Originally posted by The Ellimist
He is also on a dark side nexus.
No where it is stated that Vitiate could benefit from the nature of setting during his most compromised state.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
Luke thinks he can do something significantly more impressive without a nexus, in real-time, decades before his prime.
What characters may think should not be blindly taken at face value.
I recall a character thinking that he could literally break the planet apart during a moment of gathering power. So should we take this thought at face value?
Originally posted by The Ellimist
Luke also has manipulated dovin basals,
Yes, and Kyp Durron (who is Darth Vader level Force-user at best). Just drop it.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
pinned Caedus to his chair with a gesture,
Darth Malgus sent an entire Strike Team (comprising of Act III protagonists) packing across the hall with his telekinetic abilities.
Revan sent an entire Strike Team packing across the arena. Those on the receiving end included Satele Shan, Darth Marr, Lana Beniko and one of the protagonists.
Granted that Revan is not in the Strike Team but Darth Malgus is. Luke Skywalker doesn't have a comparable showing in combat situation.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
f*cked Caedus into seeing illusory fleets, f*cked Caedus's starfighter with him in it, resisted the telekinesis of UnuThul, and cloaked capital ships.
Good for him.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
The notion that this strike team could do anything against him if he were going all-out requires a little bit of elaboration, given that it's pretty heavily implied that they collectively could not have defeated the Sith Emperor, who has never replicated any of these things.
Satele Shan ripped a blast door apart with a mere touch. She also killed 3 Sith Warriors with a blast of power before they could even react. She also blew apart scores of Hex droids with a gesture. She also have Battle Meditation to assist her companions.
Darth Malgus defeated some of the strongest Jedi of his era in single combat; individuals with impressive showings under their belt and not just hype. Palpatine believed that his battlefield feats have never been duplicated.
Darth Marr was one of the most powerful Sith of the Empire. He easily bested powerful Darth Lachris in a confrontation intended to test her abilities, routed entire armies from the battlefield and was able to dominate scores of Knights of Zakuul.
Darth Thanaton was one of the most powerful Sith of the Empire. He became a master of Sith Sorcery and arcane techniques. Darth Nox had to bind several Force ghosts to himself and undergo metamorphosis from Mother Machine to defeat Darth Thanaton.
4 x Act II protagonists were sufficient to overwhelm Revan on the Foundry. We have 3 of them here.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
Sure he would.
Face it: using his own, raw power, he's never pulled off anything as impressive as a pre-NJO Luke could have done. If he has, you should show us where.
Yes, and it is a sound assumption.
Vaylin also tore a 20 story structure apart and she is not comparable to Vitiate either.
Utter nonsense. When Luke would be able to destroy worlds. Let me know.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
And you think this makes it comparable to an actual warship designed to tank thermonuclear warheads?
What makes you think that the Starships Luke was thinking about could tank nuclear explosions?
Originally posted by The Ellimist
Yes, it does. There are explicit and noticeable improvements in the ships from the Clone Wars to the Imperial era, and by LotF Caedus considers the former's vessels to be a "junkyard" and "ancient hardware", and this is over the course of a few decades. Of the course of the millenia, ships have gotten significantly larger, their hyperdrive classes have improved, new technologies have been developed, and old ones have grown obsolete (like personal shielding due to more powerful blasters). Otherwise the Republic would just reuse all of its older ships instead of commissioning corporations to design new ones.
Regardless, you're still comparing a temple to battle cruisers, lol.
No, it doesn't. There is ancient era stuff that puts everything shown in the movies and later years to shame. Look no further then creations/technologies of the Celestials and Rakatans.
The ancient Sith Empire managed to develop class 5 (and above) hyperdrives. The Empire also managed to develop starships with sufficient firepower to one-shot an entire fleet and even a planet. Size is not a good benchmark to judge performance of things.
The Republic had disbanded much of its military capability during the era of peace.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
Which relates to its difficulty in shattering...how, exactly?
The reinforced mechanisms could be Sith Sorcery based. Materials do not prevent spirits from passing through, do they?