Let us assume that, alongside the Empire (and the Republic before it), there exists another superpower in the galaxy - one so formidable that it can afford to publicly expose the Emperor and Vader without fearing lethal retaliation. On the holonet channels of this nation, documentaries are broadcast that analyze Palpatine’s personal history and his orchestration of the Naboo crisis and the Clone Wars - much like how, in our world, the lives of figures such as Caligula or 20th-century dictators are examined. In high schools across tens of thousands of planets, quadrillions of students are shown security footage from Mustafar: Anakin boasting that he will rule the galaxy, choking Padmé, and ultimately being defeated by Obi-Wan. The entire population of this state would be privy to the Sith’s dirty laundry. Should war break out, Vader would face enemies who confront him with deepfakes of Padmé and tauntingly quote his own words from Mustafar. The Sith would completely lose their minds.

He kept saying “Obi-Wan taught you well”. Luke was hanging out with Yoda earlier that day. He probably smelled like him. Just a thought.

I’m not particularly into Star Wars itself, but my bff is in a guild and he can swoop one of his many light sabers around like a fucking ninja.
I’ve seen the original 3 a handful of times and fell in love with the Jawas.
I’m a 6’ woman, so not the perfect costume, but I could NOT be a Jawa! 🥰

What’s a jawa’s favorite pasta? Linguini
What’s a jawa’s favorite swimsuit? Bikini
What’s a Jawa’s favorite vegetable? Zucchini

How did you feel when you saw the episode about the Ghorman Massacre? I remember—I don't know—it really left a mark on me; I knew the Empire was ruthless, but right then... that was when I realized just how savage they were.

building my endor scene

Hello! Forgive me if there's already a post for this but is there a spreadsheet or a website that lists which bonus features are included in each dvd home release (2004,2011,2020)?

One of my favorite tropes in Star Wars is seeing alternate designs for the Rebel Star Bird, and I’d like to see more of them anyone know any good examples?

Cannon, legends, or even jsut fan art?

I love seeing the variants

Like the starbird in Rebels, The Trident in Andor and more. What do you all think about them?

This was done by amikoroyaiart, and it's a fanart of Trilla in a fancy gown. All I can picture is Trilla going to some Fancy Imperial ball and having to get dressed up.

Okay it wasn't in the shower. It was a Shower Thought style thought, but I was driving. The car in front of me was a Genesis, and my brain thought "Geonosis".

Then I thought, you know, "Earth" became the name for our planet. That word started out as a name for the thing we stand on. Earth. Soil. Ground. "Terra" firma.

Seems logical to me that most planets with a native-grown population would name the planet whatever their language calls "dirt".

But the Geonosians' vocalizations are all clicks and buzzes. They're basically bugs. Ain't no bug pronouncing "Geonosis" and meaning "that stuff we stand around on when we get tired of flying".

So who named Geonosis?

For those who aren’t familiar, Ishin-il-Raz is a Grand Admiral of the Galactic Empire as well as the founder and overall leader of COMPNOR’s Select Committee in the Legends continuity. During the Clone Wars he was a key figure to COMPNOR’s predecessor organization COMPOR (Commission for the Protection of the Republic) and played a role in Palpatine’s rise to power through propaganda and encouraging patriotism for the Republic. Upon the Republic become the Empire and COMPOR reorganized as the state sec COMPNOR Il-Raz would use his position to promote Human High Culture across the galaxy and played a major role in establishing the Galactic Empires human supremacist propaganda and policies while encouraging the new dictatorship over the galaxies citizens. Unlike the other Grand Admirals he had no military background and was promoted only as a political appointment, and served as an example of how Palpatine could replace any of the Grand Admirals if necessary and used his potion to commit several massacres and genocides for no reason other than to impress Emperor Palpatine. All of this made him disliked by the other Grand Admirals and other Imperials due to either pragmatic reasons or genuine disgust, seeing him as no different than a petty criminal. Upon the Emperors death at the battle of Endor he realized his career was over and while the Empire went into a power vacuum Ishin-il-Raz went into depression and knew he couldn’t make it as a warlord while ordering more planetary genocides. He finally decided to hijack his Star Destroyer to crash into a Star leading to his death along with the 37,000 members of his crew.

So long story short he is the Star Wars equivalent of Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler.

Could you see him appearing in a potential animated series taking place during the early rebellion and/or Galactic Civil War eras like Rebels or Bad Batch?

A potential live action series involving Rebels fighting against the Empire and its sub groups and factions like Andor?

Or a potential video game series similar to Jedi: Survivor and Fallen Order?

I figured it be a good way to incorporate mostly obscure characters from Legends like how Armand Isard was made canon even though he hasn’t gotten a major role yet. And a way to not always rely on the beloved and iconic classic Imperials like Palpatine, Vader, Tarkin, and Thrawn. Maybe make him into something like the next Director Krennic or Moff Gideon, as a way to show more irredeemable love to hate type Imperials to balance out the humane or complex ones.

