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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Donovan Morningfire" data-source="post: 4472607" data-attributes="member: 39532">Regarding Vader's comment...I don't think it was so much about raw power, but just the broad range of what was capable with the Force.  The Death Star was the equivalent of a jackhammer, and really only good for one thing (though it did that one thing pretty darn well), and really didn't require much in the way of expertise to use.  The Force is more like MacGuyver's Swiss Army knife, a multi-purpose tool that can be used to do a whole lot of things, and those with a greater degree of mastery could accomplish more impressive things.Maybe this plays into my biggest gripe about the Star Wars EU under KJA, is that the authors of the time took Vader's suggestion far too literally (re: Spaceballs and "combing the desert").  That's why I was glad when Zahn's Hand of Thrawn duology explored Luke learning to "turn down the volume" on his Force-usage and be more subtle in the usage of his powers; i.e. don't use a sledgehammer to drive a nail into the wall when a thumbtack works just as well to hang up a poster <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Vader's Apprentice is kind of like the Death Star in that he's a telekinetic wrecking ball, and initially really only good at destroying stuff, since that was how he was trained.That said, I do think this is a dynamite sourcebook, and worth the wait.  The Force stuff wasn't quite as impressive as I was hoping, but the rest of the material (especially the Imperial section) more than makes up for it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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