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Nanigans posted:It was a sith hunting other sith. That’s not something really seen in other Star Wars media, so it’s interesting for that if nothing else. Oh for sure, that was a unique twist. I still didn't feel a huge need to know more though. Again, maybe it's just me 
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Yeah, it’s not the most compelling thing ever, but the background they ended up giving it in the novel was indeed pretty neat. The ronin is a former Jedi master who leaves the order when they decide to stop being wandering monks who help people and instead swear fealty to the Empire. The ronin then founds the Sith, but something something they become evil. So he’s going around stopping their remnants. I’d of course love to see more of The Ninth Jedi not the least because it’s set post RoS.
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Oct 4, 2021 18:24
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Hazo posted:Don't get me wrong; it loving ruled. But that's mostly thanks to the animation style (was it rotoscoped? I couldn't tell but it definitely wasn't hand-drawn) and to how it served as a perfect tonal introduction to the Visions series. 3D with visual filter; the director wanted to make it look like analog TV, and make the 3D look hand-drawn Kamikaze Douga also did Batman Ninja, which uses a similar - albeit not nearly as harshly stylized - 3D style
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Nanigans posted:Yeah, it’s not the most compelling thing ever, but the background they ended up giving it in the novel was indeed pretty neat. So does the novel keep the spacefaring part of the setting or is it all "Star Wars transplanted into Planet Japan" on one world?
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Oct 4, 2021 18:55
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Hazo posted:Maybe I'm alone in this, but ironically I felt like The Duel was the one least in need of an expanded backstory. I didn't think it needed a backstory, it just was what it was. That's why it ranks dead last for me. Wandering ronin badass being a wandering ronin badass. That's fine but I've seen it many, many times before and I've seen it done much better. Sure, it is a lot of fun. It is the playground version of that self-serious kid who actually read the Star Wars books as opposed to just watching the movies like a normal person. Give me Twins any day.
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Arc Hammer posted:So does the novel keep the spacefaring part of the setting or is it all "Star Wars transplanted into Planet Japan" on one world? The first line of the novel is quote:Two months after the Ronin arrived on the Outer Rim world of Genbara, he ran out of credits.
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So is the Ronin ever given an actual name in the novel?
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Larryb posted:So is the Ronin ever given an actual name in the novel? Sith Master Bayts.
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I'm not a huge Star Wars lore guy, but does the Outer Rim go all the way around the galaxy?
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AndyElusive posted:Sith Master Bayts. I know you’re loving with me but given some of the official names we’ve had in this franchise (including a musical style literally called Jizz) that almost sounds plausible.
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hiddenriverninja posted:I'm not a huge Star Wars lore guy, but does the Outer Rim go all the way around the galaxy? Depends on the map.
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hiddenriverninja posted:I'm not a huge Star Wars lore guy, but does the Outer Rim go all the way around the galaxy? Have fun.   
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Oh, that's interesting how all the developed planets are on one side. Convenient. Thanks everyone.
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Yeah basically the Rim goes out to the Galactic East, the western half of the galaxy is still mostly unexplored. You've also got the Rishi Maze, which is the Dwarf galaxy in a decaying orbit of the galaxy far far away and on the absolute fringes of this dwarf galaxy is the Kamino System.
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hiddenriverninja posted:I'm not a huge Star Wars lore guy, but does the Outer Rim go all the way around the galaxy? Not quite - the entire west side is mostly uncharted - labeled the Unknown Regions, with Batuu and Jedha being on its edge
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Being that it only takes literally less than a week to travel across one side of the galaxy to the other what is the reason that there is so much of the Galaxy that is unexplored, especially since this ability has been part of the Star Wars technology for literally thousands of years? Edit: I’m not being snarky, I’m just wondering what the official explanation is.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Being that it only takes literally less than a week to travel across one side of the galaxy to the other what is the reason that there is so much of the Galaxy that is unexplored, especially since this ability has been part of the Star Wars technology for literally thousands of years? Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops boy!! A lot of the legends lore and stuff has hyperspace travel in the old old times being super dangerous, which is why the galaxy grew out from "the core" of closely connected planets. Hyperspace cartographers charted safe courses and finding sick new routes was very profitable. The unknown regions don't have safe hyperspace routes and it hasnt been profitable to expand over there so ergo its not explored. Chalk most of it up to invention and maintaining some semblance of mystery and unexplored area for future storytelling.
