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Discussion in 'Literature' started by Gruntz, Aug 6, 2018.

  1. In Legends Quinlan Vos died in a Lightsaber duel against Darth Vader he regretted not being able to save Aayla Secura
     
  2. Alpha-Red

    Alpha-Red 18X Hangman Winner star 7 VIP - Game Winner

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    Shields aren't that powerful, and they only contribute to about 30% of a ship's durability in combat. Likewise, planetary shields are not impregnable. The reason that orbital bombardment is not feasible in most cases isn't due to a planetary shield, but rather because most strategic worlds have powerful surface guns (like the v-150) that deter bombardment.
     
  3. in Legends Zam Wesell is Transgender and Jango was ok with that
     
  4. Sinrebirth

    Sinrebirth Mod-Emperor of the EUC, Lit, RPF and SWC star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    New Republic numbers at the start of the war were 3,000 ships, 450 of which were Star Cruisers and Star Destroyers. 75 belonged to the Fifth Fleet New Class, and 75 included Mediator-class cruisers and Bothan Assault Cruisers - the New Neo Class because 'New New' sounds redundant.

    The Yuuzhan Vong arriving with, according to initial estimates, 1,000 capital ships and thus 9,000 escorts put the New Republic on the defensive. This is a gross under-estimate and the total armada is, initially, likely 10,000 Miid Ro'ik destroyers and Matalok cruisers, and 90,000 escorts. That is ignoring construction, with Yuuzhan Vong craft able to be grown much quicker than the New Republic equivalents could be built.

    Fondor constructed 30 Nebula-class Star Destroyers; Corellia focused on Strident-class Star Defenders, Proficient-class light cruisers and smaller Corellian Corvettes and Gunships; Loronar contributed Belarus-class cruisers; Hakassi could build New Class reinforcements for the Fifth including Endurance-class fleet carriers; Rendili Republic-class Star Destroyers (often lumped with the Victory-class); Kuat focused on Republic-class star cruisers and Nebulon C Corona-class frigates; Mon Calamari constructed Mediator-class battlecruisers and MC-series light cruisers; Bilbringi constructed variants of Imperial-class Star Destroyers including the Rejuvenator-class and Imperial-class Interdictor Star Destroyers, but also frigates, corvettes and other 'small stuff'.

    The initial meetings of the Chiefs of Staff suggested production would double by next year, at which point they were concerned the Yuuzhan Vong would have already made great gains. Indeed, they reached the Core, as we all know, at Duro, wrecking the First Fleet and damaging both the Fourth, Fifth and the informal Sixth Fleet build around the Neo New Class - all within the first year.

    In the first year of the Yuuzhan Vong War the New Republic constructed 10,000 ships, and in the second, 20,000. In the third, they intended to construct 40,000 but whatever fraction they did create, it was more than the 50,000 ships the Vong sent to Ebaq 9. Thereafter the Vong took the majority of the remainder shipyard systems and most of the New Republic fleet was lost by the end of the war.

    The New Republic lost all-but a full fleet in the first year of the war, and Fondor was severely damaged and it's contribution lost. However, we know it only took a handful of months to repair, as evidenced late-war also. So the contribution may have been lessened, but it because the New Republic retained the system the net loss was likely minimal - I say this as those 30 Star Destroyers were constructed in a matter of months. The losses of the shipyards of Duro and Gyndine were not incredible blows, but morale would remain at breaking point because of Sovv and the NRDF allowing the Yuuzhan Vong to appear invincible.

    The Battle of Coruscant saw half the NRDF turn up, and Garm Bel Iblis lost half of that, because we know that his fleet was larger at it's final stand than it was at the beginning, and he had taken losses by all accounts in that initial retreat from the systems edge to Coruscant. The loss of Coruscant was a military and political disaster, but only insofar as much as the New Republic lost a world that had fundamentally crippled their strategic abilities, and politically had made them insanely focused upon the wrong goals. Sovv's strategy of triage did mean however that only Bilbringi was lost of the major shipyards - a 'yard that the New Republic had already mostly abandoned. So as much as losing Coruscant, Bilbringi and a quarter of the NRDF was a nightmare, the disruption to the Senate freed the military to act. Half the galaxy lost, but the Yuuzhan Vong had not greatly damaged the New Republic war machine.

    Kre'frey himself emphasises that the New Republic had recovered from the entirety of it's losses by the time of Cal Omas' election, but they'd lost experience, thus breaking up surviving squadrons of seasoned fighters into multiple squadrons of veterans and newbies. We also know the Yuuzhan Vong were outnumbered at the Battle of Ebaq 9 after the trap was sprung, and this was in-spite of the Guardian not attending, and Bel Iblis keeping back half of his six battle groups...

    I reason and rhyme that the Galactic Alliance fielded the typical 75 Star Cruiser/Destroyer deployment a year after Ebaq 9, which we know saw the Yuuzhan Vong take back Fondor, and take Kuat and Hakassi - but not Corellia or Mon Calamari. 300 capital ships are lost at the Battle of Yuuzhan'tar, which inevitably includes Hapan and Imperial losses, what with all but the entire Second Fleet immolated.

    So, yes, the Galactic Alliance lost a lot of strength in the year following the Battle of Ebaq 9, especially in the last two months of the war after the HoloNet was destroyed. Which seems fair.
     
  5. MercenaryAce

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    Interesting point.

    Fair enough.

    I mean, if they were doing that, I think the Grysk would show up in more places than Zahn's novels, like how there were a ton of references to "the high republic era" in various novels and comics, but unless I am missing something, they haven't gotten so much as a casual mention elsewhere.

    Plus, Ahoska isn't a super long show and it already has enough to deal with in its run time without introducing a whole new threat.