What are your thoughts and opinions?

Think he’d be a good villain for a spin-off series or at least a seasonal arc villain?

Visited the Lucas art museum today and got some incredible shots but this one has to be my favorite.

Let me set the bar, her appearances are usually from Sloane's POV so it's easy to get swept up in her rhythm but taking a step back reveals some truly dismal performance.

Starting her tour in the big leagues over Endor in The Levers of Power, Sloane is basically on probation and has only recently gotten her Admiral plaque back after being busted down to Commodore from Vice Admiral by the Grand Inquisitor for poor performance in prior media. She has received command of her ISD The Vigilance back from Vader, but she also has an ISB loyalty officer assigned who is questioning her about her decision making process and watching her for signs of disloyalty.

In the opening skirmish of the battle she for seemingly no reason orders the crew to reinforce the bridge deflector shields. This allows a short lived trio of Rebel CR-90 corvettes to overwhelm the normally battleship grade forward shields of her ISD to burn out her primary forward shield generators leaving them on auxiliary generators.

As she monitors the ongoing battle, she starts drawing up attack plans for mop up or pursuit of the Rebels, plans for dealing with B-wings, and repeatedly attempts to get ahold of ground forces control until she is interrupted by the Death Star's shield going down. By immediately switching her view from the space battle tacmap to bring up footage of the ground shield station burning, she misses the crucial moment the Rebel Red and Gold squadrons form up on the Millennium Falcon to streak out of the melee in the Imperial battle line to begin their attack run. This lapse leaves her fighter squadrons waiting for permission to engage until they are out of position and too late to pursue.

Then she recalls all of her TIEs to her hangar bays against her ISB handler's attempts to countermand those orders, trying to form up on the Executor's flank to cover it with ineffectual turbolaser fire (instead of sending fighters) until Rebel starfighters take out the Executor's bridge. Seeing the dreadnought go down she attempts to take command of all remaining Imperial forces by pulling rank. She sends out orders to all of the other ISDs to also recall their TIE squadrons to the hangars, kills her ISB oversight officer, then tells all of the ships to follow her to jump to Annaj all before the Death Star actually blows up.

Sloane justifies to herself that she's doing what has to be done to save the Empire by preemptively running, but up to this point the Imperial ISD battle line is described as holding fairly well in the brawl with Interdictor support pinning the Rebels in system. She makes no attempts to call for reinforcements and ends up abandoning the ISD Eviscerator under command of Admiral Garrick Versio (who is either the same rank or higher than her if she is back at Vice Admiral) and all other remaining Imperial forces at Endor.

She is constantly distracting herself planning about what happens after the battle, fixating on single threats, or focusing on things on the ground that she shouldn't even be focusing on given she's a fleet Admiral not a General. Reading what is written she pretty much threw the entire battle of Endor for the Empire in the canon timeline and makes a very good case for why her superiors put her under ISB review.

To be fair the loss of the Death Star and the Executor is quite a blow along with the bulk of high command, but she personally hates the Death Star as a waste of resources and if she is properly running the numbers in her head as described it shouldn’t be any reason for a supposedly steady officer to panic. Overall the loss of the Executor makes up a single digit percentage of the Empire's supercapital might (being 1 of 13 canon Executor class ships) and the handful of lost ISDs don't even add up to a whole percentage point of the Imperial Navy's star destroyer strength. The post-Endor Imperial navy is still at around 95-99% of full strength given prior large capital ship engagements up to this point have almost all been resounding Imperial victories during the Rebel's failed Mid Rim Offensive.

Her showing in the subsequent of the Aftermath trilogy is also quite poor. She arrives at Akiva under the command of Gallius Rax, fails to stop the Rebel scout Wedge Antilles from sending a distress signal to nearby Rebels, then proceeds to gaslight the rest of the other Imperial ranking officers at the Imperial Future Council conference that their location is unknown and secure to the Rebels.

When more Rebel scouts are destroyed jumping into the system she is adamant that they hide their ISDs instead of holding a protective blockade, allowing part of a followup Rebel special forces detachment of drop commandos to make landfall before the ground based air defenses can shoot the transport down. These special forces units then infiltrate the capital learning about the existence of the IFC, coinciding with a public uprising caused by yet another Rebel pilot slipping through the planet’s air defenses via a smuggler.

