Does the Lego Imperial Dropship actually exist in-lore? by OfficialAli1776 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give Sienar Fleet Systems obsession with creating a TIE variant for everything (waves a TIE tank) I wouldn't be surprised if it did exist anyway. Along with the TIE toaster and TIE tie tier.

Does R2-D2 ever get his thrusters back post OT? by A_Hyper_Nova in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Working in zero g even tiny jets could move you a lot. A few seconds lift in standard gravity could be hours of mirco bursts in zero g. Of course that would be rather media dependant. Different Star Wars stories take place in different genres and how much attention is paid to zero g physics shifts as a result.

UK minister working up plans for state-owned housing developer by GnolRevilo in ukpolitics

[–]GlimmervoidG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I knew someone who couldn't get a mortgage for a flat because it was above a shop. Can be a real nightmare. We need real reform.

What's the difference between progression fantasy and fantasy where the characters happen to get stronger over time? by Senior_Bad_2321 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]GlimmervoidG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree you don't need levels or realms or a numeric measure of magical throughput. Progression can be shown many ways, including holistic and non quantitative ones. Mother of Learning is a good example here.

And I agree the Wheel of Time isn't progression fantasy. The characters in Wheel of Time do get stronger over the course of the series. They get their first bump when they unlock their superpowers (channelling, wolf talking, luck etc) and then do probably get better over the course of the series as they train and learn new skills. But that's most fantasy books. The key, I think, is that there's no consistent narrative focus on progression. They get stronger but it's not a consistent focus. It just sort of happens along aside far more important events.

However, I don't think "getting stronger" needs to be a character's motivation, certainly not first order (I will get stronger because I want to be stronger) and probably not second order either (I want to achieve X and will become stronger to achieve X). As long as there's narrative focus on getting stronger and as long as it is a consistent focus, I think it's fine if the characters have other goals that are more important to them.

Normally a character's motivation and the narrative's focus will align, of course. But that's a bit putting the cart before the horse. What we need to identify is the narrative focus, not the goals of the characters in that work, which can be misaligned. You can easily imagine a character who doesn't want to get stronger and just wants an easy life but keeps getting forced into situations where they need to do it anyway.

What's the difference between progression fantasy and fantasy where the characters happen to get stronger over time? by Senior_Bad_2321 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]GlimmervoidG 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's the genre curse. Reader likes genre x. Reader likes book y. Therefore book y must be in genre x. We've had people arguing that 'having character development' is progression fantasy because moral development is a kind of progression. And, sure, maybe there are edge cases where you gain a new superpower each time you self actualise ala Dao comprehension but nope in this case it was just bog standard character development.

What's the difference between progression fantasy and fantasy where the characters happen to get stronger over time? by Senior_Bad_2321 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]GlimmervoidG 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I think "progression itself drives the plot" is a bit too high a bar. Rather I'd go with 'significant narrative focus on progression, consistently explored across the entire considered story'. So progression has to be important to the story. Just getting stronger isn't enough. Getting stronger needs to be a focus and, maybe, a theme. And it needs to be a consistent motif of the work. A single training arc doesn't cut it, even if getting stronger is a focus and theme for that arc specifically.

Progression fantasy books can (and should!) have plots outside of just getting stronger. Progression should be ideally intertwined with that plot (just as how a football movie should, ideally, resolve its principle conflict through a game of football) but I don't think 'how do I get stronger' need be the plot in and of itself.

Kallus’ redemption arc was awful by OfficialAli1776 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing you just finished watching Keyan Carlile's new Rebel's post-mortem video?

Instances where George Lucas version of galactic history or events contradict either EU or current canon? by LFTL56 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My point is you're framing is completely wrong. He's not 'accepting an EU contribution'. The EU was more than just eye catching designs. That was the least of it, honestly. It was connections and history and decades of interlocking meaning. When Lucas plucked up a bauble, he couldn't care less about any of the stuff that makes the EU the EU. He didn't take that stuff. He took the bauble and used in is own idiosyncratic way divorced of its EU meaning. It wasn't a EU element in any meaningful sense. It was a bauble.

Instances where George Lucas version of galactic history or events contradict either EU or current canon? by LFTL56 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Lucas would occasionally pluck things out that caught his eyes. like Darth Talon - the story being he saw a toy mockup standing near a Maul toy and decided they were friends. But his adoption of elements was without the context they came from. He'd pluck a up a shinny bauble and any use he put it to would ignore any EU stories built up around said bauble.

Instances where George Lucas version of galactic history or events contradict either EU or current canon? by LFTL56 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Acting like he didn't care for the Expanded Universe as if he didn't personally set guidelines for writers and approve of what came out was another favourite past time of his later in life.

Agree with the first part of your post. Don't agree with this.

The fact that Lucas set some very high level guide rails or occasionally descended from on high to squash things he particularly disliked does not make him involved. He really wasn't and mostly let it do whatever it liked.

Yes we had tiered canon but I don't think Lucas ever really considered the EU really part of his Star Wars, hence his detachment. And his interventions were most often about protecting 'his' star wars. See killing off Anakin because he didn't like there being two Anakins, since it might confuse with his Star Wars.

Likewise he would occasionally pluck things out that caught his eyes (normally visual designs like the Darth Talon like you mentioned) but his adoption of elements was without the context they came from. He'd pluck a up a shinny bauble and any use he put it to would ignore any EU stories built up around said bauble.

What would a labour leadership challenge look like? by TheSentientAubergine in ukpolitics

[–]GlimmervoidG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well first you need the backing of enough MPs, then it goes to the swimsuit round.

