The Maw Installation

Okay so a common talking point here is that cyberwarfare is so strong in star wars that people have to go back to analog technology for detection. This is why ships have to engage within visual range. Since scanners can be jammed and the bridge needs to be exposed so the captain can still see and assess the situation. So using this logic shouldn't they also have a spyglass to see father out into space, effectivly increasing their combat range. Take this one step further and install a tele/periscope on the bridge. Even if it's situational and used for emergencies, I think having a sci fi spyglass would cool for star wars captains.

This question was asked in this sub 3 years ago and was left unanswered aside from headcanons. I'd like to open this question back up for discussion to see if we know yet.

It seems to me, given all the visits to the antique shop from Senator Mothma, that she and the owner were using the shop to launder money to the Rebellion.

Mothma "buys" or "rents" an antique for a boatload of money, then her friend the owner turns and gives that money to the rebellion.

So as the title asks if a Master and a Padawan had majorly different lightsabre designs to the point it affected the handling or fighting style eg Dooku's curved hilt and Quigon's straight hilt or a single bladed and a staff lightsabre pair would they practice with each other's weapon incase they needed to use it ie one of the pair is disarmed and the other is disabled somehow

I've been thinking about how the Kaminoans had 10 years to build up the Clone army and had new batches coming of age during the three years the Clone Wars lasted. The Empire should have new batches of Clones coming of age for the next ten years after the war ends since they evacuated the cloning facilities before their destruction with the youngest being in their early forties(biologically) when the Galactic Civil War starts. Did all those hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of clones become Purge Troopers or do you think there were more Clones in the Stormtrooper Corps than canon suggests? Or maybe they scrapped it and kicked all the Clone kids to the streets after they recruited the best of them to be Purge Troopers?

What if, during the Clone Wars, shortly after the Battle of Kamino, Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious, wanting an asset for his future cloning plans kept alive, ordered the Kaminoans to move Omega off Kamino and relocate her to Naboo?

A slicer from HoloNet News manages to uncover this information by hacking into Republic starship logs tracking travel to and from Kamino. The slicer passes the information to HoloNet News without being caught.

Not wanting this to escalate into a massive scandal and seeing an opportunity to use the situation to his advantage, Chancellor Palpatine makes a public announcement. He declares that he has adopted this altered clone as his ward, explaining that the Kaminoans had created her as part of their research into a new modified clone type that don't have age acceleration. Following the Battle of Kamino, they believed she would be safer within Republic space, and Palpatine claims to have accepted responsibility for her "safety and education." He hires the Republic's best private tutors for her.

Fast forward to near the end of Revenge of the Sith: while Darth Sidious/Sheev Palpatine is transporting the severely injured Vader from Mustafar to Coruscant, their starship collides with a passing herd of purrgil and is destroyed. With the Emperor dead, Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin and other high-ranking Imperial officials, seeking to prevent the Empire from fracturing in its infancy, decide to name Omega, as Palpatine’s "next of kin," the new Empress.

However, her role as Empress is purely symbolic. In reality, a council of moffs secretly wields the true power, ruling the Empire from behind the scenes. How would this change the timeline going forward?

Put aside the arguments about the Clone Wars TV series and its relationship to Legends in general. The lore behind the Alpha ARCs was that the Kaminoans considered them as a failure as basic infantry use clones due to their personalities.

Do you guys think that part of the modifications between the ARCs and the standard issue clone troops was the inhibitor chip? Or do you think that the Alpha ARCs had chips, but they were less optimal?

So, I'm working on an Clone Trooper OC (not going good) and wondered if the altered aging was a genetics-thing. I wanted to make it that he got an injury and the aging hence stopped, making him stay in the (physically) 18 form that the clones have.

So according to this imgur link Anakin achieved Total oneness like Jacen in the Jedi trial

https://imgur.com/a/lmyqWzo

Does this mean Anakin once connected totality with the force somehow before Full potential? But is this 1000% what the quote refers too, since this takes place before Unifying force, Could be referring to force ghosting?

