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Shatterpoint

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Shatterpoint	label	Shatterpoint
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Shatterpoint	comment	Star Wars: Shatterpoint is a Star Wars Legends novel by Matt Stover. Mace Windu's former Padawan, and current fellow Council member, goes rogue. Mace Windu returns to his birth planet to find her. Four hundred pages of action scenes, musings on the nature of the Force, and Windu being badass (and occasionally, far kinder than one might think). War Is Hell.Has a sequel in Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, which uses several of the same characters and many of the same themes. Similarly, Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization has more to do with the events of that film, but still has much in common with this book.
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Shatterpoint / int_11519098	type	Stop, or I Shoot Myself!
Shatterpoint / int_11519098	comment	Stop, or I Shoot Myself!: Mace takes "the one hostage a Jedi can legally take": himself. He puts Depa under arrest, saying he will escort her from Haruun Kal (to which Kar Vastor would object very strongly) or die in the attempt. Meaning Depa will have to talk Kar down if she doesn't want him killing Mace. She sees through the gambit immediately and agrees to be taken off-world — however the jungle has changed her, she still cares for Mace.
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Shatterpoint / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Shatterpoint / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: When all is said and done, Mace re-designates the Republic's combat operations on Haruun Kal not as part of the Clone Wars, but as a "police action." This brings to mind the official perspectives on The Korean War, but Mace has perhaps more justification — unlike Korea, which fought a civil war with outside forces participating in their own interests, Haruun Kal was always part of the Republic, and were it not for bribery and corruption, the Republic would have put down the attacks on the natives by the settlers as violations of law long ago.
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Shatterpoint / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
Shatterpoint / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: Kar Vastor is a very practical individual.
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Shatterpoint / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Shatterpoint / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: During an argument between Phloremirlla and a taxi driver.
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Shatterpoint / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Shatterpoint / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Mace is a Jedi and an incredibly experienced warrior, so he doesn't have hang-ups about being unclothed in public. He specifically notes that from a tactical standpoint, species acclimated to wearing clothes feel vulnerable when caught naked — particularly humans. Two dirty cops are taking advantage of this fact in the spaceport decontamination showers at Haruun Kal to rob travelers, and end up Bullying a Dragon in Mace.
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Shatterpoint / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Shatterpoint / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Windu to Depa, and eventually to Nick and his team; Depa to the Korunnai resistance.
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Shatterpoint / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
Shatterpoint / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: Mace considers Kar Vastor to be this to the Sith. Kar isn't terribly malicious or cruel, he's simply a hard man living a brutal life and his inability to rise above that is a failing but is still better than the active malice of the Sith. This changes during the novel's climax when, despite having won the Summertime War, Kar is intent on slaughtering the Balawai for vengeance.
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Shatterpoint / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Shatterpoint / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Zigzagged. Mace, doubtful of Depa's sanity, preempts any trouble by telling his clone commander she's been relieved of command and he is to disregard any orders she gives. However, the commander did not relay this information to the rest of the force, so Depa and Kar simply kill him and give orders to his lieutenants.
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Shatterpoint / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Shatterpoint / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: The end fight; the clone troopers, militia prisoners, Kar's bodyguards, Nick's team, and Depa (sorta) all die. Mace, Nick and Kar barely survive with terrible wounds.
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Shatterpoint / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Shatterpoint / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Mace bribes a Neimoidian customs agent to keep her from inspecting his bag. It's heavily implied that this is a regular occurrence.
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Shatterpoint / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Shatterpoint / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Of the worrying recording of Depa's voice that sets Mace on his journey in the first place, no line haunts him more than, "I know you think I've gone mad. I haven't. What happened to me is worse. I've gone sane. [...] Nothing is more dangerous than a Jedi who's finally sane." When Mace comes to realize that she has a point, and that he can't leave the planet without attempting to fix the horrible situation it's in, she can't believe her ears when he outlines his plan to do so.
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Shatterpoint / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Shatterpoint / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Mace considers the Republic spy who brought back Depa's message is a weak, pampered civilian daring to accuse an accomplished Jedi of atrocities. After exactly what the spy had to do to obtain that message is made clear, Mace thinks that he's truly seeing the man for the first time and wonders if he might be made of even sterner stuff than Mace himself is. Reading the ULF squad through the Force lets Mace see their deeper personality traits, like Nick's devil-may-care attitude and cavalier regard for his comrades' lives being a defense mechanism to minimize the pain when they inevitably die.
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Shatterpoint / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Shatterpoint / int_2dddd99d	comment	Mace brilliantly out-gambits the CIS forces by pulling a False Flag Operation and taking advantage of the fact that droids are stupid.
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Shatterpoint / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Shatterpoint / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: Being a Jedi, Mace is more conservative in his language than most of those he meets, and is reluctant to quote them directly in his journal. Later on, when Mace uses the Force to make two pilots' Ejector Seats activate, it's mentioned that one of them howled something unmentionable. The other just howled.
