Post by Jedi Matt on Aug 26, 2010 9:02:23 GMT -5
RESPECT HIM ;D
Star Wars : [glow=red,2,300]Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor[/glow]
His fingers twitched as if he were tripping an invisible switch-and out on the dark spinning disk of the freighter (which is the Millennium Falcon), automated attitude thrusters blasted to life, dorsal on the mandibles, ventral to aft above the engines, slowing the ship's tumble. Nick heard the sudden shriek of overpowered repulsorlifts and the forward attitude jets swiveled to add their thrust and the freighter slammed into the ground, which must have been some kind of cinder pit, because the front mandibles drove in almost to the cockpit at a sixty-degree angle...and stuck fast.
And the ship just stayed there. It didn't fall over. It didn't blow up. It didn't do anything that any reasonable person would expect a ship to do after a full-on crash.
Nick stared at it with his mouth open. Some few seconds later, he realized he hadn't been breathing. "Did you...I mean, did I just see...?" he gasped. "Did you just now catch that ship?"
Luke opened his eyes. "Not exactly."
Star Wars :[glow=red,2,300] Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor.[/glow]
Using the Force to leap from rock to rock so swiftly he practically flew also relieved him of the need to watch his footing. He covered the two kilometers in about two minutes.
Star Wars : The Black Fleet Crisis: Before the Storm
Almost immediately the speeder veered sharply right and dived toward the water. It was all Han could do to stop himself from grabbing the controls again.
But the speeder soon leveled off, though at an alarmingly low altitude.
The moon was still well below the horizon, but Han could see the undulating surface of the sea by the pale phosphorescent light of millions of tiny creatures riding the swells and currents. The sight was eerie and marvelous, but it was also barely an arm's length below the flat underside of the speeder, and racing by at a dizzying clip.
"Hey, Luke-you out there? " Han said, slouching as much as the speeder's seat and his long legs would allow. "Is this gonna be a long flight? Do I have time for a nap? Hey, pal, you can start food service any time."
There was no response.
"Lousy spacelines, " Han muttered, closing his eyes. "They're all smiles till they have your money and herd you on board. Then see if you can get a glass of water-" A long-winged sea shrike rose from the rocks to fly in formation with Han's speeder as, slowing, it arrowed toward the beach.
Wakened by the change in the pitch of the speeder's thrusters, Han strained to make out where it might be headed.
Then a hole opened in the sky ahead, a brightly lit oval that hung above the beach like a doorway to morning. The sea shrike veered off, and the speeder coasted through the oval of light and settled on the floor of an otherwise empty high-ceilinged chamber.
Han twisted sideways in his seat to see where he had come from, just in time to watch the opening seal itself behind him.
Hello, Han, a voice said in his mind. Come up.
"Come up? " Han said, scrambling out of-the speeder. "There's no-" As he began his protest, the nearest wall deformed into a ladder, and an opening appeared in the ceiling above it. "Sure, " Han said. "As if it would have been any more trouble to make stairs. "
But he reached out and clambered up the rungs all the same, taking them two at a time as a point of pride. He wasn't happy, though, to hear his own grunts at the bottom or feel his heart racing at the top.
Han found himself standing at the bottom of a large spherical room containing no furniture or technology-at least, none that he could spot.
"Now what? "
Keep coming, said the voice in his head. Walk up the wall.
"Easy for you to say, " Han said, starting to feel annoyed.
But the opening he had climbed through had already vanished, leaving him with little choice. He started up the curving wall, and found to his surprise that wherever he stood seemed to be the bottom of the sphere.
There was no telling whether it was a trick with grav fields, some sort of Jedi legerdemain, or the room itself was turning under him. Han tried not to think about it, though his steps became cautious as he went past the halfway point up the wall-or, at least, what should have seemed like halfway up the wall.
After he had gone a dozen more tentative steps, a section of the floor-wall? ceiling? -ahead of him dropped away to form a ramp leading out of the sphere. It seemed to Han as though he must be upside down in relation to the rest of the structure, but he found himself, apparently right side up, entering a large pyramidal room from one of its three sloping sides. It was as lacking in amenities as any space he had seen so far, and lit by the same curious uniform glow that seemed to come from behind the walls without making them bright to the eyes. The light was as cold as the air.