    ....and given what Thrawn's troops were up to in the Mandalorian, it is hard to see Ezra work with them, foreign threat or no.

    That would be logical, but sadly we have a lot of LAATs in space shots to account for.

    Similar looking HAATs?
     
  6. Alpha-Red

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    I'd just mentally retcon them into something else, like say the Nu-class shuttle. The LAAT just doesn't look spaceworthy at all...it's got no ion engines, and I'm pretty sure that passenger compartment is open to the outside of the ship.
     
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  7. ColeFardreamer

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    1) The hyperdrive matrix circuitry we saw first in TPM was reverseengineered from the structure of a Purgill brain.

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    2) The planet Endor which the Sanctuariums Moon orbits that is supposed to vanish from time to time does exist in two places at once and nowhere.

    While one source (ROTJ novel) says it vanished sometime in the past, another afterwards shows it in the sky over its moon (Ewoks movies). Both can be true if you take into account the Endor wormhole that as per Jedi Prince series sent DS2 debris into the oceans of remote Dac.

    The planet orbits close to the wormhole and part of his orbit take him in and through the wormhole and back out some amount of time later. Hence it vanishing and reappearing regulary but people misconcepting it as either being gone for they did not stay till its return, or it being around.

    That though would mean that the planet Endor, a gas giant, sometimes exists in the Dac system! Or if it enters the wormhole but does not exit it at Dac kinda bouncing back in the middle of the wormhole and only enters and leaves it in the Endor system, merely throwing DS2 debris through till Dac?

    How though can the planet vanish but not take its moons with it through the wormhole? They remain orbiting the point where the planet had been like it still contained the gravity to keep their orbits stable. Kinda orbiting the wormhole instead!

    This makes me think the wormhole is no natural occurance but was made in the past by precursers inhabiting Endor or its moons. Maybe a failed Hypergate/Infinity Gate Star Temple left to rot and cause mayhem occasionally? More likely a Star Temple given the wormhole must be in space quite close/orbiting the planet Endor rather than an Infinity gate on it or a moon unless it was a failed/destroyed moon.
     
  8. ColeFardreamer

    ColeFardreamer Force Ghost star 5

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    The "Heart of Dathomir Nebula" in the Dathomir system eerily reminds me of Exegol's Red Space Nebula...

    Quote from SW Galaxies MMO website:
    In general Galaxies MMO Space expansion was full of obscure lore and stuff!

    I headcanon that these witch space forces are the Nightsisters spaceborn branches that tried to return to the planet past Imperial blockades and free their trapped sisters down on the world. Maybe these spaceborn witches are the descendants or actual witches that Mother Zalem and Talzin sent off decades ago with missions to far flung worlds, like they did with Charal and others we know of?
     
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  9. darklordoftech

    darklordoftech Force Ghost star 6

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    The Buick in Rogue Squadron somehow came over from the Primary Universe.
     
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  10. MercenaryAce

    MercenaryAce Chosen One star 6

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    There are car looking airspeeders. Who is to say some of them aren't modified to be combat capable?
     
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  11. The Positive Fan

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  12. ColeFardreamer

    ColeFardreamer Force Ghost star 5

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    Spaceballs is canon and exists in a corner of the GFFA inuniverse... flying cars are nothing new ;)
     
  13. darklordoftech

    darklordoftech Force Ghost star 6

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    Maybe the author of that page believes in Supernatural Encounters and Alien Exodus.
     
  14. Vialco

    Vialco Force Ghost star 5

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    As seen in Operation Restbreak.
     
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  15. Golbolco

    Golbolco Jedi Master star 4

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  16. Luke in the New Canon had a Crush on Dr Aphra but She did not respond to his feelings because She was more into Girls also Luke was devastated by the death of Nakari Kelen his old Crush later Luke learned to move on and Focus to his Jedi life i think this version of Luke never found love because later he forbids attachment in his own Jedi Order

    Legends Luke first serious romance was with Shira Brie
     
  17. Vialco

    Vialco Force Ghost star 5

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    Followed by Gaeriel Captison, Jem Ysanna, Callista Masana, Akanah Norand Pell and finally Mara Jade. I like that Luke was definitely not celibate in Legends. I enjoyed seeing Shira’s return in LotF and Luke’s old feelings for her resurface in a way.
     
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  18. ColeFardreamer

    ColeFardreamer Force Ghost star 5

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    How dare you forget Alex Winger in his flirtlist!
     
  19. Alpha-Red

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    Going back to this...why do they have LAAT's flying throiugh space? At first I thought it's because it was early on in TCW's run, that they didn't have many ship models, so they just used the LAAT. But then I see that the Nu-class shuttle appears in the TCW pilot movie...so it was there from the very beginning, and they could have used that instead for any scenes requring a space transport.
     
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  20. Irredeemable Fanboy

    Irredeemable Fanboy Jedi Master star 4

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    Maybe it's not serious enough?
     
  21. Force Nexus

    Force Nexus Jedi Master star 4

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    LAATs in space was also a thing in the classic Battlefront 2 and in Clone Wars 2003. I mean, LAAT has doors on the sides which can be closed, so one would assume the ship is hermetically sealed. Nu-class shuttle was a supply/transport ship, not a gunship. They have different functions.
     
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  22. i said his first serious romance not his first one
     
  23. ColeFardreamer

    ColeFardreamer Force Ghost star 5

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    From a certain point of view... his first serious romance was Leia!
     
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  24. Irredeemable Fanboy

    Irredeemable Fanboy Jedi Master star 4

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    He certainly kissed Leia many more times than Shira [face_laugh]
     
  25. darklordoftech

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    Long after the events of the movies, the Journal of the Whills made its way to the Primary Universe, where George Lucas found it and said, “The 4th part would make for a good movie.”