Why Grandmaster Luke Locked Himself In Vader's Castle to Study the Dark Side - Star Wars Explained

[@DarthArachnious]

This is one of the most OP things Luke has ever done. Rebuilding a fortress, hiding it, hiding within it. Then, meditating so deeply he has an out-of-body experience. That spreads his consciousness across the Galaxy. This is why, in Crucible, when he wills himself back into existence after becoming one with the Force. Using the power of a Monolith and following Han's voice. I totally bought it. They had long since layed the groundwork.

[@GreenTimeEagle]

I absolutely loved Luke using that force projection in one the sequels

[@xenniealsentinel1800]

Who lit the damn candle?!

[@DanOdalson]

That's just like in real life, astral projection/travel is no New thing in our human history. I love when they add this realities into shows, more immersive it makes them, yes yes.

[@spencertherren6806]

​@@GreenTimeEagleDid you also enjoy him milking a space creature?

[@THSmjsmith]

@@DanOdalsonthat shit is not real or proven in anyway it’s people wanting to be special

[@BioHunter1990]

This is a far better example of an Old Master. Acting out of wisdom, not pettiness. Luke acts out of self-reflection; seemingly to understand himself. Not running away. Not failing and giving up. I don’t think this Luke would have sought to either and die alone. This Luke was seeking something, not trying to die.

[@Stewfou]

Another example as to how The Last Jedi really dropped the ball with Luke

[@smokeyc21]

"Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely" Great holocron. Was nice to hear Luke's perspective

[@wompastompa3692]

"Weakness corrupts - and absolute weakness corrupts absolutely."

[@xCorvus7x]

Power doesn't corrupt, it reveals.

[@nevasoba5953]

I read ALL these old books. I loved the conversations between streen and Luke . Streen wasn’t a particularly powerful Jedi , but he was very wise and fulfilled his destiny in the end.

[@claytongray4349]

What books are these?

[@h3vystonks690]

@@claytongray4349 Star Wars “Legends” continuity

[@mentillist7292]

where can i find a good chronological list to read the canon?

[@h3vystonks690]

@@mentillist7292 I’d start with the Darth Bane trilogy. Also all Legends books have a chronology of all “current” titles.

[@mentillist7292]

@@h3vystonks690 thanks, i’ve been listening to a few of these vids here and there and its got me really wanting to read them. if i may return the favour, there is a sci if/fantasy series i’m loving called Tinker by Wen Spencer

[@Azraelden]

the main reason i enjoy star wars is becasue the characters go through so much trauma that u can really relate too. like trying to find yourself in a world where people depend of you. its tough. i love the vid keep it up

[@somepersonwhosblunt]

I love star wars but ive honestly not been able to really dive into it as much as id wish due to time availabilities. This video was very informative and enjoyable to watch. Thanks for the effort you put in!

[@chadflanaganCFC]

This makes a good deal of sense, he should be aware of what the disastrous effects of a Chosen One gone bad can go.

[@codename1176]

Yes this Luke makes a lot of sense

[@bex--]

I was never really a huge star wars fan, but your videos are so fascinating. Makes it a lot more digestible.

[@ArtByAhri]

exactly. for me, this channel made me a star wars fan

[@really296]

This one channel is on full-time repeat

[@DarthKieduss]

This is why I love Legends Luke Skywalker more than Disney Luke. Grandmaster Luke never gave up on people. Skywalker always saw the good in people and believed no one was beyond redemption. And not just in his father. He multiple times tried to reason with insane Dark Jedi Joruus C'boath. He convinced Mara Jade to not just let go of her hatred for him, but convinced her to marry him. He redeemed many dark siders during his fight against the Sith and the Empire. Even when Jacen Solo fell to the dark side, Luke believed that it was possible for his nephew to be redeemed. Grandmaster Luke was also courageous, willing to fight like hell for friends, family and allies. Similar to how Anakin did his best to protect his troops in the Clone War, Luke Skywalker did not believe in leaving anyone behind. He even went out of his way to rescue Talon Karrde simply cuz Mara Jade asked him to. Luke Skywalker in Legends NEVER gave up. Disney Luke got spooked by dark images in Ben Solo's mind, thought about just killing the boy in his sleep and when he woke up after the temple's destruction, went into exile. Disney did Luke Skywalker dirty.

[@jimvenanzio6561]

Star Wars was supposed to be America's Saga, like Beowulf was to Germany. Disney destroyed everything beyond redemption when they chose to try and subvert its message with w0k3 Supr3maCY.

[@1888swordsman]

Legends better than Disney, no arguement here

[@phantom_mserafi]

Which is naive because some people don’t have good smh.

[@thetruthchannel349]

When you understand who funded the last SW Trilogy you'll understand everything you hear everyday about 'white privilege' 'Male toxicity' & all the other B.S. that were themes throughout. This is warfare. The kind of war China is waging on the West.

[@Smenkhaare]

I totally ignore the sequel films... I only hold to the first 6 movies, all of the TV series, Rogue One and the Han Solo movie. All of the sequels are bogus garbage.

[@chblegendary165]

I’m so disappointed that we never got to see Mark Hamill as Grandmaster Luke. All they had to do was pick a story from Legends!! Instead we got what we got.

[@ronjon7942]

We’d need a different look-alike actor, tho. He was, and always will be, too whiney and wimpy looking.

[@spross216]

But then the force wouldn’t be female 😂

[@MoniqueFirestone]

I totally agree. Disney screwed up.

[@Epiccomicgamer]

Star wars was fine to me until eps 7 through 9

[@idstayaway9992]

​@@Epiccomicgamersaid literally everyone

[@aodhhanswtor7252]

Luke suffered the same fear his father did. In short, fearing the loss of those he loved. He once again faced the failure he once did on a cave on Dagoba many years before. The failure of being ruled by fear. As Yoda once advised Anakin, Luke journeyed to his father's residence to train himself to let go of everything he feared to lose. As well as those expectations which came with these responsibilities. Which is why he did not know early in his journey if he would be able to return. In the end, the galaxy survived as did Luke. This realization provided Luke with the wisdom to know he could let go if need be. To choose love over fear. To remain true to the ideals of a Jedi. Primarily selflessness.

[@drkushajagadeesh6347]

Bane subatomically building and fine tuning his holocrons was a badass level of force use!

[@jonahstirbis3408]

Luke is a very wise master who knows when to step back and when he is ready he shall retrun.

[@wompastompa3692]

Luke: *hides for a few months Luke: "Wait, this is stupid. Time to go back." Jake: "AAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!" *hides Jake decades later: "AAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!"

[@davidrgilson]

This sounds like a lesson in boundary setting - if you dont' set boundaries you get tired and resentful, and if you're uber powered in the force, what could possibly go wrong?

[@jimvenanzio6561]

to answer: You give into the Dark Side and turn into a pawn of Disney.

[@TomMurray-pd5jj]

How can one defeat the dark if they don’t effectively understand it?

[@DeathScepter]

temptation from the knowledge of the dark side is quite great. Dark side is similar to steroids. For the short term, Dark Side will improve one's abilities in the force but at high cost in later in life. Light side is great for long term gains in the force. One of the Jedi virtue is patience. Light side practices needs that trait

[@TomMurray-pd5jj]

@@DeathScepter Perfectly placed my man! On the other side of things... can confirm on the roids comment. Solid comparison.

[@DeathScepter]

i have seen what roids does with a person. Even Asthma steroids can really mess a person up. with diet and weight lifting, no more asthma

[@ShawnSage-m1h]

You don't have to fully understand cancer to defeat it, you don't have to be the best card player to win...

[@TomMurray-pd5jj]

@@ShawnSage-m1h But you CAN'T be the best card player if you don't understand all facets of the game... You CAN'T have a high success rate of curing cancer if you don't understand cancer. On one hand you have blind luck, on the other you have remarkable talent... the two do not compare.

[@jamest1242r]

Luke is so fucking powerful man. He was the ultimate Jedi and Ultimate Force user.

[@mikekolb3912]

Wish we could have seen this materialize into film or animated series

[@jamest1242r]

@@mikekolb3912 he was 35 when he did all of this..

