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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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Special days!

Friday and weekends: Caption contest. An image will be pinned, and we shall make captions for it and post them in the comments.

Wednesday: Theme day. We have Droids day, EU day, poem day, aliens day... Let the pinned post guide you. Memes with the theme are preferred.

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Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Technically he wasn't a Sith Lord at that point.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Depends on which lore you follow, He was groomed from very young, and I hate this, but new canon has made Sidious the one that impregnated Anis mom, with the force that is.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Comic implies he uses the force to either modify his midichlorians or implant them to begin with. Shmi was already pregnant.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, but if you can do that, can't you feedback loop power up yourself like Goku?

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That was plageuis’ experiments were trying to figure out. He could absorb other people’s life force to replenish his. And iirc some previous siths could just take over hosts bodies too.

[–] Banichan@dormi.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How can the lore be this badass but the movies come out so bad?

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, how do you think he was able to seduce Anakin over? He did have some knowledge about being able to transfer life force between beings. Hence his spiel in the movie about “darth plageous the wise”. The lore wasn’t that deep than, but it seems seeds were atleast there.

It’s the unfortunate thing about being able to flesh it out after, kinda makes the stuff seem “too convenient”. Was Lucas thinking THIS far ahead, unlikely, but it did seem he had some idea of life force transfer in his head at the movie time.

The movie does also imply in a very not obvious way and a bit of a stretch that padmes life force was taken to save Ani as well.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If these guys could draw the line between what's them and what's body, you'd think they might be better about the whole self fulfillment thing. They're literally sitting pretty on the question I most desire an answer for. What is the mechanism of qualia?

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

...Plagueis and Palpatine creating Anakin is a part of Legends continuity, not new Disney canon, as part of the Darth Plagueis novel, released in 2012. Though Acolyte does imply they're going to also establish that in Disney canon as well.

[–] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

i remember the initial announcement of the Acolyte and ties to it being focused on sheev. I feel like it will move to palps being the Acolyte of the title. God I hope so the twin shit is so lame and cringey osha is a straight up traitor and is so fucking cringey

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I’ve read the entire legends series through to the end of episode 3 sceeenplay, it’s not mentioned in legends/expanded universe that Sidious did anything, it was a failed experiment by plageous and he didn’t even know it at the time…. A new comic that came out this year or last in Disney canon is where it comes from.

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, that's real cool, but this wiki states that the Grand Experiment, during which Plagueis and Palpatine made Anakin, was in Legends continuity.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Experiment

[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn't it the opposite? Plagueis tried to corrupt the living force and create life but the force was so disgusted by him that it cut him out and created Anakin as the counter the tilt?

Plagueis wanted to create perfect force life but was cut off. The living force was Anakin's other procreator.

Could be completely wrong. I saw all of this in a Sheev Talks video where I was so sure he was referencing a canon book.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are bang on legends lore, in Disney lore they changed it to Sidious directly manipulating a pregnant shmi.

[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Like I don’t totally 100% hate it, it works with Plageous as well, they could do that his experiment failed and sidious further augmented the midichlorians. That line of reasoning is kinda cool, I just hate how everything seems to revolve around palpatine.

BUT with the rule of 2, until someone replaces him or he has a new apprentice, everything kinda does have to be done by him. So kinda hemlocked by the lore in that regard.

[–] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can't just yada yada over the best part!

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

His light saber wasn't red yet, so she didn't.

I'll die on this hill.

(The earliest I'll give you is when he killed the younglings, I actually want Disney to do a Lucas remaster and have his saber turn red during that scene and straight up gaslight the world saying it was always like that).

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LOL, that would be kind of hilarious. It would mess with the timeline ("your father wanted you to have this") and the preexisting lore of "tortured kybercrystals" though.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes! Yes exactly! Ha!

[–] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe his little saber was red at the time

[–] massacre@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

no... she mentioned the bisque

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 month ago

I @galacticgeeklore a Sith Lord.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 15 points 1 month ago

Obi-wan didn't kill a sith lord. He was killed by one.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 6 points 1 month ago
[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago
[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago