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Discussion in 'Literature' started by Matthew Trias, Jun 24, 2004.

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  1. Matthew Trias

    Matthew Trias Force Ghost star 6

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    If I recall correctly, one of the Thrawn Trilogy sourcebooks talks about how C Boath was the guardian but forgot after a while. He then concocted a crazy story in his head about the guardian being another person.

    Can someone transcribe C Boath's bios from the Thrawn Trilogy sourcebooks? PLEASE?
     
  2. Gross-admiral_Thrawn

    Gross-admiral_Thrawn Jedi Youngling star 2

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    Um... on a side note, he's C'Baoth. Name's spelled "sa-bay-oth".
     
  3. Valiento

    Valiento Jedi Knight star 7

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    Matt knows how to spell his name seeing as he is an oldbie in this forum and has spelled his name correctly most of the time.

    I'm pretty sure those were just typographical errors, not something worthy of being nitpicked apart.
     
  4. Knight1192

    Knight1192 Jedi Knight star 6

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    Afraid I can't help with the TTT sourcebooks. Though the DE sourcebook does say that C'boath had been the guadrian of Mt. Tantis and that Thrawn had been wise to pick him because he'd forgotten what his duty was.
     
  5. Leto II

    Leto II Jedi Padawan star 6

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    The clone's primary entry (from the combined sourcebook, pp. 52-55):

    Joruus C'baoth

    Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth was well known in the Old Republic. He negotiated treaties between warring aliens, fought the enemies of the Old Republic, and participated in the noble Outbound Flight project. C'baoth was the epitome of a Jedi Master.

    And then something changed.

    At some point, and no one knows for sure exactly when, Jorus C'baoth was cloned. Joruus C'baoth was born.

    Thrawn found Joruus C'baoth on a world called Wayland, while searching for the Enperor's hidden sotrehouse. Over the years, Joruus has become somewhat confused over who he was. He did not remember that he was the Emperor's Guardian of the Mount Tantiss facility. Instead, he believed that he killed the guardian and then took control of both Mount Tantiss and the world of Wayland. To Joruus's twisted thinking, he served no Emperor. His power was his alone, and it served him well.

    For all his confusion and shattered memories, Joruus C'baoth was still a Jedi Master. His powers were drawn from the dark side of the Force, and he used them to corrupt and control. He controlled living beings, forcing them to be puppets to his twisted will. He could enhance coordination between people, even if those people were light years apart. Realizing that C'baoth could be a formidable weapon in his arsenal, Thrawn persuaded the Jedi Master to assist in the campaign against the New Republic in exchaange for new Jedi to train -- Leia, her children and Jedi Skywalker. C'baoth believed that power is more personal than conquering far-away worlds or destroying people from a distance. On Wayland, Joruus took possession of the entire planet. Its people were his to teach, to command and to punish -- or kill -- at his whim. Their lives and deaths were, quite literally, in the palm of his hand. He had no desire to hold distant power over faceless lives.

    C'baoth had his own ideas on how the Empire should be run. C'baoth apparently planned to rule the "new" Empire that Thrawn was creating, exerting particularly strong influence over the weaker-minded officers under his command. Unconfirmed reports from within Imperial circles claim that it was C'baoth's control of a well-known Imperial officer that led to the battle between Imperial factions during the assault on Mount Tantiss. Since the majority of the clones at Mount Tantiss were from approximately 20 basic genetic templates, C'baoth only needed to learn to control those 20 minds to control all the clones.

    According to Luke Skywalker, the duplicate C'baoth was easily as formidable a foe as Darth Vader and completely twisted to the dark side of the Force.

    "Joruus C'baoth was ill, very ill. He claimed that myself, Leia and the twins would kneel before him, and he would 'heal the galaxy.' But he was no healer. He tried to destroy Han, Leia, Mara...all of us."

    Joruus attempted to subvert Skywalker, and when that failed, "tested" Luke by pitting him against a clone in combat -- a clone of Skywalker himself. After the clone was killed by Mara Jade, C'baoth lost control, and it was this instability, combined with the Force powers of Skywlaker, Organa Solo and Jade herself, that eventually proved to be Joruus' undoing. Mara struck him down inside Mount Tantiss.

