i was just reading one of the NJO books and i was wondering about something. how much do you think anakin skywalker(not solo) could have contributed to the fight against the youzhan vong? that is to say if he was at the power level he was in episode 3 or if he had become more experienced and not left as suited vader. a lot of the characters in the books do things that are far more powerful than anything in the movies. it is very similar to the clone wars cartoon where the characters are much more powerful. i think it would be interesting to put anakin in a situation with the vong and see what he could have unleashed on them when the galaxy depended on it.
If Vader hadn't had his suit, he would have been unstoppable. He would have combined his speed, agility, power, wisdom into one great force user. On top of that, he would have force power that would make Exar, Revan or NJO Luke look like younglings, because lets admit it, being the Chosen One would have actually meant something if Anny could have tapped into his full potential. In closing, The Vong would have been owned.
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In my opinion luke and anakin have the same potential, NJO luke is how anakin should have been. And to answer your question full potential anakin would of certainly helped alot .
And if Anakin was a sith lord (we know that NJO skywalker held back alot), consdering what we know of DE sideous, Prime Vader (my term for the would have been unscarred sith lord) would probably have had a force storm that would rival the death star's power. And if that didn't work because of Vong force insensitiviy , He'd still be a damn powerfull fighter who coudl just bludgeon them with objects and lightning, as well as using the vaccum trick to strangle them. You know Prime vader would be able to do that one. Man wrote the book on asphixiation, both in giving and recieving.
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i disagree about the luke and anakin being equal. i think they may be as far as potential go.i think that anakin would be very different from luke in action simply b/c he wouldnt hold anything back but i really think that the EU makes luke really wimpy. he isnt that much better than many of the other jedi. i am only on like the 6th book of the NJO but so far in all of the eu luke gets by on a lot of luck and other people helping him out. i would really like to see him become nearly invincible. and as i said that may happen by the end.
NJO Luke is stupidly overpowered; you couldn't ask for more. I actually think it's decent, but any more would be dumb. And no, Luke is not what Anakin could have been. Anakin would have been beyond even Luke.
What luke did in ROTJ(beat vader with a years training) is more impressive than anything anakins done, if anakin wasnt the chosen one I would say luke is much stronger but I can only say they are equal. ROTJ vader is also stronger than ROTS vader like I have been always saying, its due to dark side knowledge and experience instead of just having potential, refer to shadows of the empire for when vader says this himself.
Yeah he beat Anakin. At what was possibly the lowest point in Anakin's life. First, when he found out his son was alive, he began to hope, an emotion that would surely detract from his power (and probably cemented the Emperor's decision that it was time for a new apprentice). Not to mention that he was under orders not to kill luke, just as Luke hit a nasty spike of power. Had Luke Skywalker simply had another last name and came form a planet other then tattoine, vader would have simply bludgeoned him to death on cloud city, or done something similiar in the emperors compound.
Besides Vengeance, we know vader never got to where he should be. I just see a fully matured Vader as being stronger then Luke.
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I think he could have trained a lot of the new Jedi in some of the old ways and they would have been a lot better. In a straight fight, he would have done pretty good, except the others had fought without the force for at least part of their lives, while Anakin has always(except in kid fist fights) to fight so would have to spend some time learning to fight the Vong.
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I never contradicted that. I believe it myself. But even according to GL, Anakin would have been the most powerful being ever if he'd reached his full potential. Luke is a shadow of what his father could have been.
Also, don't you think that if one of the Jedi, like Kyp, had kept up with Force Lightning, he could have dealt more damage to Vong warriors and technology rather than just attacking with a sabre?
we know Kyp was stronger then luke, though we don't know how strong he was compared to Anakin. Kyp is basically the only person thus who could conceviably rival anakin. Which makes his utter squandering rather sad. He never even comes close to his own potential. Anakin I think would have gotten farther. And would indeed be stronger then Luke.
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Jul 31st, 2005 10:48 PM
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