numerous ricochets.
Source: Darth Plagueis
To rival this, Sidious has killed a pair of Dugs so quickly that it would have appeared that they were butchered by a phantom:
He wondered how the killings appeared to anyone monitoring a display screen. It must have seemed as if the two Dugs had been butchered by a phantom.
Source: Darth Plagueis
Both have evinced the ability to deflect blaster fire from entire rings of droids totaling to two hundred, and not only that, but they would have had to deflect omnidirectional blaster fire, but with each other standing adjacent to them, they would have had to run around and orbit one another in time to deflect the blaster bolts in every direction, which would indicate that their running speed was also sufficient enough to outrun blaster bolts as well as deflect blaster fire from miniature armies:
On Hypori they were the prey, standing back-to-back in their black zeyd-cloth hooded robes at the center of concentric rings of droids, retrofitted by Baktoid Armor to function as combat automata. Two hundred programmed assailants—bipedal, treaded, some levitated by antigrav generators—armed with a variety of weapons, ranging from hand blasters to short-barreled burst-rifles. Plagueis hadn't allowed his young apprentice to wield a lightsaber until a few years earlier, but Sidious was brandishing one now, self-constructed of phrik alloy and aurodium, and powered by a synthetic crystal. Made for delicate, long-fingered hands—as much a work of art as a weapon—the lightsaber thrummed as he waved the blade from side to side in front of him.
"Every weapon, manufactured by whatever species, has its own properties and peculiarities," Plagueis was saying, his own blade angled toward the ferrocrete floor of the battledome's fabricated cityscape, as if to light a fuse. "Range, penetrating power, refresh rate... In some instances your life might depend on your ability to focus on the weapon rather than the wielder. You must train yourself to identify a weapon instantly—whether it's a product of BlasTech or Merr-Sonn, Tenloss or Prax—so that you will know where to position yourself, and the several ways to best deflect a well-aimed bolt."
Plagueis put his words into action as the first ring of droids began to converge on them, staggering the attack and triggering bursts at random. Orbiting Sidious, the Muun's blade warded off every volley, returning the bolts to their sources, or deflecting them into the facades of the faux buildings surrounding them or into other droids. At other times Plagueis made no attempt to redirect the attacks, but simply torqued his rangy body, allowing the bolts to miss him by centimeters. Around the two Sith, the automata collapsed one after the next, gushing lubricants from holed reservoirs or exploding in a hail of alloy parts, until all were heaped on the ferrocrete floor.
"The next ring is yours," Plagueis said.
Rugged, uninhabited Hypori belonged to the Techno Union, whose Skakoan foreman, Wat Tambor, owed his seat in the Republic Senate to Damask Holdings. In exchange, the bionic humanoid had made Hypori available as a training ground for members of the Echani Sun Guard and provided the necessary battle droids. Calling in another favor, Hego Damask had requested a private session in the fabricated cityscape, so that Plagueis and his apprentice could be free to employ lightsabers—though only for the purpose of deflecting bolts rather than dismemberment or penetration.
When it came Sidious's turn to demonstrate his skill, Plagueis spoke continuously from behind him, adding distraction to the distinct possibility of inadvertent disintegration.
"A being trained in the killing arts doesn't wait for you to acquire him as a target, or establish him or herself as an opponent, as if in some martial arts contest. Your reactions must be instantaneous and nothing less than lethal, for you are a Sith Lord, and will be marked for death."
The droids continued to converge, ring after ring of them, until the floor was piled high with smoking husks. Plagueis issued a voice command that brought the onslaught to an abrupt end and deactivated his lightsaber. The pinging of cooling weapons, the hiss of escaping gas, the unsteady whir of failing servomotors punctuated the sudden silence. Alloy limbs spasmed and photoreceptors winked out, surrendering their eerie glow. The recycled air was rotten with the smell of fried circuitry.
