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The carrier design was an older EU design that was only slightly modified for this episode. I wonder how many A-wings they have to cram in there. Or if they'll get a B-wing to add to their collection of fighters in the near future.
They also likely kept some of the Imperial fighters, unless they all evacuated as well.
Agree. I was familiar with it from the first edition of The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, but I've always hated that design. Out of all the ships in that book, that was the most ridiculous IMO.
"The Honorable Ones": decent episode. I think it's the first Zeb episode I actually enjoyed. Very interested to see hints of the Death Star, and what the hell happened to all the Geonosians?! I'm guessing they were all taken away to Despayre to construct the Death Star. And that only the initial construction was done on Geonosis. I particularly liked the Sad Hulk ending for Kallus where he realizes how sad and empty his life is.
So, what the hell happened to Seventh Sister and Eighth Brother? We haven't seen them in forever.
Plot holes: so, the Rebels think the Empire is just going to leave a massive construction dock COMPLETELY ABANDONED? They fly right in and land and walk around?!
So, you crash land on a barren ice planet. You have one escape pod and one tiny little heater that barely helps. So, rather than sitting in the pod with the heater, in an enclosed space that the heater would actually warm up... you sit outside in the massive freezing cold cave where the heater's heat will immediately just dissipate???
Plot holes: so, the Rebels think the Empire is just going to leave a massive construction dock COMPLETELY ABANDONED? They fly right in and land and walk around?!
I don't see this as a plot hole. The Empire/entire galaxy has been consistently portrayed as bloated and wasteful There have been previous episodes of either Rebels or Clone Wars where they've found abandoned locations still functional and stocked with pieces of equipment.
"The Honorable Ones": decent episode. I think it's the first Zeb episode I actually enjoyed. Very interested to see hints of the Death Star, and what the hell happened to all the Geonosians?!
I wasn't expecting much from this episode but I thought it was great. One of the best episodes of the show. David Oyelowo was fantastic in this and I was surprised with what they did with Kallus. Steve Blum was also really good as Zeb.
This had tie-ins to not just The Clone Wars but the new EU as well. The Tarkin novel for one. But if you want to know what happened to the Geonosians, checking out one of the early Marvel Darth Vader issues.
The Empire in this series seems to have a chronic manpower shortage. Typically on Star Destroyers they are able to walk around without meeting anyone for stretches of time, and last week they figured six people were plenty to steal a carrier, which had maybe four people on the bridge DURING combat operations. Even Lothal is very obviously bereft of people at most hours of the day.
If we had to rationalize it, one could say that big star projects like the Death Star or Executor would be where all the troops are concentrated, while run-of-the-mill ships and outposts have barely enough people to keep the lights on and the people oppressed, often enough from orbit as seen last week.
"The Honorable Ones": decent episode. I think it's the first Zeb episode I actually enjoyed. Very interested to see hints of the Death Star, and what the hell happened to all the Geonosians?! I'm guessing they were all taken away to Despayre to construct the Death Star. And that only the initial construction was done on Geonosis.
...they all dead. Well, mostly all. Turns out one queen survived, though biologically sterile and hiding deep underground. I think we can forgive Ezra for not sensing such as weak presence amidst all that death. Same for the Ghost's/Chopper's scanners.
Of course it's entirely possible that said queen was still a dormant egg during the episode and only hatched later. Granted it's only a few years prior (the comic being set in the immediate aftermath of ANH), but who knows how fast larval Geonosian queens maturate?
What I'm assuming happened is that the Geonosians were used as slave labour (possibly under the pretext of post-war reparations) to get the primary phase of construction finished, up-to and including getting the main reactor and hyperdrive(s?) online. Then the station was jumped to another system for the final phase of bringing it online, leaving the Geonosians to be promptly wiped out as a security precaution. I mean, how else did they managed to keep a construction that big secret for so long? I certainly don't think the Emperor harbours any particular need for vengeance. After all, they did everything he required of them.
It's tragic when you think about it. The whole species was thoroughly used by Sideous in the lead up to and during the Clone Wars, only to ultimately be made extinct when he had no further use for them. As unsympathetic as they were, I don't think they deserved that fate.
One note of interest: whatever method they used on the population below, they didn't destroy the planet itself, so it's a fair bet the superlaser isn't even ready for a test-fire yet. That or the Emperor didn't think even an isolated backwater like Geonosis could be destroyed without someone finding out. If they did test it on something prior to Alderaan, it was probably some uncharted and unnamed world *way* off the beaten track.
Either way, I have a feeling we'll be finding out in 'Rogue One'.
I don't see this as a plot hole. The Empire/entire galaxy has been consistently portrayed as bloated and wasteful There have been previous episodes of either Rebels or Clone Wars where they've found abandoned locations still functional and stocked with pieces of equipment.
I've worked on building sites and I can say from experience that there is a *lot* of wastage that goes on. I heard somewhere that standard practice was to plan for fully a third of materials to be *stolen* off site during the build. Everything from small stuff (contractors constantly steal tools off of each other) but just about anything not welded in place and covered in cement can mysteriously go walkabouts.
Next to a construction the scale of the Death Star, those three platforms probably amounted to little more than the equivalent of some on-site prefabs. Maybe at some point the an Imperial engineering team or contractor is scheduled to come in and salvage anything worth reclaiming. Or not since it's a fair bet those things were most likely built down on the surface with Geonisian resources. If so then removing or dismantling them would actually be even more costly than just leaving them to eventually fall from orbit.
In any event, it's a safe bet that anything particularly valuable or incriminating has already been removed.
The Empire in this series seems to have a chronic manpower shortage. Typically on Star Destroyers they are able to walk around without meeting anyone for stretches of time, and last week they figured six people were plenty to steal a carrier, which had maybe four people on the bridge DURING combat operations. Even Lothal is very obviously bereft of people at most hours of the day.
If we had to rationalize it, one could say that big star projects like the Death Star or Executor would be where all the troops are concentrated, while run-of-the-mill ships and outposts have barely enough people to keep the lights on and the people oppressed, often enough from orbit as seen last week.
When you consider how ubiquitous droid labour is, it actually makes a bit more sense for most systems to be about 90% automated with only a token organic oversight. So plot contrivances aside, I wouldn't expect the corridors of those ships to be especially busy most of the time.
Those ships aren't that big so they can accommodate a large crew, they're that big because that's the size the need to be to support the desired weapons load-outs, with the shield, sensor and power requirements that come with them and of course, just for the sake of intimidation. One should not underestimate the impact the mere presence of a Star Destroyer can have when one shows up over an outer-rim planet.
This had tie-ins to not just The Clone Wars but the new EU as well. The Tarkin novel for one. But if you want to know what happened to the Geonosians, checking out one of the early Marvel Darth Vader issues.
