Was Coruscant a light side nexus?

Originally posted by Freedon Nadd
Sithisis is non-Legends, then?

However, even IF Sithisis were canon, I'd sooner think Palpatine was preforming said rituals at his base in the LiMerge Building on Coruscant, as opposed to underneath the Jedi Temple itself.

After all, we know for a fact that Palpatine canonically used the LiMerge Building to preform other, very powerful, Sith rituals/magic during TCW, so it would make sense for the rituals in Sithisis to take place there as well. Trying to preform rituals of that magnitude in a shrine just below the Jedi Temple would have been a bit too bold(even for Palpatine), and undoubtedly risked drawing attention from the hundreds of Jedi above. /shrug

The ritual in Sithisis was conducted in the tower that Sidious used to perform Vader'a surgery.

The Sithisis ritual was conducted here?:

Interesting. Was that specific location mentioned in a different source?

Incredible Cross Sections or Complete Locations gives a diagram of the entire tower. The giant Sith crystal is identified.

Originally posted by The_Tempest
Incredible Cross Sections or Complete Locations gives a diagram of the entire tower. The giant Sith crystal is identified.

-Star Wars: Complete Locations (2005)

And Sith crystals are infused with Dark Side energy.

Originally posted by One Big Mob
Palpatine not turning Windu into ash while killing him wouldn't lead you into that false dichotomy. It means his power wasn't enough to instantly vaporize him, and he cut it off before that happened.

Do you think this would strengthen or hinder your case when looking at this without full context would imply the resistance to force lightning would have a direct correlation to your power, and is the difference between ash and unharmed? That of course would naturally flow into varying degrees of damage depending on your resistance.

1. That would suggest Windu is at least=Palpatine. And the novel clearly mentions that Palpatine blasted him using his full extent of power.
2. Second case Nyriss was on a Dark Side nexus and Revan's connection to the Force was weakened and he easily deflected an attack that would turn people into ash.

Originally posted by Freedon Nadd
1. That would suggest Windu is at least=Palpatine. And the novel clearly mentions that Palpatine blasted him using his full extent of power.
2. Second case Nyriss was on a Dark Side nexus and Revan's connection to the Force was weakened and he easily deflected an attack that would turn people into ash.

So what you're saying is that if someone were powerful enough, they could take an ash rendering lightning attack without actually turning into ash? How far away from my original point.

Originally posted by One Big Mob
So your conclusion is that if someone isn't instantly turned to ash by force lightning, that they are equals or superiors even if they get severely damaged/killed?
Also the novel also created the "bending lightsaber" angle as well. Windu took this attack without being ashed. He is incredibly powerful. Not everyone can take the lightning as well as another being, which is the point. For whatever reason you think bringing up the Revan example helps your case here, when it only serves to highlight that fact.

So what you're saying is that if someone were powerful enough, they could take an ash rendering lightning attack without actually turning into ash? How far away from my original point.

Isn't this the very reason you say that Windu wasn't turned instantly into ash because he was so 'strong'?

Originally posted by Freedon Nadd
Isn't this the very reason you say that Windu wasn't turned instantly into ash because he was so 'strong'?

Anyway, I'm saying that Windu was one of the most powerful Jedi of all time and apparently had a heavy lightning resistance of whatever that entails, hence "strong" is a good catchall to explain it.

Him not being ashed does not raise questions of other beings being ashed. That in itself is not enough to conclude something of which you did in your original post about ash.

Those 3 acolytes admitted Vader might have beaten them when they thought he was way below Darth Maul. They are nothing special. The ritual wyrm too, did nothing. Those feats in itself are not enough to conclude that Sidious was significantly amped and could never do it under normal power far away from Nexuses just because he failed to turn Windu into a skeleton. Bringing up Revan does nothing to change that fact. Bringing up Revan only highlights that there is some sort of resistance to that level of power.

I'm not saying Sheev was amped or not, but him failing to ash Windu doesn't make that clear is all. Nor can that be misconstrued into some sort of logic that makes Windu equal or greater than Sheev.