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I was under the impression that it hid one's connection to the Force. I may be mistaken, however.
You're correct, in a sense. It doesn't, presumably, erase its user from a Jedi's senses entirely (otherwise the Jedi would find it awfully suspicious that Palpatine wasn't showing up on their radar at all), but it eliminates one's Force signature to such a degree that powerful Force users appear to be "normal."
Gideon
You're correct, in a sense. It doesn't, presumably, erase its user from a Jedi's senses entirely (otherwise the Jedi would find it awfully suspicious that Palpatine wasn't showing up on their radar at all), but it eliminates one's Force signature to such a degree that powerful Force users appear to be "normal."
Palpatine's technique was likely more similar to the power Zannah invoked during her infiltration of the Jedi Temple, although I don't recall if that had been named or not.
But if his intenion was to simply make it impossible for Anakin and Obi-Wan to distinguish him from the battle droids then concealing his connection to the Force may have been all that was required; as the Force exists within all matter inside the SW Universe the droids would still have a presence in the Force, and unless we can be sure that Anakin or Obi-Wan possessed the ability to differentiate between living beings and inanimate matter, or any other factor that would differentiate Dooku from the battle droids beyond his Force connection, or that Dooku was of such a belief, then we cannot be sure that Quey'Tek performs any function beyond the concealment of a Force User's connection to the Force (which I'm pretty sure has been confirmed to be the case).
Dooku was isolated; a lone presence distanced from regimented hordes in an otherwise abandoned, unstable and dangerously radioactive structure would effectively be a dead giveaway. Again, this is the only instance I'm aware of in which an active attempt at camouflage is actually addressed by name as Quey'Tek. If there is not another, and no Sourcebook or Essential Guide indicates otherwise, the nature of the technique has decidedly never been "confirmed" in the manner suggested.
And I would think it intuitive that the signatures of life forms in the Force, particularly sapients whirling in emotion and thought, would be fundamentally different from those of inanimate objects or artificial constructs. That the Force is all-pervasive does not require that such disparate things are perceived in a remotely similar manner, let alone a nearly identical one.
Originally posted by ares834Actually, you are thinking of the Harvester. It's battery.
Nah. According to the campaign guide his body disintegrated and he displaced his persona into his Robes/mask. Yes, his effort to consume the Exile did weaken him but it did not kill him. The Exile, Visas, and Canderous did. As such it seems likley that damaging his robes/mask would hurt and eventually kill him.As for his "insta-kill" attack. The Dark Reaper used a very similar attack, allowing it to suck out the force killing the target just like Nihilus. Intrestingly there was a defense against this. It is likely that this would in fact protect them from Nihilus's attack.
Originally posted by Eminence
Again, this is the only instance I'm aware of in which an active attempt at camouflage is actually addressed by name as Quey'Tek. If there is not another, and no Sourcebook or Essential Guide indicates otherwise, the nature of the technique has decidedly never been "confirmed" in the manner suggested.
The term and technique originate in the book Cestus Deception. Asajj Ventress uses it.
Originally posted by truejediThe entire premise of that, let alone it itself, is stupid.
hmmm, this doesn't make him Deus Ex Machina either though, since Luke and the LOTF jedi can remove themselves from the force entirely.Caedus was the first to learn that technique, presumably from Lumiya, who was trained by sidious.
Just stupid.
It's even stupider than fanfic that has Luke banging Jaina right at the time of Crystal Star.