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Why is Luke Skywalker, the best pilot in the Rebel Alliance, assigned to risky tauntaun patrol duty on Hoth?

Shouldn't one of the numerous infantry be doing this as they are better trained for fighting on the ground and losing an infantry soldier is less harmful to the Rebellion compared to their best pilot? At this time, no one considered Luke Skywalker a Jedi with above average survivability in ground combat.

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u/supinator1 — 8 days ago

Force Sensitivity is more common than reported

It is my belief that there are tens of millions to billions of force sensitives in the Galaxy, and tens of millions who would have the necessary midoclorian/power level necessary for Jedi training. The root of the commonly accepted rarity stems from the claim that there were 10,000 Jedi Knights around during the Clone Wars.

While there are indeed other force sensitive organizations and planets, some of which are likely resistant to sending children to be jedi. The real argument comes to how often a parent is willing to give their child to the Jedi. The Jedi Order is an entirely voluntary order. There is no legal, emotional, or financial requirements to give a child to the Order.

Psychologically that is a burden that almost every species will struggle with. Also, force sensitivity is a trait that could potentially be highly valued by nobility, wealth individuals, monarchs, and governments.

We know force sensitive younglings are highly prized in the slave markets. That implies that there is a constant and on going market of force sensitive younglings, hunted down and sold into slavery. A market that spans much of the galaxy. 10000 Jedi Knights is not enough. Which brings me to another point. The official number referenced is 10,000 Jedi Knights in the galaxy. That excludes Jedi younglings, padawans, individuals leaving the order like Starkillers parents or Dooku. Force sensitives are also likely to have force sensitive children at a higher rate than non-force sensitives. I believe it is a core reason for the Ruusan Reformations that tied the Jedi more closely to the Republic. The fear of hereditary Jedi Lords. The Jedi have also, for the most part, stopped accepting adults or even kids over 8 into the order. For a person to slip through the testing, and then discover their sensitivity later in life, they may have no chance at being in the order.

But also I believe the core aspect of what I am arguing is that only a fraction of Jedi standard power level force sensitives are even admitted into the Jedi order, because parents rarely want to give up their children. Extenuating circumstances, like Anakin's mother Shmi being a slave, or a culture that hates force sensitives, would be far more likely to give up their children. Or nobles with to many kids competing for inheritance, Dooku going to the Order for example.

It is believed in the eras before Jedi limiting their selection, to reduce the chance of falling to the Darkside. There were millions, maybe hundreds of millions, or billions of force sensitives of varying strength at 1 time. On Ossus, Tython, they filled entire cities and planets with force sensitives and created cultures around force sensitives.

I believe exploring force sensitivity in the galaxy would be quite successful. Getting away from Disney rehashing the same plots, groups, people, and rebellion themes could be what Star Wars needs

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u/Round-Equipment908 — 6 days ago

If it's true that the situation in the office wasn't orchestrated by Sidious, and therefore his defeat in the battle with Windu wasn't merely feigned, then how did he originally intend to finally convince Anakin to become his apprentice?

Did he plan to still proceed gradually, or did he plan to orchestrate a truly sudden and, in this case, fully controlled event?

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u/InstructionOwn6705 — 8 days ago

Stars wars, child leaders and child marriage…

What are folks thoughts about cultures in the SW universe that imagines teen girls leading planets while also marrying children to each other? In this world child marriage causes harm in a multitude of ways and those who suffer it are not going to be given positions of power ( like Mon Mothma). It just seems an interesting aspect of culture to include considering how contradictory it actually is that children ( particularly girls) would be groomed for leadership.

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u/StrikeVegetable8543 — 7 days ago

I need some help with the galactic republic and Jedi political thinking

So I’m helping my friend write her first fanfic and today my friend asked me a question that I couldn’t answer
So In the fanfiction I’m helping her with she wants to know how the republic senate and Jedi council would react to ahsoka having authoritarian views and being the daughter of the monarchy of shili and will take over a authoritarian monarchy government, and Shili have planet killing weapons in Xyston-class Star Destroyers and how would they try to get ahsoka to change or become democratic or would they respect that she has her own political views ?

Note she knows that ahsoka in cannon doesn’t have authoritarian views and doesn’t have access to planet killing weapons that why it’s a fanfiction and in the fanfiction Shili considers the republic a threat because of some attacks that the republic approved and none of the major corporations have any influence or contacts in Shili as Shili is fully independent

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u/Dry_Cartographer849 — 8 days ago

When did Baneite Sith naming conventions change?