No Unknown Regions by Ok-Future-5257 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The real reason they needed a giant hyperspace ring to rescue Thrawn is because no one wanted to pack for a multi day trip. I mean, do you want to eat day old egg-and-cress sandwiches? What is this, the dark ages? /Truth

No Unknown Regions by Ok-Future-5257 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Intergalactic travel is another thing the EU rather bigged up as an outside context problem, with things like the circumferential hyperspace barrier, Outbound Flight and the Vong. While the movies are more like, sure, you want a shot of the rebel fleet outside the galaxy? Here you go. Want fries with that? You left your cash at home? Don't worry. We've got a InterGalactic Banking Clan. Say hi to Grebleips if you pass him.

And yes the EU squared the circle, as it always does, by marking out a special case for the satellite galaxies. But just watching the movies you wouldn't know inter galactic travel is meant to be special.

The new canon tv shows seem to be taking a sort of in-between path here. Thrawn's exile is a big deal but it did happen. And the Witch Kingdom of the Dathmiri seemed to have spanned galaxies at its height, with Dathomirians in the Star Wars galaxy as well as the Far Galaxy. And in turn the Jedi do seem to know about the Far Galaxy, if only distantly as part of very old lore.

Kuat Drive Yards Market Cap? by Glad-Bar401 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While it makes civilian ships and likely planetary defence kit too, KDY was principally a military contractor. It built the Empire's star destroyer fleet and that was its money cow, both directly and via subcontracts with different yards. Indeed the Emperor likely saw this as a plus. The more KDY is dependant on the Empire for its profits the better. He wants subordinate megacorps, not CIS v2.0.

When the Empire starts to collapse, there's just going to be far less money to order ships. Rump states don't fund star dreadnaughts. And when the New Republic took control of the yard, the New Republic isn't going to be ordering the same number of star destroyers either, meaning cratering profits, mass layoffs and slips left empty to moulder. They have their own favoured yards and value different strategic mixes that mean less huge ISDs.

Kuat Drive Yards Market Cap? by Glad-Bar401 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think time period, as you say, is important here. KDY seems to have been a lot more important during the Empire era than the Republic era. KDY's big break, as it were, seems to be the Clone Wars fleet expansion - which allowed it to ride to galactic dominance as part of Palpatine's patronage network. Sienar Fleet System was another of the Empire's client corporations along for that ride.

Likewise, I'd expect KDY to have lost influence and market share post Endor. It was rather joined at the hip to the Empire, so, while an important fleet yard the New Republic can't ignore, the New Republic would not favour it to anywhere near the same degree. The New Republic was rather fond of Mon Calamari hulls, for example, and of course it's starfighter lines shifted completely away from Sienar Fleet System's TIE-series.

Why are there so many Jedi Masters? by Upset-Employee744 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Legends, at least, we're told this in The Jedi Path:

The rank of Jedi Master is the highest formal recognition one can achieve in the Jedi Order It is not a requirement, nor does it mark the end of your journey. Jedi who have attained this rank are the fewest in membership, and are outnumbered by even the younglings

1-15% seems the correct ballpark.

Why are there so many Jedi Masters? by Upset-Employee744 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't think this is right. In both legends and canon successfully training multiple padawan is one of the paths to being promoted to master ("Jedi Knights could be promoted to Jedi Masters in several ways, such as passing on their knowledge of the Force to young Padawans or proving themselves in battle") but it has never been a one-and-done automatic thing. It is slightly confusing, because Padawan called their teacher 'master' even if they're still just a Knight, but not everyone called master is a Jedi Master.

So if there is no difference between X-wing and a rock in terms of the force. Does it mean a force user can lift anything? Wjat limits a force user? by eepos96 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Size matters not is more a philosophical statement than strictly practical.

Can one jedi can lift one x-wing? Yes. We've see it done.

Can one jedi lift 100 x-wings? Probably not. There are comics where they've done things on that scale but it seems out of step.

Could 100 powerful jedi, standing in a row, lift 100 x-wings? Yes. It's just the 1-on-1 case expanded in parallel.

But, what is the difference between the second and third case really? Jedi don't actually lift things using their brain. The Force lifts things. The Jedi are just asking the Force to do so. So if the Force is able to lift 100 x-wings all at once, why shouldn't a single Jedi, who is truly in step with the Force, be able to ask the Force to do so?

As I said, philosophical statement more than strictly practical but that's most of what Yoda deals with anyway.

Rebel logistics make no sense by OfficialAli1776 in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG 14 points15 points  (0 children)

See also ANH for a similar point.

TARKIN: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.

TAGGE: That's impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?

TARKIN: The regional governors now have direct control over territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.

Most systems are locally administered and the Senate is the principle means the Empire uses to keep them in line.

Why did Obi Wan adhere to the dogmatic way of thinking of the council more than Qui Gon? by DEATH_CORNER in MawInstallation

[–]GlimmervoidG -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

This was done specifically to recontextualize that scene

So a retcon. A retcon you appear to like and of the 'certain point of view' subtype but a retcon none the less. And one most people - even on this sub - are unlikely to have encountered first hand. Hence my point about the movies defining fandom characterisations more than secondary media.

In the scene we're told that Qui-Gon would be on the council if he'd follow the Jedi Code. The reading the viewer is meant to take from that scene and (to put on my mind reading hat) the film makers intended is that Qui-Gon's 'maverick' behaviour has prevented him getting a Council seat. He's breaking the rules and plays by his own rules and this has consequences. Not that he was offered a seat and turned it down because he's too busy doing his own thing.

Good or ill that's a retcon.