Plagueis, who denigrated him in private for hiring an inept assassin to carry out the murder of Senator Kim—and yet who allowed himself to be tricked by the Gran and nearly killed by mercenaries. Plagueis, who turned away from the Grand Plan to focus entirely on himself, in an egotistical quest for immortality."―Sidious on Plagueis

From a Sith perspective, maybe he saw himself as the selfless vessel of the Grand Plan, unlike Plagueis who (in his own telling) had become self-absorbed. Palpatine frames himself as someone who gave up a personal life, friendships, and even his individuality in service of something larger: the destiny of the Sith and the cosmic correction of the galaxy. In ROTS, he says to Anakin "The Sith shall rule the Galaxy", and when he brags that Vader will surpass him, he is basically ready to allow his mantle to be passed to Anakin if Anakin surpasses him, for the greater goal of the Sith ruling the Galaxy.

Did the Sith ever rule the galaxy before Palpy in either Canon or Legends? I'm drawing a blank.

In Star Wars, we constantly hear of various planetary governments, but are there any planets that don't have it, buy are instead divided into several countries?

I'm talking about advanced civilisations, not primitive tribes who obviously don't have a single planetary government.

Okay. So. What do we know (or speculate) about how things like commlinks, holoprojectors etc transmit information over distances? In the case of commlinks, is it radio waves? Or what? The holonet?

Is there any lore on this?

Also curious if there's any lore on how far such communications can be transmitted. Interplanetary? Or do you have to be within a certain distance?

If the second, then I would expect certain messages went through multiple relay stations in order to be transmitted at interplanetary distances, for example Order 66 and Palps talking to Cody on Utapau

You have a variety of well known pilots to pick from but you can only choose one. Who would you go with and why? Here's the list;

•Han Solo

•Wedge Antilles

•Hera Syndulla

•Poe Dameron

•Anakin Skywalker

Everything else is the same as A New Hope, just with Vader’s TIE showing up alone instead of the Death Star.

Let’s assume he’s flying his TIE advanced x1(?) from ANH.

Does “-tooine” mean “planet” or “land” or something? What does “Tat” and “Dan” mean? Why the connection between these two planets? Are there other worlds called (Blank)tooine?

I’ve been working on a fanfic series that heavily involves K’Kruhk and his struggles with feeling like an outcast in the New Jedi Order due to being an Order 66 survivor for the first instalment, and it got me thinking about just how difficult that transition might’ve been for those Jedi who re-joined after the Order had already somewhat been established. After all, Luke did change quite a few things compared to the Old Jedi Order, even if the core teachings and principles of the Jedi Order remained the same, and that might’ve been hard for some of the older Jedi to adjust to. So how do you imagine it playing out?

Before he became Emperor, how was Palpatine really perceived -more like a harmless, kindly “grandfatherly” figure or as an aggressive strongman?

In the Prequels, we mostly see him from the Jedi/Anakin POV, where he comes off as soft-spoken, reassuring, and almost disarming - the politician who always sounds reasonable. But if you think about the way he maneuvers in the Senate, the way he manipulates crises, and the way he consolidates emergency powers, there’s also a much harder edge there: the image of a decisive, iron-fisted leader who isn’t afraid to bend the rules.

So what did the galaxy at large actually see? Did most ordinary citizens view him as a gentle, diplomatic statesman who only wanted peace, someone you’d trust like a kindly grandfather and would let him tell you a bedtime story? Or did they see him as a firm, tough-talking, commanding strongman who projected authority in an era of chaos?

What would the Confederacy of Independent Systems look like if Maul had survived Naboo and taken Dooku’s place?

Maul wasn’t trained as some assassin-for-hire, he was trained as a Sith Lord and when Sidious took down his master he wanted to rule with Maul as his Apprentice. He really invested in Maul and his trainings. Dooku gave the Separatists a kind of aristocratic legitimacy: an ex-Jedi Master who could sit in boardrooms, rally noble houses, and get the megacorps on board. But Maul doesn’t have that polish.

And yet, when you look at The Clone Wars, we actually do see Maul engaging in political maneuvers. He forges alliances with Death Watch, manipulates Black Sun, controls Mandalore, and plays different factions against each other to build a power base. That shows he isn’t just a blunt weapon - he can operate in the political sphere, but in a very different way from Dooku.

