tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87103363428934522032024-03-12T17:03:16.677-07:00The PhilodoxerAbel G. Peñahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195314009440635891noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710336342893452203.post-65308465418501138122022-06-02T16:45:00.031-07:002022-06-03T21:53:27.573-07:00Lone Wolf: A Tale of Obi-Wan and Luke Footnotes/Endnotes—Before Baby Yoda ... There Was Baby Luke!<div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQjUuZmYE-bG1jJSUNwxfzaM6mese8rZRpk8zKjWyGojbAOkStjILGvHte1P-4DtzjYTOEGIn23NM-6H1-akbOSPzcf8O3ar3wmYXJWbWhRyUrYycuueGFyoX8enDDzn0-gzHE0yyAASuU2yuZ2T4YftM8DL2nJ4lnTy0cjzX929r8zozxwjm9Zp7/s1788/ObiWanLukeToppsAlt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1788" data-original-width="1241" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQjUuZmYE-bG1jJSUNwxfzaM6mese8rZRpk8zKjWyGojbAOkStjILGvHte1P-4DtzjYTOEGIn23NM-6H1-akbOSPzcf8O3ar3wmYXJWbWhRyUrYycuueGFyoX8enDDzn0-gzHE0yyAASuU2yuZ2T4YftM8DL2nJ4lnTy0cjzX929r8zozxwjm9Zp7/w278-h400/ObiWanLukeToppsAlt.jpg" width="278" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do you even homage, bruh?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With the release of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Obi-Wan Kenobi</i> series on Disney+, I figured there was no better
time to write a little retrospective on my own Ewan McGregor-era Obi-Wan story.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lone
Wolf: A Tale of Obi-Wan and Luke</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> takes place during the denouement
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the
Sith</i>. That is, right in that space during the end of the film after Obi-Wan takes responsibility for baby Luke Skywalker and right before he delivers the boy to his aunt and
uncle on Tatooine.</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You thought that handoff went smoothly?!? Oh, no no no no no
no no….</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can actually read all the breathtaking action beginning on page 180 of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150317094129/http://www.abelgpena.com/SkyeWalkersCWstory.pdf" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers:
A Clone Wars Story</i></a> ebook. Based on feedback I’ve received over the years,
the casual <i>Star Wars</i> fan actually seems to prefer this shorter tale of the two
in the book. That’s not entirely surprising, in retrospect. As opposed to the highly
personal, baroque Dantesque allegorical metanarrative that is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers</i>, I designed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lone Wolf</i> as a streamlined ripping
adventure in a galaxy far, far away—a “true” piece of commercial fiction, if
you will. And as an homage to one of my favorite stories of all time, Kazuo
Koike and Goseki Kojima’s masterpiece <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lone
Wolf and Cub</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’d pedaled the adaptation of the classic manga concept of a
warrior and young child into the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> universe <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091119054755/http://www.njoe.com/2009/10/13/njoe-interviews-abel-g-pena">for
a long time</a>. It’s nice to see that the idea <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Fate_of_the_Jedi">was adopted</a>
<a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Incognito">with such enthusiasm</a> <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mandalorian">over the years</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip4TZhgfy7bt7FUWI0z-Xwa3pjB6nWhBas2UJn8YY2IJxy_foyMIu04Qbur1ugxJv01r8oU3SXg7w9o5opWAZZhydDsOqHRnc0fcU-bz_aAOniXM4LsaoMrl6vamsLsl-4kq5Qv-QdS4Eoss2MjP55fZdiIQKJiFyq2gj1tcKj6qtWTYx1BQ-_FD0i/s300/MandoBabyYodaTopps.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="214" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip4TZhgfy7bt7FUWI0z-Xwa3pjB6nWhBas2UJn8YY2IJxy_foyMIu04Qbur1ugxJv01r8oU3SXg7w9o5opWAZZhydDsOqHRnc0fcU-bz_aAOniXM4LsaoMrl6vamsLsl-4kq5Qv-QdS4Eoss2MjP55fZdiIQKJiFyq2gj1tcKj6qtWTYx1BQ-_FD0i/w285-h400/MandoBabyYodaTopps.jpg" width="285" /></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, make no mistake: the <i>Lone Wolf and Cub</i> theme started in <i>Star Wars</i> with yours truly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br />
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of course, it wasn’t the first time a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> creator cribbed a Japanese story and gave it a sci-fi twist. Indeed, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> itself might not even
exist if young Uncle George hadn’t stumbled upon Akira Kurosawa's <i>The Hidden Fortress</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I first created daylight for an official Obi-Wan and baby
Luke adventure when I wrote the following paragraph for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Story of General Grievous II: Lord of War</i>:</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">After Obi-Wan defeated the Separatist
general on the landing platform where his starfighter was docked, the Jedi
Master used it to escape when his clone troopers turned against him. Aboard the
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soulless One<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, Obi-Wan rendezvoused with the House of
Alderaan’s consular ship </i>Tantive IV<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.
The ship remained in the </i>Tantive IV<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’s
hold until Kenobi flew the fighter to Nar Shaddaa with his newborn passenger,
Luke Skywalker. Once there, Obi-Wan sold the ship in order to book himself and
the infant Skywalker passage to Tatooine, and to provide credits to the child’s
new caretakers.</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwdjOg0pxPzrBQ9MLjNwhtWJiYIAfixBF3Cr_G3gDCQYlsQdl466TdLH2RyeurP2hDLbVdJbz5Fh_Cv0xchSy6HmXVp4xSPPiLcdqaMXrbQfHcggVI9PSdBuMp4DnSpuqde9Hr9bj645FNXe5O6xDkyc5sQFGqlvnuageus65LdsscyF2dGUQ2_3sq/s1936/ObiWanSoullessOne.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1936" data-original-width="1936" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwdjOg0pxPzrBQ9MLjNwhtWJiYIAfixBF3Cr_G3gDCQYlsQdl466TdLH2RyeurP2hDLbVdJbz5Fh_Cv0xchSy6HmXVp4xSPPiLcdqaMXrbQfHcggVI9PSdBuMp4DnSpuqde9Hr9bj645FNXe5O6xDkyc5sQFGqlvnuageus65LdsscyF2dGUQ2_3sq/w400-h400/ObiWanSoullessOne.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After that, I pitched the story to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Insider</i> in 2007 for the 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary of
the original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> film. I
thought, “This is the only other possible time that Obi-Wan and Luke could go
on an adventure together other than the original movie itself!” To my elation,
the story received the green light, and my old pal and collaborator, artist Joe
Corroney, even delivered an incredible frontispiece for it.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhonSmcM_BevGxQPF67FHsaP5cbQOfwvmmLn3StKOkjllMUdB0TyYG1WKDr6id-hbIUwB2g6qulDg3rxXerONGWj9Nh1PR23DhycEuVQlSXCZ8p8UuJd_KJ1p6ORpURENfzRxER69qfb4JuAyU8ZxxnndAF7JQ8sa96WkgH009WhaQdX2moOkjd_SVe/s1490/Obi-Wan%20and%20Luke%20Arrive%20on%20Nar%20Shaddaa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1490" data-original-width="1115" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhonSmcM_BevGxQPF67FHsaP5cbQOfwvmmLn3StKOkjllMUdB0TyYG1WKDr6id-hbIUwB2g6qulDg3rxXerONGWj9Nh1PR23DhycEuVQlSXCZ8p8UuJd_KJ1p6ORpURENfzRxER69qfb4JuAyU8ZxxnndAF7JQ8sa96WkgH009WhaQdX2moOkjd_SVe/w478-h640/Obi-Wan%20and%20Luke%20Arrive%20on%20Nar%20Shaddaa.jpg" width="478" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unfortunately, dark forces intervened and there was a last-minute change of publisher, management and policy at the publication! The new folks wanted to go in a different direction. The stars had aligned, apparently—just in time to get sucked into a black hole! The short story was now without a home. What was I going to do? <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thankfully, about a year later, I received the green light
