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So, it seems I overestimated my available free time and my mental endurance to keep on tirelessly reading insipid text. It's apparent to me I won't get my reading list cleared by Saturday, so I have decided to drop a brief response to avoid missing the deadline. Thus, I present thee, seņores, with my modest defense of Exar Kun...
The reason Ood Bnar was an impassable obstacle for Kun was because he was, contrary to you implication, a far more powerful Force user than Starkiller was. At least when drawing on Ossus' Force nexus at the planet's core with his roots, amplifying his naturally meager power level to unprecedented (literally) heights, after which blasting Kun back with his auxiliary might:
The same power can also be translated into defence, as Ood rather nicely demonstrated when he created and impenetrable barrier capable of deflecting lightsaber strikes as well as dark side tendrils similar to the ones that proved the undoing of the legendary Darth Bane. More impressive and relevant, though, would be the Neti Jedi Master's famous tanking of ten supernovas to the face, which left him charred but still very much alive:
The multisolar firestorm would logically pack a bit more of a punch than the obliteration of less than half of a frigate, on top of which it being described as "more devastating than anything the galaxy has ever seen" - which would include such events as Vitiate's little stunt on Nathema that killed every living being on the planet - and in a nice comparison to Starkiller's vaunted feat, annihilated the Jedi fleet and disintegrated Naga Sadow's flagship:
After all that, I would not think of it as a negative for Exar Kun to have met his match in Ood Bnar. After all, the ancient master survived a far more potent force than anything you've presented available to Starkiller in his arsenal so far. Now, the crux of my argument is that when power that was used to tank ten supernovas is released outward from the body in an offensive blast, the result would presumably be an attack more powerful than what either Galen or his clone have going for them - which is exactly what Bnar did to Kun; the power he used to blast the Dark Lord was the same he used to survive the supernovas: drawn from Ossus' core. Yet Kun himself didn't seem to mind all that much in the end, remaining shaken but ultimately unscathed, walking away to do his own business a few moments later:
So with that out of the way, I wouldn't say it is out of the question to suggest Exar Kun can endure any telekinetic blast or surge of Force lightning Vader's apprentices throw at him. What does remain under scrutiny, however, is the duo's ability to defend against Exar's more unorthodox forms of assault, namely the sorcerous spells you so audaciously dismissed in your opener. I haven't seen anything from either of that'd suggest their knowledge of the Force is developed past rudimentary disciplines like telekinesis or Force lightning. They are, until proven otherwise, defenseless against having their soul ripped out of their body, cryokinetic attacks that can disable their lightsaber, and advanced forms of telepathy, considering that such attacks require special techniques to guard against and have historically proven deadly to unprepared opponents. And in this battle scenario, they are delivered from a comparably - and I have argued more - powerful Force adept. A dreary scenario indeed.
Vitiate's feat represents a composite experiment with Force Drain powers and Sith Sorcery (a ritual for securing corporeal immortality at the expense of countless lives) and it not only produced the largest nexus of the Dark Side (ever) but left a permanent void in the Force around Medriaas.
Regardless, Vitiate's feat is not to be mistaken with conventional waves of energy (solar and otherwise).
Last edited by S_W_LeGenD on Nov 22nd, 2017 at 05:19 PM
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