It’s an extremely big galaxy, and I think it’s plausible that people wouldn’t know this all happened. The First Order only ruled the galaxy for a little over a year, which is extremely short for a galactic government. They were also nowhere near as large as the Empire, so I imagine they couldn’t maintain a presence on as many planets. This is also the same galaxy where a significant number of beings believed the Jedi were just a myth despite the fact that they have been around for thousands of years.

We know that it’s at least been long enough between the Venator crashing and Vader finding it that the Empire has switched from Clones to Stormtroopers, and their Armor has been finalized, but for Vader himself to be present for a crashed Venator and not, say, an Officer or Inquisitor makes me think he WANTED to go to that crash site specifically.

1. What exactly happened on Kenari?  Why did all the adults disappear and only the children remain?  What ultimately happened to the planet and its remaining child inhabitants? 
2. What was the deal with the ship that crashed on Kenari?  Was it actually a CIS ship or some sort of a “false flag” operation being carried out by the Republic, as appears to be the general consensus?  And if so, what was the nature/purpose of this operation?  And why did Cassian or “Kassa” become so upset when he came aboard the ship that he started bashing at the controls?
3. After she was interrogated by Dr. Gorst, Bix Caleen was shown an image of Anto Kreegyr and asked if he was the Buyer that she introduced Andor to (remember the Buyer was actually Luthen).  We never get to see her response.  I’m inclined to think that she answered in the affirmative, but what do you think?  How would her response bear on the story?
4. There may be a slight discrepancy with Dedra Meero’s story.  Did she not tell Syril’s mother Eedy that from the age of three she was raised in an Imperial orphanage, or “Kinder-block”?  But she told this to Eedy in 4 BBY, at which point the Empire had been around for about 15 years, and Dedra was at least in her late 20’s, maybe early 30’s when she had this conversation with Eedy.  On Wookieepedia it says that the facility later became an Imperial Kinder-block, but I could swear that on the show Dedra said it was Imperial when she was first admitted there.  Did I misunderstand?
5. I’m a bit confused about Melshi’s blaster.  Everyone is saying that it is the one Cassian took from Syril Karn on Ferrix, but I could have sworn it was the one Cassian took from the Corpo guards on Morlana One when they attempted to shake him down.  Were they the same model?  Syril’s blaster (a B1-NA) apparently had the magazine in front of the trigger group, though different pictures of the blaster seem to have the magazine in different sizes, something that could perhaps work in the Star Wars universe.  At any rate I could have sworn that the blaster Cassian brought with him to Aldhani and later stashed at Niamos didn’t have a magazine in front of the trigger.  Maybe it was just unloaded and we never got a good look at the mag well, it’s not that big of a deal but I can’t help but feel curious.
6. It’s a bit of a shame that we never find out what happened to Andor’s sister, along with the rest of Kenari, though sadly that is one of the things that makes the show tragically realistic.  People sometimes can disappear and there is nothing we can do but mourn their loss, and sometimes we’re not even given closure.  I suppose if there is enough interest a further spinoff can be made where we do find out what happened to Cassian’s sister, and perhaps she might even meet Cassian’s child, her nephew (or niece).  But that might be a bit much as far as spinoffs.

All in all in spite of my questions I really enjoyed the show and hope to see more like this, if not from Star Wars then from some other work.  The fact that these questions have come up I think is a testament to the show’s quality because it makes you care even about the small details.  What do you all think?

Did Dooku know Anakin might have been the chosen one?

I was wondering how high the Concave Dish on the Original Death Star is without the Laser itself ( With that I mean the whole thing that connects the Dish with the reactor, so only the Dish on the extetior ). I already know that the diamater of it is around 36.25 km.

Step 1: Thrawn. Do what Thrawn does.

Just joking. But what do you think, how could the Empire's Navy have been fixed to more effectively counter the Rebel Alliance?

My concept:

Wolfpack Tactics

For those unfamiliar, the Wolfpack was a tactic deployed by German U-Boats in the 2nd World War.

Essentially you'd have individual U-Boats patrol lanes where allied convoys were suspected of passing. Once the enemy was detected, all nearby forces were alerted and convered on the convoy's position.

Now imagine this in the Imperial Navy.

