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While there's the obvious out-of-universe explanation that Lucas hadn't established the Devastator as Vader's flagship at the time, and the Death Star was the main focus of ANH, the collision is a pretty convenient explanation for why we don't see it after the beginning of the film. Once they'd successfully captured Leia, it would make sense for Vader to dismiss the Devastator to go get patched up at Kuat Drive Yards or the other nearest shipyard. Vader doesn't strike me as the type that likes his personal ships looking anything less than perfect.

Curious who can get all six! Some are easy, some less so...

Edit: Would anyone be interested in a weekly post of 10-12 trivia questions?

Additional edit: if anyone else says Jar Jar, dishonor on you, dishonor on your family, dishonor on your bantha.

Perrin and Mon might have had a contentious relationship and not seen eye to eye, but it does seem he genuinely respects her and cares for her as a person if not a romantic partner, in his own way.

Also, Alastair Mackenzie did a great job. For someone with comparatively less screen time than most characters, he really filled out the role.

This was such a great way introduce just how seriously Cassian took the KX units when he saw them later in season two. KX units are probably my favorite model of droids in the franchise along with IG-100 magnaguards and BD-1. Super cool to see the BTS with stilts as well.

Between this and the end battle in Skeleton Crew, it's been lovely to see the B-Wings be more appreciated the past few years.

While I love the original, The World Beneath is definitely my favorite for the art style, the settings, and the strutters. Getting to explore some of the background of Poseidos, the lost cities and technology, etc was incredible. For non-Gurney Dinotopia books, I'd probably place Alan Dean Foster's Hand of Dinotopia and John Vornholt's River Quest at the top of my list. HoD does such a great job of expanding the world in such a great way with an almost Indiana Jones-esque lost ruins vibe, and RQ is just such a wholesome trip with Amelia and Paddlefoot.

Would love to see these in action, especially swooping in for dropoff on the bridges of Mygeeto or somewhere else the Droidekas could easily make an impassable bottleneck. If you're not familiar with Chiang's work, definitely look him up. He's been instrumental at Lucasfilm in the visual design of every Star Wars movie since The Phantom Menace. If you see a droid, chances are it was either based on his work or heavily inspired by it.

Curious if they'll actually use any of the same sort of backstory, or if they'll just leave a fun nod to the legends Thrawn books.

Finally seeing a lightwhip in live-action after so many years was a fun nod to so much past material.

They probably figured it was some kind of smuggling deal gone bad, but with it being such a hidden, off the books planet it seems unlikely that anyone else would have made their way there.

Also, I think if I was working with the Alliance I'd want to be a location scout for new bases, or part of the team working logistics for setting them up/mothballing them. Wars are won on logistics and supply chains, so seems like a valuable way to contribute.

I'm not sure even Luthen would dare trying something so risky, but the potential payoff would be absolutely insane if they got to get a bugged Sith artifact into Palpatine's throne room, office, bedroom, etc.

Thought this behind the scenes shot from Niamos was pretty cool. It occurred to me that I'd seen BTS pictures with KX/K-2S0 from a ton of the scenes, but none from Niamos, so I went digging.

Edit: just found the name if the mocap actor for the KX unit is Mathew Kaye

I know that the later comics backstory added in that it was built on top of the ruins of a Sith temple and dark side locus, but even without that factor it's very much Vader's style to do something like this anyway - I think I'd actually prefer it didn't have that backstory and was just something purely personal to Vader.

I also thought it was interesting that the designers used a tuning fork shape for the fortress as a reference to the location being attuned to the dark side, as Gareth Edwards put it.

With how dark the cantina is, it's always a little weird to see the aliens in full lighting and not looking quite as polished as they do on screen.

Super cool seeing a heavy artillery mobile walker in action, would have been neat to see more of them. Although with how slow they move, it goes beg the question how realistic it is to deploy them with how slow they move - don't want to park an Acclamator too close to the engagement, but I also don't imagine they have any smaller ships that can realistically drop them off in the field like they can with smaller walkers.

Dude was just rolling all ones at the end of his campaign.

Between dinosaurs and armor, I always loved this concept as a kid (and adult). To travel through the dangerous Rainy Basin, dinosaur convoys wear armor and carry fish as a bribe for passage from the carnivores that make their home there.