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At minimum, IG-11 visibly has three main visual photoreceptors on dual independent rotating mounts, plus a 360-degree ring of lesser sensors, and his combat style is clearly centered on being able to track in all directions and engage in multiple directions with extremely accurate dual-wielding.

I'm pretty sure they plan the entire season sequence out in advance, so this may very well be a plot hook for later rather than a last-minute revision.

I would argue it's actually not unreasonable for the NR to say, "If you actually had a conscience, you could have defected at any point during the actual Galactic Civil War. Defecting *after* it's said and done doesn't cut it so much." Keep in mind that the NR is pretty much emulating the...

Again, the Galactic Concordance deal doesn't actually make Coruscant a New Republic system; it's a nominally independent puppet government with Mas Amedda as a Hirohito-style figurehead. It's not explicitly laid out, but the idea is definitely that the Remnant doesn't control the Core entire...

I'm pretty sure that Disney canon takes a minimalist view of both the Empire and NR's fleet sizes, so the massive reserve fleets seen in things like Dark Empire simply don't exist in this timeline. Which in some ways makes more sense than, "The Empire always had these reserves, but they just sat...

Because the Imperial rump government doesn't surround Coruscant on all sides. As I understand it, the Galactic Concordance peace treaty was basically a "status quo" peace deal except for Coruscant switching from Imperial control to a nominally-neutral single-system government of its own. The...

That's exactly why this was a non-negotiable point for the New Republic -- they'd let the Empire continue to hold the Core Worlds except for Coruscant, which is to be turned over to a nominally-neutral caretaker government. As for why the Empire agreed to the deal, Mas Amedda agreed to it...

I disagree that it "was literally never a point" in the original EU; Leia being "Lady Vader" was a *key* plot point in the Thrawn Trilogy, as in it's ultimately the entire reason the Noghri end up switching sides and killing Thrawn, and the root of the ongoing loyalty that the Noghri have to the...

I'd argue that an Alliance founded in no small part by corrupt politicians from a rotting house was never going to be capable of building anything but another rotting house. From that point of view, Mon Mothma's idea that the central government had to be heavily disarmed because it would...

To be fair, it's not in the actual movies and stuff -- it's from Chuck Wendig's third book, Aftermath: Empire's End. On the other hand, the Aftermath trilogy does present Leia Organa as sensibly opposed to this bullshit disarmament, and indicates that this is the reason for her loss in...

According to the official stuff, the New Republic apparently declared every Imperial military officer a war criminal unless they surrendered immediately, whereas the political leadership of the Empire were all conditionally pardoned. This was, apparently, some kind of attempt at a strong-arm...

As far as I can tell, the Disney canon runs that the Empire still had firm control of the Core Worlds, but lost enough of their offensive mobile fleet assets at Jakku that they were willing to sign a peace deal that included surrendering Coruscant to a supposedly neutral "provisional"...

Honestly, my headcanon for that remains that the moderate Imperials are content to keep their heads down and keep the peace for now so they can rebuild their worlds without interference from the New Republic, just like the Mandalorians did in the ~300 years between Mandalore the Uniter and the...

*sigh* If we're going to repeat this debate: What is straight up (EU) canon is that originally, Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Garm Bel Iblis were the three founding leaders of the Rebel Alliance, forming essentially a leading triumvirate with equal power. Mothma and Bel Iblis often clashed...

I actually liked that idea. Since centralization of power to Coruscant was *the* primary factor in the rise of the Empire, measures meant to prevent repeat centralization of power to the Galactic capital and Core World interests are pretty much the ONLY good thing the New Republic even tried to...

I think it's a realistic take; the "leadership" of the Alliance to Restore the Republic was heavily dominated by the same "rich, important, and powerful" Core World interests that had dominated the Old Republic, so it absolutely makes sense that the New Republic directly repeated the corruption...

The Children clearly adhere to a fairly extreme version of Mandalorianism, but they do not come off nearly as fanatical as you're asserting. If they were remotely that fanatical, they would have taken Din's armor and the Darksaber away from him after he admitted to having removed his helmet, and...

If he was truly ostracized in the way practiced by actual culty-religions, he would have been stripped of his gear and dumped outside, and shot on sight if he ever came back. The Armorer is still talking to Din, and they apparently didn't take him off the secret mailing list since he knew where...

Given that the water ceremony is specifically mirroring the Living Waters in the Mines of Mandalore, which is a mythosaur lair, there's a good chance that the presence of a mythosaur-substitute in the water is a necessary element for their religious beliefs. It doesn't look like they...