Why do you assume the two are mutually exclusive?
(Edit for a bit of clarity) Err, the insanity and finger lightning thing…
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[quote=“toyg, post:69, topic:92263, full:true”]
Over-analysing Star Wars is a problem now?
Did you join the internet last week?[/quote]
Can’t argue with that comment 
Here take this +1
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So how many R2 droids are there? If R2 identifies the type and D2 identifies the unit there can only be 260 R2 units in the hundreds of planets of the SW universe. Doesn’t even seem like enough for all the X wings in the resistance.
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Local cop enforcing speed limits.
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Do they work against the Force?
Never underestimate the bandwidth of Andy Tannenbaum in a station wagon hurtling down the Kessel Run.
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Osleo Prennert is not allowed to drive spaceships. They say he gets ‘too excited’ and he is ‘accident prone’. They have given him a portable narrow-beam comms, which he can use to spot spacecraft. This is done automatically by the guidance network, but it keeps him amused and busy, and out of trouble. And a helmet because he is still accident prone.
Today was a big day for Osleo. He spotted an old Millennium-class. You don’t see many of them these days. They used the old Falcon 140 chassis rather than the new, smaller 120’s. They were over-designed in the day, but they keep on going, he says. His mate Jedoo says if you mod them up, they could do the Kessel run in less than 10 parsecs. His mate Jedoo is full of shit.
Osleo Prennert is 42. He lives with his mother. You should see his cereal packet collection. No, really, it’s amazing.
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job? he’s a harmless trainspacecraftspotter having a great pastime
blargh, @Richard_Kirk got there 10 minutes faster and much better written
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That could actually be a good throwaway line for Finn in a future movie. “Look, BB, I don’t understand. Why can’t you use my language?” 3PO could then apologetically reply that astromech 'droids are opinionated and surprisingly conservative when it comes to their vocoders. Something nice and vague.
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Simple. He has more plugs than sockets.
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Not a reply to anyone, but a nit-pick of my own: the data cartridge on Scarif made some sense, as it was an archived backup. It wasn’t just the Death Star plans, but the entire archive of the project for a set period. With time such a factor, the rebels did a “copy everything and sort it out later” approach. So it takes 30 seconds instead of 3, better than wasting 300 seconds looking for just that one file.
However, doing the bucket brigade to the blockade runner whilst Vader was on their tail was silly. If they wanted tension, then they could have had the flagship pulling up, getting out to where the blockade runner was waiting, making a laser transmission, and away the runner shoots. Keep Vader a lurking, shadowy menace, having him personally attack the couriers was a fallback to bouncy Yoda. Ick.
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Interesting. So English gradually must have changed to some other language - say Old English or Teutonic - and then re-evolved in England until it again became recognisable in about the 17th century. Or English is the result of convergent evolution. Or I am over-thinking this.
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American science fiction is stuffed full of George III impersonators, being mad, dangerous and anti-freedom is the template. It’s a kind of archetypal creation myth. I think it also explains to a degree the US tendency to side with “rebels” even though in real life they tend to be head chopping fundamentalists or bomb-happy drug runners rather than sympathetic media-friendly relatable characters.
Well, you’ve got your own George III now. Twitter may be a visually weak substitute for finger lightning but it could prove just as dangerous.
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Could be R2-alphanumeric identifier.
So, could be 36*36= 1296 R2 units.
Or, it might not be a unique identifier, but a package specification that is used as a name. So, R2 is the chassis and basic processing function (trash-can shape, interface with X-Wings, basic sensors, three legs, wheels and motors), and D2 is the Jedi special-ops version of the R2 model (welder, lightsaber storage, secure data storage, universal computer interface and hacking, jet propulsion).
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That’s brilliant. Less Motherboard, more Mother Jones.
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And I love them both nonetheless for it.
The entire journey was launched on flawed scientific sentiment.
Parsecs.
But on the bright side, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word “Enhance.” in the SW universe.
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I am definitely far from IT department material. That noted, this thread is one glorious reason I love the BB community.
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As do I. I’m probably more a fan of fantasy than sci-fi anyway. I just kind of laugh when people try to force the plot to make sense as if these stories take place within the bounds of the physical laws of our universe. It requires a tremendous amount of effort, when it’s much easier to just accept that these stories do not take place in a universe with the same laws of physics as ours. Which isn’t to say that there isn’t some really dumb, inconsistent stuff that could have easily been avoided, because there is.
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