Source: Darth Plagueis
Both have evinced the ability to fight entire armies unscathed whilst also wielding only a force pike:
"The next few hours will test the limits of your agility, speed, and accuracy," Plagueis said, as several hundred of the biggest, bravest, and most skilled warriors—their bodies daubed in pigments derived from plants, clay, and soil—began to separate themselves from the crowds. "But this is more than some simple exercise in our rise to ultimate power, and therefore servants of the dark side of the Force. Centuries from now, advanced by the Sith, they might confront us with projectile weapons or energy beams. But then we will have evolved, as well, perhaps past the need for this rite, and we will come instead to honor rather than engage them in battle. Through power we gain victory, and through victory our chains are broken. But power is only a means to an end."
To the clamorous beating of drums and the wailing of the onlookers, the warriors brandished their weapons, raised a deafening war cry, and attacked. A nod from Plagueis, and the two Sith sped across the plain to meet them, flying among them like wraiths, evading arrows, gleaming spear tips, and blows from battle-axes, going one against one, two, or three, but felling opponent after opponent with taps from the force pikes, until among the hundreds of jerking, twitching bodies sprawled on the rough ground, only one was left standing.
Source: Darth Plagueis
So far, they are even in this regard. What really sets them apart is their best speed feats. For Plagueis, that is fighting with Venamis and evincing the sufficient combat and running speed to form blurring trails throughout the forest such that it would appear that lightning was streaking through the forest understory, an impressive feat because a forest is certainly not a very favorable environment for running:
The contest took them backward and forward through the trees, across narrow streams, and up onto piles of rocks that were the ruins of an ancient sentry post. Plagueis took a moment to wonder if anyone at the fort was observing the results of the contest, which, from afar, must have looked like lightning flashing through the forest’s understory.
Source: Darth Plagueis
This is a very impressive feat, but by TPM, Sidious has fought faster than Darth Maul can even see. Maul may not be in Plagueis's speed class, but he should be definitely capable of not only seeing Plagueis, but responding to him. Sidious is definitely faster than Plagueis:
The lightsaber whirls in the air, twirling, held in my Master's hand. I can't track it, it moves so fast. But I know it's heading for me. Lord Sidious moves faster than my eye can follow.
Source: Episode 1 Journal: Darth Maul
So Sidious is clearly ahead of Plagueis, but not by an extensive degree. How much this would help in a fight is a bit ambiguous, but if I were to hazard a guess, I severely doubt this would be of crucial factor, but it's probably worth noting and may offer some leverage in the fight. It may tip the physical fight to Palpatine's favor.
With respects to what we have actually seen from them - Plagueis has outperformed Venamis during their contest in 67BBY, as well as having being pronounced a master of lightsaber combat by Darth Tenebrous. Based off Venamis utilizing the same style Plagueis did, as well as Venamis utilizing multiple forms ambidextrously, we can safely say Plagueis could do the same. Not only that, but Plagueis's mastery of weapons extends to more esoteric ones for a Sith, including Force pikes, which he used instead of a lightsaber to defeat an army of Kursid warriors, twice - once with Tenebrous, and once for Sidious. We also know Plagueis can recognize Jar'kai and Teras Kasi, from when he watched Maul. He also trained Sidious into becoming one of the best Sith swordsmasters, and by logical inference, the two Sith would have sparred with one another. Plagueis is relatively ambiguous as to where he stands in skill, but he should be around Mace Windu's level or so.
For Sidious, he outfought Maul while holding back, which is an impressive feat. Much of what Plagueis has also translates to Sidious - his supposed spars with Plagueis, his mastery of the Force pike with which he could defeat armies, his knowledge of Jar'kai and Teras Kasi (since Sidious was the one who trained Maul), and his knowledge/mastery of multiple lightsaber forms, and we know Maul is a master of several, since it is required as a prerequisite to master Form VII, and later sources also confirm Sidious was a master of all the seven forms, so it's definitely plausible to suggest, by this point, that he would have known or even mastered all those lightsaber forms. I don't think there's any real disparity between them. Sidious might have slightly more raw skill, but Plagueis has evinced more adaptability in his fights, although this may be irrelevant considering Sidious's own rivaling or superseding versatility in this regard. I will probably mark them as equals here, too, or Sidious takes a minimal and nearly negligible lead.
So recounting physicality, they are even in everything except speed, in which Sidious takes a slight but definite lead. How much this will help is up for discussion, but probably not too much. It should still be noticeable, though.