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The Unknown Regions are also very unstable for hyperspace and inconsistent for making new lanes.
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It's much easier to travel a hyperspace path that has been charted than it is to plot a jump to an unknown location. You can't just aim at a star, jump to lightspeed and end up at your destination. Plus Star Wars has really, really crowded space where things like asteroid fields and black holes are obstacles close enough together to require fancy manual flying rather than flying several million kilometers away to bypass them at sublight velocities.
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Arc Hammer posted:Yeah basically the Rim goes out to the Galactic East, the western half of the galaxy is still mostly unexplored. Kamino? It's not a system I'm familiar with.
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AndyElusive posted:Kamino? It's not a system I'm familiar with. Maybe Jocasta should have gone and listened to a literal child before she started poo poo talking Obi-Wan
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Arc Hammer posted:Maybe Jocasta should have gone and listened to a literal child before she started poo poo talking Obi-Wan Counterpoint: poo poo-talking Obi-wan is its own reward.
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Madurai posted:Counterpoint: poo poo-talking Obi-wan is its own reward. Impossible, perhaps your point of view is incomplete.
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Jocasta fought Vader with a lightsaber gun, she’s cool.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Jocasta fought Vader with a lightsaber gun, she’s cool. That's not how I remember it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaPOdWYAkp0 Revenge of the Sith game was lit. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Oct 4, 2021 |
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McTimmy posted:The Unknown Regions are also very unstable for hyperspace and inconsistent for making new lanes.
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Theres also some stuff where you might jump half way across across galaxy in a major trunk route in half an hour, but getting to the system next door could take weeks, because there isn't a good stable route and you have to take a circuitous path.
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Arc Hammer posted:That's not how I remember it. 
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Arc Hammer posted:That's not how I remember it. This looks fun as gently caress. I went to the PS store to buy it but tragically it's not there. Lmao are they just trying to retcon Jocasta Nu into some kind of badass after she was such a closed-minded dick to Obi-Wan in AotC?
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I wonder if we'll ever get an extended flashback sequence with newly minted Darth Vader just clearing out the Jedi Temple in the new Obi Wan Disney+ show. Because how can they not? It's loving ripe with potential.
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Hazo posted:Lmao are they just trying to retcon Jocasta Nu into some kind of badass after she was such a closed-minded dick to Obi-Wan in AotC? comic spoilers it's a short story in which she tries to find some records in the jedi archive of force sensitive people but runs into Vader and an inquisitor. She does well enough to hold off Vader for a bit with that gun but is eventually captured and killed by Vader on the same issue. A good final stand
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:comic spoilers it's a short story in which she tries to find some records in the jedi archive of force sensitive people but runs into Vader and an inquisitor. She does well enough to hold off Vader for a bit with that gun but is eventually captured and killed by Vader on the same issue. A good final stand That's pretty cool. I didn't know she survived Order 66 but then again who the hell can keep track anymore. AndyElusive posted:I wonder if we'll ever get an extended flashback sequence with newly minted Darth Vader just clearing out the Jedi Temple in the new Obi Wan Disney+ show. Which is exactly why they should leave it alone, because it's inevitably going to be disappointing.
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You know they can't leave it alone and if I'm right, they won't.
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I'm guessing they'll do something with the message Obi Wan left at the temple that we saw Kanan had in Rebels. Some jedi survivor looks to Obi Wan for help and he leaves Tatooine for a bit to try and ensure their safety.
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At this rate, the only Jedi that died by Order 66 will be the ones that died on screen in ROTS.
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Hazo posted:This looks fun as gently caress. I went to the PS store to buy it but tragically it's not there.
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Sash! posted:At this rate, the only Jedi that died by Order 66 will be the ones that died on screen in ROTS. I mean, we all saw Plo blow up, but if Filoni has anything to say about it...PLO'S BROS: THE SERIES
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If Palpatine can return so can Plo Koon
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The United States posted:If Palpatine can return so can Plo Koon Dave Filoni will raise plo koon from the dead with his bare hands if he has to
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Akakiri was the stand-out episode for me, and the only episode I’ve felt worth recommending to people. Interesting to see so many people consider it the weakest.
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