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I mean, it is deffo at least partially to blame. They don't call it the Tarkin Doctrine because he's good a branding. They call it that because the dude loves two things, graft and shooting himself in the foot in order to be able to do a new and novel atrocity.
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Just how many girlfriends does Tarkin have stashed around the galaxy? Are large portions of the Imperial military kinda like Amazon Prime, which mainly exists to help Jeff Bezos meet and date Hollywood actresses in the lead up to/after his divorce, and just incidentally makes movies and TV shows?
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Jul 14, 2021 17:04
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After the outbreak of the Clone Wars, the Republic extended membership to the distant planet of Kamino in order to safeguard the source of the clone army, and Kamino was granted a full seat in the senate as well. This is who they sent as their senator. She used her seat in the senate mainly to petition the Republic to take out more loans to spend more money on expanding its military, using the war to enrich Kamino. Her name is Halle Burtoni.
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Jul 25, 2021 03:12
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halle burtoni and her senatorial aide, dik che'nee
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SlothfulCobra posted:After the outbreak of the Clone Wars, the Republic extended membership to the distant planet of Kamino in order to safeguard the source of the clone army, and Kamino was granted a full seat in the senate as well. This is who they sent as their senator. Any time someone tries to suggest that some theory based entirely on circumstantial background poo poo is what Lucas "intended" I point to stuff like this and Nute Gunray. George Lucas has the mind of a child.
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Jul 25, 2021 04:45
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darth insanius
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Jul 25, 2021 08:25
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In fairness, naming characters can be hard, and when you've committed to weird alien names, it takes a lot of confidence to stick to any one weird alien name, because they're all gonna sound dumb, at least at first, and it's hard to know what names can get past that. Also I don't think Lucas wrote the episodes Halle Burtoni showed up in, but anything's possible, he had some kind of involvement in the show. In one of the first cuts of Star Wars, Luke's friends called him Wormy.
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SlothfulCobra posted:In fairness, naming characters can be hard, and when you've committed to weird alien names, it takes a lot of confidence to stick to any one weird alien name, because they're all gonna sound dumb, at least at first, and it's hard to know what names can get past that. Also I don't think Lucas wrote the episodes Halle Burtoni showed up in, but anything's possible, he had some kind of involvement in the show. https://youtu.be/nmg3kmq8PKU The Adventures of Luke “Wormy” Skywalker
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Defiance Industries posted:Any time someone tries to suggest that some theory based entirely on circumstantial background poo poo is what Lucas "intended" I point to stuff like this and Nute Gunray. “I hate how Star Wars became so SJW female-focused. Keep your politics out of my space laser movies” Bitch did you actually watch the movies? The fact that so many Star Wars “fans” are turbo chuddy is still really weird to me.
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Hazo posted:Bitch did you actually watch the movies? The fact that so many Star Wars “fans” are turbo chuddy is still really weird to me. They also have the same inability to look at things beyond the surface that Lucas does.
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Jul 25, 2021 22:13
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SlothfulCobra posted:Also I don't think Lucas wrote the episodes Halle Burtoni showed up in, but anything's possible, he had some kind of involvement in the show. Apparently Lucas specifically asked them to do an arc about banking deregulation, so any of the more political stuff is probably something he had a hand in.
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quote:Meanwhile, it is revealed that, thanks to the healing tears of Vergere and regular relations with her husband Luke, Mara Jade Skywalker realizes that she is pregnant. ingredients for a star wars baby: sex, but more importantly, some weirdo's tears
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Aug 9, 2021 07:58
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Jazerus posted:ingredients for a star wars baby: sex, but more importantly, some weirdo's tears "tears of vergere" is clearly supposed to be metaphorical, my dude
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Gotta have chicken tears to keep my wife from getting a coomb infection.quote:Han Solo rescued them from the Peace Brigade shuttle, but realizing their defection was a ploy he fought with Elan and she was killed by her own bioweapon. Vergere fled in a Millennium Falcon escape pod. Before jettisoning, she threw Solo a vial of her tears, which would be used later to slow the deadly coomb spore disease contracted by Mara Jade Skywalker.
