Everything Anzati: Let the Soup boil

Discuss your favourite Species in here^^

new spoilers from Insider88 Hyperspace Online Supplement:

pre-Republic time: The Sith species had encountered the Anzati on Korriban and worshipped them as gods, sacrificing living beings to them.

this shall become an Anzati ressource and discussion I hope^^

 

Actually, the article only states the Sith encountered the Anzati, and took certain attitudes from them (the dining on bloodsoup thing). The Sith didn't worship the Anzati, which is a shame.

 

Wasn't the Anzatai soup more of a concept than actual soup made from someone's blood?

 

Force-sensitives had a "special" soup, as did the ridiculously lucky (Han).

 

The "soup" is the brain's juices.

*needs to get Hyperspace*

 

In Republic, it's implied that soup has more than something to do with the Force. IIRC, Karkko can feed on other Jedi to get stronger in the Force.

 

I think it's interesting that the Anzati are fairly well-known in the Clone Wars era (Dexter Jettster and Villie both know who they are, all the Jedi seem to know where Anzat is, the spaceport on Anzat is full of offworlders, etc), but by the era of the Galactic Civil War no one seems to know where they're from or whether they even exist at all.

Is it possible that the decimation of the ranks of the Anzati assassin masters (Akku Seii infers that all the teachers except him are off on Saleucami) after the Outer Rim Sieges that they adopted a much lower profile, such that after a single generation they're dismissed as old spacers' tales?

I also think it's interesting that the Anzati appear to have the best stealth skills in the the GFFA, or at least have some kind of secret that combines really well with Jedi stealth training. We know two characters with Jedi and Anazati stealth training (Tholme and Aurra Sing) and they're both highly skilled, and even Tholme's apprentices are on another level with their skills. Tholme is arguably the stealthiest character anyone's ever seen - he manages to live inside the Separatist headquarters on Saleucami for months while actively sabotaging their equipment and they concede that they're helpless to find him without Quin's assistance.

 

Very cool and much needed twist.....

 

Personally, I think it more likely that Palpatine eliminated another possible threat to his dominance of the Force, possibly after taking on the ones who would join him. We know that Dooku was planning this with Palpatine, and do we really have any information that he didn't put it into action?

 

I have a problem with Danny Jericho: he's never lost a hunt in eleven centuries?



No way. There's no way I can Revlon creduality of that magnitude. It's just something you can't mask. But I like the idea of vampirian aliens, and their continual development in Ostrandan comics was great to see. I'm eager to see what happens in Clone Wars 8.

 

Its not really a shame, since that would relegate the biggest bad guys of the Star Wars universe, i.e. the Sith and the order they spawned, into second-rate baddies, who worshipped the first minor aliens that exploited them.

 

I just am longing for the day to see a tip of the hat to Oliver Twist in the EU, featuring the Anzati.

"Please sir, can I have some more?"

 

Since Anzati are so long-lived, I hold out hope that some like Akku Seii and Saje Tasha will show up sometime in the Legacy comics.

 

Not quite, since this is the primitive Sith species, not the Dark Jedi who eventually interbreed with them and become the Dark Lords of the Sith we all love to hate. So in that case, it's quite likely the Sith would worship the first aliens they meet...just as they later come to worship the Exiles.

 

Bring back Dannik Jerriko!

 

It still makes them look like fools when various other cultures could be given that backstory instead - if anything some cultures should have worshiped the Sith as death gods. The Dark Jedi were only worshipped because the Sith society had degraded back to some primative level after being a space power and the Dark Jedi were able to do things that seemed beyond either biological possibility or (theoretically) Sith Magic. I hope the interaction was more like the Sith trying to repel their invaders and being ruled for a while - not as unprecidented within the Star Wars universe. Since Adas has been made official with his own 28,000 year old holocron, we can no longer say things like the Sith before the Dark Jedi were primative fools.

 

Nowhere in the article does it state that the native Sith were particularly advanced, even under Adas' reign. They colonised several planets, yes, but they could have done that with conventional spaceflight. It seems likely they never mastered the hyperdrive.

We don't even know that they had blasters, either, since their primary weapon even in Adas' time seems to be the lanvorak.

And please note, the Sith encounter with the Anzati is stated as being "prehistoric".

Every species has a primitive, cargo-cult stage, I'd imagine, even the Sith.

 

I second that. His two short stories were badass.

 

Fixed.

 

Hey, he was in that one Galaxy of Fear book, too! And all of those were great.

 

I don't know about the GOF book, but those Tales sure were great -- if by "great" you mean "incoherent".

 

People seem to forget about things pretty quickly when they're properly swept under the rug in the GFFA. Thirty years later and no one knows anything about Jedi, the Force, or the CW? C'mon.

Perhaps Palpy had some reason to keep peoples' mouths shut about the Anzati...

 

Well they weren't exactly primitives, they had space travel, and probably got hyperspace from the Anzati, meaning the Anzati who attacked the Sith or whatever probably got dined on by the Sith. These may not have been the Dark Jedi, but they were the SIth, Adas is the Original Sith, more so than the Dark jedi

 

Um..Obi-Wan said in the comics most citizens in the Republic have never seen a jedi, and some never even heard of them. Seems like people didn't beleive much in the jedi back then.

 

Exactly. There are about 40 million inhabited planets in the galaxy, and in the CW era only 10,000 Jedi, including Padawans. That's 1 Jedi for every 4,000 inhabited planets. Now, considering that they usually travel in pairs, that they often try to keep a low profile, that they don't flaunt their powers, and that they're going to be disproportionately active on the busier, more heavily settled planets, only an infintesimally small number of people in the GFFA will ever have seen the Force in action, or a lightsaber while it's activated, or really a Jedi that they knew was a Jedi at all.