[@alsimmonshellspawn6021]

​@@jamest1242rno he wasn't you clearly don't know much about the EU lore luke was 68 when he did this, it was many years after darth caedus passed away

[@fdjtron1732]

​@@alsimmonshellspawn6021 Luke was 64 in Crucible

[@Carcerian]

Such a better story than the sequel trilogies.

[@emilytaylor2172]

The line of thinking of I need to disapear for the good of others... That is something I know quiet well, the fear of becoming like my dad? Or those that harmed me is something I fight with every single day. I also think on how such things are possible, and how so many go the rout of just giving into that pain and never moving on from it. They tried to run. Eventually, it tires you out, eats you, and consumes you. Till there is nothing of who you where left. The only way to combat and fight that fear is head on. To work though it. It's hard, difficult, and very very painful. For me there is no leating go of that trauma, of my trauma. I cant let go because it is a part of me. But I can learn to accept the damage done to me, that pain. And I can learn to heal. The scars will remain, they may hurt or even bleed from time to time in a sense. But with the knowledge of how to treat and stem the bleeding, and how to deal with it. I do not blead over others and make my own trauma something that controls me and devours me. This is really to me part of Like going I hurt, I need to do something about it. And learning that there is something you can do. And there is a way that does not result in you ending your own life or becoming like the ones who did those things to you.

[@ronjon7942]

Thanks for sharing. I'm in a similar spot as you, but it seems like not as far along. I'm struggling with what to me is traumas, two of the most difficult emotional and mental shocks I've yet experienced in my 54 years. They weren't because of the cruelty and/or indifference from others; rather they were because of things I had done or had failed to do, letting things I should've had under control get out of control. I rationally know what it is I have to do in order to move forward, but my heart just isn't into moving on. After almost five years of just existing in a holding pattern, simply letting life come at me, I'm beginning to feel the tugs of wanting to experience life again. I'm just starting to try and begin the process of forgiving myself, but it really is difficult. I've gotten so used to living this nihilistic shell that it's almost comfortable; afterwards, after trying to be, and being, around other people (which I really do find pleasurable), I find myself wanting to retreat into my apartment and back into myself. Ok, I really didn't expect to have a discussion about personal pain on a Star Wars fan sight comments section, but I guess I'll take. Maybe this is something put in my way to start participating in the world again. I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, and I absolutely know this has gotten very emotionally unhealthy, but for longer than I want to admit, these comments sections on all sorts of channels related to my interests (Star Wars lore is actually pretty recent - and addictive!) have been a primary means of human interaction and socialization. Thanks for helping jar me a bit into reality.

[@solidmoon8266]

The brighter the light, the deeper the darkness. To find balance in that is true peace within oneself.

[@witteju]

love these breakdowns of the skywalkers! so good!

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

As Spider man once said "With great power comes great responsibility."

[@Gor85]

I understand why he felt tired. He feared powers of the Force. He fought the Sith. He suffered Emperor's lighting,fought with Vader. It's great he defeated his fears. And faced his problems. May the Force be with you too😊

[@MF_Zurg]

The new movies wasted Luke’s potential. Such a shame.

[@renatoacavalcante]

I honestly didn't understand how he died lol. I feel they could keep the theme of failure since Luke is not the chosen one. But they def could work him better...

[@UnoDoseMedia]

Lukes WHOLE Legacy WAS DE$TROYED by DI$NEY? Of course Ol' Mark Hamill didn't even attempt to stand up for the Character whose face he wears.!

[@MF_Zurg]

@@UnoDoseMedia I think he stood up for Luke as much as he could tbh

[@Antioxin]

Agreed.

[@FunnyPrankLaughs]

Not only that, they wasted everyone’s time by watching that shit

[@danny-mc1994]

This is really random but this video was really eye opening for processing my own mental health(dark side). I often worry about having a family one day and the possibility of passing on my trauma to the next generation. Might have over shared a bit but thanks for making this.

[@dynel.dillard]

Disney had totally screwed the Entire Franchise

[@TheGreenGorman]

If u say so😂

[@topcat1382]

Yes they did!! They nd George Lucas mind......

[@KingCotton-8]

Growing up 80-90’s there were so many books . I am certain I came across one of Luke in the dark side

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

For me, it was Dark Horse's "Dark Empire" comics.

[@Epiccomicgamer]

Return of the jedi was originally revenge of the jedi with Luke killing Vader and turning to the dark side. He also destroyed the rebellion. Much different ending than what we got with ewoks

[@kingkongchief1177]

Perfect way for Luke to learn about the enemy of the Jedi. By studying how they think and why they do what they do without turning into the enemy.

[@JetcannonM]

You can not know the reach of light if you don't understand the depth of dark. Empathy is all encompassing. The force is responsibility.

[@1COMIXMAN]

I always wonder just how powerful luke would be I he truly had let go and fallen to the dark side. When he was under the emperors control he still wasn't fully dark. His eyes never turned.I'm sure he would have been an utter monster as a Sith lord.

[@ArtByAhri]

the only thing more tragic than anakin's life is luke's haircut in ep 6😭

[@williamjester3196]

"He who controls his own power is the most powerful" Yoda

[@TheBeastie35]

Dude literally practiced a force based Lego build like we did as kids 😂

[@andrewstricher144]

reminds me of the video where it is explained how the Jedi of old grew more powerful by also studying the dark side of the force, without succumbing to it, which basically has been avoided by all the more recent generations of the Jedi Order, leading to their downfall maybe - lack of knowledge backfiring

[@strayvion808]

Surprise, Darth Tenebrous lives on through him and up to this time has figured out how to finally become incarnate and escape his horrible fate and be free. He slowly manipulates Luke to helping him find a body and escape. Hence, why you see a Bith in the New Hope. i

[@Kippy8472]

If they made a game the allows you to play as luke during the time after rotj.. telling all these stories, rpg or not, it would be an instant hit in my mind

[@rooknado]

Battlefront 2

[@sippeon9047]

​@rooknado Hardly counts as it was a fraction of the game's campaign.

[@joffreybaratheon4904]

Luke must be studying the dark side as a learning experience.. something that the old Jedi order didn’t want

[@coreyeg87]

They need to make a Luke spin off up to the force awakens

[@elijahshells]

This makes Luke's "And I become a legend..." line from The Last Jedi that much more powerful.

[@robertagu5533]

Big differences is Legends did it RIGHT. an not only did Disney screw it up but they also did it WAY too early too Also kinda funny, unless Republic Military forces after finally beating the Empire are different from the real world odd also that Luke, whom should stIll technically be an war hero, famous war vet an a Republic Officer too. Something totally stopped an everyone seemed to kinda forget even him

[@allengordon6929]

Turns out the only difference between canon and legends luke is how successful they were.

[@emanuelperez3595]

And one likes weird alien nipple the other doesnt. 🤷🏽‍♂️ Well maybe his sister lmao 😂 for a time hey for a time

[@Beanmachine91]

i want to see videos on cade swkywalker, luke haunts cade from time to time

[@will8476]

this was the story the fans wanted in the last three movies not some thief robbing and perverting the franchise!

[@tunebeat3809]

Won't be suprised if the corrupt executives and their allies are portrayed as vile villains sometime in the near future.

[@jordansebert11]

Disney blows dudes while an arbys commercial is on repeat in the background.

[@AAVVVAAADDAAAKAAADAVRAAA]

This is the pure aspect of with great power comes great responsibility

[@jesusfernandez974]

Great video as always Stupendous wave

[@TheStupendousWave]

Thanks again!

[@morganbalanaser]

Thanks, it seems to me that defending an entire galaxy is too large a task for any one man. That is why I believe Luke should have delegated some responsibilities to other people. Training more Jedi could help with that.

[@emilyg1239]

It's interesting though. I mean, he's ridiculously strong. He defeats abeloth. And though in canon he's not as strong, it's still very true to his character.

[@TheMasterofMasters1]

I Have Mark Hamil's Keyblade Sooooo Am I Really On The Darkside?

[@shoresean1237]

Luke's quest for his mother was halted by a power greater than both sides of the Force: George Lucas, who wanted no discussion of her until the prequels. This novel also mentions 'The Mad Grannies' - women who had stepped forward claiming to be Anakin's long-lost wife.

[@KRUSH6969]

This is probably the most interesting story I've heard about luke

[@MrSheckstr]

Im sorry but i immersed myself in legends canon years before it was called that. Streen was never called grand master because this was before LUKE assumed that title

[@jammar521]

It was all written out for Disney and they absolutely fumbled it.

