The Enigma
For the longest time, we have gloated and bellowed in cachinnation at the dunderpates who believed that Marka Ragnos possessed superior powers to the relishes of Emperor Palpatine merely because he was "antediluvian and cool looking". We correctly noted that such observations required minimal astuteness or deep thought, and ran contrary to the more astute and evidence predicated analysis now preferred by the astronomical majority of the forums.
But, here lies the quandary. The engenderers of the Star Wars macrocosm, including its authors and editors, themselves cerebrate more proximately to that "shallow" intuition than our own lines of scaling and logic. That logic reposed on the fatal postulation that internally consistent rules, rather than author intuition, drove the storylines. But if the authors themselves, essentially being Gods within their macrocosms, engender the stories, then their own opinions, cumulated with those of their editors, hold supreme ascendancy over the events of the story. And if authors themselves believe that Ragnos is proximately as, as, or more potent than Palpatine, then that is indeed the authenticity they opt to indite.
For it is not a coincidence that authors indite Karness Muur as a threat to Sidious, Ragnos as a threat to the entire Incipient Jedi Order, or Exar Kun as a challenge commensurable to Sidious. We can contort and rationalize all we optate, but the intent was pellucid.
Now; what about Palpatine's supremacy quotes? Merely a minority of authors who indite such things. Were Ragnos of sometime in Palpatine's future, and were he in as many sourcebooks, it is very likely that he would withal have as many - but even if it were not, how many authors authentically constrain their storylines predicated on what sourcebooks verbally express? Virtually none - and so their potency in shaping the narrative is genuinely minimal.
Most fictional works attribute a caliber of supreme power and spookiness to the antediluvian potencies. This carries forward in Star Wars, with lost potencies, super archaic technology, and crazy storylines limpidly designed to give such an impression. We can fight it all we optate, but in the terminus, intuition drives Star Wars.
But, this remains a mere hypothesis. As Legends has ended, preserve for a few holds, we may never ken for sure.
But, here lies the quandary. The engenderers of the Star Wars macrocosm, including its authors and editors, themselves cerebrate more proximately to that "shallow" intuition than our own lines of scaling and logic. That logic reposed on the fatal postulation that internally consistent rules, rather than author intuition, drove the storylines. But if the authors themselves, essentially being Gods within their macrocosms, engender the stories, then their own opinions, cumulated with those of their editors, hold supreme ascendancy over the events of the story. And if authors themselves believe that Ragnos is proximately as, as, or more potent than Palpatine, then that is indeed the authenticity they opt to indite.
For it is not a coincidence that authors indite Karness Muur as a threat to Sidious, Ragnos as a threat to the entire Incipient Jedi Order, or Exar Kun as a challenge commensurable to Sidious. We can contort and rationalize all we optate, but the intent was pellucid.
Now; what about Palpatine's supremacy quotes? Merely a minority of authors who indite such things. Were Ragnos of sometime in Palpatine's future, and were he in as many sourcebooks, it is very likely that he would withal have as many - but even if it were not, how many authors authentically constrain their storylines predicated on what sourcebooks verbally express? Virtually none - and so their potency in shaping the narrative is genuinely minimal.
Most fictional works attribute a caliber of supreme power and spookiness to the antediluvian potencies. This carries forward in Star Wars, with lost potencies, super archaic technology, and crazy storylines limpidly designed to give such an impression. We can fight it all we optate, but in the terminus, intuition drives Star Wars.
But, this remains a mere hypothesis. As Legends has ended, preserve for a few holds, we may never ken for sure.