to work on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers</i>, and we were
able to offer <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lone Wolf</i> as a bonus
story at the end of the book, serendipitously bookending the Clone Wars
conflict between the the yin and yang of these respectively ultra-dark and
ultra-hopeful tales.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One hiccup along the way was when my friend and fellow <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> scribe Ryder Windham was
tapped to write <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life and Legend of Obi-Wan
Kenobi</i>, a kind of blow-by-blow young adult prose biography for the Jedi
Knight. Thankfully, Ryder reached out while writing the book to get some facts
straight and made sure to leave breathing room for Obi-Wan and Luke’s Nar
Shaddaa detour to exist.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I scattered several 30<sup>th</sup>-anniversary-style Easter
eggs throughout <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lone Wolf</i>. Subtle
things like making reference to the Whills (a mystical species from the
original movie novelization), some wheeling and dealing in the Bocce language,
and having Obi-Wan at one point refer to his former pupil simply as “Darth,” as
he does in their duel in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A New Hope</i>. I
thought the most effective way to do the heavy lifting of invoking nostalgia
was with a light touch. To this end, the setting of Nar Shaddaa itself, a.k.a. “The
Smuggler’s Moon,” was intended as an echo of the first cinematic encounter we
have with that “wretched hive” Mos Eisley Spaceport, while Obi-Wan’s
negotiation over the sale of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Soulless One</i>
was meant to “rhyme” with the bargain the old Jedi strikes with the captain of
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Millennium Falcon</i> to Alderaan. In
fact, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lone Wolf</i> even contains nods to
apocryphal rumors from those early <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> days, such as that the Jedi Knights (or even Obi-Wan himself)
originally owned the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Millennium Falcon</i>.
Indeed, in an earlier outline of the story, I actually had Obi-Wan and baby Luke
catching a ride to Tatooine aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Millennium
Falcon</i>; ultimately, I decided this was too on the nose—but for continuity
hounds, the intimation that “Bammy [one of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Falcon</i>’s previous owners] just got a hold of a stellar YT-1300,”
offered in trade for Grievous’ ship, preserves the spirit of this ironic
possibility in a way that I hope is worthy of Alec Guinness’ worldly-wise
half-smile.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Besides the title itself, there are also nods within the
story to the creators of the original manga series, and to the writer of the
radio dramatization of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A New Hope</i>,
Brian Daley, which I consider his best <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> work. And, of course, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lone
Wolf</i>, we see Obi-Wan flipping the switch to permanently adopt his alias of
“Ben” for the duration of his Tatooine exile. I tried to supply as plausible a
reason for this as possible, leaning into the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lone Wolf</i>’s theme of what it means for a Jedi, those masters of
emotional detachment, to have a family.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">What follows
below is just a curious artifact, my original footnotes for the story, included
with its submission. (If you’re interested, you can see the previous series of footnotes I wrote about for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers</i>: </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2015/05/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html"><span style="font-family: ""times new roman"","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Part
1</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2015/06/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html"><span style="font-family: ""times new roman"","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Part
2</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2019/12/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Part 3</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and <a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2021/12/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html" target="_blank">Part 4</a>.) Enjoy Obi-Wan and Luke's very first adventure! :)<br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> (page
181) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The noise frazzled the nerves of
both of the stolen ship’s occupants</i>: “Obi-Wan’s flight with Luke to Nar
Shaddaa, in order to throw off pursuers and sell Grievous[’] ship, is
established in ‘General Grievous: Lord of War’ on StarWars.com and the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi</i>.”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> (page
182) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[N]o way to contact Luke’s living
relatives, Beru and Owen Lars…. Not without endangering their lives</i>: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life
and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi</i> establishes that Obi-Wan obtained the
coordinates for the Lars Homestead from Artoo-Detoo. This detail is reserved
until the end of the story for dramatic purposes.”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">3</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> (page
183) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But Jedi had often reported such
“memories” of their progenitors, somehow preserved by the Force</i>: “For
instance, Princess Leia’s recollection in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Return
of the Jedi</b>. Obi-Wan’s “memories” referred to here are from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jedi Apprentice: The Hidden Past</i>.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">4</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> (page
186) </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Bazi batza Bocce?” she asked. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do you speak Bocce?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “The vast majority of Bocce phrases and
vocabulary here are taken from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars:
Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide</i>.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivPoO__Smw61ELnjyt7AQLip8rpybA3Yk1A4aGTefL0A26OiRuQh37118foFcpX8YoTpFFRX0vtWo7KUN-7qrnxFmWzUorJReQsMADnFX5IIrieEOXu9GK0Qidmdlid9D3-bZv9o9lqOHsLdu3pPz_ta67DfHuoPO5SoNXQxaAlBmpaXyHGUxInAQG/s600/TholmeTraSaa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivPoO__Smw61ELnjyt7AQLip8rpybA3Yk1A4aGTefL0A26OiRuQh37118foFcpX8YoTpFFRX0vtWo7KUN-7qrnxFmWzUorJReQsMADnFX5IIrieEOXu9GK0Qidmdlid9D3-bZv9o9lqOHsLdu3pPz_ta67DfHuoPO5SoNXQxaAlBmpaXyHGUxInAQG/s320/TholmeTraSaa.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">5</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> (page
187) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He knew that Jedi Masters Tholme and
T’ra Saa had been here:</i> “As seen in the comic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars: Republic</i> #83.”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;">6</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(page 189) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A very personal patronymic namesake. “Ben,”
he answered</i>: “As seen in the Clone Wars TV episode ‘Friends and Enemies.’”