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Shatterpoint / int_2ffb4a4d	type	The Nondescript
Shatterpoint / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	The Nondescript: The guy who brings the recording from Haruun Kal is so ordinary-looking that Mace immediately pegs him for a spy.
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Shatterpoint / int_302d0881	type	I Am What I Am
Shatterpoint / int_302d0881	comment	I Am What I Am: Mace makes a breakthrough of this sort during the climax. He realizes that excessive wariness of the Dark Side of the Force is also a dangerous kind of fear: true mastery of the Force and especially his own Vaapad fighting style requires him to accept his own imperfections as part of the package of being human, rather than fearing failure or that he might fall to the Dark Side.
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Shatterpoint / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Shatterpoint / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: The Balawai's only exposure to Jedi has been the increasingly unhinged Depa, so they believe Jedi to be monsters and try to kill Mace simply for being one. After he saves some of them from Kar Vastor, they declare him a "true Jedi" which doesn't make him feel any better about Depa's Sanity Slippage.
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Shatterpoint / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Shatterpoint / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Mace brilliantly out-gambits the CIS forces by pulling a False Flag Operation and taking advantage of the fact that droids are stupid. Later, he traces Geptun's holo-call to the Ministry of Justice, but realizes that there's no way Geptun would have allowed that if he weren't already somewhere else. Then Mace gets this pulled on him by Kar and Depa, who order the clones to fly low over the city to draw down droid fire.
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Shatterpoint / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Shatterpoint / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Mace extends his middle finger in insult to a pair of dirty cops just before beating the crap out of them.
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Shatterpoint / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Shatterpoint / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Slides all the way to cynicism, then past it to become pure idealism again. Everyone Mace meets insists that the only way to survive on Haruun Kal is to focus on nothing except survival, and the only way to win the war against any enemy is to to do whatever it takes to win, damn human decency and Jedi codes. Except that's not the way to survive as a human being, or as a Jedi. By taking those measures, the person you were dies and you may as well have lost.
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Shatterpoint / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Shatterpoint / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Since Kar draws on the Force of the jungle, Mace can't pick him out from the background through the Force. Unless, of course, Mace lets Kar beat him to a pulp with his bare hands so Kar will end up with his lightsaber. And no, he didn't throw the fight. He knew he wouldn't win. Mace is trying to rescue some Balawai children from a dangerous situation, but Terrel refuses to let Mace rescue him as Mace is a Korun and believes that if he's taken alive Mace will torture him. So Mace uses what he's given and reminds Terrel he already has the other children and asks if Terrel is willing to leave them alone with him, a dangerous, torturing Korun. This works.
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Shatterpoint / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Shatterpoint / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: See Flipping the Bird below.
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Shatterpoint / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Shatterpoint / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Apparently, Mace visited Haruun Kal previously, as a young Jedi Knight.
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Shatterpoint / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Shatterpoint / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: At the beginning of the novel, two corrupt cops try to take on Mace hand to hand—while he's naked in the spaceport decontamination shower, no less. It ends how you would expect. Windu versus Vastor in the novel's climax. Kar is younger, faster, and stronger and has already beaten Mace once in a straight fight while Mace is exhausted, badly wounded, and devastated by the day's events. He beats Kar in a matter of seconds by Force gripping and throwing a discarded vibroshield and letting Kar's instinctive defense against that attack work against him.
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Shatterpoint / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Shatterpoint / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Col. Geptun.
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Shatterpoint / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Shatterpoint / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: On the one hand, the Summertime War finally ends in a peace settlement between the Korunnai and Balawai, Kar Vastor is arrested for "crimes against civilization", and Mace Windu makes a breakthrough about the nature of the Force. On the other hand, Depa Billaba is rendered permanently catatonic, the crooked Separatist collaborator Colonel Geptun is a Karma Houdini due to switching sides under the ceasefire, and a lot of innocent people on both sides are dead along with almost the entire clone detachment.
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Shatterpoint / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Shatterpoint / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Why Mace didn't just kill Dooku at Geonosis. Deconstructed as this allowed the Clone Wars to go forward and billions of people have died because of it, but Reconstructed when Mace comes to understand that the ensuing events will allow Anakin to fulfil his destiny.
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Shatterpoint / int_45ca5950	type	Never Accepted in His Hometown
Shatterpoint / int_45ca5950	comment	Never Accepted in His Hometown: Mace reflects on this after "foreseeing" a Dirty Cop on the ground bleeding and making it come to pass by breaking his nose.
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Shatterpoint / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Shatterpoint / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Kar considers Mace one; Mace really really doesn't reciprocate. Also, Mace and Geptun; after the war, Mace recommends Geptun be inducted into Republic Intelligence.
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Shatterpoint / int_4be8e2d4	type	Waterfall into the Abyss
Shatterpoint / int_4be8e2d4	comment	Waterfall into the Abyss: The giant waterfall at the edge of the Korunnal Highland. In this case, the water doesn't actually fall into "the abyss" so much as a soup of heavier-than-air toxic gases; eventually it boils away and makes its way back into the cloud layer.
