Sunday, September 14, 2014

Doctor Who what if: The Master had regenerated?


It is over. For one dreadful year The Master has ruled the Earth under an iron grip. But now that grip has broken and time has been reversed. However, before the Doctor can take him away to the Tardis Lucy Saxon, the Masters former wife, shots him. The Doctor pleads with him to regenerate, but the Master proclaims he has finally won before dying, leaving the Doctor alone once again. However, that is the main universe in a massive multiverse: with an infinite amount of possibilities, this scenario is not always the case. With a grunt, the Master bursts into golden energy, sending the Doctor flying. When he recovers, the Doctor sees a tall man with black hair where the Master had been (he looks suspiciously like Sherlock Holmes). The Master has regenerated. The Doctor sadly bids Martha and Jack behind, imprisons the Master in the Tardis with a "regeneration link" that he can use to force him to change and departs in the time vortex, planning to watch over his fellow time lord for eternity. Yeah right, its the Doctor, hes not going to just stay still. After two decades of mind numbing boredom, the Doctor is fed up with exploring every inch of his ship and listening to Khan (I mean the Master) angrily ranting at him. Luckily for the Doctor, this is abruptly broken when the Titanic crashes into his Tardis. Jumping at the chance, the Doctor leaves the Master aboard the Tardis (warning him that the Tardis is in control of the regeneration link) and departs on an adventure aboard the Tardis. This voyage of the dammed continues as in the prime universe, except for the crucial difference of  Astrid Peth surviving. However, with the most dangerous Time lord in history aboard his ship, the Doctor is forced to leave her behind. A similar thing happens when he runs into Donna Nobel again while investigating a signal from the Adipose. This trend continues throughout the next couple years of the Doctors adventures. Repeatedly, the Doctor is forced to leave potential companions because of his responsibilities towards guarding the Master. On the other hand, the Doctor and Master begin resolving there hatred and remembering there friendship, with the Doctor even letting a holoimage of the Master come with him on an adventure with Sontarans on contemporary Earth. Shortly after this, the Doctor finally finds a new companion: With the Tardis taking him to Messaline, where the Doctor meets Jenny, his cloned daughter. Being mostly Timelord herself, the Doctor takes her with him aboard the Tardis, although he does his best to limit her contact with the rouge Timelord. Together, the three Time lords continued to travel the universe, finding such things as a Vashta Nerada infested library and the Doctors future wife. However, things come crashing to an end when the Daleks return and the Masters regeneration link is broken, allowing him to escape. However, to everybody's amazement, the Master returns and helps the children of time defeat Davros and his empire. Afterwards, the three time lords continued to travel together with the Master being allowed a much greater degree of freedom, although the Doctor still kept an eye on his more brutal aspects. Eventually, the Master accidentally reveals that he hasn't heard the sound of drums since being brought back from Yana. The Doctor, unable to find a reason for this, eventually discovers it is an act of his own doing. While on a solo mission, the Doctor runs into a future version of himself, the situation eventually spiraling out of con troll to the point all 13 Doctors end up working together. Taking the initiative, the Doctor leaves a message with his Eighth incarnation. Many years later and during the height of the Time war, The war Doctor tampers with the resurrection of the Master, removing the drum beat from his head (although due to the parodxy end of the time war removes the memory from both of them). Thus, hundreds of years in the future, a much less insane Master and Jenny watch the Doctor sacrifice himself to stop Rassilon from escaping the Time wars and regenerate into his eleventh (well, twelfth. Actually, to be completely accurate, thirteenth, but whos counting?) body. Eventually reuniting with his future wife, The Doctor, Master, Jenny and River song are well placed to return the Time lords to the universe.