[Dissatisfied with the lack of meaningful existing explanations, I tried to
imply with this wording that the origin of Obi-Wan’s famous alias “Ben” might
have been the name of his own, little-known father—ed.]</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">7</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> (page
193) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Obi-Wan couldn’t keep his mind from
summoning happier times cantina-hopping with Anakin on Naos III</i>: “As
depicted in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Labyrinth of Evil</i>.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq_5WsB85bX9F-h_6m4iQb6bW824IVzhoHO-ZzM9bDBdD0jUVqfo1JsLTRLN3ZiR-bS3wnWqugPqAmCtc9Lov9KOiu5cwQLQFkfBlNrt0p1gA33jbzq_yYSw7zEqURG2fh73W9YN5OGZCEmvmxIL-RfmV11hXhztmzEtxbBiPEd-iAySKmBzAiabDb/s1242/LabyrinthOfEvil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="1242" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq_5WsB85bX9F-h_6m4iQb6bW824IVzhoHO-ZzM9bDBdD0jUVqfo1JsLTRLN3ZiR-bS3wnWqugPqAmCtc9Lov9KOiu5cwQLQFkfBlNrt0p1gA33jbzq_yYSw7zEqURG2fh73W9YN5OGZCEmvmxIL-RfmV11hXhztmzEtxbBiPEd-iAySKmBzAiabDb/w400-h280/LabyrinthOfEvil.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">8</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> (page
193) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It was something Obi-Wan had
suspected for some time, given his phantasmal encounters on Zonama Sekot and
Mortis:</i> “These events are established in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Revenge of the Sith</b> screenplay, the novels <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rogue Planet</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Last of
the Jedi: The Desperate Mission</i>, and the Clone Wars TV episode ‘Overlords.’”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">9</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
(page 197) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Old Vima </i>knows<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. Before she was crazy, Vima-Da-Boda </i>was<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> a Jedi</i>: “The character Vima-Da-Boda,
her residence in Nar Shaddaa and her history were introduced in the comic
series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark Empire</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark Empire Sourcebook</i>.”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">10</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
(page 202) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A more … </i>severe<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> version of the so-called Jedi mind trick</i>:
“This power was introduced in the Jedi Academy Trilogy novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark Apprentice</i>. More recently, a
version of it was seen in the Clone Wars TV episode ‘Ghosts of Mortis.’”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">11</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
(page 205) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He remembered this from his
time guarding Padmé’s ship on the planet and from a foray into Tusken territory
… all so long ago</i>: “During the events of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Phantom Menace</b>, of course (and a reference to the concurrent
events of the video game <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars:
Obi-Wan</i>).”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgjboO3WdOZlO2B3fNLqeyYpLK_thiRlcD6OGp8azaHohgE3PzLK7IURLo2hp0s76kUCf33SeS9DuUbqj6rxkiVKVH_IQTpjGhICihPxx_GEA4ZuvgOsMoFK0Xf4OgGqCnQuifDUw4t1t6AghJr8m8mtGGIi4Ot1hGKbxsT6NZ142YOgIfNMokify/s376/StarWarsObiWanXbox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="264" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgjboO3WdOZlO2B3fNLqeyYpLK_thiRlcD6OGp8azaHohgE3PzLK7IURLo2hp0s76kUCf33SeS9DuUbqj6rxkiVKVH_IQTpjGhICihPxx_GEA4ZuvgOsMoFK0Xf4OgGqCnQuifDUw4t1t6AghJr8m8mtGGIi4Ot1hGKbxsT6NZ142YOgIfNMokify/w281-h400/StarWarsObiWanXbox.jpg" width="281" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">12</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
(page 206) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Between suppings of Krayt milk:</i>
“Krayt milk’s availability on Nar Shaddaa was established in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark Empire II</i>.”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 115%;">13</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">(page
207) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Obi-Wan could feel his own features
lose distinctness, his face reforming into another … someone unrecognizable</i>:
“In the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Crystal Star</i>, Luke
demonstrates his ability for this unique facial camouflaging.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">14</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
(page 207) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But it was that desiccated
face, the angrily angled eyebrows … and the pair of tusks jutting downward from
leathery cheeks that gave Obi-Wan pause</i>: “Unmasked Kaleesh features were
depicted in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars Campaign Guide</i>.”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">15</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
(page 217) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Because what he </i>didn’t<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> see—what only Luke’s crystal-pure gaze
could see—were the Chiggnash</i>: “The scorpion-like Chiggnash were introduced
in Brian Daley’s ‘Predators of the Empire,’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars Galaxy Magazine</i> #6.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">16</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
(page 226) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The larger one, the one he’d
taken for Master Tholme, was completely unfamiliar; but his dark hair, cultish
facial markings and pigmentation were not</i>: “The Bpfasshi were introduced in
the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heir to the Empire</i> while
their depiction and backgrounds are established in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jedi Vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force</i>. The Jensaarai were
introduced in the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I, Jedi</i> and
depicted in ‘I, Jensaarai’ in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Polyhedron</i>
#157. Finally, the connection between the two Force sects during the Clone Wars
was established in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Official Star Wars
Fact File</i> #116.”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">17</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">
(page 234) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jedi Master ran over one
hundred and sixty-five meters </i>per second: “In the novel Crosscurrent, the
Jedi Master Relin Druur is said to employ Force-assisted speed to run at 100
meters per second. Obi-Wan, with the heir to the Jedi Order in his charge,
should be able to edge him.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> ~Abel G. Peña</span><br /></span></p>Abel G. Peñahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195314009440635891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710336342893452203.post-28551141876404643712021-12-30T21:14:00.007-08:002021-12-31T16:56:43.786-08:00SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story Footnotes/Endnotes, Part 4—Claustrophobic Clones, Imperial Vs. Metric, and Xenu’s Paradox<div class="separator"></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/7/75/Skyewalkers.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150306210624" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for skyewalkers" border="0" class="irc_mi" height="611" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/7/75/Skyewalkers.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150306210624" width="367" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Greetings, good
travelers! Rejoice! We’ve made it to the end of these endnotes at last.</span></p> </div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left;"><style>@font-face
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It only took ten
years.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(What is this
all about? You can catch up with that by viewing </span><a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2015/05/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html"><span style="font-family: ""times new roman"","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></a><span style="font-family: ""times new roman"","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2015/05/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html">Part 1</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><span style="font-family: ""times new roman"","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2015/06/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html">Part 2</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and <a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2019/12/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html">Part
3</a> of this series.)</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, indeed. I
realized just as this year was closing out that I actually finished writing </span><i><span style="font-family: ""times new roman"","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150317094129/http://www.abelgpena.com/SkyeWalkersCWstory.pdf">SkyeWalkers:
A Clone Wars Story</a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> a
full decade ago! Where did the time go? Well, the pandemic stole two
years from us, and much else that’s good. The rest was all just sneaky Father
Time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I look back on
this novella now, and I think about what an outlandish venture it was. Truly,
something that could only have been born out of youthful exuberance and
naïveté. I remember when, around the age of 18, I once told my father (in
Spanish), “My plan is to write a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
book.” Ten years went by, and I was doing exactly that. But I never imagined
the complexity of the impossible opportunity that would befall me. Because it ended
up being not just a chance to fulfill that plan (in fact, I’d already done that
in some form prior), but to write an official <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> story where <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I</i>
would literally <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be</i> in the story.
Well, my official <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> alter ego
<a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Halagad_Ventor#Behind_the_scenes">Halagad
Ventor</a> would, at any rate, starring side by side with those larger-than-life
characters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. I’d once proclaimed
in an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091119054755/http://www.njoe.com/2009/10/13/njoe-interviews-abel-g-pena">interview</a>,
“I eat, breathe, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">am</i> Star Wars.”
