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Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :

I recently replayed "Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight" and "Jedi Knight: Mysteries Of The Sith", almost entirely by lightsabre (maybe a concussion rifle to snipe off a guard or two, or some grenades, but that's it) and enjoyed it far more than the first time I played them, three years ago.

There lies special pleasure in dropping from an air vent down to a room with five stormtroopers, cutting down three of them when you land, deflecting a few blaster shots from the remaining two troopers, jumping over their heads and slashing their unguarded backs, all the while your health and shields are still at the lovely 100/200. Makes you feel useful.

The force powers were especially pleasing this time around as well, as was the strategy in choosing which ones to develop.
Oh, to lift a guard off the ground with Vader's classic choke move, his feet kicking and his hands grasping the throat. Or throwing your sabre at a guard, running around him and picking it up after it has passed through him.

Anyhow, I payed more attention to all the beautiful and carefully crafted cutscene movies of "Jedi Knight", my monitor is now better than the 14" I had in -98.
Thus, I was surprised when I noticed the wide assortment of identifiable sabres in the game, very different from each other and not a single "cameo" of the original ones (Kenobi, Vader, Anakin).

So I fixed some pictures that I could use in my collection, and thought I'd share them with you gois.

These are the ones from the games, but maybe Mara Jade's sabre design was established even before "Mysteries Of The Sith".

The late Jedi Rahn's sabre, kept by Morgan Katarn and passed on to Kyle Katarn.
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKRahn01.jpg
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKRahn02.jpg
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKRahn03CGI.jpg

And the schematic from the in-game Setup menu.
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKRahnSchematic.jpg

The Dark Jedi Yun's sabre, later to be taken over by Kyle as Rahn's sabre is destroyed. (This is only the CGI version, the prop wasn't visible enough in the cutscenes)
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKYun.jpg

The Dark Jedi Sariss' sabre, a truly intriguing and beautiful design, the sloped emitter looks a bit like Vader's. She holds it with both hands and still has a bit of it free, it must be a long one.
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKSariss01.jpg

The Dark Jedi Pic's little sabre. (Looks a lot like Kenobi's design from ANH, only smaller)
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKPic01.jpg
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKPic02.jpg

The Dark Jedi Boc's sabres. Yes, he's one of the few who goes akimbo. An interesting note that the grips are white, very unorthodox. Unfortunately no full monty there either...
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKBoc01.jpg

And now the big tamale, Dark Jedi Lord Jerec's sabre. My favourite, a very simple yet streamlined and organic design. The first two pics are CGI, when Kyle force-pulls it to him, the second pair is the real prop.
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKJerec01CGI.jpg
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKJerec02CGI.jpg
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKJerec01.jpg
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKJerec02Scale.jpg

From "Mysteries Of The Sith", Mara Jade's sabre.
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/JKMaraCGI01.jpg

Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

Hmmm...very cool. Never played the games. However, one of the card games has a Mara Jade card and a Mara Jade's Lightsaber Card. It doesn't really resemble the one you show here.

I have no idea which came out first.

Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :

Here is Curtis Saxton's reply, when I posted this over at Bob's;

"Mara's violet-bladed sabre originated in Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand (graphic novel by Timothy Zahn and Michael Stackpole).

UNFORTUNATELY, By the time of Jedi Knight/MotS Mara doesn't even USE that sabre anymore, she uses Luke's FIRST sabre, Anakin's sabre).
She doesn't even HAVE a sabre of her own during the Thrawn Trilogy which means that the violet sabre would have HAD to have been lost in the intervening years between the Zahn/Stackpole comic and the Thrawn Trilogy.

This unfortunate continuity glitch also resurfaces in Star Wars: Union, where Mara uses her VIOLET sabre from By the Emperor's Hand, NOT the one Luke gave her. This is a particular problem because Mara's violet sabre doesn't even APPEAR in the Bantam and NJO series novels, she uses the Anakin sabre there.

Even more annoying is that the cover to Union #1 (the one with a ton of X-wings and TIE Interceptors flying a parade formation above Luke and Mara) shows the Anakin sabre, but the cover of the full graphic novel collection uses the VIOLET sabre. "

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

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The Dark Jedi Pic's little sabre. (Looks a lot like Kenobi's design from ANH, only smaller)

Is that a hand? I gather it is an alien... Jedi?

hmmmm.

Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :

Yes, that is Dark Jedi Lord Jerec's gloved hand, grasping for his weapon in the last cutscene of "Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight".He's human.