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Shatterpoint / int_4d74ae51	type	BlasÃ© Boast
Shatterpoint / int_4d74ae51	comment	Blasé Boast: Mace makes one while facing the dirty cops. After making good on his promise, Mace simply says, "Told you." Mace has another later on, after meeting his foe. He then spends the rest of the book proving it. Repeatedly.
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Shatterpoint / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Shatterpoint / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Fever wasps, which reproduce by infesting the central nervous systems of chordates with their larvae via a sting no more noticeable than a mosquito bite. That is, until they hatch and start slowly chewing their way through all that tender nerve tissue, causing violent dementia and ultimately death. They only leave the body when there's no more nerves to eat, leaving the skull as empty as an eggshell. The treatment isn't much better; a powerful enough Force user can persuade them to burrow out of a victim's spine with minimal damage, but then you've got about half a kilo of flesh-eating worms to dispose of. This is why a Force user native to Haruun Kal is desirable; a Jedi-trained user would be unable to kill them, a Dark Side user would likely just kill the patient, while a nature-driven native in sync with the Hungry Jungle's cycle of life and death can just direct the nasty little things to crawl into a fire.
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Shatterpoint / int_521fb75d	type	Put Their Heads Together
Shatterpoint / int_521fb75d	comment	Put Their Heads Together: When Mace captures an enemy gunship, he disables the turret gunners by holding their access doors shut with the Force, waiting until they're both straining against them, then letting them open so that the gunners fly straight into each other head-first (helped along with a Force push).
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Shatterpoint / int_5345de5	type	Strange-Syntax Speaker
Shatterpoint / int_5345de5	comment	Strange-Syntax Speaker: The Korunnai (except for Nick, who has a better grasp of Basic) place the subject of a sentence at the end. When speaking the native tongue, the Translation Convention renders their words into standard English, while Mace's rusty Korunnai speech is depicted with the same subject-last order as their Basic.
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Shatterpoint / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Shatterpoint / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: When you're a Force-user you don't have so much trouble firing in two directions at once.
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Shatterpoint / int_54956f54	type	Flat World
Shatterpoint / int_54956f54	comment	Flat World: Haruun Kal is a partial example. The planet itself is as ball-shaped as any other, but most of it is covered with toxic clouds; the only part where anything can live is a large plateau that, presumably, one could fall off of if one got too close to the edge. So while the planet itself may not be flat, the livable part may as well be.
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Shatterpoint / int_556a3059	type	The Empath
Shatterpoint / int_556a3059	comment	It gets even worse if one is The Empath, and is a master of a lightsaber form which focuses on channeling one's Blood Knight desires.
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Shatterpoint / int_55fa41e2	type	NietzscheWannabe
Shatterpoint / int_55fa41e2	comment	Windu's looking at everything through the prism of Jedi philosophy and civilization itself. His initial impression, which everyone else on the planet shares, is that you can't fight the Hungry Jungle using ethical means and survive. Over the course of the novel, he learns the truth: the "jungle" is everywhere — it's desperation, despair, and the things it drives people to do. Civilization is what you get when you do fight those things — and you don't need to win. Just fight. You'll never achieve a civilization free of desperation or despair, or destroy the potential for those things within yourself, but even if it isn't perfect, that doesn't mean it's not worth fighting for. But it takes a lot of suffering, death, and a near-fall to the dark side for him to figure it out.
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Shatterpoint / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Shatterpoint / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: There's plenty of bad blood between the balawai (offworlders) and the korunnai (natives). Colonel Geptun mentions that his own Korun heritage is not discussed in polite society.
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Shatterpoint / int_57c25438	type	Green Thumb
Shatterpoint / int_57c25438	comment	Green Thumb: Controlling Haruun Kal's native flora is just one of Kar's many unique Force talents.
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Shatterpoint / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Shatterpoint / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: Occasionally, Mace personifies the jungle, describing everyone in it as being its playthings or its dreams; it doesn't help that Haruun Kal's life is predisposed towards developing Force talents, so when he 'senses' things, they can often 'sense' him back. Nick tells him not to be stupid — the jungle isn't a thing you can treat like a sentient being, it's just a place where stuff lives and kills other stuff — but often Kar Vastor acts as though he's a conduit for the jungle's wishes, and the translation of the native Korunnai term for the Force is literally jungle-mind.
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Shatterpoint / int_5d4359fe	type	No Blood for Phlebotinum
Shatterpoint / int_5d4359fe	comment	No Blood for Phlebotinum: The original cause of the Summertime War was the resource conflict between the Korunnai (Haruun Kal native tribes) and the Balawai (offworlder settlers). The Korunnai are nomads that follow herds of local herbivores called grassers, so named because the clearings they tear through the jungle as they graze fill with grass. Problem is, the Balawai want to cultivate the jungle for valuable botanicals and the Korunnai are in the way.
