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Originally Posted by Delvo  And what did they want her for, anyway? They sent her to attack Skywalker, and she did and lost. They talked behind her back about her being a disposable tool in the destruction of the Jedi, but she didn't do anything to the Jedi. You could stretch and say she contributed to Skywalker's gradual fall, because when he killed her he was having flashes of the faces of certain Jedi he thought of as being opposed to him, but he was already on that path anyway and wouldn't be led to dislike the Jedi any more by someone who wasn't a Jedi, so her role amounts to nothing. |
Actually Asajj had a large role in the comic books that came out after episode II. Funny enough, her target was more often Obi Wan than it was Anakin. There is a comic series called
Obsession in which we get a look at a very different side of Obi Wan Kenobi, mainly because of Asajj.
[quote=Delvo;1115128] The mini-series and movie didn't specify in spoken words, but his defeat of Jedi would have been impossible without it.[/qoute]
I believe his defeat of so many jedi was sort of a precursor to what we saw the clones doing at the end of episode III. George Lucas showed that you didn't need the force to kill the jedi. When Anakin lost his limbs, he lost some of his ability to touch the force. Grievous had very few remaining biological parts. In the comics, and on the show, there was another character, called Durge, that the CIS used to fight the jedi. You might remember he was the big thing with the helmet who fought Obi Wan. His limbs continued to re-attach themselves no matter how he was cut. The jedi weren't invincible, and the trick to beating them was to keep their minds occupied until they wore down.
This was very hard to do against the stronger jedi like Mace Windu and Yoda.
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Originally Posted by Delvo Thrawn, the star of the "Heir to the Empire" trilogy, as that other person whose name I can't see right now said.  When an Emperor's Hand tried to do the no-touch strangle on him, he felt, it like someone was rubbing on his throat a bit, but was able to counter enough that it wasn't a real problem. |
I do remember this instance in the book, although I don't recall him saying that. Quite interesting, I know one of his Noghri bodyguards was there, holding Mara down, and her ability to touch the force was very diminished at the time.
(Nice to see you again, Huttman!)
If he did indeed have the powers to touch the force, he put far less stock in them than even Mara Jade did at the time.