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In a couple of EU sources, there's talk about the last battle between the Jedi and the Sith, many centuries before the movies. In the battle of Ruusan, the Sith set off a 'thought bomb,' which apparently took out most of the Sith *and* Jedi in the area and caused a lot of devastation.

It just occurred to me that, perhaps, this is what the Emperor did when he blew up at the end of ROTJ. A last-ditch attempt to take vengeance on the father-son tag-team that had done him in. Maybe as he was falling he formed, created, and set off a thought bomb, which would explain the explosion, and possibly also why Vader was a hell of a lot weaker after he threw the Emperor over the side of the shaft. (Though admittedly, it's more likely that the Emperor's lightning zapped out his life support relays. But, IIRC, we don't see Vader collapse against the railing until after the Emperor blows up real good....)

Ah, well. It's just a thought. I know Lucas didn't have 'thought bombs' in mind when he directed that scene. :)
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I thought the Emperor farted, and that was the explosion.
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I do recall reading one SW EU comic about the battle between Exar Kun and the Jedi. The Jedi did some combined Force thing and the effect set fire to some forests on Yavin. Not really stated how much of the forests got burned but they burned nonetheless.
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ViciousMink wrote:In a couple of EU sources, there's talk about the last battle between the Jedi and the Sith, many centuries before the movies. In the battle of Ruusan, the Sith set off a 'thought bomb,' which apparently took out most of the Sith *and* Jedi in the area and caused a lot of devastation.

It just occurred to me that, perhaps, this is what the Emperor did when he blew up at the end of ROTJ. A last-ditch attempt to take vengeance on the father-son tag-team that had done him in. Maybe as he was falling he formed, created, and set off a thought bomb, which would explain the explosion, and possibly also why Vader was a hell of a lot weaker after he threw the Emperor over the side of the shaft. (Though admittedly, it's more likely that the Emperor's lightning zapped out his life support relays. But, IIRC, we don't see Vader collapse against the railing until after the Emperor blows up real good....)

Ah, well. It's just a thought. I know Lucas didn't have 'thought bombs' in mind when he directed that scene. :)
It's already been explained that the Emperor's explosion (and a large number of dark-siders in the EU) was actually all of the dark side energies in him exploding out at the point of death.
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If you could call that his death.:P
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Aya wrote:If you could call that his death.:P
Well, if you exploded you'd die, wouldn't you? :D
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Yeah, but it turned out he didn't die on the DS, he just lost his body, one of millions of bodies.
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Was the thought bomb anything like what the Jedi Students did in Darksaber?
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Well, IIRC the thought bomb would enslave spirits and feed off force power.
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Ah, KJA, I'm sure.
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Aya wrote:Yeah, but it turned out he didn't die on the DS, he just lost his body, one of millions of bodies.
All he did was telepathically transfer his thought patterns to a clone of his genetic material.
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FaxModem1 wrote:I thought the Emperor farted, and that was the explosion.
Hmm.... sense more Palpy fart jokes, I do. :D
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Nice observation. Althought it is highly unlikely that Lucas had that in mind......
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Darth Pounder wrote:Was the thought bomb anything like what the Jedi Students did in Darksaber?
No, and don't mention that monstrosity KJA again.
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The thought bomb was set off at the valley of the Jedi (JK JKII)
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Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight (the novelisation of it anyway).


I was about to say that and you beat me to it. ; )
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Theres a novellisation :shock:
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I thought the Emperor farted, and that was the explosion.
Thanks for the mental image :roll:
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Post by Kurgan »

Theres a novellisation
Three, in fact.

They're slim novels (novelles?) with pictures, but books none-the-less (they're not comics).
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