History Awesome / StarWarsLegends

* From ''The Essential Guide to Warfare:'' The way the Seventeenth Alsakan Conflict ended. Coruscant and Alsakan are ''again'' warring over who gets to be the capital of the Republic. Corellia, by this point leading a fourth of the Republic in supporting neither side, starts sanctioning privateers against both sides. Coruscant and Alsakan join forces and declare war on Corellia, but then Corellia ''defeats them both decisively'' and Prince-Admiral Jonash E Solo walks into the Senate Building imposes a treaty on both parties at ''swordpoint'' that settles the issue for good, making him one of the Republic's greatest peacemakers.

* From ''The Essential Guide to Warfare:'' The way the Seventeenth Alsakan Conflict ended. Coruscant and Alsakan are ''again'' warring over who gets to be the capital of the Republic. Corellia, by this point leading a fourth of the Republic in supporting neither side, starts sanctioning privateers against both sides. Coruscant and Alsakan join forces and declare war on Corellia, but then Corellia ''defeats them both decisively'' and the leader of their navy imposes a treaty on both parties that settles the issue for good, making him one of the Republic's greatest peacemakers.

* A rather [[KickTheSonOfABitch chilling]] Moment of Awesome occurs in the backstory of a rebel general named Roons Sewell. After a hard childhood on the streets, he finds his place in a theater, and meets the love of his life there. Everything goes well until the Empire shuts down the theater mid performance due to the play's "subversive themes". Tension turns to violence and Sewell's lover is killed, though he escapes. The next day, he places her body in a speeder outside of her mother's house and has a neighborhood child deliver the message. Imperial officers immediately burst out of the mother's house and jump in their speeder to chase Sewell down, not noticing the chain wrapped around the speeder's repulsorlift. When it's yanked out, they crash and spill out onto the ground. Sewell approaches one ([[LaserGuidedKarma possibly the officer who had come to the theater]]), picks up the man's blaster, places it to his temple and says [[PreMortemOneLiner "Perhaps this will give you some appreciation for the classics."]]

* ''Awesome/HandOfThrawn''

[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends They may not be canon any more]], but moments of awesome are still awesome.

** Corran Horn casually shoots down Exar Kun's offer to join him and gives Kun an utterly savage speech laying out just why the Dark Side is always doomed to fail...''while lying down in bed.'' Not because he's paralyzed or anything, mind you; he just doesn't see the need to sit up.

** His whole campaign to break the pirates' morale.

** On a meta level, Timothy Zhan taking the entirety of the Hand of Thrawn Duology to spell out to other EU writers exactly what they had been doing wrong.

* In ''Literature/MaulLockdown'': We get to see Maul's fighting prowess without using his lightsaber. two moments includes killing a Yuuzhan Vong (while blind) and force feeding it the head of its Amphistaff and Quote Ripped three of the large piercings from its right arm and jammed them upward through the lips, bending them back into barb hooks and fastening the mouth shut with the serpent's head still trapped inside. unquote and sensing that it was weakened from the Amphistaff venom he then finished it by headbutting the thing with his horns going through its eyes.
** In his next bout he ripped out the heart of a Wampa from its chest with his own TWO hands!

*** And when Luke catches Jacen torturing Anakin, the resulting all-out, no-holds-barred lightsaber beatdown is a thing of beauty. Jacen may be one of the best swordsmen in the galaxy...but he's up against '''PapaWolf Luke Skywalker.'''

** When Corran takes on Exar Kun and is all but broken from being utterly {{Mind Rape}}d, Mara Jade strolls in like a [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Hero]] and saves him by giving Kun an ''epic'' ShutUpHannibal / TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. The most delectable part is when she reels off TheLongList of every Imperial baddie she's ever worked with / against, and describes how they would have thought Kun -- the undying, ancient Sith Master -- to be a ''total incompetent.''

** Between Leia and her brother, in terms of their jobs and talents, Luke takes more after their father, Leia after their mother. In terms of temperament and ego, it's the other way around. Luke isn't very good at righteous fury - and the Noghri don't pick ''him'' as the mal'ary'ush, heir to Vader's power. There's a reason that they call her "Lady [[TheDreaded Vader]]"

--->Haazen: The Prophecy of Five is fulfilled. Let the fire of truth rain down.

