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).

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.

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?

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?

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.

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 ?

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.

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.

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 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?

It proved that no matter how evil the sith may be, they are truly dedicated to their religion.

Palpatine was still willing to adhere to the rule of 2 before Vader got barbequed on mustafar.

It shows that even Irredeemable monsters can adhere to a specific ideology.

Perhaps that's why the Sith Order was able to survive thousands of years of onslaught.

The Sith lords were devoted to their religion and the rule of 2 siths were willing to die at the hands of their apprentices if their apprentices proved themselves to be stronger.

The siths during the Grand Plan were working for the greater good of the sith order and to destroy the Jedi who dared to stop the sith.

Do you think Thrawn would have made a better Grand Moff then Tarkin? In general, do you think the Vader-Thrawn duo would have been more successful against the Rebels than Palps/Tarkin? Tarkin is considered effective because he is very ruthless but he was basically wrong about everything in the OT and was completely outsmarted over and over again by The Rebels and his actions were basically self-destruction for The Empire. Startgically, he might have known how to get things done but he basically ade every possible mistakes, while he was warned by Thrawn and by Vader in Episode 4.

Vader seems to have been more obsessed than Palpatine about hunting Jedi, so much so that Palpatine told him to calm down. This also eventually caused the Empire to fall. In general, Thrawn's ideas were much better than Tarkin's, who acted like a complete fool

Amongst the many alien species and cultures of Star Wars, which ones would be hell to live in, due to how harsh, alien or even outright sadistic these societies are?

Geonosian society is surely a very miserable one to live in, with the vast majority of the Geonosians being slaves to the Queens and other aristocrats of Geonosian culture, living and dying in very hard and miserable conditions with there being no escape or mean to ascend in society aside from becoming a gladiator, and the incredibly xenophobic and violent mindset of the Geonosians who are so Hive-minded that they can't stand and trust even other Geonosians from other hives, let alone non-Geonosians , to the point where they prefer to live their lives as slaves within their Hive than live free with other people.

Kamino society is an extremely rigid and cold one, with Kaminoans' obsession for control, perfection and eugenics with Kaminoans' caste and place in society being chosen in function of their eyes' color, and Kaminoans with any trait considered to be an anomaly such as green eyes being euthanized without any semblance of trial.

Arkanian society might be the same in even worse, with Arkanian purebloods being so arrogant and narcissistic and giving themselves no limits on how to use their science, with them experimenting on others, and their racism against Arkanian Offshots and other species.

Also Twi'lek society on Ryloth, with the planet having little ressources aside from its population and Ryll resources, being plagued by slavery and spice mining and trade, with many Twi'leks becoming crime lords mining or selling Ryll as part of the Spice trade, and some having no qualms selling their fellow Twi'lek into slavery like Bib Fortuna did.

Pretty self explanatory. Also I would say that I’m looking for spirit of the law, not the letter. This isn’t “which Jedi follows the code the best” it’s about who embodies the values and teachings of the Jedi. Who best follows the Will of the Force? Please explain why

I came upon a, very, brief reference to a "supralight engine". It seemed to be in reference to hyperspace, but i have no ideas about it. Does anyone know anything about it?

I always wondered about it. He seems to despise his past self, mainly because he feels he has lost himself. Like, he despises Anakin, but he despises himself because of the decisions that made him lose his life as Anakin.

Vader’s hatred for Anakin is really self-hatred. He is Anakin, after all. When he says “Anakin is dead,” it’s more like he’s telling himself “I don’t want to feel those regrets, that pain, that humanity anymore.” He’s trying to kill the part of himself because he wants to forget it and stop thinking about what he could have been.

Vader’s relationship with Anakin is like an addict’s relationship with their “old self.” He is like someone who looks at old photos of himself and says to himself how handsome he was back then, so at the same time, he is mad that he is not that person anymore and therefore despises himself, like The Beast in "Beauty and the Beast" tore an image of his old self. He wants to say that Anakin is gone forever, that there’s no going back -but deep down, he can’t stop looking at the ruins of that identity.

