Book excerpt from Betrayal ... (original) (raw)

Here are some excerpts from Aaron Allston’s Betrayal in which Lady Lumiya speaks of Darth Vader while talking to Jacen Solo.

Page 362 (of the hardcover book)

”The truth is, I trained to be a Sith. I was trained by your grandfather, Darth Vader.” She did not seem in the least ashamed by this revelation.

Jacen drew to a stop at the first of the busts. It showed a serene-looking woman, her hair in a layered style that reached high. “But you don’t talk like a galaxy-conquering psychopath.”

“Vader wasn’t a galaxy-conquering psychopath. He was a sad man whose one love in life had died, and whose one anchor to the world of the living was, yes, a galaxy-conquering madman. Palpatine.

Page 364

“The Force is the energy of the living. You interact with it, its eddies and flows, with your own living body. It’s all right to have a mechanical part or two---an implant, a replacement foot. But for true Mastery in the Force, light side or dark side, you have to be mostly organic. I’m not, and so the greatest, the most significant powers, I can never learn.”

Jacen frowned. “Wait. That means that Darth Vader could never have become the Lord of the Sith . . . a true Master.”

“That’s correct. I’m not sure he ever understood that. He might not have cared. He was numbed by tragedy.”

I thought it was interesting to hear Lumiya’s opinions about Vader. Anyone else have any thoughts about it?