Fredrick versus script


BIOGRAPHY
Born on the medieval era plant of Eriadua, Fredrick began life fighting a local warlord, along with his adopted brother Jack, the medic Elanor and there mutual friend the swordmaster Andrew. Eventually, they defeated the warlord and freed there people, but there adventures were far from over. Several years later, Fredrick discovered an ancient catch of knowledge collected by an ancient intergalactic warrior guild known as the Crusaders. Deciding to continue there legacy, Fredrick and his allies managed to repair an ancient Crusader vessel and depart there home world for the larger universe. Eventually joined by engineering genius Mike Sanders and troubled sorcerers P.s, the group would go on to restart the proud Crusader tradition and save many billions of innocent lives. Although Fredrick would go on to play an important part in future events, in his prime he has a brave warrior and powerful mercenary.

MARTIAL ARTS
Although he had the potential to become one of the greatest warrior in the universe, Fredrick lived in fear of becoming to powerful, afraid he wouldn't be able to control himself. As such, Fredrick purposely limited his training and skill in an attempt to circumvent this. As such, Fredrick developed his own personal form of fighting which, in his own words: "NEVER attack with your full power. attack with as little as possible, gain an understanding of your enemies capabilities, then use enough, JUST enough to defeat them: no more, no less". As such, Fredericks martial skill was somewhat unimpressive, at least on paper. It was neither overly fast or overly strong, it was just enough. When wielding a sword, Phase Blade or other melee weapon, Fredrick  would give ground to his opponent and stave off there blows while trying to work out a way to beat them in a different way. When on the offensive, Fredrick would unleash quick and precise blows, attempting to break his enemies guard, opening them for a physical strike. On the subject of unarmed fighting, Fredrick favoured drawn out and evenly matched engagements, wearing down his foes defenses little by little, trusting on his own stamina to allow him to win. All things considered, many could match Fredrick, but few could beat him.

MAGIC
Although his martial arts were affected by his self imposed limitations, Fredericks magical powers were directly inhibited by his unwillingness to realize his full power. Fredrick could summon energy and use it to erect defenses and powerful blasts. However, he did not like using this ability in combat unless he absolutely had to. Although Fredrick had a natural affinity with telepathy, he could only use it as mental defense and not attack or communication. The exception to this rule was his ability with telekinesis, which he regularly used in middle of combat to retrieve items and stagger opponents. At his full extent, he could lift several tons of material.

PHYSICAL SKILL
By the time he retired, Fredrick was a middle aged Eternal. As such, although physically he was identical to A human, he was really about 150 years of age. In addition to there long life spans, Eternals had a natural skill with telekinesis and telepathy, but I already addressed those. In the prime of his life, Fredrick also took part in a lot of physical training and combat, resulting in him being MUCH stronger, faster and tougher than an average human (For example, being able to jump out a two story window, get shot in the arm and be near a grenade explosion and still be able to take part in a brief physical match).

WEAPONS & EQUIPMENT
As any self respecting mercenary, Fredrick was often a walking armory. He was commonly in possession of Lead guns, energy weapons, many explosives, sonic probes and power armor, although he only used a very limited number of these in a one on one duel. His weapon of choice was a sapphire bladded Phase Blade, a weapon that, although mechanically completely different, functioned much the same as a lightsaber, minus the ability to cut through almost everything and plus a pure colored blade. If he needed to, he could also fall back on his old broad sword, although he did not use it as much because he considered it clumsy and less practical. When confronted with an absolutely overpowering enemy, Fredrick would resort to a ranged weapon or power armor (or anything he can get his hands on for that matter) but again, this is a last resort.          

Saturday, September 13, 2014

The Hero of Tython vs The Emporers wrath

 

INTRODUCTION
Greetings viewers and fellow Imperial knights! This is Hondo Moonrazor here, with another versus vid on request! As suggested by Darth Judicar, today we are pitting The Hero of Tython against the Emperors Wrath. Now of course, we have no cannon confirmation on the Emperors wrath (or the Hero of Tython for that matter) however, I do believe, as long as there balanced and viable outlines, that it is acceptable to use a fan made outline, at least until we get some kind of cannon.Thus, thanks must go to Ruinqueenofoblivion, who designed this version of the Emperors Wrath and supplied the videos of her. With the explanations and credit out of the way, Lets begin! (Oh, you know if I ever get involved in official Lucasfilm novels, this fight WILL officially happen.)

