Lit Disney Wars: Episode 7 and the EU (Disney Purchasing Lucasfilm, intends to release Ep 7 in 2015)

Also note that all evidence of the Empire working with aliens is from the EU, not the movies - RotJ even kind of implies that the DSII is being built by humans. Point being, it's not like WEG just pulled it out of thin air.

Palpatine had a non-human apprentice.

True- but in more recent works he's portrayed as more "tool" than "intended successor".

It's also possible that "near humans" like Zabrak/Dathomirians, and so on, were less distrusted than aliens with no descent from humans (or the common ancestor of humans, if the split was really early).

So you're blaming WEG for creating anti-alien bias because it was contradicted in 1999?

I was just saying that future movies should feel free to contradict that part of WEG canon.

Interesting...

>Unifying Force
> Train wreck

You don't need to resurrect or clone Chewie, just have someone take off with him in a ship mere minutes after the Falcon leaves, and then have Chewie stranded or imprisoned somewhere.

sorry that does not fly. Han saw Chewie burning to death, as the air ignited. Anakin was correct when he said there only a few seconds left before the falcon would be destroyed. Not enough time for Chewie to be rescued.

ITT: Jello not being able to read disdain

That would really explain why Han didn't feel so close to his family in the months after Sernpidal, but it would also ask for a few really weird questions on how his relationship with Leia was repaired and became something even better/closer than before...

Esg, you've used that picture before. Some of us don't get it.

I think it's supposed to show crying.

Please elaborate. This sounds good and I want to understand it. (Been meaning to reread that bit for ages, anyway.)

That said, if the Empire's regularly stripping the populations of entire worlds of their citizenship and reducing them to "protectorate" status, that statement can be true in letter, while less true in spirit.

By "some", do you mean "all"?

I was being diplomatic.

Sorry, JM, but the book doesn't say that - the last glimpse of Chewie that Han had was of him shaking his fist at the moon.

Some people seem to have gone to town with the description - Dobido was only 20km in diameter; Earth took a 10km diameter space rock in Yucatan (the alleged Dino-killer) and we're still here! Earth's atmosphere didn't ignite (getting air to actually burn is, from discussions of firestorms in a WW2 forum, seemingly rather difficult) and certainly our atmosphere wasn't "stripped away"! We're still breathing it, aren't we?

What would probably have happened was one (possibly two) strong lateral displacement(s) of air - similar to what we see in the nuke-test footage - then the impact and finally, secondary ejecta of varying temperatures.

There was also:

Bit difficult to put all that down to an astrographic error.

It never really made sense that a species noted for its space liners could have had "first contact" so late ("less than 20 years ago") anyway.

Going back to the original topic, it would require another ship to rescue Chewie in the nick of time- I don't think just "taking shelter" would have been enough in that timeframe.

This presupposes alien creature induced lunar kamikazes operate according to earthly laws of physics

Which is to say, for all we know a magic Vong pterodactyl picked him up and Death Star trench ran him into the moon's core.