Tol Braga versus script

Martial Arts
Sadly, as with most Jedi of his age, we have no cannon conformation on his Lightsaber form. However, based off of his personality and his incredibly energy efficiency makes us believe he is a master of Soresu. Tol Braga had a reputation as one of the strongest Jedi of his age, a well deserved moniker. Master Braga faced off against most of the top tiers of his age, most famously dueling a member of the Dark Council for three days. He also faced off against the Hero of Tython, and although he was defeated, he was able to hold his own for a longer time than most. All in all, Master Braga is comparable to some of the best top tiers of the Clone Wars era.

Both of these are highly credible duelist, and this is a close call, and in the end, they are both high enough caliber duelists  that this battle will be decided by endurance, which is a different category. As such, we declare them evenly matched duelists.

Force Powers
Although he was by no means a slouch with either the blade or force powers, Master Bragas primary focus was on the more peaceful aspects of the Light side, even being referred to as the conscious of the Jedi order. Although this did have some use, such as allowing him to redeem many Sith lords and even throw off the Sith emperor's mind control, it's not really a combative power. That being said, Master Braga was still a powerful force user, catching even the Hero of Tython of guard with a powerful force push. It is also very likely that his ability to fight in a pitched lightsaber duel for days on end was a result of powerful self augmentation.

Physical Prowess
Tol Braga was a Kel Dor of unknown age, although he was likely at least middle aged. Kel Dors are fatally allergic to oxygen, forcing them to wear breath masks and goggles in oxygen rich atmospheres, providing there enemies with a obvious weak point to attack. They were also known to have brittle bones, making them much more likely to break limbs in combat. All that being said, Master Braga seems to have subverted this at least somewhat and added an extreme amount of endurance, taking part in a three day long lightsaber duel during the sacking of Coruscant.

 Weapons & Armaments
 As with most Jedi of his age, Master Braga often wore a suit of Lightsaber resistant armor which, although not 100% effective, absorbed almost all minor hits. Master Bragas lightsaber followed the standard design of the time, being simple but ornate, adding no disadvantages, but no advantages either. Although he temporarily used a red crystal while fallen to the dark side, Master Braga's lightsaber generally carried a emerald blade.

For once, neither duelists rely on standard lightsabers only. That being said, Master Bragas armor will not save him from a fatal blow and we find it VERY hard to believe that Braga has no knowledge of Mauls weapon, as saber staffs were very common during his era. Sadly, even though both combatants are armend better than most, it is STILL a tie.

The Verdict
Well, we have spent enough time discussing the differences between these two, so lets get to the final verdict. Darth Maul, on order from Darth Sidious, arrives on Tython and finds a Meditating Tol Braga, recovering from Corellia. The Jedi master senses his presence, and draws his blade and orders the Sith assassin to surrender. Maul smiles and draws his own weapon, eager to fight such a high level Jedi master. The two begin a fierce lightsaber duel, matching each other blow for blow and driving each other across Tythons landscape, with Master Braga pleading for Maul to surrender the entire time. Eventually fed up with his inability to overcome the Jedi Master, Maul resorts to a powerful force push. However, Master Braga manages to dodge the blow and respond in kind, sending Maul flying. Standing over the fallen Sith, Master Braga proclaims "I was once like you, a mindless dark sider. I was redeemed, let me do the same for you!". Angered at the Jedi;s arrogance, Maul retrieves his blade and ignites both ends, reengaging the duel. However, the duel continues in its stalemated form, with neither combatant able to gain an advantage over the other. As he becomes more and more exhausted, Maul begins to consider the Jedi's words, something he would normally ignore or moke. Was the Jedi right? Were the Sith nothing more than mindless liars? Certainly they did not have much loyalty. How many times had his master betrayed him? Wasn't he being betrayed right now? Why on Coruscant had he been ordered to attack the Jedi's strong hold 3000 years in the past? And then it strikes him. He is no more than Sidious's errand boy, a simple tool to be tossed aside. Unfortunately for Mual, deep philosophical revelations and dueling do not mix. A younger Tol Braga would most likely spare the Sith assassin, but the more jaded post-Sith master takes the opening in Mauls defense and strikes quickly and fatally. Thus, we declare Master Tol Braga the victor.

