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Sourcebook quotes
Near the end of the Clone Wars, Sidious orders Asajj Ventress with eliminating the order. Of the Sun Guards she spares, some join Emperor Palpatine's Royal Guard. Force Sensitive Sun Guards become candidates for the Imperial Shadow Guard.
- Taken from Galaxy at War
At the end of the Clone Wars, surviving Force Sensitive Sun Guards are candidates to be Shadow Guardsmen. Sun Guards being lethal combatants, who can go toe to toe with Mandalorians and win. They are also chosen from Palpatine's Royal Guardsmen, those who show a good degree of Force Sensitivity.
Employed almost exclusively by the Emperor's Shadow Guard, an elite cadre of Force Wielding Royal Guards, the lightsaber pike resembles a primitive polearm in many respects. The long handle of the weapon is made out of phrik alloy.
- Taken from Force Unleashed Campaign Guide
An elite cadre of Force Users, they wield phrik alloy lightsaber polearms.
Silent, enigmatic warriors who received orders from Emperor Palpatine directly, they were sent to eliminate suspected Jedi and other Force Users.
- Taken from Complete Encyclopedia
Sent to eliminate Jedi and Force Users, although suspected is in there, they are more than capable of taking on Jedi.
Link:Jedi Knight
^ To get an idea of what the Shadow Guard might be sent after.
Force Power Mastery of Force Lighting.
The Shadow Guards are Force-sensitive warriors who possess even more power than Palpatine's renowned and feared Imperial Royal Guard. Fighting with the skill of a Jedi, each Shadow Guard wields a lightsaber lance to lead elite Imperial commandos into battle.
- Star Wars Collection Figurines: Shadow Guard
They possess more power than the Imperial Royal Guard, fighting with the skill of a Jedi Knight.
Link: Imperial Royal Guard
^ To give an idea of who they are superior to.
They know Force Harmony, which is a pretty potent ability. Though it's a little odd that they know this ability, but at the same time I guess it's for when they might come across another Dark Side Force User. At least that's how I can see it being useful.
Novel quotes
The apprentice's blade came up of its own accord. Moving in extreme slow motion, as though the air were made of treacle, he deflected volley after volley from the blasters back at the troopers who fired them. They staggered and fell with smoke pouring from shoulder and neck joints. Their cries barely registered.
The black guard deflected every bolt he sent his way.
- Taken from TFU novel
Able to deflect volley of blaster bolts.
He broke off communications to block a downward slash that almost knocked him flat. Glancing around for Kota, he was relieved to see that the general was nowhere nearby. Now he could summon the full power of the dark side. Drawing on the sense of betrayal and shock he had felt on seeing the figure waiting for him-this deadly, dark assassin who might or might not have something to do with Darth Vader-he pushed with all his might.
His ears rang, such was the energy he released. The dock buckled underneath him; rivets popped and welds tore. His assailant went flying across the wide space, arms spread wide apart. The saber-staff cut a long, twisting line in the metal floor as its owner rolled and came up standing.
- Taken from TFU novel
Nearly knocked Galen flat with a downward slash and withstands a full powered Force Push from Galen, sending him flying back but being able to roll and stand.
A bolt of Sith lightning shot from the hand not holding the staff. The apprentice grinned, having anticipated that tactic. He met the lightning bolt with one of his own. They collided in a spit-ling, tackling ball of pure energy that danced crazily from side to side.
- Taken from TFU novel
Showing of Force Lighting, colliding with Galen's own.
Out of the cloud of metal fragments leaped a second of the Emperor's Sith assassins, saber-staff upraised. The apprentice met him with a clash of sparks and lightning.
Sith against Sith, they fought backward and forward through the broad, metal-lined space. This assassin was more proficient than the first, wiry and strong with a good reach and penchant for telekinetically throwing items from inside the apprentice's blind spot.
- Taken from TFU novel
Able to throw objects using TK and able to combat Galen back and forth.
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Able to catch Galen by surprise, launching him back and blocking return blows while using the advantage of weapon reach to land an attack.
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Anyway a short respect thread yes, but the Shadow Guards were one of the more awesome things that TFU came up with.
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