Originally posted by DarthAnt66It suggests that Malachor V did not get weaker, as your suggesting. Yes its a character statement, but in trumps your opinion tbh.
And that makes it fact? I guess we are now going to say Revan is power incarnated into a single man? Post-Destruction Malachor was far less intense than Pre-Destruction in terms of corruptible dark side energies. The underground Sith city that Revan found and learned his untold wealth of knowledge from was destroyed during the final battle of the Mandalorian Wars. Nearly all those energies within all that knowledge would have been lost. Malachor converted into a less powerful dark side nexus (yet still very powerful), and a wound in the Force (feeling all those dead weighing down on you - etc etc). Revan trained his Assassins to take new recruits to Malachor to torture and break them (Malachor made the process merely easier - I guess.) Once broken, the effects of Malachor's wound in stuff would then play in, it seems. Before the destruction though, the planet basically mind-****ed anyone that went on its surface.
I don't remember any mention of a Sith city... but OK. The Academy remained intact however, and that's the real focal point of its dark energies, and the presumably the repository for the Sith artifacts and the like.
But more importantly the suggestion is that Malachor became even more potent post-Malachor by feeding on the pain and terror caused by the MSG. Heck lets not forget that post-Malachor Kreia came to the planet and was corrupted without an external forces influencing her.
Originally posted by Beniboybling
It suggests that Malachor V did not get weaker, as your suggesting. Yes its a character statement, but in trumps your opinion tbh.
I don't remember any mention of a Sith city... but OK. The Academy remained intact however, and that's the real focal point of its dark energies, and the presumably the repository for the Sith artifacts and the like.But more importantly the suggestion is that Malachor became even more potent post-Malachor by feeding on the pain and terror caused by the MSG. Heck lets not forget that post-Malachor Kreia came to the planet and was corrupted without an external forces influencing her.
My apologies, Sion actually said some of that:
Source: Darth Sion, KOTOR IIIt is ancient, a relic that survived the destruction of Malachor. It was always here, far before the Mandalorian Wars. It draws death and hate to it, channels it. Atrocities feed its power, and with its power, it creates hunger. Many Jedi have been consumed by it.
Source: Darth Sion, KOTOR IIAnd what Kreia says is intepretable:It has been here for thousands of years. It is a place where Sith teachings run strong… It is the threshold of the borders of an ancient empire. Kreia says that it was a place of reflection for the ancient Sith… a gateway to their lands. It drew Lord Revan… and it calls to her as well. She said that the teachings here will lead one to the Sith… the true Sith… and all their shadowed worlds. This place led Revan to the graveyards of Korriban… and beyond.
Source: Kreia, KOTOR IIIf we approach this without the contexts of the wound, it would be seemingly stating that the pain and suffering (read negative emotions) fed the dark side presence on the planet. However given the existence of the wound in the Force, it could be that too.There is a place in the galaxy where the dark side of the Force runs strong. It is something of the Sith, but it was fueled by war. It corrupts all that walks on its surface—drowns them in the power of the dark side. It corrupts all life, and it feeds on death.
But does it really matter? Whatever it fed it made being on Malachor all the less bearable and all the more corrupting and consuming. To suggest that after the atrocity of Malachor V the planet grew weaker is... well it's nonsense.
Yes, it does matter, because while a nexus may be beneficial, a Wound in the Force is not. A Force wound isn't corrupting, so while I'm sure it became a lot more painful to stand on the surface of a giant rock that slowly kills you, I don't see where it states it's capabilities to twist the mind were strengthened. It's never said anywhere. Only that it added in torture, which Revan used to turn Jedi.
"It corrupts all life, and it feeds on death."
Kreia is either referring to the dark side nexus or the wound. Either way it corrupts, and was made more potent by the effects of the MSG.
And remember Force wounds cause echoes of the pain and suffering that happened there, negative emotions that as you might expect, can prove overwhelming. That would have certainly made it more difficult to resist the dark side nexus itself.
Still, we haven't proven that the nexus got weaker.