This. Nobody could have filled Palpatine's shoes, especially when so much of his plan was played so close to the vest as a conspiracy that led specifically up to him. There were only a few people who were in on the whole thing, like Sate Pestage, but without someone of Palpatine's stature behind him they'd have been in no position to push the Empire project through. The biggest losers would still have been the Jedi. They were already very distrusted, and with the killing of a beloved war Chancellor laid at their feet, the PR fallout would have been catastrophic. I don't see how they weather it without agreeing to the immediate arrest of Mace Windu and all (what's left of) the Jedi Council to stand trial for killing Palpatine, which almost certainly ends in their life imprisonment, at best, because nobody's going to accept "but he was a Sith!" as a defense. ... but, hey, if you were willing to die for the Republic, this is basically in that ballpark.
well then at least this plays into another theory I have and that most problems would be solved if you just kill Palpatine lol
The Onderonian Rebels' symbol has its origin in the planet's ancient Sith history, unbeknownst to Saw, who adopted the symbol after seeing it in a tomb he had been using as a base. It bears some similarities to the symbol of the Sith Eternal. Spoiler: Images
Exar Kun and Ulic Qel Droma were the first Rule of Two Sith then Revan and Malak imitated them then Bane the true inventor Marka Ragnos
Headcanon: Even in nucanon there are multiple Coven of Nightsisters and other witches of Dathomir across the planet and the one led by Mother Talzin was just one of the more powerful ones. Solely because I think it's a bit silly to have a planet described as "nothing but fog and witches" if there's only a few dozen witches.
The "Womp Rats" the Lego Star Wars games are actually Scurriers. Ignorant offworlders would occasionally confuse Scurriers with Womp Rats.
For me, the High Republic definitely exists in Legends simply because I like the aesthetics. Zeta Magnus/A.T.H.A. Prime was also Palpatine's Constable of Homunculi on Byss. The Lost City of the Jedi on Yavin IV was the main Jedi base for a few thousand years after they left Tython but before they moved to Ossus. I may have to think on the idea of a longer Clone Wars. It would probably fix a bunch of problems but one of the big ones to me (the actions of Anakin and Obi-Wan right before ROTS) would still be a huge issue. Man, I member when you could just take half the old Clone Wars and put it in the first 6 months of the war, and the other half and put it in the last 6 months, and it would basically sorta work. But then TCW just. had. to. keep. going. There exists an alternate universe where Ruusan never happened and the NSW just kept going for another millennium and now Master Dooku is the Supreme Chancellor
Dooku meet Tenebrous Rugess Nome in person like the Jar Jar Sith theory so for me Jar Jar become an Imperial agent or Dark Jedi after ROTS SWTOR Sith started separate themselves from Sith original doctrine so it was not rare to see Light Sith or Gray Sith during this time that is why during the time of the New Sith Wars Kaan Order was seen as acceptable Sith Order, during New Sith Wars was not rare to see many types of Sith, Grey Jedi Shadow Jedi existed too but were more rare
Until she appears again, I choose to believe Barriss Offee joined the Partisans Kamino had some off planet cloning and training facilities (it just seems...weird to imagine a galaxy scale army fitting on a planet as sparsely inhabited as Kamino appears to be.) Lothal was specifically targeted by the First Order, and was the site of a fairly major battle of the First Order occupation. As an aside, I am baffled how many people online tend to think of womp rats as small creatures - two meters is six feet after all, those are some pretty frikken big rats.
Might depend on if two meters is nose to tail tip, or nose to rump, and if they have unusually long tails or not. A small-style womp rat could be 80 cm (nose to rump) with a 120 cm tail, for example. Much smaller than a 200 cm (nose to rump) womp rat - yet both fulfil "two meters long" but in different ways.
If nose to rump is how Luke is defining two metres, he's being oddly humble about his skills in that scene. Maybe he's talking about the Greater Kray- I mean Greater Womp Rat, as opposed to the Canyon Womp Rat (Alley Womp Rat?)
