Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm curious to see which of the Skeleton Crew characters ends up in the wider Mandoverse, though.

Jod has pretty much the same backstory as Ezra Bridger, but it led them down different paths, so it might be interesting to put them together.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

The Supervisor knows humans need work for their psychological well-being. So they are basically on a hamster-wheel.

Agree, though he might not even be this manipulative. At some point in the past (200+ years), they used to do an immensely important task (possibly involving currency exchange), with minting a secondary task, then they got cut-off and the Supervisor didn't update his distribution of the daily task. They crunch numbers, account for things, that have no relevancy anymore, but the programming of the Supervisor doesn't allow him to say "well, folks, you can stop, what we've been doing doesn't matter anymore". This planet is actually full of bullshitjobs (and a few people overseeing life support droids and repairing things).

Since he knows that some jobs (those maybe linked to the Great Work) no longer can be done (if they did data analysis of galactic economy, and they are now lacking in data to analyze), he is also responsible for assigning jobs to the kids as they graduate. So maybe there is no longer anyone actually working on the Great Work (they are all dead by now), with everyone being directed to this kind of jobs (where they determine the optimal tax level for a planet with a Tatooine-like economy based on historical records, for example, or other modeling task that doesn't really need new data).

People all know they contribute to the Great Work but no one actually knows what it is anymore, and think their colleagues, or other people somewhere, are actively "on it". The supervisor kept "minting" an activity because it was quite self-contained and there was no reason to stop it. And now they avec thousands of vault full of money.

 

[pukunui]

So I guess now that the Barrier is down and the New Republic has made contact with the people of At Attin, this could open the door for the Imperial agents embedded in the government to embezzle At Attin's money to fund the First Order / Project Necromancer / etc.

 

[MarkB]

So I guess now that the Barrier is down and the New Republic has made contact with the people of At Attin, this could open the door for the Imperial agents embedded in the government to embezzle At Attin's money to fund the First Order / Project Necromancer / etc.

Given that At Attin was making the currency for the Old Republic, and what we know about the New Republic's competency, I'm guessing that the most likely outcome will be a years-long debate/dispute/committee-investigation as to who the money actually belongs to, by the end of which, yes, they'll probably find that much of the currency has been quietly absconded with by persons unknown.

 

[Clint_L]

I finally got around to checking this out. The first episode is charming. To be honest, I would have loved to see more of them having local adventures while dealing with school, etc.; I was a little bummed when they were launched into space.

 

[Kaodi]

Definitely needs an epilogue, and I hope we see Jod again.

I wonder whether the physical setup was somewhat inspired by General Atomics Galleria in Fallout 4. In that scenario the General Atomics Galleria is a commercial space run and staffed entirely by Mr. Handy robots with "The Director" being a Mr Handy who supervises from the top of a tower in the Galleria. You, the player, can claim to be the long overdue Supervisor sent by General Atomics for the Grand Opening. And, you know, the whole fact that the outside representative finally shows up after 200 years is pretty much bang on. And if the Barrier is basically an analogy for a Vault and the Great Work is like the "missions" of the Vaults... Is this seriously a Fallout movie in Star Wars, D: ?

 

[Kaodi]

Jod has pretty much the same backstory as Ezra Bridger, but it led them down different paths, so it might be interesting to put them together.

I was thinking that he is something of a reverse Ahsoka: she was almost all the way to being a Jedi when her celebrity master went nuts and killed everyone; he had barely gotten started under his hardscrabble master before she was killed. She was brought up in the temple, he was on the streets. But a lot of these characters have backstories that echo or contrast with each other. Cannot forget Cal Kestis and Kanan too.

 

[Zardnaar]

Definitely needs an epilogue, and I hope we see Jod again.

I wonder whether the physical setup was somewhat inspired by General Atomics Galleria in Fallout 4. In that scenario the General Atomics Galleria is a commercial space run and staffed entirely by Mr. Handy robots with "The Director" being a Mr Handy who supervises from the top of a tower in the Galleria. You, the player, can claim to be the long overdue Supervisor sent by General Atomics for the Grand Opening. And, you know, the whole fact that the outside representative finally shows up after 200 years is pretty much bang on. And if the Barrier is basically an analogy for a Vault and the Great Work is like the "missions" of the Vaults... Is this seriously a Fallout movie in Star Wars, D: ?

It's not exactly a rare scenario. Probably more coincidence.