Jedi Academy: Tython

[Iram]

What are so many Sith doing on this thread?

[Obese Wan Kenobese]

What are so many Sith doing on this thread?

Attempting to anger Jedi and turn them to the dark side, of course. 

[Darth Logos]

What are so many Sith doing on this thread?

Read the original post.

[Iram]

Read the original post.

Gotcha.

[Obese Wan Kenobese]

I think in Vortex, a Sith used the Force to make a duplicate of himself in a fight. If anyone else has read that and knows, what is that called? I've been searching without luck. Thank you.

[Vivectius]

I think in Vortex, a Sith used the Force to make a duplicate of himself in a fight. If anyone else has read that and knows, what is that called? I've been searching without luck. Thank you.

Doppelgänger, or Similfuturus, was a Force power that allowed a user to create a perfect illusion of him- or herself through the Force. The ability could also be used to duplicate objects that were visually indistinguishable from the real item.

More information can be found here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Doppleg%C3%A4nger

A fairly comprehensive list of Force abilities and powers can be found here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_power/Legends

[Obese Wan Kenobese]

Thank you!!

Abeloth used the White Current to make illusions against many Sith to distract them. Later, a Sith used either this Force Phantom or Force Projection, I think. Perhaps I'm mistaken. It's getting a little too DragonBallZ when the powers are done this way. Phantom Jutsu! 

[Darth Logos]

Doppelgänger, or Similfuturus, was a Force power that allowed a user to create a perfect illusion of him- or herself through the Force. The ability could also be used to duplicate objects that were visually indistinguishable from the real item.

More information can be found here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Doppleg%C3%A4nger

A fairly comprehensive list of Force abilities and powers can be found here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_power/Legends

Thanks. I hadn't come across this ability before, but it seems highly plausible along the lines of Force concealment. If the Force could be used to visually hide something, it would make sense that it could also be used to project illusions.

If memory serves, in the Book of the Sith, similar abilities/sorceries are described in which illusion is used to manifest an opponent's deepest fears in order to cripple them in battle or worse drive them insane.

[For Tyeth]

Hi all,

Darth Zannah used such Force Illusions/alchemy against Darth Bane in their final encounter (Dynasty of Evil). Also I think I have read somewhere that Halagad Ventor used Dark Side illusions to scare off visitors to the planet Trinta on which he was hiding while in exile.
I am not sure these accounts are canon anymore but I thought I would bring them to your attention in case.

[Darth Logos]

Hi all,

Darth Zannah used such Force Illusions/alchemy against Darth Bane in their final encounter (Dynasty of Evil). Also I think I have read somewhere that Halagad Ventor used Dark Side illusions to scare off visitors to the planet Trinta on which he was hiding while in exile.
I am not sure these accounts are canon anymore but I thought I would bring them to your attention in case.

Zannah was actually quite adept in the art of Sith Sorcery. She utilized it several times as an adult in the Bane trilogy.

Probably not.

[For Tyeth]

Zannah was actually quite adept in the art of Sith Sorcery. She utilized it several times as an adult in the Bane trilogy.

Probably not.

Thanks, I just thought the example during Zannah's battle with Bane was well described. There was also a description of the Jedi Combat Meditation technique being used to empower a Jedi's companions in battle.

[Darth Logos]

Thanks, I just thought the example during Zannah's battle with Bane was well described. There was also a description of the Jedi Combat Meditation technique being used to empower a Jedi's companions in battle.

Yes, this was utilized in the final battle in Rule of Two. The Jedi in question was eventually thwarted in his endeavor to bolster his companions. However, he was able to raise a Force shield around Bane, before the Sith Lord could unleash a torrent of lightning among the small group of Jedi. The energy storm contained within the shield resulted in the death of Bane's orbalisk armor, and nearly killed him as well.

[Darth Calon]

Yes, this was utilized in the final battle in Rule of Two. The Jedi in question was eventually thwarted in his endeavor to bolster his companions. However, he was able to raise a Force shield around Bane, before the Sith Lord could unleash a torrent of lightning among the small group of Jedi. The energy storm contained within the shield resulted in the death of Bane's orbalisk armor, and nearly killed him as well.

That fight was awesome.

Well, so was the rest of the trilogy.

[Darth Logos]

Watching TCW, I came across the arc where Cad Bane was contracted to steal a holocron to find Force sensitive children. During the arc title "Keeper of the Kyber Crystal" is used. I was under the impression that a Kyber crystal was the source of the blade of a lightsaber. But the title the Kyber Crystal infers that the crystal is singular in nature, and used like a miniature holocron, similar to a data disk that could only be read using a holocron.

So which is it?

[Obese Wan Kenobese]

In the EU that I know, kyber crystals were the usual type of crystal that is used for focusing energy in a lightsaber similar to a blaster, but the energy is recycled inside of a field that keeps the beam a finite length. Other things could be used as focusing crystals in lightsabers. It's all washed away as non-canon.

In this Disney canon, someone said the kyber crystals are the only crystals. They are tuned or linked to the force in some way. They 'sing' to a specific individual when a Jedi is sent to Ilum to find a cystal for their saber. A dark side user steals the crystal from a Jedi and does dark side evils to the crystal, which turns it red. Ahsoka got her crystals from a dark sider she defeated. The crystal was purified/repaired, and it turned white for her. http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Ahsoka

I can't know, but I think 'The keeper of the kyber crystal' is a cartoon episode title with no added clues. They want to sound like 'The way of the sword' or something. Not all swords are one.