Originally posted by S_W_LeGenD
Interesting. Enlighten me with details, if you can.
Originally posted by Nephthys
I'm pretty sure he learned it from Cade. That was the whole reason he was interested in him as I recall (I read A Legacy comic. No 4 as I recall).
Ok, here's the chain of events of the only two Dark Transfer users there are: Young Cade, during the Massacre of Ossus, had his master Wolf Sazen dying in his arms. Being a Skywalker and thus tremendously powerful, he reached into the darkside and rejected death, pulling Sazen back. Though Cade's power and desperation, this is the first time it's ever been done.
Cut to seven years later. Krayt's implants are getting worse, but he discovers Cade Skywalker and the ability. He manages to snag Cade, but the implants being all tangled up in him for a century, are a more tricky task that requires not just power but precision. He teaches Cade the dark side to give him that precision, but Cade tries to kill Krayt. Krayt beats him down, but Cade's mom manages to rescue him and yoinks Cade away.
Around this time Wyyrlok kills Darth Andeddu and steals his immortality secrets (essence transfer and such), and gives them to Krayt.
Then the Muur talisman surfaces, and Krayt learns that option. He seeks it, and, discovering Muur has Cade, is even more attracted.
He goes to meet with Muur, and Muur initiates healing, but then Krayt gets ambushed by Jedi and Imperial Knights, ends up in an epic duel with Muur's host, overwhelms her enough that Muur takes the driver's seat, the two get into an epic duel- then an Imperial Knight master stabs him in the back of the neck while mid-lightning duel (lightning so strong even the master, caught in the edge, was fatally wounded and required Cade's dark transfer to live). Woops. He then gets tossed off a cliff. Then Wyyrlok blasts him with force lightning to kill him. And he died- even those connected to him in the force could sense nothing, and his biological functions had ceased. Wyyrlok placed the body in stasis to hide this.
Krayt by that point, however, had gleened enough info from Muur's brief healing attempt, and the writing's of Andeddu, and his study of Cade's technique, to not only replicate the technique, but untangle the tricky part of the vong growths, healing himself completely from death and eliminating the symbionts that had held his force power back for so long, as well as gaining clarity from passing through dead, making him more focused than ever.
Cade had similarly improved by creating a light side version. They fought, and Krayt used the move on Cade to kill him, then bringing him back, counting on the passage through death to transform Cade as it did Krayt through the clarify gained by the experience (and it kinda did, just in the wrong direction).
And that's the story of the two Dark Transfer users (minus the half-dozen other times Cade's used it).
Neph
Yeah, I agree with you that the era was likely the pinnacle of Jedi and Sith combat. However, I will never use that as an argument for one individual to be above another or that standing out in that era means that they're superior to standouts of other eras.
Indeed. If one era has a '10' and five '8's, and another era has two '9s', three '8s,' and a bunch 7s and less, then the first era is clearly strong... but the two 9s will still beat anyone in the former era outside the ten.
