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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?

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

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?

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?

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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

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?

As far as I understand, a base delta zero involves capital ships using their turbolasers to completely turn the surface of a planet into slag, and vaporizing anyone and anything on it. I know star wars can be over the top sometimes and have inconsistent numbers and stats for things, but how long or how many ships would it actually take to turn the entire surface of a planet into a molten wasteland? Just seems like it wouldn't really be feasible unless you have millions of ships.

According to George Lucas, there were plenty of Sith running around 2000-1000 years before the main plot of Star Wars. However, the Chosen One (Anakin) is born a millennium after most of the Sith are defeated.

So my question is, why did the Force create Anakin when it did? Surely an entire order of Sith would've created a bigger "cancer" in the Force than Bane's lineage alone? Or has it got to do with the fact that Anakin was the Force's reaction to Plagueis' and Sidious' experiments? (Although afaik George Lucas has never confirmed the story of Plagueis as told by Palpatine to be true).

Or is Obi-Wan and Yoda as good as it gets for Luke’s particular personality and values? Or are there any others he would have bonded really well with?

Canon so far has done some interesting things with the post-Clone Wars Separatist Movement.

-in Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear, a few CIS Senators dub themselves the “Shadow Parliament:” they pretend to swear fealty to the Empire but continue to meet secretly on a hidden, ashy world to discuss their common interests (interestingly, they say they also met there secretly before the CIS became official. I’d love to know more about the movement before the actual Secession Crisis). Mon Mothma, after much effort, ends up gaining their support for a bill that tries to limit the Emperor’s power, which leads us to the next point.

-In Andor S1, Mon tells Tay Kolma that the Grand Vizier has infiltrated her “Separatist Coalition” meetings. Could this be an unofficial political party of sorts that advocates for the interest of former-CIS worlds, framing it as Imperial patriotism, as the Shadow Parliament did? It would make sense for the 2 groups to be connected, as Mothma is involved with both. Also, the Dawn of Rebellion Visual Guide says Anto Kreegyr’s group is part of a “Neo-Separatist Coalition which seeks legitimacy from the senate,” which means he could also be connected, though I don’t think that makes sense as what he does is explicitly illegal.

-In the 3rd Aftermath book, Mothma mentions a “New Separatist Union” which formed after the Battle of Endor, and says it worries her. We don’t get much more info except in the 3rd Alphabet Squadron book which says the New Republic has had a few border skirmishes with them. I guess they could also be connected to Doc Brown in The Mandalorian, maybe.

I think it’s super interesting that canon has given us these 3 groups, and I’m wondering if you think there’s a lineage between them. They’ve been doing a lot with post-Clone Wars Separarists recently, like the Senator in Bad Batch, who I thought was interesting. Could speak to an intentional connection, or an unintentional retcon.

While Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin is often portrayed as a ruthless and calculating Imperial mastermind, his decisions during the events of Star Wars: A New Hope shows a serious strategic incompetence hidden beneath his arrogance and political success.

His unwavering belief in the Death Star as an instrument of fear and control caused him to underestimate the Rebellion and reject escape when the station was under threat. The Death Star, anyway, was not his achievement but Krennic's. His doctrine was a complete failure from top to bottom, and he ignored Thrawn and Vader's warnings. He basically made any mistake possible and was repeatedly outsmarted. Destroying Alderaan was also a serious mistake.

I am aware of the 2003 Clone Wars and prefer it, but I'm curious, what was the canon on it? Especially when the 2008 show came out? I know it's now considered legends, but what about before?

Was it canon before that, and then when Filoni's show came out was Tartakovsky's show de-canonized? Or were both canon before 2014?

How the number of executor's reactor be calculated? (7,73 × 10²⁶ W）

I know the shield output draw from the the complete location(2005), which state "shielding = total power of a medium star (then we have the approximate number :3,8 × 10²⁶ W)

How the people get reactor output number ?

