Nai Fohl
Advocatus Diaboli
I can't believe that this thread really went over 30 pages...
Originally posted by Fishy
Yoda, Mace, Obi Wan, Anakin will go first. They are the most powerful of the order. The most powerful masters. Now those guys are going to get slaughtered.
Sorry Fishy. You don't really want to tell me that Ragnos would survive the entire Council attacking him ? Yoda, Mace, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Plo Koon, Kit Fisto, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Saesee Tiin, Stass Allie, Agen Kolar, Shaak Ti ? Mind the fact that Ragnos is wielding a Sith Sword (and those things have to be heavy) while the Jedi are all wielding lightsabers (so they gonna be faster than him)...
If the Council attacks Ragnos, he's going down. No matter how powerful he is but there is no way he will be able to deal with 12 Jedi Masters simultaneously - at least not when you have Yoda (something like an embodyment of the light side) and Mace (the Jedi version of Tulak Hord) there. Ragnos will most likely attack the one with the most raw force powers first (because he will think that this person will be the biggest threat) and this is Anakin. Maybe he will be able to kill most of the master or at least take them out of the fight somehow but at least Yoda and Mace will engage him in melee combat and then he's pretty much toast.
Now the HK-47 droids. 60 of them are enough to destroy all Jedi in the temple ? Just let me do little bit of a numbers game. In AotC you can see Yoda teaching younglings - there are 15 of them and they all have the same age. Now let's just assume that they have the same amount of younglings every year (15) later becoming Padawans and then Jedi-Knights. So...
You would have:
90 Younglings (age 7-13)
165 Padawans (age 14-25)
585 Jedi Knights or Masters (age 26-65)
The Council (12 Masters) + serveral other Masters on Council level (e.g. Cin Dralling)
Now let's assume that all Niman practioners are quite useless in this battle. We know that 200 Jedi were present during the attack on Geonosis and all Niman practioners died - 19 people survived so 10 % of the Jedi seem to practice other forms than Niman (at least).
The younglings are ALL practioning Form I
Add 16,5 (17) Padawans not practioning Form VI
Add 58,5 (59) people with a Knight or Master status that don't practice form VI
Add the council.
Now for the sake of an argument let's assume the following things: forms I, II and VII seem to be very, very uncommon in the order. So most likely the people left (except the Younglings) will practice forms III, IV and V. That results in:
Younglings: 90 Form I praticioners
Padawans: 6 form III, 6 form IV, 5 form VI
Knights: 20 form III, 20 form IV, 19 form VI
So if the council attacks Ragnos there are 166 "effective" fighters left to take on the droids - while the younglings might be no real threat they still can deflect blaster fire. The 17 Padawans and the 59 Knights might be able to take on the droids at least the form III and form V practioneers will most likely not get killed through blasterfire - so the droids will be destroyed here.
And please don't argue that Ragnos and the droids will take the temple "room by room". If you watch AotC (the scene in which Yoda, Mace and Obi-Wan are talking about Anakin / arrogance among Jedi) you will see that there are giant halls in the temple and when the first Jedi gets killed you will have all other Jedi coming to the location where that happened (most likely the entrance hall).
So if Ragnos is not going to destroy the entire building he won't win this fight. He might take down 90 % of the Jedi but the rest will be too much for him and the droids.