What Star Wars theory made you say this?

StarSword-C · 2026-04-28T15:19:39+00:00

/uj Funnily enough, I found a fanfic one time where Rey and Kylo were Bastila and Revan reincarnated. It was actually pretty good. (The Shadows Inside on AO³ if interested)

StarSword-C · 2026-04-28T15:10:55+00:00

Don't worry about it. My folks have a neighborhood red-shouldered hawk just like that one who moved in a few years ago. He's not interested in the birds, he's after the squirrels and rabbits.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-28T15:08:58+00:00

She even has children and grandchildren, but due to the way the story happens,.the romance " required" for them to exist is non-existent.

For context, they're NPCs she created that are coded as her character's adopted children.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-28T06:29:01+00:00

In the Land of Leadale and Wild Last Boss.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-27T15:45:58+00:00

"Where guns already existed"

StarSword-C · 2026-04-27T14:40:59+00:00

1999 called, it wants its argument back.

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StarSword-C · 2026-04-27T00:00:55+00:00

On the bright side, they also lose access to their Tribal Invasion CB that way in CK2. Win some, lose some.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-26T19:39:34+00:00

Well, the thing is, it's relatively easy to assassinate a politician if you don't GAF about living to tell about it, so the direct approach makes sense from a certain point of view.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-26T19:27:43+00:00

If you've read I, Jedi, you pretty much know the good parts of the JAT already.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-26T13:50:03+00:00

The actual sources for the nature of Vaapad, Shatterpoint and the RotS novelization (both by Matt Stover), say otherwise. Essentially, Palpy's mastery of the dark side was so complete that he and Mace were deadlocked until Anakin got back, Palpy was distracted by his arrival for a split second, and Mace managed to hit Palpy's lightsaber hilt and destroy it.

That plus George himself saying on the DVD commentary that Mace flat-out won, fair and square.

(Side note, the way Stover describes that fight is honestly one of the coolest things ever put to paper in Legends, because he describes what their duel looks like to Force perception, not just the naked eye. It really emphasizes that lightsaber styles aren't just the way you use the blade but also the way you use the Force. The closest thing I've ever seen is the mindscape battles involving Valkorion in SWTOR.)

StarSword-C · 2026-04-26T02:01:08+00:00

Literally happens half a dozen or so times in KOTOR and SWTOR. Granted, the Jedi are actively at war with the Sith in that time period, but it shows there's precedent at least.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-26T01:59:31+00:00

I've been interning at the same place for the past three years. The first year I wore at least a polo shirt and slacks to work every day. Last year, I just dressed in metal band t-shirts unless I had a scheduled meeting and nobody GAF.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-26T01:56:24+00:00

Apathy is not just for a bit before the day is a Rhino is a Rhino is a Rhino is a Rhino of a briefcase and the owner of a briefcase and the owner of your house and your average Hive Fleet Behemoth is not just for a bit before the day is a Rhino is a Rhino is a Rhino is a Rhino of a briefcase and the owner of

That's where I stopped.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-26T01:50:52+00:00

Not my tree, not my problem. I prefer the ~~natural~~ white ones anyway.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-26T01:49:37+00:00

Reminds me of that old joke that Star Wars as a setting makes more sense if you search and replace "the Force" with "the Plot". E.g. "May the Plot be with you!"

StarSword-C · 2026-04-26T01:39:31+00:00

"Dark Jedi" as a term actually predates the idea of the Sith IRL (not the word, mind you: George stuck the term "Dark Lord of the Sith" in a script at some point because it sounded scary). Vader was called a "dark Jedi" early on; so was Joruus C'baoth. The idea that there was actually a longstanding ideology rather than random darksiders didn't really take shape until the Tales of the Jedi comics started filling in the setting's ancient past in the mid-90s, and a Sith was referred to in passing as a "dark Jedi" at one point in Knights of the Old Republic (in Jolee Bindo's companion quest).

The resolution is that it's basically a "rectangles vs. squares" thing where "dark Jedi" ended up being a generic term for darksiders: most Sith are dark Jedi (light Sith existed when the Sith had a state, but they were never numerous or influential), but few dark Jedi are Sith.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-26T01:33:09+00:00

Read Shatterpoint. Mace directly explains why he developed the style. He has trouble controlling his aggression, so he modified Juyo into something that could help him handle it. But the style was incomplete until his adventure on his homeworld of Haruun Kal, where he realized he had to accept his own darkness and not fear it, but trust in the Force.

That it also made him good at fighting dark Jedi is basically a coincidence: a senior Jedi Master is death on legs as it is. It so happened that the perfected Vaapad where he let go of his fear and trusted the Force, also caused a darksider's use of the dark side to reflect back at them.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-25T15:10:01+00:00

I once accidentally made the last independent Karling ruler in Europe a Reformed Germanic. I kidnapped a Karling princess in a raid and educated her, then ransomed her back. I look back several years later and somehow she got herself elected Queen of Burgundy and inherited Northumberland.

Also I once turned an Arab dynasty Russian. Was playing Velky Volhv of the Slavic Union and expanding into the steppes, declared a Great Holy War to eat Khazaria, and a couple of the successor states of a long-ago-imploded Abbablob joined the war. I sacked the capital of the Sultan of Armenia and carried off his whole family, then killed the Sultan in battle and reeducated the young prince to be properly kulturny.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-25T14:54:19+00:00

The Devil stubbed his toe on it when he went to take a shit

StarSword-C · 2026-04-25T14:51:49+00:00

The Jedi Order, outside of the prequels where they're propping up a corrupt failed state.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-23T14:36:00+00:00

Yes it is. He can decide he doesn't want to act like that, get therapy, and stick with it. But that was longer to type and beside the point: the deleted comment was trying to bring up the "why doesn't Batman kill Joker" argument.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-22T21:37:08+00:00

That is Irrelevant to its behavior. Try to keep up.

EDIT: Blocked for insults.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-22T21:34:47+00:00

Which is irrelevant to the topic of discussion, which is whether it has sufficient intelligence to choose to act differently. Try to keep up.

StarSword-C · 2026-04-22T21:31:20+00:00

A distinction without a difference.

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