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Shatterpoint / int_5f5aa5af	type	Bulungi
Shatterpoint / int_5f5aa5af	comment	Bulungi: Haruun Kal is, in essence, a failed state in Sub-Saharan Africa re-imagined as a planet.
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Shatterpoint / int_6319dea1	type	Ejection Seat
Shatterpoint / int_6319dea1	comment	Ejection Seat: Weaponized by Mace; when he needs an enemy gunship, he simply uses the Force to launch the pilot and navigator's seats against their will. This also blows away the windscreen, providing a convenient entry point.
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Shatterpoint / int_63557923	type	Death World
Shatterpoint / int_63557923	comment	Death World: Haruun Kal is covered in active volcanoes that spew so much toxic gas, the majority of the planet is completely uninhabitable. The native humans and all off-worlder settlements are both on the same large plateau, which is high enough above the gases to foster a complex ecosystem. Unfortunately, said complex ecosystem is so insanely, inventively aggressive that Mace theorises the native Korunnai are predisposed to Force-sensitivity because the ones who don't have that edge just don't survive.
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Shatterpoint / int_66d4d0e6	type	Defeat by Modesty
Shatterpoint / int_66d4d0e6	comment	Defeat by Modesty: Two dirty cops attempt this on Mace and several others. Mace being Mace, this does not end well for the cops.
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Shatterpoint / int_6bdf39ae	type	Master Actor
Shatterpoint / int_6bdf39ae	comment	Master Actor: After getting beaten up by Vastor, Mace acts very humble and submissive. Vastor, in the grip of his jungle instincts, is fooled, as is Nick at first. Depa doesn't buy it for a minute.
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Shatterpoint / int_6c275297	type	The Fettered
Shatterpoint / int_6c275297	comment	The Fettered: Throughout the book, it's very clear that Mace is just barely restrained from mauling several people due to his adherence to the Jedi code and his personal restraint. As his foil, Kar Vastor is The Unfettered and revels in his freedom. Mace plays this one straight as an arrow at the end. His final revelation is that the To Be Lawful or Good dilemma he's been wrestling with is a false dilemma. It's fighting for the Jedi Code and the morals of civilized society that allows for justice and eventually peace, rather than victory over those who oppose them. Regarding the Jedi:
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Shatterpoint / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Shatterpoint / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Mace regrets not killing Dooku at Geonosis. He would have died at Jango Fett's hands, but it would have been worth it as Dooku was the Separatists' Shatterpoint. The resulting battle and the escalation of the conflict means that Shatterpoint is gone — and with it, any chance of easily ending the Clone Wars.
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Shatterpoint / int_70a67f94	type	EjectorSeat
Shatterpoint / int_70a67f94	comment	Later on, when Mace uses the Force to make two pilots' Ejector Seats activate, it's mentioned that one of them howled something unmentionable. The other just howled.
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Shatterpoint / int_725583e8	type	Good Feels Good
Shatterpoint / int_725583e8	comment	Good Feels Good: Nick comes to feel this way when he and Mace spare the Balawai prisoners from Kar Vastor, to the point that he's most angry about Mace's submission to Kar when he says they were wrong to do so. Mace privately notes that Nick is, for likely the first time, taking pride in what he's done during the war and realizing that he can do the right thing even in the midst of the hellish jungle war.
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Shatterpoint / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Shatterpoint / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Mace doesn't realize Geptun's using him to locate the ULF's main base until it's almost too late.
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Shatterpoint / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Shatterpoint / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity!: An interesting variation occurs when Mace activates his lightsaber at the Lorshan Pass. He's suddenly assaulted with Force images of shatterpoints. He follows the Force's threads, which take him back towards earlier events during the journey to the Lorshan Pass... and allows him (and the reader) to grasp the truth behind innocuous details that he didn't notice or misunderstood at the time.
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Shatterpoint / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Shatterpoint / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: From Nick.
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Shatterpoint / int_79631cf	type	Hungry Jungle
Shatterpoint / int_79631cf	comment	Hungry Jungle: Both literal and figurative. The planet Haruun Kal is home to an omnipresent fungus that eats technology, as well as much larger and more dangerous creatures in the jungle that eat... just about anything else, including each other.
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Shatterpoint / int_7f514dd1	type	AwesomeByAnalysis
Shatterpoint / int_7f514dd1	comment	Awesome by Analysis: This is actually a specialty of fully-trained Jedi; using the insight of the Force allows them to navigate any situation and achieve an optimal outcome (be in within combat or otherwise). Mace Windu's unique gift is that he can sense what action in any given moment will achieve the optimum outcome with minimal exertion and always could. Effectively, he gets the results of Awesomeness by Analysis without having to run the numbers. Looking at a crystal that would dent a sledgehammer, for instance, he can instantly spot where a light tap would shatter it (i.e. the shatterpoint). Looking at a person, he can see weaknesses in armor or physiology or strategy, and disable or kill them. This doesn't mean a shatterpoint always exists or that tapping it will be easy, however.
