[QUOTE=Soul]
He likely would have been a run of the mill force adept since circumstances would never have conspired to raise him to, and then force him to fall from, grace. If the Galactic Empire had evolved into its canon form, just minus Vader, he might have grown up to be an Inquisitor, an Emperor’s Hand, or just judged as a threat and killed.
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Yep. In the EU, force powers without training tend to be a bit like a really creative mind with no skill to express it–pretty mediocre. And the Jedi training was pretty much the best around, even though other traditions (like the witches of Dathomir) did have ways of helping force-users direct their energies.
On the other hand, as we saw with young Anakin, force powers can manifest themselves as skills in other areas. For all we know, he could have become a galaxy-famous podracer, and nobody would ever have realised it was because he was force-sensitive.
[QUOTE=mlees]
If the sequence of events, as shown in the movie, are to be considered cannon, then Palpatine did not see that Vader would need help until after the fight already started on Mustafar. Hence my nitpick.
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Speeds are definitely much faster-than-light, but we also don’t know exactly how far Mustafar is from the Core, do we? I don’t think they establish that.
[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead]
On the other hand, as we saw with young Anakin, force powers can manifest themselves as skills in other areas. For all we know, he could have become a galaxy-famous podracer, and nobody would ever have realised it was because he was force-sensitive.
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Actually, Anakin Solo (Leia and Han’s youngest child) manifests as a mechanical adept, doesn’t he?
[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead]
Speeds are definitely much faster-than-light, but we also don’t know exactly how far Mustafar is from the Core, do we? I don’t think they establish that.
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We don’t know an exact distance, but we do know that Mustafar is an Outer Rim world (comprised of those worlds farthest from the center of the Empire) and that Coruscant is located at Hypersapce Coordinates (0,0,0), or the very center of Imperial Space. So, they’re likely pretty far apart.
[QUOTE=jayjay]
Actually, Anakin Solo (Leia and Han’s youngest child) manifests as a mechanical adept, doesn’t he?
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Oh, certainly. I sort of tied those two together in my mind.
Oh, I didn’t remember that they called Mustafar an Outer Rim planet. In that case, yeah… either Anakin is tough even when combusting, or that was a bit of Lucas’s handwaving.
[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead]
Oh, certainly. I sort of tied those two together in my mind.
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Oh, I didn’t mean that as a correction. Just an addition to the list, because you’re right about Anakin Skywalker probably going in that direction if he’d remained undiscovered.
[QUOTE=mlees]
This implies that travel time is pretty darn quick, unless Vader somehow survived for days laying on that rock…
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I would think that a light sabre would cauterise the wounds quite well, minimising bleeding. That would help.
[QUOTE=Staggerlee]
I would think that a light sabre would cauterise the wounds quite well, minimising bleeding. That would help.
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Wouldn’t hot magma cauterize the wounds just as well?
Fanwank possibility: Anakin knew how to go into a trance state through the Force, that slowed his body’s metabolism down enough that he could last until Palpatine arrived.
[QUOTE=BMalion]
What makes you think a lightsabre blade can cauterize?
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I was under the impression that a surgeon uses some heated instrument to close blood vessels off in an operation, and lightsabres can sear through metal can’t they? Doesn’t someone cut through a door with one at some point? I can’t truly remember as those new films poisoned the others to me and I haven’t seen them in years.
[QUOTE=Staggerlee]
I was under the impression that a surgeon uses some heated instrument to close blood vessels off in an operation, and lightsabres can sear through metal can’t they? Doesn’t someone cut through a door with one at some point? I can’t truly remember as those new films poisoned the others to me and I haven’t seen them in years.
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Yes, in Phantom Menace Qui Gon and Kenobi cut through a door. However, in ANH, when Ben whacks off the arm of the guy in the bar, there’s lots of blood on the floor. Methinks that the cauterization ability of the lightsabre is controlled by a plotoanium crystal.
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
Yes, in Phantom Menace Qui Gon and Kenobi cut through a door. However, in ANH, when Ben whacks off the arm of the guy in the bar, there’s lots of blood on the floor. Methinks that the cauterization ability of the lightsabre is controlled by a plotoanium crystal.
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It could also have something to do with the size of blood vessels and/or other physiology of the species of the victim.
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[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
Yes, in Phantom Menace Qui Gon and Kenobi cut through a door. However, in ANH, when Ben whacks off the arm of the guy in the bar, there’s lots of blood on the floor. Methinks that the cauterization ability of the lightsabre is controlled by a plotoanium crystal.
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True, but when Darth Vader takes Luke’s hand in TESB, there’s no blood at all, and the stump is burned black.
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
Yes, in Phantom Menace Qui Gon and Kenobi cut through a door. However, in ANH, when Ben whacks off the arm of the guy in the bar, there’s lots of blood on the floor. Methinks that the cauterization ability of the lightsabre is controlled by a plotoanium crystal.
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<fanwank>Well, obviously Aqualish[sup]1[/sup] flesh is simply uncombustible.</fanwank>
[sup]1[/sup] The species name of Walrus Man (the victim of Obi-Wan’s casual saberplay) is the Aqualish. The actual personal name of the particular Aqualish who lost his arm is Ponda Baba. Many Bothans died to bring you this information…many neurons in my brain that could be storing otherwise useful information are occupied in keeping stuff like this around forever.
