Nai Fohl
Advocatus Diaboli
Originally posted by Emperor Revan
1.Someone said Revan only had 3 years to learn about the Sith or something like that. First, he spent many many years learning about the Jedi. He found Malachor V around the start of the mandalorian wars which lasted 3 years. The official KOTOR 2 website says Malachor V is a planet sized Sith storehouse of knowledge. Revan made a base there, studied the holocrons, relics, artifacts etc. learning how to defeat Jedi, how to convert them etc. and the official site says it increased his tremendous power. Remember that he was the only one to fully resist the evil of this planet as well, not even Kreia could do it. He also visited it after killing Malak at least once.
Well...I think I was the one to say that he had only 3 years to learn about the Sith. I thought he discovered Malachor V at the end of the Mandalorian wars so I was wrong here. Does that realy matter ?
If he discovered Malachor V at the beginning of the Mandalorian Wars he has:
3 years during the Mandalorian War
1 year after it
2 years during the Jedi Civil War
= 6 years to learn.
But he has to command some armies there. He has to think about the battles (at least - even as a tactical genious - you have to think about what you want to do next). And he must have done some fighting on his own since he must have developed his lightsaber skills somewhere.
Lets say he had an average time of 10 hrs per day studying and that is much keeping in mind what other things he did during that time period. According to Dipsits calculation this would be 428,300 pages a year or 2,569,800 pages in 6 years. That are tons of knowledge. BUT
- he had to learn from Holocrons / Sith spirits a lot and since they speak this would take more time than reading through a book. I personally know nobody that can speak the text displayed on one side of a book in 30 seconds.
- he had to exercize what he learned. If it comes to force powers or lightsaber combat he has to do that. I would like to compare this with somebody trying to learn martial arts from a book. You read a description (for example of a single Kung Fu kick), you have to understand that and than you have to go and practice it. At least you would need some hours to figure things out...
We realy can't tell how much Revan could have learned in that 6 years but I would hardly doubt that he could have learned as much as people like Ragnos, Sadow or even Sidious since they all studied that things for their entire lifes. That would be 40,50 or (Sidous) 90 years of studying. And yes...Luke had only 20 years of time...but why people always say he had less informations ? He had:
- everything that Sidous had
- the archieves that were onboard of the Cu'unthor (mobile Jedi Academy)
- everything that could be found in the ancient Sith ruins on Yavin 4 (a place where Sith Lords like Naga Sadow, Exar Kun and Freedon Nadd had spent some time of their lifes)
I don't want to say that Luke has equal knowledge compared with Revan. I just wanted to point out that some people here are overrating Revans amount of knowledge here.
2.He killed hundreds of mandalorians, Jedi, and Sith. Kreia said “even then you could see the Jedi he would slay etched on his soul.” With wars that last 8 years in total he would’ve done a ton of fighting no matter what.
Oh well...we could go on and do body counting here. What do you think how many people Luke killed by destroying the first Death Star alone ? Well...ok...let us just take a look on "direct" combat:
- directly after the destruction of the first Death Star, Luke travelled around to find a new planet for the Rebellion. While doing that he confronted cutthroat pirates and bandits on the planet Drexel
- guided by Obi-Wan he fought Vader for the first time and managed to cut Vaders mechanical arm off (pre ESB so with NO training)
- he killed several Black Sun assassins that were trying to kill him and he was able to escape from the Black Suns HQ almost alone.
- that are 4 years of fighting against the Galactic Empire only
- he managed to defeat Joruus C'Baoth and his own clone. Fighting yourself is hell.
- he singlehandly killed thousands of Yuuzhan Vong who were the biggest threat to the galaxy ever (their invasion killed 365 trillion people)
Meanwhile he was involved in some conflicts like the Truce at Bakura, the Bacta War, the Trawn crises, the Black Fleet crises as well as in the fights against the Dark Empire, the Second Empire, the Diversity Alliance and at least against the Yuuzhan Vong (that last conflict did go on from 25-30 ABY, 5 years).
So I hardly doubt that Revan did that much more fighting than Luke did. Yes. Revan did it against people with lightsabers and force powers. Does that count so much when you keep in mind what people like Boba/Jango Fett could do without lightsabers and without the force ?
3.In response to what Glentract said, have we as a race gotten weaker? No, but they were far more advanced 5000 years ago then we are now. I personally don’t think tons of knowledge was lost etc. I do believe most force users of the KOTOR time period were generally stronger than TPM Jedi because they have fought way more. Look at how much stronger we see Obi-Wan get from TPM to AOTC. Not much I thought. Now compare it to him in AOTC and ROTS. Imo he got WAY stronger, as did Anakin because they were constantly fighting in a war.
So...does that more count for Revan who was in combat for 8 years or for Luke who was in combat for almost 30 years ? Just see how much stronger Luke became between ESB and ROTJ (half year) and than image how much stronger another 25 years filled with normal confrontations and 5 years against the Yuuzhan Vong would have made him.
6.It does NOT take 10 years to learn 1 force form. Anakin mastered Form 1, Form 5, and possibly others by ROTS and he only had 13 years of training.
The only people known to have mastered a lightsaber form in RotS era are Kit Fisto (form I), Dooku (form II), Yoda (form IV), Mace (form VII + Vaapad) and Obi-Wan (form III). I don't think Anakin mastered any form during that time. With form V mastery he should have killed Obi-Wan during their lightsaber battle.
7.Revan was just as level headed as Luke if not more so. Darth Revan experienced both sides of the Force twice each and uses both sides as well. Luke may have a better understanding of the Light side, but that wouldn’t be by a whole lot and Revan had WAY more dark side knowledge then Luke. As for potential, both Lord Revan and Luke had amazing potential, it’s hard to say who had more.
According to Luke there is no Dark Side or Light Side just the Force itself. Thinking of this you can say that Luke studied no "side" he studied the force. That actually is the thing that leads me to the conclusion that Luke will win here. Advanced philosophy. According to Sith philosophy you have to rely on your emotions to use certain powers. Take a look at Palpatine during RotS or RotJ when he uses force lightning. He is total giving into his hatred and becomes vunerable what actually alows Vader to kill him.
And that is the point. Luke could use all powers without giving into his emotions while Revan would need to do so for using his DS powers and thereby it will be harder for him to get the control back if he needs some LS abilities (that actually matches the KOTOR game physics where you need more power to use abilities that are from the opposite side of the force).