Yeah, the legends novel Dark Lord The Rise of Darth Vader is one of my favorite star wars books ever and i agree that they should make this fight into live action, especially since there is no show or movie that explores Vader in his early years as a sith lord. This duel where Vader kills Jedi master Roan Shryne takes place during the 2nd battle of Kashyyyk in 19 bby, only mere months after Anakin's defeat on mustafar and the jedi orders destruction. Also this is perhaps my favorite lightsaber duel Vader ever had with a surviving Jedi because it changed him forever. After Mustafar, Vader spent the first few months completely rebuilding himself back up, from his lightsaber skills to also growing his power in the darkside. With advice and teachings from his master Darth Sidious, Vader was able to significantly boost his abilities very early on after Mustafar, being able to summon his rage when needed, but he was still not using the true power of the darkside. That would continue until the 2nd battle of Kashyyyk in 19 bby which is only months after the jedi order fell. For people who don't know about the 2nd battle of Kashyyyk or ever heard about it, I'll explain a little but i still highly suggest you go and read the 2005 legends novels Dark Lord The Rise of Darth Vader for more information about the battle and Vader during it. In order to understand how Vader ended up leading the 2nd battle of Kashyyyk, we have to go back months prior to the battle, to 4 weeks after order 66 when Vader got his first true test as a sith lord. Vader traveled to the outer rim planet of Murkhana to deal with clone troopers who disobeyed order 66 and let 3 jedi escape. There were originally 6 Jedi assigned to the planet before the orders demise, 3 were unknown and the other 3 were Jedi Master Bol Chatak, her padawan Olee Starstone and Jedi Master Roan Shryne. By the time Vader got there the 3 unknown Jedi were already executed. After Vader dealt with the clone troopers that disobeyed a direct order, Jedi Master Bol Chatak foolishly revealed herself to Vader and then engaged him in a duel. It was an intense and very quick fight with Vader's overwhelming power being too much for her to handle. Vader ended up cutting her lightsaber arm off by the elbow, then with one swoop of his crimson blade he decapitated her. For weeks to come, Shryne and Starstone managed to escape Vader's capture and wrath. They also went to many different worlds in the time before Kashyyyk finding many of them riddend of jedi, though they did find some survivors, 2 Jedi knights, a jedi padawan and two Jedi agriculturist, plus Master Roan Shryne and padawan Olle Starstone. The 7 fugitive Jedi then made a fatal mistake by heading to Kashyyyk, the Wookiees homeworld, they decided to go to Kashyyyk because of the fact that Yoda and Quinlan Vos were rumoured to have been there and if master Yoda survived then there is hope for the Jedi. None of them could have ever known that master Yoda was long gone, already in exile on Dagobah and Quinlan Vos was the same, long gone, even rumored to have died. Once on Kashyyyk the Wookiees welcomed the fugitive Jedi in with open arms. Though all their fates were already sealed by that point, they just didn't understand yet. The empire arrived soon after with new destroyers in orbit, including Vader's personal one, the exactor. The 2nd battle of Kashyyyk started shortly after. Tarkin had come up with a genius plan beforehand, a plan in which both Vader and the empire would greatly benefit from. The empire would use the fugitive jedi as a reason to invade Kashyyyk and enslave as many Wookiees as possible to help build the first death Star, which by now has fallen short on workers and is seriously delayed, on the other hand Vader would personally deal with the fugitive Jedi himself since he has the power to do so and it's also his right as well. A win win for Vader, Tarkin and the galactic empire. As the battle raged all across the world of Kashyyyk, in many different cities, the empire was taking heavy losses, the Wookiees were fighting viroshisly, that added in with the fact that the previous sepertist forces left many weapons and vehicles behind which the wookiees greatly used to aid in taking out many troopers. Finally Vader ordered his commanders to commence a full planet wide ariel bombardment of Kashyyyk except for Kachirho which would be saved for last since he is heading there to deal with the jedi personally. As soon as Vader landed in Kachirho, and the shuttle opened its landing platform, Vader