Rivi-Anu, the most badass Jedi you've never head of

[q99]

On a planet the narrative doesn't name, the Republic and Separatists battle under the command of Ki-Adi-Mundi. He's accompanied by several other young Jedi, including the recently knighted Rivi-Anu.


















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The battle is won, unlike the Clones and Jedi the droids didn't escape the falling ship and it's explosion. Rest is short, though, and they are almost immediately called to go to another battle.

"Rivi-Anu is now one with the living force. It will make me proud to one day join her." -Ki-Adi-Mundi

7 pages out of a bunch.

Comments

[aaron_bourque]

THAT is how you have a Jedi Force Move a Star Destroyer. I'm looking at you, Kevin J. Anderson.

[q99]

I know of three cases of stories where a Jedi moves a SD with the force, and this is the only one I like :)

[mistygeek]

I second that sentiment.

[joysweeper]

*considers*

...Yeah, motto.

[q99]

I think the big difference is the other two are, "Ooh, look how big of stuff we can do!", while this one is focused on the wounded Rivi-Anu desperately trying to buy time for her comrades.

[aaron_bourque]

Another difference? The others, they succeed at moving the Star Destroyers rather easily.

In this one, it's a struggle, and one that is not only not a guaranteed success, she actually fails at.

[cainofdreaming]

What about Starkiller?

I know I got at least three gray hairs from that sequence of the game. Might be just me, though. Never claimed I was any good at shooters, with or without added lightsabers and force powers.

[mistersandman]

I blame 80% of my deaths during that sequence on the lousy controls and targeting in that game. Stupid tie fighters...

[shadur]

The PC version was worse - the directional indicator that was supposed to tell you when it's time to stop turning it and start pulling was glitchy. Took me five retries to realize that.

Should have been awesome. Bad controls and bugged targeting turned it into a bloody chore. Fumbled shot.

[aaron_bourque]

Well, Force Unleashed is a video game, and shitof dubious canonicity.

[biod]

Not this one.
This one is official.

[cainofdreaming]

Doesn't what is canon for the Star Wars pretty much depend on just how much Corellian whiskey Lucas has had at the time? At one point he accepted Kotor as part of the canon, but then almost at the same breath stated that only the movies are canon. And then there's the time when SW had different degrees of canonicity - primary, secondary and tertiary. Games would have been on the last spot, but so would comics.

[q99]

There's official levels of canon. There's Movie Canon/G Canon, i.e. stuff that came strait from George That's the stuff Lucas is talking about when he only counts the movies. Then there's TV canon with The Clone Wars CGI show, which is next, above everything else but below the movies.

Then there's official stuff like the EU in C-canon, which has been approved by Lucasarts, but are a step below. Comics, novels, etc. fall in here.

Then there's stuff like the old Marvel comics which are 'Secondary Canon', which are "only the bits that don't contradict other bits are canon."


As for games, generally the story lines are included when present, but the game mechanics are not. For ones that tell a new in-universe story at least, retellings of movies and such obviously don't apply. So The Force Unleashed, Dark Forces, KotoR, The Old Republic, the Rebel Assault games, etc. all fall in C-canon in general story, there was a Starkiller, there was a Revan and Exile, etc., but not necessarily details.

[mistersandman]

Where does the Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars cartoon fit in?

[q99]

Since it didn't have Lucas's involvement like the CGI one, it's C-canon.

[q99]

There's also a comic version (and I think a novel as well).

The Star Destroyer move still wasn't nearly as cool as this one :)

And to an extent the game's concept was about showing off big flashy force stuff (hence the title).

[aaron_bourque]

Yeah, well, I can too. The other two were written by KJA. This one is good.

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; I do like the Young Jedi Knights series, though.

[q99]

-I do like the Young Jedi Knights series, though.-

I blame the co-author :) And yea, I like those too.

[proteus_lives]

Now, that is metal.

She can sit in Skurge's hall!

[q99]

Ki-Adi-Mundi sums it up. "She's one with the force now. Being one with the force is gonna be *so awesome* 'cause she's there!"

[biod]

METAL!
I'd like to add that she is a "mere" Padawan. Imagine what she could have done as a Master! For Khorne it is a bittersweet victory.
I quite enjoy the concerne Ki-Adi-Mundi and SD Punter have for the troops as well.

[eyz]

She even looks METAL!

[q99]

Well, she was *technically* just promoted, but yea, she should've been a Padawan.

In an alternate timeline, she lives, escapes the Purge, and the Emperor goes down a decade early :)

[bluefall]

Hey, she looks vaguely Kiffar!

Apparently I should be reading this. o.O

[q99]

She does have eye-makeup, but Kiffar tend to go bars rather than triangles.


It's a series of short stories, some pretty good, that have been released in cheap collections.