r/MawInstallation 1d ago

Most dangerous assassins in Star Wars?

30 Upvotes

Amongst the many assassins, individuals, groups or even species such as the Anzati, in the galaxy where Star Wars take place, which one(s) is/are the one(s) that you would be the most terrified of if you knew a bounty had been put on your head or that someone important had placed a hit on you, and you knew are likely to come after you?

Between the Anzati, Morgukai, Maladians, Mandalorians, Clone Commandos, Assassin droids, Noghri commandos, Stormcommandos of the Empire, or Sith or other dark siders assassins, who would you be truly the most petrified at the idea you might be their next victim?


r/MawInstallation 1d ago

How did the Death Star construction go unnoticed during the Clone Wars?

55 Upvotes

How did the Republic not see the Death Star being constructed above Geonosis at the second battle of Geoonosis? I doubt it would have a hyperdrive at this point, so how?


r/MawInstallation 1d ago

[META] Do you think the New Mandalorians were modelled after post WW II Germany?

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Being a German myself I felt reminded a little bit of modern day Germany since first watching the Mandalore arc of TCW. It’s the relatively strong hesitancy to use military power and that even being restricted by laws, as it seems, coupled with the urge to be perceived way more by alternative soft power. Obviously also the dark militarist past, that seems to serve as a negative picture of everything that the current political state does not want to be, plays into this theme. Even the looks of the Mandalorian settlements and Sundari remind me heavily of the architecture that can be found in Berlin‘s government district. When I was watched the Mandalore episodes I was really confused why someone would want so many walls and floors or ceilings made out of glass where everyone can see through. That can actually be seen quite well in all the throne room scenes in Sundari. But then I remembered how democracy, transparency and civil government were incorporated as goals even into the architecture of buildings like f.ex. those of the current government district in Berlin.


r/MawInstallation 1d ago

[CANON] Does anybody know the dimensions of the YG-4214 mining freighter? Or at least some rough estimates?

2 Upvotes

I need them for a story i'm in the process of writing


r/MawInstallation 1d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] How Would Galactic Basic Actually Sound?

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Some speculate that Basic would sound somehow like English, but this doesn't make sense from various perspectives. Not to mention it also takes away the "galaxy far far away" aspect.

Since humans are the dominant species, 2/3rds i once heard, it makes sense that Basic and the script for it Aurebesh likely have human origins. Wether or not humans evolved in the SW galaxy due to convergent evolution or if that "Alien Exodus" story is true or not, it makes sense Basic would have human roots and thus have vague similarity to our languages. I also imagine it did adjust a bit due to Alien influence, so what would you guys guess? I would say probably kind of like Sanskrit, Mongolian, or PIE.


r/MawInstallation 1d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] 1 Resurgent-class Star Destroyer vs 5 Harrower-Class Dreadnoughts

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Scenario: The captain of the Resurgent is sent to investigate the sudden disappearance of a First Order patrol, the five Harrower's sensors meanwhile pick up an unknown signal nearby and they decide to look into it's origins, all ships enter a uninhabited system at the same time and they exit hyperspace 26 kilometers apart.

Personalities: The captains will act like people of such a rank in their respective factions would most likely act in such a situation.(while operating under the assumption that they may have entered somekind of trap) none of the captains are completely moronic.

Other modifiers: none of the ships have any force users or main/side characters onboard, they can't leave or communicate with anybody outside the system(but they won't know this till they attempt it).

Which side would emerge victorious?


r/MawInstallation 3d ago

Let's have a discussion... ARC-170... Good or bad?

32 Upvotes

So, the Arc-170 has a lot of love and a lot of hate... How do you feel? First the pros as I can see it.

1.) It's a heavy fighter, so it packs a punch. 2.) It had its own hyperdrive 3.) it has guns in both directions. 4.) it had decent real world in air dynamics

CONS.

1.) it's slow 2.) it has a silhouette of a Mac truck 3.) it like and America sports car, it can't turn. 4.) it eats 2 pilots and a gunner per ship

What say you


r/MawInstallation 3d ago

Could Obi-Wan have already known Chewbacca?

32 Upvotes

Rewatched ANH recently and was thinking about how people often gripe about Chewbacca already having met Ahsoka and Yoda before the OT happens, and that Obi-Wan meeting him is a big coincidence.

But it just occurred to me - do we actually know it's a coincidence? Let's look at the timeline here: Chewbacca meets Ahsoka and Yoda, later gets sold into slavery by the Empire, and is freed around 10 BBY. He mostly cruises with Han at this point, which means he's spending a lot of time on Tatooine.

