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Originally posted by Beniboybling
That's my point, that they weren't literally blinded, merely failed to respond to what they were seeing. With the similar description of the senators as "forced to watch but not react" suggests more than just paralysis, but mind control.

And its just an inference really, the spell is mentioned in the Book of Sith as a mind-addling power spell supplants the thoughts of the victim with one's own. Or as Daniel Wallace described it in his endnotes "basically mind control, and therefore shows up in a lot of places. Essentially it's the "Jedi Mind Trick" but with a more dominating, sinister bent."

Most of the spells are sourced from TotJ so Kun mind controlling the Senate, and mind-controlling these technicians, seem the most likely candidates.

On top of that we've also got Aleema Keto using Sith magic to mind control scores of Krath chaos fighters, and Cartariun who raised army of semi-sentient creatures using the energies of a Sith Temple.

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Originally posted by The Ellimist
Nice question begging, since the entire dispute is whether Exar a) is being truthful and b) cares about parsing his words exactly, not whether he himself knows what's going on. You say that he has no reason to lie since the guy is going to die - which is funny because he already has no reason to talk to him in the first place, but he is - it turns out that people sometimes do things for the f*ck of it, no less a dark lord. Our point, given this, is that it's more reliable to look at what makes more sense than to do a semantics analysis of his dialogue. And we can see that it makes absolutely no sense for every technician on the planet to be watching the arrival of a single ship, so blinding every one of them is entirely pointless. More realistically, he did it to those within a few kilometer, maybe few dozen kilometer square radius, .i.e. hundreds of technicians, an impressive but hardly top-tier feat.

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Originally posted by Nephthys
This isn't a dispute so much as a barefaced attempt at lowballing that I'm humoring. There's no reason at all for Kun to be lying and the speculation that he might be doing it "for the f*ck of it" is laughable, toothless and pathetic.

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If you do go down that route though, I suggest you also throw out literally anything any character says because they might be lying for no reason other than, y'know, because. For consistency. So unless you're prepared to have every character statement thrown out immediately in every future debate you have, I'd suggest you drop this line of thought.

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But just to thoroughly crush this line of thought, the reason Kun is talking to the guy is because it's a freaking audio book, and that's how you get information across to the audience. There is no reason for Kun to lie because he's a fictional character. What the actual question is, is why would the author lie to the audience? Predictably, the answer is that they wouldn't. That's also the answer to your second point. There's no reason for the author to put in misleading dialogue without payoff. They wanted Kun to say that, so that the audience would know what had happened. And since audio is the sole way to get across information, it has to be accurate unless purposefully contradicted at some point in the story. You need it to be clear on what happened because that's all the audience has to go on. So again, there's no reason to disbelieve Kun's words. When Kun says he blinded every technician on Cinnagar, thats the sole thing that author wanted us to consider with regards to the topic. And with nothing contradicting it, it is unquestionably supposed to be considered accurate.

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No-one cares about realism. Kun punches a ghost to death and vaporises people with beams of hatred. Screw realism. Do you have any idea how many things in Star Wars completely fall apart the moment you bring in how things should work realistically into it? TFA had people seeing planets explode in real time from across the galaxy, jesus this is small potatoes.

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But anyway, Kun attacked the docking bay, its possible that sent an alert out to the scanning technicians that drew all attention to him.

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Or maybe you have no clue what you're talking about or how any of this works and it is equally possible that every technician would scan Kun's arrival.

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Or, like Ziggy says and you have failed to refute, Kun couldn't be sure which technician would scan him and so blinded them all.

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The reason is inconsequential, the feat is what it is and no nitpicking about how dumb or non-sensical you think it is changes anything.

And most importantly, it doesn't matter what you think about it. Your opinion is worthless compared to the actual text. Exar Kun's opinion >>>>>>>>>> Yours.

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Originally posted by Nephthys
There's no evidence pointing to that interpretation. That reading completely ignores Kun saying he blinded them. Non-literal isn't non-existent. In the case of the spell, they aren't blinded in any way, but as you say "forced to watch" which, and I don't know if you know this but, is kind of the complete opposite of being blinded. And how does that suggest mind control over paralysis? Being forced to watch and unable to react is the perfect description for paralysis. The comic also depicts them with wide terrified eyes, frozen by Kun's power. They were paralyzed. You yourself say that the supposed spell puts them into a trance and the Book of Sith says that their thoughts are supplanted by the voice of the caster. Nothing like what happens in either case.

Why would Kun deliver a speech to a room of people whose thoughts are supplanted by his own voice? That's kind of..... insanely stupid.

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Originally posted by AncientPower
Did you just equate generic space traffic to what scanners would pick up from a heavily armed Sith battleship coming in and blasting a docking bay? This is Empress Teta ffs, do you even know why he has to make sure he doesn't alert the city to his attack? I doubt that heavily.

The city is in war time, the Krath have been fighting numerous battles against the Republic navy, in this very system. They're on alert for any kind of attack by invading ships. A Battleship is going to be the immediate source of attention for towers who are on alert for warships.

You're also hilariously ignoring that when the Jedi Star Sabers attacked, they were immediately picked up and the entire city rallied its forces in a counter-offensive. This is literally just after Exar Kun finds his way to the Iron Citadel and he uses the Jedi attack as another distraction whilst he makes his own progress.

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Could the Emperor's power through the dark side of the Force have been sufficient to compel thousands or millions of people to forget having seen the Lusankya being buried? As hideous as that idea seemed, Wedge hoped it was the truth. The likely alternative—that the Emperor had ordered the deaths of all the_witnesses—seemed that much more horrible.
-_X-Wing: Krytos Trap

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Now director of the Imperial Intelligence, Ysanne worked to demonstrate the usefulness of her office to the only person that mattered—the Emperor. Impressed with her suggestion to build a combination internment center and brainwashing facility, Palpatine gave her the Super Star Desteroyer_from the Kuat shipyards—a twin to Vader’s_from Fondor. She renamed the vessel_Lusankya, and, with help from the Emperor’s mind-fogging powers, Imperial engineers buried the tremendous battleship beneath the cityscape in Coruscant’s Manarai Mountain district.
- The New Essential Guide to Characters

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He searched, sending his thoughts like a probe deep into the storm systems of the gas giant. Behind him, Kyp felt the black-ice power of Exar Kun arise, tapping into him and reinforcing his abilities. His own feeble exploratory touch suddenly plunged forward like a blaster bolt. Kyp felt larger, a part of the jungle moon, then a part of the entire planetary system, until he burrowed into the heart of the gas giant itself.
- Jedi Academy Trilogy: Dark Apprentice

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With his mind he reached across the galaxy and detected other users of Sith magic in the Empress Teta system.
- The New Essential Chronology

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Originally posted by XSUPREMEXSKILLZ
Where's the story draft, LeGenD?

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Originally posted by AncientPower
It is obviously a network of systems, as Exar Kun hears the verbal alert from other towers when the Jedi Starsabers attacked Cinnagar. It's a single system with towers all across the city. Exar Kun 'blinded' every scanning technician that detected his approach to the planet and stopped any of them from sounding an alert so the Krath fleet could intercept him.

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Originally posted by AncientPower
It's evidently a network of scanners across the city all alert for an enemy fleet attack, Kun states he had an effect on every scanning technician in Cinnagar, blinding all of them. If it was so impossible, Palpatine wouldn't have accomplished the same bloody thing.