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Aug 9, 2021 23:41
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The star wars galaxy had an entire libertarian space sector that never got featured again beyond casual name drops for one of those easter eggs that wookipedia editors squee.
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Aug 24, 2021 10:51
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Darth Bane, legendary Dark Lord of the Sith and first teacher of the Rule of Two, was Australian
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skasion posted:Darth Bane, legendary Dark Lord of the Sith and first teacher of the Rule of Two, was Australian ...like, Space Australia, or Actual Australia?
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Asterite34 posted:...like, Space Australia, or Actual Australia? New thread title
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skasion posted:Darth Bane, legendary Dark Lord of the Sith and first teacher of the Rule of Two, was Australian bane?
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Aug 28, 2021 15:36
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Yeah he was actually named darth bone but nobody could hear it right
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Aug 28, 2021 15:59
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Remember when Lando went undercover disguised as Captain Harlock?
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I like how Lando's idea of disguise is cosplaying as a JRPG villain while Chewie appears to just have kind of thrown on a poncho.
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Compared to names like Darth Bane, Darth Revan, Darth Nihilus, and Darth Traya, Darth Insanius is practically quaint.
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people misunderstand that story. it wasn't lucas being an out-of-touch weirdo, it was him being an rear end in a top hat. "your video game guy doesn't deserve a serious sith title, how about darth shithead?" is what he was actually saying by suggesting darth insanius
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Yeah, I don’t really understand why goons hear that story and think Lucas is some kind of epic badass troll for treating his own powerless employees like poo poo
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Sorry, it’s definitely funny that a bunch of video games nerds designed the ultimate Star Wars OC do not steal and pitched it to Lucas himself and he told them they were morons
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skasion posted:Sorry, it’s definitely funny that a bunch of video games nerds designed the ultimate Star Wars OC do not steal and pitched it to Lucas himself and he told them they were morons Case in point.
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The second part of the Lucas video game naming anecdote is from Fracture, where they wanted to name the character Mason Briggs (Mason for the game's terrain deformation gimmick, and Briggs because the first level takes place on Alcatraz - in the brig). Lucas saw the character's movement in a gameplay demo and thought he should be called "BJ Dart" instead. Both names are stupid - one's boring and the other's too goofy, and they eventually settled on Jet Brody because apparently you can get Lucas to agree to stuff as long as you name it after one of his kids.
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Wasn't there a Jedi with the last name Bates because the comic editor had a habit of putting Master infront of a Jedi's name? Don-Wan Kihotay the fake Jedi, and Jaxxon the big green rabbit, are two amazing characters from the original run of Marvel Star Wars comics.
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I finally got around to watching The Mandalorian, and it made me think about how Mandalorians seem like they're portrayed wildly different in pretty much every piece of media they're featured in, and I wanna run down all the ones I've seen. Wiki editors and sourcebook writers do a lot of work reconciling the discrepancies, and a lot of the differences could be passed off as being from different time periods, but it's still a pretty weird timeline.
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The much-loathed Karen Travis wrote a bunch of books about them in the late-Bush/early Obama time. Only thing I remember is that she wanted them to be warrior-poets like the ancient Picts
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She tried to make a meme (and this dates itself pretty well) where people who hated her poo poo writing should be called "Talifans."
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Traviss wrote a bunch of stuff about the clones first and how they were cool and the jedi sucked. And how they had all this Mandalorian legacy to live up to. It came off as unintentionally funny, like she was writing imperial propaganda basically. She then wrote a few of the Legacy of the Force books (Darth Jacen saga) in which Jaina has to learn how to kill Jedi from Boba Fett because he knows all about how to do that, apparently. Anyway we spend a bunch of time with Boba trying to raise his spunky grandkid on Mandalore, which is this kind of right-wing jerkoff fantasy society where everyone is a heavily armed egalitarian yeoman farmer. I think the Filoni Mandos (CW/Rebels/Mando) are an answer to this idea of Traviss. They’re a society that is currently pacifistic and enlightened but they’re insecure in it. They have this violent, discreditable past that they haven’t really come to a reckoning with. Moreover, there are active reactionary forces in their society, armed extremists who have never come to terms with this change and that are trying to bring the bad old days back. And because of this their civilization is doomed.