"Nice little tree house, " Han said, moving slowly toward the center of the room, looking up at the apex of the chamber. "And you've done a wonderful job of cutting down on clutter. I think you've taken the idea of concealed storage to a new level. You'll have to give Leia the name of your decorator. "
"Thank you for coming, Han, " a voice said behind him. "It's good to see you. "
Han spun around and found Luke standing one long stride away, almost as if he had been following Han. Han's face broke into a boyish lopsided grin.
"Well, hey, I wanted to get out of the house, and since I was in the neighborhood-You know, you could've come to see us, too. "
"No, I couldn't, " Luke said. He wore an ankle-length patchwork robe that seemed to be made from bits of several other garments, including a pilot's uniform and a Tatooine sand cape. His demeanor was relaxed but remote, quelling Han's impulse to grab him in a bear hug and clap him on the back. "I hope by the time you leave, you'll understand why. "
"Well-you'll have to start at the beginning, because I don't understand a thing about what's going on, " Han said. "What is this place? Why are you here? Why are you hiding? Why am I here? Why didn't you want Leia to come? "
"Leia wants something from me, " Luke said. "You don't. Your other questions will take longer to answer. "
Han looked around with a frown. "If this is gonna be a long conversation-I don't suppose you have anything like a chair anywhere? "
"Sorry," Luke said, dropping gracefully into a cross-legged meditation posture. "Sit where you like, and I'll put an air cushion under you. "
He waited until Han was comfortably settled, then went on. "As you see, I can hide well enough, even from Leia. But I'd rather be left alone. I hope that you'll go back and ask her to accept that. If she doesn't-well, she's not going to get what she wants. She's only going to drive me away from Coruscant."
This is from Dark Nest III: Swarm
Luke killed the last of Raynar's bodyguards by Force-slamming them into the wall so hard their throraxes burst than the two Jedi were on each others heads with all the speed and might they could summon.
That was the trouble with poweful men-especially younger ones. Awed by their own strength they so ofetn believed strength was the answer to every problem. Luke was older as wiser. While Raynar swung, he pivoted.
As Raynar's gold blade sliced the air where Luke's head has been, Luke's boot was kicking him from behind the ankles, knocking his legs out from under him and stretching him out flat.
Buy Raynar was a Jedi and all Jedi were quick. He caught himself in the Force levitating himself just long enough to bring his golden blade sweeping in at Luke's shoulder.
Luke had no choice but to block with his blade, and no place to block but the forearms Raynar's lightsaber went spinning off.
The pain of losing ab arm might have forced a common Jedi to stop fighting , but Raynar was no common Jedi. He had the Force potential of the Colony to draw on, and he did it now swinging his remaining hand up go hurl Luke down the corridor as he had before.
But this time Luke was ready, he places his own hand in front of Raynar's and rooted himself in the Heart of the Force and when he is that he became the very essence of the immovable object. Nothing could dislodge him- not one of Lando's ateroid tuggers, not the Megador's 16 ion engines, not the black hole at the center of the galaxy itself
Luke stood that way waiting, dimly aware that his surviving bugcrunchersbwwre moving into position. Raynar continued to struglle trying to hurl Like down the corridor, trying to move him a single centimeter. Luke did not budge and finally Raynar stopped struggling and met his eyes with a stunned and anguished gaze.
Star Wars :Legacy of the Force :Inferno
in the next instant, Caedus (Darth Caedus) found himself flying accross the cabin toward his observation bubble. Luke had not gestured, had not flinched, had not even shifted his gaze; he has simply grabbed Caedus in the force and hurled him five meter into his chair.
"Don't lie" Luke started across the cabin "I'm getting tired of it"
Caedus sprang out of his chair.... Or attempted to. Instead he found himself struggling against an invisible wieght. He felt as if he were accelerating to lightspeedbwirh a faulty internal compensator.
"Luke you've gone mad" Caedus reached for the controls on
his chair and discovered he couldn't even do that much.
