LordOfTheLight
Senior Member
Originally posted by NewGuy01
This is incorrect--His statement wasn't entirely factual, but it was close enough to the truth. One of the first lessons Kas'im taught students was how to build a protective shield around themselves in combat to prevent an enemy from using the Force against them. A Force-talented opponent could yank away your lightsaber, knock you off balance, or even extinguish your lightsaber's blade without the touch of a hand or weapon. A Force-shield was the most basic-and most necessary-protection there was.
It had become instinctive for all the apprentices, almost second nature. As soon as the blade was drawn, the protective veil went up. Guarding against the Force powers of the enemy and obscuring your own intentions required as much concentration and energy as augmenting your physical prowess or anticipating the moves of your foe. It was that unseen part of combat, the invisible battle of wills, not the obvious interaction of bodies and blades, that more often than not decided the fate of a duel.
[b]--Darth Bane, Path of Destruction
--and this caveat is absolutely irrelevant to that fact. Even then, examples do exist, by the way. [/B]
Firstly, I don't know what shield you are talking about here( there are cases of temperature moderation cocoons), so I am just going to assume that you are talking about a sphere of energy that is a full representation of the force user's complete defenses applicable in combat. If not, ignore the rest.
Hence why I specifically mentioned the PT era material. And by post PT era, I meant the dark times, not NJO.
Plus, its obvious the way Karpyshyn treats force based defenses is vastly different to how the PT era material treats it, be it legends or canon, so no, we can't equate the two.
Like I said, you might be able to find an example or two, because I obviously haven't read all the material even in the PT era, and even if I did, I can't really recall every single instance, or event to check if this concept really was used, but yeah, force based defenses work, in the vast majority of the cases, with active gesture based counters, not spheres of energy.
Not really. It's about as far from irrelevant as can be. The vast majority of the PT era material which is Legends adheres to and tries to set the standards for power and force usage the way George Lucas did in his movies. That is, without any overtly extravagant or flamboyant usage of the force, like we see in for example, ToR or ToTJ. The movies( and the TV shows) make it pretty obvious that there aren't "shields" protecting force users all the time. The novelizations, which are legends accounts all but confirm it( ROTS junior novel comes primarily to mind).
In fact, it is as relevant as can be, because not all legends sources are the same or see the SW galaxy in the same way. Even in the PT era material, which is why, in one instance, you have the entire Jedi Council needed to hold up a turbolift. And in the other instance you have padawans holding up capital ships. Both legends sources. However, the PT era Legends material has always been highly consistent in this one thing. Which is why Karpyshyn's view on the matter, who wrote the Bane trilogy similar to how he writes games, and in the same vein as practically most of the material on the Ancient eras with all of their visible flamboyance, does not really extend into the realm of the PT era. Even if you don't agree with this logic, the cases show for themselves.