had his crimson blade out and ignited, he was immediately deflecting blaster fire and other weapon fire from all directions, 3 of Vader's men fell before he was even out of his shuttle. Now vader was going to take the fight to the Wookies themselves, the Wookiees were good fighters but they had never experienced anything remotely close to vader before, the wookiees tried to hold their ground but he was far to powerful, lightsaber in hand Vader slashed right and left, he parried blaster bolts and amputated the wookiees limbs and heads. Wave after wave of wookiee fighters were easily slayed by Vader, with many bodies laying on the ground in his wake. In order to prevent further Wookiee casualties, the Jedi revealed themselves. Olee Starstone had since broken off from Roan Shryne, who had since joined his mother's Drunk Dancer, now leading a group of surviving Jedi they had located. Vader ordered the stormtroopers to stay on the Wookiees, leaving the Jedi to him. Jedi Knights Siadem Forte and Iwo Kulka quickly attacked Vader, attempting to unbalance him by using radically different lightsaber forms. However, Vader easily held them off, utilizing a combination of precision bladework and swift power attacks to put an end to their fancy twirling, putting his superior height and strength to good use to disrupt their momentum and sending them reeling. Vader decapitated the two Jedi, and quickly disabled Jambe Lu, Nam Poorf and Klossi Anno. To her horror Padawan Starstone was now alone with Vader. She then attempted to fight him alone, attacking Vader with a sudden offensive flurry, of course Vader easily deflected the blows without even trying, she then backed off and finally realized that Vader was only allowing her to vent. Breaking off to reassess her strategy, she unwittingly allowed Vader to seize the offensive, before he could finish Starstone, Vader's Stormtroopers were suddenly gunned down by a smuggler vessel that just appeared. Jedi Master Roan Shryne leaped off the Drunk Dancer, summoning Siadem Forte's lightsaber to his hand and beheading Appo. Confronting Vader, Shryne provided Starstone and the other surviving Jedi with a chance to escape Now we get where Vader defeats Jedi Master Roan Shryne after a very fierce duel. The video ends like that but what happens is Shryne is so overwhelmed by the constant bombardment of wooden platform pieces which Vader is constantly dismantling and hurling at Shryne from all directions, that he loses his grip and falls feet below to a lower level platform, remember that Vader and Shryne were fighting many hundreds of feet in the air as the Wookiees live in homes that are built up high in the tress on Kashyyyk. The lower level platform saved Master Shryne from falling all the way to the ground which definitely would have killed him but ironically he was now dying anyways, the fall not only shattered all the bones in his left arm but also ruptured a vital organ. Vader then jumped down to the now defeated Jedi Master with a grace he had never shown before, igniting his crimson blade while standing right over the dying Jedi. Roan Shryne still hadn't put all the pieces together on the true outcome of the Jedi orders dimise, but Vader then decided to reveal the truth to him, that Emperor Palpatine was also Darth Sidious the sith lord the Jedi spent years trying to track down, Vader also revealed that he was Anakin Skywalker, the chosen one and finally he revealed that the military buildup, the war, everything was just a ploy to rid the galaxy of the incompetent Jedi Order once and for all. But the most important part of this whole story and why this duel changed Vader forever is that in Vader's moment of revelry, he had sensed a profound change in himself, his bloodlust had been appeased, replaced with a self-possesion that even Anakin never achieved, Vader can now feel the power of the dark side surging through him like he's being attacked by icy torrents. Vader has just felt the true power of the darkside for the first time ever. Jedi Master Roan Shryne died shortly thereafter. Vader then left Kashyyyk with a new found understanding of himself and the darkside. Even Sidious noticed a dramatic change in Vader during a quick holo-net communication, noting how Vader is now starting to tap deep in the power of the darkside. Vader's real apprenticeship with Sidious can now begin, and as time goes on Vader would continue to constantly grow his power and knowledge in the darkside.
This is a really good duel. I wish they would make this a movie or series.
