Fate Denied may be about kicking destiny in the balls, but the author doesn't shy away from depicting just what kind of horrors exist in the Star Wars galaxy.
- The Battle of Tund features exactly the kind of horrors you'd expect when fighting an ancient Sith Lord who specializes in sorcery. Mass mind-control of the local Toong
population is just the start; Yoda has to spend the entire battle in orbit to defend the Republic forces against psychic attacks that will make them turn on each other, and Graush eventually unleashes what is essentially the bastard hybrid of a Sith Leviathan and a Yrthak that eats souls on his enemies. - Interlude 29: We get to watch Palpatine Mind Rape poor Finis Valorum into accepting the usage of clones in the Republic Judicial Forces from the latter's perspective and it is absolutely terrifying how the poor Chancellor goes from vehemently opposed to something he rightly considers a crime against civilization to reluctantly supporting it, without even the slightest idea of what the Sith just did to him.
- Viera's mission to Nar Shaddaa drives home just how much suffering happens because of the Hutt Kadijics. Every form of vice and cruelty can be found there for the right price, people are exhibited in slave auction houses as though they were livestock, and neither the Republic nor the Jedi Order is willing to stop them for fear of how much devastation the resulting war would cause.
- The Sarlacc on Dathomir. Anyone who's read the pertinent background material knows what they do to their prey, and Bruck gets to see it up close and personal by diving into the beast's gullet. He gets out and saves several Republic soldiers in the process, but the Nightsister who was in there controlling the Sarlacc wasn't so lucky.
- Vexxtal, an Iron Knight of Dweem turned into a Force Wound by a horrible accident with Rakatan Force-powered technology. Absolutely everything about him is steeped in pure, high-octane nightmare fuel. Driven completely insane by the constant suffering of his existence, he seeks to end his pain by the extermination of all organic life, and through them the Force itself.
- He creates a computer virus that commands any droid infected, upon detecting a specific activation signal, to kill all organics. And he successfully inserts it into every droid on the planet with no one the wiser; not "some", not "most", All of Them. Everything from security and cleaning droids to astromechs and protocol droids to surgical and teaching droids go from docile and helpful to relentlessly murderous once he broadcasts the signal, and no one catches on until he begins what quickly becomes known as "The Butchering of Coruscant". By the time it ends, the death toll stands at well over one trillion sentient beings.
- As a final act of spite when Yoda, Windu, Fay, and Sidious manage to finally corner and cripple him, Vexxtal releases a vial of nanogene spores, which would be bad enough on a City Planet like Coruscant with so many places for it to lay dormant and turn unwitting passersby into technobeasts, but Vexxtal does it in the single worst place imaginable: a hub for Galactic City's planet-wide ventilation system.