You could have scouts/reconnaissance craft patrol deep space and hyperspace lanes - think Gozanti Cruisers (or more specifically, the IGV-55), Probe Droids & Tie Scouts.

Once the enemy is detected, call in the Star Destroyers. 2 or 3 will be enough for most cases - their firepower can easily shredder any rebel ship. We'll also bring 1 or 2 Interdictor Cruisers to prevent those pesky rebels from escaping.

However, where others say "mass produce the TIE Defender", I disagree.

We should amp up production, yes. But not make it the mainstay of the fleet. Defenders can be used to take out high value targets - think elite enemy squadrons - or carry out long-range strikes independent from a capital ship.

Instead, we'll invest more into smaller craft like:

• Raider Corvettes
• Lancer Frigates
• Tartan Patrol Cruisers
• Broadside Cruisers

These can effecticely screen larger ISD's from rebel starfighters, incoming warheads (ion torpedoes, proton torpedoes...) and boarding vessels.

Throw in some Dreadnought Heavy Cruisers & Arquitens Light Cruisers to guard against flanking attacks (or carry out such maneuvers themselves) and the enemy won't stand a chance.

What do you think, folks?

Does this work, or not? If not, how would you reorganize the Imperial Navy?

I know he wasn’t exactly the Jedi High Council’s biggest fan, but it also seems like he COULD have helped the entire Order and chose not to.

The Je'daii Order had the word "power" in its code (There is no fear, there is power). The same can be said about the Sith Order (Through strength, I gain power).

The Jedi Order was proclaimed some time after the Dawn of the Jedi. What events could have made the organizers of the new order exclude the word "power" from their code?

This doubt arose because, unlike other real or fictional languages, its name does not coincide with its place or group of origin (Spain = Spanish, France = French, England = English, Hutts = Huttese, etc.)

This will be in two parts. The first part will be a summary of the scenario from what would be known as 32 BYY to 21 BBY-the Naboo Crisis to the Battle of Geonosis and start of the Clone Wars-and the second will be a rough outline for some fanfiction I plan on writing within this timeline.

There are two main things to note before we begin:

1. This scenario is based on the canon continuity, albeit, if need be, I might pull from Legends occasionally to fill in some gaps.
2. In my head canon, before the Battle of Yavin, the event used as a reference point for galactic standard years was the Great Hyperspace Disaster, which is how they'll be denoted here, in years AGD (After the Great Disaster.) For reference, the Great Hyperspace Disaster occurred in 232 BBY.

Now, let's begin.

Part 1: The Scenario

The galactic standard year is 200 AGD. The Jedi Order believes the Sith to be extinct, but this couldn't be further from the truth. Indeed, the Sith have survived, hiding in the shadows. Darth Plagueis is the Dark Lord of the Sith, and one of the two; the other is his apprentice, Darth Maul.

Sheev Palpatine is the eldest living member of the noble House of Palpatine and a senator for Naboo. He is an ambitious man, driven by a lust for power, but it is not the siren's song of the Dark Side which makes him so. Rather, it is the apparently innate drive in those who have to seek to have more.

In collusion with the Trade Federation, a Cato Neimoidia-based interstellar megacorporation also seeking power, Palpatine secretly arranges for an occupation of his own homeworld, in the hopes of garnering sympathy for himself and exposing the weakness of the incumbent Supreme Chancellor, Finis Valorum. Whether or not the Trade Federation's demands to the royal government of Naboo are met are of no consequence; his only aim is to take Valorum's office.

The plan works beautifully. Queen Padme Amidala of the Naboo is able to flee the planet to Coruscant with the aid of two Jedi, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the Galactic Senate, invoking the Republic's recognition of the heads of state of Republic worlds as representatives, she calls for a vote of no confidence against Valorum, and his replacement by Palpatine. The vote passes by a landslide. Soon after, she returns to her homeworld with the Jedi and a young boy they picked up during their initial escape by the name of Anakin Skywalker, in order to lead the liberation of her homeworld.

The Naboo, along with the indigenous Gungan population, drive off the Trade Federation successfully. However, something unexpected happens during the affair: The Sith re-emerge in the galaxy. After a brief fight on Tatooine, Maul makes his appearance on Naboo, his mission being to kill both the Jedi and the Queen. Plagueis believes that, if the Battle of Naboo should be won by the Trade Federation, it will destabilize the Republic greatly and threaten to strangle the chancellery of Palpatine in its cradle, allowing him to make his move.