Yeah, the legends novel Dark Lord The Rise of Darth Vader is one of my favorite star wars books ever and i agree that they should make this fight into live action, especially since there is no show or movie that explores Vader in his early years as a sith lord. This duel where Vader kills Jedi master Roan Shryne takes place during the 2nd battle of Kashyyyk in 19 bby, only mere months after Anakin's defeat on mustafar and the jedi orders destruction.
Also this is perhaps my favorite lightsaber duel Vader ever had with a surviving Jedi because it changed him forever.
After Mustafar, Vader spent the first few months completely rebuilding himself back up, from his lightsaber skills to also growing his power in the darkside. With advice and teachings from his master Darth Sidious, Vader was able to significantly boost his abilities very early on after Mustafar, being able to summon his rage when needed, but he was still not using the true power of the darkside. That would continue until the 2nd battle of Kashyyyk in 19 bby which is only months after the jedi order fell. For people who don't know about the 2nd battle of Kashyyyk or ever heard about it, I'll explain a little but i still highly suggest you go and read the 2005 legends novels Dark Lord The Rise of Darth Vader for more information about the battle and Vader during it.
In order to understand how Vader ended up leading the 2nd battle of Kashyyyk, we have to go back months prior to the battle, to 4 weeks after order 66 when Vader got his first true test as a sith lord.
Vader traveled to the outer rim planet of Murkhana to deal with clone troopers who disobeyed order 66 and let 3 jedi escape. There were originally 6 Jedi assigned to the planet before the orders demise, 3 were unknown and the other 3 were Jedi Master Bol Chatak, her padawan Olee Starstone and Jedi Master Roan Shryne. By the time Vader got there the 3 unknown Jedi were already executed. After Vader dealt with the clone troopers that disobeyed a direct order, Jedi Master Bol Chatak foolishly revealed herself to Vader and then engaged him in a duel. It was an intense and very quick fight with Vader's overwhelming power being too much for her to handle. Vader ended up cutting her lightsaber arm off by the elbow, then with one swoop of his crimson blade he decapitated her.
For weeks to come, Shryne and Starstone managed to escape Vader's capture and wrath. They also went to many different worlds in the time before Kashyyyk finding many of them riddend of jedi, though they did find some survivors, 2 Jedi knights, a jedi padawan and two Jedi agriculturist, plus Master Roan Shryne and padawan Olle Starstone. The 7 fugitive Jedi then made a fatal mistake by heading to Kashyyyk, the Wookiees homeworld, they decided to go to Kashyyyk because of the fact that Yoda and Quinlan Vos were rumoured to have been there and if master Yoda survived then there is hope for the Jedi. None of them could have ever known that master Yoda was long gone, already in exile on Dagobah and Quinlan Vos was the same, long gone, even rumored to have died.
Once on Kashyyyk the Wookiees welcomed the fugitive Jedi in with open arms. Though all their fates were already sealed by that point, they just didn't understand yet. The empire arrived soon after with new destroyers in orbit, including Vader's personal one, the exactor. The 2nd battle of Kashyyyk started shortly after. Tarkin had come up with a genius plan beforehand, a plan in which both Vader and the empire would greatly benefit from. The empire would use the fugitive jedi as a reason to invade Kashyyyk and enslave as many Wookiees as possible to help build the first death Star, which by now has fallen short on workers and is seriously delayed, on the other hand Vader would personally deal with the fugitive Jedi himself since he has the power to do so and it's also his right as well. A win win for Vader, Tarkin and the galactic empire.
As the battle raged all across the world of Kashyyyk, in many different cities, the empire was taking heavy losses, the Wookiees were fighting viroshisly, that added in with the fact that the previous sepertist forces left many weapons and vehicles behind which the wookiees greatly used to aid in taking out many troopers. Finally Vader ordered his commanders to commence a full planet wide ariel bombardment of Kashyyyk except for Kachirho which would be saved for last since he is heading there to deal with the jedi personally.
