Siorfin

Gamestop said the 7th and possibly the 6th when they get them in since it is such a big title. Next monday or tuesday!

Good question, no clue.

First thing I would have done as sith lord is destroy manaan, those fish people are so annoying.

"Don't forget that the Prequels potrait Jedi in their twilight. They aren't as great as heroes of the Sith Wars. The problem is, that in Palpatine's time, Jedi were weak lamers. 4000 years ago it was Golden Age of the Jedi and Republic , so its pointless to say palpi that or palpi those. Palpi destroyed Prequel Jedi using simple intrigue not power of the Force and made advantage of their pride and stagnation. Old Sith Lords were fighting with Jedi at their height. And Anakin wasn't most powerful Jedi ever lived. Revan and Ulic were as powerful. In the eyes of his contemporaries Anakin was maybe most powerful, but Nomi would spank him easily." Which is the point I was making, anakin was not as knowledgeable as kun was during their respective duels. Correct me if I am wrong but kun was probably far more knowledgeable than a fledgling anakin during his duel than was anakin when he fought obi-wan which makes a big difference. Power without knowledge of its use is useless. The jedi numbered in the thousands which is why it was a golden age not necessarily because they were more knowledgeable or more powerful. They had lost lore from ages past in that age just the same as the jedi of new hope had lost lore from the jedi golden era. The main problem was their connection to the force and their ability to make heads or tails of what it spoke to them which was caused by the darkside interference. Again correct me if I am wrong. According to the movies he used the force to cloud the ability of the jedi to sense anything that might have otherwise been found wrong. He used the force to bring the senate over into his power. He used intrigue of course but all sith are plotters, as I think it was yoda who said the way of the darkside or the sith is lies and deception. "During his duel with Vodo Exar was at same age as Anakin when dueling with Obi. Exar succeded without a scratch and Anakin failed completely (well he's going to fail... in may)." See above response. "It took one Jedi to destroy Palpi. It took thousands to destroy Exar Kun. Such is difference between their potentials. I guess that point of view depends what you like. You like Anakin and Palpi, I like Exar and Ulic... so we'll never agree" It took one betrayal by an apprentice to defeat palpatine, luke was wuss compared to the emperor. Also, kun prepared in advance for the coming attack and took his power at the expense of others, in terms of raw power palpatine was probably stronger and he could have done same things kun did having been trained in a line of sith lords which ascended directly from the last major sith civil war. It was that of trying to overpower the republic which repeatedly failed along with the stronger rules all mentality which was the downfall of the sith and which was why bane chose the way of deception and the rule of two to accomplish what brute force could not. I am not really a fan of the later years of the jedi, I like the old republic era best I just don't think saying one era of sith is more powerful than another. Kun was a powerful sith lord as they go in the sw universe but any other sith lord could have done the same things and some did in varying degress while others chose different paths entirely. In the end it was palpatine and the mentality set forth by darth bane which brought the old republic to its knees, attacking from within rather than without.

I would like to point out exar kun wasn't using only his own power. As some pointed out he was using sith amulets not to mention he was using the massassi and those temples as focuses for his power off the top of my head. He didn't overpower luke, if memory serves he simply took over lukes body with the same sith magic he used to keep himself alive for all those years after yavin 4 battle. Luke was still a newb in the force to a great extent so it is no surprise kun was able to use something he had never encountered before to take over his body especially since no one even knew he was there until after the fact. Hard to defend against something you are unaware is even a danger. I doubt they could justify allowing kun to take over lukes body after the unifying force book, he would simply be to powerful and knowledgeable for it and in future books his knowledge and power will probably surpass anything even kun or the old sith lords could imagine with delving into the unifying force. Kun was also more knowledgeable than anakin who wasn't even a sith lord yet at the time of their respective duels. The second time they met obi-wan pretty much absolved his own essence before the battle got started so it wasn't really a duel. Also, for all of their power the old sith lords never managed to conquer the republic, only the carefully laid plans of darth bane and his successors managed to do this coming to fruition with the emporer who was strong enough to lead the entire galaxy into his arm and turn everyone against the jedi. To say the old sith were greater than the later generations doesn't seem prudent considering it was they who failed and not the later generations. It was only the betrayal of vader that defeated the emporer and it was only vaders own predisposed notions which kept him from killing palpatine and taking the empire for himself. Another credit to the emporers account that he could keep the most powerful jedi who had ever lived up to that point on a leash for so long and it was not the desire for power which undid him but the resurfacing of old feelings long buried.

Perhaps the most effective form of redemption is realizing you cannot redeem what you have done yet those whom you sinned against in whatever way forgive and forget welcoming you back into the fold anyways. It seems to me that everyone thinks the redemption of a character must cost something so bioware has in essence achieved a twist by giving redemption to one who has done nothing to even attempt earning it save admitting tey were wrong.

Consular/Jedi Master

My theory also gets more credence from the jedi principle of only using force, ie attacking in any manner, when there is no other option. The whole jedi outlook is one of trying to avoid a fight if at all possible and it is no large leap to say this plays out in their outlook on force use as well, ie they only use what is necessary and nothing more.

Yoda said the force is used to defend not the force is not used to attack. That could simply mean the force is only used in a manner which causes harm to another when it is in the defense of yourself versus blatant use of the force to cause overt harm to another simply because they disagreed with your viewpoint on something. I think you guys are reading to much into a single saying.

Maybe you get to send HK-47 on an assassination mission.

I think jedi can live longer the closer they get to the force. It is probably a "contraversial" topic but yoda did remark to luke he wouldn't look very good when he became 900 years old either. Most jedi probably die in battle or on missions so don't have the chance to live super long lives. From the first game I got the feeling joli was easily a couple hundred years old or more going by his coversations.