[@jcoates32]

Big time

[@epicshade3463]

I wish they made a point from this in a series. Actually fleshed it out.

[@dompepz8074]

What a sight to behold, Grandmaster Luke would've been in movies

[@midnightwatchman1]

The test of absolute power, the cure for it is to hold everything lightly. This is much more likely the development path for a character like Luke. than the Jaded Luke

[@marshalllatta2073]

This is so cool love your channel

[@shadowbeast2276]

His fear/concern is understandable Reaching a point of power that he could end up like Anakin. A desire to keep control

[@longlostluggage4604]

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!! I'm getting too much money!!" - Lankey Spindoctor

[@jalalstephens7457]

I miss this Luke

[@robbiekeller1353]

You, there’s hungry people on Korriban, but does Luke use his space ship fuel bringing them food? No, he flys off to his dad’s summer home…

[@dustinberthold962]

Truly I say to you, one of your best videos.

[@brokenbridge6316]

I would've loved to have seen some of this stuff on the big or small screens. Because this is great.

[@alsimmonshellspawn6021]

Nah Disney will ruin it and don't say Dave filoni because he is as bad as Kathleen Kennedy

[@evos469]

This could have been a better trilogy than that crap with Rey

[@HybridRenoII]

*AND THIS IS WHY THIS LUKE IS THE BEST LUKE!!!*

[@NateIsCorrupt]

Love the legends books, I enjoy them more as a sequel

[@Thunderspear85]

Thank so much for sharing this! And the video edit you've used made me think of; could we still get redemption for Luke? : Thru Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni? Getting that in video form would be insanely expensive, BUT this is perfect for animation! Imagine a animation by those two.

[@chewbanger1.]

In legends and or Cann, The galaxy is your own!

[@Dyngfull]

3:45 You really should have a trigger warning if you're using words such a "beach". I hate sand.

[@MichaelDerouse]

The difference between the light and dark sides is how you choose your power not how powerful you are and it's morality, choosing to do what is right.

[@BinnyBongBaron_AoE]

And instead we got Rey "Skywalker". Sad.

[@NijFix]

Daisy Ridney is intolerable. I couldn't watch those movies even if I could forgive the character arcs.

[@pullcounterboxing]

Bruh...😂 Im dead..you made my day.

[@bbfishing9573]

I’ll never disrespect obi wan. But his exile was entirely different for obi wan was never nearly as strong as yoda nor Luke.

[@kadbenson7540]

Id like to hear more about the women who was talking about padme, i think thatd be an awesome video if you ever get around to making it

[@CouncilCape897]

Her name was Akanah Norand Goss Pell. She was a member of the Fallanassi, a religious order devoted to the White Current, which the Jedi knew as the Force. It was mostly an all-female group like the Witches of Dathomir and hardly ever taught men their teachings. With the White Current, the Fallanassi could do amazing things with illusions and a unique ability known as Force immersion (by which a skilled user could render themselves undetectable by any means, organic, or artificial.). But they had no skill with manipulating the physical world through abilities such as telekinesis. They taught that authority was an illusion and that everyone should serve only their own desires.

[@omysadat]

Compare that to: "my nephew scared me away and I left the galaxy fall to the darkside erasing everything the rebelion did"... Thats what happens when people with little talent but good conections win the job.

[@Travis_Hackney]

Legends force use is pretty elaborate and cool 👍🏻

[@Antioxin]

I loved this one❤

[@ginantsfan5]

I can hearer Luke saying, "I have brought, Peace, Justus, Freedom, and Security to my new Empire!!!!" And Then The force ghost of Obi-Won saying, " Your new Empire???"

[@celter.45acp98]

I love disappearing to my dad's house in the mountains too

[@bakabunny788]

you should make a video covering all overpowered Lightsaber Crystal combinations, my personal number one is a Lightsaber with a Ghostfire Crystal and a Lorridian Crystal.

[@darealestwon]

Great, great, great perspective!

[@priestesslucy]

Timing is interesting, I'm getting ready to start reading the Black Fleet Crisis.

[@Juiceboxdan72]

It's a cool concept. Nice video

[@headsupfiction8582]

I always thought coruscant was a city planet with no area uncovered by buildings.

[@savirianwinter1656]

There is a small, but disappearing part of the planet still.

[@alsimmonshellspawn6021]

Disney star wars isn't true star wars

[@dsgdsg9764]

I didn't know this before now this is a great video I respect your work and thank you

[@michaelasbury7121]

At first I thought he was going to the Mustafar castle and I thought "And he DIDN'T go insane?"😂

[@centralscrutinizer6108]

This is why Disney Star Wars is complete and utter garbage from day 1. Everything they have "created" since 2015 has been nothing but one big G.F.Y. to the real fans of this stuff because they would rather cater to a bunch of freaks and weirdos that DO NOT care about SW in the slightest. Nobody cares anymore because all the real fans hate Disney's garbage and then we all tell the normies how terrible it is and then they don't go see it either. What is it with Disney that they don't think the core fanbase is what makes this stuff appealing to the normies?

[@ziggmoe]

Is there a lore video on Luke Skywalker in the works. It would be nice to have a complete video of how OP Luke really was

[@kianamarrie]

4:08 it’s kind of upsetting to know that force users are this powerful, but projecting an illusion of themselves would kill them. I wonder if future force sensitives will be shown as this strong.

[@napkinx4341]

disney canon for me ends before the sequels

[@andrewdilbeck9842]

This is so much better then the Disney canon.

[@alsimmonshellspawn6021]

​@persuasivebarrier2419🤡

[@andrewdilbeck9842]

So you do.🙄🙄🙄

[@MarcosAG90]

Well this is pretty cool. This is similar to those stories where God takes a step back and lets humanity solve its problems on their own. In this case out of fear of the dark side which is the first step towards the dark side 😮

[@mentillist7292]

any recommendations for a chrono reading of the star wars canon?

[@heickelrrx]

It’s his castle, family inheritance 😂

[@weslar7]

Nobody really thinks anything disney made is canon

[@TheCradM]

EMERALD LIGHTING

[@carlosgarza400]

He does have a good point

[@svgwsmsvgwsm]

What is the title of the book you referenced? Also, is this prior to the Yuuzhan Vong invasion in the New Jedi Order series?

[@paragmurthy5411]

