Twi'lek culture post-Empire?

Has it changed much since its depiction in Rites of Passage, or is it still in the sell-your-daughters-into-slavery/we-do-not-discuss-business-in-front-of-women-and-children mold?

 

Well, it evdentually joined the New Republic, which made slavery illegal. So, I imagine that they changed their system at one point in the years leading up to their joining.

--Adm. Nick

 

Thanks for the response.

I'd have to say that it seems like slavery continued though, judging from the case of the Rar sisters.

 

IIRC Slavery was illegal in the Empire as well

I doubt such a profitable business would be totally shutdown.. maybe they moved on to contract business... IE sign someone for say 30 years.. pay up front.. it would be like slavery but still legal.. or the "other" form of slavery.. permanent debt.

 

That is total BS. Even if that was the law, it was sure as hell not practiced. Hell, Ackbar was a slave to Grand Moff Tarkin. The ENTIRE Wookiee population was enslaved and forced to work in labor camps.

--Adm. Nick

 

Well, as you'll recall, slavery was illegal in the Old Republic also, and yet they didn't seem to be inclined to try to stop the Ryloth slave trade.

 

Doesnt matter if it was still practiced Nick. it was still technically ILLEGAL. Slavery is still practiced in the traditional sense in Africa/Mid East in our world even though its been denounced to the nth time.. and its still practiced in the US of A and Britan in different ways.

 

Good point.

Those Twi'lek girls have certainly had a rough time of it.

 

Of course, there was an "Underground Railroad" for Twi'lek girls, IIRC. It was mentioned in Bounty Hunter, under some bounty entries.

 

Interesting. Do you know where I could look that up?

 

Well, if you have the game, the bounties are in the Coruscant Nightclub level and Gardulla's Palace level. If you have the gameguide, they should be in there too. Unfortunately, I'm away at college without my GameCube and SW notes, so I can't transcribe it for you. But you could try asking in the Mando Reference thread.



Edit: Ah, it was called the Freedom Convoy. From CUSWE:

this group of freedom fighters rose to prominence during the last decades of the Old Republic, when they launched a campaign to free female Twi'leks from enslavement at the hands of the Hutts.

 

Face it to most people the Difference between the Empire and the Republic to most people is that you called the Boss Emporer instead of Supreme Chancellor.. it was for life.. But to the average Joe on the streets nothing changed.. different uniforms.. same face

 

IIRC the Republic didn't intervene in the Ryloth slave trade because it was "part of their culture" or something similar.

 

IIRC the Republic didn't intervene in the Ryloth slave trade because it was "part of their culture" or something similar.

That´s Old Republic. High principles - and a lot of exceptions to them.

If one takes that attitude, practically everything is allowed, as it can be claimed that it´s "part of their culture". Probably they thought that having Twi´lek slavegirls were also part of the culture of the uncountable number of planets the Twi´lek girls were sold to.

 

It was part of their culture, though. The Republic was afraid to change things and let such barbarous practices continue--the Galactic Empire did not stand for them. It attempted, in fact, to bring the Hutts to justice but that was foiled and it settled on leving heavy taxes on them as a sort of fine for their habits.

So the Empire was profiting from the girls suffering and masqueraded the whole thing as a punishment for the Hutts?

I would just once like to see a Hutt as a slave of a Twi´lek...

 

That would be incredibly funny...

 

Didn't the NJO have a couple of female Twi'leks in their ranks?

 

Swilja Fenn (a descendant of Ro Fenn?), Daeshara Cor, Alema and Numa Rar.