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Sexual Aluminum posted:Somewhere in the New Republic, Han Solo is being MeTooed and his wife Leia has to denounce him. i mean he shot her with a Date rape/roofie gun once when he got jealous of her possibly marrying some prince. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Gun_of_Command
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Admiral Daala once crashed a Super Star Destroyer into a planet on accident. There is an entire race of aliens in the Star Wars universe that look like Baraka from Mortal Kombat hosed a Githyanki. 
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Nov 12, 2020 20:07
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PoptartsNinja posted:There is an entire race of aliens in the Star Wars universe that look like Baraka from Mortal Kombat hosed a Githyanki. the only place that alien is too cool for is star trek
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i mean he shot her with a Date rape/roofie gun once when he got jealous of her possibly marrying some prince. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Gun_of_Command I was rewatching clone wars yesterday and it’s really remarkable how pivotal that single dumb loving book ended up being to Star Wars canon, both Legends and the real one. Darth Maul’s resurrection, Ventress’s backstory, whatever the hell is going on on Dathomir in Fallen Order (haven’t gotten there yet)... it’s honestly amazing.
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Nov 12, 2020 20:56
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Hazo posted:I was rewatching clone wars yesterday and it’s really remarkable how pivotal that single dumb loving book ended up being to Star Wars canon, both Legends and the real one. Darth Maul’s resurrection, Ventress’s backstory, whatever the hell is going on on Dathomir in Fallen Order (haven’t gotten there yet)... it’s honestly amazing. dathomir is pretty cool it's just the rape gun that sucks
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I feel like Dathomir in the Clone Wars is radically different from how it is in the book. No rancors, and there's zabrak male villages for some reason. Then in Rebels they visit Dathomir and all the witches are dead, killed off by the Empire. They did leave some ghosts, so maybe their order could somehow be revived by the time of the early EU, but I feel like Kylo Ren's age might imply that Han and Leia's relationship progressed slower than it did in the EU anyways.
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Nov 13, 2020 03:25
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The only big element they kept from old Dathomir for new Dathomir is “dark side witches”. SlothfulCobra posted:all the witches are dead, killed off by the Empire Separatists. Grievous did it for Dooku in Clone Wars
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I guess it’s just weird to me that they kept the name and everything from a book that had a bunch of gross weird stuff like elderly witch titties and rancors and exploding teeth torture and rape guns and alien princes and threepio singing songs about Han being great They’ve shown before they’re willing to canonize old EU stuff while slapping a different label on it (Korriban/Moribund comes to mind). Maybe they just really like the way Dathomir sounded.
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why does my thread title keep getting changed to be dull. this ain't star wars science, that's for the people who debate the specs of star destroyers this is a thread about corran horn loving an otter, and other science facts btw while star wars is the main focus please feel free to post other science facts as the mood strikes you. i would be particularly curious to see star trek EU as my only exposure to it is a couple of shatner novels and, well 
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Hazo posted:I guess it’s just weird to me that they kept the name and everything from a book that had a bunch of gross weird stuff like elderly witch titties and rancors and exploding teeth torture and rape guns and alien princes and threepio singing songs about Han being great Hell the entirety of Episode IX is just a montage of EU ideas
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Jazerus posted:why does my thread title keep getting changed to be dull. this ain't star wars science, that's for the people who debate the specs of star destroyers 
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thanks. well, he really only did it once, so it's "hosed" but the essentials are there and i appreciate the variety i think. declension is the spice of life for reference i'd welcome title changes that followed the format "x, and other science facts" as i suppose corran horn isn't everybody's thing but the thread does need that certain factual mood Jazerus fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Nov 13, 2020 |
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Nov 13, 2020 04:59
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Jazerus posted:for reference i'd welcome title changes that followed the format "x, and other science facts" as i suppose corran horn isn't everybody's thing but the thread does need that certain factual mood 
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Nov 13, 2020 05:14
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...Where’s the stat for getting it on with a Selonian?
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Karl Urban is really getting around in big franchises.
