Teras Kasi Archive

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Brainplay wrote:

How many different types of martial arts can you think of on planet earth. Now try and imagine how many different names, titles, and styles of martial arts there would be in a galaxy with thousands of inhabited planets. Every culture develops some form of unarmed combat styles. Only a few of those ever record and codify it. The clones in the background could have been practicing Ewok Kung Fu for all we know.

p.s.- who was the fat guy who splattered himself on the first death star and who's name keep getting used alot?

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That's kind of the point I'm making though - unarmed combat exists in the SW universe. It's not that much of a stretch, therefore, to say TK could exist. Granted, it's not proof, but it's the "shadow" of it, if you follow my analogy.

And I believe you're thinking of Porkins.

- Tyl

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Atama wrote:

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"further citing in the EU are more reference to moves etc and in older times Jedi were actually said to have been TK before the sabre and TK was the lineage that continued by using the force internally, being able to keep a cap on it rather than a constant flow which is what Jedi do, therefore realising the use of the sabre as an external display of the force.

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Actually, I'm interested to know where in the EU this information comes from. This is the first I've heard of this from any official source.

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apparantly its in one of the books, i was informed by from another TKO memeber i will try and dig ou the title for you

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Atama wrote:
Actually Arden Lyn was hired to take out all of the prominent Rebels (that included Leia, Han Solo and Chewbacca, none of which were Jedi).

I think that there is such a limited amount of info on TK (from official sources) that the devs have pretty much a free reign on what they do with the TK powers and background. I think that's cool.

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+ luke skywalker, who is a jedi so technically she was hunting jedi we can choose to hunt we can choose not to BH 3000 gives us this ability i don't see what the jedi hunter debate is about, and besides to make it integral to 2 professions is not code efficient.

What people ask for when they want to hunt jedi within the realms of TK is this:

"excuse me devs can my charecter be made able to play all the professions at the same time please"

the same is a given for the elite, elite debate TK thinking they should have jediesqe power profession thrown in to ok so to sumerize what people want is this:

martial arts of TK
power of jedi
hunt ability of BH

Message Edited by konik on 10-02-2004 02:06 PM

Well, it rather makes sense to me for any BH to want a combat skill that actually stands a chance of defeating ANYONE. Seriously, MBH is a joke in PvP. I'm proud that the devs lessened the reqs for BH, so maybe when a BH does find a jedi, he might stand half a chance of winning.

I don't know if you guys remember. But there is a game for the PSX called. Master of the Teras Kasi. I'm pretty sure that's where they got it from or the EU books.

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Atama wrote:
Actually Arden Lyn was hired to take out all of the prominent Rebels (that included Leia, Han Solo and Chewbacca, none of which were Jedi).

I think that there is such a limited amount of info on TK (from official sources) that the devs have pretty much a free reign on what they do with the TK powers and background. I think that's cool.

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Leia was Lukes sister. Maybe not a jedi but definatly Force Sensitivie.

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Akridine wrote:

i got the new starwars DVD trilogy, not impressed with certain things they have changed but INCREDIBLY impressed with a very good added scene. no spoilers here though something i failed to notice in the trilogy was a teras kasi artist. now from what ive heared the teras kasi were pretty much nearly wiped out by the emporers jedi purge as teras kasi are force sensitive, i am very dissapointed that there wasn't a teras kasi because im sure i saw in another thread that there was in jabba's palace?

if there is a teras kasi can someone tell which of the movies/what scene its in?

but if its not in the movies isn'thaving hundreds of jedi running around more cannon than having hundreds of teras kasi around?

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In a way, as I understand it, TK is featured in all of the movies, as the Jedi combat techniques are essentially TK with the force and a lightsaber added. As a result, Vader would be fully trained in TK, and on dagobah, Luke was being trained in TK while he was running through the swamp with Yoda on his back.

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texasmile wrote:

the wampa hit luke with unarmed hit 2

Message Edited by texasmile on 10-01-2004 11:34 PM

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Actually, I think that was stun 3

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Seabear70 wrote:

In a way, as I understand it, TK is featured in all of the movies, as the Jedi combat techniques are essentially TK with the force and a lightsaber added. Huh?

As a result, Vader would be fully trained in TK, and on dagobah, Luke was being trained in TK while he was running through the swamp with Yoda on his back. Soooo how do you know it wasn'tGungan kung fu? Did you see any TK specials? How come he was meditating on one hand upside down? I checked the med tree, and I still couldn't do it, wth?

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Sorry I got a hard time believing the only martial art in the entire movie series that was founded in a book that hadno connection to the actual movie. We can rationalize it as far as the EU goes but that stuff you said is pushing it.

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Akridine wrote:

i got the new starwars DVD trilogy... something i failed to notice in the trilogy was a teras kasi artist.

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There were none. Not a one. They don't exist in SW cannon. They are a figment of the imagination of a single writer of a single book that hardlyanyone knows of or cares about. Other than bearing the famous Star Wars name in a greedy effort to capitalize on its fame, those bookshave nothing to do with themovies, George Lucas, or anything that is commonly associated with as being 'Star Wars'. I guess some people just like Karate so much they think that every genre and fictional universe must have it, no matter how surreal, idiotic, or out of place it seems.

I agree with Station1, in that it is ridiculous to think that anyone in the Star Wars universe might fight unarmed ever.

[/sarcasm]

It's true that there is no TKA in canon. In fact, the vast majority of what is in this game is from either EU or the creative minds at SOE and Lucasarts. The movies simply don't have enough content to base a MMORPG on. A game that stuck strictly to canon and nothing else would frankly suck big time.