Originally posted by darthsith19
LOL, right, whatever Fannus, more people voted for the ARC in the ARC vs. Magnaguard thread anyway. I've just read The Best Blades. Dude, Alpha's strong as hell. Not as strong as a Royal Guard. LOL! Dude, Yoda wasted two guards with a wave of his hand! He was kore hard pressed than that to defeat standard clone troopers in the temple.
Since when has has the majority always been right? Notice, Yoda wasted to Red Guards, not Royal Guards. They are a different group.
Originally posted by darthsith19
Right. Did they ever do anything besides get wasted by Yoda?
A lot. Maybe you should do a bit of research before posting next time. It might make you sound a little less stupid.
The following took me about three minutes to put together from various sources.
Members of the Royal Guard were hand-picked from the ranks of the elite stormtroopers and considered a special detachment of the Imperial Stormtrooper Corps. Each recruit was scrutinized to fit select size, strength, intelligence and loyalty requirements, as well as latent Force sensitivity.
During a yearlong training program, recruits sparred against each other continuously to perfect their combat skills. A step away from the squad-based Stormtrooper training received on Carida, by working both alone and in pairs, recruits learned how to rely on themselves or on a teammate to achieve victory, Failure in training often meant death. During their final test, trainees fought each other to the death in an arena called the "Squall" before Palpatine himself.
With their primary mission to protect the Emperor and any of his designees, the Royal Guard was never sent on combat missions as a corps. Instead, a few small elements of Royal Guardsmen were sent into combat on a rotating basis to keep them in fighting trim.
The following is the accomplishments of a single Royal Guard, Carnor Jax.
After Endor, Jax was part of the detachment who came under the control of Ysanne Isard, and dispatched by her as a member of the unit she lent to Lumiya. The Dark Lady recognized his Force potential, and began to train him as her Sith Apprentice.
When the cloned Palpatine siezed control of the Empire once more in 10 ABY, Jax rejoined the ranks of the Royal Guard, but his true loyalties lay with Lumiya, and with himself. He served as the fulcrum of a wide-ranging conspiracy, backed by senior military commanders, influential civilian loyalists and alien leaders such as the Whipid spearmaster. Even the Imperial physician was involved, sabotaging Palpatine's clone bodies - the "Dark Emperor" seems to have been blind to the fact that he had been betrayed, utterly unaware that the decay was not simply due to his excessive Force usage.
Jax believed that Kir Kanos, as the one man who could reveal his treachery, posed a serious threat to his plans, and launched a galaxy-wide manhunt for his former comrade. He followed Kanos to Phaeda, where Kanos aided a band of Rebels under the command of Mirith Sinn, only to learn that Kanos had fled to Yinchorr. It was there that their final showdown occurred. Kanos, aided by Mirith Sinn, defeated Jax' henchman Blim and his bodyguard of Blackhole Stormtroopers, and finally defeated and executed Jax himself in the middle of the Squall.
Originally posted by darthsith19
I'm sure someone as strong as Sora will be able to see it coming in time to block it.
Just like the other 99% of the Jedi Order? I doubt it.