Their speeds were downgraded severely in the Disney Canon; they are only
Relativistic in the Extended Universe, and even that calculation seems to be iffy.
Anyways, regarding the Striking Strength of Star Wars characters, ChaosTheory and I had a conversation about this.
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Lina Shields wrote
I was wondering, would it be appropriate to place all the Jedi/Sith at Class GJ striking strength? I know that you have done actual calculations for this. However, it just seems to me that those were casual strikes, and not representations of their true power.
Also, didn't the Jedi/Sith at one point tank and push back Force Pushes from other Jedi/Sith? Wouldn't it take Force augmented physical strength to perform something like this?
It's kinda like in Dragonball Z/Fate series where a Solar System level character does a casual ki blast, or a punch, and we only see parts of a cliff/boulder destroyed. AKA: fiction.
I may be going off a tangent here, but it seems to be that since the Jedi/Sith can perform from Town level to Small Island level feats via the Force (higher in the EU), shouldn't their Striking Strength correlate to their Force abilities since the Jedi/Sith directly use the Force to augment their physical capabilities?
ChaosTheory wrote
In general Class GJ is fairly broad as it trickles all the way down to Ahsoka for having physically not been completely or immediately overwhelmed by General Grievous way back in Season 1 of TCW. Skilled as she was, she was still a neophyte and hardly on her way to Knighthood.
Not how it works given you have things like Force Barriers and Defense to chew away at the energy being imparted onto a Force Users. It doesn't effect the muscles so much as form a layer of protection over their skin/body/etc to mitigate the force exerted.
The Force is bizarre in that their physical amplification is incredibly inefficient and there are few if any showings I can think of that would warrant higher striking power
Especially when the Force is largely what determines durability and needs to be consciously applied. Its why you can have Kas'im block Bane's TK with a Force Barrier but the Rakatan Temple collapsing still kills him. And that's not really an isolated example (notable being Mace Windu dying from free fall after surviving Sidious Lightning)
Lina Shields wrote
Another thing to ask: If a Force User's strikes were that much weaker compared to their other attacks, why would they bother physically attacking in the first place? Considering that their durability can go high enough to actually match their AP via force (Continent level), wouldn't this mean that the Jedi/Sith's AP would have to be Continent level in order to break through their passive force barriers? Their attacks would be bounced back with impunity otherwise...
Also, during Kas'im and the temple collapse, I did look over the part in the Bane novel again, and it seemed that Kas'im was very much drained of energy after that duel with Bane. This would mean that it does not apply to Kas'im's durability in this case, as Kas'im never had his force barrier up at that time.
In the Mace Windu example, he tanked a direct blast from Palpatine's force lightning; given how powerful Palpatine is, this would have likely placed Windu in a near-death state, meaning that Windu wouldn't have his force barrier up in this case.
Lastly: I remember that there was also a point where Darth Caedus "knocked away turbolasers and heavy blaster cannon fire which can generate kiloton to gigaton range yields" with his lightsaber. This speaks volumes of Darth Caedus' physical strength, which places him at Class TJ, or even Class EJ.
ChaosTheory wrote
Because, like I said, Force amplified defense is something they need to consciously apply and something that doesn't appear to be constantly applied in battle. If you were talking, say, the striking power of a lightsaber/sword strike broke through one of those Force Barrier Bubbles? Then sure, they'd need that kind of physical strength to do so. I've never seen an example of that though.
Bane had already negated the Force Barrier when the temple crashed, yes. It was something that Kas'im had to consciously erect and it wasn't something he had in use the entire fight though.
Windu was either too drained to amplify himself to super human, or just flat out unconscious
The point I'm trying to make is this shit isn't passive as you might find it in other series. They need to actively focus on keeping these stats up for them to stick around.
I'm going to wait for DarthAnt66 to finally post his Caedus respect thread before I even try touching that one. I've heard interpretations ranging from physical power to him using tutaminis.
So to keep the above conversation simplified...
The Class GJ Striking Strength comes from Ahsoka matching General Grievious, who is able to match Jedi/Sith in terms of physical strength, even with Force Augmentation. Here is a
calculatio of Grievious' physical strength, for example. There is also a calculation of a different Jedi/Sith who
punched through a wall, resulting in
Building level AP.
- The latter calculation is based on this segment of the video; the problem is that we do not explicity see Khem Val punching through said wall, thus this is be done via general Force Abilities instead.
- What I am trying to say here is that since Grievious only has Building level (or Small Building level, if the latter feat is not accepted) striking strength, and the Jedi/Sith that matched Grievious would directly scale here.
- In the third comment segment, I asked this question.
- Another thing to ask: If a Force User's strikes were that much weaker compared to their other attacks, why would they bother physically attacking in the first place? Considering that their durability can go high enough to actually match their AP via force (Continent level), wouldn't this mean that the Jedi/Sith's AP would have to be Continent level in order to break through their passive force barriers? Their attacks would be bounced back with impunity otherwise...
- The answer that I received was that Force amplified defense/durability is something that the Jedi/Sith need to concentrate to apply, and is not constantly applied in battle. An example of this would be that for a Jedi to survive a Continent-busting attack, said Jedi needs to place up a Force Barrier of equal strength in order to negate that attack; it is not a part of their natural durability. Another example here would be is when Kasim was not actively using the force to maintain his Force Barrier, a temple collapsing on him actually killed him, thus his durability without continually maintaining the Force Barrier would be much lower.
To sum it up, their Striking Strength cannot scale to their actual Force Abilities because
1. Grievious matched them in terms of physical strength, which all Jedi/Sith would directly scale to.
2. Jedi/Sith need to actively concentrate for a significant period of time to dish out their full power of their Force Abilities; it is not something that they can actively utilize in the middle of a duel with other users.