Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

[MarkB]

Cortosis is pretty rare stuff. As I recall, a lot of weapons and armour in the Old Republic era had a coating of cortosis weave, which would allow them to block blows from lightsabers, but the pure form of cortosis that actually disrupts lightsaber blades was much rarer, and typically only used in small armour pieces such as bracers or bucklers.

 

[Rabulias]

What’s a “Legends”?

This is kinda why I’m finding Star Wars to be getting more and more opaque. It’s turning into the EU all over again.

When Disney bought Lucasfilm, they declared the Extended Universe (EU) material to be non-canon, and grouped it all under the Star Wars Legends label.

Certain aspects and elements of the EU have been re-introduced and made canonical over the intervening years, and cortosis looks to be the latest. IIRC, cortosis was introduced in the original Thrawn trilogy, one of the more popular EU sources.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Qimir has bracers on both arms made from it. Not sure about his saber hilt... Could a lightsaber be made of cortosis? Maybe just a coating? I will have to go back and rewatch the fight scenes

Cortosis bracers are certainly possible, the action was too fast for me to follow in detail.

Cortosis is pretty rare stuff. As I recall, a lot of weapons and armour in the Old Republic era had a coating of cortosis weave, which would allow them to block blows from lightsabers, but the pure form of cortosis that actually disrupts lightsaber blades was much rarer, and typically only used in small armour pieces such as bracers or bucklers.

In his other life as a procurer of goods Qimir may have come across a stash of ancient Sith artifacts. That might also connect the knights of Ren theory, since they are collectors of Sith memorabilia.

 

[Ryujin]

Cortosis bracers are certainly possible, the action was too fast for me to follow in detail.

In his other life as a procurer of goods Qimir may have come across a stash of ancient Sith artifacts. That might also connect the knights of Ren theory, since they are collectors of Sith memorabilia.

From what I could see there was a fair bit of purposeful head-butting of Lightsabres. I had no idea what the material was, as EU is well outside my sphere of knowledge.

 

[Zardnaar]

When Disney bought Lucasfilm, they declared the Extended Universe (EU) material to be non-canon, and grouped it all under the Star Wars Legends label.

Certain aspects and elements of the EU have been re-introduced and made canonical over the intervening years, and cortosis looks to be the latest. IIRC, cortosis was introduced in the original Thrawn trilogy, one of the more popular EU sources.

Thrawn duology. Mara and Luke encounter it on Niraun.

May have been in a comic or another book before that. It got a mention in KotOR as well.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Good point!

And it's Osha. OSHA is a governmental agency, which has been driving me crazy with regard to her name since episode 1.

No, it's OSHA, it was an ironic choice because of the flammable stone used in construction of the Force Witch Temple. And that spirit will live on in Imperial architecture and Cloud City.

I am more sure than ever that they'll reveal more about what happened there, but it probably won't feel like a surprise, unless it involves details about how the "could be called" Sith and the sister met.
Lots of deaths.

Kinda hope the true misdirection is that Sol will become the Sith's acolyte, though I admit that's unlikely, you can't just have some force-sensitive twins being just catalyst of a story that can be discarded like a Yord, Jecki, or unnamed Padawan/Knight accompanying the group as redshirts Jedi.

 

[Zardnaar]

No, it's OSHA, it was an ironic choice because of the flammable stone used in construction of the Force Witch Temple. And that spirit will live on in Imperial architecture and Cloud City.

I am more sure than ever that they'll reveal more about what happened there, but it probably won't feel like a surprise, unless it involves details about how the "could be called" Sith and the sister met.
Lots of deaths.

Kinda hope the true misdirection is that Sol will become the Sith's acolyte, though I admit that's unlikely, you can't just have some force-sensitive twins being just catalyst of a story that can be discarded like a Yord, Jecki, or unnamed Padawan/Knight accompanying the group as redshirts Jedi.

Why not? "Some how Palpatine returned".

 

[MarkB]

I am more sure than ever that they'll reveal more about what happened there, but it probably won't feel like a surprise, unless it involves details about how the "could be called" Sith and the sister met.

Has anything truly felt like a surprise so far? The "twins" thing might have been, if we'd known Osha long enough to be asking ourselves "how could she be a Jedi-killer?" by the time it came up, but as it was, it was just "Oh, that explains it." Qimir being Mae's master was telegraphed almost from the moment he was introduced.

 

[Ryujin]

Has anything truly felt like a surprise so far? The "twins" thing might have been, if we'd known Osha long enough to be asking ourselves "how could she be a Jedi-killer?" by the time it came up, but as it was, it was just "Oh, that explains it." Qimir being Mae's master was telegraphed almost from the moment he was introduced.

I was really hoping it wasn't that simple, but knew the moment that I finally saw the Master's bear arms in combat.

 

[Zardnaar]

Has anything truly felt like a surprise so far? The "twins" thing might have been, if we'd known Osha long enough to be asking ourselves "how could she be a Jedi-killer?" by the time it came up, but as it was, it was just "Oh, that explains it." Qimir being Mae's master was telegraphed almost from the moment he was introduced.

Hence my scooby do comment.

At least it made sense. The "surprise" was underwhelming but intriguing character.