Let's say that Darth Angral managed to actually fire the Desolator on Tython, burning its atmosphere, killing all of the Jedi on the world before the 2nd Great Galactic War officially begins. Would the Sith Empire just stomp with a large chunk of the Jedi dead?

If The Path served as a way for a Jedi to forget their past (e.g. turning in their lightsabers, the ultimate symbol of the order) and thus blend into society as an ordinary citizen, why would the Empire care about it?

Sure, destroy Master Junda and Cordova’s archival work. That’s reasonable, you want to emphasize the Jedi being forgotten. As it stood, though, the organization didn’t really have the means nor the intention to fight back against the Empire (Cal is not really part of it and more to an associate iirc). They were basically a charity organization. Nobody outside of a Yoda, Kenobi, and Bail knew about the twins and what they meant. So why destroy The Path?

On the contrary, I think destroying it would yield two things. A: you would martyr the core surviving members and really set them on a warpath. First, their order. Second, their best attempt at salvation. What else do they have besides ‘revenge’ as an option? Trying to restart the order? B: Jedi that would’ve joined the group to try and hide would themselves find another means of hiding (since leaving behind everything they once stood for suggests they’ve already made their mind up anyway) or instead would (I don’t see this anywhere as likely) realize that they cannot hide and try to stand for something and act as a hero (for what it’s worth, Endless Vigil provides a great example of what I mean).

If Imperial Inquisitors ever interacted with Grand Admirals, would they be the same rank? Or would the Grand Admirals answer to the Inquisitors or vice versa? Is it different with the Grand Inquisitor? Would like to hear your thoughts.

I can see why they wouldn’t want to use them because if the war ended you’d probably have a surplus of these weapons potentially in civilian circulation. That and they weren’t anywhere near as reliable as a blaster.

But with enough time and improvement wouldn’t they have made a great weapon against the Vong since they disintegrate anything organic? Should they have taken the risks?

I’m reading through the list of Trandoshan characters on Wookieepedia, and notice that a lot of characters have simplistic names like Sskeer, or Krix, which seem in line with the name Bossk. However, since then, Bossk’s name has been expanded to Bossk'wassak'Cradossk. As far as I can tell, he’s the only Trandoshan character to have this kind of name. There are also some Trandoshans like Dokk Strassi or Ciddarin Scaleback who have last names. Is there any definitive answer for how naming works in Trandoshan culture? If not, how do you imagine it?

In Legends, the Rebels captured 2 ISDs following their victory at the Battle of Endor. They were the Accuser and Adjudicator and changed their names to the Emancipator and Liberator respectively.

This has led me to wonder why the Rebels renamed them instead of keeping the old names. Doing so could allow them to sneak up on Imperial fleets and surprise attack them or smuggle important cargo or Rebels right past enemy blockades. I also heard a superstition it's bad luck to change a ship's name, though I will concede smugglers like Han Solo might not hold fast to such beliefs. Especially since Han dismissed the existence of the Force in A New Hope.

Also, the Rebels turned New Republic would go on to capture 2 Super Star Destroyers (SSD): the Lusankya and the Guardian, yet they didn't change their names. Does this mean the New Republic will only change the names of certain ships because of their class, or did their naval doctrine regarding ship names change over time from Endor?

I know bolts from a blaster set to kill aren’t very effective against Hutts, but if someone wanted to make a Hutt really uncomfortable for a couple of minutes would a blaster set to stun do the trick? Also, just how angry would the Hutt be (in other words, I’ve come up with this scene but would it actually be worth it for my character to do this)?

Empire fans, realistically, what would you want your job to be in the empire?

Please specify why, is it safer, exciting, in any other way appealing?

I am trying to write a story where Earth is integrated with the Star Wars universe, and I was wondering in what ways I could portray the Earth as having an edge technologically.

