Sion...

He's at malachor
to gauntlet goes as this.

1.Traya
2.Dooku
3.Vader
4.Qui-Gon
5.Palpatine

They have 1 hour to convince him to die

After each, he regains all confidence/resolve.

Who is skilled enogh and who does it fastest.

They can only convince him to die?

Doesn't Traya have Force Sever?

Originally posted by Enyalus
They can only convince him to die?

Doesn't Traya have Force Sever?

Ah. Well, I always liked the way Qui-Gon was portrayed. Kind of like a father-figure. He might be able to.

And Palpatine would just threaten to reduce him to cinders with his Force Lightning if he didn't comply, so...lol

Originally posted by Enyalus
Ah. Well, I always liked the way Qui-Gon was portrayed. Kind of like a father-figure. He might be able to.

And Palpatine would just threaten to reduce him to cinders with his Force Lightning if he didn't comply, so...lol

Only Traya could pull it off, since the rest know jack shit about him.

Originally posted by Faunus
Only Traya could pull it off, since the rest know jack shit about him.

Now you're buying into bad logic. Somehow, he's going to understand the mental issues of attachment and jealousy present in a random and secretive Sith Lord who lived four thousand years prior to his time, and then exploit them.

No.

Originally posted by Faunus
Now you're buying into bad logic. Somehow, he's going to understand the mental issues of attachment and jealousy present in a random and secretive Sith Lord who lived four thousand years prior to his time, and then exploit them.

No.

It was probably Gideon. He'd be right, in that Sidious almost certainly knows who Sion is and everything that's special about him, as even Krayt understands what happened to Nihilus, Andeddu, and Bane. But to say that he could understand and exploit the psychological failings is absurd.

Originally posted by Faunus
It was probably Gideon. He'd be right, in that Sidious almost certainly knows who Sion is and everything that's special about him, as even Krayt understands what happened to Nihilus, Andeddu, and Bane. But to say that he could understand and exploit the psychological failings is absurd.

Have some imagination.

That's not one of the allowed techniques you mentioned. There was only one, after all, and that was persuasion.

Originally posted by Faunus
That's not one of the allowed techniques you mentioned. There was only one, after all, and that was persuasion.

Honestly, I can see all the combatants beating Sion.

Same here, but I think the order is wrong.

1.Qui-Gon
2.Traya
3.Dooku
4.Vader
5.Palpatine
Fixed

Originally posted by Faunus
It was probably Gideon. He'd be right, in that Sidious almost certainly knows who Sion is and everything that's special about him, as even Krayt understands what happened to Nihilus, Andeddu, and Bane. But to say that he could understand and exploit the psychological failings is absurd.

According to the Essential Guide to the Force, Palpatine is revealed to know all about the circumstances of Malachor V and subtlely mocks the previous gatekeepers of the Telos Holocron for being ignorant of it. So he does know who they are. Intimately? Er... doubt it.

Palpatine being the end-all manipulator of the saga with a peerless mastery of psychology doesn't particularly matter here, though I'm pretty damn certain between his intellect and insight as provided by the Force that he could identify the source of Sion's woes (see Count Dooku's musings on Palpatine's ability to manipulate in Dark Rendezvous, Labyrinth of Evil, and Revenge of the Sith).

Not that it matters. Traya could do it.

Who could do it the best?

Originally posted by DarkSerpent
Who could do it the best?

Traya. Palpatine's the more accomplished manipulator, but he would have to spend much of that hour deducing Sion's weaknesses. Traya already knows them from interaction.