Dark Side Adept(DE) VS Imperial Guard(Revan novel)

Inspired by Zenyattawolf.

A generic Dark Side Adept that draws on Sheevs power vs a Generic Imperial guard that draws on Vitiates power

Location: Coruscant Throne Room

None of the guys Sidious actually gave his power to are generic, though. Most of them he considered personal Hands and his most powerful servants.

By that, I'd say they win.

Dark Side Adept wins. Why?

Sidious' amps cause galaxy-wide shockwaves that caused Luke Skywalker immense pain:

Palpatine: You, Tedryn-Sha and Xecr Nist, kneel before me!

Sha: M-my Lord?

Palpatine: Kneel!

Sha and Nist: Yes, my Lord!

Palpatine: I have watched you... You have advanced in submission to my will! I will make you Dark Jedi... extensions of my own power! Xecr Nist, you will replace Sedriss as my military commander.

Nist: Yes, my Lord!

Palpatine: Tedryn-Sha, you will be second in command.

Sha: My Lord!

Palpatine: I now vest you both with the full rank of Dark Jedi. Let this power enter you, and fill you with the knowledge and strength of the dark side of the Force that is mine to give you!

Sha and Nist: (screaming)

Palpatine: (laughing) Can you fathom this mysterious power? In my hands, the dark side can bestow the most malevolent gift!

Nist: I feel the power!

Palpatine: Or it can cause the most delicious pain!

Luke: (screaming)

Kam: Luke, what's wrong?

Luke: I... uh... I don't know... Something... A great disturbance in the Force... A terrible... uh... and all too familiar...

Kam: What do you mean?

Luke: (panting) Sedriss wasn't lying, Emperor Palpatine is alive! Somehow he's alive again!

–Dark Empire II Audio Drama

Executor Sedriss, The Emperor's most powerful servant is noted to be able to defeat Luke Skywalker in combat:

Sedriss tracked Skywalker to Ossus, a wasted world, once a great center for Jedi learning. Sedriss and Vill Goir met Luke Skywalker and recent Jedi recruit kam Solusar on the plains of Ossus. Had it been merely a contest between dark side adepts and Jedi, Sedriss might have been victorious.

–Handbook 3: Dark Empire

Sedriss then reveals he gained this power from Sidious:

Can Vitiate's Imperial Guards claim the same?

Vitiate's Imperial Guards took a Force Push from Revan with no effect other than being forced back a step.

Vitiate himself ends up not utterly destroying Revan, though. It makes no sense, lol, as with all the fights in the novel.

The same guard was sliced by Revan's saber in seconds, though. These guys aren't beating Dark Side Adepts.

I'm bringing up what Vitiate's protection amp was. Their combat skill remained the same.

Originally posted by SunRazer
Vitiate's Imperial Guards took a Force Push from Revan with no effect other than being forced back a step.

Vitiate himself ends up not utterly destroying Revan, though. It makes no sense, lol, as with all the fights in the novel.

They also ran headlong into blaster fire with 0 regard to tactics or their own safety. Yet they can fight pretty well in melee.

I guess this is what happens when Guards are chosen randomly in the SE.

It's what happens when Drew Karpyshyn writes.

Originally posted by SunRazer
It's what happens when Drew Karpyshyn writes.

That too.