* The climax of the AlternateUniverse story''Star Wars Infinites: A New Hope'' has Yoda taking control of the Death Star, shooting a ton of Imperial ships with the superlaser before finally having it ColonyDrop right on Palpatine's palace.
--> '''Yoda:''' Coming to see you, I am. Now.

* The entirety of Dark Horse's ''By the Emperor's Hand'' is a Crowning Moment of Awesome for Mara Jade, especially the final arc in which she infiltrates Black Nebula's base, fools the villain of the piece into thinking she has incredible technology to help her win consistently in his casino (which he can then buy from her mysterious backers), and eventually kills him with a lightsaber embedded inside a bust of [[MagnificentBastard Xizor]], [[KarmicDeath to whom he had been the Understudy]]. But the greatest crowning moment of all has to be issue three, wherein Mara escapes from Ysanne Isard's clutches and makes her and all of Imperial Intelligence look like utter fools. Perhaps the best line to represent this moment is:

* Exar Kun in TheSithWar - he waltzes into the Galactic Senate while Ulic Qel-Droma is on trial, freezes the entire chamber in place with a Sith spell, forces the head of the Galactic Republic to say they are all weak pawns of the Jedi (and then drops him, possibly dead, into a puddle of his own goo), duels (and trivially murders) his former master on the Senate Floor, is so unimpressed by a former fellow student of his trying to attack him that he just throws her across the room rather than waste his time fighting her, and waltzes right back out again (with Ulic), leaving the entire room still frozen in abject horror. It's pretty difficult to top, as far as 'you are all utterly impotent to stop me' moments go.

* The entirety of Dark Horse's ''By the Emperor's Hand'' is a Crowning Moment of Awesome for Mara Jade, especially the final arc in which she infiltrates Black Nebula's base, fools the villain of the piece into thinking she has incredible technology to help her win consistently in his casino (which he can then buy from her mysterious backers), and eventually kills him [[spoiler:with a lightsaber embedded inside a bust of [[MagnificentBastard Xizor]], [[KarmicDeath to whom he had been the Understudy]]]]. But the greatest crowning moment of all has to be issue three, wherein [[spoiler:Mara escapes from Ysanne Isard's clutches and makes her and all of Imperial Intelligence look like utter fools.]] Perhaps the best line to represent this moment is:

** In the first story-arc, ''Commencement'', [[ComedicHero Zayne]] and [[DeadpanSnarker Gryph]] escaping ''five'' homicidal Jedi Masters and making it into the underworld of Taris; the ''Last Resort's'' escape from the planet; the ''Last Resort's'' arrival at the Taris asteroid, rescuing [[TheHero Zayne]] and [[ActionGirl Jarael]] from [[BrokenPedestal Zayne's former Master]] Lucien Draay; and best of all [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes Jarael's rescue of Zayne from all five Masters]] complete with his lightsaber and ominous red spacesuit]]. Zayne even gets one in the epilogue when he [[spoiler:contacts the Masters, with little trace of the old ComedicHero about him, and gives them a chilling WeWillMeetAgain speech, ending with "And if I do end up collapsing the Jedi Order, just remember one thing. You started it."]]

*** Then, of course, there's Gryph and Zayne's utterly brilliant, incredibly complicated BatmanGambit to get the Mandalorians off Flashpoint and rescue Jarael and the captured Jedi. [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee It goes perfectly.]] [[spoiler:To an extent... It gives Demagol an opening to switch places with Rohlan for most of the comic's run, leading to the cataclysmic events of the final arc.]]

** The way that Jango kills Vizsla counts, too. After a [[HowMuchMoreCanHeTake brutal fight]] that leaves both men injured and weakened, Jango slashes Vizsla's stomach open with his gauntlet blades. Vizsla, holding his guts in, snarls that a little wound like that won't kill him. To which Jango, lying back in the grass, replies no, but [[spoiler: ''they'' will. Vizsla turns just in a time to see a nasty lion like creature pouncing on him]]. Cue [[GoryDiscretionShot off panel screams]] fading away into a gurgle.

--> '''Darth Vader:''' [[spoiler: Myself.]]

** Oh, and he's an old friend of [[spoiler: Han Solo]], from their training days together at the Imperial Academy. That's almost makes Agent Cross a Moment of Awesome simply by association.

--> Stormtroopers are the Empire's hammer. [[spoiler: ''This man'' (Agent Cross) ''is its scalpel''.]]