MARTIAL ARTS
The Hero of Tython's, as with most Jedi Guardians,  was primarily centered on his skill with his blade. Although he was also skilled with Shien and Soresu (which he used to great affect against blaster wielders), the only form the Hero of Tython is mentioned as mastering Shi Cho, the first lightsaber form. Despite the forms general weakness at one on one dueling (as evidenced by Kit Fisto) this is a weakness the Hero has apparently and completely nullified this: his number of named Sith he defeated in lightsaber duels is over twenty, containing such high level Lords as  Bengel Mor, Darth Angrual, Tol Braga and of course the Sith emperor, to name just a few. In short, the Hero is not only a top tier for his age, but for the entire saga.

The emperor's Wrath was a Sith marauder and one of the most powerful Sith of her era. In addition with her considerable skill with Jerkai dual wielding, the Wrath backed this up with Juyo, the seventh form of lightsaber combat. As such, she was a highly aggressive and offensive duelist, responsible for as many Sith deaths as Jedi deaths. She also had at least some understanding and practical knowledge of Soresu and Atarua. The Wrath was an almost unparalleled duelist, defeating Jeasse Williams, Darth Baras and many others in one on one combat.

This is, needless to say, incredibly close. Between these two, there track record almost reads as a list of Sith and Jedi who were killed during the galactic war. Although the Wrath has slightly more defeats, the Hero has slightly more impressive defeats: For example, the Wraths ultimate opponent was Darth Baras, who was close to equal with Darth Angrual, a Sith the Hero killed early in his career.  On a technical level, neither the Hero's controlled offense/defense or the Wraths nearly unbeatable offense holds an advantage over the other one. In the end, these two are more likely to collapse from exhaustion than to beat each other through martial arts: I call it a tie in the first category.

FORCE POWERS
Despite being considered the most powerful Jedi of his time, the Hero primarily focused on his bladework, leaving his force powers relatively underdeveloped. Although his telekinesis was powerful enough to lift many tones of stone and his force defense could stop the Sith emperor's force Lightning, the Hero was not as powerful with the force as, say, the Barsenthor.

As with the Hero, the Wrath focuses on her bladework above all else. Still, she was capable of self augmentation, telekinetic throws and chokes, and even had some experience with the rare ability of Force scream.

A close call. The Wraths Force scream is something the Hero can not replicate, but the Hero's telekinesis has demonstrated itself to have more raw power behind it. Add in that the Heros force defense should at least partially stop the Wraths kinitight, and the fact that neither of them are that big on the force in the first place, and In the end I have to call them Even in force powers.

PHYSICAL SKILLS
The Hero was a Zabrak male in the prime of his life. As such, he was an absolute physical powerhouse, capable of taking a ridiculous amount of damage before going down, at least compared to us squishy human things.

The Wrath (or at least this version of her) was a female Sith pureblood, and as such she had no real physical advantages over your average human. That being said, he young age and physical skill has been mentioned as a deciding factor in several of her duels.

The physical edge is more difficult to call than it normally is when Zabraks are involved. Despite her slim build, The Wrath was very strong, and despite his stockier build, the Hero was still incredibly fast. In the end, the Heros natural Zabrak physique does make him a slightly tougher fighter. The Hero gets the physical edge.

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT
As a Jedi Guardian, the Hero of Tython was armed with a single, blue bladed lightsaber with a ornate design that has no inherent advantages or disadvantages. In addition to this, the Hero also almost always wore lightsaber resistant armor.

The Wrath was a dual blade specialist, wielding two blood red lightsabers. Following the Sith standards of the time, the hilts were designed as power tools, with razor blades on the end. She also commonly donned lightsaber resistant armor.

The equipment edge is relatively easy. They both are equipped with armor and although the Hero doubtlessly has experience against dual wielding, the Wraths dual blades do provide her with many more options in combat, provided that she doesn't have an over reliance on the second blade. I give the weapon edge (no pun intended) to the Wrath.