And, lo and behold, I now was.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But how in the galaxy
was I supposed to write a science-fiction quasi-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">roman á clef</i>? I’d seen it done badly before, and the specter of
Gary Stu hung over me. What’s more, how was I going to write a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">literary</i> story—in the vein of my
belletristic heroes Borges and Dante—in a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">commercial</i>
fiction space? I still recalled when my university mentor, convinced I would
become a Dantista, scoffed (lightly, sympathetically), “Star Wars? You’re too
good for that.” But, for reasons beyond my ken, I was compelled to show that
this galaxy far, far away, as it had evolved over decades from contributions by hundreds of different storytellers, and which I had for the greater part of my life
lovingly memorized, was no mere dismissive diversion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">At last, only a
work of art can honor a work of art.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><a aria-label="Visit Goodreads" class="eHAdSb" data-ved="0CAsQjRxqFwoTCOjVgfySjfUCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAK" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fen%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F6871664-nove-saggi-danteschi&psig=AOvVaw0F1Q8OyHvnLnHLY-BA81W9&ust=1641009457244000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCOjVgfySjfUCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAK" rel="noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="Nove saggi danteschi by Jorge Luis Borges" class="n3VNCb" data-noaft="1" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1301572952l/6871664.jpg" style="height: 348px; margin: 0px; width: 200px;" /><span class="VSIspc" style="margin: 0px;"></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I had my storytelling
models within the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> family,
too. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heir to the Empire</i> by Timothy
Zahn. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark Empire</i> by Tom Veitch and
Cam Kennedy. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Last One Standing: The
Tale of Boba Fett</i> by Daniel Keys Moran. <i>New</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Jedi Order: Traitor</i> by Matthew Woodring Stover.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But this was
only the stylistic side of things. I also had a reputation to uphold. Whatever
my personal literary aspirations, what had made me a fan favorite was a brand as the
most continuity-smithingest <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
writer that ever was (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pace</i> <a href="http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/swfa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=75">SWFAers</a>).
I realized, with a hint of dread, that I needed to go to the gravity well one more
time. To reach into my magic hat and pull out one more labyrinthine
cross-section of references to hundreds of different <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> stories: bizarre stuff no one remembered, impossible
contradictions no one else could resolve, and to make it all seem like no big
thing—just another day at the space office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><img alt="http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/swfa/templates/siteground-j15-30/images/swfatop.jpg" height="141" src="http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/swfa/templates/siteground-j15-30/images/swfatop.jpg" width="640" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">That was, after all, what led to the idea for <i>SkyeWalkers</i> in the first place.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, enjoy this
little glimpse behind the curtain into the web of allusions I had to give a
heads-up to Lucasfilm about during the approvals process for this story.</span></p>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">40</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 75) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He had read reports that some
clone troopers displayed symptoms of claustrophobia in cramped quarters</i>: “In
the novel <i>Republic Commando: Hard Contact</i>, clone commandos are deliberately
depicted as susceptible to claustrophobia, and attribute the phenomenon to
Jango’s genetics. However, the novel <i>Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor</i>
explicitly states, ‘No clone spawned in Kaminoan pods and raised in crèche
school could even comprehend the concept of claustrophobia, much less suffer
from it,’ pg. 38. So some clone troopers suffer from claustrophobia (possibly
exclusively clone commandos) and some don’t.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">41</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 75) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Something in Jango Fett’s DNA</i>:
“DNA is an </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘</span>earthy</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">’</span> term, but it appears in many Star Wars sources, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Medstar: Battle Surgeons</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crosscurrent</i>.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">42</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 81) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blood eaters</i>: “The Oskan
blood eater was introduced in the rpg supplement <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Creatures of the Galaxy</i>.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[That’s those red monsters on the <i>SkyeWalkers</i> cover above by talented artist <a href="http://www.davidrabbitte.com/">David Rabbitte</a>—ed.]</span>
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr7ngtp-fqQp2YsnY1x-uzu_vBszgvhhI-obBDeoo8Z5rOD3SS0nkPoJJ3F-RQMvERcX2n8xrqawWYusDZn7N_gMD2zORMw3x1xagC_GHJw6LR0pSUqiIGjqV1msYBEw6S4GEOg-Wi62jyqJt8fg8xg9DWqGYgOyYtKB-0IKpIzBtica70m7n9Q4Ra=s780"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="780" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr7ngtp-fqQp2YsnY1x-uzu_vBszgvhhI-obBDeoo8Z5rOD3SS0nkPoJJ3F-RQMvERcX2n8xrqawWYusDZn7N_gMD2zORMw3x1xagC_GHJw6LR0pSUqiIGjqV1msYBEw6S4GEOg-Wi62jyqJt8fg8xg9DWqGYgOyYtKB-0IKpIzBtica70m7n9Q4Ra=w640-h381" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">43</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 81) ….like the Galactic Standard letter “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">o</b>”—Osk<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, Obi-Wan thought
absently</i>: “The aurebesh font for the letter ‘osk’ (i.e. ‘o’) is meant to be
seen here, hence the monster’s full proper name.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[<a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Osk/Legends"><span style="color: blue;">Osk
| Wookieepedia</span></a>—ed.]</span><style>@font-face
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">44</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 94) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kharys sealed her mind shut
form the possibility of all thought:</i> “That is, in fact, meant to be ‘seel,’
as in the falconry practice, and not ‘seal.’” [This suggestion did not take.—ed.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">45</span> (page 102) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Accelerated Transgenic Heuristic Abhorers: savant abominations synthesized to
seek in lust and destroy with relish</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">:
“</span>Information on the Arkanian Revolution from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Essential Guide to Droids</i> is here expanded upon, adding the element
of the Abhorers.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">46</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 103) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Arkanian techno-lords,
perverse experimenters all, are the ones that elevated my intelligence quotient
to obscene heights with their noological implants</i>: “Arkanian techno-lords
are first mentioned in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark Nest</i>
series.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">47</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 106) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Surely, I could then
flash-pump my memories into this creature:</i> “Flash pumping is described in
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook</i>.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaowoHjh5krvfOF-qm_GomvYXtL-O9BHL3RjC9APlpZh51ph-UT23BpaPLyb7goWiMvh9AIr4HV4zMpy1Jh5InRmAynEmTAcCixlBELI8Ws5xTcLu4z9TrQkZA20-bTr-yGm1av0a0Gz4k94JEKEtlCfPvVumWTT5vM2QFc3zwF0DS4ED68JjxkyHK=s1472" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1472" data-original-width="962" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaowoHjh5krvfOF-qm_GomvYXtL-O9BHL3RjC9APlpZh51ph-UT23BpaPLyb7goWiMvh9AIr4HV4zMpy1Jh5InRmAynEmTAcCixlBELI8Ws5xTcLu4z9TrQkZA20-bTr-yGm1av0a0Gz4k94JEKEtlCfPvVumWTT5vM2QFc3zwF0DS4ED68JjxkyHK=w418-h640" width="418" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">48</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 107) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And so, I have aided his
Confederate stooges in contriving the corrosive stone mite and blue virus
plagues</i>: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Essential
Chronology</i> states that the Separatists created the stone mites with the
help of the Arkanians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zeta Magnus
technically qualifies, as he was created by them and has their genetic
material.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">49</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 107) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…provided his cyborg supreme
commander with samples of my mutagenic 3L4U1H7 serum</i>: “As seen in the Clone
Wars micro-series, and elaborated upon in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unknown
Soldier: The Story of General Grievous</i>, Grievous uses a mutational serum to
transform the warriors of Nelvaan into monsters.” [Overt <i>THX-1138</i> Easter eggs had
been done to death in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
stories by this time, so this was my undercover version, using his sweetheart LUH-3417
instead—ed.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><a aria-label="Visit Goodreads" class="eHAdSb" data-ved="0CAsQjRxqFwoTCICxhrGZjfUCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAF" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F267301.THX_1138&psig=AOvVaw0UaR9kPMN5L1sY6XI7fBjM&ust=1641011235099000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCICxhrGZjfUCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAF" rel="noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="THX 1138 by Ben Bova" class="n3VNCb" data-noaft="1" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1509663216l/36524600.jpg" style="height: 408px; margin: 0px; width: 244px;" /><span class="VSIspc" style="margin: 0px;"></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">50</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 107) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…and granted Count Dooku
access to my Wayland facility for his dashta tissues and shadow army</i>: “The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook</i> suggests that
the cloning facility in Mount Tantiss on Wayland predated the Clone Wars ‘and
the Emperor merely expanded the facility … the control components and fragments
of the various computer systems have shown that the cloning facility was
considerably older than the technology present in other areas of the mountain.’