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I dunno, part of the reason I posted that was all three of the projects Filoni was associated with don't seem to match. Like in Rebels, Fenn Rau gets angry at Sabine, because apparently her clan was with Deathwatch, but then what was he? The Duchess was very big on disavowing violence as a society, but Fenn Rau fought in the Clone Wars when the Duchess was making a big deal about not getting involved? Were Fenn Rau's Protectors a weird loophole? Are they a politically independent unit? Did offworld mandalorians rapidly militarize after the Deathwatch coup? I guess we don't really see any of the civilian Mandalorians that were around in Clone Wars, so either they're somewhere offscreen in droves, or they declared allegiance to the various returning warrior clans after all the chaos in Clone Wars? And we see even less in The Mandalorian, there's just the pretender to the throne in exile and the weird secret fundamentalist cult. For all I know, that could even mean that the horrifying thing that happened to Mandalore is just disarmament.
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i'm pretty sure that a lot of mandalorians didn't really take sides in the whole duchess vs death watch thing. jango fett's whole thing is that he led a moderate group, the "true mandalorians", that rejected both sides of the dichotomy, but then death watch tricked a jedi peacekeeping team, led by dooku, into massacring fett's followers at the battle of galidraan. which is what prompted dooku to reject the jedi as ineffectual dupes.
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It's a real power move to be part of the idiot-morons who massacred the wrong people and then to go tell your bosses they suck rear end because they employ idiot morons like yourself.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Mando Lore Plus you've got the original-original backstory, where Boba Fett was touted as wearing the armor of the Mandalorian Supercommandos, a group of soldiers that were defeated by the Jedi during the Clone Wars, and established the "armored warriors who fight Jedi" precedent that every other version sticks with. Despite the word Mandalorian never being mentioned in the script, it's possible that the description came from Lucas himself. Prior to the tie-in boom for the first Star Wars movie, Lucas provided backstory information about a bunch of characters for the comics and other tie-ins to use, so he may have done something similar for the new movie.
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reignofevil posted:It's a real power move to be part of the idiot-morons who massacred the wrong people and then to go tell your bosses they suck rear end because they employ idiot morons like yourself. Honestly, I respect it. He ain't wrong.
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MadDogMike posted:So, Wedge dated a women with feathers for hair. Unless she, ahem, "shaves", I think we've got evidence it's not just Corran Horn who's into the strange, but Corellians in general. i feel like loving aliens is kinda normal in star wars. the exoctic poo poo is probably wanting to gently caress hutts or various non bipedal aliens. maybe those aliens that have six legged wolf babys. Robot Style posted:The second part of the Lucas video game naming anecdote is from Fracture, where they wanted to name the character Mason Briggs (Mason for the game's terrain deformation gimmick, and Briggs because the first level takes place on Alcatraz - in the brig). Lucas saw the character's movement in a gameplay demo and thought he should be called "BJ Dart" instead. Both names are stupid - one's boring and the other's too goofy, and they eventually settled on Jet Brody because apparently you can get Lucas to agree to stuff as long as you name it after one of his kids. as a loser who played that game. the weirdest part of that game is they were trying to make a "second civil war" game but like the fight was over America should accept technological enhancements/augs/cyberware/etc on the east coast. and the west coast was into like bio genesplicing and poo poo. also the midwest and south were chaotic dead hosed to death warzones from climate poo poo and wars. Davros1 posted:Compared to names like Darth Bane, Darth Revan, Darth Nihilus, and Darth Traya, Darth Insanius is practically quaint. true but those actually flow well enough and i will always love revan despite him becoming a massive massive mary sue.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Jaxxon the big green rabbit jaxxon, uh, wouldn't happen to be the same species as this guy, would he?? 
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