THE VERDICT
Wow, I have not had a match up this close in A long time. Whoever wins this battle will probably only have A 5.1/10 advantage and an extensive recovery time afterwards. There martial arts ability is so close, that any difference would be infantile. If either one of them resort to the force (which is unlikely) the other one will be able to match there attack, or at least whether it. The Hero is slightly physically superior, but armor makes this almost a pointless category. In a similar vane, the Wraths dual blades are circumvented by the Heros experience against such weapons. See my problem? In the end the battle is decided by something that isn't even a category: tactics. the Emperor's Wrath is by no means an idiot, but she has the same mind set as almost all Sith: an overwhelming focus on offense and rage. The Hero on the other hand, is more calm and levelheaded, less likely to make a mistake. Dont get me wrong,  if I had to pick a dark side character as the one who defeated Revan, it would definitely be the Wrath. But from where I am standing, if this battle is decided by who is a quicker and more tactical thinking (which it almost certainly will be, since these twos skill sets are so close), I have to give the VERY slight edge to the Hero. Thus, I declare the Hero of Tython the battered and bruised winner.    

Azula VS Chandra Nalaar

 

INTRODUCTION

Greetings viewers and MTG and/or Lat airbender fans! Today we have a crossover versus battle, Princess Azulo vs Chandra Nalaar. I am not that big on either series. So why am I doing this? Actually, My good friend Redshirtguy96 suggested this battle, and I saw no reason not to (as ignorance of these to series are rather easily fixed with access to Youtube and your brother 1000+ cards), so I thought I would give it a go. With that being said, lets see which fire wielder comes out un-burnt.

MARTIAL ARTS

Although primarily a sorcerers, Azulo still had some skill with martial arts. She was reasonably competent with hand to hand fighting and was fast enough to doge even Aang's bending. All this being said, she is still primarily a firebender and did not normally rely on martial arts.

Chandra Nalaars approach to combat was simple enough:  Kill it with fire, kill it with fire and kill it with fire. Although I could be wrong, from what I have seen, Chandra doesn't really have a grasp on any martial arts, or any combat tactic besides, well, kill it with fire.

The first edge is clear. Azulo is at least a limited martial artist, while Chandra has no such claim. I give Azulo the edge in martial arts.

FIRE BENDING

And now for the category you all came to see. Azulo was a natural with firebending, being incredibly powerful with it while still a young age. In her older years, Azulo was powerful enough that she hardly even used normal orange bladed fire, instead using much more intense blue flame. To tell the truth, from my limited experience with the series, the only fire benders capable of truly standing alone against her were Aang and the Fire lord himself. She also had some skill with lightning bending. All this being said, and like all benders from the series, she could still be harmed by fire, even her own if she screws up enough (which, considering her skill, is very unlikely).

From a very early age, Chandra's natural pyrokenieses was powerful enough to destroy entire houses. As she grew, so did her skill with this ability, to the point she was basically become the face of red manna. Although, as previously mentioned, she doesn't really have anything but "kill it with fire", she is EXTREMELY good at killing things with fire. Chandra is also a palneswalker, meaning she has the ability to travel between realms, speaking to an incredibly high level of magic.

In terms of fire bending, both of these are very powerful and refined with there ability's. Although I believe Chandra is a slightly more powerful and refined regardless, she appears to be completely unharmed by flame, meaning that unless Azulo resorts to lightning almost immediately, she is at a MAJOR disadvantage. I give Chandra the edge in terms of fire bending.

PHYSICAL SKILL

Due to her martial training, Azulo is very swift and powerful for her size. That being said, Chandra is often depicted to physically engulfed in flame. Meaning, that if this battle becomes a physical one, Azulo will be trying to attack a big ball of fire (not a great idea). I give Chandra the physical edge, due to her body temperature.

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT

Azulo has been depicted using such weapons as staffs and shrunkens and seems to be quite effective with them. Chandra kills it with fire. Princess Azulo gets the final edge.