The origins of the cloned Morgukai Shadow Army, which features in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Republic</i> comics, and the dashta eel
cloning experiments, mentioned in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Cestus Deception</i>, have never been explained, hence their inclusion here.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">51</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 107) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">After all, I still control my
accelerated GeNode chamber, safely secreted within the Dantooine ruins:</i> “A
cloning facility of indeterminate origin appears on Dantooine in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Galaxy of Fear: Clones</i>.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">52</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 107) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…my orbital mines, cloaked
with primitive N’Gai technology, merely a means to an end</i>: “According to
‘The Forgotten War’ on StarWars.com, the Nagai (and their ‘primitive cloaking
technology’) were hiding in the Unknown Regions at this time. The species is
referred to as ‘N’Gai’ in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Essential
Guide to Characters</i> and ‘Evil Never Dies’ on StarWars.com.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">53</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 108) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inch by inch</i>: “Even though
metric measurements are the standard in the Star Wars universe, reference to
English measurements such as ‘Inches’ and ‘miles’ have appeared in various
sources, such as the Marvel comics and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark
Empire</i>, and more recently in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clone
Wars</b> TV show, in episodes such as ‘Jedi Crash’ and ‘The Deserter.’ I think
their use here for dramatic effect is, especially as an idiomatic phrase,
forgivable.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">54</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 135) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…my expertise in genetic
replication standards, even the Jedis’ own abandoned techniques, allow me to
generate a fully viable drone within days</i>: “The idea that clones can be
grown within days was first introduced in the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Last Command</i>, where Spaarti cloning technology is said to be
able to grow a clone in as little as 20 days. Any faster tends to lead to a
mental instability called ‘clone madness.’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Galaxy
of Fear: Clones</i> introduces an unknown process called ‘rapid cloning’ that
is even faster:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘some sort of quick
cloning method that allowed him to grow clones not in years, or even months or
days, but hours!’ pg. 95.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">55</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 142) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blue-Tark</i>: “The tactical
droid’s full alphanumeric designation is TB-1U4.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0tGKEb_N7fgEW4LAZJULeJ4EOKF9E86m0XH5v6SGa7kDYrUJpTeNDr18ILI7mabBnYf8OfOKf3dXtKwjjLb4m_2ZE_Gj15Yx1wF_nQBjGKvtsvPtFZLQ3D01tpVbFL8yTjBZSXfXb1rvu3RIbbuA9DFzTL_OGweYTCDJLCLDGFJTXgMG54mkmsvcA=s400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="400" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0tGKEb_N7fgEW4LAZJULeJ4EOKF9E86m0XH5v6SGa7kDYrUJpTeNDr18ILI7mabBnYf8OfOKf3dXtKwjjLb4m_2ZE_Gj15Yx1wF_nQBjGKvtsvPtFZLQ3D01tpVbFL8yTjBZSXfXb1rvu3RIbbuA9DFzTL_OGweYTCDJLCLDGFJTXgMG54mkmsvcA=w400-h301" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">56</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 143) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tark Squad! This is Commander
Skywalker! The Chosen One. The Son of the S—</i>: “Anakin is playing on a
Thyrsian belief here. According to the recently published <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Galaxy at War</i> sourcebook, ‘More than a century before the rise of
the Empire, Thyrsian culture became fixated on Force lore, particularly the
prophecy that the galaxy’s savior would be known as “the son of suns.” The Sith
Order, still in hiding after the Battle of Ruusan, played on the Thyrsian
belief that they were the subjects of this prophecy, and encouraged the Sun
Guards to follow twisted Sith readings of Jedi orthodoxy.’”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">57</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 145) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But just like a nightmare, or
the object of Xenu’s paradox:</i> “A paronomasia on the philosopher Zeno’s
paradox, of course, in which swift-footed Achilles can never overcome the
mathematically infinitely divisible distance to catch a dawdling tortoise ahead
of him.” [Some sexy rhetorical gymnastics here. Hubba hubba.—ed.]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">58</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 151) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…Anakin rolled away from the
concentric rings bearing down on him … slashing his lightsaber two-handed
through the paralyzing waves</i>: “This sequence takes its inspiration from a
similar scene in the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Darksaber</i>,
where <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A New Hope</b>-style stun rings
and a lightsaber interact in a similar fashion. The military-grade distinction
is meant to explain why other works occasionally depict Jedis’ lightsabers
deflecting stun blasts generally resembling regular blaster bolts in
illustration or description.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiO8VxA7sh6j3VxteAojVpX36Y4oo9Fc1PK5rzAYSD00kqmHprRSbct5RMBtJlKL7H3Kv9waqa4Qg1zt9wwMARXxbKtAb76jwjHulQDswEviS6svsjaBzeCcWz_gBQpr658Gf-rymdimUX78Vxvd80kTWI1pkJVXHts9gbVggDgdDWrXT_hmHWCRgxd=s816" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="816" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiO8VxA7sh6j3VxteAojVpX36Y4oo9Fc1PK5rzAYSD00kqmHprRSbct5RMBtJlKL7H3Kv9waqa4Qg1zt9wwMARXxbKtAb76jwjHulQDswEviS6svsjaBzeCcWz_gBQpr658Gf-rymdimUX78Vxvd80kTWI1pkJVXHts9gbVggDgdDWrXT_hmHWCRgxd=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">59</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 151) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Senate Bureau of
Intelligence insisted the Confederacy was developing scores of superweapons,
including a battle droid answer to the Republic’s covert-ops commandos</i>: “Droid
commandos are introduced in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clone
Wars</b> TV episode, ‘Rookies.’”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">60</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 151) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…but some believed the
Separatists had plans to grow their own clone army</i>: “Later in the war, the
Separatists would clone their own Morgukai Shadow Army from Nikto warriors in
the Republic comics.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">61</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 151) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dooku’s uncanny omnipresence
and elusiveness since the war began had spawned murmurs of the existence of a
“Clone Dooku”</i>: “This is a reference to a comment about a clone of Dooku in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yoda: Dark Rendezvous</i>, referring back to
the events of the videogame <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Droid
Army</i>. Between the Battle of Geonosis but before <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Clone Wars</b> film, Dooku engages the Jedi on multiple occasions.
