Han Solo is schizophrenic. Chewie doesn't speak a language; he's just making animal noises. No one else knows what a wookie is (we're going with the original trilogy only) so people assume "Ah, I guess Chewie's speaking and Han knows what he's saying". Turns out, it's like a schizophrenic guy having arguments with his dog anytime his dog growls. Han is a very ill man.

Malevolence

Death Star 1

Death Star 2

The first Starhawk

Starkiller Base

Xyston-class Star Destroyer

Watching Resistance and Kragan Gorr and his Warbird pirates showed up. Pirates are very much a thing in Star Wars, we get this pirate crew with Gorian Shard in The Mandalorian, but these guys immediately gave me Pirates of the Caribbean vibes. The armour, spikes and whole look just feels like space pirates taken very literally.

I'm kind of new to the Dark Side of the fandom. I've been a very casual fan for years, focusing mostly on the Jedi.

I'm writing a story where my OC is a Sith's apprentice; I want him to have a braid like Padawans do, but canonically I don't know if that's feasible because he didn't start out a Jedi.

EDIT: Thanks everyone! My character shall have a braid.

Second would be my personal choice, only because it's more unnecessary. They definitely could've lost the rathtars in the maze of his ship. And besides, the dude was left in its path from the punch anyway. The throw was just overkill.

I started my journey with watching these movies:
Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Then I played
Jedi: Fallen Order
Jedi: Survivor

Is this the best way to begin and how to go further?

It's been almost 20 years since I played Knights of the Old Republic II, so my memory is hazy, but I remember Darth Nihilus as being incredibly overpowered. Apparently he can drain the life of everyone on a planet before they can even get close to him.

In the game, the protagonist (Meetra Surik, the Jedi exile) is able to defeat Nihilus because she is a "wound in the force" and hence immune to his life-drain ability - I think that when he tries it on her, it backfires and weakens him.

Counterfactually, it could easily have happened that Surik got killed at some point before she got to face Nihilus. Supposing that had happened... who could have saved the galaxy from Nihilus?

This is not meant as a "power scaling" question. I am not asking "is Nihilus the strongest ever?", nor even "who could defeat Nihilus in a duel?". (I have read elsewhere that allegedly Anakin Skywalker could defeat Nihilus in a straight fight, but he was not born at that time, so that does not help us.)

What I am asking is: Given the situation at the time, what would have been a plausible way for Darth Nihilus to be stopped before he consumed the whole galaxy, without relying on the convenient coincidence of a "wound in the force" who happened to also be a powerful Jedi duellist and who ended up in the right place at the right time?

I suppose you could shoot down Nihilus's ship from afar with heavy ship-to-ship weapons... but in practice, that never seems to happen in the Star Wars universe, so I hesitate to count that as a lore-consistent solution...

Source: Force Awakens

I like this fight out of all the fights in the Sequel trilogy because it felt like it mixed well with both the context and how lightsabers were done in the Sequel trilogy. Lightsabers were generally treated more weighty or less elegant than the previous movies, which for me did make some fight scenes weird, but works here since Finn isn't experienced with a lightsaber and thus would be using it awkwardly like a club similar to what the Stormtrooper is doing and it makes everything make sense for why both characters are moving the way they are.

The only thing I didn't like was how quickly it ended.

So I just had a Jimmy Neutron Brain Blast, and if I'm right, it might solve several of the most odd-seeming details of Star Wars's hyperdrive technology (at least, to me).

It started with me watching Youtube, and getting a Short from Rebels about Thrawn trying to track the Ghost. And a question I always had is... why are they even at sublight for any of these pursuit scenes? During the Imperial Era, hyperspace tracking was a myth - why wouldn't the Ghost just stay at hyperspace all the way from point A to point B?

And then my brain made a Connection.

Because it has a class-2 hyperdrive.

One of the biggest things that's always bothered me about hyperdrive is the class number system - the lower the number, the faster the ship. The DS-1 had a highly class-4, a Venator has a class-1.0, the Falcon after Han was done with her had a class-0.5. And that has never made sense to me. But then I thought... "wait, what if it isn't their speed in hyperspace?"