Anakin Solo Respect Thread "My mother named me after the man who became Darth Vader. The Emperor touched me through her womb. Every night I had nightmares that ended with me in my grandfather's armor. With all due respect, I think I've probably thought a lot more about the dark side than anyone I know." Anakin Solo is the youngest of the Solo children but arguably the strongest of them all. Named after his grandfather in an attempt for Leia to bury the hatchet on his name, Anakin was the prodigy and the Luke Skywalker" of the new generation of Jedi Knights in the New Jedi Order. He was a hero of nearly every major battle against the Yuuzhan Vong and was able to find a way to sense them not exactly through the Force but through his lambent crystal he used to build his new lightsaber. Anakin unfortunately met his end on Myrkr destroying the Voxyn queen, which would strike a major blow to the Yuuzhan Vong's forces and ability to hunt down and kill other Jedi throughout the war. He was one of the coolest and realest characters introduced and it's unfortunate he died so early on. This thread will be divided into the following categories: Accolades Force Powers Oneness Physical Abilities Lightsaber Combat Skill Accolades Weapons Mastery and Technical Skill Lightsaber and Combat Feats Intelligence Accolades Anakin was the strongest in the Force between him and his siblings, Jacen and Jaina: Born six years after the death of his grandfather Anakin Skywalker, Anakin Solo was the youngest of Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa Solo's three children, and the strongest in the Force. Source: The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia His connection to the Force was much more profound than either of his siblings, Jaina or Jacen: Anakin's connection to the Force seemed primal, much more profound than that of either of his siblings. Source: The New Essential Guide to Characters Anakin was “prodigiously talented” in the Force and gifted as a pilot and mechanic: Anakin Solo inherited much from his grandfather, Anakin Skywalker. Aside from the name, he was also prodigiously talented in the Force, as a pilot, and as a mechanic. Source: Star Wars Databank (Old) Vima-Da-Boda senses that Anakin will be a great Jedi: "She carries great Jedi in her womb . . . Vima not worthy to serve great Jedi." - Dark Empire II Issue #02 Even as a newborn, Anakin was "powerfully strong" in the Force: Attempting to find an answer, Palpatine journeyed to the Sith tomb world of Korriban, where the spirits of fallen dark lords informed him that he needed to find a Jedi body. They told him where to locate the newborn Anakin Solo, a child powerfully strong in the Force. Source: The New Essential Chronology Despite the pressure of being named after his grandfather, Anakin rose through the ranks to become one of the greatest Knights in the New Jedi Order: Named for his grandfather, Anakin Solo constantly struggled to live up to-and live down-the legacy of Anakin Skywalker. The pressures of his heritage drove him to become one of the greatest Knights of the new Jedi Order. Source: The New Essential Guide to Characters Luke Skywalker knew that Anakin Solo would be a powerful Jedi: Luke Skywalker closed his eyes. He knew in his heart that Anakin Solo was meant to be a powerful Jedi. He would serve the light side of the Force well, once he understood completely that Darth Vader's choices had nothing to do with his own. Source: Junior Jedi Knights: The Golden Globe Anakin was once a "promising student" at the Jedi Praxeum: In The New Jedi Order era, Luke Skywalker has trained about one hundred Jedi and identified perhaps others to start training. Prominent Force-users such as Mara Jade Skywalker and Corran Horn help Skywalker train and coordinate the efforts of these Jedi, while promising students such as the Solo children and Ganner Rhysode show great promise for the future. Source: Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Revised Core Rulebook Anakin and his siblings all had a "strong talent" in the Force: Organa Solo's three children, the twins Jacen and Jaina and her younger son Anakin, all had a strong talent in the Force. The three youths spent much time at the Jedi academy. Source: The New Essential Chronology Anakin and his siblings are named as some of the notables to come out of Luke’s Jedi Praxeum which saw to the training of around 100 Jedi at the time of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion: Even after the Emperor’s defeat, Luke Skywalker’s journey-and the story of the New Jedi Order-was just beginning. Seven years after the Battle of Endor, Luke founded the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin IV in an effort to rebuild the ranks of the Jedi. The Praxeum was, at one time or another, home to many notables such as Kyp Durron, Corran Horn, Mara Jade, and the Solo children Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin. Source: Star Wars Miniatures Preview 10, Luke Skywalker Anakin and his siblings are all called "promising students" and due to the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, passed tests that would have daunted even Jedi Knights of the Old Republic: Before these promising students were truly Jedi Knights, however, their training was disrupted by the devastating invasion of the alien Yuuzhan Vong. When they helped the New Republic’s fighting retreat, Jaina’s and Jacen’s younger brother, Anakin Solo, joined them. The young heroes proved their courage and resolve, passing tests that would have daunted even the Jedi Knights of the Old Republic. Just as Luke had faced his father, the new generation of students had to face the Yuuzhan Vong before they could truly become Jedi. Source: The Power of the Jedi Sourcebook Anakin and his siblings, due to the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, passed tests that would have daunted even Jedi Knights of the Old Republic: Before these promising students were truly Jedi Knights, however, their training was disrupted by the devastating invasion of the alien Yuuzhan Vong. When they helped the New Republic’s fighting retreat, Jaina’s and Jacen’s younger brother, Anakin Solo, joined them. The young heroes proved their courage and resolve, passing tests that would have daunted even the Jedi Knights of the Old Republic. Just as Luke had faced his father, the new generation of students had to face the Yuuzhan Vong before they could truly become Jedi. Source: The Power of the Jedi Sourcebook Kyp Durron’s Dozen-and-Two Avengers would have been “all but unstoppable” and could become the "greatest squadron in the galaxy", according to Kyp, with Anakin and his siblings flying with them: After seeing Anakin’s, Jacen’s, and particularly Jaina Solo’s flight times on Lando Calrissian’s asteroid course at Dubrillion, Kyp tried to recruit the three young Jedi to his squadron. The “Dozen-and-Five Avengers” would have been all but unstoppable, but the Solos ultimately declined. Source: The New Jedi Order Sourcebook If the three Solos joined the Avengers-the Dozen-and-Five, he supposed-the squadron would soon be thought of in elite terms, and their missions would become more important, more dangerous, and more profitable in terms of the gain to the cause of law and the New Republic. The Dozen-and-Five-a dozen regulars and five Jedi-could well become the greatest squadron in the galaxy. Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime Anakin proved himself worthy of a Jedi Knight "beyond anyone's questioning" for his actions against the Yuuzhan Vong on Sernpidal and Dubrillion: With their efforts against the aliens, Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin had proven themselves worthy of the title of Jedi Knight by now, beyond anyone's questioning. Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime Elegos Ak'la says that Anakin must be very strong in the Force to have helped Mara Jade evade Yuuzhan Vong warriors through mountainous terrain for three days in rainy weather: "Your son must be very strong in the Force to have done what he did." Source: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide I: Onslaught Mara Jade Skywalker states that if Anakin had the strength to resist the dark side, he would become the strongest Jedi of his generation: She'd seen Luke's memories, his deepest regrets and his most secret griefs. She knew how closely the dark had pursued him. As it would chase Anakin, who was raised by an exsmuggler who loved to bend rules, a loving but often absent mother, her talented aide, and a protocol droid-and at the Jedi academy, in the shadow of two siblings. If Anakin didn't fall to the dark side, then having resisted temptation could leave him even stronger-maybe the most powerful Jedi of his generation. Source: The New Jedi Order - Balance Point Anakin has few peers when it comes to raw Force talent: When it comes to confidence, courage, and raw Force talent, Anakin has few peers. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Publisher Summary