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Shatterpoint / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Shatterpoint / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Again, Mace feels responsible for the Clone Wars as he did not take the opportunity to kill Dooku at Geonosis. Mace is also indirectly responsible for alerting Colonel Geptun to the location of the ULF's main base. Kar Vastor calls him on this.
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Shatterpoint / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Shatterpoint / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Phloremirlla Tenk, the Washeteria owner/Intel agent. The alien comedy duo, especially the Pho Ph'eahian.
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Shatterpoint / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Shatterpoint / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: There are seemingly two cultural requirements to being a Korunnai, in addition to the Five Pillars: You must be a Determinator, and a Deadpan Snarker. Geptun is one as well.
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Shatterpoint / int_8679c2a6	type	A Spy at the Spa
Shatterpoint / int_8679c2a6	comment	A Spy at the Spa: One appears running a spa with a secret bunker hidden under one of the baths (the one that no one ever wants to go in). She notes that "talk as much as I do, it takes people a while to notice I don't actually say anything."
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Shatterpoint / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Shatterpoint / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: Launched by Mace's stolen gunships against the droid starfighters attacking his clone troops. It is only marginally effective, as droids are very good at the High-Speed Missile Dodge, but that's not the point — a coordinated attack from supposedly friendly ships prompts the droids to respond in kind.
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Shatterpoint / int_8f8b59c1	type	Inhumanable Alien Rights
Shatterpoint / int_8f8b59c1	comment	Inhumanable Alien Rights: Matt Stover rather reasonably substitutes the term "crimes against civilization" for "crimes against humanity"—and notes that a prosecution for these has not happened in centuries. Kar Vastor is formally charged under these statutes at the end of the novel.
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Shatterpoint / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Shatterpoint / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: Compare Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Matt Stover said Shatterpoint is based upon both.
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Shatterpoint / int_93135d23	type	Stock Jokes
Shatterpoint / int_93135d23	comment	Stock Jokes: The Pho Ph'eahian comedian tells a customs agent that "he'd just jumped in from Kashyyyk and boy, were his legs tired." Neither Mace nor the agent find him amusing.
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Shatterpoint / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Shatterpoint / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Several scenes where Mace, Nick, and Depa are just talking, including excerpts from Mace's audio journal. And those aren't the only ones.
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Shatterpoint / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Shatterpoint / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Mace Windu, believe it or not; he's very possibly the most compassionate person in the story, hidden by a veneer of toughness and worry about the Jedi and the Republic.
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Shatterpoint / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Shatterpoint / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Mace describes Kar Vastor as not necessarily "evil", just having given himself to "the jungle" to survive. Which is basically The Dark Side (or life without the restraints of society). They have a lot of similarities, and turn out to be from the same clan. See Foil, below.
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Shatterpoint / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Shatterpoint / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: During the journey to Depa, gunships seem to appear shortly whenever Mace uses his lightsaber. He doesn't realize until they get to the Lorshan Pass that the blade's energy signature is being tracked by Geptun. While fighting Vastor, Mace explicitly strikes blows designed "not to disable or to kill, but to hurt." The reader might think that he's just in the grip of his Vaapad instincts, but it's actually because he knows he can't win. He just needs to make it look like he's trying. Mace says Vastor's shields can't be cut. "Not by a lightsaber. File the data." In the climax, he force-grabs one of the Akk Dogs' shields and tosses it at Vastor. It cuts right through its brother weapon. And Vastor's hands. And some of his chest.
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Shatterpoint / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
Shatterpoint / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: For once, Mace Windu. Vastor is untrained, but he's much taller, a lot stronger physically, equally if not more so in the Force, and half Mace's age, making him a perfect example of being Unskilled, but Strong. On the other hand, as Mace notes:
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Shatterpoint / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
Shatterpoint / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: Nick Rostu. Already a highly experienced combatant at a young age, he has untrained Force talent that manifests in a number of ways, including here. Guns Akimbo: When you're a Force-user you don't have so much trouble firing in two directions at once. Improbable Aiming Skills: See above. Quick Draw: Shooting a lightsaber out of a Jedi's hand, pressed to her own temple, before she could hit the activation plate. In one shot. While delirious from blood-loss. Nick can also call his weapons to his hands.
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Shatterpoint / int_a3a4a800	type	Too Clever by Half
Shatterpoint / int_a3a4a800	comment	Too Clever by Half: Geptun. While he manipulates and outmaneuvers Mace for most of the novel, that same cleverness ends up biting him in the ass during the final assault on Pelek Baw. While issuing his ultimatum to Mace, Geptun allows the Jedi to 'trace' his signal to the nearby Ministry of Justice. It's most certainly a trap...and it doesn't work, because Mace by now has the measure of Geptun and his style. Mace correctly concludes he's being suckered — and he likewise correctly deduces Geptun's real location based on facts the Colonel accidentally let slip during their first conversation weeks earlier.
