He's one step away from being Anakin. "Not just the men, but the women and tadpoles and eggs. too"
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Oh I know, it's way out there, lol. I'm expecting a twist of some sort though.
What is the significance of 1139?
THX 1138 is another George Lucas movie referenced a lot in Star Wars.
Ah yes!
I am confused what actually cut off At Attin from the rest of the galaxy.
it wasn't the take over by the Empire.
It is pretty obvious that it was hidden a looong time ago for security reasons, but connections to the Old Republic were kept running with the occasional envoy and transport ship coming and going.
if the Republic up to the fall of the Jedi Temple was still secretly in charge, then Palpaptine also would have been.
he didn't demolish Republic infrastructure, just twisted everything to his facist rebranding.
He would have made extensive use of it.
So, was it the fall of the Empire that cut off ties? And no one in the New Republic knew anything about this anymore?
Or was it cut off long before Palps even became Chancellor?
it wasn't the take over by the Empire.
It is pretty obvious that it was hidden a looong time ago for security reasons, but connections to the Old Republic were kept running with the occasional envoy and transport ship coming and going.
if the Republic up to the fall of the Jedi Temple was still secretly in charge, then Palpaptine also would have been.
he didn't demolish Republic infrastructure, just twisted everything to his facist rebranding.
He would have made extensive use of it.
So, was it the fall of the Empire that cut off ties? And no one in the New Republic knew anything about this anymore?
Or was it cut off long before Palps even became Chancellor?
Don't be ridiculous! Everyone knows that a Chekhov's anti-aircraft cannon shown in act two, must never be used to shoot down an invading space-pirate armada in act three! ?
Yes, which means there are how many other vaults besides the one he was looking at . . . ? ?
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With the way it ripped up the ground, it looked like that landing pad hasn't been used in a long time.
And yes we know Jod isn't exactly a "heart of gold" character (I mean, why berate the children when there was no reason to?), but I'm wondering what his play is at the end of the episode. The parents and kids aren't armed, but there were plenty of security droids all around them that are, so going on the attack (or even threatening an attack) probably wouldn't end well for him.
And yes we know Jod isn't exactly a "heart of gold" character (I mean, why berate the children when there was no reason to?), but I'm wondering what his play is at the end of the episode. The parents and kids aren't armed, but there were plenty of security droids all around them that are, so going on the attack (or even threatening an attack) probably wouldn't end well for him.
Missed it by that much!
Certainly long enough that nobody (save the droids) even knew it was there. But that's not a surprise; even if the planet "only" dates back to the High Republic, that's still several centuries at this point. Plenty of time for it to get completely overgrown and turned into a green space. If it's from the Old Republic, then that's an order of magnitude more credible!
He had a headache. Also this is hardly the first time he's expressed frustration with home much trouble the kids are causing him, and now he can vent without consequence, because he doesn't need them anymore.
As for the "heart of gold" thing; I think people just assumed that would be his arc going in, but looking at it objectively; almost nothing he's said or done really supports that. There may have been a few glimmers of honesty and some semblance of kindness here and there, but it was always in service of his own goals. He never once willingly compromised his chances of self-enrichment for the sake of those kids.
I assume Plan A is: "get the barrier down and have the crew plunder the vaults of every last datarie", while Plan B is likely: "load up as much loot as he can onto the Cinder, and flee."
As for At Attin's defences; A bunch of walking security camera and nanny droids armed with stun-sticks won't do much against a horde of blood thirsty pirates with blaster, fighters, and ship-mounted cannons. We've also been shown twice now that they have ion-weapons for dealing with droids.
Even then; those droids couldn't even stop a bunch of bumbling mid-level bureaucrats from breaching the barrier with an improvised com-relay.
Only Neel knows the planet may have more teeth than Jod is expecting.
How? In what way? Please elaborate.
