Talk:Splinter of the Mind's Eye

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Contents 1 Vader with Blue Saber? 2 Member 3 C-3PO Inconsistency 4 Rising of the Empire dates 5 blue 6 Observation 7 Non-official cover

[edit] Vader with Blue Saber?

On page 287, it seems to signify that Darth Vader uses a blue lightsaber during his battle with Luke and Leia. According to this quote:

"'No,' Vader assured him, 'no. You overestimate yourself child.' The Dark Lord drew himself up to his full, awesome height. 'I have finished playing with you.'

"Swinging his saber until it was no more than a blue blur in the dank air of the temple, he leaped straight up into the air. It was more than a jump, less than levitation. Out of th blue circle of energy he flung the saber.

"Instinctively--he had no time to think--Luke parried. The Force inherent in the thrown saber knocked Luke's out of his hand. Both weapons flew off to the right and lay, still gleaming, still activated, on the ground, near a dark circular opening that gaped back in the floor."

According to these paragraphs, specifically the middle paragraph, it seems that Vader is using a blue lightsaber. Did Luke and Vader switch sabers earlier in the battle somehow? I have looked but did not read of any such exchange. Or is the "blue blur, blue circle of energy" simply a mistake, or was Vader actually using a blue saber and not his traditional red saber?

I would say that it is a mistake. Thefourdotelipsis 10:06, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd say it's an example of Hypertime. 64.180.93.200 18:46, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

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  Considering the duel took place in Pomojema's temple, I am not fully convinced Luke and Leia actually fought the real Darth Vader. I suspect the Darth Vader the twins fought was a phantom or apparition similar to the Vader that Luke encounters in "The Cave" on Dagobah in "The Empire Strikes Back". My reasoning for this are three fold.

1: Pomojema is patterned after Cthulhu (thank you Alan Dean Foster), A god of madness and insanity (including hallucinations).

2: Luke was holding his Father's (Vader's) old blue Lightsaber during this battle. We do not know if any residual effects of Vader's ownership are in play here in the temple. If Vader was a hallucination, as I suggested, then Luke and Leia may have manifested the blue lightsaber based on Luke's own blue lightsaber not Vader's red model. Dreams and hallucinations draw from strange sources.

3: The true and complete powers of the Kaiburr crystal and its powerful red glow are not known. The prominent light in the Temple was red so ask yourself what a red lightsaber would look like anyway tinted by red light?

Perhaps the real question we should ask if Vader was there in the temple at all??? -- Frank V Bonura 13:14, September 15, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Member

When luke was fighting the Coway and he was pinned down the first time, luke freed himself when he bit the creature's member. What exactly did luke bite?

• I hope it's not what I think it is! LOL! Adamwankenobi 21:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Yeah, that's what I thought.--Herbsewell 23:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
    • After reading a few more lines, I see that it clarifies that Luke bit the creature's hand. That would have probably been the biggest blunder in EU history for obvious reasons.--Herbsewell 17:45, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] C-3PO Inconsistency

There's a simple solution to this. The shut-down commands were probably part of the droid's hardware rather than the erasable software, a bit like Mara Jade's Imperial master command code in Imperial computer installations. All fanon, of course, but it sounds likely, doesn't it? Evir Daal 14:40, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I think the question is how 3PO knew that Vader knew his shut-down commands. --68.39.117.153 17:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

• Isn't it possible those codes were common codes for 3PO and R-series droids? I dont think every droid has a unique shut-down code. Maybe these commands are known by droid-mechanics, and that's why C-3PO wondered an imperial commander knowing them.Darth Morrt 20:44, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Rising of the Empire dates

It's mentioned several times that the Empire rose 40 years ago (in 38 BBY, and not in 19 BBY). I think it should be mentioned in the BTS section. 217.76.148.146 19:07, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

• Splinter is a good book, I've read it several times but nowadays it's a fine example of an anachronism. --Sompeetalay 09:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Not unless the definition of "anachronism" changed in the last few years. QuentinGeorge 09:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] blue

perhaps it was the light that made it look blue. 24.14.113.0 00:16, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Observation

This page currently says the book was first published in February 1978, but the one at Wikipedia and The Literal Star Wars Timeline both say 1978 March 1. Anyone have any idea of a better source for either date? --Andrew Nagy 05:38, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Non-official cover

Okay, why exactly do we need that non-official cover? Non-official image = fanart. I can show you dozens of "non-official" covers to Star Wars novels made by fans, should we put them all in as well? Mauser^Comlink 11:09, October 8, 2009 (UTC)

• I think this non-official cover is unlicensed releashe. For example in Hungary there are for unlicensed books, but they are not translations, but original or semi-original works. Darth Morrt 13:09, October 8, 2009 (UTC)
• If its unlicensed, then its not official is it? If its not official, then it has no place here does it?-- Frank V Bonura 02:44, October 10, 2009 (UTC)