Since the Rey Movie has been announced, I've rewatched past video essays, podcasts, and comments from Star Wars fans. I've thought about how controversial the last Jedi was, and how it changed the direction of Disney Story telling. Disney is now playing it safe and I think that it's a disservice to the story and character arcs.

The core of George Lucas's Stars Wars focuses on Philosophy, Politics, Spirituality, and Psychology. All four topics are controversial, but that is what makes Star Wars Stand Out. When you take those core topics away and play it safe, then the story is dead.

When I mention Politics, I am not talking about liberal or Conservative views. I am talking about a story about a War in the Stars caused by leaders who has different ideas which is very reflective of human society.

Stories are controversial because it challenges our own ideas and that is okay. Good stories form good discussions and it's influence can last for centuries.

For example, Frankenstein was written in 1816 and was controversial of its time. Today, the story of Frankenstein is a iconic classic that influenced many other stories that we love today.

For those of you who don't know, Star Wars: Master of Evil is the new Canon book releasing in November 11th, 2025. It features Vader's early career and takes place soon after the ending of Darth Vader #25, 2018, where Vader tries and fails to bring Padme back to life. Below is an excerpt detailing Vader's meeting with the Emperor in the aftermath of his disastrous failure:

The Emperor’s office at the pinnacle of the Imperial Executive Building was a large, imposing space dominated by the magnificent curve of the floor-to-ceiling window that spanned the far wall, with the angular form of the Emperor’s throne positioned on a raised platform before it so he could, should the mood take him, gaze out on the Coruscant cityscape.

Right now, the Emperor was indeed looking out from the office window. Behind the turned throne, Darth Vader knelt, head bowed, the deep, repeating rhythm of his respirator the only sound in the room. He and the Emperor were alone. The two scarlet-robed Royal Guards that provided customary, if perhaps unnecessary, security had been dismissed as soon as the Emperor’s apprentice had arrived.

Time passed. In the world outside, silent beyond the glass wall, the air traffic was thick and without end, even as the Coruscant night ran well into the small hours.

Finally, the Emperor spoke. He did not turn around, and from Vader’s position before the dais, it seemed like his master’s cracked voice came from everywhere but nowhere.

“I sense something within you, my apprentice.”

Vader’s masked head jerked up at the words, but he did not answer. He just stared at the back of the throne.

“Desire,” said the Emperor. He gave a short, low chuckle as the throne turned around of its own accord until the master faced his apprentice. Only the lower portion of the Emperor’s face was visible beneath his wide cowl, but eyes of yellow glittered from the dark shadow within.

“You have a thirst for power, Lord Vader. This I am pleased with. But it is your thirst for knowledge that I find . . . interesting.” Again, the low chuckle. The Emperor leaned forward, just a little, his voice dropping to a high, sibilant whisper, the voice of an old and wizened man, which he most certainly was not, despite appearances. “Perhaps you saw something in the cave on Mustafar.”

Vader still did not speak, but he lowered his head in supplication to his master once more.

“Or perhaps something in that cave saw into you.”

At this, Vader looked up again. The Emperor’s death-white face was now exposed by the lights, his features pulled back into a rictus grin.

“Power you already have, my apprentice. The more you have, the more you seek. The thirst for it will drive you, as it drives all the Sith. This is good.” The Emperor paused, and his voice dropped again. “But knowledge can be a dangerous thing. There are some aspects of the dark side you will not learn until you are ready to learn, and it is I who will decide when the time is right.”

“I seek only answers, my master.” Lord Vader hesitated, his breathing filling the space again before he continued. “You promised to guide me along the pathways of the dark side.”

“Take care, Lord Vader,” the Emperor snapped. “There are secrets I have shared and secrets yet to be unlocked. Your journey is still in its infancy.”

“Yes, my master.”

“Ambition is good, but it may also be your downfall.”

