Comics Star Wars #9: Showdown on the Smugglers' Moon, part 2 (of 5)

Did not expect Tera Sinube, Oppo Rancisis and Shaak Ti to be int his issue. I suppose this proves that the latter survives the initial stage of the Purge, if she has time to record such a message.

 

I honestly believe the situation in the Outer Rim was equally bad under the Empire as it was under the Old Republic. But the situation in the galaxy as a whole did get worse under Palpatine. His rule started with the mass murder of the Jedi. Then he approved of the construction of two planet destroying weapons to intimidate the galaxy. He destroyed one world due to Rebel sympathizers and planned on destroying further rebellious worlds. In the Empire lives were meaningless. If they got in the way of Palpatine's power, they were eliminated. Loyal Imperials were meant to be used and then discarded when they were no longer needed. This is far from the compassion Mon Mothma has been known to show.

The Clone Wars comparison doesn't work because the situation was different than the Galactic Civil War. In the Clone Wars both factions were controlled by Palpatine. So the leadership of both sides is interested only in their own power. As a result, there wouldn't be a single leader in Star Wars who is a good person. In tthat case I'd prefer Mon Mothma because she at least pretends to care for her troops and doesn't seek to oppress the galaxy. However I really do believe she isn't pretending.

Furthermore, we have no proof that Mon Mothma wanted to be on top; all we know is that she ended up there. For all we know, she wanted Bail to lead, but everyone wanted her to. We don't know how things worked in the early Rebellion, so we don't actually know how Mon Mothma ended up in power.

 

It does indeed although when she died we don't know or how she escaped the temple without being murdered.

 

I was hoping Yoda's vision in TCW, which seemed to depict Shaak Ti's deleted death scene by Anakin in Episode III, was meant to canonize that particular event. Possibly not, but when it comes to Holocrons, who knows the rules at this point? They do seem to be more straightforward information tomes in the new canon, but maybe this issue's scene is evidence they can be more than that as the were in Legends.

 

Nah, I want a comic series on Shaak Ti's post ROTS escapades.

 

Maybe Shaak Tii guided and trained Ahsoka for a bit similar to Maris Brood in TFU

 

Nah Ahsoka left the Order

But I would be down for a last stand comic with Shaak Ti.

 

Or a comic showing how Shaak Tii survives order 66 and could end with her not dying. :3

 

Though hopefully wearing more clothing as she did.

 

Don't you mean hopefully LESS clothing

 

No.

 

When I see these skimpy outfits, I often think it would look less trashy and sexist if they were stark naked. Because if you want to show a "feral" society which doesn't care about clothing, you may as well go all the way. Of course tv and movies are weird in the way that the naked body is stigmatized in a way that gory violence isn't.

Well, not as much in my home country, you get to see more full nudity here than in the US. Naked bathing and the like is a big thing here and has nothing to do with sex. So maybe it's a culture thing.

 

...Yeah, I probably knew I shouldn't have brought this up.

The character can dress however she wants (frankly, Felucia isn't really a place for heavy clothing anyway). I've just always been a bit peeved by the clear OOU "Shaak Ti's gonna wear a skimpy outfit now cause this is a vidya game" thought process.

 

Given that Count Dooku was an evil Sith Lord that started a galactic war that killed millions of innocent beings, that's not a very flattering comparison...

 

Well I'd argue in favor of Count Dooku's integrity. The Republic committed their share of atrocities. The ones attributed to Dooku are Imperial propaganda

 

Foolish jedi knight. No one can out-Jello Jello. There is a reason he is a grand admiral after all. That reason being he typed it in when naming himself but hey, it is a reason.

 

Warlordism at its best.

 

Hmm... Omnipotent Battle Leader Lugija?

 

I'm not trying, there isn't much point in that. Jello is too good. The only reason I argue with him, is because I think he's really cool and want to participate in his discussions.

My pro Separatist thing isn't really pro Separatist, it's more pro Rebel through the lens of a Separatist. Starting it wasn't because of Jello. About a year ago there was a post about the Empire that I jokingly replied to with maybe the Separatists were right. I used the hash tag Jedi for the Separatist Movement as a way to communicate it. A Jedi would have never supported the Separatists during the war and so it would have to be a post war thing. In a way it was an expression of the futility that may have been felt by some at the end of the Clone Wars. A Jedi who survived would look back and see that all of the Death was for nothing. Still they may not have all of the information and could end up sympathizing with the Separatist holdouts.

Everything I say is more of an insult to Palpatine than it is to say the Separatists were really good.

The Dooku think I admit was stupid. That was more to see what people would say. Obviously Dooku is terrible, so comparing Mon Mothma to him is an insult. It was a way to defeat my own arguement by harming the credibility of the person I was supporting.

 

Luke opening up the holocron scene was fantastic. And any time Leia sasses and fires blasters whilst sassing is a win in my book.