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maderic  914 posts
Registered: Oct '04
23524_Xanatos
Date Posted: 5/29/08 3:46pm Subject: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
So obviously we know that it's canon now that people with prosthetics CANNOT cast (or be immune to) Sith lightning. This is the reason any depiction of pre-suit Vader doing so isn't accurate. How come Malak can do it? Or are we just supposed to that for artistic liberties?

 

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Charlemagne19  26812 posts
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Date Posted: 5/29/08 3:48pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
maderic posted:
So obviously we know that it's canon now that people with prosthetics CANNOT cast (or be immune to) Sith lightning. This is the reason any depiction of pre-suit Vader doing so isn't accurate. How come Malak can do it? Or are we just supposed to that for artistic liberties?


I think it's the fact that Vader can't channel it through his body towards them. Only Malak's jaw is robotic.

 
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maderic  914 posts
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23524_Xanatos
Date Posted: 5/29/08 3:52pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
Charlemagne19 posted:
maderic posted:
So obviously we know that it's canon now that people with prosthetics CANNOT cast (or be immune to) Sith lightning. This is the reason any depiction of pre-suit Vader doing so isn't accurate. How come Malak can do it? Or are we just supposed to that for artistic liberties?


I think it's the fact that Vader can't channel it through his body towards them. Only Malak's jaw is robotic.


I thought it was because he had a metal part and it would act more or less as a lightning rod.. any electricity coming from him would be radiated back at him, electrocuting him. Would be hilarious to see it come back and strike Malak in the face, haha.

 

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rumsmuggler  18275 posts
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19227_Lando Calrissian
Date Posted: 5/29/08 4:18pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts. - Date Edited: 5/29/08 4:22pm (1 edits total) Edited By: rumsmuggler
If Vader didn't have a machine to help him breath, he probably could have found a say around the force lightning issue. Luke has a cyborg hand and that didn't stop him from throwing his version of force lightning at the slayers in TUF.

Edit: I forgot for a moment that Vader doesn't have natural feet or hands, so he couldn't shoot lightning anyways.

 

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vereor_lynas  180 posts
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Date Posted: 5/29/08 4:20pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
rumsmuggler posted:
If Vader didn't have a machine to help him breath, he probably could have found a say around the force lightning issue. Luke has a cyborg hand and that didn't stop him from throwing his version of force lightning at the slayers in TUF.

ONE cyborg hand.. he must channel the lightning through the other...
the lightning would fry his mechanical hand, or thats how i understand it..

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rumsmuggler  18275 posts
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19227_Lando Calrissian
Date Posted: 5/29/08 4:36pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
Yeah, he used one hand, but I don't know if the mechanical had ever received any damage from force lightning. Luke probably can sheild it from any damage that it could receive.

 

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Rogue_Follower  8534 posts
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Date Posted: 5/29/08 4:42pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
It isn't that he had "a" mechanical part, it's that he had mechanical parts all over. "More machine than man," you could say. He required his equipment to stay alive, so he couldn't afford to fry it.

 
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JaySkywalker01  1197 posts
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Date Posted: 5/29/08 5:19pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
Makes me wonder why anyone bothered dueling Lumiya during LOTF. Just send a few jolts her way and BOOM.

 

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rumsmuggler  18275 posts
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19227_Lando Calrissian
Date Posted: 5/29/08 5:32pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
Luke prefers to kill his crazy ex-girlfriends up close and personal.

 

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DarkScythe  421 posts
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Date Posted: 5/29/08 6:06pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
Not to mention Luke was close enough to the darkside already that throwing around a darkside power was probably not a good idea.

 
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Arawn_Fenn  10326 posts
Registered: Jul '04
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Date Posted: 5/29/08 6:26pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
rumsmuggler posted:
Luke prefers to kill his crazy ex-girlfriends up close and personal.


laugh

 

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Dawud786  2654 posts
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42320_Luke Skywalker
Date Posted: 5/29/08 8:19pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
DarkScythe posted:
Not to mention Luke was close enough to the darkside already that throwing around a darkside power was probably not a good idea.



Bah, electic judgement would've done the trick. How about the Droid Stun from KOTOR? Same effect on a woman that's practically droid herself.

 

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rumsmuggler  18275 posts
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19227_Lando Calrissian
Date Posted: 5/29/08 8:29pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
True. Kyle or any of his students(Jaden anyways, 'cause Rosh is teh lame) wouldn't hesitate to zap her.

 

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Arawn_Fenn  10326 posts
Registered: Jul '04
46079_Darth Plagueis
Date Posted: 5/29/08 8:30pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
Gameplay mechanics.

Lightning is inherently a power of the dark side, so sayeth the OS.

 

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Trip  2356 posts
Registered: Dec '03
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Date Posted: 5/29/08 8:37pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts. - Date Edited: 5/29/08 8:38pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Trip
maderic posted:
I thought it was because he had a metal part and it would act more or less as a lightning rod.. any electricity coming from him would be radiated back at him, electrocuting him. Would be hilarious to see it come back and strike Malak in the face, haha.

Sith lightning isn't mere electricity.

Arawn_Fenn posted:
Gameplay mechanics.

Not so.

 

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rumsmuggler  18275 posts
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19227_Lando Calrissian
Date Posted: 5/29/08 8:42pm Subject: RE: A question about Sith lightning and prosthetic... parts.
Arawn_Fenn posted:
Gameplay mechanics.

Lightning is inherently a power of the dark side, so sayeth the OS.


That's nice and i'm aware of what the OS says. I go there from time to time. happy

 

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