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Ben is to have shown to have killed no one when he attacked Luke and destroyed the temple. Three Jedi find the destroyed temple and luke (and just don't look for his body or he has already gone) but think he's dead and know that ben is responsible. Ben at this time has gone and met up with snoke, who is wearing a funny hat, who tells him to seek out the Knights of Ren. Ben does and recounts in flash back about how he made his first Jedi kill. Where we see the Jedi attack him, him accidentally through someone off a cliff, then try and force grab them to save them, then another jedi through their lightsaber at him, Ben deflect it back into the guy, and kill him. Basically he was defending himself and he tried to actually save the people who attacked him, making him completely blameless in all of this
The actual writing isn't bad, but the story itself is so clearly a "Lets try and set up the garbage choices that tros made" that it is just, ugh.
Because it doesnt have the same impact in other cultures you'd be amazed how many babies get named "Innocent Hitler" every year
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The writing in TROS is so bad that it is the first Star Wars movie I've seen where I'm like "Maybe we just don't count this as canon. At all."
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
What's the gist of Alphabet Squadron? It seems like having that kind of mix of ships with very different amounts of speed and maneuverability in a squadron together would be a serious hindrance rather than having any tactical advantage.
That's actually where they get their name, believe it or not! Other squadrons give them shit for being so mismatched
They do also go into it in some of the combat sequences, I ended up sold on the idea before the book was over
But, like, how do they subvert said logic? Why are they a squadron? Did a bunch of pilots just decide to make the most mis-matched fighter/bomber group imaginable to see what would happen, even though it would be incredibly difficult? Did they find some kind of weird advantage or way to compensate for the handicaps they suffer or do they succeed because the author wanted it to happen that way and the Star Wars 'Rule of Cool' overrode all that?
As for why they formed, without getting too much into it, they're kind of thrown together by a third party and forced to make do with what they had, no one really planned for them to have one of each (outside of the Star Wars marketing folks, I guess)
As far as the actual mission to mission stuff goes, they generally just split up into groups of fighter-bomber, fighter-bomber, but they also don't go into it being a difficult thing to deal with outside of mentions of like, the A-Wing pilot trying to keep their speed down so they can cover the Y-Wing more effectively
There is also a whole subplot in the middle that deals with more traditional squadrons of A-Wings and B-Wings, if you want some more traditional squadron stuff
That's what I wanted to hear about. I haven't ever read a 'squadron' book but I do need creatives making some attempt at maintaining suspension of disbelief.
It's wild, but this might be one of like three Star Wars books I like without reservation? It's just good from top to bottom!
If English writing isn't used in the Star Wars universe, why are the ships shaped like letters from the English language?
Does the book cover this?
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It's wild, but this might be one of like three Star Wars books I like without reservation? It's just good from top to bottom!
If English writing isn't used in the Star Wars universe, why are the ships shaped like letters from the English language?
Does the book cover this?
It does not
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It's wild, but this might be one of like three Star Wars books I like without reservation? It's just good from top to bottom!
If English writing isn't used in the Star Wars universe, why are the ships shaped like letters from the English language?
Does the book cover this?
English writing is used in the original Star Wars movie!
wait, where was English writing shown?
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Man why did I think Kannan was black? Talking with friends about rebels and I guess I was super off basis .
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It's weird how they made a huge deal about Poe smuggling drugs
Like, there's a decades long genocidal war going on, planets are exploding, Poe's best friend was part of the space fascists a few weeks ago
But Poe smuggling drugs is what everyone focused on as if it were this unforgivable crime
This sounds like a anti-drug commercial from the 90s
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It's kind of amazing how they managed to do the opening crawl with 1970s era technology
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
It's weird how they made a huge deal about Poe smuggling drugs
Like, there's a decades long genocidal war going on, planets are exploding, Poe's best friend was part of the space fascists a few weeks ago
But Poe smuggling drugs is what everyone focused on as if it were this unforgivable crime
Except they don't! That's what makes it even weirder. It gets built up like its a big deal and then they find out and nobody says another word on it the rest of the movie.
So whats spice like we talkin space weed or space cocaine I could get down with some space weed but I assume the production of space cocaine as managed by space drug cartels renders the product beyond any sort of ethical consumption
"Spice" is a catchall slang term (like, well, "drugs" or "narcotics") but is often used in reference to a specific sort, also known as "glitterstim", which is mined in Kessel. Totally not the same thing as melange. Really.
So whats spice like we talkin space weed or space cocaine I could get down with some space weed but I assume the production of space cocaine as managed by space drug cartels renders the product beyond any sort of ethical consumption
Old EU, the term Spice was just a generic term for a wide variety of drugs with similarly wide ranging effects. Some of them were just space weed, some of them would drastically increase a users psychic powers (because that's what happens when you smoke a giant space spiders web).
In the RPG there are a few spices. Marcan Herb Spice (basically weed) - Mild naarcotic. Can nduce a sense of euphoria upon inhalation (often smoked in hookah pipes) Ryll Spice (addictive pain-killers) - Relative mild but addictive spice mined on Ryloth. Dose allows user to ignore effects of single Easy or Avarage Critical Injury Result until end of the scene or encounter. 2 doses: ignore single Hard Crit Injury. When effect ends: Suffer effect of Injury as normal and also , on all checks until end of session. Neutron Pixie Spice (space mushrooms) - Powerful hallucinogenic spice with calming effect. Spice is derived from Black Gabaju a variant of common Grey Gabaki Mushroom-like plant from Toydoria.
