[...]every being he spared spontaneous combustion from contact with his supernatural momentum, the Jedi Master felt his muscles, his atoms, his very essence, rebelling into pandemonium.
__________________ "Vader's pulse and breathing were machine-regulated, so they could not quicken; but something in his chest became more electric around his meetings with the Emperor; he could not say how. A feeling of fullness, of power, of dark and demon mastery -- of secret lusts, unrestrained passion, wild submission -- all these things were in Vader's heart as he neared his Emperor. These things and more."
In Legends people move so fast even other force sensitives can barely see. Some seemed to appear in multiple places at once or even seemed to teleport. Something is pretty off in the narration.
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Apparently people missed this:
And on a sand-lacerated mesa, a podracer utterly butchers distances at six hundred kilometers per hour.
Obi-Wan-
Ran-
Faster.
The Jedi Master ran over one hundred and sixty-five meters per second.
More than six hundred kilometers per hour.
He is not running at 600 km/h, he is running faster than that and the passage places no limitation on his speed. So 600 km/h is not his limit here.
And I don't see how this is hyperbole at all tbh. The text describes the speeds of various objects in great detail, and then simply states Obi-Wan is even faster. How is that hyperbole? It merely states Obi-Wan is faster than something, and that happens to include any speed feat ever performed by any Sith or Jedi as mentioned in the text. Quite straightforward to me.
Registered: Jun 2016
Location: The Throne of the Sheevites
Yeah, and keep in mind that if Obi-Wan is really losing the cohesion of his atoms here, I think this just serves as a nice little insight into how much Force users can actually augment their speeds, but perhaps choose not to because the effort goes beyond their capacity to deflect with a Force Shield and as a result it may cause them harm, and in extreme cases, they find their atoms losing cohesion like Obi-Wan is here.
Examining the quote and the surrounding context, it'snot actually oneness. Oneness is derived from a state of focus/peace. Here, Kenobi was letting his fear get tohim and was even grappling with the darkside: