Re: Vitiate is the most powerful Dark Sider ever.
Originally posted by AncientPower
The effects of this nexus are unprecedented, literally killing every living thing on the planet, even the Force, absorbing all:
No, some random Sith Sorceress achieved the exact same result on Ambria, without needing 8000 Sith Lords. Darth Nihilus would also go on to kill all life on a planet using his own power. It's clearly not unprecedented in the grand scheme of things, even if it may have been at the time.
[Quote]Vitiate himself absorbed said nexus and achieved its unprecedented power:
The quote states nothing of the sort. It says the life force of the planets living things was used to prolong his age. Nothing more, nothing less. And the above quote, which states the ritual fueled his power, doesn't mean he absorbed the nexus either. It simply states what's written in the text: that the ritual fueled Vitiate's power. And to what extent is unknown, so claiming he absorbed the entire nexus is unsupported.
Vitiate as a product of the Ritual of Nathema became more powerful than any nexus ever seen.
Based on a false interpretation of a quote, and thus irrelevant. Also canonically not true, since Plagueis' and Sidious' accolades establish him as Vitiate's superior as early as TPM anyway.
As impressive as this may be, Vitiate himself has gained such energies that they leave voids in life and the force, infact he continuously feeds more and more after the Ritual:
All Scourge's description of him tells us is that he is an exceptionally deep wound in the Force. This doesn't put him above Palpatine, who has similar descriptions attributed to him by Plagueis, Tyranus and Maul, and also his minion Blackhole (sub-Vader, I might add) has similar hype.
You also haven't proven that what Scourge described is somehow better than bursting open the fabric of space. If Vitiate was indeed more powerful than Palpatine, then we'd see him do it constantly, no?
Vitiate eventually achieved so much power that he didn't even require a physical form to reduce Ziost to the same fate as Nathema:
Right, and this was only achieved due to Ziost being an exceptionally powerful dark side nexus. The spirit of Valkorion, more powerful than Vitiate, couldn't come close to achieving such results on his own, admitting that he couldn't defeat his own children, Arcann and Vaylin, without the Outlander's help. This is also apparent from his performances against his children, which weren't the most admirable, I must say. His best environmental feat is also just downing some ships, which he did while in the Outlander's body, and thus isn't appliccable to his spirit form. It pales in comparison to planetary devastation.
He is infact repeatedly stated to be a literal embodiment of the dark side of the Force, with immeasurable power:
Palpatine has also been stated to be that, and also more powerful. Whatever Tenebrae thought of the Sith, it doesn't change the fact that he was described as such by the history books, sourcebooks, and the third person narrator of he Revan novel itself. So even folk like Plagueis are above him, by way of accolades and feats.
In conclusion:Tenebrae was the literal manifestation of the most powerful dark side nexus ever seen. A manifestation powerful enough to reduce planets to lifeless voids in the Force as he became ever more powerful, no matter his form. He was quite literally the living embodiment of the dark side of the Force, even more destructive than the likes of Malachor V or the legendary Darth Nihilus.
Yeah, no. Vitiate was at no point more destructive than Malachor or Nihilus, and Palpatine was more destructive with his Storms than Vitiate ever was. Also, this isn't a demolitions contest. Palpatine has more personal power than Vitiate could ever dream of, by way of accolades and feats.
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