Post by Silver on Jul 6, 2011 14:23:09 GMT -5
Exar Kun was a very influential Sith and a favorite one of mine. He is definitely deserving of a respect thread.
As with other EU respect threads, however, this will be different in that comics are not the only source material for Star Wars. To represent Kun's capabilities, I will be posting plenty of comic scans but also quoting novels, sourcebooks, handbooks, etc. For those of you who are hazy on Star Wars knowledge, let me explain a few things first.
1. Just in case this needs to be said, EU is Expanded Universe. Basically, EU Star Wars is all information and material separate from the movies. This includes TV shows, comics, novels, video games, etc.
2. The Star Wars canon classes will be brought up in this thread at least a few times. So, to follow the terms I use and just to clarify, in Star Wars continuity, there are five canon classes.
3. I may also abbreviate the titles of events or series. For instance, Tales of the Jedi is TotJ. Jedi Academy is JA. Dark Apprentice is DA. Champions of the Force is CotF. Tales of the Jedi is the comic series in which Exar Kun was shown alive. It took place roughly 4000 years before A New Hope. The Jedi Academy trilogy is a series of novels where Kun's spirit surfaced. It took place 11 years after A New Hope. So all feats pertaining to Exar during TotJ were his feats while in a physical body, and his feats during JA were performed by his Essence.
4. As I said above, I will be quoting books. I will have no scans of pages from novels and only a few from sourcebooks/handbooks. In general, I will take a section from a book, quote, and list what the source material is.
5. For those of you who may be skeptical about my using sourcebooks/handbooks as a legitimate source of information, understand that Star Wars source/handbooks have a much better level of credibility than Marvel handbooks, for instance. In comparison with the comic or novel that a certain section may be based on, Star Wars handbooks and sourcebooks tend to be extremely accurate and are often re-released every few years with updated information. Facts provided in sourcebooks are C-Canon.
6. In addition to posting feats and general showings, I will make a few comparisons in this thread but not many. Force sensitives have the quality of being comparable to one another in the sense that a Green Lantern might be used as a power reference for another. What I mean by that is if John Stewart has programmed his Ring to attack an opponent traveling at a certain speed, it should be plausible for Guy to theoretically replicate that even if he never has in the past. The same generally applies for Force sensitives, sometimes even more so depending on the circumstances. So although there will be only a few in this thread, I will be making a couple general comparisons.
Having gone through all that (hopefully it all makes sense), respect Kun.
Exar Kun/TotJ
Powers
Exar Kun is brought to Korriban where he is transformed by the Essence of Freedon Nadd, beginning his descent into the dark side, and in doing so, Kun sends out a cry through the Force that can be heard by Jedi across the galaxy.
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Force Blast
Force Blast is a power that focuses Force energies into a concussive blast. Exar is a very significant user of this ability.
When he was attacked by the Massassi on Yavin IV and brought to the Massassi Temple, Exar channels his power through a pair of Sith gauntlets to release Force Blasts with sufficient power to destroy portions of the Massassi Temple, kill a massive dark side beast alchemically engineered by Naga Sadow, and kill several Massassi warriors.
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When confronting Ulic Qel-Droma, Exar one-shots Aleema without effort.
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Telekinesis
Force Telekinesis is a power through which a Force sensitive can move, contort, and control matter for a variety of effects, ranging from constructive purposes to destructive ones.
Here, he draws his lightsaber to himself through the Force.
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Kun uses Force Push to send Sylvar flying away from him.
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He uses Force Pull to steal a holocron and then kills Odan-Urr.
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Telepathy
One of his particular strengths, Exar has shown a substantial ability to affect the minds of other beings.
Using his Sith magic, Kun was able to reverse the lingering dark side power that kept the Massassi submissive to Naga Sadow and reverted their loyalties to himself.
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In an assembly to judge Ulic Qel-Droma, Exar uses a spell to mesmerize observers and force them into inaction and then proceeds to influence the mind of the Senate president into repeating whatever he says.
