Originally posted by DarthAnt66
I believe it was Sasukedc who put it that everything is Oneness, just to varying degrees.
This is oneness, and it's not something Kenobi's replicating in a typical fight.
My take is that Obi-Wan is pouring more and more power into himself to the point where he can reach X speed.
The amount of energy needed to reach X speed is causing severe effects to Obi-Wan's body since it can't handle that level of energy.
Sort of like Dorsk 81, but not to the same extent. Still all via Obi-Wan's own power, though.
I very much doubt it is actually 600 KPH, but I'm too tired with Legends to debate their inconsistent speed levels.
Apparently people missed this:
And on a sand-lacerated mesa, a podracer utterly butchers distances at six hundred kilometers per hour.
Obi-Wan-
Ran-
Faster.
The Jedi Master ran over one hundred and sixty-five meters per second.
More than six hundred kilometers per hour.
He is not running at 600 km/h, he is running faster than that and the passage places no limitation on his speed. So 600 km/h is not his limit here.
And I don't see how this is hyperbole at all tbh. The text describes the speeds of various objects in great detail, and then simply states Obi-Wan is even faster. How is that hyperbole? It merely states Obi-Wan is faster than something, and that happens to include any speed feat ever performed by any Sith or Jedi as mentioned in the text. Quite straightforward to me.
To be fair, it's possibly not hyperbole given, like I said earlier, the films portraying the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUbXyd-fK8Q&t=2m46s
Perhaps someone can do that math, but that's a really long distance in a the span of, like, two seconds. This quote may not be as absurd as we think.
Yeah, and keep in mind that if Obi-Wan is really losing the cohesion of his atoms here, I think this just serves as a nice little insight into how much Force users can actually augment their speeds, but perhaps choose not to because the effort goes beyond their capacity to deflect with a Force Shield and as a result it may cause them harm, and in extreme cases, they find their atoms losing cohesion like Obi-Wan is here.
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
To be fair, it's possibly not hyperbole given, like I said earlier, the films portraying the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUbXyd-fK8Q&t=2m46sPerhaps someone can do that math, but that's a really long distance in a the span of, like, two seconds. This quote may not be as absurd as we think.
A rough estimate seems to indicate they are around 70-80 km/h in these three seconds. So, far inferior than 600 km/h.
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
My take is that Obi-Wan is pouring more and more power into himself to the point where he can reach X speed.The amount of energy needed to reach X speed is causing severe effects to Obi-Wan's body since it can't handle that level of energy.
Sort of like Dorsk 81, but not to the same extent. Still all via Obi-Wan's own power, though.
I very much doubt it is actually 600 KPH, but I'm too tired with Legends to debate their inconsistent speed levels.
From the moment he left his apprentice to immolate in Mustafar's lavas, from the instant he became convinced of his failure as a friend, a teacher-a father-and committed himself to protecting Anakin's son no matter the cost, the dark side had begun sprouting like a weed in his deadening heart.
-credit to the incredibly objective and balanced, LOTL
Still, not applicable in combat
The speed feat in TPM has been calced before: http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=9851