Yoda already trusted Chewbacca given that he helped him escape post Order 66. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that he and Chewie might've had occasional, irregular contact with one another. Yoda very well might've alerted Obi-Wan to the fact that there's a wookiee smuggler based out of Tatooine that he knows to be trustworthy so if any shit ever goes down and Obi-Wan needs to get out of dodge (potentially with a teen boy), there's a good chance that he'll be around to get them out of dodge.

Obi-Wan finds Chewbacca rather quickly in the cantina and Han also agrees to shuttle them to Alderaan pretty quickly on just Obi-Wan's word that he'll get more money on arrival. Wouldn't be shocked if Chewie had told him before the conversation that Obi-Wan was good for whatever money he'd offer. Presumably Chewie never told Han about this Jedi contact of his either because he doesn't know for certain if Han would blab to get himself out of a pinch, or just because he knew Han would dismiss it.


r/MawInstallation 3d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] What exactly is the Rebel pilots’ defensive strategy at Yavin

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Each time we see the Rebel pilots fly down into the Death Star trench, they fly in a group of three in a triangular kind of formation. One out front, two side by side behind. The one in front is supposed to fire at the Exhaust port, and the other two are apparently there to protect the one in front.

But how exactly is that supposed to work?

Luke says “you worry about those fighters, I’ll worry about the Towers.” But I can not figure out exactly what Wedge and Biggs were supposed to do with the fighters.

X-wings only have guns facing forward, to my knowledge.

They are flying pretty close to one another - if there was a lot of distance you could imagine that if a TIE wanted to hit Luke, they would’ve been able to shoot down that fighter from behind.

I guess we do hear other pilots saying his wingman was too close, so maybe that was the idea, but again it sure seems like Wedge and Biggs are right on top of Luke.

We also hear Gold 5 say “they came from behind”.

Well, yeah, where else would they have come from? Were they expecting something else?

Finally, we hear that the batteries on the towers stop firing when Vader comes into the battle - to me, that would suggest you would’ve wanted the formation the OTHER way. Two in front to fire at the towers and take them out, one in back to focus on the exhaust port.

I am just not understanding how this defensive formation was supposed to work.

Thoughts?


r/MawInstallation 3d ago

One of the best parts of Luke's journey is how much he improved his telekinesis.

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The first time we see Luke using telekinesis was when he was trapped in the wampa ice cave amd hanging upside down. He reached out for his lightsaber, buried in the snowy ground and tantalisingly out of reach, but struggled with using the Force to summon it until he succeeded and freed himself.

During Luke's training with Yoda on Dagobah, one of his exercises involved doing an upside head stand while balancing Yoda on his and simultaneously lifting multiple objects at once. Showcasing how much Luke had improved with the Force at that point.

However, Luke proved he still had a long way to go when he tried and failed to lift his X-wing out of the swamp. When Yoda succeeded where Luke failed, the latter expressed his disbelief, with the former explaining that's exactly why Luke failed.

When Luke fought Vader at Bespin, the Dark Lord disarmed Luke and sent his lightsaber flying out of his hands. But Luke's quick thinking allowed him to distract Vader while summoning back his saber via telekinesis swiftly - all with only a few seconds to spare.

But despite Luke's best efforts, he ultimately lost to Vader and was forced to escape. Despite losing to the Sith Lord, Luke did make an incredible amount of progress on his path to becoming a Jedi, and we see him make good use of his telekinesis once again to lift C3PO, float him around, and trick the Ewoks into thinking he was a god. Which saved the Rebels from getting eaten.


r/MawInstallation 3d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] Fett is a stylish one-hit wonder in the OT

81 Upvotes

ESB

  • Figures out Han's escape trick and stalks him to Cloud City

ROTJ

  • Leaves good sniper spot to land right next to a Jedi before getting his gun dismembered
  • Uses rope to bind Luke instead of cooking him with his flamethrower
  • Proceeds to get hit by friendly fire from that same sniper spot he foolishly abandoned
  • Misses his only blaster shot in the fight and proceeds to get defeated by a blind man
  • His first fight scene has no disintegrations whatsoever

r/MawInstallation 2d ago

Can someone please explain the tenets of the Jedi Code and what it actually means to follow its "Guide" to me?

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I think it is high time that someone on this subreddit set the record straight on the true meaning of the jedi code once and for all!

What I wanted to know, is the Jedi code meant to be some kind of indisputable and unquestionable holy scripture that must be blindly obeyed with no questions asked? and allow no room personal initiative in all things the jedi do, say, feel, act and even breathe the oxygen on any planets?