Just counting his encounters with Obi-Wan and/or Anakin, there is the duel on
Geonosis (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Attack of the Clones</b>), and
encounters on Raxus Prime (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clone Wars</i>
videogame) and Null (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Legacy of the Jedi</i>),
while he also fights Tholme and Sora Bulq on Bakura shortly after the war
starts.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">62</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(page 175) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I promise you, when this war’s
over … I’ll find a way to have you trained as a Jedi</i>: “This scene between
Kharys and Anakin (and the preceding) is based upon information established in
‘Aliens in the Empire II’ on StarWars.com:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>‘Anakin was kind to Kharys during his visit, pointing out her Force
potential to Obi-Wan. However, Kenobi and Ventor both agreed she was too old
for training. Unconvinced, Anakin promised Kharys he'd find a way to have her
trained when the Clone Wars were over.’ As seen in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Annual #1</i>, Anakin will return after the Clone Wars, as
Darth Vader, to train Kharys.” ~ Abel G. Peña</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><div class="media" style="max-height: 675.6px;"><div class="media" style="max-height: 675.6px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga4rq2Mb9UCKegflWR8rgWCs06Vcyrs7KBP9lC3uogi_VEZlGHPQNwHpWQNSSQFbgei5P4jgiG0AGb5SC9nLqsV-uF0tc0y23qb_IgleoFusCwpS2Z6XcSvXT7ycKybWLgbr57KO0JN-vAk8PvgTagewZ6a28h56sh--IVf-dV-CI8ktJ1YhHEXEpa=s751" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="677" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga4rq2Mb9UCKegflWR8rgWCs06Vcyrs7KBP9lC3uogi_VEZlGHPQNwHpWQNSSQFbgei5P4jgiG0AGb5SC9nLqsV-uF0tc0y23qb_IgleoFusCwpS2Z6XcSvXT7ycKybWLgbr57KO0JN-vAk8PvgTagewZ6a28h56sh--IVf-dV-CI8ktJ1YhHEXEpa=w576-h640" width="576" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="media" style="max-height: 675.6px;">
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Abel G. Peñahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195314009440635891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710336342893452203.post-34389807459977524172019-12-18T13:56:00.000-08:002019-12-18T14:12:41.868-08:00SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story Footnotes/Endnotes, Part 3—The Darth Maul Annotation, or How To Commit Editorial Suicide<div class="irc_mimg irc_hic">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Welcome back!
You hung in there, FOUR AND A HALF whole years of Disney Star Wars! We’re about
to have Episode IX dropped on us, then END OF THE SAGA. (Does anyone even
understand Roman numerals anymore?) What are you doing reading the footnotes
for a LEGENDS story, anyway?!? You, my friend, are clearly a Star Wars
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Well, first, you
should get yourself immediately acquainted with my Star Wars magnum opus <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150317094129/http://www.abelgpena.com/SkyeWalkersCWstory.pdf">SkyeWalkers:
A Clone Wars Story</a></i>. Then, while your facial orifice is salivating for
more, you should check out <a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2015/05/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html">Part
1</a> and <a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2015/06/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html">Part
2</a> of this series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To recap, this is a series of “endnotes” that actually began
their lives as footnotes, specifically, the editorial footnotes I included with
the original submission of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers</i>
to Lucasfilm during the approvals process of the project. The tenor of these
notes is generally one of, “Hey, buddy! This is something that may be setting
off your Spidey-sense (or otherwise <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">should</i>!),
but please don’t trip! There’s a really good reason why this is here!” It was a
practice pioneered by the legendary Star Wars trendsetters at West End Games
and which was passed on to me by the likes of that ace, my pal and mentor,
Daniel Wallace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alas, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">my
penchant for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080706205132/http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena/82/comments">overkill</a>
is well established.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Hence, I present
you with the coup de grâce among <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers
</i>footnotes, which is as long alone as any of the previous collections of
20-odd footnotes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">combined</i>! This one,
this ronto-sized mofo, which I refer to as “The Darth Maul Annotation” has as
its goal the seemingly laughably simple objective: to justify a direct
reference to the name of the Sith Lord in the novella. This is due to the fact
that, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">despite</i> being the principle
antagonist of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode I: The Phantom
Menace</i>—Darth Maul’s name is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never</i>
mentioned around any of the film’s protagonists. That’s right: none of the good
guys ever hear his name. This thus led to a confusing practice in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> literature with many stories
awkwardly referring to Darth Maul as “the mysterious dark warrior”—or something
equally cumbersome—while direct references to his name slipped through in other
stories, seemingly arbitrarily. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">So I wrote Lucasfilm
a short essay disguised as a footnote to clarify it all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The geek flag flies high on this one—which is maybe why <i>SkyeWalkers</i> took so long to be published. But that’s why <i>you’re</i>
here, isn’t it, superfan?</span><br />
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">39</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (page 74) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">… <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Padmé’s advisors had revealed
overhearing the Trade Federation Viceroy refer to Qui-Gon’s murderer as </span></span></i><span style="color: black;">Darth<i> Maul</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">:</span></span></span><style><!--
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</style><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> “</span></span>Some sources <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">suggest</i> that Darth Maul’s identity was
perhaps unknown after the Battle of Naboo: in the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jedi Quest</i>, pg. 36, Anakin faces a phantom-Maul in the caves of
Ilum and refers to the apparition only as ‘Qui-Gon’s murderer,’ and in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Essential Guide to the Force</i>, pg. 29, a
report filed by Obi-Wan five days after the Battle of Naboo never refers to
Darth Maul by name but instead as the ‘dark warrior.’ However, because Maul’s
name is repeatedly referenced by characters in several other prequel-era
sources (most recently by Obi-Wan himself in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clone Wars</b> TV episode ‘Monster’), it’s more reasonable to assume
that the name ‘Darth Maul’ wasn’t totally unknown among the Jedi but instead <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unconfirmed</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For
example, in the earliest example of a character having knowledge of the name,
on pages 108 and 109 of the first-person novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Episode I Journal: Queen Amidala</i>, Padmé twice refers to Darth Maul
directly by name: ‘Qui-Gon is dead. He died bravely. Of course he died bravely.
Obi-Wan told me the details. How they fought <u>Darth Maul</u> down into the
bowels of the power generator next door to the hanger. How Qui-Gon came back
again and again to strike the dark warrior. But it was Qui-Gon who took the
killing blow. It was left to Obi-Wan to kill <u>Darth Maul</u>.’ The novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rogue Planet</i> also suggests that Obi-Wan
knows Darth Maul’s identity, stating, on pg. 225, ‘Obi-Wan had seen his Master
impaled on the glowing, singing lightsaber of <u>Darth Maul</u>.’ In the post-<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Revenge of the Sith</b> novels <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Last of the Jedi: Death on Naboo</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Last of the Jedi: Return of the Dark Side</i>,
the former Jedi Padawan Ferus Olin also knows Maul’s identity. While in the
Theed Generator Complex in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Death on Naboo</i>,
pg. 123, Ferus states, ‘It was here … This is the place Obi-Wan fought <u>Darth
Maul</u> to the death,’ and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Return of the
Dark Side</i>, pg. 65, states, ‘[Ferus] had assumed Vader had sprung up from
nowhere because Palpatine wanted it that way. He had assumed that Vader had
been like <u>Darth Maul</u>, an apprentice trained and kept concealed until he
was needed.’ The comic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Purge</i>, which
takes place shortly after <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Revenge of the
Sith</b>, also has the Jedi Shadday Potkin mention Maul by name in relation to
both the Sith generally and Darth Vader specifically: ‘Death walking.