Now of course, this is just our opinion and it is entirely possible that Maul could defeat Master Braga, but we give Braga seven victories out of ten. If you disagree, have a suggestion for a future match/collaboration, please leave it in the comments below. This is Hondo and Wolf Myth here, signing off!  

Star Wars Attack of the Clones: The video Game

I have A question: How come this movie never got a proper game? It was a great film with some great action and never got anything beyond a few minor game boy instalments. Well, here are some ideas I came up with. Hope you enjoy!

PART ONE MISSIONS
Mission One Coruscant
level 1: Danger on arrival (the opening scene to right before the second assassination attempt on Padme').
level 2: High speed pursuit (The speeder chase).
level 3: The slums (The hunt for Zam wessel).
level 4: Secrets and Mysteries (Follows Kenobi until he arrives on Kamino).
level 5: Voyage of Temptation (Follows Padme' and Anakin until they arrive on Naboo).
Mission Two Naboo & Kamino
level 6: The hidden army (Kenobi's mission on Kamino).
level 7: Trouble in paradise ( Anakin and Padme's stay on Naboo).
level 8: Mandalorian resurrection (Kenobi vs Jango Fett).
Mission Three Tatooine
level 9: Family ties  (Anakin and Padme's time on Tatooine before Anakin leaves the Lars homestead).
level 10: Desperate search (Anakin looking for the tusken raiders and his mother).
level 11: Massacre (Anakin's slaughter of the Tusken Raiders).
Mission Four Geonosis part 1
level 12: Dog fight (Jango vs Kenobi  in the asteroid belt).
level 13:  infiltration (Kenobi's investigation on Geonosis).
level 14: The foundry (The droid factory).
level 15: Execution (Anakin, Kenobi and Padme' in the arena).
level 16: Calvary (Windu and the Jedi's arrival).
Mission five Geonosis part 2
level 17: Attack of the droids (the battle in the arena).
level 18: Control center (Ki-adi's attempt to shut the droids down).
level 19: Gunship strike (The air battle of Geonosis).
level 20: Jedi at war (Windus actions outside of the arena).
level 21: Confronting the Count (Kenobi & Anakin vs Dooku).
PART TWO PLAYABLE CHARACTERS
Single player
Padme'
Anakin Skywalker
Obi-wan Kenobi
Mace Windu
Barriss Offee
Ki-adi Mundi
Multi player only
Captain Typho
Adi Gallia
Yoda
Shaak Ti
Stass Allie
Quinlan Vos
Aayla Secura
Seasee Tiin
Kit Fisto
Coleman trebor
Luminara Undulie
Plo Koon
Bultar Swan
Agen Kolar
Unlock-able
Darth Maul
Count Dooku
Darth Vader
Sidious
Asajj Ventress
Ashoka Tano
Luke Skywalker
Leia Solo
Qui-gon Jinn
Depa Billaba

Windu's versus profile

MARTIAL ARTS

Master Mace Windu was a nearly legendary duelist, often considered to be on par with Yoda and Palpatine. Although he mastered all seven forms, Windu predominantly used Vappad, a variation of form seven that he himself created. Drawing from ones inner darkness, as well as there opponents aggression,  Vappad was a highly aggressive form best used against dark siders. That being said, he could still use it effectively against more peaceful warriors and even non force sensitive duelists. Windus track record almost speaks for itself: he almost killed Dooku with the help of Kenobi, outmaneuvered Grievous on Coruscants mag level train and caused Ventress to flea after about 30 seconds. Although Its true both Sora Bulq and Depa Billaba stale mated Windu with the blade, this is because they were also Vappad users, which means there respective duels were really nothing more than giant super conductive loops of dark side energy. Windus most famous and most impressive accomplishment however, was his duel and defeat of the dark lord Darth Sidious. Although Sidious gained the upper hand at first, Windu managed to focus himself and use both Vappad and Shatterpoint to defeat him (in one alternate universe even killing him). In short, Master Windu is beyond a doubt a top tier duelist and one of the best the Jedi order has ever produced.

