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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Sci-Fi Wi-Fi > Can Star Wars ships turn while at hyperspeed? and other trivial bullshit
 
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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Mooey Cow posted:

Glitterstim was a potent variety of the drug family "spice" that was mined on Kessel. It gave the user a brief, yet pleasurable, telepathic boost and heightened mental state. It was a very valuable spice and tightly controlled by the Galactic Empire.

It was produced from the webs of spice spiders. The spice was photoactive, so it had to be mined in total darkness or it would be ruined. After it was mined, it had to be packaged in an opaque paper to prevent accidental activation. Glitterstim was quite addictive—casual use could quickly lead to full-blown addiction. "Cutters" prepared the spice for sale. Glitterstim addicts were sometimes called "glit-biters."

I love how the description of spice in Star Wars reads like madlibs version of Spice from Dune.

It comes from spiders instead of worms.
It reacts badly to light instead of water.

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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Robot Style posted:

Despite how they'd later be portrayed, Lucas wanted the Y-wings to feel light and fast so they were designed to resemble stripped-down hot rods. An earlier draft of the script where Luke flew one (with Threepio as his gunner) even had a crewman mention the weight reduction before the battle.

The latest in-universe explanation is that most of the Rebels' Y-wings were stolen from salvage yards that had already begun stripping them for parts, and keeping the armor plating off was the easiest way to keep the 20 year old ships running. This version of Y-Wings became so popular that the ones used in Episode 9 were apparently manufactured without armor plating specifically to be marketable to people with Rebel nostalgia.

making purchasing decisions about military hardware based on nostalgia seems like a bad idea

it would have been funny if the US fought the first Gulf War with a bunch of Sherman tanks

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