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Luke Skywalker tells Mara Jade Skywalker that not every kid is a "Jedi adept" or "as strong in the Force" as Anakin is: "Yes. But most children aren't Jedi adepts. Most children aren't as strong in the Force as Anakin, or as inclined to use it." Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Anakin was seen by some as the heir apparent to become the next head of the Jedi Order, and had an almost unconscious connection to the Force: Youngest of the Solo children, Anakin Solo was-in the eyes of some-Luke Skywalker's heir apparent to become the next head of the New Jedi Order. Anakin's birth came in the comic book series Dark Empire II, and in the years since he emerged as a confident young man with a deep, almost unconscious connection to the Force. Source: Star Wars Insider 57, Whose Who in the New Jedi Order Anakin Solo had been widely considered the logical choice to succeed Luke Skywalker as head of the Jedi order. Source: The New Essential Chronology During the Yuuzhan Vong war, there were rumors going around the Jedi Order that Anakin was the next Luke Skywalker: "You may not know it, but all of the younger Jedi and a lot of the older ones look up to you. The buzz is you're the next Luke Skywalker." Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory II: Rebirth In fact, the story group had actually planned to make Anakin the hero of the Yuuzhan Vong war and leader of the Jedi, intending it to be a nice contrast to Anakin Skywalker rising and falling two generations earlier. This idea was nixed though to prevent any confusion between the two characters, as the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy was coming out as the New Jedi Order books were being written: Anakin was supposed to be the series' hero and Luke's successor as leader of the Jedi. That would have been a nice counterpoint to Anakin Skywalker's rise and fall two generations before, but the plan was rejected. Among other things, Lucasfilm worried that it would be confusing to have the adventures of two different Anakin's unfold at the same time. The result: Jacen and Anakin essentially switched roles. -Star Wars Insider 74 Many people believed Anakin would take Luke Skywalker’s place as the most powerful Jedi: Anakin's bold stance and daring nature made him into a popular figure among the Jedi and New Republic. Many privately whispered that he would someday take Luke Skywalker's place as the most powerful Jedi. Source: Star Wars Databank (Old) Corran Horn tells Anakin that a lot of the other Jedi wouldn't be able to get themselves out of the scrapes he puts himself into because they don't have his power or talent: "They're starting to emulate you. Tahiri, back on Eriadu and on Yavin Four-classic Anakin. On Yavin Four, Sannah and my son, Valin, were trying to be like you when they pulled their foolish stunt. All the candidates want to be like you, but the fact is, most of them can't. They don't have the raw strength or the talent to pull themselves out of the kind of scrapes you get into." Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory II: Rebirth Anakin is considered a war hero and leader to other Jedi, both around his age and often times older: Though Anakin was a war hero and leader to everyone else . . . Source: The New Jedi Order - Star by Star Han and Leia's youngest son emerges as a leader of the Jedi, in touch with the Force as few Jedi have ever been before. - Star Wars Insider 74 Anakin was the most powerful Jedi in his Jedi Academy group, which included Zekk, Lowbacca, Ulaha Kore, Tenel Ka, Raynar Thul, Tesar Sebatyne, Bela and Krasov Hara, Tahiri Veila, and even his older sister, Jaina: Being the group's most powerful in the Force, Anakin reached out, stretching his awareness just shy of the population concentration around Froz. Source: The New Jedi Order - Star by Star Arguably his best accolade, Anakin reaches out to alert the pilot of an unidentified X-Wing of who he was, and in return felt that the presence was almost as strong as his own, which was the powerful Kyp Durron: He reached out with the Force to identify himself, and felt a presence almost as strong as his own in return. "Request you break off," he said. "You'll cause some trouble for us-for all of us." "Trouble, yes," the familiar voice of Kyp Durron replied, "but not for us." Source: The New Jedi Order - Star by Star Anakin at 17 years old had seen more combat and spilled more blood than Han Solo did in the Rebellion: At seventeen, Anakin was as much a man as Han had been at thirty, had probably seen as much combat and spilled more blood than Han had in the Rebellion. And he was still so young. Source: The New Jedi Order - Star by Star Force Powers Telekinesis Telekinesis is a common Force ability that affords the user the ability to alter and distort the environment and reality around them. Anakin lifts huge pieces of rubble to clear the way for Chewie to return to the Falcon: Anakin studied the pile and the Wookie's progress. He heard the Falcon's engines humming as the ship hovered over the wall behind him, and for a moment, he thought of instructing his father to vaporize that rubble pile with the laser cannons, as Chewie was trying to do with his bowcaster. He shook the improbable plan away and utilized a different power source, an inner source, instead, reaching out mentally to the rubble, using the Force to lift it away, huge piece by huge piece. Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime Anakin was able to pull himself and Chewbacca along with the Force despite winds raging around them strong enough to make Anakin's scream almost completely unheard: Chewie fought powerfully against the wind, making some progress, and then Anakin was beside him, practically floating off the ground, pulling him along with the strength of the Force. Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime Anakin used the Force to unload Mara's ship and set up their supplies and camp, which was half a kilometer away and in a canyon: Anakin Solo looked around the Dantooine camp site and slowly nodded. He stood there with his back to the dying sun, watching his shadow stretch out before him. He planted his hands firmly on his hips and felt pleased with his effort. He'd hauled all their equipment up from the Jade Sabre while Mara rested after bringing the ship down in a narrow mountain canyon. [...] He'd set up their tents, orienting Mara's larger one on a north-south axis that would make sure that the dawning sun would warm it, as would the setting sun. His own smaller tent he set up across the clearing from hers. [...] He took one last look at the campsite and frowned. Back beyond his tent he'd stacked the various equipment crates and cases. He'd lined them all up straight, but one had slipped out of alignment. Anakin reached out with the Force and nudged it back into place, then smiled. [...] Anakin's mouth gaped open. "Um, I guess so. I mean, the ship is half a kilometer back in that canyon, and hauling the stuff up here-" "Would have been hard work." Mara's steady gaze bored into him. Source: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide I: Onslaught Anakin feels the Force flowing through him like never before on Dantooine and throws a 500 kilogram stone at a Yuuzhan Vong warrior with only a fraction of the power he was feeling, crushing the warrior underneath: He took a deep breath, opened himself to the Force, and felt it flood through him in a way it never had before. It was water to a being dying of thirst; it was sunshine after days of rain; it was warmth after bitter cold. It was all that and more. Anakin touched the stone behind which he crouched, and nudged it with a fraction of the Force flowing through him. The five-hundred-kilogram stone ripped itself free of the ground and hurled itself at the Yuuzhan Vong. Dirt flew off it in clumps as it spun through the air. It hit the ground again, five meters from its targets, then bounced up and caught the staff wielder in his flank. A crunching, crackling sound came from beneath the stone, then the Yuuzhan Vong's arms and legs beat out a furious but slackening death tattoo. Source: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide I: Onslaught With a flick of his hand, Anakin sends a Yuuzhan Vong foot soldier flying: Anakin dispatched them with quick thrusts to the backs of their necks, then flicked his left hand in Jacen's direction. Beyond Jacen a trooper flew back, as if he'd been hit in the chest with a metric ton of transparisteel. Source: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide I: Onslaught Anakin uses the Force to hold a person to their chair so as to stop them from jumping out during turbulence. He does this so easily, the man doesn't even notice the Force is acting on him: Another jolt shook the ship, and Chalco came half up out of the chair. Luke gathered the Force to settle him back down, but discovered Anakin had already managed it. And he did it so gently that I doubt Chalco knows he's been helped. Source: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide II: Ruin Anakin used the Force to lift and ignite Daeshara'cor's lightsaber from the floor to prevent a Yuuzhan Vong warrior from killing her: The Yuuzhan Vong advanced almost casually. He spun his amphistaff as he came. He reached Daeshara'cor's feet and she moaned. He flicked a glance in her direction and slashed his amphistaff at her throat. In a heartbeat Anakin realized that a true Jedi wasn't concerned with what he could do to the enemy, but what evil he could prevent the enemy from inflicting. Using the Force, he brought Daeshara'cor's lightsaber up enough that it deflected the amphistaff strike. The Yuuzhan Vong weapon buried itself in the balustrade, splitting tile with a thunder crack. Source: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide II: Ruin

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Anakin muses that he can collapse a walkway under a Yuuzhan Vong warrior, or tear the tiles up and use them to pelt him to death: Anakin rose to his feet, fury racing through him. He summoned the Force to himself, feeling it surge. He couldn't feel the Yuuzhan Vong through it, but he could easily use it to collapse the walkway beneath his enemy or shatter tiles into a jagged hail that would flense the Yuuzhan Vong alive. Source: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide II: Ruin Luke Skywalker tells Mara Jade Skywalker that Anakin once killed a giant snake by stopping its heart with the Force when he was just a boy: "Did you know when he was a boy, he once killed a giant snake by stopping its heart with the Force?" Mara blinked. "No." "Yes. He was defending himself and his friends." Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Anakin uses a Force push to send a women flying into her companions, which should have at least been half a dozen: "They can't get all of us," a woman in front said. She had a seamed brown face and dark eyes. "Of course we can," Anakin said. "All of us?" She smirked. From behind her came the sound of what could only be reinforcements. Anakin hit the woman, hard, with a telekinetic shove that took all of her companions down, too. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Anakin uses the Force to slow Tahiri Veila's fall down a turbolift shaft and at the same time sends grenades back up the shaft and out the door they were dropped from: They fell in a short acrobatic dance, Anakin using the Force to slow Tahiri's fall and she slowing his as they spun around a common fulcrum somewhere between them, like two children clasping hands and leaning back, turning around on their feet. If either let go, the other would go whirling off, out of control. An old game, one they had invented long ago. He noticed something was falling with them-a pair of glop grenades. He sent them humming back up the shaft and out of the hole he had cut. The two young Jedi touched down, feather light, on top of the turbolift. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest After cutting the supports for the same turbolift, Anakin would hold it in place with the Force easily enough so that Tahiri didn't even notice: As bolts rained down and Tahiri deflected them, Anakin cut the fail-safe magnetic bolts that had locked the turbolift in place. He flicked off the lightsaber. "Cut your lightsaber, now!" "But-" "Quick!" She did, flattening against the lift walls as blasterfire poured through the hole above them. Another grenade plinked against the lift floor. "There. Throw that back at them," Anakin said. The grenade whizzed back up the hole. "Why didn't you do it?" Tahiri asked. "Because I'm holding the lift car up." Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest After falling from the treetops and having his makeshift speeder hit tree branches on the way down, Anakin uses the Force to flip it back over: He turned the lift control down two-thirds and dropped through what felt like a small in the treetops. A branch caught under one corner of the speeder and flipped it over, and with no gyro to correct, Anakin found himself hurling toward the ground. Desperately, he wrenched at the craft with the Force, flipping it back over with a very raw, unsubtle use of strength, exactly the kind of thing his brother was always berating him for. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Anakin throws a tree at a Yuuzhan Vong warrior after sensing him through the Force in a heightened state. The tree was described as "half a metric ton": But for the moment he wasn't doing much thinking. He knew before he should have that the first Yuuzhan Vong he came across on foot was there. The warrior sprang from behind a tree, long, snakelike amphistaff held in a guard position. He was missing two fingers at the knuckle, and his ear had been cut into fringe. He wore the usual vonduun crab armor and an expression of gratification. Anakin snapped a heavy tree bough, already rotten and fatigued, and yanked it with more than the force of gravity down upon the warrior. The Yuuzhan Vong was quick and nearly dodged, but nearly wasn't enough as half a metric ton of tree crushed him into the ground. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Anakin lifts up everything that is not held down in a ten meter radius around him, creates a cyclone from the items he lifted, and uses them to destroy a Yuuzhan Vong flier: Anakin didn't hesitate; he knew what he wanted to do. He reached in a ten-meter radius and lifted everything that wasn't fastened down-leaf litter, twigs, stones-and hurled them in a cyclone at the intake slits on the side of the flier. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Anakin uses the Force to unlock his stun cuffs so stealthily that the Police Officer interrogating him didn't notice: Unknown to the officer, he'd already unlocked his stun cuffs using the Force; now he shucked them from his wrists. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory II: Rebirth Anakin uses the Force to send his lightsaber flying from a security officer's grasp into the room's power grid to plunge the room into darkness: The fellow holding Anakin's lightsaber made a clumsy jab at the other judicial, who replied with an equally inept circular parry. Anakin took the opportunity to use the Force to wrench his weapon from the officer's hands-it looked as if the parry had disarmed him. The lightsaber flew high in the air, sending everyone in its possible trajectory scurrying away. It struck the argon arc fixture in the ceiling, then continued on to strike the power grid node on the other side of the room. The room plunged into darkness, save for the two lightsabers, both of which suddenly vanished. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory II: Rebirth Anakin uses the Force to pull Duman Yaght's coufee away from Ganner Rhysode's throat and keeps it that way until the Vong commander ditches the weapon in anger: Anakin reached out with the Force and used it to push the coufee away from Ganner's neck. Eyes growing wide, Duman Yaght struggled for a moment to bring the blade back to his captive's throat, then snarled something in his own language and let it fly from his grasp.

