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The Republic realistically wouldn't have lasted if the Force was removed. It would have broken apart into a very large number of pocket empires that all have effective planet destroying weapons and as a consequence you are going to end up with basically eternal, incredibly bloody, war. The Jedi...

Because only pussys play Republic? Sith for life in TOR, the only proper path. ;) It could be interesting if they did it justice, but they won't. And yes, the galaxy needs the Jedi if it wants to last. SW weapons technology is too powerful and far too available. You can't have a unified...

Emotions are the path to the Dark Side. The problem is that most of the SW media wants to focus on "good guy" Force Users (i.e. Jedi) who are also "normal" people with normal people concerns and interpersonal relationships. Except the Jedi never really were fine with it. Ever. The past allowed...

So random Star Wars peeves: Conflating the Light Side and the Jedi. A Light Side Force User can love, have attachments, raise a family, and generally be a "normal" person without much issue. You can use the Light Side of the Force for petty bullshit and to play with. A Jedi can't. Jedi are...

Even in the EU, the total number of surviving Jedi is under a hundred. Force Sensitives aren't Jedi. Leia, for example, was entirely untrained pre Endor and wouldn't have been trained at all if Palpatine didn't fall. And no, Palpatine would have sat that throne basically forever if Anakin...

It's less about the specifics and more the "I want to survive/I want to win" idea. Crewed vs. Crewed that basically cancels eachother out, although morale has a substantially more notable effect than in real life and one of the impacts of Battle Meditation is disrupting the enemies unity of...

And the original Sith failed in basically all their goals basically all the time. Say what you will about the Baneites, they did successfully conquer the entire galaxy, wipe out the Jedi, and replace the Republic. And they did it (relatively) quickly too. Palpatine failed in properly securing...

The Rule of Two is actually a lot more stable than it first appears. Remember that everyone covered under it is a very powerful Force user. You aren't in consideration to be taken as the Sith Apprentice unless you have the raw power to at least be Jedi High Council level. Just like the Jedi...

If you are already at fifteen different versions, sixteen is no great loss. ;) More seriously, it was easy money and would give you a cast of actors who are 1) cheap (relatively speaking) and 2) young enough to get years of hard work out of. Oh, and tell George to fuck off because Han shot...

What Disney should have done was a straight remake of the OT with a new cast and modern CGI. It would have made at least as much money, they had a great excuse to do so, and it would have given them a much younger cast to work with over the next twenty years. Then, at the same time you are...

It wouldn't be. The Star Wars tech base is reliant on resources and infrastructure that simply don't exist on or around Earth. I mean Repulsors? The critical component of those is harvested from around black holes. Imagine taking your smartphone back to, say, 1990 and trying to recreate it...

It is something of a chicken or the egg thing. When the OT first occurred, Han being some relatively random space trucker worked because none of the universe was fleshed out at all. But taking into account everything else? Jabba the Hutt was a seriously top tier criminal. Hell, he was...

I don't really see it as a problem. My issue is with people just not really bothering to think about it. Vader did have quite a few enemies in the Imperial Elite. If you look at any of the EU stuff, he was basically notorious for really despising and hating politics. And if you had a problem...

Think about the Rebel Alliance. Out of a galaxy of a quadrillion or so beings, they numbered what? A few million at the absolute high end? And that number is including informers and the like. In terms of people engaged in active combat operations they were substantially less. Bail, Leia, Mon...

No, my issue isn't on the story being focused on the rare individuals; it is the failure to realize that they are doing so. Like the Jedi pre-clone wars? They numbered ten thousand or so. Just compared to "trillion" number for Coruscant, the Jedi are 0.000001% of the population. Out of a...

So more a comment on the SW community than the media itself. People don't get just how rare the main characters are. Jedi, Sith, Galactic Senators, ship captains, bounty hunters, etc. They all, collectively, make up the smallest fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the total galactic...

Ruusan Reformation limited local military forces as well. The bigger issue was that, post Ruusan, the Republic's central government effectively gave up any ability to actually use force as a practical matter to enforce its will or serve its ends. Local forces could be called up and nationalized...

It was a Super Star Destroyer landed in literally the center of the Imperial Capital. Within line of sight of the Imperial Palace itself. They cleared an area roughly twenty kilometers long and a few wide of all structures - this being literally the most expensive real estate in the entire...

For Maul and even Dooku, my explanation would be that they weren't ever actually proper Apprentices (regardless of what they thought). The only one that Palpatine ever had properly anointed as his Apprentice was Anakin as Vader. Remember that Maul was around when Plagueis was still alive, so...

So thoughts on a random idea: The Rule of Two was more than just an idea, it was also a massive Sith ritual. A Sith would ritually anoint an Apprentice and bind themselves to several rules in regards to said Apprentice. Mostly the Master has to sincerely teach the Apprentice and can't...