@dawn_of_ages said:
Kota wins.
Didn't know Kota was this powerful, lol. It makes Vader ragdolling him even more impressive.
Oh, Kota's on another level compared to what was presented even above.
So to establish a premise, Kota is fully capable of matching Galen Marek's Force power at this point:
He raised his left hand and with the power of the dark side unleashed a bolt of Sith lightning at the renegade Jedi.
Kota only laughed. Raising his left hand in a move that was a mirror image of the apprentice's own, he sent the lightning arcing back to its source. The energy struck both of them, hurling them apart.
The apprentice broke off the attempt, blinking smoke away from his eyes. His anger intensified. He was the first to his feet and running as soon as his boots touched the deck. He felt completely weightless, yet full of momentum, like a hurled spear. His red blade cut a blur through the air, aimed hard at Kota's throat.
The Jedi general ducked and swept his green lightsaber up and down in a lazy attempt to catch him as he went by. That was a move the apprentice had long ago learned to avoid by tucking his head down closer to his center of gravity and rolling in midair, then kicking himself back at his opponent off the nearest wall. This time he pushed telekinetically as he came, attempting to knock Kota's feet out from under him before bringing his blade to bear.
Again, however, Kota deflected his Force energies back at him. Again they were pushed apart.
More cautiously the apprentice circled him, slicing chairs to pieces as he walked and sending the glowing fragments at his enemy's head. Anger made him eager to attack, but he knew better than to give in to it. He hadn't been humiliated. He had successfully tested Kota's defenses. Now that he knew a direct attack would probably fail, he had to find another way to get closer to the man. Or to make the Jedi come to him.
--The Force Unleashed
As you can see, all Galen Marek can get out of Kota with his telekinetic and lightning assaults is a chuckle. He only slightly manages to push Kota back with his Force attacks, while also being hurled back himself. Yes, this happened before any of Marek's big feats, but any large time skip between the missions to Nar Shaddaa, Raxus Prime and Felucia doesn’t exist. As soon as Marek reports of his successes to Vader, the Dark Lord immediately sends him off to another (links 1 and 2). Marek’s fight with Shaak Ti takes place only weeks after his duel with Rahm Kota at best. It would be a huge stretch to argue any sort of large gap between Nar Shaddaa Marek and Felucia Marek, especially when such a gap has never been stated to exist. Marek is for all intents and purposes operating on the same power level against Shaak Ti that he did against Rahm Kota, yet the Jedi General is able to stalemate him in a contest of Force power. Kota should thus logically be able to replicate all of the feats I'll list for Marek:
- THE CORELLIAN CORVETTE: A few things to take into account for this feat: first, it would take the Apprentice hours to run around the ship (link) with Force-augmented speed, which implies it is at the very least hundreds of meters long, considering how fast Force users can go; second, it was also stated to possibly take the Rodian scavengers present on the planet months to turn the ship into scrap (link), so it is indeed very large. Now here is the feat in full (link), and for a brief overview, essentially the Apprentice’s lightning generated enough joules for the corvette to move the same distance in seconds that would’ve taken the Apprentice’s Force-augmented speed hours, and had enough residual potency for the ship to have moved dozens of seconds even after that.
- KAZDAN PARATUS: On Raxus Prime, the Apprentice confronts an army of droid golems which he then ragdolls and forms a hurricane out of (link). The thing to note here is that these are not your typical droids, but animatronic puppets animated and powered by Kazdan Paratus’ Force abilities (link). Through Kazdan Paratus, the droid golems were able to utilize Force abilities such as telekinesis, Force shield and Force drain like any other Force sensitive (link), making them for all intents and purposes identical to typical Force users. Given this, it would not be inaccurate to say that the Apprentice outright ragdolled a literal army of Force users numbering in the “thousands," which were capable of holding off the forces of the Galactic Empire for years (link). After disposing of Kazdan Paratus’ minions, the Apprentice comes face-to-face with the mad Jedi, and ragdolls him too (link). So the Apprentice can ragdoll a guy who is powerful enough to animate seemingly thousands of droids with telekinesis over the radius of kilometers and grant them the ability to touch the Force.
- THE FAUX JEDI TEMPLE: After his fight with Kazdan Paratus, the Apprentice muses how he could level the crazed Jedi’s junk Jedi Temple with a single Force push (link). The Temple was stated by Juno Eclipse to look exactly like the real one on Coruscant (link), being stated to be one kilometer in height (link), and while they may not be completely identical, it is still obviously enormous.
- SHAAK TI: During the Apprentice’s fight with Shaak Ti, special note was given to the Jedi Master’s ability to telepathically dominate all life on Felucia, a planet completely overgrown with vegetation and all sorts of organisms (link). Yet, the Apprentice overpowers her with a Force repulse, with the following comments emphasizing his superiority: “Shaak Ti’s command over Felucia was impressive. She communed with its native species, commanding its flora and fauna to attack. But even with an entire planet at her command, she could not hold Starkiller. No one could…” (link). Further extolling the impressiveness of the Apprentice’s showings against Shaak Ti, the Jedi Master could not only dominate the Felucians - all of which are inherently Force sensitive (link) and the most powerful ones “are among the most talented natural Force-users in the galaxy” (link) - to do her bidding, but she had also nerfed their connection to the Force (link) - and with the Felucian community being spread across the entire planet (link), it is even further indication of her global influence - and simultaneously transformed the entire planet into a light side nexus (link) The effect her death had on the planet is also accounted in great detail, further demonstrating the influence she held over the inhabitants and Force alignment of the entire planet (link) And given the light side nexus Shaak Ti had fashioned, the Apprentice, as a darksider, would have been hindered in his fight against her, making his feats all the more astonishing.
So yeah… Kota one-shots Zallow. And indeed, Vader can ragdoll Kota with seeming impunity years before his prime.
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