Originally posted by Angelalex242
You've yet to explain how Corran's going to survive Mara's TK. Cause he can't.
I agree that in an assassination scenario Mara would have the advantage over Corran, but I don't see either holding the advantage in a all out fight in an open area. We typically don't use assassination scenarios in the forum though, and certainly not in this specific thread, so that's not really relevant.
In sparring she relied only on lightsaber skill. In real fight she uses all sorts of dirty tactics. For example, kicks and punches. Unorthodox style, where she uses a dagger together with lightsaber. She can simply go for a takedown and turn it into a brawl on the floor, she did it both against Lumiya and Caedus. She can even use a blaster. Basically in real fight Mara employes skills and techniques way outside regular Jedi range, which is what makes her so dangerous.
She had less circumstances involved than Caedus's duel with Jaina. And that showing with Corran was well before her prime, she's also beaten Nom Anor held her own against Lumiya in a brawl and killed scores of Vong as we'll. She's probably the most skilled here or at least even with Malgus as a duelist imo
Originally posted by SunRazerim pretty sure he absorbed kyps tk blast in the JA trilogy.
How do you absorb telekinetic bursts? lolI mean, Corran's absorbed explosions, stun batons, heat from volcanic springs, lightsaber blades, etc, but a TK blast really isn't the same, and I don't recall raw telekinesis being absorbed before - ever.
It wasnt in the JA trilogy, it was actually in I Jedi. I flipped thru quickly on my lunch break but couldnt find it, but i found these quotes in another thread. Thanks go to Arhael for the quotes.
"Kyp struck at me again through the Force, but I expected it this time. I relaxed and let the Force energy flow over and through me. I absorbed enough of it to let me create a shield that split the attack. The fact that I didn't end up being ground back against the wall surprised him."
"Even though I braced myself for another attack, it did no good. Kyp's previous Force blows were like light breezes compared with a full-out gale. I slammed back into the wall with a teeth-rattling impact. As my body absorbed Force energy and fed it back out, the shield I'd created grew in size. More importantly, my surprise and survival instinct opened me up to the Force and allowed it to flow into the shield."
Originally posted by Raptor22
It wasnt in the JA trilogy, it was actually in I Jedi. I flipped thru quickly on my lunch break but couldnt find it, but i found these quotes in another thread. Thanks go to Arhael for the quotes."Kyp struck at me again through the Force, but I expected it this time. I relaxed and let the Force energy flow over and through me. I absorbed enough of it to let me create a shield that split the attack. The fact that I didn't end up being ground back against the wall surprised him."
"Even though I braced myself for another attack, it did no good. Kyp's previous Force blows were like light breezes compared with a full-out gale. I slammed back into the wall with a teeth-rattling impact. As my body absorbed Force energy and fed it back out, the shield I'd created grew in size. More importantly, my surprise and survival instinct opened me up to the Force and allowed it to flow into the shield."
I'm 99% sure that event did happen in the Jedi Academy trilogy, and not in the I, Jedi novel. I don't recall other jedi being involved in I, Jedi in any significant way, as it was Corran's own novel.
Originally posted by Raptor22
It wasnt actually part of the trilogy. It was written after but overlaps with the trilogy and retacons some of it. It basically retacons corran into the story
I never knew this, but a tiny bit of research does support it:
"I, Jedi is one of the few Star Wars novels that fully retcons events in another novel. In this case, the chain of events surrounding the early days of the Jedi Academy and Exar Kun's incapacitation of Luke Skywalker are altered to include Corran Horn, who was not originally present."
Yep i just found it, it was from I, Jedi pg194-195. Corran did get overwhelmed from it after and ko'd from it after, but kyps a beast in tk and it specifically stated that kun was powering him.
"I hesitated because kyps words seemed to echo within themselves. It took me a second or two to figure out that the echo wasn't a purely auditory phenomenon. I was hearing kyps voice through my ears, but the undertones were coming to me through the force. We were not alone, which meant kyps mentor had come to aid his apprentice."
Thats the same kyp/kun combo whose tk ripped the suncrusher from the gravity well of yavins gas giant.