Amongst the various Imperials, bounty hunters, and slavers in attendance at the Kessendra Coronation were members of the Pyke Syndicate, the Karazak Slavers Cooperative and the Night Fangs, as well as Shalla Mondatha, Embo, Zeta Traal and Kybo Ren-Cha's pirate crew (who had escaped captivity), agents of Eleodie Maracavanya (who were there for pretty much the same reason as C-3PO & R2-D2), and of course Durpin & Plumstriker.
True, I hadn't considered that. That reminds me of another headcanon I had: Kessel was a major battle early after the Endor. Partially to secure a hyperfuel reserve for the republic fleet, but also to free the slaves and remove spice as a source of funding for the Empire and allied criminal groups. In fact, while their were some imperial forces and forces of the Kessel royal family at the battle, the majority of the defenders were a mercenary fleet thrown together by the 5 families, especially the Hutt Cartel and Pyke Syndicate. The lose of much of these forces contributed to the downfall of the crime families. To return to the Kessendra Coronation - I could see either Tricolous usurping the Kessel royal family and then declaring himself emperor trying to use Kessels reasources as emperor, or him working with the KRF to make a galactic bid for power with Kessel at the center of the new empire.
That's really interesting! I wonder if the Battle of Kessel lines up with Trioculus' fall from power?
Something new for my multiverse headcanon - shatterpoints (the people/events, not the Force ability) are the opposites of Fixed Points in Time, being key moments/choice in flux that can unfold multiple ways and impart long standing/widespread changes to the timestream as opposed to events that must happen in lest their timelines lose integrity. Anakin's potential actions in Palpatine's office represent a shatterpoint, as does Luke's potential actions during his final showdown with Vader, while others include whether or not Edith Keeler dies or lived in 1939, the Battle of Narendra III and young Picard's choices during the barfight with the Nausicaans. The Destruction of Pompeii, the death of the N-Space version of Pete Tyler and World War II were all fixed points. Nah. Naboo has two many poor people for Wick (though, why anyone would chose to be poor is beyond me...) My headcanon has always been that Saw's a Beast Rider (specifically he's a descendent of Gobee - I.E "Gobee Gerrera" - Oron Kira's lieutenant) and that symbol is the emblem of his tribe (which formed the basis of his sister's original resistance group). The other covens do exist in canon, IIRC (presumably they live in different areas then the reddened mountain/jungle area were the Nightsisters live). As for their being other covens I don't know if the current information supports that idea (Shelish is supposedly the last member of the coven as of 4/5 ABY, and Merrin, who lived on Dathomir, clearly doesn't think there are any others left), but I definitely think there's room for the group to be re-formed later (or even for heretical offshoots that people like Merrin, Shelish and Maul wouldn't consider *real* nightsisters to exist) In my headcanon - where Trioculus was emperor for a brief time between ROTJ and Squadrons before being assassinated by Rax to keep the Empire from unifying - the Pykes were definitely amid his backers and were present at his coronation, and he married a daughter of King Yaruba (the Yaruba Dynasty I imagine, based on their majordomo, to be Twi'leks descended from slavemasters in the employ of the Hutts), who was another of his backers. Grand Admiral Takel was one of the first senior military officers to openly declare for Trioculus, and in response he was made Supreme Commander of the Imperial Military (only to be executed later and replaced by General Shale, who was herself replaced by Rae Sloane after she was captured at Akiva*). Hissa was still a grand moff (his territory was just the Kessel sector, which warranted a grand moff because of how important it was), but the other members of his cabal were just regular moffs (Dunhausen was the Moff of the Arkanis sector**, Disra the Moff of the Braxant Sector and Thistleborn was replaced by Adelhard from Uprising). The Acolytes of the Beyond (in place of the Prophets of the Dark Side) also supported him (though they were in reality aligned with Rax and the contingency and were acting to undermine is rule/misinform him), under the leadership of Kadann*** (who was one of the few aware of Palpatine's survival). Several members of what was left of the Imperial Ruling Council (acting on their own accord) were present as well and the embattled