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Jazerus posted:why does my thread title keep getting changed to be dull. this ain't star wars science, that's for the people who debate the specs of star destroyers That book is the alpha and omega of trek EU, quit while you're ahead.
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I feel like when Star Trek gets weird it's less exciting because while Star Wars's weirdest stuff is off in little corners that probably never got editorial approval, Star Trek just has plenty of that poo poo in the show itself, so it's not like books can get that much weirder than Worf turning into a lobster and eating a crewmate or Janeway evolving into a lizard and copulating and laying eggs.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like when Star Trek gets weird it's less exciting because while Star Wars's weirdest stuff is off in little corners that probably never got editorial approval, Star Trek just has plenty of that poo poo in the show itself, so it's not like books can get that much weirder than Worf turning into a lobster and eating a crewmate or Janeway evolving into a lizard and copulating and laying eggs. SCIENCE FACT: Worf De-Evolved into a spider, Janeway was Evolved into a newt (she got better)
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fartknocker posted:...Where’s the stat for getting it on with a Selonian? The health, as the mad lad still got finished even though it raised a rash.
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skasion posted:Separatists. Grievous did it for Dooku in Clone Wars I think it was just that Clan(which was the most powerful). We see a witch on Dathomir in Jedi: Fallen Order.
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Linux Pirate posted:I think it was just that Clan(which was the most powerful). We see a witch on Dathomir in Jedi: Fallen Order. Merrin is a lone survivor of that purge, she’s super hacked off about it still
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skasion posted:Merrin is a lone survivor of that purge, she’s super hacked off about it still Not lone, but they were defiantly scarce. Wookieepedia posted:Following the end of the Clone Wars, the Nightsisters' massacre at the hands of Grievous and Dooku became known, with very few Nightsisters remaining, like Merrin. However, as the Nightbrothers weren't wiped out. Merrin would take them as her servants and they took control of Dathomir during the age of the Galactic Empire.[12] The existence of the Nardithi might suggest there are a few, very small sects of witches somewhere out there.
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Love that his flavor quote is tearing him down "I bet you wish you had unpacked Luke Skywalker"
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Corda. Bien sucks, there I said it. poo poo character
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Corda. Bien sucks, there I said it. poo poo character i like him in i, jedi because he's just used as a mouthpiece to poo poo on kevin j anderson i think that is the only legends book that explicitly revisits the events of another book and retcons the poo poo out of it otherwise yeah. he's bad, op. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Nov 16, 2020 |
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Wraith Squadron did some heavy retconning of Courtship of Princess Leia too. And Zahn’s Hand of Thrawn undid the Lando/Mara relationship
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That time the Hutts built a death star and the rebels hosed the pooch ten ways from sunday trying to stop them but it was okay because they used low-bid contractors for everything and cut the navigation system budget too close to the bone so it flew straight into an asteroid as soon as they tried to use it
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shame on an IGA posted:That time the Hutts built a death star and the rebels hosed the pooch ten ways from sunday trying to stop them but it was okay because they used low-bid contractors for everything and cut the navigation system budget too close to the bone so it flew straight into an asteroid as soon as they tried to use it Darksaber Andersonnnnnn 
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shame on an IGA posted:That time the Hutts built a death star and the rebels hosed the pooch ten ways from sunday trying to stop them but it was okay because they used low-bid contractors for everything and cut the navigation system budget too close to the bone so it flew straight into an asteroid as soon as they tried to use it You know people always poo poo on this, and yes it's an idea that probably can't support even a slim mass-market paperback, but I'm gonna go to bat for Darksaber as a concept. A bunch of hedonistic libertarian gangsters try and copy the Death Star, but cheap out on the armor, infrastructure, navigation and pretty much everything but the big doom laser itself, so it's just a big janky Groverhaus-esque piece of poo poo that's sorta terrifying until it plows itself into an asteroid field and kills itself? That's funny as gently caress in a shaggy dog story kinda way.