FORCE POWERS

Although he was most renowned for his skills with a blade, Windu was no slouch with the force as well. Even in his most subdued appearance, the 2008 clone wars series, he force crushed entire Droideka squads and dropped an entire wall on a tank. In his more advanced appearances he effortlessly manipulated his surroundings and destroyed entire armies with a wave of his hand. According to the Revenge of the Sith novel as well as several comic issues, Windu was also capable of traveling fast enough to appear all but invisible. His most powerful ability, however, was probably his skill with shatter points, allowing him to see the weaknesses in just about anything. He could use this skill for everything from breaking glace to gleaning how to defeat Sidious. In short, Windu can back up his considerable blade skills with powerful telekinesis and the ability to divine his enemies weakest points.

PHYSICAL ABILITY

Unlike most of his peers, Windu was relatively young at only 53. Despite being past his prime, he was still in top condition and the Clone wars only served to advance this. For example, his reaction to being stabbed in the leg with a spear was to scowl and kick the guy who did it. His  most impressive display of physical skill was his mission to Harrun Kal, where he was shot, stabbed, deprived of sleep and beaten to the point of unconsciousness and kept going. Also, as a native to Harrun Kal he had a deep conection to the native Akk dogs.

WEAPONS AND ARMAMENT

As a senior member of the Jedi council, Windu had access to a rare elcotrum finish for his lightsaber hilt, giving it a high resistance against other lightsaber blades. Aside from his lightsabers purple blade, Windu’s armament was not particularly remarkable.

Versus series script: Adi Gallia VS Asajj Ventress

               
MARTIAL ARTS
Adi Gallia was an accomplished swordmaster and warrior. Similar to master Yoda, Adi Gallias dueling style consists of a fast paced and acrobatic offense. She also was fond of changing physical attacks into her bladework. Although she had an effective defense, it has been beaten before and she mostly prefers to fight offensively. Adi Gallia battled general Grievous at least twice, stalemating him the first time and only being defeated the second time because of the generals cybernetically enhanced strength. In a similar vane, she actually drove the Sith nightbrother Savage Opress back until her physical attack failed, staggering her enough to lower her defenses enough to be impaled and killed by the Nightbrothers force power/Zabrak physical strength. In short, she is a skilled duelist but not a top tier.

The best way to describe Ventress's fighting style would be the same way master Luminara did: a more amateurish version of Dookus technique. Like Dooku, it was fast paced and technically advanced, designed to stagger and out maneuver her opponent, her dual blades giving her an edge in this regard. However, unlike Dooku, she was often blinded by rage and could often be overconfident and unrefined. She often went head to head with Anakin Skywalker, Ashoka Tano and Obi-wan Kenobi, either matching them or distracting them enough to escape. She also managed to outclass General Grievous and Luminara Undulie, as well as fighting evenly with Darth Maul and Savage Opress. However, she remained unable to compete with Dooku and was often defeated by Kenobi and Skywalker. All in all, not the best duelist but a serious threat to most Jedi.

FORCE POWERS
Adi Gallia was an expert user of the force, using telekinesis, force pushes and the Jedi mind trick. She could also augment herself through the force to face the physically imposing Savage Opress and Grievous, although this had its limits.

When it comes to force powers, Ventress is something of a mixed bag. She had no knowledge of force lightning and was overwhelmed by both Barriss Offee and Yoda, but she was also capable of simultaneously force choking Kenobi and Anakin and coming close to matching her master with it. In the end, she is an above average force user, even though she is somewhat untrained and unrefined.

PHYSICAL ABILITY
Adi Gallia was relatively young for her position. She was a Thotholian, although that species does not appear to be any physically different from humans, apart from there distinctive headdresses. Adi Gallia was in excellent physical shape, having a fondness for physical attacks and surviving (at least briefly) being impaled by Savage Opress

Despite her slim build, Ventress bordered on being a physical tank. She could take a lot of punishment, from force lightning to brutal nightbrother attacks. Her most impressive display was when, after being wounded from a fiery crash, she still managed to duel with Anakin and Kenobi.

WEAPONS
Adi gallia uses a standard blue bladed Jedi lightsaber, giving the clear armement edge to Ventress, who used dual blades, which could also be joined into a saberstaff, giving her many more options in combat, although this gave her some over reliance on them. That being said, Adi Gallia has experience in fighting dual wielders, so this might be a slime advantage.        