Plagueis does enjoy advantages in respects to power. By this time, Sidious should have rivaling Force based knowledge, but telekinetically, Plagueis is superior. While injured and holding back, he all but atomized multiple Maladian assassins with Force Waves, and rattled the floor with enough force to knock them from their feet, with but a thought:
He stopped once to conjure a Force wave that all but atomized the bodies of six Maladians. He spun through a turn, dragging the wave halfway around the room to kill half a dozen more.
...
With nothing more than the Force of his mind, Plagueis rattled the floor, knocking some of the assassins off their feet, but others rushed in to take their places, slashing at him with their vibroblades from every angle.
Source: Darth Plagueis
Sidious has a number of impressive showings such as manipulating and smashing together large boulders, seemingly killing a dozen Weequays with enough precision and subtlety to leave behind no visible wounds, kill multiple fish, and collapse ceilings. To support the notion of utilizing his powers in combat, since none of these occurred while he was actually fighting, he has deflected blaster fire from nearly a dozen shooters whilst lifting two of them up with the Force. That said, his best feat would be what he mused twenty years before TPM - effortlessly collapsing a restaurant:
How effortless it would be, he thought, as the dark began to rise in him, searing and hungry, yearning to assume control of his body and unleash itself, to break the necks of both of them, to tear their beating hearts from their chests, to hurl and plaster them against the walls, to bring the entire sour-smelling place down on their heads...
Source: Darth Plagueis
To be sure, as a showing, this comes close to Plagueis' feat, especially given how it occurred before his TPM by a full two decades, and it can supposedly be accomplished with effortlessness, but Plagueis is just incredibly impressive in TK. He should just take this department, especially since, at this stage, while Sidious has exercised precision and range (he claimed to be able to Choke a bird through a hologram, planets apart, but then, this may not be entirely true), his raw power is simply not on par. I have never see Sidious exercise anything at this point that resembles nearly atomizing people, or creating rattling quakes with a thought, both while heavily injured and holding back.
Regarding Lightning, I only recall that Sidious can utilize it effortlessly, but in practice, all he has done is torture Maul and disable Plagueis' breathing apparatus, which is decent but hardly extraordinary. Plagueis has, at least, seemingly turned spines to dust, kill a dark side prophetess, leave behind residual sparks for an extensive period following the initial discharge of his powers, and spread across landscapes. He should take the edge here.
As a final verdict, I find them very close and roughly even. I would definitely not portend that one would beat the other easily, and not for anything more than a slim majority. I think it's somewhat plausible for them to be about even, although, granted the power advantage Plagueis has, I think that would not only compensate for Sidious's speed edge, but afford him the slim majority - 5.5-6/10. So, to answer the original question which was the premise of this very blog, I suppose, in the shortest and bluntest manner of speaking, no, I do not believe Sidious could have killed Plagueis in a realistic encounter, at least not for a majority. If they met ten times, Sidious could have won a close minority on fair and even stipulations, but not a majority, in my opinion. So I think, to an extent, that his killing of Plagueis in his sleep was somewhat necessary, at this point. However, this is just my opinion, and given the closeness of the two combatants, I can accept people believing Sidious would win a majority or a stalemate.
Vitiate, the Sith Emperor of the TOR timeframe, is an influential character on the TOR multimedia project and thus attracts extensive attention. His further marketing through the timeline videos and The Old Republic: Revan made him more famed, especially the latter product, which gave him his backstory, but more importantly (to the battles forum) established a number of feats that many people have been using and, for the most part, overexaggerating or blowing out of proportion on some level. The Revan novel was not necessarily a good product, but it was attractive to many people due to the popularity of the titular character, Revan, which automatically promoted the novel. As a result, many people bought the product and became exposed to Vitiate as a character. His showings, from the novel, from implications in the timeline videos, and from the MMORPG video game The Old Republic itself, the initial source of the entire multimedia project, have been repeatedly used to suggest he is one of, or the, most powerful Sith Lord/Force user in history. While the former proposition may, but not conclusively, have merit, the latter proposition is completely false. I may make a blog to address the most powerful Sith Lord later, but the more pressing issue at the moment is Vitiate himself - the character, and how his feats are heavily misconceived by the majority of users on these (and other) forums, leading to misconstructions which can be found in almost every thread pertaining to the character.
