Borbarad
Advocatus Diaboli
Originally posted by S_W_LeGenD
Rohlan Dyre was one of the commanders in Mandalorian forces and a highly skilled and respected warrior.
He still wasn't a trained force user, which means his chances to survive confrontation with Jedi (regardless of their skill-level) were pretty low. And please: padawans are capable of deflecting (and even redirecting) blaster shots. Some are even capable of handling more than one opponent shooting at them. So where is the display of skill. Malak can block two blaster pistols fired by one individual? ANH Luke could probably pull that off (while wearing a helmet with visor down, making him blind).
The difference is that Malak managed to overpower Rohlan despite the skill and gadgets of latter.
In AotC Kenobi almost kills Jango Fett, a guy who had killed Jedi with his bare hands, despite of the Mandalorians gimmicks and the fact that he got fire support from a freakin space-ship. So Malak < AotC Kenobi? Somehow I don't find that impressive.
Let us think logically - How did those two Jedi got that far? We do see several Jedi Strike Teams entering Star Forge. Among them, those two would have great skill to reach that far amidst the heavy resistance. However, they eventually met Malak and he incapacitated them with his Force powers simultaneously and killed them in front of Revan.
You call that "logical thinking"?
Did you, by chance, forget that Revan drew most of the attention (translation: enemies) to himself (and his company), which would have allowed the other Jedi to slip through the Star Forge with relative few opponents in their way? May I also remind you that said opponents would have consisted of either droids (lol) or the Sith War equivalent of storm troopers (rofl)? And even that only applies if they didn't switch on their handy stealth devices and sneak through the station without confronting a single enemy.
And WTF: We don't know what happened before the two Jedi appeared in the cut-scene. They could have been disabled by other people and just brought to Malak for interrogation or execution. If they had actually fought their way to Malak, their wouldn't have been any opponents left for Revan, correct? But since there were enemies presents "thinking logically" leads to the conclusion that neither did they fought their way through the Star Forge nor did Malak overpower them personally. He just executed two already defenseless people...
This renders your pity argument void.
However, Demagol could use the Force (being a Force sensitive), was nonetheless a Mandalorian warrior, and a big nemesis to Jedi (specially known for performing experiments on Jedi captives). While he engaged Malak, he was well prepared: Using jetpack for keeping safe distance and firing relentlessly with twin blasters. And yet, Malak effortlessly deflected his fire and overpowered him.
Ulic Qel-Droma was capable of doing the same - with the difference that his opponent was sitting on a freaking Basilisk war mount. Kenobi essentially did the same - with the difference that his opponent was assisted by a star-ship firing at the Jedi. Yoda in RotS is seen to deflect blaster fire from eight Clone Troopers at the same time without effort - just to cut them all down in seconds after doing so. If you want to take the Clone War Cartoon as example, serveral Jedi were capable of taking entire armies down on their own.
So what is so impressive about defeating a single guy with two blasters? I don't know too many Jedi who would fail at a task like that...
However, the Star Wars Databank briefly covers the scenario like this: Foremost among the heroes of this era were the Jedi warriors Malak and Revan. Revan's clever military strategies proved successful time and again, while Malak gained a reputation as a headstrong warrior who would recklessly charge into danger.
I must have missed the testament to Malak's power there. So he is headstrong and recklessly charges into danger? I bet one could say the same about Han Solo, but he seldomly appears on the "list of powerful SW characters". I wonder why...
Malak got outclassed by his attack. However, he decided not to fight him at that time.
So Malak is so powerful, that he gets his ass kicked by a trained warrior without force powers? Wow... 🙄