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Shatterpoint / int_a66109e3	type	The Un-Smile
Shatterpoint / int_a66109e3	comment	The Un-Smile: Smiling is not one of Mace's talents. He tries early on when Yoda starts talking about how skilled a Jedi Depa Billaba is. When he warns the Dirty Cops at Pelek Baw that he's about to leave them bleeding:
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Shatterpoint / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Shatterpoint / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Mace buries a number of dead Balawai and thinks on the nature of this trope as he does so. He imagines Nick's response would be that the dead hardly care if they got a proper burial and that there's no point to it, which Mace counters by thinking it has more for his benefit than theirs. He wants to show proper reverence to the sanctity of life and so can't just ignore that all these people have been killed.
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Shatterpoint / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
Shatterpoint / int_a922f8de	comment	Mace plays this one straight as an arrow at the end. His final revelation is that the To Be Lawful or Good dilemma he's been wrestling with is a false dilemma. It's fighting for the Jedi Code and the morals of civilized society that allows for justice and eventually peace, rather than victory over those who oppose them. Regarding the Jedi:
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Shatterpoint / int_aa3d3d1a	type	Motive Misidentification
Shatterpoint / int_aa3d3d1a	comment	Motive Misidentification: After bribing Colonel Geptun to cut him loose, Mace runs into a pack of mercenaries. When he tries to defend himself, he finds his lightsaber's running on empty. Mace thinks Geptun was trying to cover up the bribe by leaving him defenseless for the kill. He doesn't realize until later that Geptun had no knowledge of the attack. The lightsaber being depleted was actually a result of his techs analyzing its energy signature — thereby allowing Geptun to track Mace all the way to the ULF's base.
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Shatterpoint / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Shatterpoint / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: When talking about Palpatine, Mace says, "A shame he can't touch the Force. He might have made a fine Jedi." If only you knew, Mace. If only you knew...
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Shatterpoint / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Shatterpoint / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Windu's looking at everything through the prism of Jedi philosophy and civilization itself. His initial impression, which everyone else on the planet shares, is that you can't fight the Hungry Jungle using ethical means and survive. Over the course of the novel, he learns the truth: the "jungle" is everywhere — it's desperation, despair, and the things it drives people to do. Civilization is what you get when you do fight those things — and you don't need to win. Just fight. You'll never achieve a civilization free of desperation or despair, or destroy the potential for those things within yourself, but even if it isn't perfect, that doesn't mean it's not worth fighting for. But it takes a lot of suffering, death, and a near-fall to the dark side for him to figure it out. By contrast, Vastor looks at everything through the prism of "the jungle." He's ruled by animal instinct, not reason. This allows Mace to play him like a puppet — up until Depa finishes her Face–Heel Turn, anyway.
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Shatterpoint / int_abe166cc	type	Bond Creatures
Shatterpoint / int_abe166cc	comment	Bond Creatures: Some Korunnai form Force bonds with their akk dogs — large, armored, reptilian wolf-bear-things. The bond means the akk trusts its rider completely, is instantly obedient, and they can share senses and orders at the speed of thought, which lends the pair unmatched agility and reaction times. If the human partner dies, though, the akks generally become despondent and/or given to rages, and are usually put down.
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Shatterpoint / int_ac36578e	type	Or Was It a Dream?
Shatterpoint / int_ac36578e	comment	Or Was It a Dream?: Overlaps with Fever Dream Episode. Windu has several visions of meetings with Depa, days before they actually meet, but she appears 99% accurately to how she looks and acts later. Dreams because Mace knew her so well? Or something more real through The Force?
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Shatterpoint / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Shatterpoint / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Mace realizing that Geptun used him to locate the ULF's main base... and that he's about to drop a barrage of DOKAWs on the Lorshan Pass.
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Shatterpoint / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Shatterpoint / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Mace eventually defines his victory conditions as saving Depa and if he can work saving the rest of Haruun Kal in process, so much the better. By the novel's end he's managed to end the Summertime War, drive off the Separatists and defeat Vastor but Depa fell fully into the Dark Side and tried to kill first him, then herself before plunging into a coma. When Geptun asks if they won, all Mace can say is that he's still standing.
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Shatterpoint / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Shatterpoint / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Mace, emphasis on "deadpan"; Nick, emphasis on "snarker". They are an excellent comedy duo.
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Shatterpoint / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Shatterpoint / int_af3ea0e3	comment	By contrast, Vastor looks at everything through the prism of "the jungle." He's ruled by animal instinct, not reason. This allows Mace to play him like a puppet — up until Depa finishes her Face–Heel Turn, anyway.
