Here's an interesting POD in the Disney version of Star Wars:
When Grogu is kidnapped by Moff Gideon, one other person joins the rescue effort: Ahsoka Tano.
Ben Solo made good distance – about 18 miles – in the first night, and had gone to ground. His shelter not only kept him cool during the hot daytime hours, it had thermo-optic camouflage capabilities.
The second night saw him make his way another 15 miles, where he’d seen a collapsed AT-AT...
The village militia was all of 22 beings with older or makeshift blasters. Against eighty stormtroopers, they really had no chance.
Still, they fought. The stormtroopers were out in the open, and a fierce, but brief firefight raged. Soon, most of the militia was dead or wounded. Poe Dameron and...
Not by the 4th Circuit, but if cases get to SCOTUS. Obama managed to flip that circuit.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York will be a big tell. Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh are very strong on the Second Amendment, and Gorsuch appears to also be as well...
Pretty much the following:
Elements of the X-Wing series
Large Portions of The Thrawn Trilogy
Large Portions of Dark Empire/Dark Empire II/Empire's End
Elements of Jedi Academy
Elements of Timothy Zahn's Hand of Thrawn Duology
A few characters from NJO
A few characters from the Cade Skywalker...
The Star Destroyer closed in on the planet Jakku, where three decades ago, a major battle had been fought between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance.
It had been a gambit by the Empire to recover after Endor, and it had gone badly for them. Endor had seen the Emperor die, the second Death Star...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away…
STAR WARS
EPISODE VII
THE FORCE AWAKENS
It is a perilous time in the galaxy. The sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire, and struck a blow against the NEW JEDI ORDER, leaving only a handful of the guardians of justice remaining...
I look back at some of my earlier works and by comparison, they are nowhere near as good as my later ones.
Still, I found the Federation/ADN conflict to be one of the more mesmerizing, as well as the collapse of the Federation.
There is a very rich drama you can get when your protagonist and...
Ironically, to call back to the early Transformers comics, have Spider-Man meet Bumblebee... who cons his way in as a Stark Industries prototype.
Tony Stark then deploys the suit, and blasts Bumblebee.
"Peter, in what universe do you think I'd come within twenty feet of a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle?"
One interesting note: When Transformers first appeared on the pop-culture scene in 1984, their comics were done by Marvel. There was even a crossover with Spider-Man.
So, suppose Marvel hadn't allowed Transformers to slip away... and the Avengers were fighting alongside Optimus Prime...
The problem I have with George W. Bush is not what he did as President - for the most part, I think his reaction to 9/11 and the plan for the War on Terror was on point.
The problems were what he FAILED to do.
1. He failed to ask for a larger force structure to handle not just he War, but to...
I'll go on the indisputably bad presidents from most recent to present. I will ignore the restriction, since the most recent ones did play a part.
Barack Obama - George W. Bush had the War on Terror stabilized in Iraq. Obama threw all that work away. He pretty much donned kneepads for the...