eh, tbh, let's go Mace, and UnuThul next
Mace > Unu > Valky
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That's part of the reason why I'm currently leaning Mace. Presumably UnuThul's raw potency eclipses Mace's own, but things like shatterpoint and Vaapad are huge modifiers. And yeah, apparently Vaapad is powerful enough to not only absorb and reflect lightning but intangible, passive demonstrations of power like Force speed as well.
It's been a while since I've read DNT, but if UnuThul's an actual dark sider, I could see Mace being his absolute worst nightmare in combat other than Luke.
For the last time. Vaapad does not backfire your opponent's abilities at them. Otherwise you would see Windu shooting lightning at Palpatine from his fingertips,
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Ant or Bart probably know this, but I skimmed through the Raynar - Luke "confrontation" in the first DN book, and it seems like UnuThul is described as a dark presence.
I'm probably backing UnuThul. I wouldn't be surprised if he's actually on par or above RotS Sidious, which is Mace's established limit with Vaapad(or perhaps even above that limit if you assume Sheev threw the fight).
His raw potency is above Windu's, he's more versatile, and I'm not sure if he's an all-out Dark Sider, so much as just a bad guy.
It is considered by the Jedi Order in the books that UnuThul and his colony are corrupted by the Dark Side, but it's nowhere clearly confirmed that Unu is a definitive Dark Side user.
On the other hand, FotJ makes it pretty clear that Raynar being UnuThul was an "episode with the Dark Side" or something like that.
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Well, to me it sounds like UnuThul is a full darksider, tbh, which means Mace very well could replicate the level of his performance against Palpatine here. The one issue remaining is telepathy, to which I am still looking for answers, be they helpful or detrimental for Mace's chances.
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Gotta go for Unuthul as well, nearly voted that way last round tbfh.
Also, yeh, he’s definitely a Dark Sider. Always used to make me wonder though, as he doesn’t seem as definitively ‘dark’ as most major Star Wars antagonists are made out to be. Begs the question if you can be as powerful as he is while being on the grey end of Dark
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Yeh but that doesn’t really fly with me. They shouldn’t be anything but grey, so either the alignment comes from him alone or he’s grey.
It’s just strange, as expressions of the Dark Side do tend to get more potent with more emotion. If he’s held back by the nature of the Hive, you wonder how much power he actually had...
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