Nai Fohl
Advocatus Diaboli
Originally posted by Darth_Frobo
-The thing is I actually do beleive Revan could do better than the three jedi did, his pre-cog is very advanced to the point where he knows what his opponents doing before his opponent does and if he knows exactly where yoda will jump to before yoda thinks,"I guess I'll jump there," and he moves just as quickly, so he would be able to know exactly where to hit down to the milimeter which is why I said it would negate size, it would still pose a small problem but definitley not anything that would make a difference. I also beleive that revans form is that much better, even in the movie you see sidious was able to disarm yoda with a simple burst of force lightning, and Revans force abilities are far beyond those of sidious.
And still I see a logic mistake here.
You have three Jedi Council Members...they are as fast as Revan is (when you believe there is nothing faster compared to master speed).
They all have lightning fast reflexes making it seem like they have pre-cog. They all try to hit Yoda at once and Yoda can avoid their blows.
Now basically you have 2 different reasons how that works:
a) Yoda is faster than them what would make him also faster than Revan is.
b) Yoda is totally unpredictable in movements (since he can change the direction of his movements even while jumping an being in the air)
Still take a look at the thing I have written about fighting somebody with the size of Yoda. You simply lose 5/6 (83 %) of your offensive movement abilities. You lose (approxematly) 50 % of your range, speed and power.
And Fishy...you threw Vandar in here. Yes. Probably Revan had some training fights with him. Did he lose ? Did he win ? Is Vandar anything compared to Yoda when it comes to force mastery, speed and lightsaber combat ? It would give him some experience with somebody that has Yodas size still that won't take away the natural disadvantages a swordfighter with normal size would have against somebody with Yodas size.
-As for force defense, certain techniques just can't be blocked, as for how it actually works I beleive he takes the power thrown at him and tries to channel it back into the force or could absorb the force energy into his midichlorians and then expend the excess at his will, but that being said there is only so much he could handle, sids threw a force storm at him and he struggled A LOT to the point where you could say it pretty much broke his force defense and that is absolutley nothing compared what Revan could throw at him, you said it yourself, Sidious is but a child compared to him. As for yoda's offensive powers, it was more of a counterattack then an attack, he merely took what was thrown at him and returned it.
Where did Sidious ever got close to pass Yodas force defence ? Sidious at the end of their fight in ROTS suprised Yoda with his last force lightning and threw everything he had into it. Still Yoda deflected the force power and also the kinetic energy of the force lightning until their was so much force power between them that it exploded. And even that raw and uncontrolled explosion of force powers didn't do anything to Yoda.
And with "offensive" use I meant the things I have mentioned before. Yoda walks into Sidious room and immediatly knocks the red guards to the ground. And he threw Sidious across the entire room with the force. He did both things without using much concentration. In the EU (during the clone wars) he crushed a hailfire droid (that things that drive around on that oversized hoop-like wheels) with his force powers.
- As for the sith knowledge being in the academy, other then the fact yoda never used anything like death field or slow in his fights, powers that would pretty much alow him to anhilate his opponents, The tombs on korriban were destroyed in the fighting when revans sith empire, the knowledge on malachor v was lost after the planet was destroyed, and the knowledge on the outer rim worlds could've only been brought back by Revan or the exile because as far as we know they're the only two that went there. Also some of Revans knowledge came from his own experience which would make it almost exclusive to him.
Why should Yoda use Sith techniques to kill his opponents ? That's totally against any rule of the Jedi Order. And how can you tell what knowledge was lost ? You probably had hundrets of Dark Jedi / Sith learning on Malachor. Still you had the spirits of the ancient sith lords around that could appear in nearly every place of the galaxy they'd like to (Ragnos for example).
And still we don't know what was stored in the Jedi Archieves (in the parts only the Council members had access to). They could have all the informations in it that the Sith had that were killed during the Battle of Ruusan and basically everything from Revans times on.
-Yoda never fought in the battle of ruusan as it occured before he was born and after that the jedi thought all the sith were dead, how yoda knows the one master one aprrentice rule is either,a. Lucas is an idiot
b. he found something written and merely assumed it to be written by the last of the sith or by freedon nadd.
The "one master one apprentice" rule was installed past the Battle of Ruusan and the Jedi must have known that when they knew about the rule because they fought against more than 2 Sith during the Ruusan battle.
And here some statement from the films:
TPM (Jedi Council chamber):
QUI-GON : ...my only conclusion can be that it was a Sith Lord.
KI-ADI : Impossible! The Sith have been extinct for a millenium.
MACE WINDU : I do not believe they could have returned without us knowing.
YODA : Hard to see, the dark side is. Discover who this assassin is, we must.
So...nobody actually agrees with the statement of Ki-Adi. Also Mace and Yoda both didn't seem to be very surprised hearing that the Sith have returned. Maybe they knew because they sensed some Dark Side manipulations done by Sidious to hide himself (he was on Coruscant for almost 30 years during the events of TPM). That also would explain some other things: Why should Mace have invented a new lightsaber combat form that is great against dark side users when they all thought the Sith were extinct ?
And take a look at the prophecy: Why should they believe the Sith were all dead when there is a prophecy (yet not fulfilled) about somebody that will kill the Sith ? That would be stupid.
Also it would be stupid to tell people about the dark side and Sith teachings. Why should they ? To give their students the opportunity to join the dark side ? Of course not...to face it when Dark Jedi / Sith would appear again. Yes...that's the point.
Also not just anyone could learn the advanced techniques, you have to be at a cetrain level of power.
Their were Sith that were considered as "Dark Lords" past Revan. Take a look at people like Bane for example.
As for the sith holocrons, I doubt it, dooku probably learned it from sidious, and it being recorded in the archives is extemely likely as it's a power that's been used countless times against the jedi it would make sence that they leave a, this really hurts and most bad guys will use it against you style of warning.
See...the Jedi Archieves remained the same from the destruction of Ossus to ROTS times...they probably have knowledge stored there about: Exar Kun, Ulic Quel-Droma, Revan, Malak, Nihilus, Sion and every Sith they faced from that time on. Since you can figure out of what Kreia says in the end of KOTOR II you might believe that Visas was one of the persons to restart the Jedi Order. So that would be nearly 4,000 years of knowledge about the ancient sith and their unique powers to learn from.
And you shouldn't unterestimate Sidious. He is a child compared to people like Revan. But we know that he studied the Sith mausoleums on Korriban and actually the dark force power flowing through his body was so intense that it ravaged his mortal frame when he unleashed it.
As for my bullet example if you don't know a gun shoots bullets, chances are you won't catch one.
If you have reflexes fast as lightning and can move fast as lightning there is a very little chance that somebody will hit you with a bullet. If something flys towars you with 1000 miles per hour you will surely want to get out of its way no matter if you know what it is or not.