Star Wars prequel questions

[gban007]

One EU concept that I'm glad Disney has left in the dustbin is the idea that Palpatine did everything out of the goodness of his heart in order to protect the galaxy from the Yuuzhan Vong, whose coming extragalactic invasion he had foreseen through the Force.

Not sure if i read Outbound Flight, and some time since reading any of the EU, but impression I had was that Palpatine didn't care about the Vong, just used it as a way of getting Thrawn (who worried a lot about the Vong) on his side, and a convenient excuse for getting rid of a number of Jedi, without making it apparent to Thrawn etc that he was looking to eliminate Jedi.

 

[jian]

One EU concept that I'm glad Disney has left in the dustbin is the idea that Palpatine did everything out of the goodness of his heart in order to protect the galaxy from the Yuuzhan Vong, whose coming extragalactic invasion he had foreseen through the Force.

That was pretty much the backstory to our Star Wars campaign 30 years ago (except we didn’t know about the Vong then and so the threat was actually from Thrawn’s people, he was a scout and infiltrator). Also, my version of Palpatine wasn’t a Force user (he just let people think so; his Vader equivalent was a bishonen idiot who got ganked by the PCs in the second session) and turned out to be the father* of one of the PCs, who took this very seriously and made herself Empress after Thrawn killed her dad.

*Her mum was Mon Mothma.

 

[Dioltach]

That's when the lightsabers come out and the Jedi switch to what Anakin calls "aggressive negotiations".

 

[Zardnaar]

That was pretty much the backstory to our Star Wars campaign 30 years ago (except we didn’t know about the Vong then and so the threat was actually from Thrawn’s people, he was a scout and infiltrator). Also, my version of Palpatine wasn’t a Force user (he just let people think so; his Vader equivalent was a bishonen idiot who got ganked by the PCs in the second session) and turned out to be the father* of one of the PCs, who took this very seriously and made herself Empress after Thrawn killed her dad.

*Her mum was Mon Mothma.

I'm tempted to do a legends game. Make it infinitely and Thrawns the big bad and its PCs who get to deal with him.

Store here has some WEG D6 minis and a comic store has half dozen WEG D6 SWRPG books.

 

[Morrus]

There's no standing centralized army. But we see the army Naboo has. If even 10% of the planets shown in the Senate are packing that level of heat, it stands to reason there's an awful lot of distributed firepower that could be organized on short notice.

I may be misremembering but I don't recall seeing a Naboo army. They had a handful of starfighters and some security at the palace, but that's about it. There's the Gungans, I suppose, but they don't even have starships. Useful if the enemy comes to you and fights on the Windows XP desktop (and even then they lose!)

 

[pukunui]

Not sure if i read Outbound Flight, and some time since reading any of the EU, but impression I had was that Palpatine didn't care about the Vong, just used it as a way of getting Thrawn (who worried a lot about the Vong) on his side, and a convenient excuse for getting rid of a number of Jedi, without making it apparent to Thrawn etc that he was looking to eliminate Jedi.

It's been years since I read Outbound Flight, so I could be misremembering. I don't really have any desire to read it again!