Originally posted by Nephthys
I'm pretty sure you already know, bro.Moving so fast a room of Sith couldn't see shit and took a few seconds to register his movement.
Appearing to wield a dozen lightsabers to Zannah in RoT.
Almost blitzing the Strike Team
Keeping up with BM Raskta who appeared to be in multiple places at once to Farfalla.
Blocking and dodging every raindrop in a storm for 20 mins.
He's fast but not out of Dooku's league and not much faster than Maul.
1) I thought the room was full of apprentices? Also, Kit has moved faster than Kenobi was able to track, IIRC. Kit is not as fast as Dooku. Taking a few seconds to register Bane's movements seemingly suggests that the sith weren't in a battle state of mind, which requires that the force users slow down the speed of time.
2) Dooku appeared to be everywhere at once to Kenobi. Before you call it out as being hyperbole, it is somewhat; it was an exaggerated way of saying Kenobi was having a hard time keeping up with Dooku's movements, which involved Dooku's entire body, and not just his lightsaber. The statement actually makes more sense than Bane appearing to wield a dozen lightsabers, unless you believe Zannah stood their and actually counted twelve sabers mid-combat? Now it's easy to see half a dozen and a half a dozen and automatically calculate a full dozen in your head within a few seconds time, but that's if the objects are all stationary, which wouldn't be the case in a saber combat, unless Bane was standing there moving his saber back and forth in a single sequence. No, Bane would be trying to move his saber to attack any opening in Zannah's defense and at Zannah's saber to try to unbalance her, which would most likely be more than twelve spots worth of targets. Sounds like the author had Zannah throwing out a random number to convince the reader that she was having trouble keeping up with Bane's saber with her eyes alone, and that she was seeing a bunch of after images. In both cases, Zannah and Kenobi were having trouble keeping up with their opponents speed with the naked eye alone. However, Dooku's feat seems more impressive, IMO.
3) I'm more impressed with Dooku outpacing and blocking the attacks from three nightsister simultaneously (including Ventress), while drugged and blind, via precognition alone. While the nightsister weren't amped, it's Dooku's handicap that impresses me more, as he didn't have any advantages as Bane did against the strike team. Furthermore, I thought the passage suggested that Bane would have cut a few of them down in quick succession, which doesn't necessarily translate in blitzing them all.
4) Wasn't Bane fully covered in orbalisks by that point, which wouldn't require that Bane use up much speed for defensive use? He'd be free to go all out offensively.
5) What was Bane wearing at the time? The passage notes that Bane managed to successfully prevent the rain from touching his exposed flesh only. Regardless, it's not any greater than Vader moving his saber fast enough to form shields or block waves of blaster bolts. Yet Vader wasn't even able to outpace Maul.