Palpatine’s mailed fist, Dooku’s successor, <u>Maul’s</u> inheritor, the new
Sith – Darth Vader.’ Finally, on page 211 of the post-<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Phantom Menace</b> novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Outbound
Flight</i>, Palpatine’s advisor Kinman Doriana also demonstrates familiarity
with the name Darth Maul.</span></div>
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these numerous discrepancies, I suggest this simple and most logical
explanation: Ferus learned Maul’s name from Obi-Wan in the initial <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Last of the Jedi</i> books (wherein they had
frequent interaction), Obi-Wan learned the name from Padmé (possibly only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after</i> writing the report in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Essential Guide to the Force</i>), and
Padmé learned Maul’s name from her royal advisors, such as Sio Bibble. Bibble
and the other advisors were likely to have heard Maul’s name for two reasons.
First, they were in close proximity to Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray,
who himself knew Darth Maul’s name (Sidious: ‘This is my apprentice, Darth Maul.
He will find your lost ship.’) and liked to gloat. Bibble and the others were,
therefore, likely to have heard Maul’s name either indirectly while Gunray
gloated, or even directly. This leads to the second reason: in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Phantom Menace</b>, Sio Bibble, in
hologram form, sends a message to Amidala telling her of the catastrophic death
toll the Trade Federation invasion has yielded and beseeching her to contact
him. The very next scene, in which Darth Maul tells Sidious he’s traced Amidala
to Tatooine, leads us to conclude that Maul (or Gunray) used Bibble to forge
the trace. As such, it’s completely plausible Bibble learned Maul’s name while
being coerced to send Amidala this message.[***]</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hence,
even if the Jedi associate the name ‘Darth Maul’ with the ‘dark warrior’
Obi-Wan killed, the name ultimately comes from an unreliable source—Nute Gunray
or the Sith. Since no one can truly corroborate whether the name ‘Darth Maul’
is legitimate, the name remains in circulation but is essentially hearsay.” ~
Abel G. Peña</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[***</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A footnote to my footnote: not even I had the
balls to mention that the idea for this Star Wars version of the telephone game
has its origins in 10-odd years of meditating on copy from the Star Wars:
Episode I Collector’s Edition 20-Month Calendar, specifically from the month of
November. It is here that the first explanation for how Darth Sidious tracked
down Padmé and her Jedi rescuers in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Phantom
Menace</i> was posited: “With the help of the Jedi, Queen Amidala, her
handmaidens and key advisors have escaped their Trade Federation captors and
managed to board the Royal Starship, her personal vehicle. Through skillful
piloting they evade the massive blockading and invading Trade Federation fleet
but the ship is heavily damaged in the battle. Consulting with the Jedi and her
advisors, the Queen agrees that they should travel to the nearby planet of
Tatooine to make repairs. They will then proceed to the planet Coruscant, their
ultimate destination, to ask the Galactic Senate for help in stopping the invasion.
From the ship, she communicates with Senator Palpatine, Naboo’s Senate
representative, informing him of the invasion and their itinerary.” This
implies that, very reasonably, Padmé basically ratted <i>herself</i> out to Darth
Sidious! But the fragile legitimacy of lore found in a wall calendar being what
it was under Lucasfilm’s traditional continuity standards, I remained aware</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—aided by some of the earliest discussions within the Star Wars Fanboy Association</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—</span></span></span></span>that
the most logical <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">alternative</i> to
assume was that Padmé’s advisor Sio Bibble (with whom we see her communicate in
the film while en route to Tatooine) was instead the likely source of Darth
Sidious’ awareness, whether by coercion or as an outright spy. So this laid the foundation
in my mind a decade later for the chain of causality that
could serve as justification for knowledge of Darth Maul’s name among the Jedi.
(It's possible James Luceno's novel <i>Darth Plagueis</i> suggested yet <i>another</i> explanation, but that was published after I submitted <i>SkyeWalkers</i> to Lucasfilm.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—ed.</span>]</span></div>
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</style>Abel G. Peñahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195314009440635891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710336342893452203.post-19480697014521486452019-12-16T11:00:00.000-08:002019-12-16T11:07:33.364-08:00The Tragedy of Mace Windu And The Death of The Jedi Order<br />
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Mace, how could you.
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I believed in you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You the picture of composure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
were my hero. The absitively, posolutely baddest-ass Jedi in all the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the galaxy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you told Count Dooku, “This party’s <i>over</i>,”
I cheered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Here</i>, I said, <i>here
is proof that we can have the best of both worlds</i>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that I can be a good man, the <u>best</u>
man, and still be cooler than Sith.</div>
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Oh Mace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did you
do, fool.</div>
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In <i>Revenge of the Sith</i>, Chancellor Palpatine is
revealed to us to be nothing less insidious than the Dark Lord and evil
incarnate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Standing poised to deliver
Palpatine the killing blow, Mace Windu, Senior Jedi Master of the Jedi High
Council, has a choice to make:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to kill
or not to kill?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s review the
facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mace has gone to Chancellor
Palpatine’s office with the knowledge that he is the Dark Lord of the Sith, and
has gone with the intent to arrest him.</div>
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Again:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>taking three
Jedi Masters with him, Master Mace Windu has gone to <i>arrest</i> the Chancellor
of the Republic because Mace has been <i>convinced</i> that <b>the chancellor
is actually the Dark Lord Darth Sidious</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This intelligence is brought to Mace by none other than the Chosen One,
Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, the one who is destined to bring balance to the
Force (…or “So the prophecy says,” Mace snorts).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mace Windu, senior Jedi of the Jedi Council,
senses “a great deal of confusion” in Jedi Skywalker, and denies Anakin, boy of
destiny, his rightful place of prophecy in this epic confrontation.</div>
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Arguably his rightful place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After all, difficult to interpret are prophecies, according to Yoda.</div>
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Mace and his Jedi troupe descend on Chancellor Palpatine in
the devil’s lair…his office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In the
name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic,” Mace tells him, “<b>you are under
arrest Chancellor</b>… The senate will decide your fate.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Dark Lord, of course, does not go
quietly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mace successfully subdues the
Dark Lord, but three Jedi masters sacrifice their lives for the cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless, Mace, with his lightsaber at
Palpatine’s throat, cool as ever, reiterates, “You are under arrest, <i>my lord</i>.”</div>
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And we love him.</div>
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Despite all that he has gone through, witnessing his
comrades cut down before him, engaging the Dark Lord in a debilitating duel,
and perhaps most devastating of all, understanding that the Jedi have been
tricked into compromising their most cherished principles and become warriors
instead of peacekeepers for a totally made-up war, at this most desperate hour
Mace Windu <i>reaffirms</i> his mission to <i>arrest</i> the Dark Lord, and let
the Republic Senate decide his fate.</div>
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For the naysayers that complain that Anakin’s Fall in <i>Revenge</i>
is not illustrated acutely enough, that his fall to the dark side isn’t
convincing enough, I can’t help but cringe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As the familiar adage goes, a person doesn’t judge good art; good art
strips you butt naked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recall the
terrible moments of choice faced by Anakin in Episodes I and II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember Anakin’s tough decision to leave
Tatooine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(“I can’t do it, Mom, I just
can’t.”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet he does it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about Anakin’s tough decision to go after
Dooku rather than Padmé after his true love gets tossed from a Republic
chopper?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those who have experienced
the primacy of free will, who have understood their past actions as events of
choice, who have in essence accepted responsibility as the craftsmen of their
own destinies and therefore for both the glory and misery of who and what they
are, the fall of Anakin Skywalker to the dark side in <i>Revenge of the Sith</i>
cannot cut out your soul with finer precision or more satisfying guilt.</div>
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When Padawan Anakin decides to take justice, <i>government</i>,
into his own hands and indiscriminately slay a community of men, women, and
children in <i>Attack of the Clones</i>, and when Master Mace stares into the
eyes of the devil, and in fear of a mere <i>possible</i> future, crumbles,
these are choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Cruel man,
nearsighted man!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you say that?”
an averagely compassionate fellow says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let’s call him, I don’t know…“Lando.”</div>
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“Anakin just watched his mother <i>die</i> before his eyes!”