Moff Pandion is outraged and has been arguing to bring back his Star Destroyer the entire time but Sloane continues to make excuses such as ‘not provoking the New Republic fleet’. Her prisoner then briefly escapes and manages to send a message to said New Republic defense fleet. Sloanes manages to buy the Rebels from the local crime lords, but this is moot as the Imperials have to make her escape from the planetary uprising. The other Imperial leaders fed up with Sloane recall their fleet to orbit, while fleeing Sloane kills the local governor attempting to seek refuge with them after she destabilized his world. Sloane and the rest of the officers flee in a yacht to her ship the Vigilance which gets pummeled into scrap by the arriving New Republic fleet.

She then abandons her flagship to flee to Pandion’s ship the ISD Vanquish, killing Moff Pandion who has boarded the shuttle to dispose of Sloane and take command of the fleet. She returns to Rax, who tells her he also leaked info on the Akiva summit to the New Republic to clean house. Rax apprently really likes her, declaring Sloane competent for surviving and quickly promotes her to Grand Admiral.

Sloane spends months as Grand Admiral as the public face of the Empire, de-factor commanding all Imperial forces on behalf of Rax against the New Republic and Imperial breakaways. As the top military commander she is overseeing ongoing operation Cinder purges killing billions of civilians (unsurprising given her early appearances include commanding the forces hunting down Alderanian refugee ships). She is somehow surprised to discover that under her supreme leadership along with her boss Rax who’s entire goal under operation Cinder is wiping out the Empire for failing Palpatine, loyal Imperial forces have somehow dwindled 10% of their former strength. According to the records the Imperial supercapital fleet fell from 12 Executor class (13-1 Executor lost at Endor before she took command) down to 1 available with another suspiciously MIA hidden by Rax.

She gets suspicious of Rax (who has been leaking intel to the Rebels) and eventually tries to kill him to take control, but immediately falls for Rax's ‘trust me bro’ on his newest plan to attack Chandrilla with warcrimes to make her Empress. Participating in this plan by pretending to by Rax’s alias ‘the Operator’ who has been leaking critical intel to the NR leading to major Republic victories goes poorly for her. The attack begins with her in the blast zone again, causing her to once again rethink her life choices and go on a further investigative journey into Rax.

Her boss Rax that she's been enabling then takes most of the remaining forces of that 10% military strength to Jakku to die and the Rebels form up to clean house. She then finally decides to kill Rax after he tries to blow up the planet Jakku everyone is fighting around, then takes over the First Order contingencies to begin again.

Not only is she a seemingly incompetent commander, but she also chooses to serve team Cinder under Rax after Endor despite it actively betraying her beloved Empire. She is both directly or indirectly the cause of most of the Empire’s military losses both in her failings at Endor, and serving under the traitorous Rax all the way up to de-facto commander of the entire Imperial military as Grand Admiral.

Are there any Star Wars admirals who even come close to the disastrous amount of damage done to their own faction under their leadership besides Rax himself who was doing it on purpose?

Akiva System, Meerian Sector, Outer Rim

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Ian looks so adorable in here, nobody could have done Palpatine/Darth Sidious better than him.

With the success of the recent Galactic Racer game, i honestly would love to watch a movie or 1-2 seasons star wars tv show about the racing !!

what do you guys think ?

Ok, well to start off I did not win.

I'm honestly really bummed about today. I honestly don't care about winning. I had fun making it. I made it for me. But I'm bummed bc this years contest just didn't hit like previous years. I can't remember the reason for it but there was no contest last year. And I think that absence really hurt. Bc in the last 2 years we've added a lot of staff that weren't really familiar with the contest. And a woman named Peg who was renowned for this contest retired. So there didn't end up being that many over the top entries like we usually have. Also, this is a resident clinic. Residency in family practice is 3 years. So 2/3rds of the residents had never seen the contest. So most of the entries were honestly really basic. There were 3 entries that were really good. Actually 4 but i'll get to that. There was a witch that wasn't bad at all. And the other really great entry was the winner. Two girls at the clinic are best friends and they were roommates until recently. So they made theirs together, and as a scene. It came out really well and they deserved to win.

What I think bothered me the most was that they gave me an award for "most creative". Which kinda feels like "Well there was two really good entries and we don't want one to feel like they lost". But I would have preferred to just lose lol. It's kind of like a participation trophy. And if they were going to give me an award, most creative was wrong bc theirs was definitely more creative.

So I'm sorry bc I was so looking forward to this post and when I saw the pumpkins (before the contest was judged) I was thinking "damn it, I'm gonna let like 7k people down on reddit". All I can say is normally it's got way more good entries. Maybe next year will pick up again now that people have seen. We'll see. I would like to thank everyone for all the really nice things they said. And idk who that one guy was that was really making sure I knew he hated my pumpkin, but that guy will be pretty happy with the result lol.

I hope you all have a great weekend. Here are a couple of pictures of all of the submissions. And the winner is the two puffer fishes.

Entries

I know he’s not the strongest force-user but he’s shown force powers no one else in canon has learned (I think)

Aside from giving us Andor, what is it's impact?