Oh that's brilliant. The whole side quest/Intern was great but I think the random celebrity names out of the hat actually made me laugh more!
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Oh that's brilliant. The whole side quest/Intern was great but I think the random celebrity names out of the hat actually made me laugh more!
If they want to use Thimothy Zhan's newer novels as part of the backstory, than it is possible that there is a greater threat in the Unknown Regions that Thrawn and Ezra have been dealing with. The Empire thinks Thrawn will be helping them retake the Galaxy, but what if he's just using them to fight someone else for the Chiss? And once the New Republic finds out they might (might) even help, if the payoff is the remains of the Empire fade away in the aftermath. Leading to a sense of peace in the Galaxy for a few decades, but with the Imperial fifth column and hardliners quietly rebuilding as the First Order in the area of the recently defeated threat.
It's worth remembering that Filloni's version of Thrawn isn't quite like Zhan's. The latter seems to have become a little too enamoured with his creation and tends to try and nudge him away from villainy and into anti-villainy if not outright heroism. The problem with that is that it depends on there being "another threat" big enough to warrant mass genocide, galaxy wide oppression, and inflicting massive disequilibrium upon the Force. That just doesn't really fit into Star Wars and goes back to my earlier comment that alien invasion stories just don't suit the franchise and have never worked well.
What makes more sense to me is that there's an existential threat out there for the Chiss specifically (not so much the rest of the galaxy), and Thrawn simply believes his kind are so fundamentally superior, it's worth sacrificing thousands of other species to preserve their civilization. Which brings him nicely back into villainy where he belongs.
What makes more sense to me is that there's an existential threat out there for the Chiss specifically (not so much the rest of the galaxy), and Thrawn simply believes his kind are so fundamentally superior, it's worth sacrificing thousands of other species to preserve their civilization. Which brings him nicely back into villainy where he belongs.
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So, what was the deal with Jango's armor? Was it supposed to be beskar or partly beskar?
I ask because Obi-Wan both kicks it and gets head-butted, and doesn't seem to suffer any significant ill effects. But in light of The Mandalorian, shouldn't that have been more like kicking Grievous?
I ask because Obi-Wan both kicks it and gets head-butted, and doesn't seem to suffer any significant ill effects. But in light of The Mandalorian, shouldn't that have been more like kicking Grievous?
Probably an alloy of some kind, as I believe Reverend noted. Din earned more pure beskar armor through his exploits as well as securing more beskar ignots.
I did not get that impression. The head butt seemed pretty nasty.
When?
On Cobb Vanth deflected a blaster bolt right after he got the armor (flashback to him saving the town). And later in the Book of Boba Fett when Boba and Din are taking in the Pikes. (and possibly when Boba gets back his armor against the stormtroopers, though I don't know it any hit him, like they were Din)
Which was Boba's, which was Jango's.
Boba's armour, minus the helmet, is Jango's.
Boba blew up the helmet in Clone Wars in a trap for Mace Windu.
If we're just talking precedents, then beskar alloy can also deflect blaster bolts as we saw Gideon's Imperial Supercommandos doing just that, and we know it's alloy because they left a fragment of it behind in the prison shuttle.
Likely the key difference between pure & alloyed beskar is the thermal conductivity/resistance profile, plus the sheer physical durability. Everything has a breaking/melting point; pure beskar's is just higher. The alloy can still clearly take way more abuse than the likes of plastoid or other protective materials, it's just a matter of degrees (no pun intended.)
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This reminds me of something I've wondered about with the armor. Was the change in color just due to age or did Boba repaint it?
The thing I could never figure out is why those colours, why those markings? The original intent way back when was that they were old Mandalorian regimental markings from the Clone Wars. The idea at the time being that Boba was a left-over clone wearing Mandalorian super-commando armour; a remnant of when the armour was going to be for a new type of stormtrooper for ESB . . . and honestly not a million mile away from where things ended up. Interesting that Lucas's original intent was indeed for Boba to specifically NOT be Mandalorian, and it was the EU that up and ignored all that.
However as things stand now; Jango wore the armour mostly bare metal with some blue markings, so it's not as if Boba was wearing his father's old clan/regimental sigils. Clearly it means something to him though, given that he took the time to restore it once he got it back, insignia and all.
Oh and for what it's worth: Jango's helmet wasn't totally destroyed, it was just blown in half. No reason to think Boba couldn't recover some or all of it and have it reforged. Presumably this would have come up one way or another in the Boba/Cad Bane arc since he was wearing a Mando helmet by that point. Whether it's a new one, or Jango's reforged remains to be seen.
However as things stand now; Jango wore the armour mostly bare metal with some blue markings, so it's not as if Boba was wearing his father's old clan/regimental sigils. Clearly it means something to him though, given that he took the time to restore it once he got it back, insignia and all.
Oh and for what it's worth: Jango's helmet wasn't totally destroyed, it was just blown in half. No reason to think Boba couldn't recover some or all of it and have it reforged. Presumably this would have come up one way or another in the Boba/Cad Bane arc since he was wearing a Mando helmet by that point. Whether it's a new one, or Jango's reforged remains to be seen.
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