Penny Arcade - Comic - I Zhan, Yuuzhan
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Penny Arcade - Comic - I Zhan, Yuuzhan
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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The smell of powergaming authors taking a piss all over the SW universe...
Let's see, lets burn this planet, lets wreck this race. Oh! oh! We'll also make them immune to the force and really into pain and leather.
They were like a race that was invented on some school shooter's Trapper Keeper.
Eventually it turned out they had done something bad enough that The Force (the whole thing) was like "Fuck you Vong guys" and severed their connection to it.
Take Cobra-La - the people/monsters, the biotech, the weirdness - add a dash of masochism, and make them Force resistant. That's the Yuuzahn Vong.
"Remember all the cool stuff? Like the X, and the Y, and the Z... okay, not the Z. Yeah, never mind the Z. Let's just all forget about that."
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What did Revan ever do to you?
So, Space Drow? Did their super powerful magic weapons turn to ash when you tried to loot them, too?
But Mara Jade should definitely be brought into canon IMHO. She is a bigger fan favourite than Thrawn, there is opportunity for her origin story in Rebels and she would have died before the time of The Force Awakens anyway according to the EU.
Let that remain in the past, too.
Yes, actually. The explanation was actually that their weapons were living things, but that's pretty much how it worked.
Huh, that's pretty spot on. I view Revan favorably because my experience with them was custom tailored to what I like.
Wouldn't mind them stumbling across my favorite sass-mouthed murderbot though.
Pardon my butting in, but we call those chaps "Dark Eldar"
Those posers don't even have grey skin. They just wear black.
Ash is actually a decent fertilizer, so that would probably just cancel out to neutral.
I didn't know anything about Revan past KOTOR 2 and even then he was getting kinda silly. Apparently SWTOR powered that up over nine thousand from what I'm reading.
This is why I always liked Luke. Even when he is the one supposed to stop the Emperor he never does it without help hell he flat out didn't even stop him himself let alone take out the Death Star 2. His story, even awkwardly making out with his twin, is of a flawed kid trying to be a hero and moderately succeeding.
Ultimately the problem with Revan is the same problem with Biowares approach to the Force in general. In Bioware games the Force is functionally identical to D&D magic. It's something you become proficient in and that proficiency coupled with nebulous innate aptitude lets you cast whatever spells the plot demands. There's Dark Side entities which might as well be Baatezu from D&D for example.
This is because Bioware deals in power fantasies first and foremost. And when your power fantasy allows the player to be good or evil you need to be as ethically neutral as you possibly can to avoid hurting any body's fragile ego. So you have Revan master the Light and the Dark side and throw combined Light/Dark kamehamehas and have mysterious Empires that are exactly like the Sith but aren't Sith because we say so invade known space and blah blah blah.
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