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Source: The New Jedi Order - Star by Star Anakin reaches out and grabs the escape pod he's in as it approaches the moon above Myrkr, slowing it down to a speed that would allow it to survive the crash and pinned to the floor: According to calculations, at least, they were now only a thousand meters above the surface of the worldship. Anakin caught their vessel with the invisible hand of the Force, cushioning their descent just enough so that the deceleration kept them pinned to the floor. The war droids had calculated that a deceleration of approximately one and a half standard gravities would not be overly noticeable, yet the resulting landing would be 99 percent survivable. Anakin remained silent through the descent, wishing that he could see the surface, or feel the nonexistent atmosphere buffeting them, or anything. After a few more seconds, he decided that they had to be almost down and began to slow their descent still further-and then the bone-jarring shock of impact slammed everyone to the floor. They went weightless as the capsule bounced, then came down on their side and rolled more times than Anakin could count before coming to a rest in a jumbled tangle. Source: The New Jedi Order - Star by Star Anakin plucks Jacen Solo off the floor with the Force to save him from blorash jelly and drops him down in a near by alley: All five were large men with swarthy faces and blank expressions, men so similar they could have been clones. Four reached for their belts. The fifth tossed a thumb-sized capsule at Jacen's feet, and a thin coat of greenish gel spread across the street. "Blorash jelly!" Anakin burned a blaster hole through the jelly thrower's throat, then used the Force to pluck his brother off the ground. "Watch the crowd!" A dozen lightsabers came to life and formed a dancing cage of light around the rear half of the strike team. Anakin put Jacen down in the alley mouth. Source: The New Jedi Order - Star by Star Telepathy/Mind Trick Telepathy is the power to sense, communicate and manipulate the thoughts of others. Anakin telepathically called out to Jaina and Jacen to initiate the Battle-meld: Hear me, came the youngest Solo's telepathic call to his siblings. Join with me. "Anakin?" came Jacen's conventional reply. Jaina didn't reply, and Anakin sensed that she had already accepted his call. Three as one, the young Jedi telepathically imparted. Let go. Lend me your eyes. It happened in a matter of seconds, the three young Solos finding communion, a telepathic joining and bond. Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime After blindly jumping to lightspeed after veering off from an asteroid belt, Anakin sent a call out through the Force to his family and was heard by Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa: Anakin leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes. He sent his thoughts out, seeking some connection with Jaina and Jacen, trying to defeat the thousands of kilometers between them, to feel them, to know that they were still alive and okay. [...] Leia grabbed that hand suddenly, lifting it from the controls before Han could lock anything in. He looked over at her, at the vacant expression on her still-beautiful face. "What?" he asked. "I hear him," she replied, and as she finished, as the truth of her own words came clear to her, her lips curled up into an inevitable smile. [...] Luke stood calmly and stared long and hard, becoming one with the galaxy about him, feeling its rhythms, its timelessness, its seeming indifference to the events of transient mortal beings. And in that joining, Luke heard a call, and that call, he knew, came from his nephew, from Anakin, alive and alone and reaching out. Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime Anakin "suggests" to citizens surrounding the Millennium Falcon that it would be better to leave, in which they do: And Anakin's method was different still, the boy walking calmly among the looters, "suggesting" to them casually that they would be better off leaving. The inflection of his words, his use of the Force, made him many friends that day, friends who were glad to take his advice. Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime Anakin places an image in Tuber's mind of a new home to where he should move: Anakin knew what he had to do. He concentrated and gathered the Force to himself, then projected into Tuber's mind the image of a mountain valley with long grasses and vincha plants by the dozens. It would be a place of easy living, a paradise for the Dantari. And, even though Anakin thought he was constructing this place in his mind-creating an illusion to fool Tuber-part of him knew the place was very real, and that he was seeing it as it appeared right that moment. Anakin took quick stock of the sun's position in the image, the length of shadows, the position of Dantooine's larger moon, then pointed off to the northwest. "Go, there, in that direction. That will be your new home. Follow the coast and you will find it." Source: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide I: Onslaught Anakin knows how to put people to sleep with the Force, as he follows Luke Skywalker's lead in putting down two Duros: "Take the near one," Luke murmured. Gently, almost tenderly, Luke pushed the farther guard down into a deep sleep. The Duros sagged against the synthplas-mosaic wall. The other guard followed him down. "Good," he told Anakin. Source: The New Jedi Order - Balance Point Anakin uses a technique that makes a Peace Brigade member see him and Tahiri Veila as shadow and planetlight: Anakin peered more closely at the ship and then began sneaking across the clearing. A guard several hundred meters away glanced in their direction, but it took only a faint suggestion to turn Anakin and Tahiri into shadow and planetlight. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Force Augmentation Force Augmentation is a Force technique where a Force user increases his physical abilities with the aid of the Force, making their aim more true or enhancing certain physical moves. Anakin uses the Force to propel him in an acrobatic somersault, landing onto a large platform between a pair of guards: Anakin reached the platform, set both hands on its edge, and vaulted into a Force-boosted somersault. He came down between Ducilla's bodyguards, who reached for their blasters. Source: The New Jedi Order - Balance Point Anakin uses the Force to help him aim and disarm Peach Brigade members that were attacking the Great Temple on Yavin IV: "Got you," Anakin said, leaning around the door frame. Aiming carefully, using the Force, he blew a blaster rifle out of a hooded man's hands. He continued that way for about twenty minutes, picking his shots carefully. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Anakin enhances his jumps with the Force: He loped down the hill in a series of long, flat, Force-aided leaps. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Anakin can use the Force to augment his voice: "Quiet." Anakin waited a moment, then tried again, and when that failed, shouted, "Shut up! That's an order!" His rudeness, and the Force he used to augment his voice, finally got through to the others. Source: The New Jedi Order - Star by Star Anakin somersaults over a group of Yuuzhan Vong: He pushed Tahiri at Ganner and the Barabels and ordered them to secure the alley entrance, then sprang into the air and called on the Force to carry himself over the charging Yuuzhan Vong. Source: The New Jedi Order - Star by Star Force Heal Force Healing is a light-sided Force technique that can heal wounds and ease pains. Anakin induces wakefulness in Sannah and strengthens her where she is weak: "Is she going to be alright?" Valin asked, staring down at Sannah. "I think so." Anakin touched the Melodie girl's forehead and very lightly brushed her with the Force, strengthening her where she was weak, gently tugging her toward consciousness. With a faint sigh she opened her eyes, blinked at Anakin, then started violently. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest After days of running and evading Yuuzhan Vong patrols on Yavin IV while receiving injuries along the way, Anakin used Jedi healing and meditation techniques to drain his weariness: Anakin was feeling considerably better today. Jedi healing and relaxation techniques had drained much of his weariness . . . Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Anakin uses his training the shunt his pain aside and make sure he could stand after being stabbed by an amphistaff spear: Anakin gathered the Force to him and charged, somersaulting into the air as he had a few moments before. Zekk's opponents broke off, stepping back to hurl their amphistaffs like spears. Anakin batted one aside-then felt a hot pain in his abdomen when the second pierced his jumpsuit's armored lining. As he finished his tumble, the shaft swung away, the head pivoting inside his abdomen. He heard himself scream, then he was coming down, landing on his feet and hammering the butt into the ground. Cold anguish filled his belly. His knees tried to buckle, but he would not let them-could not let them. "Anakin!" Guided by her screaming voice, Anakin flung a handful of arsensalts in Jaina's direction, used the Force to carry them to the jelly. Then he grabbed the amphistaff and jerked it from his body. The agony was crushing. Anakin shunted it aside, used his Jedi training to prevent his suffering from crippling him. He was injured, but not mortally so. Source: The New Jedi Order - Star by Star

