Vima-Da-Boda In The Clone Wars...

Did she fight in the Clone Wars before she went into hiding from the Emperor on Nar Shadda? Do we have any info on this?

 

I believe it says in either the text portion of DE or the DESB that Vima briefly stepped over into the darkside when her daughter (apparently she is part of a culture that requires marriage and children like Ki-Adi-Mundi)was fed to rancors by a warlord. Then she left the order and became a recluse. This was said to have happened about 200 years before ANH, so she couldn't have fought in the CW. Although maybe she did unofficially and we've never heard about it.

 

The background text in the original issues and first two book reprints of Dark Empire are rather vague on the particulars of what Vima was up to during the three years of the Clone Wars -- there isn't a precisely-defined "window" delineated within the text; all that's said is that Vima "threw herself down among the lost [during the purge]," or words to that effect.

It seems workable to use her during the prequel timeframe, whether she directly participated in the fighting or not. Either way, she could become a compelling character. A story framework that I've frequently mentioned a desire to see done, in fact.

 

She would step onto a battlefield and all the forces on both sides would cower and hide their faces in their hands in disgust at the sight of her...even the battle droids.

 

By the time the Clone Wars begin Vima is already in self-imposed exile and has allowed her powers to wane greatly.

 

If she doesn't spawn soon, the Sunrider bloodline will end with her. She's the great-great-great-granddaughter of Vima, if I got that right.

 

Probably a few more dozen greats. Remember there is like 4 millenia between them.

 

According to the stuff in the DE tpb, she is only six generations removed from Nomi... she's that old... she'd also been a Jedi Knight for more than a century before she settled down to train her young daughter...

As a potential explanation for Mara Jade's apparent defiance of the aeging process, this will no doubt delight the teenage fanboy element, and really, really worry the anti-Mara faction...



- The Imperial Ewok

 

"she is only six generations removed from Nomi... she's that old..."

She's not necessarily that old, however the previous generations may have been long lived like her.

Yes, I checked the book does say she is the "Great-Great-Great Granddaughter of Vima Sundrider".

An interesting fact in the Dark Empire sourcebook gives an age for Vima-Da-Boda's lightsaber, as "100 centuries old". That would make her lightsaber 10,000 years old. I guess that means that Vima never built her own lightsaber?

"she'd also been a Jedi Knight for more than a century before she settled down to train her young daughter..."

Actually it said, "For nearly one hundred years" that she was a Jedi before she began to train her daughter.

The EGTC, said she was a Jedi Knight for 100 years, when she began to train her daughter.

 

An interesting fact in the Dark Empire sourcebook gives an age for Vima-Da-Boda's lightsaber, as "100 centuries old". That would make her lightsaber 10,000 years old. I guess that means that Vima never built her own lightsaber?

unless it has an ancient power system that never needs maintenance, i'm sure that old saber has been taken apart from time to time and cleaned, retrofitted with more modern power sources, stronger crystals, etc. -- so while she might not have built it from scratch, she might have rebuilt it...

also, she might have built her own saber at one point in time and then later acquired this one (as a gift from her master, or an odd discovery). it seems that most active jedi end up using more than one saber in their lifetimes..

 

Well remember that is the lightsaber, that was given to Leia, and that blew up because it was too old.

 

No, Palpatine blew it up.

 

That is true that he blew it up, but he also points out that he blew it up because its "such an old weapon".

The audio drama added additional speech about the saber describing it as being "old and fragile", IIRC, as well.

It also begs the question why didn't he try to use that ability later on on other lightsabers that characters tried to use against him, if it wasn't because that one was more fragile than newly made lightsabers.

 

Exactly!!

When two opposing Jedi, dark or light, face each other, all one has to do is reach out and burst the heart of the other, or explode their saber.

But . . . though this has never been said in a book, you surely must project some sort of Force shield around you to prevent such swift end to a Force fight. Doesn't have to be strong, or you'll drain yourself out and not focus enough on that saber slicing at your, but just enough to warn you or deflect their attempts.

 

So...

Is she still a Jedi by the time of the Clone Wars? Because from what I gather, she didn't go into hiding until the purge, which doesn't start until the Clone Wars are done with.

 

Just finished reading the Jedi Academy trilogy, Kyp Durron doesn't say anything about Vima fighting in the Clone Wars.

 

Just finished reading the Jedi Academy trilogy, Kyp Durron doesn't say anything about Vima fighting in the Clone Wars.

It's unlikely she would have mentioned anything about it to Kyp if she had fought in the Clone Wars. It's also unlikely Vima fought in the Clone Wars. I fully believe she had already gone into her self-imposed exile by the time the Clone Wars occur.

 

I'd kid that she must be Cerean, by her spelled name, but it might be taken seriously.

 

The back info in the Dark Empire sourcebook implies that she exiled herself from the Jedi early on after she used the darkside to saver he daughter, and when the purge began she went further into hiding.