Recent content by MarkB

I guess it's just a matter of mavitic suspension of disbelief.

The term "mavitic suspension" was used. The cold was mentioned, but only as being an additional help.

So, apparently mavity is not just gravity with a hip and trendy rebrand, since it's seemingly capable of some things that gravity isn't particularly noted for, including putting people into some form of suspended animation. Brings a new meaning to "heavy sleeper", I guess.

I'm not buying this "I'm the definite article, she's just a Rani" thing, not with evil Time Lord ego. I'm betting Mrs Flood is just putting on the subservient act until she's better placed to usurp her newer self.

Yeah, Luthen just knew that Lonni wouldn't leave without his family, and there was no way to arrange for them all to escape before the ISB cracked down, and he couldn't afford for Lonni to be caught and interrogated. Lonni may well have known on some level that this was almost certainly the...

In Rogue One the Death Star is occasionally described inaccurately as being "fuelled by Kyber". I think the most likely explanation is that Kyber crystals are like old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs, and tend to burn out through use, with a certain percentage needing to be replaced after...

Saw does appear in Rebels, going to great lengths to try to trace the shipments of Kyber crystals to their destination, but ultimately failing. Which answers your last question - the only people who can even find the system containing the Death Star's construction site are those who are...

Really? I never saw Luthen's speech as casting him in any kind of positive or noble light, but as acknowledging his own sins and why they drive him to do what he does. Certainly nothing in there contradicted him throwing Lonnie under the bus to serve his goals.

And also to be aware that, per the topic of this thread, there probably aren't many people still following along once you've gone a few rounds, so not many will even see them get the last word.

If it's been a couple of hours and it's grown by ten pages, that's generally a sign that it's swinging out of control.

Why does his suit look padded in places? What's a little padding going to do against anything that gets through Kryptonian invulnerability?

The suit very much feels like a classic Iron Man suit, right down to the sound effects. I'd have preferred her to be making something inspired by Tony's tech, but that feels distinctly original and hers.

What I miss are the monologues. Mon Mothma's rebellion speech in the Senate needed to be on a par with Maarva's "wake up" speech or Luthen's "I burn my decency" speech, but it just wasn't at that level, and in the end they had to recycle Nemik to be the voice of the rebellion.

And given the nature of those prisons, she's most likely helping to construct the second Death Star.

And even better to find out that, at some point, Cassian did manage to get his manifesto spreading, and that it's now so widely disseminated that the ISB haven't a hope of containing it.