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Very realistic reaction. Props for that!

Especially that guy on Dark Side: "I know people keep telling licking toilet seats is a bad idea, but I am totally rational person and will prove that I'm not an idiot it's just mass hysteria!"
 
sunsunsunsunsun said:
That's just wrong and silly. The force is not a kryptonian physiology, or a green lantern ring, or an iron man suit. It takes decades of training to be equivalent to a squad of marines with just force powers, and you can still get taken out by a bomb or enough blasters pointed in the right direction. Forced unleashed is not a good representation of a normal dark side user, and no Dark Side user who wasn't fan-wanked to infinity by the author was more powerful than the average swat trooper on the basis of force powers alone. They've also got their lightsabers, an incredibly powerful defensive tool that MC isn't teaching them how to make, you also have the scheming and the getting into positions of power (which requires the sort of "stability" while drowning in the darkside that you don't get if you're just experimenting while hopped up on dark side). If you give some random psychopath the dark side, they're far more likely to self-combust in some sort of blaze of whatever that could just as easily be accomplished with a blaster than cause problems on a planetary scale.
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The force mediation does give that stability and focus.

A madman might turn into something terrifying as he slowly snowballs into a terrible threat. Precognition, telekinesis etc are all fun and good.


This requires the person in question, to touch the force in the first place which prerequisites a certain amount of mental congruence at minimum.
 
MutantRancor said:
Only if you don't mind the same actress playing multiple roles. Kiera Knightley is already in Star Wars, as Padmé's handmaiden Sabé (the one who gets blown up at the beginning of Attack of the Clones).
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... How did I not know this? I didn't know she was in Star Wars at all. Ha! I know the joke is that the two look similar, but I didn't know that was the literal, in-universe explanation for why Kiera was catapulted into the cinema big leagues.

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Preach!!
 
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The only way HK can show up in a story like this and not be a bad thing is if they find his memory core and not his personality matrix. The sheer amount of kill that bot can put out is damned hard to write around most of the time.
 
Hi team, binged this story today. Really loving it despite not typically being a Star Wars fan. With that said, is Plagueis dead yet in this fiction? Google says he dies when anakin is around nine, so the canon timeline has him dead but being a fanfiction anything goes. Would be really cool to start seeing snippets of Plagueis leaving ideas behind on random forums under different pseudonyms to get other people to experiment with the crazy stuff he's afraid to try for fear of killing himself.
 
Thotmas said:
Hi team, binged this story today. Really loving it despite not typically being a Star Wars fan. With that said, is Plagueis dead yet in this fiction? Google says he dies when anakin is around nine, so the canon timeline has him dead but being a fanfiction anything goes. Would be really cool to start seeing snippets of Plagueis leaving ideas behind on random forums under different pseudonyms to get other people to experiment with the crazy stuff he's afraid to try for fear of killing himself.
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At one point, it was canon that Sidious killed Plagueis the night Sidious was made Chancellor when they celebrated the Sith plan coming to fruition in Sidious. But then Disney bought LucasFilm, so ask Dave Filoni, I guess?
 
Prince Charon said:
Pretty sure Sabé didn't appear in AotC, only in TPM. More certain that it was Cordé who died in that scene.
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I can never keep the interchangeable body doubles' names straight. That's probably intentional, as being able to distinguish between them would make their job harder.

You're correct, Kiera Knightley's character Sabé was the Handmaiden who acted as Padmé's decoy in The Phantom Menace, and did not appear in Attack of the Clones.
 
Fencer said:
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"Look, all I'm saying is the Dark side can't be as dangerous as he makes it out to be. Like yeah obviously there must be risks if you throw yourself into it like a power mad moron but Kesel dips in and out of it all the time for his videos. Not going to skimp on the practice because that would be outright stupid but he's still coming at this from a Jedi background so I'm sure some of the worry is just residual bias."
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...yeah, I think Palpatine isn't gonna be too pleased as much as he is at the moment (as shown in the previous chapter).

Rule of Two is gonna be a thing of the past in less than a century I believe.

Also if this is Legends Star Wars, it's gonna be even worse should Abeloth awaken and start her massive psychic attack.
 