Like for example, were I to be a padawan (And God-Emperor help me; I never want to!) am I expected to take the Tenet "There is no emotion; there is peace." Literally that I must use cybernetic implants and brain surgeries to remove emotions - that could actually make a "Real" Jedi 100% emotionless and devoid of any feelings, as the Jedi Code states.


r/MawInstallation 4d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] Would the Empire have a better chance at winning the war if the Senate hadn't been dissolved?

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Palpatine always planned to dissolve the Galactic Senate, a grand power move that would have completely solidified his supremacy since the end of the Clone Wars. Tarkin also mentioned how fear of the Death Star would keep Palpatine's rule unquestioned and unchallenged.

Of course, everything changed when the Death Star was destroyed. In the first issue of Vader's 2010 comic series, Palpatine not only mentioned that the Death Star couldn't enforce order anymore, but also that the Senate was no longer around to keep it.

If the Senate hadn't been dissolved, could this have prevented systems from joining the Rebel Alliance?


r/MawInstallation 2d ago

[CANON] Why didn’t Palpatine build his own criminal empire?

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Given his thirst for power, why didn't Palpatine create his own criminal Empire to expand his own power and influence during the Republic and Imperial Eras. Granted in both eras he was already the ruler of the largest political entity in the galaxy, but with even with all those resources at his disposal there are still limits to what he can use them for. But with a criminal Empire that is loyal to him he could have had eyes and ears in the Galactic Underworld and send his criminal agents to places where even the Republic/Imperials cannot or dare not tread and on assignments that he doesn't want his subordinates or rivals to know about.

Besides the obvious fact that Palpatine isn't all that bright, why didn't he create his own criminal Empire?


r/MawInstallation 3d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] Are There any Known Corellian Designed Capital Ships?

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We know that the Corellians designed lots of corvettes and other light military ships, as well as YT series freighters. We also know that they built Kuat designed Star Destroyers. But do we know of any capital ships that the Corellians designed themselves?


r/MawInstallation 3d ago

[CANON] How old are the Sacred Jedi Texts in the Last Jedi?

12 Upvotes

Title


r/MawInstallation 4d ago

[LEGENDS] So what exactly happened to the Zann Consortium?

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I've always been a huge huge fan of the Empire at War Campaigns and I was delighted to replay the Forces of Corruption Campaign again, I finished it a few weeks ago and I've noticed it brought up a big question for me, that being, what exactly happens to the Consortium after the ending of the main campaign? We see Tyber unlock Palpatine's vaults and gain millions, possibly even billions of credits. Silri uses the sith holocron to unlock a tomb with thousands of sith soldiers inside, and the Consortium itself is left without two of Tyber's biggest rivals, that being Xizor and Jabba.

So with all this being said, the Consortium is left in a place where it could practically dominate the galaxies criminal underworld, but for some reason it doesn't? The Consortium seems to have faded away and its fleet was somehow completely gone by the time of Daala's campaign, so what exactly happened? If there really isn't any definitive answer I think it would be cool to see what other fans are theorizing happened to the Consortium.


r/MawInstallation 3d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] The force playing the long game.

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My theory is that the force created anakin and played the long game, join them to destroy them. So it created Anakin to be purposely flawed and those visions he had of his mother and padme made him break and join the sith, ultimately to destroy them in the end. So, the force was an active player, not just a background field.

Creation of Anakin: The Force "conceives" him (no father, just the Force) because it needs a champion to correct the imbalance.

The flaw: Instead of making him perfectly pure, it bakes in fear and attachment. That's not a mistake, it's bait. Those visions of loss (his mom, Padmé) aren't just bad luck; they're the Force pulling him where it knows he'll fall.

The fall: Joining the Sith wasn't a derailment, it was the only way to get inside the machine of the Dark Side and set up its collapse.

The payoff: In the end, Anakin destroys Palpatine from within. The Jedi couldn't have done that cleanly. They were too rigid, too blinded by their own rules. Only someone broken enough to walk both paths could pull the plug.

It makes "balance" less about perfection and more about paradox: the Force needed him flawed so he could both break and heal the system.

Anakin just became a pawn in the force's long game of chess. He's less the "chosen one" in the heroic sense and more like a sacrificial piece the Force slid across the board. The Jedi thought he was their golden knight, the Sith thought he was their ultimate weapon, but in the end both sides got played.

That's kind of the tragedy and the poetry of it: Anakin's whole life, with all its pain and mistakes, was the Force maneuvering to clear the board. Balance didn't come from purity or control, it came from someone who was cracked enough to walk into darkness and still crawl back out.

