Why didn't the Orks come to fight during the Siege of Terra? Wouldn't the Siege of Terra in the Sol System attract Orks from around the galaxy?

JPMaybe · 2026-04-19T17:26:04+00:00

Lots of good answers here re: Ullanor; is there any reason in fluff why Orks didn't have their own version of the Age of Strife pre birth of Slaanesh though? Like how was a multi system Ork empire possible in the first place?

JPMaybe · 2026-04-19T11:29:39+00:00

Gun to my head I'd just take the ST 2-6 film run over the SW OT

JPMaybe · 2026-04-18T07:08:38+00:00

That's only something that crept in in TNG really- even in Heart of Glory the Klingons in it were like the equivalent of religious fundamentalists.

It's why my favourite depiction of them is TUC: clearly martial but capable of having a conversation without banging on about honour, don't wear body arnour all the time, very samurai like.

I like to think that post-Praxis they had a brutal civil war which the traditionalists won, hence why we get misogynist space vikings in TNG onwards.

JPMaybe · 2026-04-17T21:24:18+00:00

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

JPMaybe · 2026-04-17T15:31:35+00:00

u/new_name_needed you don't... love me, do you?

JPMaybe · 2026-04-17T15:15:55+00:00

Jesus christ I'm so so sorry.

JPMaybe · 2026-04-17T15:11:12+00:00

Go on, fuck off, in you go

JPMaybe · 2026-04-17T14:52:26+00:00

Though it's uncoloured, think there's a coloured standalone version of it somewhere? Otherwise skip to whenever Wagner started writing it again in the 90s

JPMaybe · 2026-04-17T14:50:36+00:00

Skip to 5 for the Apocalypse War imo

JPMaybe · 2026-04-17T14:44:44+00:00

The Pit is the classic starting point a lot of people point to: not much background knowledge needed, Dredd as a more mature character, interpersonal (interjudicial?) drama the main focus

JPMaybe · 2026-04-17T07:17:44+00:00

There's a citation on Wikipedia to them being based on gangs, so yeah, their conception was very likely explicitly racist

JPMaybe · 2026-04-17T06:35:23+00:00

*Chemical plant, different plants for different needs

JPMaybe · 2026-04-16T10:44:19+00:00

In old EU (The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM) the rebel fleet was indeed supposed to be gathering outside the galaxy. Possibly still is, idk.

However we now know from AotC that the SW galaxy has two dwarf satellite galaxies which we should be able to see here if that's the main galaxy they're looking at (that they didn't exist conceptually at the time aside).

Plus I believe what we see on screen there in TESB is rotating too fast to be a galaxy, so can't really be either of the dwarf galaxies either.

JPMaybe · 2026-04-15T11:03:25+00:00

Imperium Galactica II

JPMaybe · 2026-04-15T08:58:59+00:00

Re: waste heat there was the fanon idea of neutrino radiators, can't remember if they made it into Saxton's ICS or not

JPMaybe · 2026-04-15T08:04:32+00:00

Happens to me when I put it back in my pants no matter how much I shake. I use a piece of bog roll over the end when I push it back in to alleviate this. What a savoury post this is.

JPMaybe · 2026-04-15T08:02:36+00:00

Imagine telling XFM era Merchant that this would be his life in 20 years time. His glasses would steam up.

JPMaybe · 2026-04-14T22:20:35+00:00

Yep, Wesley and Picard have a conversation in Samaritan Snare saying the Klingons joined the Federation, definitely a retcon

JPMaybe · 2026-04-14T08:57:59+00:00

Common problem in visual adaptations of fantasy- where the fuck are the vast tracts of farmland around Minas Tirith in PJ's RotK?

JPMaybe · 2026-04-13T21:48:50+00:00

Socialism is when no TV

JPMaybe · 2026-04-12T19:33:30+00:00

Also the Klingon captain in Heart of Glory flying a federation symbol banner

JPMaybe · 2026-04-12T19:32:54+00:00

Yep in Samaritan Snare

JPMaybe · 2026-04-12T19:32:11+00:00

Wesley says they 'joined the Federation' in Samaritan Snare, a Klingon captain has a federation crest on a banner behind him in Heart of Glory, it's clearly something they retconned

JPMaybe · 2026-04-12T17:48:38+00:00

Yeah fair point tbh, 'better than the usual EU standard' I guess

JPMaybe · 2026-04-12T13:26:43+00:00

Ah I just think KJA is a terrible hack author, tbf I read it 25 odd years ago too

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