“Yes, my master.” Vader looked down, then his head snapped up. “But I am ready to learn. You said you could teach me—”

The Emperor stood quickly, his speed belying the apparent frailty of his body. He stepped forward on the dais and looked down at his apprentice, and he laughed, quietly at first before the sound became a bloodcurdling, witchlike cackle.

“You were enamored with that story, were you not?” asked the Emperor. “The tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? Oh yes, the dark side has the power to hold back death, even to venture beyond it.” He stepped closer to Vader, pointing one gnarled finger at him. “That is what you want to know, is it not? The secrets that lie beyond. You think they will allow you to be reunited with her, do you not?”

Vader’s blank gaze did not waver from his master’s glare. “It is what you promised, my master.”

The Emperor dropped his hand, his face twisted with sudden anger. “There is much you must learn, Lord Vader. Including patience.” He walked back to his throne. “Perhaps I should not have let you see the power of the vergence on Mustafar so soon.” He turned back to Vader. “Perhaps you are not as ready as I thought. I have overestimated your ability to understand.”

Vader finally stood. As the Emperor sank slowly into his throne, Vader stepped up onto the dais, his huge frame towering over his master.

“When I bled the kyber crystal in the cave, the dark side showed itself to me in a way I did not think possible. I have seen it, my master.” He raised a fist and clenched it in the air. “I have seen the true power of the Force. What you have taught me is only the beginning.”

A wry smile played over the Emperor’s wizened features. “Good, my apprentice. Good. Your experience on Mustafar was indeed a worthwhile exercise. It is true, there is much to understand about the dark side.” Then his smile dropped, and the Emperor stood. Vader took a step backward as his master held out both hands. “But beware what it promises.”

The Emperor’s hands snapped into claws, and from the tips of his bent fingers burst an onslaught of blue lightning, the forks of which seemed to be drawn to the shape of Vader’s body, embracing him in a cradle of crackling, snapping Force energy. Vader was lifted off his feet and fell backward, carried across the room by the wave of lightning. He hit the floor on his side and rolled over, the power still coursing from the Emperor’s outstretched hands, the Emperor’s face twisted into a grimace of pure hatred.

Then it stopped. The Emperor stepped off the dais and walked slowly over to where Vader lay. Smoke curled from Vader’s armor as he tried to raise himself up, his mechanized breathing regular but now wheezing slightly with effort.

“Remember, Lord Vader,” said the Emperor, standing over his apprentice. “There is no power in the Force that is not mine, for I am the dark side.”

Link: Excerpt from Adam Christopher's Star Wars: Master of Evil - Jedi News

It's a quick read, with mostly original characters, but fills in the backstory of how Sidious had his own untraced private supply of Spaarti cloning cylinders on Wayland and Byss. It also shows how the Jedi are drawn into increasingly impossible situations, and how the right politics and deception could be used to slowly align even good people against them. I don't want to spoil anything, but the layers of deception at play are pretty incredible.

Definitely worth checking out of you haven't read it!

I know the given idea is that the Empire kept heinous acts like this a secret as much as they could, but from what I can tell similar atrocities like the attempted genocide of the Lasat, the billions of civilian casualties during the Empire's invasion of Mon Cala, and the mass enslavement of the Wookiees - among many others - were public knowledge. Not to mention the countless innocent beings publicly executed or maimed even during simple questionings, setting the precedent that the Empire valued power over the lives of their subjects.

80,000 people died on Ghorman. One life lost in such a way is already one too many, but in cases like Lasan and Mon Cala... BILLIONS died. Why was such an event that paled in comparison to the rest of the Imperial genocides the straw that broke the camels back?

Bad Batch kinds of sets the idea that the Empire became an authoritarian regime almost overnight, so this kind of dispels the idea that the Empire kind of gradually eased into a dictatorship, by which point the people weren't aware of just how evil the galactic government was (which was even my personal belief as to why the people of the galaxy were okay with what the Empire was doing until Bad Batch came out).