(Skip some dialogue) the irony of the statement was far from
lost on Caedus, but he was too astonished, and too frightened to take any pleasure from it. While it was true that Luke
had taken him by suprised, it was equally true that he had done so with no visable effort, and that he was continuing to hold him with no apparent exertation.
Keenly aware that all that stood between him and a quick death was Luke Skywalker's much strained sense of decency.
Caedus would have shaken his head save it was still being hold motionless with the Force. Had it been Mara's death instead of Omas's that Luke had just heard about Caedus knew he would already be dead .
"than I'll take it for what it's worth" Luke said. Leaving Caedus Force pinned to his chair , he started toward the door "I'll show myself out"
Caedus threatens the Jedi younglings
the door opened. Without stepping through. Luke faced Caedus and spoke in a very calm voice. "I'm sure your not threatening the younglings" he pointed at the base of Jacen's (Caedus) mediatation chair and made a tapping motion with his finger. The pedestal gave a loud whumpf and the seat dropped a quarter meter.
"because you really don't want to see me angry" Luke made the tapping motion again. The pedestal emitted a metallic shriek and the seat dropped another quarter meter. "andi I think your smart enough to know that" Luke tapped one last tome
and the pedestal collapsed with a low loud clump,"but if you want try me go aged and make the threat"
Star Wars: The courtship of Princess Leia
(Isolder and Luke landing on the planet below. (Luke had slowed his heart down to the point of near death)
nothing happened. He yanked the emerganvy cord, kept tumbling. He flaided hisarms, shouting- and miraculously some type of repulsorlift field hit him slowed him so
that he dropped as softly as a feather.
When
Isolder's feet hit rock his knees shook so badly that he could hardly stand and his heart raced. Isolder threw off his helmet. Storm (his ship) had also settled quietly to the ground but nowhere could Isoldee see a
sign of the repulsorlift mechanism, no generators no antigravity dishes aimed into the air, he looked all around than saw something above: Luke skywalker sitting with his Legs crossed, eyes closed in concentation and arms folded floating to the ground *skywalker* Isolder thought *perhaps that is how is ancestors got their name" when the Jedi had floated within inches of the rock he opened his eyes and jumped. "hey how did
you do that?" until
that moment he had never felt like worshiping anyone or anything.
Star Wars : Black Fleet Crisis :Before the Storm page 37-38
he sat down on the sand cross legged and straight backed and brought his hands together in his lap, fingertip to fingertip. Concentrating on a picture in his mind Luke dipped his awareness deeply into the flow of the Force beneath him. With eyes that looked inward he found what he was seeking. Like flaws in a near-perfect crystal. He extended his will. The sand around him stirred. The rocks shuddered and shifted than began to arise from the sea and the sand as of sifted from
them by an invisible screen. Swirling through te air as they sought their place, the stones took shape as broken wall and shattered foundation, as arch and gate and dome - the ruins of Darth Vader's fortress retreat. It hung in the air around and above Luke as it had once stood atop the cliff a darkfaced and forbidding edifice.
Now the stones swirled again in the air joined by others plucked fro
the sea and stripped from the face of the cliff. Now broken edge fused against broken edge and the dark faces of the rock lightened as teor mineral structures were reshuffled. Now heavy rock walls and floors thinned to
an airy elegance as if they were clay in a potters press. Now
a tower stretched skyward until it rose above the edge of the cliff.
When it was done the last gap closed the last rock transformed the structure securely perched just above the rock on pillars of stone.
[glow=red,2,300]Star Wars : The New Jedi Order : The Unifying Force [/glow]
But the rescue on Belkadan paled in comparison to the control Luke demonstrated now. His single blade might as well have been ten, or twenty.
He took the steps at a lightning pace, burning his way through dilating membranes but in complete control of his momentum. Seen through the Force he was a maelstrom of luminous energy, a Force storm against which there was no shelter. And yet all his energy poured from a calm center; an eye.
He made no missteps. None of his actions were interrupted by thought.
In fact, Luke didn't seem to be there at all-physically or as an individual personality. Jacen and Jaina were astounded-but they had little time to reflect. Their lightsabers were busy, as well, turning the blows Luke dodged, or defending assaults launched from below. On the fourteenth level, where the Citadel's exterior wings sprouted from the hull, they reached a fork in the stairway. Luke swung to Jacen.