    Joruus C'baoth was a tall, lean and muscular human male. He had unkempt gray hair and a beard which reached almost to the middle of his chest. He wore simple shin-laced sandals and an old brown robe. His face was dark, deeply lined, and surprisingly regal, despite the arrogance and disdain that generally twisted his features.
     
  6. Gross-admiral_Thrawn

    Gross-admiral_Thrawn Jedi Youngling star 2

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    Did not mean to nitpick. Just corrected.
    Actually, just in the post below yours, his name was again misspelled by Knight1192.
    As for TTT sourcebooks, I will look in my scans, though I doubt it's there :(
     
  7. Valiento

    Valiento Jedi Knight star 7

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    Words using the alphabet, that have vowels that are located directly next to each other are commonly mistyped, btw, they often get reversed in many words.

    Other commonly mistyped words are "the", which sometimes becomes "teh".

    Its because certain vowel combinations are commonly switched because of certain common typing mistakes, that programs such as Microsoft Word, automatically correct them.
     
  8. Matthew Trias

    Matthew Trias Force Ghost star 6

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    Thanks a million Leto.
     
  9. Pelranius

    Pelranius Jedi Master star 5

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    It's beyond me why they cut C'boath out of the NEGtC and put in that Rokur Getpa nobody.

    Could it have been possible for Thrawn to have cloned another C'boath clone somewhere?

    And is there any confirmation that the original C'boath died in the OFP incident?
     
  10. Gross-admiral_Thrawn

    Gross-admiral_Thrawn Jedi Youngling star 2

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    And is there any confirmation that the original C'boath died in the OFP incident?
    I guess Zahn pretty much made that clear in his own books. Original C'Baoth was pushing the project. None of the Jedi from the Outbound survived...

    Although re-reading TTT I really think scary about C'Baoth. Luke said that cloning him may have the personalities of other dead Jedi Masters inserted in C'Baoth or something like that. This would mean that C'Baoth was cloned on the Outbound. Perhaps by Thrawn himself.

    Rokur Gepta is a nobody. Lando trilogy is a waste of paper indeed :(
     
  11. SlackJawedJedi

    SlackJawedJedi Jedi Padawan star 4

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    Lukes little theory about the other Jedi Master's being 'with' C'Boath was just that: a theory. He was just looking for a method to his madness. He didn't know that 'ole Joruus was a clone at the time.

    When we see things from C'Boath's perspective, there is evidence of delusion, paranoia, megalomania etc. but there is no indication he is communicating with anyone else in his head.

    He seems pretty focused, for a madman...
     
  12. CaptainArdiff

    CaptainArdiff Jedi Padawan star 4

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    Certainly it would have made sense if Thrawn wanted more dark Jedi. But remember how he feels about Dark Jedi. When Pellaeon expressed dismay about using a nutty Jedi Thrawn responded with something like: What, Captain, would you have preferred a fully focused dark jedi? Another Vader with all the powers of the dark side at his control? No, C'baoth is weak and malleable; we can control him. [Nothing like an exact quotation - obviously!]
     
  13. KamSolusar

    KamSolusar Jedi Grand Master star 2

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    It's beyond me why they cut C'boath out of the NEGtC and put in that Rokur Getpa nobody.

    Maybe because there was no new information about C'baoth since the release of the old EGtC (he had an entry in that book, didn't he?). So instead of reprinting old information, Dan Wallace used the space to give us more information about another character. A good decision, IMO.


    Kam
     
  14. Valiento

    Valiento Jedi Knight star 7

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    Ya having the old and new EGTC is a good thing, they compliment each other, and make for a more complete list of information.
     
  15. killfire

    killfire Jedi Master star 4

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    Somewhere in the SQ discussion someone came up with one of the original OFP Jedi still being alive and locked anway in the OFP wreckage.

    Could that been Jorus? And Thrawn cloned him from there?
     
  16. Leto II

    Leto II Jedi Padawan star 6

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    No, they never discovered what Jorus's final fate ultimately was. Luke for a moment thought that the remains of Jinzler's sister were in fact C'baoth's, but the corpse's lightsaber verified her identity.
     
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