Some Sci-Fi settings - notably Battletech and Battlestar Galactica - use FTL technology that moves the ship instantly... but then takes time to recharge. I'm not trying to say hyperspace is instant, mind, we know it isn't, but if a ship's speed in hyperspace is independent of the drive's class rating... what if it has something to do with its capacity to stay in hyperspace?

This would then explain hyperlanes, and why certain systems are important, and why you so often see ships like the Ghost or the Razor Crest or even entire fleets in normal space while traversing to a destination. Certain routes between systems in hyperspace are quicker, or slower, or smoother, or rougher, for a ship to go through - any ship - but based on how long they can stay in there, they have to stop a certain number of times to get from one place to another?

Let's use an example - Kuat and Coruscant are, galactically speaking, around the block from one another. Kuat builds and designs a lot of ships for Coruscant. So when you test a new ship's hyperdrive... you take it around the block. Drive it to Coruscant, get its paperwork done, all that good jazz. How much of its hyperdrive capacity does it expend to get there? If we're talking the Ghost, that would hypothetically be a two-jump trip - for the Death Star, it's four, for a Venator, it's one, and the Falcon could make it to Coruscant and back... on a single hyperdrive motivator charge.

Because yes, I think the hyperdrive motivator is the thing that determines this. Go back and watch Phantom Menace - once they determine that the motivator is damaged, they start bleeding power... and have to drop out of hyperspace sooner. What actually defines the relationship between motivator and hyperdrive rating could be any number of things - like, as an example, the relationship between the motivator and hyperdrive sizes and the overall mass of the vessel - still isn't clear (though I feel that's a good start, given that we've seen how big a Venator's hyperdrive is when Maul ripped one apart, compared to how small the Naboo ship's drive was)... but this theory would also explain one of the more commonly mocked lines from the very first movie.

"It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs."
"bUt HaN, a pARseC iS A mEAsuRe of DisTanCe!"

While this theory explains the class rating, the class rating is still not quite perfect. Because it doesn't take into account... how fast the ship can recharge the motivator. Or, perhaps in terms of distance... how much space it has to cross before it can jump again. In current canon, the Kessel Run is said to be a 20-parsec hyperspace route through the Akkadese Maelstrom. Think about that statement in the context of the above. With that, we can surmise the following: Regardless of the jumps being made, most smuggler ships have to traverse about 20 parsecs of normal space along it. Han managed it in 12. If the Akkadese Maelstrom is a region that makes hyperspace rougher to traverse - such that the class rating is essentially irrelevant because of how fast you consume motivator charge to punch through it (think jumps like the Mantis made through the Koboh Abyss in Survivor; short, but so risky that you dare not make it a long one) - then the ability to recharge that motivator quickly is the deciding factor. All Han did was find a way to get his motivator back up 40% faster than any other ship. Especially given that in a lot of high-energy systems in the real world have thresholds of activation energy that are required to start a reaction, but the energy to maintain it afterward is significantly lower, so it may be called the hyperdrive motivator because the majority of its capacity is spent making the jump to hyperspace - after which, staying in takes less.

And that is why the Falcon is one of the fastest ships in the galaxy - not just because she can make longer jumps than almost anything else... but because she can jump more quickly along the sublight parts of the route. And because the class rating system doesn't account for that, bureaucratically-oriented or otherwise less tech-savvy people will be prone to underestimate her speed because they don't know what makes her special. Immediately, Luke's skepticism makes sense - he's worked on speeders, sure, but as a moisture farmer, I doubt he had an academy-level education in hyperdrive mechanics.

With just a few detail connections, I think I may have finally managed to make more sense of hyperdrive technology than any on-screen or novel (even Legends) has ever attempted.

"Why is a hyperdrive motivator so important that you need to replace the whole drive?"

"Why is Han using a measurement of distance for speed?"

"Why does lower number mean faster ship?"

"Taken separately, they mean nothing, but together..."
[...]
"A pity you do not study art, Agent Kallus. There is much it can show you, if you know where to look."

I'm tired of people acting like star wars is suffering from too much new content. It's not. Considering how fast new movies and shows blow up and fizzle out in recent years, releasing more content in a short span of years is not the biggest issue and sometimes can even main relevance of a franchise (eg marvel)

The issue is that majority of new star wars stuff in the last 3 years has either been about gulp sh*tto and adventures with cameos of fan favorite characters being the main saving grace or series about fave characters with mediocre or bad writing which ends up failing the series, all the while the original trio characters are ignored or treated absolutely horribly by any show/movie they're featured in.