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--Taken from the New Essential Chronology
Farsight/Vision/Sense
Farsight, Vision, and Sense are Force powers that allow the user to peer into the future, gain clairvoyant information, detect life, and perceive all surroundings, among other uses.
Exar could search for dark siders around the galaxy.
--Taken from the New Essential Chronology
Sith Alchemy
Sith alchemy is not a technical power so much as it is channeling dark side energies while performing rituals or drawing power from artifacts/talismans or utilizing science (or all of the above) to manipulate beings. In a way, it could be classified as a prep showing, but I add it here because it necessitates dark side power to be accomplished. Many Sith have used Sith magic to mutate beasts, for instance. Exar Kun was an especially skilled practitioner.
Exar decides to study texts laid down by Naga Sadow.
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In these scans, he enacts a ritual to mutate a Massassi warrior, increasing its ferocity and power.
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Exar also created other dark side beasts, such as the terentateks, and built a sphere that gathered Force energies for him to absorb.
--Taken from the New Essential Chronology
Summoning Jedi to Yavin, Kun uses the holocron he stole to infuse them with his dark side power.
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Force Scream
Scream is a usually involuntarily used power by dark siders from which they release a powerful super scream brought on by intense anger, pain, or distress.
Exar sends out a cry that was detected across the galaxy as Freedon Nadd transformed him.
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Force Drain
Drain is a dark side power that drains the life and Force energies present inside living beings, both Force sensitive and non-Force sensitive, as a means to kill them and enhance the user.
Kun was able to use Force Drain on a colossal scale, siphoning the life forces of thousands of Massassi warriors.
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Essence Transfer
Essence Transfer, Transfer Essence, or Spirit Transference is an ability that allows a dark sider to exit their body in the form of their Force energy consciousness and possess another body or even an inanimate object. Essence Transfer is an extremely dangerous and difficult power to use because if a Sith's Essence fails to possess another body or object, they will be formless forever in Chaos. Aside from failure to possess a host, the only means by which an Essence can be defeated is if the Essence is banished to Chaos by a Jedi or another Sith. This happened to Exar Kun. Some Sith, such as Marka Ragnos, have anchored their Essences to an artifact, in Ragnos' case, a talisman. Most Sith, however, regardless of what they possess, have to perform a ritual or speak an incantation in order to use it. For most dark siders, if they remain without anything to anchor their spirits to the physical world, they end up in Chaos.
Exar sets up a ritual on Yavin IV wherein he chains himself to the center of the Temple, Drains the life energies of the Massassi, and projects his Essence into the Temple, anchoring it there.
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Another application of his gauntlets was the ability to banish Sith spirits. Exar did this to the Essence of Freedon Nadd. It is important to note that Kun did this during his first journey to Yavin and had not yet reached his prime.
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Speed/Dark Rage
Force Speed allows the user to accelerate their movements, reflexes, thought processes, and perceptions. Dark Rage augments a Force practitioner's strength and resolve. Although Exar has few speed feats, it could be speculated that he could accomplish speed on the level of Darth Bane.
Exar shows high striking power, as he uses his lightsaber to break through Mandalorian iron in front of the tomb of Freedon Nadd. Upon entering, Exar awakens Nadd's spirit.
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Another strength feat, he smashes a holocron in his hand.
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With no apparent strain, Exar lifts the head representative of the Senate with one hand.
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In the duration of his duel against Vodo-Siosk Baas, Kun appears to swing his lightsaber fast enough to create afterimages.
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And again, there appear to be afterimages of Exar's lightsaber.
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Dueling
Exar Kun was a renowned lightsaber duelist. He is believed to have invented the double-bladed lightsaber and has multiple victories over his enemies.
While training under his Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, Exar defeats Crado and Sylvar in single combat and then duels his master, failing initially but overcoming him with twin blades.