government of Mas Amedda on Coruscant, largely because it had no power to oppose him, did not object to Trioculus claim (though they didn't outright recognize it either), which arguably made him the legitimate emperor for a time. The Lost City of the Jedi wasn't real in my headcanon, but was in fact just a symptom of Trioculus's insanity and delusionism (I picture him as being a Garth of Izar-type madman with Hissa as the real power behind the throne during his brief reign) - another symptom was the repeated (and costly) attacks on Naboo, which he ordered in order to reclaim his "father's" homeworld. *Sloane was the Chief of the Imperial Navy prior to this, having replaced Uther Kermen thanks to the influence of Rax after the latter was removed from his post by the ruling council because he failed to keep fleet together (Kerman himself replaced Admiral Prittick - who succeeded Motti - shortly after the Battle of Endor after he was removed for the same reason). **he's one and the same as the unnamed moff mentioned in The Rebel Files. ***the actual Kadann, not his decoy (though I imagine the real Kadann as being a Bimm rather then a Human dwarf anyway). Kadann and his high prophets are, unlike the majority of the Acolytes, Force users (Kadann I imagine as being played by Peter Dinklage, Mirelli as a dark-haired Carice Van Houten and Jedger as a taller Michael Ansara), and their origins were largely the same (Kadann was former Jedi Master who left the order years before the Clone Wars, Jedger was his padawan who left with him and Mirelli one of the survivors of the Nightsister massacre) My personal headcanon is that Barris received a stay of execution due to Palpatine's mechnications (or was outright freed by his agents) and subsequently recruited into the Inquisitorius as one of the higher-ranking sisters (either as First Sister or, if we assume First Sister/Brother is the codename of the Grand Inquisitor, Third Sister). Regarding Kamino I alway assumed their were facilities in the other cities (plus underwater labs) and on any moons it might have (it had three in Legends) - perhaps even dedicated cloning/training sites. Speaking of the Five Syndicates, my headcanon is that the fifth member is the Zann Consortium rather then the Crymorah Syndicate, with the Crymorah instead being sometimes counted alongside the "big five" due to the fact that the Hutt Cartel is a member of it. The Pykes dominante the spice trade, Crimson Dawn make most of their money from PFC operations (which they use to surreptitiously conduct raids for loot and slaves), Black Sun are big in piracy and smuggling and are the most influential in the Core World due to their extensive legitimate business ventures that they use as fronts and their ties to the Imperial government, the Zann Consortium focus on electronic/cyber crimes (including secret holonet slave trades) and offset their smaller size relative to the other syndicates with their cutting-edge tech and careful strategy and the Hutts, being the biggest and oldest of the gangs, have their hands in every criminal pie, with Jabba being both the Supreme Mogul of the Cartel/Hutt Space and the de facto "capo dei capi" of the galactic underworld.
It's not that baffling if you assume the authors aren't that familiar with the metric system. (There was a Star Trek episode that described Picard as being 2 meters tall after all). Luke is describing a small target (and the creature has "rat" in its name), so if you're not familiar it's easy to assume they're the much smaller like I did as a kid. Although in hindsight, Luke is pretty casual about the terrifying revelation that Tatooine is home to rats that would tower over most humans and a few species of bear.
That's why he left! XD This is amazing. I especially like Yaruba connection and the sectors of the Moffs. Another few minor thoughts I had on the topic of Trioculus's faction: -After executing Takel, Trioculus co-opted the Magic Dragon for his fleet. -Noval Garaint was also present on Kessel. Like the rest of the bounty hunters / criminals there, Hissa had put out a mass request of mercenaries though how many took the job is questionable. -Trioculus wanted to relocate to Hoth (as mentioned in "The Glove of Darth Vader") but didn't get the chance to due to his obsession with Ken and Leia and being a general idiot. This really frustrated Grand Moff Thistleborn, who in my headcanon (that I just thought up of now) basically had his position as governor of the Anoat Sector (where Hoth is located) usurped by Adelhard. Like Takel vs. Grunger, Thistleborn joined up with the promise that Adelhard would be dealt with.