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It’s true that the concept of Darksaber isn’t especially terrible compared to some of the other awful “new villain with new super gun that shoots death stars” books. KJA had already written some of those so he knew what he was joking about. The fun stuff in Darksaber however is all kind of a sideshow to Daala being an idiot while Luke road trips around with his girlfriend/ghost/student
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Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen many big sci-fi stories do much with interstellar organized crime. Usually at most they're a temporary threat that looms off in the distance only to be forgotten when the main plot comes along again.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen many big sci-fi stories do much with interstellar organized crime. Usually at most they're a temporary threat that looms off in the distance only to be forgotten when the main plot comes along again. the Vatta's War books by Elizabeth Moon are something kind of interesting to check out. Space is explored and settled and has no interstellar legal authorities of any kind; a kid gets kicked out of her planet's space navy and given a trading ship as a sinecure by her family; and fights pirates and poo poo. All the opponents are organized crime, some of the friends are, and while there's some political maneuvering it's pretty much all in service of letting the organized crime do its thing.
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Corran was really good in x-wing 1.0(he was, in fact, better than Luke, but that's not saying much), but he got nerfed hard in 2.0 when his double-tap required bullseye-arc shots and the shield regeneration droids are no longer infinite or particularly good. The E-wing he flies looks like something out of battlestar galactica and i think the canon about it was that it was an absolute boondoggle that didn't go anywhere. 1.0  vs 2.0  Also, does not have any force ability given to force characters that was introduced in 2.0(he would probably be even more expensive if he did) Panzeh fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Nov 19, 2020 |
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Hazo posted:Karl Urban is really getting around in big franchises. I guess Stackpole no longer has the pull to make them literally put him in the game as his self-insert character like they did for the CCG. Behold, the man so charismatic and handsome that every woman falls in love with him and every man begs to be his friend. 
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Defiance Industries posted:I guess Stackpole no longer has the pull to make them literally put him in the game as his self-insert character like they did for the CCG. 
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a true science fact from the new Empire Strikes Back short story collection is: all X-Wing pilots wear diapers
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Sodomy Hussein posted:Hell the entirety of Episode IX is just a montage of EU ideas It really does show that the whole sequel trilogy has Legends DNA all through it. "Here's the Empire's successors. Their Star Destroyer is twice as big as the Empire's basic Star Destroyer and they built a weapon into a planet that drains stars to power it and can shoot interstellar distances in minutes in a way that allows people on planets to see the shots like they were jet trails." Okay fine, somewhat acceptable if that was basically all they had-"They have a whole bunch of the better Star Destroyers and ones twice as big as those who can take out whole fleets and oh look the guy in charge flies around in a ship three times as big as the Super Star Destroyer Executor and also they have a portable low powered death star laser". Well I suppose some indulgence is "And another hidden part of the Empire built hundreds of OTHER Star Destroyers who also all had stripped down Death Star lasers." Speaking of the Darksaber, there was its proto-form from the comic, the Tarkin, which was bigged up for being even more dangerous than the Death Star for the same reason the Darksaber ended up sucking so badly, barring the whole 'cheaping out on construction' parts. Also, it supposedly existed because the writer of the comic, David Michelinie, went to his bosses and said "Hey, I'm gonna have the Empire built a second Death Star' and they were like NO NO NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT without saying just why (the comic came out in mid 1981), so he did the Tarkin instead. Seriously, with all the poo poo that the Empire had built/was building in the old EU, the First Order's excesses seem positively spartan.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like when Star Trek gets weird it's less exciting because while Star Wars's weirdest stuff is off in little corners that probably never got editorial approval, Star Trek just has plenty of that poo poo in the show itself, so it's not like books can get that much weirder than Worf turning into a lobster and eating a crewmate or Janeway evolving into a lizard and copulating and laying eggs. you're telling me that there's no gems in the shatner books? i can buy that the average trek EU book is basically a c-tier episode script and neither more or less weird than the shows. and it's been a long time since i read the first two shatner books, so maybe my memory is faulty here, but it felt like they were running away very quickly into crazytown
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dordreff posted:a true science fact from the new Empire Strikes Back short story collection is: all X-Wing pilots wear diapers I'm pretty sure that's common across the board with jet fighter/long range bomber pilots and astronauts on earth. Still, lol poop.
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