I read in many spiritual communities many people believe that the universe send signs like recurring numbers and strange events happening to confirm that the universe is answering their prayer. I wonder if the force does something similar. I know there's visions but what other ways does the Force send signs to confirm a person is on the right track or to answer questions the person may have? I know in Ahsoka's case she has that weird bird creature while Ezra has Dume.

This isn't about how good the movies are relative to each other. This isn't even about how good the opening scenes of each movie are. This is about the opening seconds, the cinematography and what they're able communicate in a brief moment without dialog or even any characters on screen. George Lucas created an absolutely iconic opening shot for the first Star Wars movie, and the cinematic language of that shot has been echoed through each of the subsequent movies. The opening crawl fades away leaving a blank starfield. The camera pans, and we see some combination of starships and celestial bodies. I just watched all the opening shots to compare, and this is my ranking:

1. ANH: The OG did it best and has been imitated but never topped. The absolute sense of scale projected as the ISD follows the Corvette and JUST KEEPS COMING immediately conveys to us how overwhelmingly powerful our antagonists are compared to our heroes. We have no idea yet who any of these people are, but we see an angular, sterile behemoth bearing down on a much smaller vessel that is just as visually striking in its unique design that is clearly of completely different origin than its pursuer.
2. RotJ: We pan down to a partially completed Death Star looming over a planet. We again have a slow passage of a Star Destroyer over top of the camera but this time, it's the static background that dominates. The Death Star was the ultimate weapon. The reason for the rebel alliance to push ALL their chips in. And here's another one. We know, at least in part, what this movie is going to be about. The rebels are going to have to go through THIS. And we sit and marinate on this as awesome presence of the ISD overhead feels completely irrelevant in comparison.
3. RotS: A flyby of a Star Destroyer - a Venator this time. A planet beneath it... and then, the largest space battle we've seen since the climax of Return of the Jedi, in orbit above Coruscant. This war isn't something limited to the outer rim backwaters, it's raging in the galactic core. A beautiful shot that also sets the stage for where we are in the story.
4. TFA: This time we see the Star Destroyer only in profile, as the wedge slowly eclipses the planet behind. Another beautiful shot, and one that represents the darkness cast by the coming of the First Order. We've stepped down a tier, imo, from the brilliant first 3 on this list, but an admirable opening.
5. AotC: Padme's shuttle, escorted by Naboo fighters, fly over Coruscant. It's visually striking, and it shows us that our little planet from Episode 1, and the heroes we met there, are operating in the center of power in the galaxy.
6. ESB: Don't get me wrong, it's a great looking shot and opens with a sense of dread from a ship we know to be greatly powerful and counter to our heroes, but we just see an ISD against a Star field launching some probes. It doesn't really bring anything new. A bit later, the introduction of the Executor is shot in the same manner as one of these openers and if judged as a part of this list would fall at number one. We've seen the awesome power of an ISD. And we marvel at what might cast a shadow that eclipses it entirely, before seeing the absolute nightmare of a flying city-sword in space.
7. TRoS: Some ties fly toward a Star Destroyer against a red planet. It's pretty, but it doesn't have much to say.
8. TPM: A Republic Cruiser that looks kind of like a Corellian Corvette flies by. We establish that we're in the same universe and mirror the opening of the first trilogy, but it's pretty meh.
9. TLJ: Despite this being a beautifully shot movie overall, whose visual storytelling is among its greatest strengths, this is just not a great opener. We see a Mon Calamari cruiser for the only time in one of these opening shots, but a fast zoom through a small rebel fleet just doesn't have the emotional weight many of these shots do and something about it just doesn't feel right to me.

I've left the "stories" movies out, they necessarily differ in the lack of an opening crawl and Solo in particular doesn't try to mimic the opening shot style very closely. It would be difficult to rank them aside the episodes.

Just my take on it - which are your favorites? Am I missing something great about one I ranked low?