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Farsight Force Visions were rare, uncontrollable aspects of the Force that allowed a person to see potential future events. While in a dream, Anakin had a vision of an older Tahiri Veila after the Yuuzhan Vong shapers worked on her, implanting her with Vong memories and trying to make her a Vong Jedi: Soft laughter began, familiar yet strange; the pitch and timbre were wrong, but the cadence was as known to him as his father's speech. A woman's laughter, throaty and sardonic. It made the hair on his neck prickle up. He turned and saw her. Her hair was gold, the gold of a vein in a sunset on Coruscant or of the sudden spark from an inferno. One of her eyes was jade and the other obsidian. Her lips were fringed by a hundred incisions, and a white scar ran from the top of her forehead to her chin. Armor of a black-and-gray-branded chitinous substance fit close to her body, a very adult, very human body, though the armor was plated and jointed like an insect's. Knobs and spurs stuck out from her shoulders and elbows. She smiled at him through those split lips and held up something baton-shaped, which flexed in her grip like a sluggish pupa. Sudden light blazed from one end of it and resolved into a blazing blue blade. Dark-side energy crackled around her, calling to him, and he felt a sudden terrible attraction to her, every part of him yearning for her in a way he had never even begun to feel before. She grinned more widely and laughed again, and with sudden understanding Anakin realized that she wasn't looking at him at all, but at someone else in the vision, someone Anakin couldn't see. "The last of your kind," the woman said, her voice made whispery by what had been done to her mouth. "The last of my kind." And she raised the blade, and Anakin recognized her. "Tahiri!" he shrieked. She paused, as if she might have heard something very far away. Then she came forward, sweeping the weapon down, and Anakin choked on the look in her eye, the mixture of glee and despair, joy and sickness. He awoke still choking. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Beast Control/Animal Friendship Beast Control, Beast Trick, or Animal Friendship is an ability that allows Force users to control beasts and animals. Anakin uses the Force to manipulate piranha-beetles into attacking his Yuuzhan Vong captors: His legs threatened to buckle again. The Yuuzhan Vong was advancing, weapon trained on him. All around him, Anakin could hear more enemies rushing toward him. Oddly enough, he still didn't feel frightened or angry. He didn't feel much of anything, except the Force. And a familiar presence, something not too far away. Not one presence, really, but one that was legion. "Two can play that game," Anakin whispered. [...] "Will you fight me, Sinan Mat? Just you and me?" "That is my desire. It cannot be. I am to bring you living to the shapers." "I'm sorry to hear that. And . . . well, I'd feel worse about this if you hadn't shot me in the back, but . . . forgive me." Mat frowned and touched his ear. "The tizowyrm doesn't know that word, forgive. What-" Then his eyes widened. The forest was screaming a song of death. The piranha-beetles fell upon the Yuuzhan Vong in a cloud. Sinan Mat dropped his weapon and clawed at his face as it disintegrated beneath the fierce mandibles. The piranha-beetles didn't spare the other Yuuzhan Vong, either, and a chorus of pain and rage rose counterpoint to the strident song of the insects. Anakin picked up his staff and hobbled away, knowing his legs wouldn't carry him much farther. He needed to find a place to hide. Ten minutes later, he leaned heavily against a tree. In the distance the ravenous piranha-beetles had finished their task, and now, finally, Anakin felt his control of the Force slipping. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Tutaminis Absorption, or Tutaminis, or Negate/Absorb/Dissipate Energy, is a Force ability enabling one to absorb various forms of energy and channel it for personal use. After using phosphorous flares to light fires to burn Yuuzhan Vong capture nets that were holding hundreds of trees together and preventing Anakin and Vua Rapuung from getting any closer to the Vong shaper huts, Anakin uses the Force to leach the fire's heat from around himself and Rapuung for an unspecified amount of time. He performed this feat after already inhaling fumes and having his breath "felt like broken shards in his lungs" and after he used the Force to create a tube from his position on the ground to one higher than the smoke in the air. This effect allowed him to breathe cleaner air for a second but caused the underbrush near them to explode: "Then perhaps the gods have spoken after all," Rapuung said. He coughed violently on the smoke, which was becoming so thick that Anakin was seeing spots in front of his eyes. He remembered most people who died in a fire were dead before the flames ever reached them. "Keep low," he said. "The smoke rises." "Low. Crawling like a tso'asu." "If you want to live, yes." "I do not fear death," Rapuung choked out. "But my revenge will not be thwarted. I . . ." He convulsed in another series of racking coughs, fell, climbed back to all fours, and collapsed again. "Get up!" Anakin exhorted him. Rapuung quivered but did not move. Through the smoke, the yellow teeth of the fire appeared, chewing toward them. Everything went pale gold as Anakin dropped to his knees next to Vua Rapuung. His breath felt like broken shards in his lungs, and his head rang like an alarm. He lay flat, trying to find sweeter, cooler air, but if it was there, it was traveling in disguise. If he was going to find something he could breath, it would be somewhere above him. Sure, it would be smoky up there, too, but it was worth a shot. Anakin reached up and pulled, creating a tube that sucked higher air straight down on him and the Yuuzhan Vong. His breathing eased immediately. The fire liked it, too. The underbrush exploded like a bomb. Anakin felt the heat briefly, heat he knew would blacken and crack his flesh in seconds. He had not tried to alter energy before, but Corran Horn could do it. Their lives depended on his success. Anakin opened himself again to the Force, focused his efforts, and leached the fire's heat from a radius around them both. How long he kept this up, Anakin did not know. He slipped into a sort of fugue state, each breath pulling life from the sky, each exhalation bleeding heat into the crust of Yavin 4. But eventually he blinked and realized it was over, that the fire had burned past him and he knelt in ashes. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Force Sense/Empathy Force Sense is a basic power allowing Force sensitives to sense their surroundings, feel and determine the thoughts or feelings of others, feel ripples in the Force signifying important events, the presence of the dark side, or even sense the future, while Empathy is the power to sense, communicate, and manipulate emotions. Anakin senses Lyric's torment when trying to relive a scary memory: "Is it that you can't remember, or that the memory is too frightening? " Anakin said gently. "That's what this exercise is about. We'll help you remember. Please try -- it's important." Lyric closed her eyes and didn't reply. Anakin could sense her torment. Source: Junior Jedi Knights: Lyric's World Anakin senses Lyric's apprehension and fear as they fly to Yavin 8: Since they'd left the academy, she hadn't spoken. And, while Anakin knew that she was relieved to have him and Tahiri with her, he could also sense her apprehension and fear. Source: Junior Jedi Knights: Lyric's World Anakin senses a group of predators before he sees them, from their hunger and aggression: Then he raced to the tunnel behind two Melodies. They tore through the dark passageways. Anakin felt the raiths before he saw them. He sensed their hunger, their frenzied aggression. The group rounded a corner, rocks poised. Before them was a large cavern stacked with pure white eggs. And in its center were three enormous black rodents, their thick, hairless, green tails lashing madly as they faced the two young female Melodies who stood between them and the eggs. Source: Junior Jedi Knights: Lyric's World Anakin tells Sannah that he and Tahiri Veila were able to defeat three raiths by sensing their anger the second before they would strike and acting accordingly: "It's an energy field generated by all living things. It surrounds everything, and binds the galaxy together. At the Jedi academy we learn to feel that field, to control, sense, and alter it. The skills we develop also help us to sense emotions. Tahiri and I used our abilities to feel the raiths' anger, to sense their movements at the split second before they made them. By doing that, we could anticipate where they would strike." Source: Junior Jedi Knights: Lyric's World Anakin senses Sannah's anger: Anakin stared into the girl's yellow eyes. It was clear that she desperately wanted to be of help. But he also sensed her anger. Sannah had obviously lost many she loved to the predators on her planet. Source: Junior Jedi Knights: Lyric's World Anakin senses the fear of the populace on Sernpidal, as well as the fact that they are hopeful: Han considered the words for a moment, then glanced at the old man, and back at Anakin. "What are you sensing?" he asked. Anakin's eyes opened wide; he was obviously surprised that his father was asking him anything about the Force. Han was as Force-blind as Anakin was sensitive to it, after all, and rarely had he ever asked for any Force-related insights to any events, usually trusting his own instincts and luck instead.