"Which way?", He wasn't even breathing heavily.
[glow=red,2,300]Star Wars : Dark Empire Audiobook [/glow]
Luke: "No! I made a mistake! I thought I had to save the galaxy alone. All by myself. But the way of the Jedi is not a solitary path."
Leia: "The holocron!! Luke, the holocron told me to “join with my brother!” "
Luke: "Yes. The Force binds us. Brings us together. Many people are fighting this war, together! Our ally is the Force! Through the strength of the Force, your shroud of evil has been lifted from my mind! "
<Lightsaber activating>
Emperor: "So be it. Through the power of the Force, you will die!"
<Sabers clashing>
Leia: "Be careful, Luke! The Force is strong... they’re both moving so fast, I can hardly see them... I feel waves of power... the Dark Side and the Light but I feel the Light... is winning!"
<sound of Luke landing a blow, cutting off Palpatines hand>
Emperor: "Argh~! My hand~! You've cut off my hand~!"
Luke: "Now, “Your Highness,” we will escort you to the Alliance base, where you will surrender the Galaxy to the New Republic!"
[glow=red,2,300]Star Wars : Dark Nest III: The Swarm War[/glow]
"We need to getout of here" Jacen countered. "Or am I the only one who still feels the Force-call?"
"No---" Zekk said.
"---We feel it, too." Jaina finished.
The call had arisen a few hours earlier, in the middle of a StealthX assault that had failed to turn back the Chiss task force. The summons were coming from the direction of the known galaxy, a sense of beckoning and urgency that was growing more powerful with every passing hour, calling the Jedi Knights back toward Ossus, demanding they return to the Academy at once.
"We all feel it," Tahiri said. She furrowed her scared brow, then turned toward Tesar and Lowbacca. "At least I think we do."
The Barbel and Wookiee nodded in agreement. "Iz hard too ignore," Tesar said.
"And we shouldn't try," Jacen replied. "Something bad must be happening for my uncle to summon us all like this. Even Luke Skywalker can't pull on the Force that hard without suffering from it."
Star Wars : [glow=red,2,300]Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor[/glow]
His fingers twitched as if he were tripping an invisible switch-and out on the dark spinning disk of the freighter (which is the Millennium Falcon), automated attitude thrusters blasted to life, dorsal on the mandibles, ventral to aft above the engines, slowing the ship's tumble. Nick heard the sudden shriek of overpowered repulsorlifts and the forward attitude jets swiveled to add their thrust and the freighter slammed into the ground, which must have been some kind of cinder pit, because the front mandibles drove in almost to the cockpit at a sixty-degree angle...and stuck fast.
And the ship just stayed there. It didn't fall over. It didn't blow up. It didn't do anything that any reasonable person would expect a ship to do after a full-on crash.
Nick stared at it with his mouth open. Some few seconds later, he realized he hadn't been breathing. "Did you...I mean, did I just see...?" he gasped. "Did you just now catch that ship?"
Luke opened his eyes. "Not exactly."
Star Wars :[glow=red,2,300] Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor.[/glow]
Using the Force to leap from rock to rock so swiftly he practically flew also relieved him of the need to watch his footing. He covered the two kilometers in about two minutes.
Star Wars : The Black Fleet Crisis: Before the Storm
Almost immediately the speeder veered sharply right and dived toward the water. It was all Han could do to stop himself from grabbing the controls again.
But the speeder soon leveled off, though at an alarmingly low altitude.
The moon was still well below the horizon, but Han could see the undulating surface of the sea by the pale phosphorescent light of millions of tiny creatures riding the swells and currents. The sight was eerie and marvelous, but it was also barely an arm's length below the flat underside of the speeder, and racing by at a dizzying clip.
"Hey, Luke-you out there? " Han said, slouching as much as the speeder's seat and his long legs would allow. "Is this gonna be a long flight? Do I have time for a nap? Hey, pal, you can start food service any time."
There was no response.
"Lousy spacelines, " Han muttered, closing his eyes. "They're all smiles till they have your money and herd you on board. Then see if you can get a glass of water-" A long-winged sea shrike rose from the rocks to fly in formation with Han's speeder as, slowing, it arrowed toward the beach.