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Shatterpoint / int_b5ab695c	type	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart
Shatterpoint / int_b5ab695c	comment	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: The Summertime War is your average colonial war between Europeans wanting to exploit the land for profit, and the indigenous tribes who are in the way. Matt Stover was specifically inspired by Heart of Darkness, an anti-colonialist novel set in the 1890s Belgian Congo. The larger context of the war is a Proxy War between the Republic and the Separatists over the strategically important jungle world Haruun Kal, much like the Vietnam War, which Stover's other main inspiration Apocalypse Now (itself a Setting Update of Heart of Darkness) was set within: the Separatists back the Balawai with financing and weapons (South Vietnam), while the Republic inserted Jedi Master Depa Billaba to assist the native Korunnai (Vietcong).
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Shatterpoint / int_b6b58f	type	Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training
Shatterpoint / int_b6b58f	comment	Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Kar Vastor, born with a strong connection to the Force, was forced to hone his skills to survive the jungle alone when the rest of his family was massacred by Balawai prospectors. Now he’s a sort of incarnation of the jungle itself — Mace considers him as powerful as Anakin or Yoda — but he had to trade away some of his humanity for it, most notably his ability to speak. He “talks” in unintelligible growls and barks, and only Force telepathy lets people know what he’s saying.
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Shatterpoint / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Shatterpoint / int_b7c53a22	comment	While fighting Vastor, Mace explicitly strikes blows designed "not to disable or to kill, but to hurt." The reader might think that he's just in the grip of his Vaapad instincts, but it's actually because he knows he can't win. He just needs to make it look like he's trying.
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Shatterpoint / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
Shatterpoint / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: Nick Rostu, crossed with Sad Clown; his rapier-quick wit is his coping mechanism, and he really needs it.
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Shatterpoint / int_c8b4278b	type	Straight Man and Wise Guy
Shatterpoint / int_c8b4278b	comment	Straight Man and Wise Guy: Mace as the Straight Man, Nick as the Wise Guy.
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Shatterpoint / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Shatterpoint / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Mace Windu is on the receiving end of this trope, via lightsaber, and survives by ensuring the blade is turned off and dissipates, leaving a smoking, ghastly — but cauterised — wound through his midsection, instead of allowing the blade to be ripped out sideways, burning him in half. His injuries are terrible but survivable, assuming medical attention.
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Shatterpoint / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Shatterpoint / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: Discussed. Part of the ugly nature of the Summertime War is the blurred lines between children and combatants. A thirteen year old is old enough to pick up a knife and stab you with it, so are they a child to be protected or an enemy combatant to be slain? Nick remarks that kids make great soldiers; they're too young to be afraid of dying.
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Shatterpoint / int_ccab244d	type	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
Shatterpoint / int_ccab244d	comment	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: The DOKAW (De-Orbiting Kinetic Anti-emplacement Weapon) — essentially a hundred kilos of durasteel falling from space to hit the ground at ten kilometers per second. The trope is generally Discussed. This book marks one of the few times "slug-throwers" (i.e. guns that fire bullets) make an appearance in the galaxy far, far away. Haruun Kal's metal-eating fungus renders blasters and their delicate circuits worthless in hours or less, but slug-throwers are much less vulnerable — keep them maintained and they last. However, Haruun Kal is one of the only places such low-tech weapons as slug-throwers and DOKAWs would be of any use at all. A DOKAW is almost hilariously ineffective against anything smaller or more mobile than a town, and can be pushed off course or even brought down by, at minimum, particularly poor weather. Slugs aren't deflected by lightsabers (they just get disintegrated), are useless against energy shields, and bounce unpredictably in tight quarters.
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Shatterpoint / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Shatterpoint / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Phloremirlla gets her left arm shot off, opening an artery. Mace is prevented from holding the wound closed; she doesn't live much longer afterwards.
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Shatterpoint / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Shatterpoint / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Nick Rostu's reaction when he realizes that he, Mace, and Kar Vastor are about to be bombarded by DOKAWs: "Oh, nuts. Ohhh, nuts nuts nuts."
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Shatterpoint / int_d32b5dde	type	Hope Bringer
Shatterpoint / int_d32b5dde	comment	Hope Bringer: It's shown that Depa is more than a leader to the Korunnai — she is a symbol, almost a goddess.
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Shatterpoint / int_d3f57db5	type	Planetville
Shatterpoint / int_d3f57db5	comment	Planetville: Most of Haruun Kal is uninhabitable, with all natives and colonists on the only plateau of significant size to rise above the toxic lower atmosphere. The end result is a planet that believably behaves like a nation-sized setting.
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Shatterpoint / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Shatterpoint / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Actually, Stover does have one. The book includes commentary on the much-maligned 1.2 million clones number (a result of the Attack of the Clones novelization), with the explanation that, yes, that's roughly one clone for every planet in the Republic, and that most of the fighting is actually being done by member militaries with the clones reserved as an Elite Army for critical battles.
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Shatterpoint / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Shatterpoint / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: Multiple people say this of Mace for acting like the laws and morals of the civilized galaxy apply on Haruun Kal. Eventually, Mace declares that people like Kar want to believe he's insane for having restraint and mercy because otherwise they would have to admit what monsters they really are.
