Lightspeed Vader

Just then Obi-Wan Kenobi turned his head. He seemed to be looking straight at Luke. A smile was on his face. This was Vader's chance. With the speed of light he slashed at Ben. The blow should have cut the old man in half. It sliced right through his robe. But the Jedi was gone. There was nothing left of him. Just two pieces of cloth lying on the floor.

Classic Star Wars: A New Hope

And they keep adding up.
But nah, it must be a hyperbole.

Ulic had that speed feat on a dark side nexus. Nothing new. Stop butting up Lucas' characters, shmuck.

Hyperbole, no character in SW is light speed or FTL. Except maybe the Ones and Abeloth, maybe.

Forgive Az. He loves to suck Vader's burnt ass balls.

Seems legit.

Originally posted by Freedon Nadd
Ulic had that speed feat on a dark side nexus.

"This guy speedblitzed Superman, Silver Surfer and Mr Incredible!"
"Big deal! Ulic does a similar speed feat on a DS NEXUS!!!"

Originally posted by darthbane77
no character in SW is FTL.

Obi-Wan used the Force to summon his lightsaber and tossed it to Anakin. With two lightsabers, the young Jedi attacked anew. But Dooku blocked every thrust and, step by step, drove Anakin back. He slashed through one lightsaber, extinguishing its blade. Then, with a stroke faster than light, he cut through Anakin's right arm at the elbow.

Mighty Chronicles: Attack of the Clones

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"Faster than light" or "as fast as light" is the textbook hyperbole example of "moved very fast."

If you Google "hyperbole," I guarantee you will find similar examples.

Originally posted by DarthAnt66
"Faster than light" or "as fast as light" is the textbook hyperbole example of "moved very fast."

If you Google "hyperbole," I guarantee you will find similar examples.

Varies on the fiction, but with Star Wars the vast, vast majority of sources depict Force users closer to Spider-Man than Superman.

Thank you, Az. These feats will do wonders for me powerscaling Dooku in the Jack vs Kurk debate.

Originally posted by Kurk
So in the realm of fiction how do we tell if something is a hyperbole or not?

If he swung and operated his lightsaber at lightspeed every 1000 nano seconds he would have swung his lightsaber 1 million times in a second.

Does that sound like hyberbole in the realm of Star Wars to you?

Originally posted by One Big Mob
Light moves 12 inches in a nanosecond. That is one billionth of a second. If he swings at lightspeed in the arc required he would have swung at Anakin in around 4 nanoseconds. Same as Obi Wan dying.

If he swung and operated his lightsaber at lightspeed every 1000 nano seconds he would have swung his lightsaber 1 million times in a second.

Does that sound like hyberbole in the realm of Star Wars to you?

This place is a cesspit.

That's quite an amp, and would also be indefensible against as long as you aimed it properly before doing it.

It would also start approaching infinite mass at those speeds, so even if you hit a lightsaber, it would likely shred the other person (and you) just from blocking.

Here's some dickheads talking about if a gram were moving at a 5th of lightspeed

https://www.quora.com/If-a-1-gram-spacecraft-moving-at-1-5th-the-speed-of-light-were-to-strike-a-planet-how-much-damage-would-it-cause

Of course Star Wars would likely throw that out the window, but the speed is still valid.

Originally posted by DarthAnt66
"Faster than light" or "as fast as light" is the textbook hyperbole example of "moved very fast."

If you Google "hyperbole," I guarantee you will find similar examples.

Obviously it's hyperbole lol. Just a neat counter if anyone tries to use calcs or whatever descriptions of Aryn Leneer moving in a millisecond or something.

Originally posted by MythLord
I love how you say that about every speed feat.

"This guy speedblitzed Superman, Silver Surfer and Mr Incredible!"
"Big deal! Ulic does a similar speed feat on a DS NEXUS!!!"

You are a sad little man with angry issues. Go see a doctor.

It depends on what you want to believe. Lots of authors put little things in without concern for the possibility that it breaks established canon lore, just because those things are so little they can be ignored.

There have been many cases where "in a nanosecond", or "faster than a missile" or "faster than the eye could see" or something or the other has been used to describe an action. Does that mean the Force literally allows people to have FTL reflexes? Well, maybe. But it probably wasn't the author's intention.

Although! What if it was faster than light? Would that make too much of a difference to star wars lore? It's been-well established that it's almost impossible for anyone who's NOT a force wielder to be able to hurt a force wielder. So if the most powerful force wielders ever have FTL reaction speeds, does that really break the lore? I don't think so.

This reminds me of this thread: http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=329647&from=thread&pagenumber=4#post16562610