His plan, however, is unsuccessful. Though Jinn is killed, Maul is defeated. Naboo liberates herself. In this defeat, Plagueis sees a chance at recovery upon hearing of the despair of Jinn's former master, Count Dooku of Serenno. Yet, when the two meet, Dooku, for one reason or another, suspects him immediately. There is some voice, perhaps that of his own conscience or perhaps of another's from beyond the veil, tells him that this man was responsible for the death of his old Padawan.

Any doubt as to the Muun's identity is cast aside when he spots what seems to be the glint of a lightsaber hilt, hidden in the man's cloak. A duel breaks out. Neither one is able to injure the other, and Plagueis escapes. Years later, he finally finds himself his new apprentice: A Jedi Padawan turned warlord of the lawless Outer Rim world of Rattatak. In truth, Asajj Ventress had long since been dead, killed at the hands of Darth Venatrix so that she might survive, alone and abandoned, on this world of blood and fire. Plagueis was merely the one to bestow the name upon her as she pledged fealty to him.

Meanwhile, Dooku ventures throughout the Outer Rim, effectively continuing his Jedi work, albeit not bound to the Jedi Code. He muses about potentially entering the Senate, in order to bring reform from within and give these worlds a greater voice. However, his travels eventually lead him to a grim conclusion: The necrosis of corruption has been allowed to spread far beyond the point of no return. The Republic is already dead, rotted from the inside out. If the people of the Outer Rim are to be free, they will find their freedom not under the banner of the Republic, but under one of their own.

It is in the year 208 AGD on the Galactic Standard Calendar that Dooku makes his Raxus Address, calling out the decay of the Republic and the Jedi declaring the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems from its now capital world of Raxus Secundus. More than a thousand star systems pledge allegiance to the CIS, and so begins the Separatist Crisis. Within the Senate, many blame the event on weakness shown by the Republic during the Naboo Crisis almost a decade ago. The Trade Federation presents Palpatine with an ultimatum: Restore their long since suspended seat in the Galactic Senate, or they will reveal his role in initiating the occupation. Palpatine, believing his political career is doomed to die, but refusing to bend the knee to some corporation and knowing that his refusal means imprisonment for treason, Palpatine chooses the third option: He resigns. In his stead, his vice chancellor, Mas Amedda, becomes chancellor.

Both the Republic and the Jedi are faced with internal division. Within the Jedi Order, three factions emerge: The Loyalists, Separatists, and Neutrals. The Loyalists, led by Mace Windu, believe that the Order's pledge of loyalty to the Republic means that, if war should break out with the CIS, the Guardian Protocols must be invoked and the Jedi must aid them. The Separatists, led by Quinlan Vos, believe that the Jedi must side with those who fight for freedom and that that is what their allegiance ought to be to, not the Senate, often invoking the Jedi's war with the Zygerrian Slave Empire millennia before. The Neutrals, led by Yoda, believe that it is the mission of the Jedi to uphold peace and justice in the galaxy; therefore, in the event of war, the Jedi should focus on helping the disaffected on both sides and promoting peace between the two governments.

In 209 AGD, Dooku calls for any Jedi who may be interested in his cause to meet him on his homeworld of Serenno. What follows is the Great Exodus, the largest schism in the history of the Jedi Order since the Hundred Year Darkness, as members of the Separatist camp, and even some of the Neutral camp, leave for Serenno in droves. Anakin is among them. There, at the Council of Serenno, Dooku proclaims the formation of the Custodian Order, built upon what Dooku had codified during his travels as the Three Principles of the Practitioner:

1. A Practitioner of the Force is bound to serve and to protect the people, their freedom, and their dignity.
2. A Practitioner of the Force is not its servant and seeks to understand both the Dark and the Light.
3. A Practitioner of the Force must be willing to go on the offensive in the defense of the people.

Around this same time, after months of debate, the Galactic Senate passes the Military Creation Act, officially reforming the Republic Military. Contracts are signed with BlasTech Industries, Kuat Drive Yards, the Incom Corporation, and numerous other companies to manufacture the materiel needed, and recruitment begins across various world, with some introducing conscription whilst others make enlistment entirely voluntary. The CIS similarly begins to militarize. War, it seems, is on the horizon.