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Shatterpoint / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
Shatterpoint / int_d839c530	comment	Throughout the book, it's very clear that Mace is just barely restrained from mauling several people due to his adherence to the Jedi code and his personal restraint. As his foil, Kar Vastor is The Unfettered and revels in his freedom.
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Shatterpoint / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Shatterpoint / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Chalk. Unfortunately, Vasquez Always Dies.
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Shatterpoint / int_db911ee	type	Field Promotion
Shatterpoint / int_db911ee	comment	Field Promotion: Mace brevets Nick Rostu as a major in the Republic Army, giving him what he wants most: a way offworld, and experience he can use to join a mercenary company. Mace later recommends that the brevet rank be confirmed. He also gives a posthumous one to Chalk, so that he can recommend both for medals of valor.
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Shatterpoint / int_dc9b1fe9	type	Cue the Sun
Shatterpoint / int_dc9b1fe9	comment	Cue the Sun: In the climax, as everyone is dying, and Depa gains the upper hand over Mace, dawn arrives just as Mace and Geptun are able to call off the droid starfighters holding the capital city hostage.
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Shatterpoint / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Shatterpoint / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: When Mace arrives at the Haruun Kal spaceport, he's wearing a white shirt, dark leather vest and boots, the latter with dark pants tucked into them, and he's carrying a Power 6 pistol. A knock-off of the one Han Solo uses. Or will use. At one point, Mace has visions of the Jedi Temple ransacked and its inhabitants slaughtered. He also sees Coruscant transformed into an impossible jungle more savage than Haruun Kal. Though he doesn't know it, the audience knows he's seeing both Order 66 and the Yuuzhan Vong's capture of Coruscant.
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Shatterpoint / int_e50e82e5	type	Nemesis Weapon
Shatterpoint / int_e50e82e5	comment	Nemesis Weapon: Mace Windu notes that the razor-edged vibroshields used by Kar Vastor and his acolytes are a twisted mirror of the Jedi lightsaber; he uses his sword as a shield, while they use their shields as swords.
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Shatterpoint / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Shatterpoint / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: All Korunnai, including Mace, are this in spades. Particular mention goes to Mace and to Chalk, who takes a horrible gut wound and never says anything right up until she dies.
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Shatterpoint / int_e5a6888c	type	Quick Draw
Shatterpoint / int_e5a6888c	comment	Quick Draw: Shooting a lightsaber out of a Jedi's hand, pressed to her own temple, before she could hit the activation plate. In one shot. While delirious from blood-loss. Nick can also call his weapons to his hands.
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Shatterpoint / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Shatterpoint / int_eb251937	comment	When he warns the Dirty Cops at Pelek Baw that he's about to leave them bleeding:
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Shatterpoint / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Shatterpoint / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The main point of the book is how profound an effect war has, partly on the galaxy's population as a whole, but more so on the Force-sensitive Jedi. They sense (and are affected by) pain, suffering, fear and threat, and what is war?
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Shatterpoint / int_f25b1ae6	type	Unskilled, but Strong
Shatterpoint / int_f25b1ae6	comment	Unskilled, but Strong: Kar Vastor is an unusual take on this trope. He qualifies as this in terms of Force users in general, as he is incredibly powerful but has no formal training and limited skills, but what skills he has are specialized to his environment of Haruun Kal's jungles, making him more skilful in interacting with the jungle than Mace and other Jedi would be.
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Shatterpoint / int_f522d94b	type	Kneel Before Frodo
Shatterpoint / int_f522d94b	comment	Kneel Before Frodo: When Mace rescues several prisoners, one of them kowtows to him, calling him "Your Highness" and begging for the lives of his children. Mace tells him to knock it off, as Jedi are servants to ordinary people, not the other way around.
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Shatterpoint / int_f76f8943	type	Bruiser with a Soft Center
Shatterpoint / int_f76f8943	comment	Bruiser with a Soft Center: Mace Windu. Jedi Master, expert swordsman, exceptional hand-to-hand combatant, and tactical genius, who's also a Humble Hero and Friend to All Children.
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Shatterpoint / int_faa2e847	type	Shatterpoint Tap
Shatterpoint / int_faa2e847	comment	Shatterpoint Tap: Physically shattering objects is the least that Mace can do with his unique Force talent. He can see the weak points of people's minds, the wills of armies, even entire interstellar nations. It's just that Jedi aren't supposed to mow down worlds like fields of wheat — and just because he can see those points doesn't mean that tapping them is easy.
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Shatterpoint / int_fdaf37f0	comment	Being a Jedi, Mace is more conservative in his language than most of those he meets, and is reluctant to quote them directly in his journal.
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Shatterpoint / int_fe48cea2	comment	Lady of War: Depa was one — a Jedi Master (and a member of the Council); a woman; a highly spiritual, intelligent, cool-headed and graceful individual; and devastating in combat due to her mastery of the lightsaber and the Vaapad style. Her time on Haruun Kul has left her... changed. She's just as deadly, but her mental state no longer lends itself well to grace.
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