As soon as Vader landed in Kachirho, and the shuttle opened its landing platform, Vader had his crimson blade out and ignited, he was immediately deflecting blaster fire and other weapon fire from all directions, 3 of Vader's men fell before he was even out of his shuttle. Now vader was going to take the fight to the Wookies themselves, the Wookiees were good fighters but they had never experienced anything remotely close to vader before, the wookiees tried to hold their ground but he was far to powerful, lightsaber in hand Vader slashed right and left, he parried blaster bolts and amputated the wookiees limbs and heads. Wave after wave of wookiee fighters were easily slayed by Vader, with many bodies laying on the ground in his wake.
In order to prevent further Wookiee casualties, the Jedi revealed themselves. Olee Starstone had since broken off from Roan Shryne, who had since joined his mother's Drunk Dancer, now leading a group of surviving Jedi they had located. Vader ordered the stormtroopers to stay on the Wookiees, leaving the Jedi to him. Jedi Knights Siadem Forte and Iwo Kulka quickly attacked Vader, attempting to unbalance him by using radically different lightsaber forms. However, Vader easily held them off, utilizing a combination of precision bladework and swift power attacks to put an end to their fancy twirling, putting his superior height and strength to good use to disrupt their momentum and sending them reeling. Vader decapitated the two Jedi, and quickly disabled Jambe Lu, Nam Poorf and Klossi Anno.
To her horror Padawan Starstone was now alone with Vader. She then attempted to fight him alone, attacking Vader with a sudden offensive flurry, of course Vader easily deflected the blows without even trying, she then backed off and finally realized that Vader was only allowing her to vent. Breaking off to reassess her strategy, she unwittingly allowed Vader to seize the offensive, before he could finish Starstone, Vader's Stormtroopers were suddenly gunned down by a smuggler vessel that just appeared. Jedi Master Roan Shryne leaped off the Drunk Dancer, summoning Siadem Forte's lightsaber to his hand and beheading Appo. Confronting Vader, Shryne provided Starstone and the other surviving Jedi with a chance to escape
Now we get where Vader defeats Jedi Master Roan Shryne after a very fierce duel. The video ends like that but what happens is Shryne is so overwhelmed by the constant bombardment of wooden platform pieces which Vader is constantly dismantling and hurling at Shryne from all directions, that he loses his grip and falls feet below to a lower level platform, remember that Vader and Shryne were fighting many hundreds of feet in the air as the Wookiees live in homes that are built up high in the tress on Kashyyyk. The lower level platform saved Master Shryne from falling all the way to the ground which definitely would have killed him but ironically he was now dying anyways, the fall not only shattered all the bones in his left arm but also ruptured a vital organ. Vader then jumped down to the now defeated Jedi Master with a grace he had never shown before, igniting his crimson blade while standing right over the dying Jedi. Roan Shryne still hadn't put all the pieces together on the true outcome of the Jedi orders dimise, but Vader then decided to reveal the truth to him, that Emperor Palpatine was also Darth Sidious the sith lord the Jedi spent years trying to track down, Vader also revealed that he was Anakin Skywalker, the chosen one and finally he revealed that the military buildup, the war, everything was just a ploy to rid the galaxy of the incompetent Jedi Order once and for all.
But the most important part of this whole story and why this duel changed Vader forever is that in Vader's moment of revelry, he had sensed a profound change in himself, his bloodlust had been appeased, replaced with a self-possesion that even Anakin never achieved, Vader can now feel the power of the dark side surging through him like he's being attacked by icy torrents. Vader has just felt the true power of the darkside for the first time ever.
Jedi Master Roan Shryne died shortly thereafter. Vader then left Kashyyyk with a new found understanding of himself and the darkside. Even Sidious noticed a dramatic change in Vader during a quick holo-net communication, noting how Vader is now starting to tap deep in the power of the darkside. Vader's real apprenticeship with Sidious can now begin, and as time goes on Vader would continue to constantly grow his power and knowledge in the darkside.