THE VERDICT

And now, the verdict. There are two very real possibilities here, both of which having a different outcome. Either 1) They engage each other in fire bending, in which case, although Azulo is certainly a very skilled and powerful bender, Chandra can respond in kind and completely ignore Azulos efforts, or 2) Azulo attacks with lightning, shrunkens or really anything but fire bending, in which case she will probably take Chandra down before she is taken out by her fire. However, Azulos strong suit and modis operandi is fire bending and she is very likely to just attack using this power, only to watch as Chandra bursts into flame by herself. Although her ability to redirect fire would keep her alive for awhile and she might be able to get in a hit with her other abilities, but I don't think she can do this before she becomes a princess BBQ (I hope I never have to say that again). In short, although Chandra is more straight forward, Azulos inability to see the future and figure out that attacking her with fire is NOT a good idea is probably going to get her killed her. I declare Chandra Nalaar the winner.  

Friday, September 12, 2014

Lord Starkiller & Xanatos VS Kyle Katarn & Cin Dralig

 
  

INTRODUCTION

Greetings viewers and fellow Imperial Knights! This is Hondo Moonrazor here, with another versus video on request. Well technically, two versus vids on request, Lord Starkiller & Xanatos VS Kyle Katarn & Cin Dralig. Both of these were ideas from fellow versus video creator Wolf Myth, but while researching them, I realized that it would be a cool match up to pit both dark siders against both battle masters. It also doesn't hurt that doing a two on two match might actually make this video last longer than six minutes. On another note, this is Lord Starkiller, NOT Galen Marek or his clone, for the simple reason that he is coolest incarnation. With the intro out of the way, lets begin!

MARTIAL ARTS

There is an interesting contrast between lords Vader and Starkiller: when Anakin was turned into a cyborg Sith, he developed a diverse and personalized form, whereas when Galen was turned into a cyborg Sith he devolved from a diverse and personalized form to an incredibly straight forward practice. Although it has not been stated officially, everything about  his fighting style speaks of a pure Shien duelist: The reverse grip, blast deflection and power blows all being a standard of the form. Stakiller did not even retain his previous practice of Jerkai, now preferring a single blade. Starkiller fought evenly with old Ben Kenobi and an untrained Luke Skywalker, defeating both opponents, although considering the rather lackluster skill both of them brought to the table, this might not be saying much. All in all, from what we have seen Lord Starkiller is painfully straight forward and about the level of an average Jedi knight.

Xanatos was trained by sword master Qui-gon Jinn and was one of the most promising students of the Jedi order. Although it is not confirmed by any source, I believe that Xanatos was a master of Ataru, with a fast paced and acrobatic offensive style of fighting. Xanatos was a reasonably high level duelist, holding his own against Kenobi and Qui-gon at the same time, placing him on roughly the same level as Darth Maul. He also ahd some knowledge of Jarkai and most likely at least some knowledge of Juyo.

As the new Jedi orders battlemaster, Kyle Katarn was an experienced veteran and one of the new orders best duelists. Although he was a master of Dejem So, Katarn was almost entirely self taught and helped create the lightsaber forms briefly used by the new Order. With realitivly little training, Katarn killed seven powerful dark Jedi in a row, and latter in life stalemated Darth Caedues, an achievement very few could match. In short, Katarn has earned his post as battle master many times over.

As the sword master of the Jedi temple, Cin Dralig was reasonable for the training of almost all students who passed through the order and as such had knowledge of all seven forms of Lightsaber combat. Hie chosen style however, as with most Jedi of the era,  was Nimen. Although criticized for its ideals in moderation, Nimen is a very effective form, combing elements from every form save for Juyo, plus some new ideas and moves. However, I sadly have come to believe that Draligs mastery was mostly academic. True, he was no pushover, but he only managed to stalemate Vader for a short time during operation Knightfall, before being overwhelmed by his force powers. That being said, the ability to stalemate (even temporarily) a powerhouse such as Vader is a truly impressive feat.

I am hesitant to give either Dralig or Xanatos the edge in martial arts. Although Dralig certainly has more academic knowledge, he hasn't displayed a skill level greater than Xanatos has, so I believe them to be equals in terms of martial arts. Katarn on the other hand, has a very clear edge over the comparatively straight forward  lord Starkiller. Thus, Kyle gets a major edge for the battlemasters in the martial arts arena.

