Nein Nunb: what went wrong?

[Professor Zoom]

30 years later... he's just an X-wing pilot... under some one else's command?

What happened, my man?

Drug problems that derailed a career?
Or perhaps a systematic speciest system that has kept him down?

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Deathsticks. He needed to go home and rethink his life.

Sadly, there were no cantina-going-hard-drinking Jedi around to offer him such profound advice.

 

[Beagleman]

Space-cocaine is one hell of a drug!

 

[{ Emilia }]

He and Lando founded a business after Endor and then lost all their money in the process.

So for him it was either going back to pilot X-Wings or compete on Dancing with the Stars like Lando did.

Spoiler: Lando

 

[Finn]

I went to the movie. I don't recall the name coming up. Perhaps it's just another member of the species that only they can tell apart, like Benzites on TNG?

 

[Set Harth]

I assumed it was another Sullustan, because he looked a bit different. ( Then again, 30 years of partying... )

 

[{ Emilia }]

I assumed it was another Sullustan, because he looked a bit different. ( Then again, 30 years of partying... )

According to imdb it's him.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I assumed it was another Sullustan, because he looked a bit different. ( Then again, 30 years of partying... )

According to imdb it's him.

Indeed.

I expect... nay, DEMAND a graphic novel explaining why he's a lousy fighter pilot taking orders... I mean, come ON, he was a HERO at the Death Star... he was one of those responsible for blowing it up.

(And as a side note: Why is Chewie always a co-pilot?)

 

[EnsignRicky]

It's all right there in his autobiography: Comfortably Nunb, A Sullust For Life

 

[Ithekro]

Co-pilot seat has the better view.

 

[Cutter John]

Or maybe he's just got a bad case of Captain Kirk syndrome.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Or maybe he's just got a bad case of Captain Kirk syndrome.

Shouldn't that be Commander Riker syndrome?

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

He has money issues.

 

[Cutter John]

Or maybe he's just got a bad case of Captain Kirk syndrome.

Shouldn't that be Commander Riker syndrome?

That too.

 

[USS Triumphant]

The Resistance that Leia has put together doesn't have many resources so far. He may be flying a fighter because that is the best use of his talents out of the ships they actually have available.

 

[Maurice]

He was GENERAL NUNB until he defied orders, stole the Millennium Falcon then went back in time 36 years to visit the Mos Eisley Cantina on Life Day, where he secured a forbidden recording the Star Wars Holiday Special, went back to the future, where Leia immediately demoted him to Captain: his first best destiny.

Or something.

 

[USS Triumphant]

He was GENERAL NUNB until he defied orders, stole the Millennium Falcon then went back in time 36 years to visit the Mos Eisley Cantina on Life Day, where he secured a forbidden recording the Star Wars Holiday Special, went back to the future, where Leia immediately demoted him to Captain: his first best destiny.

I'm getting the distinct impression that you aren't taking this seriously. Get hold of yourself, man.

 

[Venardhi]

He always struck me as very young in RotJ, like Lando's teen sidekick.

 

[Professor Zoom]

The Resistance that Leia has put together doesn't have many resources so far. He may be flying a fighter because that is the best use of his talents out of the ships they actually have available.

That says a lot abut the Resistance.

Either they have no better use for a hero with years of experience other than to stick him into an x-wing.

Or Nein Nunb has no useful skills or experience, so might as well stick him into an w-wing.

Either way, that sucks.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

He was actually a day from his retirement in TFA and, clearly, "getting too old for this shit."