Perhaps Thrawn starting to narrow down the location of the current base and thus eventually finding it, will lead to abandoning it. And when they go they'll take their borders spider blockers with them, leading to stormtrooper slaughter.
Star Wars Rebels Season Three (spoilers)
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Oh I totally want to see Dantooine!
If they stick with the Legends depiction, it's basically Tatooine but with grass instead of sand.
The KOTOR fan in me is hoping they'll make the base inside the ruins of the old Jedi enclave, abandoned since the fall of the old Old Republic.
"Fire Across the Galaxy"
"Wings of the Master"
"Blood Sisters"
"Stealth Strike"
"Homecoming"
"Iron Squadron"
"Ghosts of Geonosis: Part 2"
"Warhead"
Eight episodes where ships are crippled/destroyed. Unless I'm forgetting any.
Maybe I've still got my Rogue One hangover, but Zeb and Co. killed a LOT of Imperials this week.
I think it was in the first season episodes with Tarkin where he noted something like "these rebels are different" in that they didn't kill anyone. I thought "Governor go watch the first few episodes!"
I think it was in the first season episodes with Tarkin where he noted something like "these rebels are different" in that they didn't kill anyone. I thought "Governor go watch the first few episodes!"
That's not quite what was said. IIRC he stated that the Lothal cell was "more principled than others" and "not interested in violence", both of which are accurate statements. There was a line about "no casualties" but that was only in reference to the incident at the top of the episode where they nicked off with some supplies.
Aside from that one bit in Rogue One we've never really seen it first hand, but you get the sense that most other rebel groups that the Empire have dealt with previously were like Saw's cadre. Closer to terrorists, focused on bombings, raids, sabotage and probably kidnappings and assassinations too. Bail and by extension Hera's operation have a much broader purpose than just blindly striking out at the Empire. They're actively trying to aid the people the Empire are oppressing, hampering the Empire's ability to rule through fear.
It's not that Hera's group don't kill anyone so much as killing isn't the point and thus they don't go out of their way to be lethal. When they pull off a raid, they don't take the time to finish of the wounded troopers. Saw's people are known for doing just that.
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I for one would love that.If they stick with the Legends depiction, it's basically Tatooine but with grass instead of sand.
The KOTOR fan in me is hoping they'll make the base inside the ruins of the old Jedi enclave, abandoned since the fall of the old Old Republic.
Plus they could keep their spiders thanks to the Kinraths.
Personally I never thought kinraths look anything like krykna. They're more mantis like than the krykna's arachnid/crab like look. Plus kinraths were going to show up on Kashyykk in one of the unproduced Bad Batch episodes of TCW and I'm not sure, but those may be considered canon. So it would be a bit odd for them to show up on those two planets anyway.
That said, we've seen non-domesticated life forms inhabit multiple planets (mostly due to asset re-use) so it's not impossible.
It's inevitable that people traveling among multiple planets would bring other animals, plants, diseases, etc. with them. Some animal species would be deliberately transplanted, some would be bought and sold by traders, some would be pets that escaped into the wild, some would be vermin that hitched a ride, etc. Few worlds would realistically be able to maintain the kind of "pure" environments we see in SW and other sci-fi, not unless there were very aggressive efforts to control the importation of living things, or if they had native biologies that were hostile to offworld life (but then offworld sophonts couldn't eat the food or live there safely anyway). And maybe not even then -- "Life finds a way."
Yes, thank you Christopher. I think I can grasp the concept of ecological imperialism (intentional or otherwise) and even terraforming.
I just meant that it'd be a bit odd for a large predatory creature that thrives in the Kashyyyk shadowlands would also show up in the open grassy plains of a planet like Dantooine. But just too stress my meaning since I know your first instinct will be to lecture me on mutation, evolutionary adaptation and ecological niches, I'm only saying it'll seem *odd* and mostly from a visual standpoint (like a Cheetah on Salisbury Plain, or a badger in the Amazon rainforest.) I'm not saying it's categorically inconceivable.
Oh, well, I don't know enough about the creatures or environments in question. I was just musing in general about the principles involved. I guess that, because someone mentioned spiders, I was imagining something smaller.
Anyway, since Dantooine's environment has only been established in "Legends" as far as I know, the new canon is free to take it in a different direction if they want. Then again, they have kept/reintroduced a number of things from Legends, like Thrawn. So it's hard to say.
Honestly, it didn't cross my mind. I'm not sure what the time frame is of interstellar "Columbian Exchange" in the Galaxy Far, Far Away, and whether it's great enough to allow larger organisms to undergo much evolutionary change. I guess we're talking tens of millennia at least? Or is that Legends? I did a Machete-Order rewatch last week, and I remember Palpatine or someone in the prequels saying something about the Republic having kept the peace for a thousand years.
Pretty deep this episode is.
For basically a bottle episode, we get a lot of backstory and motivation for Sabine and what's been going on for Mandalore since the Clone Wars. Also a lot of sword play. Also reminded that one slip could have lost her a hand, very easily.
Would you follow Sabine?
Would you follow Sabine?