Wakened by the change in the pitch of the speeder's thrusters, Han strained to make out where it might be headed.
Then a hole opened in the sky ahead, a brightly lit oval that hung above the beach like a doorway to morning. The sea shrike veered off, and the speeder coasted through the oval of light and settled on the floor of an otherwise empty high-ceilinged chamber.
Han twisted sideways in his seat to see where he had come from, just in time to watch the opening seal itself behind him.
Hello, Han, a voice said in his mind. Come up.
"Come up? " Han said, scrambling out of-the speeder. "There's no-" As he began his protest, the nearest wall deformed into a ladder, and an opening appeared in the ceiling above it. "Sure, " Han said. "As if it would have been any more trouble to make stairs. "
But he reached out and clambered up the rungs all the same, taking them two at a time as a point of pride. He wasn't happy, though, to hear his own grunts at the bottom or feel his heart racing at the top.
Han found himself standing at the bottom of a large spherical room containing no furniture or technology-at least, none that he could spot.
"Now what? "
Keep coming, said the voice in his head. Walk up the wall.
"Easy for you to say, " Han said, starting to feel annoyed.
But the opening he had climbed through had already vanished, leaving him with little choice. He started up the curving wall, and found to his surprise that wherever he stood seemed to be the bottom of the sphere.
There was no telling whether it was a trick with grav fields, some sort of Jedi legerdemain, or the room itself was turning under him. Han tried not to think about it, though his steps became cautious as he went past the halfway point up the wall-or, at least, what should have seemed like halfway up the wall.
After he had gone a dozen more tentative steps, a section of the floor-wall? ceiling? -ahead of him dropped away to form a ramp leading out of the sphere. It seemed to Han as though he must be upside down in relation to the rest of the structure, but he found himself, apparently right side up, entering a large pyramidal room from one of its three sloping sides. It was as lacking in amenities as any space he had seen so far, and lit by the same curious uniform glow that seemed to come from behind the walls without making them bright to the eyes. The light was as cold as the air.
"Nice little tree house, " Han said, moving slowly toward the center of the room, looking up at the apex of the chamber. "And you've done a wonderful job of cutting down on clutter. I think you've taken the idea of concealed storage to a new level. You'll have to give Leia the name of your decorator. "
"Thank you for coming, Han, " a voice said behind him. "It's good to see you. "
Han spun around and found Luke standing one long stride away, almost as if he had been following Han. Han's face broke into a boyish lopsided grin.
"Well, hey, I wanted to get out of the house, and since I was in the neighborhood-You know, you could've come to see us, too. "
"No, I couldn't, " Luke said. He wore an ankle-length patchwork robe that seemed to be made from bits of several other garments, including a pilot's uniform and a Tatooine sand cape. His demeanor was relaxed but remote, quelling Han's impulse to grab him in a bear hug and clap him on the back. "I hope by the time you leave, you'll understand why. "
"Well-you'll have to start at the beginning, because I don't understand a thing about what's going on, " Han said. "What is this place? Why are you here? Why are you hiding? Why am I here? Why didn't you want Leia to come? "
"Leia wants something from me, " Luke said. "You don't. Your other questions will take longer to answer. "
Han looked around with a frown. "If this is gonna be a long conversation-I don't suppose you have anything like a chair anywhere? "
"Sorry," Luke said, dropping gracefully into a cross-legged meditation posture. "Sit where you like, and I'll put an air cushion under you. "
He waited until Han was comfortably settled, then went on. "As you see, I can hide well enough, even from Leia. But I'd rather be left alone. I hope that you'll go back and ask her to accept that. If she doesn't-well, she's not going to get what she wants. She's only going to drive me away from Coruscant."
This is from Dark Nest III: Swarm
Luke killed the last of Raynar's bodyguards by Force-slamming them into the wall so hard their throraxes burst than the two Jedi were on each others heads with all the speed and might they could summon.
That was the trouble with poweful men-especially younger ones. Awed by their own strength they so ofetn believed strength was the answer to every problem. Luke was older as wiser. While Raynar swung, he pivoted.
