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Anakin and Dooku
- Dooku is implied to be Anakin's father, but then the dialog here
makes no sense.....- Well he hasn't technically contradicted himself. Maybe the G.M didn't want to reveal this plot twist just yet and put it in as foreshadowing.
- This strip seems to imply that Governor Tàrkin is Dooku's son. #1745 further supports this idea.
- The only indication we have that Dooku is Anakin's father is a short line of Dooku, when he's desperate enough to tell Anakin anything if it means saving his skin. Probably a lie.
- Dooku's dying words, "Anakin, I am your f-" could just as easily have been "I am your friend" as opposed to "father".
Vader
- So, what, Padme is ALIVE? Or is Vader screwing around?
- The latter is most likely the case. Padme was Jim's character, not Annie's, and while it's been a while since the Episode III strips, IIRC they still used the scene of Anakin being put in the armor. So most likely it's Vader messing with Luke.
- Nope, it's confirmed: she's the one in the cyborg suit. This makes soooooo little sense and here's why: http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0650.html
- Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene from our perspective.note My take is that Anakin was on that operating table so that Palpy could extract the midichlorians from him to put into Padme. The seeming-non-gap from Anakin's last words to the sealing of Vader's armor was a Jump Cut and Palpy's comment about octaves was meant to imply that Padme's voice would now be similar to Anakin's old voice.
Vader and the Force
- If Vader is Padme, how can she use the Force?!
- They explained that with The Reveal: the Emperor transfused Anakin's midichlorians into Padme, a process we already know is possible because that's how Jim!Qui-Gon gave Anakin Force powers in the first place.
Lost Orb
- Okay, I'm stumped. When was the Lost Orb taken from the Peace Moon? And when and where did R2 come across it?
- The Lost Orb, being such a powerful entity, was not destroyed when the moon detonated - instead it got chucked into space and R2 calculated the trajectory and snagged the Orb on the way to the rendezvous point. This was lampshaded in the comic, which led to the explanation.
Shapeshifters and Spies
- So if Mace was the spy, and he specifically says he remembers the clone army as one of the things being forced to help with, where does Boba Fett's mother come in if she supposedly impersonated Mace to gain access to the Jedi Treasury? Since Jango is working with Nute Gunray, why not have Nute make Mace pull the strings himself? Why use an imposter when you can use the real thing?
- It's possible that they needed the real Mace at certain places and certain times while they needed a second one doing something else.
- It is not established whether the original 'Han Solo' was in fact a shapeshifter, or if every captain of the Millenium Falcon has claimed the identity of Solo and the shapeshifting is an Informed Ability that emerged as part of the Han Solo legend.
Are Keybounce & aurilee as blind as Chirrut?
- How are they mistaking Chirrut's staff for any kind of bladed weapon? The title of the strip even refers to it as a "Big Stick".
- They probably assumed that the title was just another twist on the old "talk softly and carry a big stick" quote. Chirrut's staff looks a bit like a really long katana in that comic, and they both apologized in comic #1557.
Jabba's transformation
- When Jabba says "I conceive a new form is in order. A less writhing, more corpulent experience!", is he referring to shapeshifting, plastic surgery, or a biological metamorphosis that is part of the Hutt life cycle in this setting?
- Most likely metamorphosis, but perhaps with a side order of shapeshifting. Like, Hutts can have different forms, but rather than shifting around mass like Odo would, they set about altering their physiology to suit what they want.
Pete's minmaxing
- What's with Pete's odd minmaxing? He seems to be lacking in all the skills that you'd think the minmaxer would try to optimize. He didn't pick the spellcaster class, the traditional refuge of the minmaxer. His only attack is a 1d4 damage melee shock probe and he's the slowest character in the team, making him the worst combatant by far. He's got some built-in gadgets, but nothing that seems particularly useful or exploitable (possibly even slightly underpowered compared to what Jim and Ben started with). He's apparently got a development plan for his character, but doesn't to have any notable new capabilities in later installments. He's got a few skills that he's maxed out, but not very many, and ones that depend highly on the story, map design and campaign setting to determine their usefulness, which Pete would have no way of anticipating. He wasn't familiar with the campaign when he designed the character, it probably didn't have the aspects he'd have to rely on designed yet, and he wasn't familiar with the GM.
- He heard "sci-fi space campaign" and assumed "Space Dreadnaughts Bristling With Atomic Missiles," and so made a droid that would be awesome if he was anywhere on one of those- and to be fair, he's been able to work some rather impressive feats while in that particular environment (downloading the Peace Moon, or altering the Peace Moon's firing arc, or piloting a dreadnought, or working the controls of the fightercraft...). Unfortunately, Star Wars is a rather different animal, so Pete's best use almost never comes up. Also, the GM seems to short-circuiting a lot of Pete's Maxing to keep the campaign fun for everyone else, and Pete doesn't really adapt either because he's just contrary like that or because he's invested too much in things he's really good at (that almost never come up) that he can't branch out into the things that do happen routinely in the campaign. Coming to Minmaxing for Chirrut in Rogue One, and he's much more successful at anticipating a character who could break that adventure in half.
- Unlike the others (except Corey, who joined late), Pete has never needed a new character (outside of Rogue One, which uses a completely different party) since R2 survives into Episode IX (at least!). So it looks like he chose well after all.
- This does disregard the idea that they'll end up making new characters to play as and have their previous characters become NPCs (although with Han's major role in The Force Awakens, we can assume Jim will play as him up until his death), which would mean that Pete would be leaving R2 in the GM's hands.
- R2-D2 is able to hack the Peace Moon, calculate a trajectory in space to intercept and retrieve the Lost Orb (a delicate sphere less than a feet wide) and a lot of skills and abilities that are only worthless because the DM plots him to be in places where he cannot exploit these skills. In the hands of a GM who would put him where he could use his abilities at the fullest, he would be truly TERRIFIC. So Pete is doing the right thing: Keeping R2-D2 away from other's hands!
Peace Moon use on Tatooine
Why didn’t that beam go back in time as well? Jyn should have died while talking to Raddus.