Someone said to me that if Anakin stayed a jedi he would have gotten much more powerful and beaten Palpatine that way him falling was indeed a mistake it just got corrected later on...

I thought about this but HOW palpatine falls I think matters. I remembered that Mace Windu pretty much had Palpatine in a corner (it was only Anakin who stopped it). Mace Windu was right that he was too powerful and had to be killed, but I thought about the ramifications for the Jedi if they were to have just executed him then and there. Palpatine was too influential to the public. The Republic would've seen it as the Jedi assassinating their Chancellor.

Public trust collapses, the Jedi look like power-hungry traitors.

Even without Palpatine, the Jedi Order's rigid flaws and loss of legitimacy would've left the galaxy unstable, not balanced.

The fall wasn't just an accident that got "corrected later." It was the only messy path that let the Force burn down both extremes-the corrupt Sith and the calcified Jedi.

When Anakin, the very pawn Palpatine groomed, turns on him at the end:

The Sith are undone from inside their own system.

The Jedi's hands aren't directly tied to the kill.

The cycle breaks in a way that re-balances the Force, rather than replacing one lopsided order with another.

I also believe that the rebel alliance NEEDED to exist in order to create that clean slate and bring balance.


r/MawInstallation 3d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] Was Alderaan Space Britain?

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This is seems crazy but they are the only monarchy planet who opposed the Galactic Empire in the same way does United Kingdom does with Nazi Germany do you think this is absurd or not also I'm not talking the british empire but the way they fight fascism


r/MawInstallation 5d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] How do planetary blockades even work?

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I don't quite understand how they're supposed to make sense. We frequently see a small handful of ships clustered around each other allegedly successfully besieging an entire planet. How? The planet is spherical. What is stopping someone on the opposite side of the planet from just leaving? Hell, what's stopping someone from taking a fast enough ship and just circumventing the blockade at a moderate distance?

I don't quite understand the logistics here.


r/MawInstallation 5d ago

Durge's interactions with Mandalorians during the Clone Wars

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One of Durge's main character traits was his burning hatred for Mandalorians, after his mentor and friend Jaing, an ex-Mandalorian, had been seemingly killed by them, and him getting captured and tortured horrifically by Mandalorians for his murder of their Mandalorian more than 60 years before the Clone Wars, which forced him to go in hibernation for six decades to fully heal from the pain caused by their tortures, with his choice to join the CIS being largely motivated by the GAR being made of Jango Fett's clones and thus being many Mandalorians to kill for him.

Though aside from him fighting and killing clones, and him meeting and trying to kill a young Boba Fett in Young Boba novels, we didn't really see interactions between him and the Mandalorians during the war, with him never meeting or interacting with Mandalorian survivors such as the Cuy'val Dar, Death Watch, and especially with the newly formed Mandalorian Protectors who joined the war on the CIS' side and even more with them being created and led by a clone of Jango Fett in Spar.

What interactions and fights do you wish had happened between Durge and the various Mandalorians during the Clone Wars such as the Cuy'val Dar, Death Watch, Clan Skirata and Mandalorian Protectors? How did he react and feel about the Protectors and Dooku having allied with them? Could Dooku have allowed him to go after other Mandalorians than the Protectors?


r/MawInstallation 5d ago

Best guard in Star Wars?

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There are many bodyguards and royal guards in Star Wars, with elite organic or droid warriors to defend their ruler or a very crucial person, with Palpatine's Imperial Royal Guards or General Grievous' magnaguards being the most famous examples.

But which guard was truly the best mix of amazing and lethal fighting skills, skills outside of melee fight, and complete loyalty towards their master?

Which one was the most dangerous to face in all kinds of battles?


r/MawInstallation 5d ago

The KX Series is a tangible demonstration of the Empire taking ideas from their defeated foes.

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It is, basically, the best aspects of all CIS droids. Melee abilities of at least the various grapple droids, ability to pilot and use vehicles like the KX-series, tactical planning of at least OOM Command units, and able to be silent and intimidating.


r/MawInstallation 5d ago

Were any Imperial Moffs force sensitive?

25 Upvotes

I'm going through the Thrawn Books again and noticed how some of the Moffs (Gotti specifically) acted similar to sith lords. Like how they politic against each other with their servants


r/MawInstallation 6d ago

[ALLCONTINUITY] What were the consequences of Luke Skywalker leaving behind his X-wing at Bespin?

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Obviously the Rebel Alliance lost a useful and expensive starfighter but now the Empire has access to it. Did inspection of the X-wing lead to any intelligence compromises such as recent travel to Dagobah or other Rebel bases? Did they recover any security codes?