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I'm pretty sure indifferent nature didn't endow us with any fundamental rights to life or liberty. In the absence of divinity, the only ones who can grant or withhold those rights (to any thinking being) are each other.

Heh, yeah, that's not Chopper. The little psycho's mean streak goes way beyond "need", and while he's predominantly loyal to his crewmates he's fully capable of disobeying and acting selfishly. It's just K-2SO, by the way.

Okay, but what about a droid like Chopper? He's an astromech droid, he's literally built to fix and maintain starships, yet he has a mean temper and a higher body count than pretty much any other droid in the franchise. Was that programmed in by his manufacturer, or by Hera, or is it a...

Researching park aesthetics is still research.

Looking distinctly Geigeresque around 1:41. Does this presage the ultimate merging of overtired franchises culminating in Aliens vs Dinosaurs a few years from now?

Yeah, no. She was given 48 hours to finalise the withdrawal of valued Imperial citizens into the Imperial base so that they could subsequently be evacuated, and was still technically in charge to the precise extent that she was obliged to actually give the order once everything was in place...

And if it had been left up to Dedra, they'd probably have done something like that. She does subtle. But she was cut out of the planning phase in favour of Krennic's people, and Krennic doesn't do subtle. They don't need to do any of that, though. All they need is an armed scuffle and an excuse...

They covered the set-up pretty well. The Ghorman rebels could feel that the Empire was actively goading them into stronger action and cooler heads had been prevailing to try to keep things small, but finally they were backed into a corner, which was exactly what the Empire wanted. And part of...

To be fair, it does take an awful lot to put him down. But you still see each shot damaging him.

To be fair, I don't think we have mechanical stats for horse-drawn carriages either. The closest equivalent to a sky coach would probably be a stagecoach with built-in propulsion equivalent to a team of horses.

Indeed, one of the best episodes of Star Trek ever.

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.