General Star Wars Questions

You never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs

But… Who was piloting it? 😉

Yeah, it only took one post to get to the exact kind of question that goes in the Random Thoughts thread.

JEDIT: But don’t blame yourself, this is all Neverar’s fault.

Only the odd numbered ones? So you don’t recommend the original? Or if you’re discounting the prequels you don’t recommend ESB but you do recommend Jedi? Or were you making a Star Trek joke? I need answers plz.

NeverarGreat said:

TV’s Frink said:

Yeah, it only took one post to get to the exact kind of question that goes in the Random Thoughts thread.

JEDIT: But don’t blame yourself, this is all Neverar’s fault.

Except that:

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

We need a stickied thread in the General Star Wars Discussion for general Star Wars questions (and sticky the Star Wars Random Thoughts thread).

Everything you said is correct.

You left out the post I made two seconds later after actually seeing this thread in action. FAKE NEWS. SAD!!!

I admit I misread your original post, and only realized it once I read the actual thread.

But mostly I ADMIT NOTHING!

Do you think Willrow Hood had a lot of friends?

No. His only friend was his ice cream maker. Its name was Hank.

Jeebus is now officially named Public Enemy No. 2.

Well of course Public Enemy No. 1 would think that.

What would happen if someone dropped a lightsaber on the ground? Would it fall to the center of the earth and be eventually melted by lava? Cause earthquakes?

That depends on velocity and the angle of descent.

I’m pretty sure lightsabers still require some force (in the Newtonian sense, not the Force™) behind them, they don’t just melt through everything with no resistance. Think of the scene from Phantom Menace where Qui-Gonn has to cut through the blast doors on the Trade Federation ship. He was clearly putting a considerable amount of effort into cutting through the doors. I’d imagine a thin floor could be cut through, but the lightsaber would have to be dropped at the right angle, and very forcefully. I doubt it could get through a thicker floor, or even a second thin floor.

There’s also multiple instances (first shown, I think, in ROTS when Yoda is chopping up clones outside the Temple) of a character throwing a lightsaber, the blade impaling a victim, and the saber staying in place just like a sword or other physical object would, rather than falling to the ground and partially bisecting the victim.

On a semi-tangential note, I’d like to say I don’t like how powerful lightsabers are depicted, cutting through practically anything and everything with minimal to moderate effort. Had I been the one designing the SW Universe, I’d have given lightsabers roughly the same cutting power as regular swords.

I think that the force needs to be limited in what it can do. Otherwise certain people, you know who you are, will post things on forums like, “Why didn’t Vader just nab the Death Star plans when he was in that hallway at the end of Rogue One?” when they know full well that while said scene was going on he had a dozen Rebel Fleet Troopers trying to shoot him. You know come to think of it an infinitely better question would be is why didn’t Vader using the force in A New Hope sniff out the Rebel’s hidden fortress? When the force can do anything like corral a ship that has it’s engines on and is moving forward the writers of these movies opens up a can of worms and plot holes.

Jim Smith said:

I think that the force needs to be limited in what it can do. Otherwise certain people, you know who you are, will post things on forums like, “Why didn’t Vader just nab the Death Star plans when he was in that hallway at the end of Rogue One?” when they know full well that while said scene was going on he had a dozen Rebel Fleet Troopers trying to shoot him. You know come to think of it an infinitely better question would be is why didn’t Vader using the force in A New Hope sniff out the Rebel’s hidden fortress? When the force can do anything like corral a ship that has it’s engines on and is moving forward the writers of these movies opens up a can of worms and plot holes.

When has the Force been shown to corral a moving ship in the movies? Honestly I think the Force isn’t depicted as being limitless in power in the films, that’s mainly an EU thing, and even then I can’t recall anything super outrageous in anything I’ve seen/read of the new canon. At least nothing along the lines of the shit from the Force Unleashed games.

I thought lightsabers had to have pressure on them to stay lit, either from three persons hands or from the force (when being thrown)

I mean consider all the times it’s knocked out of someone’s hands or the hand gets chopped off or three person holding it killed. Saber always turns off and I doubt the user always had time or thought to flip the switch.

oojason said:

I thought they’d have some sort of safety switch on them too? - y’know, just in case one of these things accidentally gets brushed or touched and the Jedi loses his leg or something…

Do they have a safety switch?

Oh my, that picture is hilarious. Obi-Wan just had to be thinking that Luke was a complete idiot.