I'm tired of people acting like the issue is "too much skywalkers" "everything set in the same time period". That's not the issue. Marvel has been releasing a spider man movie every 2 years and it breaks box office records. They could release a live action of clone wars and it'd do much better than most of Disney's SW projects. And most of marvel series are set around same time period and nobody has an issue with it. The issue is that every new series is about "The clone wars but from the perspective of clone no #76". "Post ROTJ period but from the perspective of an ex rebel with CGI luke cameo". These concept worked with andor and rogue 1 but doesn't mean they'll work over and over no matter how good the writing is

With every new project post disney acquisition the sidelining of Luke becomes more and more obvious. He hasn't been the main focus of a single series since the original trilogy (and no TFA focusing on finding luke doesn't count since he's not even in it) meanwhile ahsoka has THREE series where she's the major focus. Literally nobody asked for a series about boba fett. The mandalorian was good up till season 2 but has overstayed its welcome. The acolyte sucked. Solo and obi wan suffered from mediocre writing. Andor and rogue one were the saving grace of disney star wars And nobody cares enough about the rest of the random animated series SW to mention here

I don't think I've ever seen any franchise ignoring their main cast the way star wars has. Anakin is shown visiting ahsoka so many times but not a single interaction between post ROTJ and anakin which unarguably would garner much more hype and love from fans.Luke was the one who STARTED it all yet does not have a single new movie/show dedicated to him. If they're that afraid to recast they can just make an animated series but give the fans something?

And if they really dont want to move on from the old cast at least introduce new cast which fans would want to follow more? Finn and poe had potential to be such great characters with huge fan following of their own like leia and han solo but they messed up their characters by heavy sidelining them after TFA and turning the series into a reylo fanfic. If you can't introduce any new great characters of course people will keep clinging onto old characters

I mean it, really.
Every sith character has got some serious issues going on that I really have to wonder like…do they ever look at themselves and question if it worth it for all the power?
Just take palpatine, he was a normal looking, kinda charming looking older gentleman who turned into my childhood nightmare fuel.

So using the dark side corrupts you as you use it, I guess? But surely the sith are vain, prideful. And in this universe cosmetic surgery must be phenomenal. So what gives?

Tell me this has been explored at some point?

Seeing live-action young Ahsoka was awesome. I know the clone wars have already been pretty heavily tread and re-tread, but if we get any more this would be the way to do it, especially if they can get Temuera Morrison back to voice some of the clones alongside Dee Bradley Baker, and keep the plot down to just the key arcs and cut the filler episodes as needed.

I want a whole reset on the universe and either set a new trilogy either 100 years in the future or back in the old republic era. Just a clean cut from all the current gen stuff and make a fresh start without being chained to existing material.

How would you feel about something like that?

Anyone play this yet? Is it worth it to buy? How is the gameplay on it?

I've seen some gameplay and it looks cool. But how is the story? Can someone give me a description without major spoilers?

https://youtu.be/Zee1OALy12I?si=ZBQSjzV_RiG_XUOe

Wow, this video is 20 years old. It was uploaded by gollum85 on July 18, 2006 when YouTube was just more than The idea of using the song from Rocky 4 when Rocky is remembering his life for Vader before he turns back from the Dark Side and become Anakin in Return of the Jedi was brilliant.

Howdy everyone, I'm playing through Jedi Academy and at the Cult Sightings - Chandrila mission where I've reached a point I'm just not enjoying myself. Most fights are two or three lightsaber wielders discounting any additional fellas and it makes me realize I just don't get how to fight them. Whenever I swing it feels like there's at least two of them bunched together to block it, the direction doesn't seem to make a difference, and my own blocking seems random in whether it works or I get hit. It feels heavily inconsistent, but considering the praise as the best lightsaber combat in the series I'm sure there has to be *something* I'm doing wrong in my approach to fighting, but when I tried looking into it I just found pvp advice with things like fanning that didn't seem to work at all since enemies just block it. Just really need some advice for the core combat, since cheesing them with certain force abilities doesn't actually help me improve, just gets me further into harder areas while still not knowing what I'm doing