Why, when fighting Lord Nyax, does Luke seem so weak?
At the point he first encounters Lord Nyax, Luke is tired and dispirited, which makes him more vulnerable to Nyax’s mental manipulation attacks. And through a bizarre (and, we hope, not reproduceable) combination of biology and hardware, Lord Nyax is able to project a tremendous amount of power into his mental compulsion abilities, enough to affect even the most powerful Jedi. This doesn’t make him more powerful in the Force than those Jedi — it just means that he has one or two areas where his “energy output” exceeds theirs. (We can assume that constant use of his powers at that level might burn him out after a while… but the events of Rebel Stand all take place before he reaches that point.) In Wedge’s Blackmoon-11 duel with the coralskipper commander, how does the commander tell his squadron not to fire on Wedge, when earlier Charat Kraal couldn’t tell his wingmate to stop firing on “Jaina”? Wedge was in combat with a unit that had trained and fought together for an appreciable am