FORCE POWERS

Again, a large contrast between Vader and Starkiller exists here. Whereas Vader was reduced to a tenth of his former power in the force, Starkillers abilities seem mostly unhampered, with his martial arts taking the biggest hit from his cybernetic rebuild. Lord Starkiller was still capable of holding missals and even the Millennium falcon in place, and notably retained his powerful force lighting skills.

In addition to his skills with the blade, Kyle Katarn was also a skilled force user. Unlike most Jedi, Kyle Katarn had some knowledge in Dark side techniques, even using force lightning. That being said, he was also a powerful user of the light side of the force, being knowledgeable in force absorb and heal, as well as many others.

Cin Dralig and Xanatos have shown a simaller level in augmentation and Telekinesis, so they are automatically tied. A simmaller situation exists between Katarn and Starkiller. Although Kyle uses both he light and dark sides of the force giving him a wider arrange of abilities, most of his light side powers are non combative, leaving him with no real advantage over Starkiller. Thus, I declare the two teams equal in terms of force powers.

PHYSICAL SKILLS

Rebuilt in a refined version of Vaders suit after sustaining sever injury's, Lord Starkiller appeared to be (realitivly of course) unchanged. His strength and speed were the same and he could still use force lightning. The only real changes was the sharp "nails" on his fingers, and if he is trying to kill his enemy with those, he has probably already lost.

Xanatos was a human male with Jedi training in the prime of his life. As such, he was stronger and faster than a normal human would be.

Although he was getting on in years by the time of the second Galactic civil war, Kyle Katarn remained realitivly unaffected, still able to perform almost superhuman levels of speed and strength.

Cin Dralig was in the later half of his life, being old enough to have a hand in training almost all the existing Jedi at the time of Order 66. This being said, he was by no means a weakling and could keep pace with the incredibly strong and fast Darth Vader.

In this area, the Dark siders get an advantage, as they are both younger than there opponents. That being said, the restorative power of the light side and self augmentation makes this a slim edge at best.

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT

Although he carried half a dozen lightsabers on his belt, trophy's most likely from defeated oponnits, Lord Starkiller has favored the use of a single blade instead of the Jarkai duel wielding he previously used. That being said, if he is disarmed he can use one of these blades as a backup.

Xanatos originally used a standard blue bladed Jedi lightsaber, but he switched it to a red blade when he fell to the dark side.

Although he eventually became a Respected Jedi council member, Kyle Katran was a mercenary for most of his young life, and as such had a extensive knowledge of firearms and other weapons. Even as a Jedi master Katarn made often use of his bryar pistol, a highly versatile and powerful weapon. His lightsaber was of standard build, with an emerald blade.

Cin Dralig wielded a standard Jedi lightsaber, equipped with either a green or blue blade (no one seems to agree on which one).  

Although Starkillers extra lightsaber provide both himself and Xanatos with the option of dual wielding or replacing a fallen blade, in also provides there enemy's with the chance to do the same. Katarn's  blasters have no such weakness, and thus the battle masters get another edge.

THE VERDICT

Although both these match ups were great ideas in there own right, this group battle was even more fun, so thanks again to Wolf Myth for the suggestion. Assuming the two arrogant dark siders would actually work together, I believe the battle would begin with Xanatos going after the Jedi he regonizied, leaving Starkiller to battle Katarn. Although the Sith lord would be able to match the battlemasters power in the force, Katarn completely outclasses him with a blade and he would subdue him in short order. This would would leave Xanatos facing two high level Jedi (assuming Dralig could survive to this point, which I believe him to be more than capable of doing). Although Xanatos is good, he is not that good. Even if the two switch oponnits, Katarn still would outrank his enemy and Starkiller is straightforward enough that Dralig might be able to defeat him outright as well. In the end, although both these dark siders present a threat to many Jedi, there is a reason there foes are referred to as "Battle masters". I declare Kyle Katarn and Cin Dralig the winners.