Hi Bryan, Yeah, I think the saber throw is one of Mara's signature moves in terms of game play. She had that in Mysteries of the Sith as well and Mara could really rack up the death count with that particular move. Probably something Luke taught her after she joined the academy.
As for the force lightning, which is usually a dark side gift, I would imagine that would fit her character profile. Remember who her first master was, Emperor Palpatine, and I'm certain he would have given her some training in using various dark side gifts. Just because she eventually turned to the light side and no longer chooses to tap into her dark side powers doesn't mean she has forgotten how to use them if she wants to. A straight arrow like Luke would never think of tapping into the dark side now and then, but given Mara's character and background I think she would if she thought it was necessary. I think that's why in all of the games Mara is in she has chain lightning as one of her force powers. As for how Luke and Mara ended up together that is explained in Timothy Zahn's Hand of Thrawn series. Basically, Luke and Mara end up together hunting for Grand Admiral Thrawn's clone and end up in a life or death struggle trying to escape the base where Thrawn's clone is being created. At the moment when things seam hopeless, they look like they are going to die, Luke pops the question and Mara says yes. Kind of one of those unplanned let's do it kind of things. Lol! However, the actual wedding itself is in the comics not the books. I believe it was the comic entitled the Unity or the Union or something like that. At the end of the comic they have a big picture of Luke and Mara getting married at the end. Therefore in the next big series of novels, the New Jedi Order, we go from unmarried to married with no wedding in between. I've often thought someone should put the comics into a book just to fill in some of the gaps like that where part of the history is in a comic book series and not in a novel. On 12/2/10, Bryan Peterson <bpeterson2...@cableone.net> wrote: > It's amazing how she and Luke ended up considering how she spent most of > Timothy Zahn's trilogy trying to find ways and opportunities to kill Luke. > She was pretty cool to play as in Masters of Teras Kasi, sort of a combo of > Vader and Luke in terms of special moves. She had the big Lightsaber move > that Luke had where she could throw her saber at her opponent for major > damage, then the force lightning ability that Vader had. > We are the Knights who saaaaay...Ni! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
