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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8789488" data-attributes="member: 4937">I don't think that changes anything.  Tantive IV is still at the battle.  Vader still has his solid evidence of which ship got the data transmission.  The conversation between Leia and Vader still plays out the same were Leia is lying and probably doesn't even expect anyone to believe her lies, and Vader still treats her protests as feeble.But I think Rogue One still patches more plot holes than it opens.  For example, Rogue One tells us that the plans involve so much data that they aren't easily transmitted by subspace or hyperspace relay.  You need special communication gear to transmit the plans in a timely fashion.  This means that Leia or anyone else can't just get the plans to the alliance by publically broadcasting them.  The physical copy of the plans is valuable, which is something that made sense back in the 1970's but which isn't obvious in today's era of fast internet.   But it isn't unreasonable that faster than light communication has limited bandwidth in a way that fiber optic cable isn't.   As a Star Wars D6 GM, things that make the universe work coherently are welcome, because Star Wars has never really been science fiction you can't really pay too much attention to realism when running it, but it is nice to have some gloss as it were.  I really felt Rogue One explained Star Wars in a way that there was less fridge logic moments than before, so that you watch Rogue One and go "Oh, so that's why..."</blockquote>

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