Now This is Podracing! The Star Wars Catch-All Thread

[Abraham Smashington]

[Ari]

This is probably the best thing you'll hear all week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0YHc0xKqJ8

[Ari]

Well this sounds interesting:
http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-b...-rian-johnson/

I've purchased all the novels (since Disney bought Lucasfilm) so I'll be getting this for sure. I'm gonna need to try to finish the current one I'm reading ASAP since Bloodline comes out next Tuesday.

Bet Snoke is one of Han's ex's or something.

[Abraham Smashington]

The Snoke stuff better show up in the movies though.

[Ari]

They had better have a solid plan for him and Rey. None of that flimsy Lucas shit (Darth Plagueis, Dooku telling Kenobi a sith lord was running shit, the story behind the clone creation). I want answers, dammit!

[gravedigger]

That video of Ridley practicing her lightsaber moves made me feel things. There was a disturbance in the Force, if you will.

[Ari]

I felt it too, my brother. Oh boy, did I feel it.

[Ari]

Here's some interesting facts that have come from the novel Star Wars: Bloodlines (I'm more than halfway finished reading it):

It takes 20 years after ROTJ

The Empire is gone. Done. Nothing remains

The New Republic is split into two factions; the Centrists (planets should take care of themselves) and the Populists (the Republic should assist planets). Leia is a Populist

Han trains pilots to compete in a race called the Five Sabers. Him and Leia are together, but haven't seen each other in a while

Chewie is back at his home doing Wookie things

Leia hasn't spoken to Ben or Luke in a bit. They are off training with no access to communication it seems

Leia is done with politics, but gets sucked in to one last investigation that leads her to a new crime boss, which leads to the revelation of a very large militia forming in the Outer Rim (I'm going to take a guess and say this is the First Order)

The Niktos (remember most of the dudes on Jabba's sail barge?) have given Leia the title "Huttslayer" since they discovered a holocam of her strangling Jabba. They hated the hutts and see her as a hero

The New Republic doesn't have a figure head since Mon Mothma stepped down. They are now looking to elect a "First Senator". The Populists want Leia to run.

The truth behind Leia being the daughter of Vader has not been revealed to anyone other than a handful of people. It's completely unknown to the galaxy until a Centrist senator discovers a recording made by Bail Organa intended for Leia telling her Vader is her father

While the book is very heavy with politics, it fairly interested for the most part. I'm really digging it.

[Abraham Smashington]

That sounds pretty dope.

[Ari]

Just read some more last night and the bomb was dropped; at the ceremony to declare Leia as the Populist candidate for First Senator, the recording of Bail telling Leia that Vader is her father was revealed. At this point in time only Han, Luke and Leia know this (possibly Chewie too, Leia isn't even sure). She hasn't even told Ben yet!

Needless to say, any chances of her becoming First Senator are gone as every ally she had in the Republic just turned their backs to her, for the most part.

And that militia forming in the outer rim? It's a group called the Amaxine Warriors that are planing to attack the New Republic paving the way for the galactic takeover of...the First Order.

[Abraham Smashington]

[Ari]

Now Anakin's turn to the darkside is starting to make sense.

[gravedigger]

The Slave 1 Metal Earth model is fucking difficult. So many tiny, delicate pieces! And then they throw in big curved moves for fun.

[B_Metal]

The goofy look on his face makes this work far more than it should

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[Ari]

The Slave 1 Metal Earth model is fucking difficult. So many tiny, delicate pieces! And then they throw in big curved moves for fun.

Fuck those things. I spent five minutes trying to put one together and just ended up wanting to strangle a kitten.