As Raynar's gold blade sliced the air where Luke's head has been, Luke's boot was kicking him from behind the ankles, knocking his legs out from under him and stretching him out flat.
Buy Raynar was a Jedi and all Jedi were quick. He caught himself in the Force levitating himself just long enough to bring his golden blade sweeping in at Luke's shoulder.
Luke had no choice but to block with his blade, and no place to block but the forearms Raynar's lightsaber went spinning off.
The pain of losing ab arm might have forced a common Jedi to stop fighting , but Raynar was no common Jedi. He had the Force potential of the Colony to draw on, and he did it now swinging his remaining hand up go hurl Luke down the corridor as he had before.
But this time Luke was ready, he places his own hand in front of Raynar's and rooted himself in the Heart of the Force and when he is that he became the very essence of the immovable object. Nothing could dislodge him- not one of Lando's ateroid tuggers, not the Megador's 16 ion engines, not the black hole at the center of the galaxy itself
Luke stood that way waiting, dimly aware that his surviving bugcrunchersbwwre moving into position. Raynar continued to struglle trying to hurl Like down the corridor, trying to move him a single centimeter. Luke did not budge and finally Raynar stopped struggling and met his eyes with a stunned and anguished gaze.
Star Wars :Legacy of the Force :Inferno
in the next instant, Caedus (Darth Caedus) found himself flying accross the cabin toward his observation bubble. Luke had not gestured, had not flinched, had not even shifted his gaze; he has simply grabbed Caedus in the force and hurled him five meter into his chair.
"Don't lie" Luke started across the cabin "I'm getting tired of it"
Caedus sprang out of his chair.... Or attempted to. Instead he found himself struggling against an invisible wieght. He felt as if he were accelerating to lightspeedbwirh a faulty internal compensator.
"Luke you've gone mad" Caedus reached for the controls on
his chair and discovered he couldn't even do that much.
(Skip some dialogue) the irony of the statement was far from
lost on Caedus, but he was too astonished, and too frightened to take any pleasure from it. While it was true that Luke
had taken him by suprised, it was equally true that he had done so with no visable effort, and that he was continuing to hold him with no apparent exertation.
Keenly aware that all that stood between him and a quick death was Luke Skywalker's much strained sense of decency.
Caedus would have shaken his head save it was still being hold motionless with the Force. Had it been Mara's death instead of Omas's that Luke had just heard about Caedus knew he would already be dead .
"than I'll take it for what it's worth" Luke said. Leaving Caedus Force pinned to his chair , he started toward the door "I'll show myself out"
Caedus threatens the Jedi younglings
the door opened. Without stepping through. Luke faced Caedus and spoke in a very calm voice. "I'm sure your not threatening the younglings" he pointed at the base of Jacen's (Caedus) mediatation chair and made a tapping motion with his finger. The pedestal gave a loud whumpf and the seat dropped a quarter meter.
"because you really don't want to see me angry" Luke made the tapping motion again. The pedestal emitted a metallic shriek and the seat dropped another quarter meter. "andi I think your smart enough to know that" Luke tapped one last tome
and the pedestal collapsed with a low loud clump,"but if you want try me go aged and make the threat"
Star Wars: The courtship of Princess Leia
(Isolder and Luke landing on the planet below. (Luke had slowed his heart down to the point of near death)
nothing happened. He yanked the emerganvy cord, kept tumbling. He flaided hisarms, shouting- and miraculously some type of repulsorlift field hit him slowed him so
that he dropped as softly as a feather.
When
Isolder's feet hit rock his knees shook so badly that he could hardly stand and his heart raced. Isolder threw off his helmet. Storm (his ship) had also settled quietly to the ground but nowhere could Isoldee see a
sign of the repulsorlift mechanism, no generators no antigravity dishes aimed into the air, he looked all around than saw something above: Luke skywalker sitting with his Legs crossed, eyes closed in concentation and arms folded floating to the ground *skywalker* Isolder thought *perhaps that is how is ancestors got their name" when the Jedi had floated within inches of the rock he opened his eyes and jumped. "hey how did
you do that?" until
that moment he had never felt like worshiping anyone or anything.