Star Wars Meg has a theory you can see here:
She posits that Jod's rant about the children being weak and sheltered is coming from how he feels about himself. The idea is he's really ranting about how he was as a child and the hurt he endured as a result. Perhaps he was a Jedi youngling that survived order 66. Those younglings were weak and sheltered which allowed them to be slaughtered.
Um, by killing a fellow pirate in cold blood if nothing else. Brutus at least backed off of his thread to kill Jod several times, giving him more than the benefit of the doubt.
I wouldn't watch a single frame of that trash page if it was the last piece of filmed content in existence.
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Don't need to watch it because Law implied as much in interviews.
And this is different than Brutus? Let's ask the people on that New Republic transport in episode 1 how kind and gentle Brutus is.
He's a good boy. Yes he is.
Brutus never turned on his own except when that person - in this case, Jod - completely failed them. Brutus at least has a semblance of a code. Jod seems completely amoral.
To be fair, he was just punched in the head by SM33. Even with the helmet that should still smart a lot, even if he was a Jedi Youngling or Padawan at some point during the Clone Wars. Also, he barely evaded being spaced just before that, and somehow managed to get back on the Onyx Cinder as it was leaving (Jedi speed plus jump?)
At the end, with his having the lightsaber out, I wonder if it has double use here. First it is the remind the kids of his threat to them. But to the parents? They would see a lightsaber and assume Jedi, so they aren't going to be threatened by that, just "oh the Emissary is a Jedi, neat." Unless they are still under the impressing of Jedi from the High Republic era, when Jedi don't draw their lightsabers unless they plan to use them (as suggested in The Acolyte).
That dock has been covered for a long time. The Onyx Cinder had been covered for a long time. I would assume the droids wouldn't have covered it up in dirt to hide things quickly. The parents are old enough to have been alive during the Clone Wars, if barely. A ship crashing into the planet that close by would have been noticed. Ships don't enter or leave the barrier. As far as we can tell, none of these people have ever seen a ship come to even pick up a shipment for the Republic. 1139 (or is it 1140 in total) vaults of Republic credits is vast. Mind you it was likely supposed to supply the ENTIRE Galaxy at the time. You would need every pirate ship in the Pirate Nation to haul all that, and a couple of New Republic cruisers. Or some Star Destroyers. Would that much money make it more real (remember the Republic credit wasn't considered worth much outside the Republic back in Qui-Gon's day. Maybe it didn't have anything to back it up because the mints were lost and they were printing plastic money?) The Great Hyperspace Disaster several hundred years ago could explain why the planets were hidden and also why they were all cut off. The others destroyed/found and looted. But that might be too "recent". Would Republic technology be so stagnated that the tech on At Atten, the Onyx Cinder, still be relatively normal in the galaxy, if the planets were build and lost in the days of the Old Republic? Meaning over a thousand years ago? That Wimm's story books don't mention fighting the Sith, I would guess they are High Republic era cut off systems. This would fit with the notion that the tech at the height of the High Republic is still more or less what is used in the present largely run-down galaxy in the aftermath of the Clone Wars/Galactic Empire/Galactic Civil Wars.
I liked how you could see the conflict in SM-33 when Fern called "unclaimsies." Part of his droid mind - maybe a part he didn't fully understand - want to help the kids. He liked them. But his programming wouldn't allow him to go against his rightful Captain (Jod.) Even though he knew "unclaimsies" was probably bullshit it just gave him enough of a reason to bypass his directives and save them.
I greatly appreciate the depiction of how a planet's main business has been ran by mindless droids, who cannot handle a simple missing person's case, let alone notice the Republic no longer existing, and they are running the mint for nobody, probably building more vaults as the money don't go anywhere. And the people have noticed it better, since they seemed startled by the arrival of the alleged emissary, but their responsibilities don't allow them to care too much. It's also a nice juxtaposition between being extremely attractive to pirates with its naïvety, but also extremely dangerous to them with its strictness. And although the droids on the ground have not killed anybody yet (and have ignored serious violation of rules in a particularly funny way), the ones maintaining the barrier shot on sight at anybody they didn't know.
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