At an initial glance, the nature of Vitiate's feats occur on a vast scale (I am referencing planetary scales), or within the parameters of his young age, or are simply seemingly impressive (perhaps built off a chain of other misconstrued concepts). The reality, however, is that the vast majority of his feats occurred within favorable circumstances. The obvious retort would be - he's a Sith, and like all other Sith, he would play within the most favorable circumstances for himself. However, this is not the same breed of "favorable circumstances" I am referring to. What I am referring to, is amplifying circumstances. Nearly all of Vitiate's feats occur while he is amped, or supported by multiple other Force users, or both. A large number of feats are also accomplished with prep. Few of his feats are accomplished by virtue of his own power (I will address these feats last of all).
And for the record, since this tidbit of information doesn't belong anywhere else, Vitiate is not even a lightsaber user. All of his feats are Force-related, and he has not only no feats with a lightsaber, but doesn't even wield one. In the Revan novel, he picks up Revan's lightsaber but doesn't really appear to know how to use it. In the TOR game, it appears he finally utilizes a lightsaber, although this is never shown in a cutscene and therefore is only game mechanics. His illusions did utilize a lightsaber, but they are just that - illusions. To be fair, you could argue they were duplicates of him, but even then, he is not a notable lightsaber wielder by any stretch of the imagination. No feats, no accolades, and logically, he is not a warrior.
Returning back to the main issue of Vitiate's manner of feats, a strong majority of these are accomplished through prep, support from multiple other Force users, or while he is simply amped. First addressing the ritual on Nathema, which is often brought up because it seems very impressive and even eclipses Nihilus's Draining of Katarr, the ritual was under extensive preparation and not done under his own power. there were no amps to speak of, but there was prep and also over 8,000 other Sith Lords supporting him. Now, somebody who has read The Old Republic: Revan may be quick to point out the Nyriss claimed it was only a hundred Sith Lords, not 8,000, but more recent sources claimed that it was eight thousand Sith. Not only that, but Nyriss herself only lived more than a millennium later, so she would not have the most reliable account. On the other hand, objective sources from a third-person perspective have suggested it was eight thousand Sith Lords, and those sources, covering the events as though through an omniscient perspective, would be more reliable. It is also revealed this ritual took place over the events of ten days - more than a week.
Lord Vitiate takes command of the Sith Empire, now in shambles following the Great Hyperspace War. He executes the Sith Council and consumes the life force of thousands of Sith Lords in a terrifying ritual that extends his life and vastly increases his capacity as a practitioner of the Force.
Source: The Old Republic: Encyclopedia
Eight thousand Sith Lords gathered on Medriaas and agreed to partake in a ritual that would bind the Sith together as an ultimate dark side weapon.
The ritual lasted ten days. Lord Vitiate orchestrated the sorcery and the planet Medriaas was consumed by the largest dark side nexus the galaxy would ever see.
Source: The Old Republic: Encyclopedia
What is known is that following the flight of Naga Sadow, the Emperor came to Korriban, gathered the remaining lords of the Sith and took them back with him to Nathema. There they conducted a ritual that extended the Emperor’s life at the cost of the lives of more than eight thousand Sith Lords.
Source: The Old Republic: Codex Entry 31: Galactic History: The Ritual of Nathema
So the ritual is not indicative of Vitiate's own power, and he cannot accomplish it within his own power, and it cannot be used as a suitable argument in the battles forum. Knowing this ritual is an impressive feat of esoteric dark side knowledge, but it is frustrating to see this being used as an argument for Vitiate's power. He required more than eight thousand Sith Lords to support himself in a ritual that took ten days, and then, at last, did he perform the ritual. It is not a showing of his power by any stretch of the imagination.
The next feat which is not noted nearly as often but I occasionally hear it being mentioned - the rituals that Vitiate used, the catalyst for the raging thunderstorms on Dromund Kaas. However, this, too, is not applicable in combat. We know it was some level of ritual - probably not the extent of the Nathema ritual - but still, not indicative of his power and not applicable in a battles forum situation. In fact, this showing was not just one ritual, but multiple rituals:
He is said to have conducted many dark side rituals and experiments that affected the planet itself, leaving Dromund Kaas storm-wracked to this day.
