Thought bomb
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The thought bomb was one of the most powerful and destructive applications of the dark side of the Force which targeted all Force-sensitive individuals and vaporized clothing, flesh, bone, and even stone within the radius of the weapon's blast. The thought bomb sucked the souls of its victims into a sphere of dark side energy where they were trapped in an orb of dark torment until the end of time.
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- "Kaan had some spell, some power, over his followers. They were enthralled to his will. When he led them down into the cave, they all followed him willingly. He had them convinced they could survive the thought bomb if they united their power...but he was wrong."
- ―Valenthyne Farfalla[src]
The thought bomb's use dated back to the ancient Sith, and stories were told in the Jedi Temple about the destruction they caused.
The secrets of the fearsome thought bomb were forgotten and thought to be lost forever until Darth Bane discovered Darth Revan's holocron in the Temple of the Ancients on the planet Lehon. The holocron was constructed by Darth Revan nearly three thousand years earlier, but the technique likely even predated Revan. After copying all the knowledge he had obtained from Revan's holocron, Bane destroyed it because the holocron was faulty, and every time he used it, the holocron's quality became worse and worse. So, once he had extracted all of its knowledge, the holocron was no longer of any use, so he crushed it with the force.
The last known thought bomb was activated by Lord Kaan, the leader of the Brotherhood of Darkness (to whom Darth Bane gave the knowledge of the weapon as a gift), against the Army of Light in the catastrophic Seventh Battle of Ruusan. Formed through an ancient ritual requiring the combined will of many powerful Sith Lords, the thought bomb, when triggered, unleashed the pure destructive energy of the dark side. While the Sith Lords performed the ritual, the air around them grew cold, causing icicles to form on them. The heat and light around a certain perimeter of the thought bomb was almost nonexistent; consumed by the thought bomb.
Darth Bane, a young Force-sensitive girl named Rain (later Darth Zannah), and her cousin Darovit were among the survivors of the dark side weapon. Other survivors included Lord Farfalla and the remaining Jedi of the Army of Light that fled with him. The Sith Lord Githany was killed by the blast while trying to flee the cave where all of the remaining Sith Lords detonated the weapon. Lord Kaan killed himself and the remaining Sith Lords as well as Lord Hoth and the ninety-nine Jedi who traveled into the cavern to stop Kaan. Bane sensed the wave of dark side energy pass over him, but he was distant enough to feel only the reverberations of the blast. Although, a few hours after the detonation of the thought bomb, Bane experienced severe headaches and hallucinations of Kaan and Qordis until he acquired his new power from Freedon Nadd's tomb on Dxun. It has also been discovered, that if one were to physically touch the remains of the thought bomb, one could hear the screams of the tormented spirits trapped within.
It was Bane's plan all along for Kaan to use the thought bomb in order to purge The Brotherhood of Darkness of any Sith survivors, allowing Bane to rebuild the Sith Order under the Rule of Two in the shadows of secrecy. Darth Bane, now the last Dark Lord of the Sith, was satisfied that his work was done and was prepared to leave Ruusan when he came across the young girl Zannah, who called herself Rain. Bane wondered if she was the apprentice the Force had led him to and decided to take her with him to teach her the nature of the dark side.
The Spirits of the victims of thought bomb were eventually freed by Kyle Katarn though their presence continued to linger.
[edit] Appearances
- Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
- Jedi vs. Sith
- Darth Bane: Rule of Two
- Bane of the Sith (Mentioned only)
- Dark Forces: Jedi Knight (First appearance) (Appears in flashback(s))
- The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi (Mentioned only)