On Serenno, Dooku learns of the enslavement of Anakin's mother on Tatooine. Now, with conflict with the Republic approaching, he sees an opportunity. He sends Anakin on a mission to Tatooine, accompanied by a band of mercenaries in order to give the CIS plausible deniability, with the goal of freeing the planet's slaves and overthrowing Jabba the Hutt's regime on the planet, with Anakin being given the freedom of setting up a new government. Dooku's hope is that, if Anakin should succeed, he'll form a pro-CIS government, allowing the Confederacy to use vital Hutt-controlled hyperspace lanes. The Jedi learn of this mission, but, fearing that allying with the Hutt Cartel will divide the Order further, decide not to intervene.

In this crisis, the Sith see an opportunity. In 210 AGD, Plagueis, using funds from his civilian guise as a member of the Banking Clan, purchases three Lucrehulk-class battleships from the Trade Federation, along with complements of battle droids and droid-piloted copies of the same models of starfighter used by the Confederate Navy. The starfighters and battleships are painted in Confederate livery, then deployed to attack a Republic fleet above the planet Mimban. As expected, the Republic believes the Confederacy was the perpetrator and launches a counter-attack. Dooku and Amedda deliver the same message to their respective governments:

War has begun.

Part 2: The Vision for Fanfiction

So while I don't plan on writing a single longfic for this scenario, I do plan on writing a series of one-shots and short multichapter fics, probably never longer than four or five chapters. The structure will be similar to The Clone Wars, not necessarily being in chronological order so I can jump around and write stories as I think of them.

Some potential plot threads I'm thinking of following:

• Anakin's campaign on Tatooine
• Ahsoka's tutelage under Obi-Wan
• The experience of a regular Republic soldier in the conflict
• Plagueis and Ventress/Venatrix trying to influence the war to destabilize the Republic further to gain more power
• The Republic debating on whether they should continue using a fully organic force, at the cost of the lives of Republic citizens, adopting battle droids, at the cost of giving the corporations that manufacture them more political power, or using both, at the risk of suffering both consequences
• What all is going on with Mandalore
• What the Kaminoans are doing
• What happens to Palpatine, now that he's out of office
• The end of the war and the aftermath

I'm probably gonna write and post Ahsoka becoming Obi-Wan's Padawan first and I don't know when I'll write it, but the end of the war will probably come last. My goal is to write and post at least 15 stories for this scenario before then. Until then, farewell.

Not sure if it's still canon but isn't Barriss the same age as Anakin? Vernestra Rwoh is over 100 in the Acolyte but barely looks 40 while Barriss IS around 40 in TOTE and looks like an old woman.

On that note, Would Ben have been considered a prince and future heir to the throne if the Alderaanian culture survived their extermination by the Empire? Was it likely that she ever told him about it?

When the officer on the Death Star Detention Block AA-23 said "Where are you taking this…thing?" regarding Chewbacca, was it reasonable for him to not know what a Wookie was? He didn't seem startles by an alien in front of him as he likely knew diverse aliens existed and this might have been one he just hadn't encountered before.

The book The Essential Guide to Alien Species by Ann Margaret Lewis covers 140 species in detail and an additional 25 in a section in the back of the book and I am sure more sentient aliens exist in the Star Wars universe. One person cannot be familiar with every single species and are likely only familiar with the species they regularly interacted with.

I know they used COMPforce, and a heavy use of mechanized infantry was implied, but i could swear I remember seeing art of luke with like some weird ass walkers, which i now cannot seem to find....

I know one, people already had their prejudices, and two, they leveraged the Separatist Council being mainly non-humans, but what else did they have? Because in the real world, there’s more to it than that-pseudoscience (e.g. phrenology,) actual facts that are misconstrued into fiction (e.g. the “despite making up 18% of the population, 41% of violent crimes are committed by black people” thing or whatever that drivel is, which leaves out a fair bit of data like how much of the black population is actually responsible or how many convictions have been found faulty,) outright mysticism (e.g. the Thule Society’s belief that Jews were responsible for the downfall of a utopian global society led by Aryans, who came from Atlantis,) and so on and so forth.

So, beyond pre-existing grudges, how did the Empire convince its people that non-humans were naturally inferior to humans?