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Star Wars Rebels Season Three (spoilers)

About the only thing I am surprised about is that Admiral Konstiantine survived the Rebel attack, though he might not survive Thrawn and the Empire's displeasure...though I think that was Thrawn's plan.

I am waiting for the payoff for Thrawn's careful maneuvering and poking at the Rebels. He's getting bits and pieces of why they fight and when they run. These could be used for devastating loses if he can piece together a no-win scenario for the Rebels, though while he seems interested in the Ghost crew, his goal seems to be the larger Rebel fleet (which so far we have only seen in Return of the Jedi and the teasers for Rogue One).

It might be worth noting that there is still no Rebel Alliance (Alliance to Restore the Republic). We might see that happen this year. What we do know is that the Rebel Alliance does not win a major victory until Rogue One, which is just before the destruction of Alderaan.
 
kitik said:
..... kids :mad:
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It's a valid plotline. Revolutions are often fought by a mixture of old veterans and young (sometimes *very* young) idealists. Indeed if you actually look at the faces of the rebel pilots during ANH's briefing scene, that's exactly what you'll see. It's something that was part of one of the earlier drafts of 'The Star Wars' (the one that also featured wookies piloting space fighters IIRC.)

Plus, as I said it's a neat way of showing how far Ezra has come. Had he ran into them in season one or two, he would have been joining them, not trying to talk them down.
 
Looks like there's a Death Star Hologram in the next episode.

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Stephen! said:
Maybe. The reason I wondered if it was, is because the episode after that has them looking for information on a new imperial weapon. Although that also could be nothing to do with the Death Star.

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Hmm, maybe. But I'd kind of expect a Rogue One tie-in to be closer to the movie's release date, which is still a few weeks away. Besides, Rebels is still two years prior to ANH, and thus presumably to R1, so it seems a bit early for the Rebellion to be learning about the Death Star. At most, maybe they'll learn about something that we viewers will recognize as peripheral to the DS construction effort. (I kinda want to abbreviate it as D*.)
 
It's worth remembering that the Death Star has been an ongoing construction project since the Clone Wars (presumably, some point after the second battle of Geonosis.) That's an awful lot of material being funnelled to the site and the number of people involved (even unknowingly) must be in the millions.

We've already seen with the Ghost's trip to Geonosis, intercepting a kyber shipment and the incident that brought Hera & Kanan together that Rebel Intelligence knows *something* is going on and have at least started to put the pieces together. So it's not inconceivable that they'll find a very big piece in the upcoming episodes. even though it's still several years out from the events of Rogue One, from a meta perspective it'd feel odd not do have some kind of tie-in, even if it's an oblique one.

As for that hologram: yeah, that's almost certainly really is just a moon or planet.
 
^^ While it may have been in the building/planning stages, it wasn't until it was almost finished that it was discovered by a random X-wing patrol, according to the 360 video that was released this (or was it last) week. Granted, there's no way of telling when in the timeline this happens, but presumably closer to the start of Rogue One than the current season of Rebels.
 
marillion said:
^^ While it may have been in the building/planning stages, it wasn't until it was almost finished that it was discovered by a random X-wing patrol, according to the 360 video that was released this (or was it last) week. Granted, there's no way of telling when in the timeline this happens, but presumably closer to the start of Rogue One than the current season of Rebels.
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From that video we also don't even know even know that their transmission made it out, so it could be entirely irrelevant. Doubly so considering we have no context for that scene. Just because the two pilots that randomly stumbled on it didn't know what it wasn't, doesn't necessarily mean Rebel Intelligence was as ignorant.

Compartmentalisation is both prudent and standard procedure in an insurgency. For all we know those pilots could have been sent out there because the higher ups thought that system was a likely candidate (probably one of dozens of such deployments.) The pilots wouldn't necessarily have been told what they were really sent out for. Their orders could just have been a collection of system co-ordinates and instructions to investigate any imperial activity and report back. They may have just assumed they were tracking Imperial fleet movements or covert shipping convoys.

So yeah, like I said, it's entirely possible the likes of Bail and Mon have known about the Death Star for years prior to actually finding the thing.
 
Tuskin38 said:
From the Episode guide. Doesn't look like a Chimera to me.
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Well, "chimera" (or Chimaera, as Thrawn's flagship name is spelled) broadly means any creature that's a hybrid of two or more different creatures, by analogy with the original Chimera, a lion-goat-snake hybrid. This creature looks like a hybrid of spider, serpents, and some multi-eyestalked thing, so it could be considered a chimera -- though for all we know it's a real species in the SW galaxy.
 
Tuskin38 said:
From the Episode guide. Doesn't look like a Chimera to me.
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As Chris points out a Chimera is just a monster that takes the form and aspects of several beasts at once and this seems to qualify. Kind of reminds me of a blixus though.
I wonder if this is an actual creature that exists in the galaxy or if it's a mythological beast? The Star Wars galaxy certainly has comparably exotic creatures (like the aforementioned blixus), so it could go either way. Though what would make it a chimera would be the ability to take other forms. Perhaps something along the lines of the creature from 'The Thing' or the genestealers from WH40k?
 
Well there's really no reason not to use that name, given it was fairly synonymous with the character in the books. I mean there was nothing special about it otherwise right? Just a standard ISD?

That said, wasn't the ship actually Pellaeon's before Thrawn made it his flagship? I vaguely recall some mention of Pellaeon commanding the Chimera at Endor, which would have been before Thrawn returned from the unknown regions.
 
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Reverend said:
Well there's really no reason not to use that name, given it was fairly synonymous with the character in the books. I mean there was nothing special about it otherwise right? Just a standard ISD?
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The picture of it on Wookieepedia (from some comic) has no markings on the ventral hull.
 
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