Palpatine runs the gauntlet

Not unless Sazen is a character from the Bane era or back.

@Temp: Interesting, quote?

Originally posted by Selenial
@Temp: Interesting, quote?

I don't have my copy of the ROTS novel on hand, but I recall Dooku prepping right before the Obi-Wan/Anakin fight, centering himself in the dark side, blah blah. The line says something to the effect that "Darth Sidious showed him how." I also recall, later on in the fight, as Dooku begins to be depleted of Force reserves, he gets a moment to do it again, and "the weight of his years fell away" and he was recharged for a second round with Anakin.

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Do you have your user control panel rigged to text you every time I make a post? Or is it simply that you're online 24/7, eager to talk to me? mmm

Oh, my post was aimed at no one in particular.

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Originally posted by The_Tempest
I don't have my copy of the ROTS novel on hand, but I recall Dooku prepping right before the Obi-Wan/Anakin fight, centering himself in the dark side, blah blah. The line says something to the effect that "Darth Sidious showed him how." I also recall, later on in the fight, as Dooku begins to be depleted of Force reserves, he gets a moment to do it again, and "the weight of his years fell away" and he was recharged for a second round with Anakin.

He called upon the Force, gathering it to himself and wrapping himself within it. He breathed it in and held it whirling inside his heart, clenching down upon it until he could feel the spin of the galaxy around him.

Until he became the axis of the Universe. This was the real power of the dark side, the power he had suspected even as a boy, had sought through his long life until Darth Sidious had shown him that it had been his all along. The dark side didn't bring him to the center of the universe. It made him the center.

He drew power into his innermost being until the Force itself existed only to serve his will.

Now the scene below subtly altered, though to the physical eye there was no change. Powered by the dark side, Dooku's perception took the measure of those below him with exhilarating precision.

[...]

There was something troublingly appropriate about it. Seeing Skywalker standing where Dooku himself had stood only moments ago ... it was as though he was trying to remember a dream he'd never actually had...

He pushed this aside, drawing once more upon the certain knowledge of his personal invincibility to open a channel to the Force. Power flowed into him, and the weight of his years dropped away.

He lifted his blade, and beckoned.

Thanks, Beni. 👆