Mace Windu VS Darth Sidious: what really happened?

This is a question that i have seen brought up many times, with genrell conciseness being that sidious far out classes windu as a warrior, with the jedi master only being able to survive as long as he did because of a major "amp". I hold absolutely no ill will towards people who believe this theory, and I have heard some really good arguments for it. however, I must disagree, for reasons I have outlined below.

1# SPEED

Because the novel describes windu and sidious as "fading in and out of reality" to the watching anakin, fans genrelly believes this means that windu was fighting far beyond his normal speed. however, windu has gone fast enough to appear outright invisible to onlookers on at least two occasions, and even managed to land six hits on a dark jedi in the blink of an eye.

2# FEATS

The most often brought up proof in support of the amp theory is that windu has not demonstrated a high enough martial skill to face the dark lord. however:
1. Windu proved himself to completely outclass jedi like quinlan vos, ending thier duel with a wave of the hand.
2. sora bulq and depa billaba, fellow masters of vappad and both professed by windu to supposedly be better duelists than himself, both proved entirely incapable of defeating him.
3. ventress, the dark jedi who outclasses a good majority of the jedi council, ran away after fighting windu for about five seconds, admit ting that windu was by far her superior.
4. Windu used his mastery of vappad to take down grievous, the being who has defeated groups of six jedi before, by cutting the floor of the train he was standing on.
5. Windu has curb stomped entire armys before. nuff said.

3# PALPATINES FEATS

Just as important as windus feats, we must also examine palpatines ability's, he is no doubt a top tier, but by how much?
1. Sidious defeated savage opress and darth maul at the same time, a VERY impressive feat, however, this is something obi-wan kenobi has accomplished before.
2. Sidious was blindingly fast, however both fisto and windu saw him leap from behind his desk, falling back into defensive posses. fisto was even capable of matching the dark lord for a couple blows before going down.
3. Palpatine did duel master yoda evenly, although he eventually defeated the grand master via force powers.
4. Palpatine absolutely DESPISES the lightsaber, only using one to "mock" the jedi.

4# VAPPAD

Adressing the "amp", although its true that windu was drawing on his inner darkness during his fight against sidious, this is something that he does for ALL fights. In addition, it has been proven that vaapad very defintly has its limits, it being unable to compinsate for drastic difrences in skill. If windu wasnt even close to palpatine in terms of skill, vaapad wouldnt have helped one iota. And its also true that vaapad works best against Sith, for the same reason ataru works best when you have room to jump around.

5# COUNT DOOKU

Another common argument is that "windu is equal to dooku, who is worse than sidious". However, dooku is more powerful than most peopole give him credit for, being able to go head to head with yoda with a lightsaber, and being strong enough in the force to stalemate the grandmaster. to top this, dooku and windu did fight evenly...in training duels before episode one. by the clone wars, there only real duel ended with dooku almost being killed.

6# YODA IS BETTER

Many sources claim yoda is more powerful than windu, and so it follows from simple logic that if yoda cant beat palpatine windu cant either. However, all these sources are either in universe opions of charectors (which, like real people, can be incredibly wrong) and OUT of universe opinions. And even if yoda is over all the more powerful of the two, that does not mean he will necessarily do any better in a specific situation, such as a lightsaber duel.

7# FORCE POWERS

The final argument is that sidious outclasses windu so much with the force that he could have ended the battle anytime he wanted. I disagree with this. Not only was most of palpatines impressive force feats after he was brought back to life in dark empire, but windu has shown his own share of powerful force showings, destroying entire armys with force waves. even if you take the 2003 series out of it, windu has still done things like destroy tanks and large groups of enemys with telekinessis, not to mention crippling grievous. And in the movie, when sidious DID use his force powers, all it got him was a face full of lightning.

ONE FINAL THOUGHT

The most common multiverse theory is that every time someone, anyone makes a choice, it creates two time lines, one where they siad no, one where they said yes. using this logic, battlefront 2 shows us a alternate universe where anakin never decided to intervene. the result? windu kills sidious. its not concrete proof of course, but it is interesting to note.