Star Wars

Did anyone pick up The Heart of The Jedi when it went on sale earlier this year? I didn’t even learn about it until Amazon had pulled it.

@ANoobis  
The what now?
 
Turns out it was originally commissioned in ’91 and slated to be published in ’93, but canceled, unfinished, in ’95, then published unofficially and without permission from Lucasfilm this March, at least according to Wookieepedia.

@Exhumed Legume  
That’s the one. It was up for about two months, and it reached number 3 on Amazon’s charts at one point.

@ANoobis  
Never heard of it before, but now I’m curious.

According to Disney-LucasFilm’s world building, there’s an active Galactic Empire through the entire post-Jakku period. The New Republic signed a treaty with the Empire, limiting imperial territory from the Core to the Inner Rim.
 

 
Considering that the center of the galaxy is where the bulk of the population and economy are, that means the New Republic took the loser’s end of the peace.
 

 
There is a sort of West Berlin thing going on, where a bunch of systems in the Empire, including Coruscant, are free and supported by the New Republic, but that would have ended as soon as the Starkiller destroyed the republic’s government. The imperial forces were never dealt with during the sequel trilogy. Palpatine’s First Order plan seems to have left the actual empire out almost entirely, with only a few individual officers like Pryde coming back. The First Order and Sith Fleet combined are a tiny fraction of the size of the remaining empire, and the First Order alone occupied and defanged the New Republic’s territory for a year after Starkiller. The empire would have taken that time to complete their control over the territory they ruled.
 
Canonically, the Empire is the only power left in the galaxy after the sequel trilogy, and contols anywhere from thousands to millions of times the resources of the First Order, depending on which movie you watch. A First Order which already defeated the rest of the galaxy for them. The only possible result of the sequel trilogy is that the Empire moves in effortlessly and controls the galaxy to an even greater degree than they did before.

Disney recently dropped a promo for their upcoming $6,000 per night Star Wars hotel. Then they pulled it due to overwhelmingly negative reception. Apparently, people started cancelling their pre-bookings after getting a look at what they were paying for. It doesn’t even look like Star Wars. It looks like J.J. Abrams’ shitty, made-in-China version of Star Trek.

The first episode of Book of Boba Fett was pretty good.  
I especially liked the Harryhausen-esque creature at the end.  
I don’t know why critics were hating on this show. I guess they’re too busy sucking off some lame ass Twitter bait garbage.

@ANoobis  
Face paint = alien. Disney standards 2022.

Disney’s Star Wars hotel continues to see reservations being cancelled. Current estimates are that reservations have been cut in half.

@ANoobis  
It’s a knockoff of Disney’s Star Wars knockoff priced so high you could hire a Star Wars themed hooker for a whole week.
 
Imagine if instead of doing their own thing, they made that hotel a Star Destroyer populated with storm troopers, imperial officers, and commanded by Darth Vader. At some point Darth Vader interrogates you personally. At the end, a bunch of rebels attack the ship and free everyone. Wouldn’t that be so much more interesting than Generic Science Fiction Product where you get to play Star Wars Disney Quest with people in green face paint?

 
Lol

The thing that has always bothered me most about Star Wars as a setting is the fact that the galaxy is so underdeveloped. It doesn’t even have a name. That seems like a major world building oversight. And why is there still an unknown region taking up between 1/3 and 1/2 of the galaxy? People have been able to hyperdrive the length and breadth of the known galaxy for over 25,000 years. There shouldn’t be any dark corners left.
 
A second major problem is that there’s no sense of place. Even if you ignore all the superclusters within Laniakea, the Milky Way is still part of the Local Group. If Warhammer or Star Trek ever choose to add intergalactic elements to their setting, they have around 80 local galaxies and a huge, imposing Andromeda Galaxy right in our neighborhood. Star Wars appears to take place on an island, as far as space is concerned.

@ANoobis  
>And why is there still an unknown region taking up between 1/3 and 1/2 of the galaxy?  
Well, officially there excuses are some sort of hyperdrive barrier (I wish I could dig out my Essential Atlas over this page) and…
 
>People have been able to hyperdrive the length and breadth of the known galaxy for over 25,000 years. There shouldn’t be any dark corners left.  
Hyperdrive navigation being a really complicated process that meant blazing hyperspace lanes wasn’t simply a process of going from “point A” to “point B”. I think the latter might have been a passable excuse if they had made the settings in the past with obviously more primitive technology, but considering how settings, especially games, wanted things to be more familiar, technology even back then is way too modern and thus it feels like everybody just sat around and things were stagnant.
 
As for the barrier explanation, I understood why they did it on some level, to keep some level of intimacy of the setting to the Galaxy we know over having adventures all over the local group, but I don’t like it. It doesn’t feel it fully fits with all we see, Kamino from beyond the other rim maybe we can argue where Obi Wan pointed but even then, going into the EU, there is a good bit of examples things being at least hinted at from outside of certain things being outside the galaxy right? Maybe a better explanation would be range limitation of hyper drive technology (yeah, we can send stuff out there but there is no way to refuel) and perhaps some other type of hazard, like a black holes in the void. Though from what I can recall from how hyper drive technology works it might be hard to stretch that considering the main hazard is gravity from stellar objects so it would be hard to work out on why it wouldn’t be easier to travel in between the void.
 
TD;LR Yeah, I agree with ya.

These are the uniforms of the Galactic Starcruiser staff. Not very Star Wars looking to me. I’d believe it was a Star Trek cruise ship first.
 

@ANoobis  
It’s almost like the corporate side of Disney doesn’t get Star Wars.

Disney cut the budget for their hotel yet again. Previously, guests were supposed to be brought to Galactic Starcruiser in a fancy decked-out bus. They were talking all kinds of immersion shit, like replacing the windows with screens that would make it look like you were traveling through space, and rumbling seats and the like. They were talking like it was going to be a mini version of the Star Tours ride, almost. Now, they’re going to be loading guests into a box truck and transporting them like livestock.
 

@ANoobis  

How much was Anakin making as a Jedi Padawan? Or as a knight? Not enough to save up to buy his mom out of slavery? Padme couldn’t kick a few credits his way?

Was this an intentional reference?
 

 

This is the $5,000+ per night suite at the Galactic Starcruiser. The strategically shot promo images couldn’t completely hide how small and closet-like it is, but seeing it in full brings it home.

@ANoobis  
I like the bunk bed design, ngl.  
And the stainless steel sink does fit the starliner motif.
 
Disappointed (or would be, if I had any expectations) at how terribly normal the toilet and shower look, and yes, that suite looks nowhere near worth $5k/night.  
1/10 of that seems closer to acceptable, and even then you’d be paying for the novelty more than anything.

Here’s a rundown of all the broken promises of Galaxy’s Edge. Compared to the initial Music Man act, even the Galactic Starcruiser version of the immersive experience is bare bones, but now it’s locked behind a $6,000 payment to boot.

Pablo Hidalgo says this isn’t real, so it’s very likely it could be!  

@Dex Stewart  
I wonder who the guy in the mando helmet is. Any chance they’d poach Jodo Kast from the eu?