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Anakin closed his eyes for a long while. "Fear," he said at length. "Oh, there's a lot of that," the old man said. "Why wouldn't there be?" "But something else," Anakin started. He looked hard at his father. "It's more than fear," he decided. "Especially with the ones like that." He pointed to a group of locals rushing past on the opposite side of the avenue, their red-striped white robes flapping behind them in the dusty breeze. "It's almost . . ." "Religious?" the old man asked, again with a wheezing chuckle. "Yes," Anakin answered even as Han scowled at the old man. "Spiritual. They're afraid and full of hope all at once." Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime Anakin helps find stowaways on board the Millennium Falcon: It took the three more than half an hour to clear the area, and another half an hour, with Anakin and his sensitivities guiding them, to clear the hidden stowaways out of the Falcon. Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime Anakin senses the death of thousands in a mountain village: At the reminder, Han brought the Falcon out of its descent and zipped away to the south, toward the nearest seacoast. Nestled in a valley on the back side of the mountain range south of Sernpidal City was a large village, a settlement of several thousand. Anakin groaned as the Falcon climbed past the initial peaks. Han didn't even have to ask why. The boy was extremely sensitive to disturbances in the Force-he had just felt the death of the mountain village. Sure enough, as the Falcon crested the last peaks, they saw the disaster, the rushing sea swarming into the valley, washing away homes, trees, everything, with such sudden, violent force that before they even dipped lower they knew that everyone in the valley was already dead. Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime Anakin extends himself, sensing the sensations of the man riding the speeder with him, the fear of the animals near him, and then senses the yammosk trying to pull Sernpidal's moon into the planet: He slowed the landspeeder and closed his eyes, feeling the sensations about him, feeling the calm of the old man, the unrest of the planet as it was pulled and twisted by the swiftly passing low moon, the fear of the creatures, reasoning and animal, a palpable terror that the young Jedi could almost taste in his mouth. Anakin looked deeper, deeper. Anything exerting the kind of power necessary to grab on to a moon could not be invisible to the Force. The moon, now enormous, crested the horizon, rolling up into the sky. The wind roared; the ground swelled and rolled. And Anakin felt the tug, not on him, not on anything except for that moon. He opened his eyes, though he kept his mind in that other sensibility, and there before him, he clearly "saw" the tractor beam. Source: The New Jedi Order - Vector Prime Anakin senses Tuber's pain (a native Dantari) from 500 meters away when Yuuzhan Vong warriors torture him: It struck him as odd that Tuber had not yet appeared, so he headed down the trail to the Dantari encampment. He was still a good five hundred meters off when a spike of pain reached him through the Force. He thought immediately of Mara, but it didn't have the feel he would have expected from her. He next thought of Tuber, then caught an undercurrent of fear rolling out from the Dantari camp. [...] He worked his way in toward the camp, and twenty meters away he paused in the shadow of a rock. Looking past the boulder, he saw Tuber on his knees, bleeding from cuts over one eye and across his chest. The Imperial crest there had been taken off in strips. It looked as if his captors had decided to flay him. The Dantari's hands had been bound behind his back. The other Dantari likewise were on their knees, all looking drawn and terribly frightened. Source: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide I: Onslaught Throughout the years on Yavin IV, Anakin would sense elements, crystals, cyclones, and the like all the way on the main gas giant: While the sensors did their job, Anakin reached out with the sense he trusted most----the Force. The planet Yavin filled most of his view, its vast orange oceans of gas boiling into fractal, elusive patterns. Its familiar face had marked the days and nights of much of his childhood. The praxeum-his uncle Luke's Jedi academy-was located on Yavin 4, a moon of the gas giant. He could remember watching Yavin in the night sky, a colossal mirage of a planet, wondering what could be there, pushing his evolving Force senses to explore it. He'd found clouds of methane and ammonia deeper than oceans, hydrogen so stressed by pressure it became metal, life crushed thinner than paper but still thriving, cyclones heavier than lead but faster than the winds of any world habitable by humans. And crystals, sparkling Corusca gems climbing those titan winds, spinning in an ancient dance, capturing what light they could find in the thinner upper atmosphere and gripping it tight in their molecules. He saw none of this as one might with eyes, of course, but over the nights, through the Force he had felt them, and with references to the library gradually understood them. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest He would sense an old friend that used to train with him at the Praxeum on a whole other planet from the cockpit of his X-wing: Just beyond the vast rim of Yavin, a bright yellowish star winked-Yavin 8, one of the three moons in the system blessed with life. Anakin had a friend there, a native of the world who had trained briefly at the academy and returned home. He could feel her, very faintly. Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest Still from the cockpit of his X-wing and just recently arrived to Yavin space, Anakin would sense the students on the surface of Yavin IV, clearly sense his friend Tahiri Veila, and also the Peace Brigaders who were waiting near the edge of the system: Yavin 4 as just around the rim, where he had other friends. In a way, the whole system was like a familiar room to Anakin, the sort he could walk into and immediately know if something was out of place. And something felt very out of place. In the Force he could feel the Jedi candidates, for they were all strong with it. He could feel Kam Solusar and his wife Tionne, and the ancient Ikrit, not students but full-fledged Jedi. These were seen as through a cloud, suggesting they were at least trying to maintain the illusion that hid Yavin 4 from the casual eye. But even through that, one presence shone brilliant, made brighter by familiarity and friendship. Tahiri. She felt him, too, and though he could not quite hear any actual words she might be trying to send, he did feel a sort of rhythm, as of someone talking quickly, excitedly, without pause for breath. One corner of Anakin's mouth turned up. Yes, that was Tahiri, all right. What felt wrong was a little nearer and much weaker. Not Yuuzhan Vong, for the they could not be felt in the Force, but someone who shouldn't be there. Someone slightly confused, but with a growing sense of confidence. [...] "My name is Anakin Solo. What are you doing in the Yavin system?" "We're Corusca gem miners." "Really. Where's your trawler?" Another pause, then words underlined with a bit of anger. "We can see the moon now. We knew it was here all along. Your Jedi sorcery has failed you." Source: The New Jedi Order - Edge of Victory I: Conquest

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The level of hubris and agenda-driven narcissism it took for the so-called "Story Group" to look at story beats like this and claim they could do better with the likes of Kry-lo Ren and Ma-Rey Sue Palpatine, or Luke trying to murder his own nephew in cold blood, is beyond astounding. It would likely humble even the proudest and most arrogant Sith.