What do you think would have been the various opinions of the Jedi of the Prequels era such as Yoda, Mace Windu, Qui-Gon, Anakin, Plo Koon, Ayla Secura, Shaak Ti, Quinlan Vos, Zao, the dark Woman, Yarael Poof and others on the Yuuzhan Vong if they had met or have been told about the extragalactics with their unique biotechnology and culture and apparent absence in the Force (though as it would later turn out their relation to the Force is more complicated than that) ?

Who would be the most shocked by the Vong and question their existence and what they know about the Force much like Jacen Solo did ? Who would be rather more intrigued or even fascinated by them ? Who would be the most radical in opposing and fighting them, similar to Kyp Durron during the Yuuzhan Vong War ?

Who would have the most interesting thoughts and onlook on the Yuuzhan Vong in your opinion ?

A big story point of Attack of the Clones is that the Jedi are dwindling, Windu and Yoda constantly bring up the fact that the Jedi do not have enough resources to deal with the upcoming threat. During the arena battle Windu even says he’s going get any of the remaining Jedi to help and there’s not that many.

However the Clone wars happens and after the clone wars Order66 seems to kill a plentiful amount of Jedi and while no exact number is shown it seems that at least 100 survive, which puts the amount of Jedi in the thousands, this certainly not the case before The Clone Wars. Jedi can’t just be trained up for such things, so where did the extras come from?

It just seems like a baffling number considering most of the machines requiring attention are on the bridge and near the engines, seems like a more realistic number would be sub 1000

Hello, I am the Imperial Cadet, Cro Mar, and I am a linguist who loves Star Wars. I love Star Wars so much that I work on developing the languages of the Star Wars universe. These developments are done by accounting for both canon and legends material and creating parts of the language and culture to fill in the gaps. Ultimately, the goal is to create languages that can be spoken and understood.

This post marks the beginning of a series I intend to release alongside my YouTube videos. Here, we do a brief dive into the words of the languages I develop, creating/modifying the history of these words and giving them a greater context within the linguistic and socio-cultural environment.

For this inaugural post, I will look towards the planet Korriban at the Ur-Kittât word wodza ‘guts, intestines’.

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The working “hypothesis” I have for the etymology of wodza is that the word begins not with the Ur-Kittât languages, but with the Vardinian languages, spoken by the people of Vardin. Vardin’s location near a lake produced a dedicated fishing practice. Vardin gives Ur-Kittât numerous loanwords for nautical or fishing terms in Ur-Kittât: (w)eti ‘ship’, timi ‘oar’, (w)ewe ‘wave’, etc. The word we will be looking at is wad~wod which means ‘rope’. The term was initially used literally by Vardinian fishers, as shown in (1).

(1)

un-wikk-i-sak                  teʃun-Ø   wod-ku       ju:kbaʃa
2A.sg-make-IMPERF.I-3B.pl trap-ABS rope-COM  in.hand
‘Use a rope to make the (fish) traps.’

In time, hunters would use the term as a euphemism for animal intestines (2). In (2), wod is marked as possessed, with the translation being closer to “animal’s rope”.

(2)

walnu  xud͡z-ul-(i)nu              un-wik-i-sak                             sa=wod     ud-ak
before cook-NOMLZR-DAT, 2A.sg-remove-IMPERF I-3B.pl  3A.sg-guts animal-GEN 
‘Remove the guts before cooking the animal.’

Next, the euphemism expands from just referring to animal intestines to any living beings intestines (3a-b), but it is still marked as possessed.

(3a)

sa=wod ud-ak
3A.sg-rope animal-GEN
‘(the) animal's rope.’

(3b)

ib=wod
1A.sg-rope
‘My guts.’

Finally, the word comes to mean wod ‘rope, intestines’ and is no longer marked as possessed.

Over time, the Ur-Kittât-speaking city of Kaniset would rise to power and would come in contact with Vardin. The exchange between these powers would bring a variety of goods to Kaniset, one such good was blood. Blood was an integral part within various Sith cultures as a key ingredient to their alchemy, as evidenced by this quote from the Sith alchemist Naga Sadow:

But ask me the secrets of Sith alchemy, and I would ask you for three measures of blood: one from a person you love, one from a person you hate, and one from yourself."

