It seems I have to keep repeating this:
And then there was a separate EU canon where it was designed by quasi-enslaved alien geniuses at the Maw facility, like the Sun Crusher and World Devastators. The EU was a giant mess of contradictory silliness.
Uh. This particular contradictory mess is from the early Star Wars books. The same author even if I recall right.
Ok, sorry for the double post. But well... are you actually familiar with warships?
So it makes every sense if the bad guys in Star Wars are using that
It's more about accepting that there's important things on both Light and Dark and that the extremes of both are horrible in different ways. Again, I am relentlessly pissed off about proactive decision making being associated with Dark=Evil.
I was considering writing up a world where culture evolved in a way to consider darkness, rain, thunderstorms and such to be "good", and sunlight, day and the clear sky to be "evil". It wouldn't actually be that way metaphysically, just culturally.
... literally none of this is what Laurent spoke about, though? He didn't speak about the associations of evil, but about forcing "grey" situations and bothsame, even when it makes on sense.
Like with my post supporting Grey Jedi, the post is more about why the thing he dislikes happens than denying what he says. Hell, my post about the form of Grey Jedi I support the existence of included exactly what he was complaining about because that actually does make for a plausible use case of high-end use of both sides of the Force. I hate the balance fallacy, too, but I like actual balances of forces because of room for nuance.
Oh god.
...Except basic sample size of Dark Side users disproves this because they are all using cruelty. There's no examples of self destructive empathy among Dark Side use. And it's the Dark Side, meaning it lies at an opposite extreme to the Light Side.
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?
Fun fact: there was no Light Side in Lucas' drafts. It's an EU creation.
Star Wars' main consistent setup has not been a Dark Side vs. Light Side axis - it's usually been Dark Side vs. everything else. It's basically corruption from health.
Stover wrote Traitor. Needless to say, there is more nuance then 'DS isn't so bad' becuase that's Stover's trademark.
I'll freely admit it's been a very long time, so I'll defer to you on that.
You might be recalling Jacen claiming that the old Jedi temple was built on a nexus of dark energy after he fried a bunch of Vong, which Vergere implied wasn't the case; he'd just twisted the energy naturally occurring around him into something malicious and harmful because of his own wretched mental state.
Yeah, true. I was more going for the fact he never really goes out of his way to be cruel. It's a tool to him, not an end, and one he doesn't really care about one way or the other.
