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Yeah it can't be denied that Pablo is strongly against science in his star wars or even basic logic. The famous "It's a Star Wars Black Hole, not a real life one" springs to mind. The obvious retort is that a Star Wars black hole should look cooler, like one of those CGI black holes in In...

Oh, Pablo is the most minimalist of the minimalists. He's one of the guys who pushed the Essential Guide to Warfare and its 3-million-man, 18-army Clone Army (one Clone for every hundred thousand stars, ladies and gentlemen!). He's quite adamantly against technically and historically "sweet&quo...

Wasn't this a thing for IG88 and the second Death Star?

You can put a million sunshades in high earth orbit to decrease insolation and partially remediate global warming. Even pretty thick foil comes in at under a tonne/km2. A million tonnes (10,000 SpaceX Starship flights or one single 100-m asteroid) would lower solar insolation by 1%. The trick is dep...

It's very much soft sci-fi at this point. The nuclear-powered (but somehow air-launched) SSTO is really pushing it.

Very, very, very slow paced, with a grossly similar story, and an overall mediocre-fair movie... ...but a magnificent improvement over the quite-unwatchable Whedon cut. The movie is, at least, coherent, the visuals are much more impressive (the bad guy's MIMS spindlysuit is a wonder to behold and ad...

Palo is a moron. Fundamentally, you can get fifty megatons just by dropping a Star Destroyer from 500 kilometers up. Switch off the repulsorlifts and a city gets wiped off the map. Once you start flying 50-million-tonne spaceships around at high interplanetary speeds (as opposed to taking a month to...

We must recall that a TIE fighter is merely the pointy end of a far greater weapons system, which includes ship/shore-based jammers, ECCM, sensors, and command-and-control systems. (recall the tale of the air defense system with a fighter, the big control radar, and the C&C system - spending mon...

One recent trend in SETI has been trawling existing databases for obvious signs of astroengineering, either on a stellar or galactic scale. It seems clear that the discovery of unambiguous signs of astroengineering would generate far more interest than the discovery of say, atmospheric oxygen (or so...

The ROTS version also keeps the Moment Magnitude scale earthquake medium turbolaser and ice moon melting prow gun of the Munificent.

Evidence for this? Their K/D ratio on film was quite positive in the OT. The TIE is the pointy end of a greater weapons system that includes ship/ground based sensors, jammers, and most importantly, C&C. Black Squadron was backed up by a Death Star's worth of jammers, sensors, and GCI controlle...

It's a bit insensitive, and rather risky, but probably not anti-Semitic.

Isn't the second blip Tommy? Or Billy? Which one is the one with Visionesque powers?

I agree, but the hangar between the mandibles simply doesn't square with what was shown in the Rebels cartoon. That is, unless a Sentinel-class shuttle is significantly larger than the Lambda that landed inside Gideon's cruiser. Yeah, but going by that Rebels depiction, a Sentinel has a 100-meter w...

Meh, I have no problem with Gideon's cruiser being of a larger class with a superficial resemblance to the Arquitens. After all, for a long time the Victory-class was basically just a smaller ISD with a few extra parts attached to make it look more distinctive. It's not quite bigger. I mean, the Ar...

I really, really hate when they build two ships that look exactly the same but have different dimensions. You can lengthen a hull, you can cut bits of it out, you can add to it, but you cannot just scale it 2x in every dimension and call it a variant. That's just moronic. It looks like an Arquetians...

I'd suspect that some level fleets and armies will merge administratively, so you'll have "sector force" rather separate armies and fleets, I suspect that administrative split between garrison forces and mobile forces is more likely then between armies and fleets. EDIT:so "mobile&quo...

The vast interstellar armies of Star Wars must be structured to deploy ground-based military forces across a bewildering variety of built and natural environments, from the kilometers-thick cityscape of an ecumenopolis to the abyssal depths of ocean worlds and the liquid-methane-lake-studded coal-ta...

Well that's even more horseshit 'we have to have this so I can pretend the setting is the way I want to see it rather than the way it is' " Contrive to stuff " were my exact words. The Fractal Bush model is supposed to allow everyone to pretend the setting is the way they want to see it r...

Hyperlanes are EU horseshit and I did look for that kind of horseshit but the map is so busy I couldn't make out there was a route going that way under the territory blobs. Au contrarie. It is in the interests of freeform storytelling that we must contrive to stuff hyperlanes into the setting. Hype...

The planetary locations on that map are also at odds with the one in Pablo Hidalgo's TROS VD. Because Disney Canon sucks balls and dumping the Legends map did nobody any favors. Tangentially that map seems terrible. Tatooine and Coruscant are wildly different directions from Naboo and yet the latte...

Unknown regions are now traditionally believed to be behind an artificial hyperspace wall. The Deep Core is usually depicted as unnavigable. Presumably, Hutt Space shrinks whenever the Core asserts itself. Once the Central Government cracks down, Governers get spines, and take bribes discreetly inst...

We know the Hutts don't control the entire Outer Rim regardless of what Palpatine says, so it's irrelevant. Hell, a good portion if not most of the Separatists were freaking BASED out of the Outer Rim, putting an instant lie to that assertion. The map has Hutt Space encompassing a respectable volum...

We know the Hutts don't control the entire Outer Rim regardless of what Palpatine says, so it's irrelevant. Hell, a good portion if not most of the Separatists were freaking BASED out of the Outer Rim, putting an instant lie to that assertion. The map has Hutt Space encompassing a respectable volum...

Jabba once just one of many Hutts operating in "Hutt Space." There is nothing that suggests Jabba has anything to do with anything but a statistically irrelevant number of those billions of settled worlds. I would put Jabba on the top ten list of great Hutt Crime Lords. He has a big seat ...