Originally posted by MythLord
Which is debunked by the fact that Kun being the "darkest power in the galaxy" is actually a much older quote than Malak on the SF being > him. It's been retconned. 🙂
The complete SW encyclopaedia states that Kun was :
Once the most powerful and dangerous of the Dark Lords of the Sith, he [Exar Kun] was responsible for the deaths of millions four millennia before the rise of the Empire.- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
This quote came out in 2008
The Malak Quote came out in 2003
Unless Post Nathema Vititate isn't a sith, in which case sidious doesn't get guaranteed scaling over him.
Myth clearly on something LSDMB gave him. Kun being more powerful than Vitiate, prior to considerable and faster power growth via the dark holocron, completely shits all over the idea that Malak was ever even close to surpassing Kun. A weakened version of an inferior incarnation of the Revan who Vitiate-who at the most generous/conservative estimate may have caught up with Exar Kun in his prime-, one-shotted in an actual raw power exchange, could still defeat him after being given all of the advantages he could've wanted.
Originally posted by AncientPower
Myth clearly on something LSDMB gave him. Kun being more powerful than Vitiate, prior to considerable and faster power growth via the dark holocron, completely shits all over the idea that Malak was ever even close to surpassing Kun. A weakened version of an inferior incarnation of the Revan who Vitiate-who at the most generous/conservative estimate may have caught up with Exar Kun in his prime-, one-shotted in an actual raw power exchange, could still defeat him after being given all of the advantages he could've wanted.
This is actually pretty convincing.
When you consider the general rule of growth/plateaus, it doesn't make much sense that having spent a thousand years undercover after the nathema ritual, Vitatiate goes from being weaker than Kun to much much stronger in the last hundred. And all this has to magically align itself because of a single quote claiming SF is far more powerful than either Kun or Nadd.
More to the fact, I bet you if someone asked Leeland Chee on twitter if that blog quote could be considered subjective, he would say that it was.
Originally posted by MythLord
Which is debunked by the fact that Kun being the "darkest power in the galaxy" is actually a much older quote than Malak on the SF being > him. It's been retconned. 🙂
And yet, the Sheev brigade never uses this kind of thinking when it comes about their precious OT characters. 💃 🙂
Originally posted by S_W_LeGenD
Vitiate was a concealed threat at the time of Exar Kun.[B]Star Wars: The Complete Encyclopedia
= perspective of historians. [/B]
The Complete Encyclopaedia was indeed an in-universe source.
But it's and in-universe omniscient publication. That's arguably more credible than just out of universe sources.