Lit GENERAL QUESTION THREAD (What to read? Where to start? What's canon? What's not? Duros, etc.)

Conspicuously missing from this post: a question.

 

Legends isn't lost. I'm listening to Dark Force Rising right now . It still exists just as much as Disney's Star Wars does. And yes to me too, Legends will always be my chosen EU.

 

What can a scientist in my Star Wars fan fic be researching or working on?

1. It can't be a game-changer or have the potential to alter the storyline e.g. lasers that can punch through deflector shields or better targeting systems for stormtroopers

2. It can't have already been done in Legends or Canon

3. No technobabble please

 

Again this is probably the wrong thread for that. But anyway, how about portable dry cleaning technology.

 

Maybe something to do with the hover trains on Coruscant. Always could do with more train engineers in SW

 

The difference between the crystals created by the Death Star laser after its use against Jedha, Scarif, Alderaan and the Liberty.

 

Whatever is thematically appropriate for the story you’re telling.

 

Per the translated map in the new "Resistance", Dagobah is now on star charts. Do we know anything about this in canon, as in when it was charted and what's known about it by the general public? Was it made public by Luke, investigated for its Force-iness, latterly famous as the last home of Master Yoda, or is this little nugget the only thing we know about that?

 

Since it is an FO map, there is a solid chance Kylo or Snoke are the entire reason it is on there. That and was it only charted by the order?

 

I don't think anything else has been said in canon, but I'm also not sure you can trust on-screen map designs to reflect in-universe concerns accurately. They always have systems familiar to us spelled out.

 

Question: have there been any irreconcilable contradictions in canon yet?

 

Not to my knowledge, and I've been keeping a fairly close eye on things. Some small things have slipped through the cracks, but, as a whole, stuff is more connected now than ever. Hell, Rogue One directly set up a plot element for TLJ (Hyperspace Tracking), the Poe Dameron comic eluded to Resistance before it was out, and Rebels tied into Rogue One.

 

What are the main minor screwups, really? Some contradictions about the Imperial Remnant, and perhaps Han's age? There was a quickly corrected glitch in the timetable of the second Vader comic but that only really ended up placing some Imperial tech earlier in the timeline than seemed likely. Am I missing much there? Nothing catastrophic for sure.

 

Honestly, the only thing that still sticks in my mind is the fate of the Jedi Temple screwup from pretty early on.

 

I still cant believe they didn't make the original Imperial Palace.

 

The bottom tier of that, reminds me very much of the Jedi Temple. Sadly, as I recall, the ROTJ Special Edition Blu-Ray showed an apparently completely unmodified Jedi Temple in the Coruscant Celebrations, so when they decided to tie the Palace to the Jedi Temple, they restricted themselves in what form the Palace could take.

Yup - the novelization of the Spark of Rebellion episodes of Star Wars Rebels, said the Jedi Temple had been razed to the ground and there was now no remnants of it, but this contradicts the ROTJ Blu-Ray, so didn't last long.

 

Do anybody know the real life reason/reasoning to why the ST has so few non-humans and why they did not reuse any of the existing ones beside named characters and some extra mon cals?

 

I have no answer for the few recurring races, but I do think they did have more aliens than prior trilogies. Canto Bight is a great example, almost everyone we see is a different species. The Resistance is sadly overly human, but still does have some nicely diverse aliens including some that are less humanoid that usual

 

That kind of thing happens when the writer wants to write about their own characters rather than someone elses already created characters. They want to see their alien designs not someone elses. It is the writer thinking about themselves rather than imagining what the fans might like or what would be best for the book or movie.

 

I like the new alien designs.

 

So I wanted to bring up the canon species I love, and to make sure I remembered them I tried to find a list......and there is no good list for canon aliens. Even the Wook is outdated on that front. So random thought, should we start a thread similar to what @AdmiralNick22 did for starships in canon?

 

I like some of them too. But putting lots of new aliens together and not mixing in old ones is what made Canto Bight not look like Star Wars

 

Is there any read-through thread project for any of the WotC stuff?

 

Resistance has a good mix I think.