|
post your favorite bizarre facts about the star wars eu here
|
#
¿
Jan 22, 2020 01:41
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 16, 2024 19:56 |
|
|
skasion posted:Lando once hung out with a crooked cop who looked like Big Bird lando once did a naked, oiled wall climb w/ his cyborg buddy lobot while c3po and r2d2 looked on, voyeuristically Jazerus fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jan 22, 2020 |
|
#
¿
Jan 22, 2020 01:59
|
|
|
Waru was a trans-dimensional being hailing from a universe parallel to the galaxy's own. His species differed from those known to New Republic databases. Waru was considered a healer by many, due to his ability to treat injuries utilizing his own body. Physically, Waru was predominantly blob-shaped, and consisted of several golden plates acting as shields around a layer of raw, permeable tissue. A thick, syrupy liquid, comparable to ichor, flowed freely from within Waru through the spaces between the covering plates. The inside of Waru was much larger than the outside revealed, allowing three adult Humans enough space to swim through. Waru's interior was also breathable by Humans.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 22, 2020 02:50
|
|
|
He's got his own planet, Although it's kind of wild. Wookiees love him. Women love him. He's got a winning smile! Though he may seem cool and cocky, He's more sensitive than he seems, Han Solo, What a man! Solo. He's every Princess's dream! composed and performed by noted artist C-3PO
|
|
#
¿
Jan 22, 2020 12:28
|
|
|
|
|
#
¿
Jan 23, 2020 12:56
|
|
|
Agnostalgia posted:Actually wait, han got tortured by vader too wtf would he agree to that name either leia literally remains traumatized by the memory of vader for like two decades, too. she named her child anakin while reviling his namesake it's because they gave kevin j anderson the privilege of naming him, if you want the real reason. jacen and jaina have original names because an actual good author came up with them. if i remember right, the kja version of luke constantly badgers leia about forgiving vader and anakin's name is supposed to represent that he's getting through to her
|
|
#
¿
Jan 24, 2020 01:00
|
|
|
Asgerd posted:The Jedi let Ki-Adi-Mundi have a harem of five wives because his species was endangered  this guy fucks
|
|
#
¿
Jan 25, 2020 02:55
|
|
|
skynxnex
|
|
#
¿
Jan 25, 2020 20:44
|
|
|
Pennywise the Frown posted:Why do writers feel the need to create new (and horrible) species? Like, there are already 1,000 different types. There is more than enough material to have 10+ different species in every book ever made. mostly because they don't read each others' work. most star wars authors, historically, started writing based on what they knew from the movies and a few plot points that lucasfilm wanted them to hit. having even a passing familiarity with the prominent species in the galaxy (according to the EU, because the movies avoid putting anything like that into context) was generally not a requirement.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 26, 2020 22:29
|
|
|
greedo's corpse was juiced for whiskey flavoring by the bartender in mos eisley, due to his incredibly intoxicating aroma
Jazerus fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jan 27, 2020 |
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2020 03:50
|
|
|
luke wanted to bone a ghost who lived in a computer, who was also into him. then she got a body but didn't want to bone luke anymore because a different author was writing that book, so she disappeared from star wars forever. or so i thought until i looked at wookieepedia, which taught me that actually her soul was devoured by a dark side monster offscreen
|
|
#
¿
Feb 6, 2020 00:48
|
|
|
Cage Kicker posted:Corran Horn lol he has his own special suit and special lightsaber and special X-Wing and reminder that the rightful title of this thread is, "Corran Horn hosed an otter, and other science facts"
|
|
#
¿
Feb 12, 2020 00:42
|
|
|
ebe endecott 4 lyfe
|
|
#
¿
Feb 14, 2020 02:17
|
|
|
this thread died when my original title, "Corran Horn hosed an otter, and other science facts", was changed. please restore it so we may thrive
|
|
#
¿
Jul 30, 2020 06:32
|
|
|