Stahor said:
Option 1: droids are sentient/sapient, and droid ownership is slavery.
Option 2: droids are NOT sentient/sapient, and droid ownership is NOT slavery.
Given OP statement, it follows that droids are not sentient/sapient, and i'm happy to see it. Too many people think literally every droid is R2D2.
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You're forgetting the third option. Not all droids are Sentient/sapient. Droid brains come in different degrees of both complexity and specialization after all. Some are more conductive to being people, others to being mobile computers.
 
Mizuki_Stone said:
You're forgetting the third option. Not all droids are Sentient/sapient. Droid brains come in different degrees of both complexity and specialization after all. Some are more conductive to being people, others to being mobile computers.
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maybe a mix of "Not All Droids are sentient/sapient" and "that can change, given time and experience"
 
Fencer said:
That might be one of the biggest cliche's in the fandom and honestly given just how long the killbot has been lost finding him is so far beyond unlikely that I honestly just dismiss it. Yea it's mildly amusing to read but I just can't take it seriously.
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but author, unlikely things happening by 'total coincidence' is what the Force is all about! :V

*points at the unguided plasma torpedo pulling off a 90 degree turn down a exhaust vent and travelling straight down without hitting the edge of the vent wall for over a mile without being blown into said wall by the moon size station's exhaust from said vent.*
 
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That Unguided plasma torpedo that did the 90 degree turn into the vent? That was a Force Guided Torpedo. When Ol' Ben told Luke to use the Force that's what he meant.
 
Otritzi said:
That Unguided plasma torpedo that did the 90 degree turn into the vent? That was a Force Guided Torpedo. When Ol' Ben told Luke to use the Force that's what he meant.
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still had to guide for over a mile in exhaust turbulence without being able to see the fast moving projectile in a very small space, very unlikely :V
 
Once it was in the vent there's a good chance it didn't need guidance anymore. The gasses being ejected from the vent likely kept the torpedo from hitting the walls of the vent...not to mention the gravity of the power core of the station.
 
Ok honest question, did it need to reach the end of the shaft? Honestly the way it's phrased I always assumed they were using some sort of gas to vent heat faster and once the explosion happened in the shaft it caused a chain reaction all the way down. Like how some scientists feared detonating a nuke might ignite the atmosphere only no that's actually a concern here.
 
Fencer said:
Ok honest question, did it need to reach the end of the shaft? Honestly the way it's phrased I always assumed they were using some sort of gas to vent heat faster and once the explosion happened in the shaft it caused a chain reaction all the way down. Like how some scientists feared detonating a nuke might ignite the atmosphere only no that's actually a concern here.
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the images shown in the movie show the missile reaching the bottom of the shaft and colliding with the core, causing the explosion. Explosions don't generally propagate through ventilation gas, unless they were using an already flammable gas as the exhaust in the first place, in which case that'd be super risky for no reason. It's a heat vent, not a spent fuel tube.
 
Fencer said:
Ok honest question, did it need to reach the end of the shaft? Honestly the way it's phrased I always assumed they were using some sort of gas to vent heat faster and once the explosion happened in the shaft it caused a chain reaction all the way down. Like how some scientists feared detonating a nuke might ignite the atmosphere only no that's actually a concern here.
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sunsunsunsunsun said:
the images shown in the movie show the missile reaching the bottom of the shaft and colliding with the core, causing the explosion. Explosions don't generally propagate through ventilation gas, unless they were using an already flammable gas as the exhaust in the first place, in which case that'd be super risky for no reason. It's a heat vent, not a spent fuel tube.
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thats still multiple kilometers, the radius of the death star is 60km even if you imagine the edge of the core being 10km from the center that still 50km from the surface down to the core itself
 
...I always just assumed there was a plasma physics/Force trick in play when I saw that scene in the movie.

That said, Fencer's probably right, the torpedo didn't need to hit the actual core, just something vital enough to start a chain reaction. Also, there was probably a bit of the writers not having good sense of scale.

Ol' Ben's Ghost may have helped guide the torpedo too.

There's a large amount of mystery surrounding why that worked, but there had to be a reason that the regular pilots thought they had a chance with shooting a thing down that hole without using the Force to fly-by-wire the thing.
 
@Fencer - I, err, have a question.

I've been rereading the story and just got to the point where John is talking about feeding his emotions while "tucked in" with a girl he cared about, and how that caused a feedback loop, leading to him being a sappy, soppy fool.

So that's just begging for the question:

...What happens if you feed an orgasm into The Force as it happens?

Depending on the answer, I think there might be some...issues in upcoming days.
 
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