** Empatojayos Brand. [[spoiler: At the climax of ''Empire's End'', Palpatine's spirit departs his dying final clone body and attempts to possess Han's son Anakin. However, Brand (who was mortally wounded by Palpatine moments earlier) throws himself in the way, causing Palpatine to possess ''him'' instead. The result is that Palpatine is '''''[[DraggedOffToHell DRAGGED INTO THE FORCE BY BRAND'S SPIRIT, KILLING HIM]]'''''. And unlike all of Palpatine's other deaths, this death is '''''PERMANENT''''' and '''''FINAL'''''. Did we mention Brand [[KarmicDeath was an Order 66 survivor]]?]]
* In the Marvel Comics story "Dark Encounter", Vader faces cyborg bounty hunter Valance on a boardwalk over a polluted, corrosive lake. [[spoiler: And Valance comes darn close to killing Vader in the ensuing battle.]]

* The ''Star Wars'' novel ''[[Literature/LegacyOfTheForce Sacrifice]]'' had one. [[spoiler: Lumiya's death at the hands of Luke. "I'll never let you fall."]]

* Admiral Daala is one of the least impressive of the EU's villains, but she arguably gets the best example of this when, having locked the leaders of the warring Imperial faction in a big conference room, and tried in vain to get them to get along, [[spoiler: she finally gives up, loudly denounces them, and gives the order to [[BoardToDeath fill the room with poisonous gas]], having brought a gas mask and provided Pellaeon with one beforehand, leaving the two of them the leaders of all the remaining Imperial forces]].

*** Another one from ''New Rebellion'': Leia, at the end, when she [[spoiler:takes out [[BigBad Kueller]], who her brother had previously been fighting a losing battle against, with a simple blaster shot.]]

** In ''Vision of the Future'', just as the Imperial conspirators [[spoiler:have General Bel Iblis under their guns, Pellaeon marches onto the bridge of the flagship and exposes the whole plot, bringing the conspiracy to a screeching halt]].

*** Mara also had one in ''Vision of the Future'': [[spoiler: remote-control crashing her personal ship, the ''Jade's Fire'', into the Hand of Thrawn complex's hangar bay]].

** One of the awesomest moments is at the very end, where Count Dooku's emergency escape plan is revealed to be [[spoiler:an orbital missile fired at Chateau Malreaux: simple and effective. Yoda uses his telekinesis to send it off course, which is like the part at the end of ''Attack of the Clones'' where he saves Obi-Wan and Anakin from a falling engine cylinder -- only about thirty times as epic]].

** In the last book of the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy, Boba Fett steals a brand-new Star Destroyer from its construction bay and pilots it ''all by himself'' for a few minutes, causing significant damage to the rest of the facility in the process.
*** Although the bombs planted and activated by the KDY executive throughout his shipyard also did a great deal of damage.
** In the Tales from the New Republic anthology, Fett takes on an entire Imperial garrison to recover a target he is after - although the quarry escapes. Years later, Fett finds him as an old man, telling stories about Boba Fett to a group of orphans (one of whom asks if Fett is a good guy or a bad guy). After the story is over and the children leave, Fett emerges from the shadows, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments tips the man for his story (saying it may provide "an answer to a little girl's question") and leaves him in peace]].
*** Not just a tip. A credit chit worth tens of thousands of credits--equaling the exact bounty that had been placed on the man's head. This story, written before the prequel movies, also becomes FridgeBrilliance in light of ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', when you see why Boba Fett has a soft spot for orphans.

* The ''StarWars'' novel ''[[Literature/LegacyOfTheForce Sacrifice]]'' had one. [[spoiler: Lumiya's death at the hands of Luke. "I'll never let you fall."]]

* As a substitute example for Luke, how about his [[spoiler:decapitating Yuuzhan Vong Supreme Overlord Shimrra with his and Anakin's lightsabers]] in "The Unifying Force".
** Also from the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series: [[spoiler:Chewbacca, bloodied and dazed, alone among wreckage and corpses on the dying planet of Sernpidal, looked up, stared a falling moon straight on, and loudly dared it to come claim him if it was bold enough to try]].
** Another ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' example: Ganner at the well of the World Brain: "[[YouShallNotPass None shall pass]]."
** Yet another NJO example: Admiral Pellaeon, Thrawn's former second in command, gets to deliver this line:
--->"Although you may win the occasional battle against us, Vorrik, the Empire will always strike back." (Yes, ''[[TheEmpire that]]'' [[TheEmpire Empire]].)