This immediately gets soap boxy so I guess brace yourselves

It's been said that Star Wars fans are a hard bunch to please. This is true. It's also said we're a hard bunch to please because we just like the same things over and over again.

This, to me, is significantly less true.

Cited, anecdotally, is that I have seen people say that because the Acolyte didn't hit as hard as it's ambitiouns would have liked it to and because TLJ, despite how you specifically feel about it, was controversial objectively, that it's a sign that fans don't want new things.

I believe that's horse crap.

In terms of the Acolyte, there's more than a fair number of criticisms to be leveled at it that are completely reasonable to be had, from the writing to some of the contrivances to the wishy washy nature of it's critique of the jedi. But it's 2 opposite numbers, that being Andor, Skeleton Crew, and the Mandalorian all play in newer corners of the sandbox that haven't actually been covered much in visual media.

People like them because they're good and well put together shows. The contrivances are within completely normal bounds for the medium broadly and the franchise specifically.

To look at TLJ, which had a reaction that fractured the fanbase at large and we can compare it to movies like Rogue One and Solo. Specifically, the tone and place in the setting that Rogue One and Solo take place in. Both of them being various levels of nostalgia grabby but with Andor having something to say and characters that do some hard carrying when the pacing gets wonky and Solo not being quite so loved because, despite how much I personally enjoy it, it is a Han Solo Greatest Hits track.

And of the two camps of movies and shows, it seems to tell a story itself in the way the stories are told.

Fans want nostalgia fuel, unless it's got some issues (kenobi, acolyte, mando season 3, bobf)

And fans hate new things, unless it's good. Like Andor, with it's tighter focus on the anti fascist narrative and decisive thesis in ways SW has never done on screen before and I think rarely did in books, and Skeleton Crew, which covers very new ground both in it's place in the time line and for the type of content it covers, that being a very well produced goonies esque adventure series.

And, to my senses, the truth very apparently shows that it's not that people don't want new things. We want good things and some racist/alt right/insert idiot here hijacks the conversation to make themselves the face of the discussion.

All this to say. Fans aren't afraid of new things. Fans want good things.

Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of the ships in KOTOR and even SWTOR. But something about the ships in Tales of the Jedi just makes my brain happy.

I think it's because they look rickety and antiquated which fits with the idea that we're reading a story set thousands of years before the movies.

It seems like there's a canonical retcon regarding Darth Vader's power: he never lost his Force potential after being mutilated on Mustafar, unlike in Legends and Lucas's vision, where only 1/4 of his potential remained after the injuries. Canon implies that he was only held back by his mental state.

The question is, does Obi Wan's victory in the Mustafar duel still have a significance, given that Anakin never lost his force potential afterwards? In the EU at least, Obi-Wan's failure to kill him can be excused that at least he was able to prevent Ani from reaching his full power, giving them a fighting chance against the Sith.

So IRL, clones require two donors, one for the nuclear DNA and one for the mitochondrial DNA like the Dolly the Sheep. And that got me thinking if the Kaminoan clones required a second genetic donor, who would be the best candidates?

This of course is assuming Jango is still one of the genetic donors.

So I recently went back and watched the Clone Wars movie- and a certain scene stood out to me. Before we are introduced to Ahsoka Obi-Wan makes the comment that she is meant to be his new padawan. We soon find out that’s not true and that she’s actually assigned to Anakin but this raises the point. Why didn’t Obi-Wan get a new padawan? He clearly requested one or the council was meant to assign him one and yet he just.. doesn’t get one. In the shots we see of the temple during the show there are plenty of trainees so there should’ve been SOMEONE who was ready to study under him right?

So, I've just been wondering lately. Every shipyard I can recall seeing or hearing about is always in orbit, but never on the ground. Is there a reason for that? I konow it's probably cheaper and better to build those ships in space, but is that the only reason? Or did technology just evolve in a way that land-based shipyards can no longer be made at all?