―Naga Sadow

With live transportation being the most efficient means for transporting blood, the buying of slaves and captives would bring with it the word used to refer to them, wod ‘intestines’. The word would enter Ur-Kittât and take the noun classifier -sa, giving the word wodza ‘intestines’ (lit. “guts of an outsider”).

One example of the use of wodza ‘intestines’ is the word ninûshwodzakut ‘knotters of entrails’, a unique group among the kissai ‘priest caste’ whose skill was creating and manipulating life through alchemy. The use of wodza ‘intestines’ not only refers to their literal job, but also one origin of their alchemical fuel, the blood/intestines of captives they sacrificed.

If you like content like this then why not take a look at my YouTube channel, where I discuss the history and development of Star Wars languages. If you have any questions, comments or thoughts on the project, star wars, or linguistics in general, leave a comment and I will work on getting back to you!

Until the next post this has been the Imperial Cadet, Cro Mar, wishing you all a glorious day in the empire.

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I have been looking for as much information as I can find about the Death Star, and I realized I have misunderstood the location of the trench run from ANH. I thought that it was on one of the darker squares, but if I am understanding the location correctly, it is actually on the lighter grey. This means that the appearance of the surface we see is how it looks on the lighter grey up close. If this is the case, then I have no idea what the darker parts look like, and as far as I can tell, neither does anyone else. I cannot find any images up close of those areas, and I can find no direct answers about the up-close appearance of the Death Star. Any ideas?

Last night, I was rewatching the Clone Wars and watched Maul's takeover of Mandalore. It made me wonder if anyone ever corrected the narrative Prime Minister Almec spread that Satine killed Pre Vizsla, the Hero of Mandalore.

I doubt the Empire allows Mandalorian history books, but do you think in the collective memory of the Mandalorian people they remember Pre Vizsla as the hero who saved Mandalore from intergalactic criminals and was rewarded by being murdered in cold blood by the so-called pacifist Duchess Satine? If so Maul went totally evil on that one, ruining her legacy as well, really rubbing salt in Obi Wan's wounds.

I understand that it is a fantasy or sci fi universe so it obviously has a lot of creative freedom and rules that it does not have to follow, but why from a lore perspective are star wars walkers so impractical compared to modern armored vehicles? Like for example how come we don't see anything like a true IFV or even a true tank. I know that things like the saber tank, and the hover tank from rogue one exist. But they honestly they seem very poorly designed for actual combat. They don't seem to have good visibility, they don't have rotating turrets, just front facing limited mobility cannons or anything that you would associate with a quality AFV. I understand things like the speeder bikes, the AT-RTs, AT-DPs and AT-STs. those all seem very practical or at least useful in a lot of circumstances, but larger ones like the AT-AT just don't seem practical and seem pretty vulnerable in combat.

I know that the AT-ATs are technically troop transports but they get used like tanks from what I've seen but they honestly would be better served as a mobile elevated gun or siege platform. They just feel unnecessarily exposed if that makes sense.

does anyone know why they're like that from a lore/world building stand point not just from a design choice because they look cool?

And during the imperial era

They’re stated to have surgical enhancements but to what extent isn’t known or if they’re cybernetic or biological in nature. Maybe it’s something similar to what the Spartans from halo have just no where near as extreme I suppose.

In the book The Jedi Path, Luke mentions that he had to make an effort to ensure his Order was accepted by the New Republic. It made me wonder: what was the attitude of the citizens and the government toward the New Jedi Order?

I mean Stormtroops in their armor but unmasked. I just noticed we never see it, with the single exception of Finn. Why is that? We see unmasked Clone Troopes but never Stormtroopers in live action or games. Why is that?

I think only in comics or other obscure visual media we have ever seen unmasked Stormtroopers.

We only see them in their combat uniforms but what about if they go to a formal Imperial event?