* Vergere's conversation with Jacen on Yuuzhan'tar
--> '''Vergere''': ''We are playing the same game we have been playing ever since Myrkr: we are playing "Who is Jacen Solo?"
--> '''Jacen''': ''If that's the game, I can end it right now. I know who I am Vergere. No matter what you do to me. No matter what torture you put me through. If I never touch the Force again. It doesn't matter. I know.''
--> '''Vergere''': ''Do you?''\\
'''Jacen''': ''Yes. I'm a Jedi.''
* Jacen's best SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome occurs earlier in Traitor: when he makes the living armor out of amphistaffs and looks at the Yuuzhan Vong warriors headed towards him, with the immortal line, "I'd like you to meet some friends of mine." Followed by a fantastic CurbStompBattle.
* Vergere gets one near the end of ''Traitor''; when she's right about to 'leave' with Nom Anor and when Nom starts boasting about [[CrazyPrepared always having a contingency plan]], Vergere switches Anakin's captured lightsaber on and holds it ''inches'' from his face, going off on a tangent about how elegant the lightsaber is, while Nom Anor is clearly '''''terrified.''''' She finishes it off with responding to Nom's accusation of "You...you said Jacen Solo would steal this ship!" with a theatrical sigh, and [[IronicEcho "When will you realize, Executor, that everything I tell you is the truth?"]]
* Ganner Rhysode's LastStand in ''Traitor''. He literally becomes one with the Force while holding off ''hundreds'' of Yuuzhan Vong warriors ''single-handedly'', finally pulling a Samson and collapsing the building on himself and everything in the vicinity before he's overcome. This impresses the Vong so much that he winds up as a central figure in the Vong's Jeedai heresy, an invincible warrior called the Ganner who guards the gateway to the underworld.
--> "I am Ganner. This threshold is ''mine''. I claim it for my own. Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don't give a damn. None shall pass."
* The final battle between Jacen and Onimi in the Unifying Force, when Jacen achieves Oneness with the Force and causes Onimi's own poisons to liquify him from the inside out. Jacen might have been a GaryStu by that point, but that sequence was still pretty awesome.
* Jaina Solo actually got one in ''[[Literature/NewJediOrder The New Jedi Order]]'', back when the Expanded Universe's current female disenfranchisement complex was still in its infancy. At the climax of ''Destiny's Way'', [[spoiler:she took on Yuuzhan Vong [[TheDragon Warmaster Tsavong Lah]], with the final result that her lightsaber ended up embedded in his neck]].

* The Lusankya (the Super Star Destroyer mentioned above) and its captain, Eldo Davip, get three Moments of Awesome in Creator/AaronAllston's New Jedi Order-era ''Rebel Dream'' and ''Rebel Stand''.
** The first one occurs when the Lusankya screws up Wedge's plan... by being dragged out of hyperspace in the middle of the enemy fleet, and subsequently decapitating its command structure. Whoops.
*** And Wedge's plan, by the way? To lose the planet, but do it in a way that would inspire people. That's right- Wedge Antilles tried to lose a battle [[SpringtimeForHitler AND COULDN'T]].
** The second one, Operation Emperor's Hammer, involved luring the Yuuzhan Vong to beseige their base on Borleias, and then [[KillSat blasting them from orbit]].
--> '''Iella:''' So who are you going to hit them with? The New Republic, or the Rebellion?
--> '''Wedge:''' Neither. We're going to him them with an enemy they've never had the displeasure of facing. We're going to hit them with the Empire.
--> '''Tycho:''' They're not going to like the Empire.
** The third one was called Operation Emperor's Spear. The ''Lusankya'' was systematically stripped of its weapons, fitted with an internal reinforced spear along its eleven mile length, and packed with explosives. Then Eldo Davip himself singlehandedly [[RammingAlwaysWorks rammed it into the Vong worldship]], before escaping in a Y-Wing made of spare parts for this purpose. At the end of the day, the Yuuzhan Vong were handed the very definition of a PyrrhicVictory; they did finally gain Borleias, but they lost far more in taking it than the New Republic lost in defending, and in the end the New Republic defenders escaped.
** From that same book, Wedge Antilles in a ''damaged'' droidless ship taking down ''an entire squadron of coralskippers''. An entire squadron! By himself! ''Jedi'' can only do that when they have superior firepower or tricks! Blackmoon Eleven: The Greatest Pilot Of All Time.
*** Made even awesomer (and a CMOF) by current Rogue Squadron (Wedge's old command) Leader Gavin Darklighter (a pilot Wedge trained way back when) not knowing who he's talking to and having the following discussion with his old CO:
--->''Gavin: Blackmoon Eleven, what did you think you were doing going after an entire squadron?''
--->''Wedge: My job.''
--->''Gavin: That's "my job, SIR".''
---> ''Wedge: *grinning* My job, SIR.''
---> ''Gavin: Son, if you develop piloting skills in proportion to your nerve, someday they'll call you [[{{Irony}} the greatest pilot of all time]].''
** Wedge in general is win in that duology. He's consistently, intensely brilliant, [[XanatosSpeedChess quick on his feet]], able to see through deceptions, and daring.
--> The tactic he needed clicked into Wedge's mind. In the span of a second, he evaluated it, tested it for major weaknesses, dismissed the weaknesses as irrelevant because of the Yuuzhan Vong's current state of confusion, and decided that he could probably use the tactic again - once - at a later time.