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Here, Kun stalemates Ulic Qel-Droma, an extremely skilled Jedi duelist. Before their duel concludes, their talismans reveal the Essence of Marka Ragnos who appoints them the titles of Dark Lord of the Sith and Sith Lord.
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Finally, Exar Kun and Vodo Baas have a last duel in which Kun kills his former master.
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Intelligence/Prep
Exar has proven to be extremely dangerous with prep. The reasons for that are:
1) He was a masterful manipulator. He manipulated the Jedi into turning on one another to instigate the Great Sith War and had countless Massassi servants and warriors in servitude to his purposes on Yavin IV. Along with Ulic, Kun was able to manipulate Aleema into setting off a chain reaction of supernovas using Naga Sadow's ship to kill Jedi attackers and eliminate Aleema for her treachery.
2) Exar's strategic intellect was key in coordinating various battles during the Great Sith War. Although Ulic generally led their forces in skirmishes, Kun was important in the organization and tactics used in the war.
3) Kun is very resourceful. He had his Massassi warriors build numerous structures and buildings on Yavin IV, presumably as well as starfighters. He had vast fleets, armies of soldiers, superweapons, and other military assets. Because of his findings on Yavin, Exar obtained much of Naga Sadow's machines, talismans, and other dark side-imbued equipment to aid in Sith alchemy. In addition to having engineers and builders construct items for him, Exar proved to be an inventor himself when matters related to Sith magic, showing his intelligence in the realm of mechanical knowledge as it corresponds to dark side power.
4) He is an accomplished Sith alchemist. Showings I presented above of his alchemical feats do apply to prep and enhance the point of his prep mastery.
Superweapons
Dark Reaper
Among his prep accomplishments, Kun developed a superweapon called the Dark Reaper which drained life forces from sentient beings, killing them in battle. While this was never shown on-panel, it was stated more than once as being used by Kun during the Sith War.
--Taken from the New Essential Chronology
Corsair
The Corsair was Naga Sadow's capital ship which was equipped with Sith crystals that Sadow used in conjunction with his Sith magic to destroy stars. Exar and Ulic tricked Aleema Keto into using the power of this vessel to eradicate the Cron Cluster, a collection of 10 stars. Knowing she would not be able to control the energies of the crystals, Exar had Aleema wipe out their enemies, decimate the surface of a far-off planet of Ossus, and killed Aleema in the process as revenge for her treachery against Ulic and Exar.
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For Exar's manipulative abilities.
Strategic Manipulation
Exar was able to compel several Jedi to revert to his side and kill their fellows according to his design.
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An important detail to list is that the Jedi of this time had been without Sith opposition for centuries since Freedon Nadd. While Arca Jeth, Ulic Qel-Droma, Cay Qel-Droma, and Tott Doneeta did handle a Sith uprising from the spirit of Nadd shortly before Exar's emergence, they had largely been free to grow in numbers and in knowledge for years unhindered by any dark side enemies, resulting in the Jedi extending their Order to vast numbers, but despite this Exar was able to effectively challenge and influence the Jedi Order as a whole through careful planning. Kun carried out his strategies expertly, preying on the vulnerabilities, fears, and lack of understanding of various Jedi students and converting them to his cause, as well as abusing ancient Sith armaments, battlecruisers, and warriors.
As with other EU respect threads, however, this will be different in that comics are not the only source material for Star Wars. To represent Kun's capabilities, I will be posting plenty of comic scans but also quoting novels, sourcebooks, handbooks, etc. For those of you who are hazy on Star Wars knowledge, let me explain a few things first.
1. Just in case this needs to be said, EU is Expanded Universe. Basically, EU Star Wars is all information and material separate from the movies. This includes TV shows, comics, novels, video games, etc.
2. The Star Wars canon classes will be brought up in this thread at least a few times. So, to follow the terms I use and just to clarify, in Star Wars continuity, there are five canon classes.
- G-Canon- (George Lucas Canon). This is the highest canon class. It includes only the movies and material pertaining to them.
- T-Canon- (Television Canon). This is the second highest canon class and includes any information provided in TV shows. This includes Star Wars The Clone Wars, as an example.
- C-Canon- (Continuity Canon). This is the basic canon. This includes everything else that is confirmed to be in continuity, i.e., novels, comics, sourcebooks/handbooks, video games, etc.
- S-Canon- (Secondary Canon). This is essentially any information that has yet to be confirmed as canon. It should only be mentioned in the context that there is a chance a given piece of information could be non-canon.
- N-Canon- (Non Canon). Self-explanatory.
3. I may also abbreviate the titles of events or series. For instance, Tales of the Jedi is TotJ. Jedi Academy is JA. Dark Apprentice is DA. Champions of the Force is CotF. Tales of the Jedi is the comic series in which Exar Kun was shown alive. It took place roughly 4000 years before A New Hope. The Jedi Academy trilogy is a series of novels where Kun's spirit surfaced. It took place 11 years after A New Hope. So all feats pertaining to Exar during TotJ were his feats while in a physical body, and his feats during JA were performed by his Essence.
4. As I said above, I will be quoting books. I will have no scans of pages from novels and only a few from sourcebooks/handbooks. In general, I will take a section from a book, quote, and list what the source material is.
5. For those of you who may be skeptical about my using sourcebooks/handbooks as a legitimate source of information, understand that Star Wars source/handbooks have a much better level of credibility than Marvel handbooks, for instance. In comparison with the comic or novel that a certain section may be based on, Star Wars handbooks and sourcebooks tend to be extremely accurate and are often re-released every few years with updated information. Facts provided in sourcebooks are C-Canon.
6. In addition to posting feats and general showings, I will make a few comparisons in this thread but not many. Force sensitives have the quality of being comparable to one another in the sense that a Green Lantern might be used as a power reference for another. What I mean by that is if John Stewart has programmed his Ring to attack an opponent traveling at a certain speed, it should be plausible for Guy to theoretically replicate that even if he never has in the past. The same generally applies for Force sensitives, sometimes even more so depending on the circumstances. So although there will be only a few in this thread, I will be making a couple general comparisons.
Having gone through all that (hopefully it all makes sense), respect Kun.
Exar Kun/TotJ
Powers
Exar Kun is brought to Korriban where he is transformed by the Essence of Freedon Nadd, beginning his descent into the dark side, and in doing so, Kun sends out a cry through the Force that can be heard by Jedi across the galaxy.
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Force Blast
Force Blast is a power that focuses Force energies into a concussive blast. Exar is a very significant user of this ability.
When he was attacked by the Massassi on Yavin IV and brought to the Massassi Temple, Exar channels his power through a pair of Sith gauntlets to release Force Blasts with sufficient power to destroy portions of the Massassi Temple, kill a massive dark side beast alchemically engineered by Naga Sadow, and kill several Massassi warriors.
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When confronting Ulic Qel-Droma, Exar one-shots Aleema without effort.
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Telekinesis
Force Telekinesis is a power through which a Force sensitive can move, contort, and control matter for a variety of effects, ranging from constructive purposes to destructive ones.
Here, he draws his lightsaber to himself through the Force.
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Kun uses Force Push to send Sylvar flying away from him.
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He uses Force Pull to steal a holocron and then kills Odan-Urr.
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Telepathy
One of his particular strengths, Exar has shown a substantial ability to affect the minds of other beings.
Using his Sith magic, Kun was able to reverse the lingering dark side power that kept the Massassi submissive to Naga Sadow and reverted their loyalties to himself.
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In an assembly to judge Ulic Qel-Droma, Exar uses a spell to mesmerize observers and force them into inaction and then proceeds to influence the mind of the Senate president into repeating whatever he says.
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During Ulic's sentencing, the doors crashed open and Exar Kun strode in, flanked by bestial Massassi bodyguards. Before the whole assembly, the new Dark Lord of the Sith used his powers to hypnotize the observers and manipulate the president of the senate.
--Taken from the New Essential Chronology
Farsight/Vision/Sense
Farsight, Vision, and Sense are Force powers that allow the user to peer into the future, gain clairvoyant information, detect life, and perceive all surroundings, among other uses.
Exar could search for dark siders around the galaxy.
With his mind he reached across the galaxy and detected other users of Sith magic in the Empress Teta system.
--Taken from the New Essential Chronology
Sith Alchemy
Sith alchemy is not a technical power so much as it is channeling dark side energies while performing rituals or drawing power from artifacts/talismans or utilizing science (or all of the above) to manipulate beings. In a way, it could be classified as a prep showing, but I add it here because it necessitates dark side power to be accomplished. Many Sith have used Sith magic to mutate beasts, for instance. Exar Kun was an especially skilled practitioner.
Exar decides to study texts laid down by Naga Sadow.
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In these scans, he enacts a ritual to mutate a Massassi warrior, increasing its ferocity and power.
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Exar also created other dark side beasts, such as the terentateks, and built a sphere that gathered Force energies for him to absorb.
An extremely powerful figure now, Kun dabbled in dark side alchemy, creating freakish two-headed avians and hulking terentateks that thirsted after Force-rich blood. He invented a glowing golden sphere that trapped the children of the Massassi and allowed him to feed off their energies.
--Taken from the New Essential Chronology
Summoning Jedi to Yavin, Kun uses the holocron he stole to infuse them with his dark side power.
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Force Scream
Scream is a usually involuntarily used power by dark siders from which they release a powerful super scream brought on by intense anger, pain, or distress.
Exar sends out a cry that was detected across the galaxy as Freedon Nadd transformed him.
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Force Drain
Drain is a dark side power that drains the life and Force energies present inside living beings, both Force sensitive and non-Force sensitive, as a means to kill them and enhance the user.
Kun was able to use Force Drain on a colossal scale, siphoning the life forces of thousands of Massassi warriors.
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Essence Transfer
Essence Transfer, Transfer Essence, or Spirit Transference is an ability that allows a dark sider to exit their body in the form of their Force energy consciousness and possess another body or even an inanimate object. Essence Transfer is an extremely dangerous and difficult power to use because if a Sith's Essence fails to possess another body or object, they will be formless forever in Chaos. Aside from failure to possess a host, the only means by which an Essence can be defeated is if the Essence is banished to Chaos by a Jedi or another Sith. This happened to Exar Kun. Some Sith, such as Marka Ragnos, have anchored their Essences to an artifact, in Ragnos' case, a talisman. Most Sith, however, regardless of what they possess, have to perform a ritual or speak an incantation in order to use it. For most dark siders, if they remain without anything to anchor their spirits to the physical world, they end up in Chaos.
Exar sets up a ritual on Yavin IV wherein he chains himself to the center of the Temple, Drains the life energies of the Massassi, and projects his Essence into the Temple, anchoring it there.
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Another application of his gauntlets was the ability to banish Sith spirits. Exar did this to the Essence of Freedon Nadd. It is important to note that Kun did this during his first journey to Yavin and had not yet reached his prime.
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Speed/Dark Rage
Force Speed allows the user to accelerate their movements, reflexes, thought processes, and perceptions. Dark Rage augments a Force practitioner's strength and resolve. Although Exar has few speed feats, it could be speculated that he could accomplish speed on the level of Darth Bane.
Exar shows high striking power, as he uses his lightsaber to break through Mandalorian iron in front of the tomb of Freedon Nadd. Upon entering, Exar awakens Nadd's spirit.
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Another strength feat, he smashes a holocron in his hand.
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With no apparent strain, Exar lifts the head representative of the Senate with one hand.
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In the duration of his duel against Vodo-Siosk Baas, Kun appears to swing his lightsaber fast enough to create afterimages.
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And again, there appear to be afterimages of Exar's lightsaber.
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Dueling
Exar Kun was a renowned lightsaber duelist. He is believed to have invented the double-bladed lightsaber and has multiple victories over his enemies.
While training under his Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, Exar defeats Crado and Sylvar in single combat and then duels his master, failing initially but overcoming him with twin blades.
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Here, Kun stalemates Ulic Qel-Droma, an extremely skilled Jedi duelist. Before their duel concludes, their talismans reveal the Essence of Marka Ragnos who appoints them the titles of Dark Lord of the Sith and Sith Lord.
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Finally, Exar Kun and Vodo Baas have a last duel in which Kun kills his former master.
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Intelligence/Prep
Exar has proven to be extremely dangerous with prep. The reasons for that are:
1) He was a masterful manipulator. He manipulated the Jedi into turning on one another to instigate the Great Sith War and had countless Massassi servants and warriors in servitude to his purposes on Yavin IV. Along with Ulic, Kun was able to manipulate Aleema into setting off a chain reaction of supernovas using Naga Sadow's ship to kill Jedi attackers and eliminate Aleema for her treachery.
2) Exar's strategic intellect was key in coordinating various battles during the Great Sith War. Although Ulic generally led their forces in skirmishes, Kun was important in the organization and tactics used in the war.
3) Kun is very resourceful. He had his Massassi warriors build numerous structures and buildings on Yavin IV, presumably as well as starfighters. He had vast fleets, armies of soldiers, superweapons, and other military assets. Because of his findings on Yavin, Exar obtained much of Naga Sadow's machines, talismans, and other dark side-imbued equipment to aid in Sith alchemy. In addition to having engineers and builders construct items for him, Exar proved to be an inventor himself when matters related to Sith magic, showing his intelligence in the realm of mechanical knowledge as it corresponds to dark side power.
4) He is an accomplished Sith alchemist. Showings I presented above of his alchemical feats do apply to prep and enhance the point of his prep mastery.
Superweapons
Dark Reaper
Among his prep accomplishments, Kun developed a superweapon called the Dark Reaper which drained life forces from sentient beings, killing them in battle. While this was never shown on-panel, it was stated more than once as being used by Kun during the Sith War.
Exar Kun had also constructed a Sith superweapon, the Dark Reaper, that was capable of drawing in the life energies of thousands of combatants. Ulic unleashed the Dark Reaper against hundreds of Republic troops on the outpost of Raxus Prime.
--Taken from the New Essential Chronology
Corsair
The Corsair was Naga Sadow's capital ship which was equipped with Sith crystals that Sadow used in conjunction with his Sith magic to destroy stars. Exar and Ulic tricked Aleema Keto into using the power of this vessel to eradicate the Cron Cluster, a collection of 10 stars. Knowing she would not be able to control the energies of the crystals, Exar had Aleema wipe out their enemies, decimate the surface of a far-off planet of Ossus, and killed Aleema in the process as revenge for her treachery against Ulic and Exar.
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For Exar's manipulative abilities.
Strategic Manipulation
Exar was able to compel several Jedi to revert to his side and kill their fellows according to his design.
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An important detail to list is that the Jedi of this time had been without Sith opposition for centuries since Freedon Nadd. While Arca Jeth, Ulic Qel-Droma, Cay Qel-Droma, and Tott Doneeta did handle a Sith uprising from the spirit of Nadd shortly before Exar's emergence, they had largely been free to grow in numbers and in knowledge for years unhindered by any dark side enemies, resulting in the Jedi extending their Order to vast numbers, but despite this Exar was able to effectively challenge and influence the Jedi Order as a whole through careful planning. Kun carried out his strategies expertly, preying on the vulnerabilities, fears, and lack of understanding of various Jedi students and converting them to his cause, as well as abusing ancient Sith armaments, battlecruisers, and warriors.