Questions about the SW movies (merged)

[Emirikol]

Questions about the movies

All:
I have some questions about Revenge of the Jedi and the rest of the initial trilogy:

1. How did the death star move from solar system to solar system?

2. If that blue-energy ray is the dark-side attack form for the highest level of atainment, what is the equivalent for the light side of the force?

3. What did the snowman from Empire eat to survive if there's hardly any life on that planet? Were TaunTauns native to Hoth?

4. The Emperor kept referring to "the Rebel Alliance." Who were the members of this alliance?

5. What's a Gundar and a Nerf?

6. Endor was the moon of "Centari" according to the Emperor. What is Centari?

7. I've seen Empire about 6million times and I just realized that the rebels had recovered Luke's TaunTaun and that the medical droid was examining it prior to Han's leaving. Hmm. You learn something new every time.

8. General Veers was the bad guy in Indy Jones and the Last Crusade. Also, Captain Piet was promoted to Admiral in one day. What a burden! It's too bad they killed him off in Revenge/return.

jh

 

[Emirikol]

Admiral Veers

Two more questions about Empire. Was General Veers a great general, or just plain lucky in getting to the main power generator? What ever happened to him?

jh

 

[Emirikol]

No wait, I'm not done yet. Is our solar system's asteroid field like the one in Star Wars? How do sattelites get through it to go to the outer planets?

jh

 

[Umbran]

1. It has a really big, really slow version of the same engines that the Millenium Falcon and all the other FTL ships in Star Wars have.

2. The Light Side does not have an equivalent to "Force Lightning", afaik. The Light Side is used for defense, not for attack, remember?

4. The Rebel Alliance was made up of pretty much anyone who wanted to make active opposition to the Empire.

6. From what's showin in the movies, the planet seems to be a gas giant, much like our Jupiter.

 

[argo]

2. If that blue-energy ray is the dark-side attack form for the highest level of atainment, what is the equivalent for the light side of the force?

Ok, these answers are from the expanded universe but...

a) Force Lightning is not the most powerful Dark Side attack form, just wait until your see a "Force Storm"

b) Light Siders can attain a state of becomming a "Luminous Being". Basically, when you get full enough of happy-happy-good-love thoughts you turn all white and glowy and all Dark Side energy in the area goes wacky so that Dark Jedi loose their power/have their powers turn on them.

c) Or, if you want to get really metaphysical, you could say that pulling an Obi-Wan and merging with the Force when you die is the highest level of atainment.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

c) Or, if you want to get really metaphysical, you could say that pulling an Obi-Wan and merging with the Force when you die is the highest level of atainment.

Well, as long as were going by the Expanded Universe, didn't Exar Kun (as eeeeevil a darksider as you could get) come back as a ghost too?

 

[argo]

Well, as long as were going by the Expanded Universe, didn't Exar Kun (as eeeeevil a darksider as you could get) come back as a ghost too?

But did he merge with the force itself or did his spirit move into the physical mater of his temple after his body died?

I think it was the latter. Transfering your consciousness is a darksider trick (preservation of self) while merging with the Force is a lightsider stunt (trancendence of self).

 

[Dragonblade]

All:
I have some questions about Revenge of the Jedi and the rest of the initial trilogy:

1. How did the death star move from solar system to solar system?

2. If that blue-energy ray is the dark-side attack form for the highest level of atainment, what is the equivalent for the light side of the force?

3. What did the snowman from Empire eat to survive if there's hardly any life on that planet? Were TaunTauns native to Hoth?

4. The Emperor kept referring to "the Rebel Alliance." Who were the members of this alliance?

5. What's a Gundar and a Nerf?

6. Endor was the moon of "Centari" according to the Emperor. What is Centari?

7. I've seen Empire about 6million times and I just realized that the rebels had recovered Luke's TaunTaun and that the medical droid was examining it prior to Han's leaving. Hmm. You learn something new every time.

8. General Veers was the bad guy in Indy Jones and the Last Crusade. Also, Captain Piet was promoted to Admiral in one day. What a burden! It's too bad they killed him off in Revenge/return.

jh

1) The Death Star was equipped with a hyperdrive. Just on a massive scale.

2) No equivalent. The Light side doesn't have any such offensive power.

3) No one knows what the Wampa eat. Hoth is a mystery, the rebels chose it for its remoteness and the fact that it wasn't a well known or explored world. The Tauntauns are not native. They were brought to Hoth by the Rebel alliance.

4) The alliance was composed of those races and peoples that rejected the empire. Primarily the Bothans, Mon Calamari, and a plethora of near human peoples.

5) I presume a Gundark is some sort of dangerous animal and a Nerf are some form of domestic alien livestock.

6) Endor was the name of the gas giant. IIRC, The gas giant planet itself mysteriously vanished many years ago but no one knows how or why or even how the forest moon maintains its orbit without spinning off into space. Only the forest moon and a few other moons remain. It is a little known and mysterious system which is why the Empire chose it as the site to secretly build the new and improved death star. The moon itself never actually had a name but everyone just called it Endor. I believe Centauri is the name of the system(?)

7) Never noticed that. I'll have to watch the movies again and catch that.

8) Julian Glover played General Veers in Empire and played the bad guy in Last Crusade.

 

[Dagger75]

No wait, I'm not done yet. Is our solar system's asteroid field like the one in Star Wars? How do sattelites get through it to go to the outer planets?

jh

Here is a link about the asteroid field that will answer your question.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast17apr_3.htm

Apparently Nasa just sends satalites right through the darn thing with out any course ajustments and the like. So the field in Star Wars was just for show.

 

[Dagger75]

Two more questions about Empire. Was General Veers a great general, or just plain lucky in getting to the main power generator? What ever happened to him?

jh

According to the Star Wars universe Veers was actually a pretty good leader. Vader personally picked him to attack the Shield Generator.

Per the Expanded universe he was last seen when the Emporer cloned and resurrected himself.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/generalmaximilianveers/?id=eu

Hope that helps you sleep at night.