* Simultaneously a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, when Han shuts down the arrogant Imperial commander early on in ''Destiny's Way''. She brags about how TheEmpire would never have had the kinds of problems with the Yuuzhan Vong that the New Republic was having, as they would have mobilized their entire fleet at the first sign of trouble and then would have swiftly and mercilessly crushed the opposition. Han fires back by pointing out that TheEmpire would have done nothing of the sort and instead would have wasted god knows how much on a [[AwesomeButImpractical massively impractical superweapon]] that would have either not worked or would have had [[AchillesHeel some design flaw]] that an enemy ace could exploit and destroy, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking would have given it a stupid, grandiose name to boot]].
-->"That's not what the Empire would have done, Commander. What the Empire would have done was build a super-colossal Yuuzhan Vong-killing battle machine. They would have called it the Nova Colossus or the Galaxy Destructor or the Nostril of Palpatine or something equally grandiose. They would have spent billions of credits, employed thousands of contractors and subcontractors, and equipped it with the latest in death-dealing technology. And you know what would have happened? It wouldn't have worked. They'd forget to bolt down a metal plate over an access hatch leading to the main reactors, or some other mistake, and a hotshot enemy pilot would drop a bomb down there and blow the whole thing up. Now that's what the Empire would have done."
*** Automatically a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} purely for the term "Nostril of Palpatine".

* In Literature/OutboundFlight, Thrawn had a tiny picket force of three small cruisers and seven fighters. He beat two Trade Federation split-ring battleships, each with a massive complement of droid starfighters, and six armed Techno Union ''Hardcell''-class transports, plus seven escort cruisers. Not one Chiss died. See, the Trade Federation remote-controlled their starfighters with comm signals that were supposedly unjammable, because if the enemy jammed one frequency they just shifted to another. No one would dare jam ''all'' frequencies, because then no one could communicate with the other ships at all. Except that Thrawn did that and countered the countermeasures. And found the [[AttackTheWeakPoint weak points]] in the larger ships. And rigged up a stolen gravity-well generator so that no one could escape.

* The stormtroopers in Literature/SurvivorsQuest. They're so badass that it's painful.

--> '''Wedge''': "Go to hell."
--> '''Thrackan''': "Antilles, you've refused a direct order given during a military crisis, and I have it on record. Should I choose to, I can have security agents haul you away right now. I can conduct your trial within the hour and have you executed by morning."
--> '''Wedge''': "Of course you can. You could also have me assassinated in a time of peace for having nicer hair than you. If I worried about that sort of thing, I'd never get any sleep."

* ''Awesome/XWingSeries''

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* [[Awesome/XWingSeries Has its own page.]]

** FridgeBrilliance kicks in if you've read the novels: that's a full size ''Death Star superlaser'' the Eclipse is packing, limited only by the ship's smaller reactor output in comparison to the moon-sized space station (and it could still crack planets open like an egg, just not atomize them).

* Tenel Ka is being sadly ignored. Has everyone forgotten how she kicked a Nightsister's ass while ''unarmed''? And, the second time, she did it with one arm!

*** This particular item isn't that awesome. They pick her because she is Vader's daughter and they are a matriarchal society. Luke is a damn good warrior, but he is not in the line to rule.

* The ''Knights Of The Old Republic'' comic series (a prequel to [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic the game]]) is basically a series of incredible awesome punctuated by a ridiculous number of [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]]. These include: