That was also supposed to be funny. It’s completely absurd and cartoony. I mean, did you spend a lot of time wondering how the alien could live if it was just made of gas?
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Yes, it was absurd and cartoony. but it also made me think. If you can woosh off to the stars without putting in your seatbelt, then you must be able to stop too, but no-one normally shows that.
As for the alien filled with gas, a box jellyfish can see and swim but it as no obvious central brain. We are happy with some mysteries. There are plenty of alien things on earth. But if John Carpenter said ‘it works by midi-chlorians’ then we want to know what those are.
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I took a date to see Mary Poppins. Afterward, I was wondering about her magic – it’s not like she does spells; when she’s present, even the children can magically clean up. I decided that she just gives off magic like we do body heat. There’s one other person who seems to operate this way – Uncle Albert. Does that suggest that he’s really her uncle, it’s not just a nice thing to call him? And so on…
She seemed a little weirded out and said that she’d never thought about such movies this way. She was not the girl for me.
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So just like US occupied Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Here is another possible hopeful thing…
Here is a story of how in WWII, a sledge patrol came upon a secret German weather station in northeastern Greenland. Greenland and Iceland had no army. Warfare seems alien to people in extreme climates. If you meet someone else, then they are a friend, or at least someone else on your side in the struggle against the wind and weather. Space is an extreme environment. If you have small pockets of self-sufficient people in space, I doubt they would fight each other.
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Yeah, I appreciate that the show illustrates that a technology that allows spaceships to reach very high speeds without requiring massive amounts of fuel could very well be used to turn asteroids into devastating weapons, as long as you have enough time to push it. And I think they showed that a big high-speed rock being blown up right before impact can take out multiple ships in a given area because a cloud of fast-moving fragments is impossible to avoid.
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Are we taking science fiction, science fantasy or science fact because all this pew-pew in space is pure science fantasy - which means have a good time and don’t think too hard.
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But you’re right - it is canon. Those mandibles are for attaching to cargo pods and pushing. Basically they are big rigs, and the cargo is the trailer.
Lando wasn’t using his for cargo hauling. It was more like an luxury RV/sports car.
But it has been shown that way in many other post Disney uses and is canon.
Or they were licensed as Imperial Bounty Hunters.
Eh… but there are a lot of examples where dictators do restrict weapons access. Sometimes they increase access to favorables, and decrease it for everyone else.
And from what I have read, they did have strict gun laws in Iraq. But you could get licenses if you knew/bribed the right people. And if you were outside of a population center, you could get away with owning things in secret because people weren’t out there enforcing things.
So yeah, if there are areas of earth you can buy grenades and RPGs off the street, then it is little wonder in a universe where galactic travel is possible that people can’t make and install weapons - and then people being forced to arm up as a reaction to that.
Whjen I was a kid, my Dad ran a traveller campaign. At one time, I had a fat trader-- Empress Mirarva type. It was hijacked by pirates, so naaturally, my character gravitated towrads hunting them down iin a broadsword claass mercenary cruiser (the 800 ton sphere). Then, it was recquisioned by the local authorities for use in some colonial war, and we were forced to make do with a subsidized merchant working for IIRC Marc Oberlindes… (Traveller Adventure)
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The Star Wars universe suffers a lot from Make Shit Up As We Go, especially with the novels.
On the one hand, tramp freighters and/or smugglers have to depend on either flying under the radar, or having good enough paperwork to operate in Imperial space.
On the other, after Order 66, the Empire mandated coded transponders for all ships in order to pin the surviving Jedi on planets. (Which is a remarkably dumb idea when examined in any detail.)
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According to the current publications, sure. But there are older official Star Wars publications/posters etc. that used different descriptions for various components of the ship from what they’re called now. For a long time those round protrusions on the sides were officially “escape pods” and now they’re considered “air locks” or “docking rings.” There are old posters out there that describe the area between the mandibles as a front loading hatch for cargo.
Of course the real story is that, like everything else in this franchise, the filmmakers started out with a cool, iconic shape and worried about coming up with technical explanations for the design much later on, if ever. These explanations are often contradicted or retconned whenever a new filmmaker wants to make a change as a convenient plot device.
I got to witness some of this process first-hand during my involvement with a cool project that includes a full-scale replica of this particular ship. Fun times!
So I don’t consider anything to be truly “canon” if it hasn’t been shown in a film yet. But even that can change if a filmmaker decides he or she doesn’t care about precedent, so it’s best not to get too invested, I suppose.
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You’re out there by yourself you have to provide whatever you need. You need to be able to blast navigation hazards and IRL many civilian vessels still have an armory or at least a plan to repel borders with fire hoses.
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Well, if you click on the link above, it does show that the mandibles were used for cargo pre-Disney. But yeah, in the old media, specifically for the West End RPG, it said that light freighters like the Falcon were often heavily modified so you literally could come up with a reasonable explanation why no two were the same. The Falcon basically had beefed up weapons, engines, and shields that no freighter that size should have.
And there were also a lot of different sources for schematics etc, not all of them from Lucasfilm (and even those that were weren’t consistent). I was lucky to have a Trekkie friend who had access to a copier that would copy architect drawings, and had fan made schematics of the ship. It was awesome.
I did crack up on the West End Star Wars Sourcebook, and it doesn’t specifically note what they were for - at least not in my skim.
Sound advice! Or at least, roll with the changes.
I suspect Boba Fett is going to re-christen his ship name, and that will result in some fan boy screeching. I am just like, “If the character wants to rename his ship - why not?”
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It is already happening!
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The armory is stocked with the latest in glaives, sabres, and halbards, the better to repel borders with. (slugthrowers are far too dangerous-- they might puncture the hull.)
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Yeah, but so far it is a marketing change. It isn’t clear if it is an official name change. I am not sure if that will make matters better or worse 
Seriously, some people have too much time on their hands.
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IIRC, when HG Wells wrote his first stories the genre was tentatively named scientific romance.
Maybe they should have stuck with that.
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