Hazo posted:What the gently caress there's just too many science facts for any one thread to contain, frankly but we'll try our best. for example, luke skywalker once fought space-velociraptors who power their technology matrix-style (with people!!). according to wookieepedia, they are an "intensely spiritual people", but their religion is mostly about racism.   haven't seen any explanation for what the gently caress is up with their noses tho. seems uncomfortable Jazerus fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Aug 4, 2020 |
|
#
¿
Aug 4, 2020 06:09
|
|
|
Big Beef City posted:I have a question that this science based thread may be able to help with. that's what that one human dude who's helping them hold down the imperial officer is for. he has known no life but servitude under the ssi-ruuk as "the vest guy" also i never quite made the connection before but lightsaber knees is liefeld as gently caress. down to not even having his feet depicted at all
|
|
#
¿
Aug 4, 2020 22:37
|
|
|
Polaron posted:IIRC, he's basically their Force-sensitive Judasgoat. He'd convince the humans everything was fine right up until their souls got ripped out of their bodies and stuffed into a fighter drone. well yeah but that's kind of a side gig compared to his vest duties i assume
|
|
#
¿
Aug 5, 2020 03:33
|
|
|
following the cantina scene in the original movie, the two dudes who harassed luke (dr. evazan and ponda baba) went to live in a frankenstein castle, where they lured in the senator of ponda boba's home planet and transferred ponda's consciousness into the senator so that he wouldn't have to live with a missing arm. also, so that he could gently caress, because apparently ponda baba was extraordinarily ugly even for an aqualish
Jazerus fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Aug 14, 2020 |
|
#
¿
Aug 13, 2020 19:02
|
|
|
Sexual Aluminum posted:Somewhere in the New Republic, Han Solo is being MeTooed and his wife Leia has to denounce him. buddy, leia is a racist ex-president who's the daughter of a war criminal and the mother of another one i'm not sure she's going to be bowing to pressure from the left
|
|
#
¿
Aug 30, 2020 22:27
|
|
|
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
|
|
#
¿
Nov 12, 2020 21:26
|
|
|
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 
Jazerus fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Nov 13, 2020 |
|
#
¿
Nov 13, 2020 04:45
|
|
|
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 |
|
#
¿
Nov 13, 2020 04:59
|
|
|
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 |
|
#
¿
Nov 16, 2020 04:33
|
|
|
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
|
|
#
¿
Nov 22, 2020 06:45
|
|
|
skasion posted:Luke sold the burnt out husk of the Lars family farm to an alien named Throgg. Throgg was later dispossessed by Biggs Darklighter’s dad, who convinced the local authorities to pass a racist ballot initiative to expropriate him. Facts 
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2020 02:12
|
|
|
Toph Bei Fong posted:That's how you do an effective continuity wank; use the aesthetic well and don't rely on folks having outside information to make the plot move forward. You don't need to "reward" fans for knowing who secretly blew out the birthday candles at Mon Mothma and General Dodonna's joint birthday party, prompting Booster Terrik to tell Mara Jade to propose to Luke (it was Carnor Jax, acting under orders from Lumiya). bossk delivered the cake. the candles were a betrayal
|
|
#
¿
Dec 8, 2020 18:50
|
|
|
the kids love dengar
|
|
#
¿
Dec 8, 2020 20:59
|
|
|
Sodomy Hussein posted:A lot of weird poo poo goes on at Tatooine for being such a "backwater" it's still a place with like thousands of years of history fun fact: tatooine was once a lush jungle world where the ancestors of the jawas and tuskens possessed a rich and thriving civilization capable of spaceflight
|
|
#
¿
Dec 11, 2020 03:23
|
|
|
SlothfulCobra posted:Also they made the planet of Evocar into their new homeworld, expelled the native Evocii to the moon Nar Shadaa, and terraformed their new planet into their version of paradise: A bunch of swamps. They renamed it Nal Hutta, which apparently translates into "Glorious Jewel" but that makes me uncomfortable about the etymology of the word Hutt. as a hugely egotistical slaver culture it seems in character for the hutts to call themselves "the glorious ones" basically Jabba the Glorious
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2020 00:44
|
|
|
remember that time luke decided it would be a great idea to establish his jedi temple in a bunch of sith pyramids haunted by a spooky sith ghost, then kept it there for like decades i'm sure nothing bad could happen
|
|
#
¿
Dec 28, 2020 04:29
|
|
|
