Obi-Wan Kenobi - the fastest Force user in history

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Azronger
The bloodwolf alone comprehends death.

And, therefore, the sweet pungency of life . howling his mournful wisdom, into the immeasurable night, to his estranged brethren the stars.

A bloodwolf is fearless. And though the Wise Prince will fight fang-and-claw to the death, maim and kill-

He also runs.

At a dead sprint, a bloodwolf, cub in jaws, can achieve velocities of eighty kilometers per hour.

On the Smuggler's Moon, a Jedi Master with his newborn Padawan ran faster.

Nar Shaddaa itself, circling the massive jewel of Nal Hutta, spins on its axis at a respectable one hundred and seventy kilometers per hour...

Obi-Wan Kenobi - ran faster.

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.

No one, not Jedi, not Sith, had ever duplicated such superhuman locomotion.

Was Obi-Wan flying? He didn't know.

But he knew that, this time, he was not running from the blaster fire of destroyer droids. He was not running to save his own life.

He was not even running to save Qui-Gon from the slaying fire of Darth Maul's singing blade.

He was running... to save the child he loved.

To call him a blur, a smear of speed, was to substitute poor poetry in favor of truth.

Space contracted-time distended.

Obi-Wan was a fulmination on reality.

Obi-Wan was Truth.

Obi-Wan literally blazed with kinetic light_as he blistered through the Nar Shaddaan streets. And with every impossible angle he cornered, every slow-moving raindrop he dodged, every being he spared spontaneous combustion from contact with his supernatural momentum, the Jedi Master felt his muscles, his atoms, his very essence, rebelling into pandemonium.

Obi-Wan was - factually - flying apart.

--The Lone Wolf - a Tale of Obi-Wan and Luke

DarthAnt66
I imagine this is via Force Speed (shown in Episode I) rather than augmented speed. So, it's not really combat-applicable, although it supports Luke's musings that Kenobi's Force aura was greater than Durron's if he's capable of such a feat.

Azronger
It's very good nonetheless. Factually the best speed feat ever performed prior to RotS.

DarthAnt66
For the record, Jacen has clocked in faster than 600 KPH pre-prime, too.

So I imagine Sidious and Luke can likewise replicate.

Azronger
Got a quote?

Azronger
Or maybe an RT? smile

ILS
369mph

versusOriginally posted by DarthAnt66
For the record, Jacen has clocked in faster than 600 KPH pre-prime, too.

So I imagine Sidious and Luke can likewise replicate. Which is about 372mph

Weird how close those two feats are...

Azronger
What's your take on the quote ILS?

DarthAnt66
Jacen burst into a sprint; the Force lent wings to his heels, driving him inhumanly fast, and faster, and faster still. He covered the hundred meters in an eyeblink.

Beniboybling
am speechless.

UCanShootMyNova
Well we know it had to be faster then stuff like Anakin catching up to speeding missiles or outrunning the vacuum of space.

ILS
Originally posted by Azronger
What's your take on the quote ILS? Hyperbole

UCanShootMyNova
What a fagit.

Fated Xtasy
He already is faster than most Masters in Jedi Apprentice lulz.

This only confirms obi's Bad assery

ChocolateMuesli
what was bane's mph again ils? remind them who the real GOAT is

S_W_LeGenD
Aryn Leener says hello.

Azronger
Originally posted by ILS
Hyperbole

So I assume you view all most powerful quotes as hyperbole too?

Rockydonovang
It's obviously oneness, check the last paragraph

DarthAnt66
I believe it was Sasukedc who put it that everything is Oneness, just to varying degrees.

MythLord
It can also be from Obi's perspective.

DarthAnt66
Doesn't seem like something Kenobi would think.

Rockydonovang
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
I believe it was Sasukedc who put it that everything is Oneness, just to varying degrees.
Yes well the oneness here is to the degree that he is literally blazing with energy abd that his atoms are coming apart.

This is oneness, and it's not something Kenobi's replicating in a typical fight.

DarthAnt66
He's blazing with energy / his atoms are coming apart due to his speed, not that his speed is the result of such.

But yeah, as stated in my original post, it's not necessarily combat-relevant.

Kurk
Well I guess Quanchi was always right about Dooku being slower than Kenobi...

Deronn_solo
The entire paragraph is hyperbole, lmao.

As far as I know, 372 MPH isn't anywhere near fast enough to split someone's ****ing atoms apart, tbh.

XSUPREMEXSKILLZ
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
He's blazing with energy / his atoms are coming apart due to his speed, not that his speed is the result of such.



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TenebrousWay
Space contracted-time distended.

every being he spared spontaneous combustion from contact with his supernatural momentum, the Jedi Master felt his muscles, his atoms, his very essence, rebelling into pandemonium.

http://i.imgur.com/7PhLQGY.gif

600 km/h

twotter
Hilariously false hyperbole. And not even close to being the best speed feat in Star Wars.

twotter
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
He's blazing with energy / his atoms are coming apart due to his speed, not that his speed is the result of such.


This doesn't happen at 600 kph.

The Merchant
Fast af.

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.

TenebrousWay
In Legends people move so fast even other force sensitives can barely see. Some seemed to appear in multiple places at once or even seemed to teleport. Something is pretty off in the narration.

Azronger
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.

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=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.

Azronger
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.

TenebrousWay
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=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.

A rough estimate seems to indicate they are around 70-80 km/h in these three seconds. So, far inferior than 600 km/h.

Rockydonovang
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.
Examining the quote and the surrounding context, it'snot actually oneness. Oneness is derived from a state of focus/peace. Here, Kenobi was letting his fear get tohim and was even grappling with the darkside:



Still, not applicable in combat

Big Gerald
Originally posted by twotter
This doesn't happen at 600 kph.

Why do you hate Jews so much?

Azronger
The speed feat in TPM has been calced before: http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=9851

BlueTiger1144
Originally posted by Fated Xtasy
He already is faster than most Masters in Jedi Apprentice lulz.

This only confirms obi's Bad assery
Do you have any evidence for this?

carthage
Still not beating Bane deflecting raindrops, but getting his ass kicked by mercs

ILS
Originally posted by twotter
Hilariously false hyperbole. And not even close to being the best speed feat in Star Wars. whats the best?

Azronger
This one.

DarthAnt66
I recall Luke having a crazy speed feat from the 80s comics.

ILS
Originally posted by Azronger
This one. It's fairly compelling that it could be the best speed feat.

But it doesn't necessarily make Obi-Wan the fastest Force user ever. We haven't seen, say, Palpatine try to run as fast as he possibly could under his most desperate circumstances.

Azronger
Originally posted by ILS
It's fairly compelling that it could be the best speed feat.

But it doesn't necessarily make Obi-Wan the fastest Force user ever. We haven't seen, say, Palpatine try to run as fast as he possibly could under his most desperate circumstances.

True.

Azronger
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
I recall Luke having a crazy speed feat from the 80s comics.

Do you have it?

DarthAnt66
I only saw the scan once years ago. I might be remembering incorrectly since it was so long ago, but there was a missile about to hit something. Luke was miles away, realized, and began running on the side of cliffs and caught up with the missile.

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