Jaenera Targaryen
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I'm sure someone's made porn of it, too.![]()
The fuck...?
I'm sure someone's made porn of it, too.![]()
Yes, exactly that.The fuck...?
Jar-Jar x whoever Rey's grandmother is, of course. Which using anime logic means she would look exactly like Rey.![]()
Humans can pipe anything and end up with viable results. Proving once again that Humanity is superior and the Pius Dea crusade era was founded on facts.I know you’re joking, but now I’m wondering how Rey having a Gungan grandfather would work? I’m no xenobiologist, but I imagine there’d be some, ah, “reproductive issues” there.![]()
I was hopeful considering how well Disney brought Marvel Avengers together.My reaction when my friend told me that Disney was buying Lucasfilms.
Man, I completely disagree with this take on things. The Empire was shit, and it was designed to be shit. Remember: the same story that introduces those Force Storms also explicitly tells us that Palpy's goal is to maximise suffering and ultimately consume all life in the galaxy. The stupid meme that authoritarianism is efficient simply isn't true, and Palpatine was much worse than regular authoritarianism.Had the Empire faced the Yuuzhan Vong, it would have been very overwhelming victory for the Empire.
1. The Empire had Thrawn, who would be entrusted by Palpatine himself to lead the effort against the Vong. Thrawn had already encountered the Vong whilst still part of the Chiss Ascendency and they captured some Vong biotech in a skirmish in 27 BBY with a Vong scout fleet.
2. Thrawn would bring about an alliance between the Empire and the Chiss, which would further aid their position as the Chiss were aware of the "holes" in the galactic border that the Vong could infiltrate.
3. The Empire had a massive inventory of neutron bombs. A bomb specifically designed to kill living things. Plus, the Vong had spent millennia in the intergalactic Void, a place where there was no sun or any sort of radiation. They would be extremely vulnerable to any sort of radiation weapon, especially neutron bombs.
The Empire would pin down the "holes" in the galactic border and await the Vong. Any attempt by the Vong to send infiltrators would fail. The Vong would then revert to their basic strategy: full frontal assault. Imperial forces would respond with thousands of missiles, all tipped with powerful neutron bombs. It would be a massacre. And if that isn't enough, Palps himself would be there himself and destroy the remaining Vong with a Force Storm that transported them to the nearest sun.
But it's thrawn! The bestest best admiral the Empire ever had!!!!Man, I completely disagree with this take on things. The Empire was shit, and it was designed to be shit. Remember: the same story that introduces those Force Storms also explicitly tells us that Palpy's goal is to maximise suffering and ultimately consume all life in the galaxy. The stupid meme that authoritarianism is efficient simply isn't true, and Palpatine was much worse than regular authoritarianism.
Two years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a pretty lengthy article in which I outlined how and why the Empire would probably be crushingly defeated by the Vong. (Spoilers: Thrawn in charge wouldn't do much good, either. His record is far less impressive than his fanboys think it is.)
He's blue! That's the best colour!But it's thrawn! The bestest best admiral the Empire ever had!!!!
He's blue! That's the best colour!
Care to expand on this at all, or are you just going to leave it there like that?Two years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a pretty lengthy article in which I outlined how and why the Empire would probably be crushingly defeated by the Vong. (Spoilers: Thrawn in charge wouldn't do much good, either. His record is far less impressive than his fanboys think it is.)
Expand how? The article is finished, I can think of little to add to it. Or do you mean that I should go into it at length here? That would just boil down to copy-pasting the article I already wrote, and that seem a bit redundant to me.Care to expand on this at all, or are you just going to leave it there like that?
Why you feel the way about Thrawn the way that you do.Expand how? The article is finished, I can think of little to add to it. Or do you mean that I should go into it at length here? That would just boil down to copy-pasting the article I already wrote, and that seem a bit redundant to me.
Literally the entire second half of the article I already linked. Do you want me to just quote it here in its entirety? I can't put it any more clearly than I already have over there.Why you feel the way about Thrawn the way that you do.
I was hoping for more of a TL;DR of what exactly you don't like about him
In short: the best thing Thrawn could have done for prepare for the Vong invasion was join the New Republic.
To him, that was unthinkable, and that's precisely why he wasn't so great as he believed himself to be. His own ego and his own love of authoritarianism got in the way of anything resembling good judgement