skasion posted:A swear phrase that you can say to yourself if you are frustrated or embarrassed is “Vaping Moffs!” drat. no one ever told me the mofference was dank
|
|
#
¿
Dec 29, 2020 09:16
|
|
|
it's hard to find a habitable planet that doesn't suck. everywhere you go you end up running into sith ruins, or bugs that eat people and then shapeshift into their form, or giant cubes of meat covered in gold. if you don't run into any of those things, then somebody probably got there first and they might not like you very much. people stick to coruscant, corellia, etc. because at least the only danger is from other people not to mention that a solid 25% or so of the known galaxy is under libertarian administration as part of the corporate sector
|
|
#
¿
Dec 29, 2020 17:48
|
|
|
Cerv posted:makes you wonder why there's so much unknown space in the top left there, if anyone could just pop there and back in a day they can't. travel is only that fast on the major hyperlanes. it's just that tatooine is a backwater because it's a total shithole, not because it's in the middle of nowhere; it's right off the primary lane from the core to the southern outer rim. navigating the unknown parts of the galaxy is dangerous poo poo that only professionals and jedi do because you have to either stop and scan every so often to make sure you're not going to hit an uncharted black hole or something, or just trust in the force to guide you past all that poo poo. charting the galaxy is one of the only noticeable ways that the galaxy "progresses" in star wars.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 29, 2020 21:36
|
|
|
hey, it's me, thrackan sal-solo. i'm han solo's evil cousin and i love the giant gun so much i tried to use it constantly for 20 years until they finally killed me
|
|
#
¿
Jan 28, 2021 23:25
|
|
|
skasion posted:Han Solo’s evil cousin who looks exactly like Han Solo with a mustache and who hates han solo because han is the true heir to the ancient empire of corellia
|
|
#
¿
Jan 29, 2021 00:51
|
|
|
the jedi academy trilogy had a subtle but awful effect on the whole rest of the EU by being so pivotal and yet full of dissonant details. leia in particular emerges from her time in the hands of kja as a caricature of an entitled rich white lady and rarely if ever goes back to being, uh, princess leia from the movies
|
|
#
¿
Jan 29, 2021 18:19
|
|
|
what i'm getting from this is that anakin solo is a magical girl
|
|
#
¿
Jan 30, 2021 05:02
|
|
|
Patrick Spens posted:I have no idea what happens in The Crystal Star. I know that I read it, I can remember holding it and looking at the cover, but I have no loving clue what happens in those pages. Jazerus posted:Waru was a trans-dimensional being hailing from a universe parallel to the galaxy's own. His species differed from those known to New Republic databases. Waru was considered a healer by many, due to his ability to treat injuries utilizing his own body. Physically, Waru was predominantly blob-shaped, and consisted of several golden plates acting as shields around a layer of raw, permeable tissue. A thick, syrupy liquid, comparable to ichor, flowed freely from within Waru through the spaces between the covering plates. The inside of Waru was much larger than the outside revealed, allowing three adult Humans enough space to swim through. Waru's interior was also breathable by Humans.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 31, 2021 17:01
|
|
|
corran horn paints his x-wing green to represent his past as a cop
|
|
#
¿
Feb 5, 2021 20:35
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 16, 2024 19:56 |
|
|
Toph Bei Fong posted:The weird thing about Kevin J Anderson is that he's in the exact opposite position of where he should be. He has all these batshit, wonderful ideas that, in another writer's hands, could be really funny and interesting, but instead does the bulk of the writing for other people's ideas (Brian Herbert being the most notable example). no i totally agree. kja comes up with great outlines and then totally wrecks the execution. i don't even think it's necessarily a bad idea for him to be working within other people's fictional properties, it seems to be a constraint that he likes and performs well under. but then he actually writes and it falls apart in a hundred tiny ways. i have to wonder if his inability to read what he just "wrote", because it's all spoken, contributes to this dynamic of everything just being a little off-kilter
|
|
#
¿
Feb 14, 2021 06:58
|
|