A dose grant user automatic on GE and WI checks until end of encounter. When effects ends: user suffer automatic on all STR, IN, LIS checks for remainder of game session due to nausea, aches, weakness and mental torpor. Gunjack Spice (space cocaine) - Synthesized spice. Dose increases users STR by 1 (but max to 6) until end of scene or encounter, but additionally each dose consumed upgrades the difficulty of GE, IN, LIS checks 1x until end of session.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Spice became legal in the old EU after the fall of the empire
totally space weed
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I like that the implications are that in a vast, fantasy universe they can just mine rocks to get their drugs instead of having to go through lengthy grow operations or refinement processes.
"Spice" is a catchall slang term (like, well, "drugs" or "narcotics") but is often used in reference to a specific sort, also known as "glitterstim", which is mined in Kessel. Totally not the same thing as melange. Really.
Our bounty-hunter player got super high on glitterstim early in our EotE campaign and cleaned out most of a ship full of spice-running gangsters on her own.
The rest of us kept waiting for her to die for running ahead but she had a LOT of spice and was rolling astronomically well. It defined her character from then on out.
"Spice" is a catchall slang term (like, well, "drugs" or "narcotics") but is often used in reference to a specific sort, also known as "glitterstim", which is mined in Kessel. Totally not the same thing as melange. Really.
Our bounty-hunter player got super high on glitterstim early in our EotE campaign and cleaned out most of a ship full of spice-running gangsters on her own.
The rest of us kept waiting for her to die for running ahead but she had a LOT of spice and was rolling astronomically well. It defined her character from then on out.
*dodges blaster bolts like they're in slow motion*
"I'M SO KRIFFIN' HIGH RIGHT NOW"
*headshot, headshot, headshot*
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I'm not even 100 percent sure that I'll be able to take this trip, but I went ahead and bought the thing.
Honestly it might as well just be a Donald Glover Magic Band.
The actual writing isn't bad, but the story itself is so clearly a "Lets try and set up the garbage choices that tros made" that it is just, ugh.
That's what I wanted to hear about. I haven't ever read a 'squadron' book but I do need creatives making some attempt at maintaining suspension of disbelief.
What? You don't want to read a comic about how Poe became a drug dealer?
If English writing isn't used in the Star Wars universe, why are the ships shaped like letters from the English language?
Does the book cover this?
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English writing is used in the original Star Wars movie!
It does not
wait what
you uh
you want some deathsticks?
He was a spice runner
Spice is drugs
Yeah but they fixed that.
Steam
so was Han, tho!
wait, where was English writing shown?
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Death Star tractor beam IIRC
that makes him a drug smuggler
not a drug dealer
Like, there's a decades long genocidal war going on, planets are exploding, Poe's best friend was part of the space fascists a few weeks ago
But Poe smuggling drugs is what everyone focused on as if it were this unforgivable crime
... now I'm imagining the opening crawl(s) in aurebesh and everyone going "WTF IS THIS?!"
except for the nerds who can sight-read it.
This sounds like a anti-drug commercial from the 90s
Except they don't! That's what makes it even weirder. It gets built up like its a big deal and then they find out and nobody says another word on it the rest of the movie.
Which is exactly why Poe is one, because Abrams lacks originality.
Totally not the same thing as melange. Really.
Old EU, the term Spice was just a generic term for a wide variety of drugs with similarly wide ranging effects. Some of them were just space weed, some of them would drastically increase a users psychic powers (because that's what happens when you smoke a giant space spiders web).
Marcan Herb Spice (basically weed) - Mild naarcotic. Can nduce a sense of euphoria upon inhalation (often smoked in hookah pipes)
Ryll Spice (addictive pain-killers) - Relative mild but addictive spice mined on Ryloth. Dose allows user to ignore effects of single Easy or Avarage Critical Injury Result until end of the scene or encounter. 2 doses: ignore single Hard Crit Injury. When effect ends: Suffer effect of Injury as normal and also , on all checks until end of session.
Neutron Pixie Spice (space mushrooms) - Powerful hallucinogenic spice with calming effect. Spice is derived from Black Gabaju a variant of common Grey Gabaki Mushroom-like plant from Toydoria.
A dose grant user automatic on GE and WI checks until end of encounter. When effects ends: user suffer automatic on all STR, IN, LIS checks for remainder of game session due to nausea, aches, weakness and mental torpor.
Gunjack Spice (space cocaine) - Synthesized spice. Dose increases users STR by 1 (but max to 6) until end of scene or encounter, but additionally each dose consumed upgrades the difficulty of GE, IN, LIS checks 1x until end of session.
https://star-wars-rpg-ffg.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=Spice
totally space weed
It'll be big Aurebesh text that reads
COUNTERFEIT
MERCHANDISE
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Our bounty-hunter player got super high on glitterstim early in our EotE campaign and cleaned out most of a ship full of spice-running gangsters on her own.
The rest of us kept waiting for her to die for running ahead but she had a LOT of spice and was rolling astronomically well. It defined her character from then on out.
that's what ya'll like?
*dodges blaster bolts like they're in slow motion*
"I'M SO KRIFFIN' HIGH RIGHT NOW"
*headshot, headshot, headshot*
Weren't the villains in Toy Story 2 the prospector and the collector?