Bane himself chose his name based on what Hurst referred to him as, abandoning his name of Dessell. Darth Zannah's birth name was Zannah, but she did abandon her nickname of Rain. When Bane recruited the Huntress, she chose to name herself Cognus.

However, when Plagueis recruited Palpatine, he chose the name Sidious for Palpatine. The same happened with Anakin being named Vader. When did it become the master naming the apprentice instead of the apprentice choosing their own name?

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u/LulaSupremacy — 9 days ago

What if Leida Mothma ends up in the same place as her mother by taking a different path

I think this would thematically be the most appropriate ending for her story. She tries to focus on herself as a wife and mother, trying to be as different from Mon as humanly possible, she has a child, she plays the part of a Chandrilan wife, and seems like she succeeded in getting as far from her mother as possible.

The following is purely speculation, but from a thematic viewpoint this feels like it will be the most appropriate way to take her character:

Then her son decides that he wants to join the youth legislators program now that that's been revived under the new Republic. Then her son becomes the new senator from Chandrila. For a while he is the obvious parallel to his grandmother, becoming a secret backer for the Resistance in the New Republic Senate. Which means that he's killed on Hosnian Prime when the first order destroys it.

Leida watches, has enough time to process that her son is dead, enough time to do the traditional grief for her people, the wailing and rending of clothing and the tears and all that, which turned to screams, which turned to throwing things, which turns to punching holes in the walls, and she's standing there with her throat raw and the room that she was in destroyed, and she decides that she'll kill them all, Snoke, Ren, Hux, she wants to feel their throats between her hands.

But she can't do that, obviously, and so she uses the contact that her son gave her, the contact that she thought she would never need to use, and, days after the Battle of Crait, gets into contact with General Organa and offers the entire Sculdun family business interests for the logistical operations of Resistance.

She promises that she'll never be her mother, and ends up one of the leaders of a rebellion. Because the First Order killed her son and she wants revenge

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u/PrincipledStarfish — 8 days ago

A proposal for Clone Numbering Conventions

Clone numbering seem a little confusing and inconsistent, however based on the different variants that seem to have appeared, I’ve done my best to guess at a broad system which could account for them:

CX-TT/BB-YYYY

C - Signifies the individual is a clone

X- Signifies the clone development division the individual has been a part of; typically either ‘T’ for the more social trooper line or ‘C’ for the more individualised commando line.

TT - Signifies the type of clone and therefore genetic programming given; frontline troopers are 00, whilst other lines like ship staff, logistics officers, gunners etc all have their own. Should a clone move scheme.

BB - Signifies the batch number of the clone

YYYY - Signifies the unique identifier of the clone their batch of 10,000

Eg Captain Jag is CT-55/11-9009, meaning he is from the trooper development division, grown as a fighter pilot as part of Batch 11, where he was number 9009 within it.

Most clones shown in media are frontline troops, therefore the type (00) is pretty much a given and none of them bother mentioning it. The batch is also cumbersome to mention and not typically relevant so outside of rookies and ultra-rule sticklers most won’t bother with that either. The final four digits are therefore the main identifier, and if the first digit is a zero most clones won’t bother with it either and just list it as a three digit number. Should a clone move scheme (eg becoming an Arc Trooper) they will receive a new number on top of their old, but unless they are a particular stickler for process, most have already become attached to their old number and will continue to cite the old one.

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u/ravagekitteh26 — 8 days ago

What if Meetra Surik met Zayne Carrick?

While they exist in the same era, it doesn't seem like they crossed paths but what if they did?

Would Zayne join Surik? Both are outcasts who were cast aside by authority figures.

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u/recoveringleft — 9 days ago

Determining the landscape of Zoph

Got an interesting one here.

Currently, I’m beginning work on a side-story to the amazing Order of Battle series (over on r/StarWarsShips for those interested), and quite literally found the perfect planet for the story.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Zoph

Problem is, as often happens with lore derived from the RPG sourcebooks, there is practically no stated information about the planet Zoph, which as one can imagine doesn’t do me much good.

As a result, I decided to turn it into a brainstorming bit. All that’s stated about Zoph is that it was the planet originally used by the Jedi to source Kyber crystals, before they found and began to make use of Ilum. The crystals found on Zoph, known as Zophis Crystals, and noted to be more ‘powerful’ than an Ilum-based crystal, but also more unstable.

Sadly that’s about it.

So, with that being said, what kind of landscape do you think Zoph has? Fauna, flora, landmasses? Stormy, temperate, snowy? A supercontinent or a mess of islands?

Really just looking to derive some inspiration, so thanks in advance!

u/141-Ghost-141 — 8 days ago