Source: The Old Republic: Codex Entry 33: Galactic History: Dromund Kaas
There is one last ritual also used as an argument for Vitiate, which is the one from TOR in which he would have consumed the galaxy, conquered death, etc. However, this, as an argument, is the worst one that could be made for Vitiate. This ritual required incredibly preparation and circumstances - it was not ten days worth of preparation, but centuries worth of preparation, as Lord Scourge reveals in The Old Republic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFd4aoTQt_Y):
"The Emperor has manipulated events for centuries towards one goal: performing an even greater ritual that will destroy this galaxy. But the ritual requires a great sacrifice to begin: billions of simultaneous deaths."
Source: The Old Republic
As can be seen, the ritual required centuries of preparation, as well the initial starter of billions of simultaneous deaths. This will not be afforded to him in a typical battles forum fight, so why people bring this up as an argument is beyond me. Moreover, when the Emperor failed this ritual and his plans were foiled by the Jedi Knight protagonist, the Emperor was literally weakened from that sheer effort of even attempting, and the ritual never succeeded at all anyways because the billions of simultaneous deaths never occurred. This, too, is revealed by Lord Scourge as the player nears the end of Act III (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH2mGY0Azk0):
"Don't be foolish. We have surprised the Emperor, but he will recover quickly. We cannot grant him time to gather his power."
Source: The Old Republic
The Jedi Knight protagonist (The Hero of Tython) also notes the same thing:
"His efforts against us have weakened him. Our enemy is vulnerable."
Source: The Old Republic
So again, the ritual is a good showing of esoteric dark side knowledge, but that's it. It is, once again, not indicative of his power level, or his potential power, or anything of that manner.
However, it is not only the ritual feats of the Emperor that are misconceived. A number of his feats in general just operate while he is amped. All of his feats in The Old Republic: Revan take place on Dromund Kaas, a planet saturated with a dark side aura:
The powerful electrical storms were a physical manifestation of the dark side power that engulfed the entire planet - a power that had brought the Sith back here a millennium before, when their very survival had been in doubt.
Source: The Old Republic: Revan
In the TOR game itself, at the end of the Jedi Knight's Act III in his finale battle against the Emperor, the fight also takes place on Dromund Kaas. The Emperor has a feat which he never demonstrated before: forming Illusions that were duplicates of himself, which is a decent feat. In any advent, people would be quick to note that, as I said earlier, Vitiate was weakened by his failed attempts at the aforementioned ritual, however, this does not mean Vitiate was actually weakened during the fight. Again, the fight takes place on Dromund Kaas, so Vitiate would be automatically amped. Not only that, but this also takes place within the Dark Temple, another prodigious dark side nexus:
Hundreds of years ago, the Sith Emperor ordered the construction of the Dark Temple as a burial place for his dead and defeated enemies, "to aid them in becoming one with the Force." Little is known of what rituals the Emperor performed there, but the Dark Temple has become a nexus of powerful dark side energy, and a place where ancient weapons and ancient secrets of the Sith lay sealed away in cavernous chambers.
Although the Dark Temple grounds have always been a dangerous place for the weak-willed (the expansion of the Kaas City power grid into tunnels beneath the temple drove a thousand slaves mad), the temple itself remained sealed until recently, when an expedition of power-hungry Sith Lords and their servants breached the gateway.
Source: The Old Republic: Codex Entry: The Dark Temple
As can be seen, the Dark Temple is still an incredibly potent nexus in of itself, capable of driving a thousand slaves mad. So while Vitiate was significantly weakened by his ritual failure, he was also significantly amped by being on Dromund Kaas, and by being in the Dark Temple, a miasma of energies prodigious enough to incite insanity in a huge congregation of slaves. Ultimately, this would probably cancel out, so Vitiate would have been neither amped nor weakened, making this one of the few "neutral" feats he accomplished. Casually producing three illusions of himself, pushing back the Hero of Tython, and, while mortally wounded, collapsing a portion of the Dark Temple are good feats for him, especially considering the lack of amplifications he had at this point.