Star Wars : Black Fleet Crisis :Before the Storm page 37-38
he sat down on the sand cross legged and straight backed and brought his hands together in his lap, fingertip to fingertip. Concentrating on a picture in his mind Luke dipped his awareness deeply into the flow of the Force beneath him. With eyes that looked inward he found what he was seeking. Like flaws in a near-perfect crystal. He extended his will. The sand around him stirred. The rocks shuddered and shifted than began to arise from the sea and the sand as of sifted from
them by an invisible screen. Swirling through te air as they sought their place, the stones took shape as broken wall and shattered foundation, as arch and gate and dome - the ruins of Darth Vader's fortress retreat. It hung in the air around and above Luke as it had once stood atop the cliff a darkfaced and forbidding edifice.
Now the stones swirled again in the air joined by others plucked fro
the sea and stripped from the face of the cliff. Now broken edge fused against broken edge and the dark faces of the rock lightened as teor mineral structures were reshuffled. Now heavy rock walls and floors thinned to
an airy elegance as if they were clay in a potters press. Now
a tower stretched skyward until it rose above the edge of the cliff.
When it was done the last gap closed the last rock transformed the structure securely perched just above the rock on pillars of stone.
[glow=red,2,300]Star Wars : The New Jedi Order : The Unifying Force [/glow]
But the rescue on Belkadan paled in comparison to the control Luke demonstrated now. His single blade might as well have been ten, or twenty.
He took the steps at a lightning pace, burning his way through dilating membranes but in complete control of his momentum. Seen through the Force he was a maelstrom of luminous energy, a Force storm against which there was no shelter. And yet all his energy poured from a calm center; an eye.
He made no missteps. None of his actions were interrupted by thought.
In fact, Luke didn't seem to be there at all-physically or as an individual personality. Jacen and Jaina were astounded-but they had little time to reflect. Their lightsabers were busy, as well, turning the blows Luke dodged, or defending assaults launched from below. On the fourteenth level, where the Citadel's exterior wings sprouted from the hull, they reached a fork in the stairway. Luke swung to Jacen.
"Which way?", He wasn't even breathing heavily.
[glow=red,2,300]Star Wars : Dark Empire Audiobook [/glow]
Luke: "No! I made a mistake! I thought I had to save the galaxy alone. All by myself. But the way of the Jedi is not a solitary path."
Leia: "The holocron!! Luke, the holocron told me to “join with my brother!” "
Luke: "Yes. The Force binds us. Brings us together. Many people are fighting this war, together! Our ally is the Force! Through the strength of the Force, your shroud of evil has been lifted from my mind! "
<Lightsaber activating>
Emperor: "So be it. Through the power of the Force, you will die!"
<Sabers clashing>
Leia: "Be careful, Luke! The Force is strong... they’re both moving so fast, I can hardly see them... I feel waves of power... the Dark Side and the Light but I feel the Light... is winning!"
<sound of Luke landing a blow, cutting off Palpatines hand>
Emperor: "Argh~! My hand~! You've cut off my hand~!"
Luke: "Now, “Your Highness,” we will escort you to the Alliance base, where you will surrender the Galaxy to the New Republic!"
[glow=red,2,300]Star Wars : Dark Nest III: The Swarm War[/glow]
"We need to getout of here" Jacen countered. "Or am I the only one who still feels the Force-call?"
"No---" Zekk said.
"---We feel it, too." Jaina finished.
The call had arisen a few hours earlier, in the middle of a StealthX assault that had failed to turn back the Chiss task force. The summons were coming from the direction of the known galaxy, a sense of beckoning and urgency that was growing more powerful with every passing hour, calling the Jedi Knights back toward Ossus, demanding they return to the Academy at once.
"We all feel it," Tahiri said. She furrowed her scared brow, then turned toward Tesar and Lowbacca. "At least I think we do."
The Barbel and Wookiee nodded in agreement. "Iz hard too ignore," Tesar said.
"And we shouldn't try," Jacen replied. "Something bad must be happening for my uncle to summon us all like this. Even Luke Skywalker can't pull on the Force that hard without suffering from it."