With respects to a few of his other feats, Vitiate's TP is often mentioned. His feats are impressive with it, but his Mind Control is confirmed by Drew Karpyshyn to be only the product of prep, meaning that without preparation, he cannot accomplish these. In an email to another user on this site (who then scanned the email), Karpyshyn indicated that he could only accomplish these provided he had the time to focus and prepare beforehand:
Now, Karpyshyn also said that his answer was non-official/non-canon, but then, it would be unwise and an appeal to ignorance to ignore this without referencing an example where he didn't have prep. Against Revan and Malak, they were already falling to the dark side, and it is heavily implied the Emperor prepared this anyways because they were revealed to be walking into a trap, which indicates that Vitiate planned this. That said, they eventually broke out of his influence anyways. He failed against Revan in the novel, as well, when he was surprise attacked and had no preparation beforehand. He did it to the Jedi strike team in TOR, but he may had prep, and they were all already defeated anyways, so that is not translatable to Vitiate actually winning a fight with TP in the battles forum. Regarding him possessing one of his Children across the galaxy, he seems to only be able to influence one at a time, and even then, this is the result of him having already established prior connections through some unidentified amount of prep:
Infants of every species across the galaxy were secretly visited by the Hand and brought before the Emperor, where he sunk his insidious barbs into their malleable minds.
Source: The Old Republic Encyclopedia
So that disproves the notion of his TP being an instant win as well.
Now, since I spent the entire blog disproving misconceptions about the Emperor and undermining a vast majority of his feats, I do want to credit him for what he has actually done. He should still probably be within the top 10 Sith Lords, but where he fits is still debatable, for me (probably between Vader and Tyranus, or above Vader but below Tenebrous). As a note for his actual feats, as a child, he stripped a Sith Lord of his power and his mind, and slowly killed his mother, as well as snapping his adoptive father's neck. By thirteen, Marka Ragnos was capable of recognizing his power and potential, and again, in TOR, he produced Illusions and hurled the Hero of Tython backward, as well as collapsing a portion the Dark Temple (since the temple itself seems to remain intact after you see the Hero of Tython leave). In terms of esoteric knowledge, he has utilized a number of abilities which would make him an extremely knowledgeable practitioner of the dark side, especially in regards to sorcery on the account of him knowing a variety of rituals. There is also an accolade which proclaims him the most powerful Dark sider up to and of his time:
The Sith Emperor, history's most powerful dark side master, performed a ritual of incredible scope to consume the life energy of every being on his homeworld.
Source: The Old Republic: Encyclopedia
However, Vitiate is not the most powerful dark sider of all of history, since the encyclopedia uses an in-universe perspective and only describes events up to and of TOR's timeline, meaning it doesn't go not beyond that timeframe. Therefore, there is certainly the room for others to be more powerful.
This is just an organization of all my SW Legends EU blogs. Of course, I will update these lists as time goes on and I create/cancel a number of blogs. For reference, SW Legends EU is now an alternate reality from the newly established EU, which renders it something akin to Marvel's Ultimate universe.
Respect Threads
It should be obvious that I do take pleasure in making several respect threads for EU characters. I often create these for underrated characters, but I also make some for my favorites and some for no real reason at all - usually because they're easy and not too many comic or novel appearances to dig up.
Also as a note, in all of my respect threads, especially with characters with plenty of feats, I do not try to convey every single feat. The best feats are all recorded, and any other impressive feats are also taken down. I will not be posting every single paltry feat that could be replicated by anybody.
These are just plans, of course, and most aren't priorities. I can't say which ones I will or won't do.
Corran Horn
Ben Skywalker
Luke Skywalker - New Jedi Order Era
Overrated/Underrated
Similar to my respect threads, but more explanations on how certain characters are overrated/underrated. I've started with Sith Lords and I'm doing them chronologically. I'll do Jedi and eventually other characters, but that'll take quite the while and I haven't organized them yet. Tulak Hord is also incredibly overrated, but he has no appearances at all and everything is just lip-service, so I don't think he even deserves a blog.
Otherwise, again, there is no confirmation I will actually create these and because the Sith tend to be the ones who are overrated or underrated, they will be my priorities.
These are just created as a response to the misconceptions I see floating around in the battles forum. I might do some at random. So honestly, I can't really say I have plans to create any of them in the near future unless some misconception gets out of hand.
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