Lando says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Mace Windu was trying to
kill the Dark Lord, Evil Itself, for the safety of a galaxy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the world, brother, a <i>galaxy</i>.”</div>
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I’ll get to “evil itself” in a minute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great illusion here is the confusion of
justification in feeling a certain emotion – feeling hatred, fear, etc. – with
justification of acting on that emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Is it natural to feel the impulse to chop some fools in half with a
lightsaber?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But one certainly doesn’t need to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One always has a choice <span class="content">--</span> though, to face the
less attractive of those choices is often remarkably <i>painful</i>, and
therefore an individual will often eliminate it from the realm of possible
actions that can be taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus creating
the perception, and familiar excuse, that “I had no choice.”<br />
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Right mindless clone troopers who backstabbed their Jedi
generals?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about you self-serving
Republic Senate, which applauded the government’s transformation into a
dictatorship?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or at last Anakin
Skywalker, who finally, <i>finally</i>, understands he has a choice when his
son Luke tells him, “I feel the conflict within you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let go of your hate!” and “I feel the good in
you, the <i>conflict</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or in other
words, “Yeah, Dad, you know that kinda nagging feeling you got inside?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, that’s your conscience.”</div>
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Back to the action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As Palpatine fries Mace with dark side lightning, Anakin, destined to be
present at this moment, bursts into Palpatine’s office, and Mace asks Anakin to
choose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Choose!</i> he says, <i>to
believe me or believe Palpatine!</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
believe Mace would have been comforted more by Anakin choosing to help
Palpatine at that moment instead of what Anakin’s response is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>indecision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of all the most excruciating experiences in life, uncertainty, in all
its forms, is the most agonizing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
fear of uncertainty the most dangerous catalyst.</div>
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Not that we have anything to fear here, right Mace?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patience is a Jedi virtue, after all.</div>
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Right Mace?</div>
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We see the tension in Mace’s face in this pivotal moment as
a confused Anakin hangs onto his faith in the Jedi Order by a mere thread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps nothing can stop Anakin’s fall to the
dark side, perhaps he will become the greatest of Jedi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of these possibilities are as nothing,
for now there is only the reality of what happens, that is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when Anakin, the boy of destiny needed him
most, we see the good man who is Mace Windu come undone.</div>
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Consciously betraying everything he believes in, Mace at
last takes justice, government, into his own hands, announcing his decision
with these fatal words:</div>
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“I’m going to end this.”</div>
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As our hearts pound in our ears, not unlike the sound of
thunderous applause, we watch Mace pull back his lightsaber like a mallet,
scream down deep inside, “Yes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, kill
him!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KILL PALPATINE.” and watch lustily
as Mace unleashes the triphammer that will strike down the DARK LORD.</div>
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It’s fun to blame Palpatine, isn’t it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Look,” we say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“See?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>There</i>
is the root of all our problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
you, or me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly not me…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So-called evil incarnate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s fun and cathartic because we all have bad
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes bad years, and sometimes
bad decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who wants to take the blame
for that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all want stuff, the stuff
we don’t have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A toy… food… money.</div>
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A person?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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To <i>save</i> a person, Anakin?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To preserve an <i>idea</i>, Mace?</div>
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We wish and hope that with that one deft stroke, Mace will
forever end the intrusion of sadness and badness into our lives and usher in the age of
happiness and perfection not only that we all want but deserve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Detrimentally, so did Mace.</div>
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In one swift motion, Mace, who moments ago battered a Sith
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Jedi Master into motion, that final never-ending swing, the Emperor has already
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deathblow, we know the principles of the Jedi Order are bankrupt, and the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, once again, if you haven’t yet read the bomb bookends that
are my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> novella <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> short story “Lone Wolf: A Tale
of Obi-Wan and Luke,” please download those (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150317094129/http://www.abelgpena.com/SkyeWalkersCWstory.pdf" target="_blank">for free!</a>) and enjoy an afternoon
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Now, what you’re
reading here is the next set of editorial footnotes that I submitted with the manuscript
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers</i>. Sure, in the <a href="http://abelgpena.blogspot.com/2015/05/skyewalkers-clone-wars-story.html">last bunch</a>
I touched on concepts as basic and sacred to longtime <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> fans as the nature of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s relationship to
his “brother” Owen and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">plural
possessive</i> form of “Jedi”—but in this collection of notes I raise the
stakes, marshaling everything from poetic license to scientific estimates to
defend some of my oh-so-controversial literary choices (including the development
of a Sith conspiracy theory). On top of that, I document the evolution of Force
levitation, and even find myself forced to get philosophical about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> grammar because of my previous principled stance. This <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shee</i> was
definitely not covered in the <a href="http://clubjade.net/?p=44955">Star Wars
Styleguide</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">And I haven’t
even gotten to the notorious “Darth Maul” footnote….</span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">21</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
(page 40) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It sat the four flinty-looking
members of the S’kytri Supreme Council:</i> “In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Annual #1</i>, there appear to be five councilors, not
counting the patriarch: the female speaker plus four blue guys. I’ve reduced
the number to four here because, whereas the Outland Clan is presumably
represented in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Annual #1</i>, that clan
is here in revolt.”</span></div>
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(page 40-41) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…the S’kytri were a culture
of animists, believing all things on their planet indwelt by a living essence:</i>
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Gamer #1</i>, ‘The University
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(page 44) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Henceforth, a Jedi could have
but one pupil:</i> “From the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Knights of
the Old Republic Campaign Guide</i>.” [This note actually sources something I
myself wrote in another <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
book as justification, which always seems like cheating to me—sort of like if
theologians could write new gospels and then get to reference those additions
as evidence when arguing subsequent positions. In any case, I wasn’t so proud as to let that moral quandary get
in the way of me writing a good story. Obi-Wan’s full quote here is: “</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You see, millennia ago, during what
my people call the Great Sith War, some of our number <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">betrayed</i> our brotherhood and turned to evil! What we Jedi refer to
as the dark side of the Force. Though these renegades were defeated, our
masters determined that this betrayal stemmed from a flawed system of
mentorship, with far too many apprentices studying under a single Master.
Henceforth, a Jedi could have but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one</i>
pupil.</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”—ed.]</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div>
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(page 47) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The essence of the Jedi’s art
is control:</i> “i.e. the ‘archetypal’ Jedi, hence singular possessive.” [Here
I found myself in a real pickle. Why? Because here the character Halagad is
“remembering” the words of his former Jedi Master, which is a direct quote from
the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Domain of Evil</i>—and that
quote contains a possessive form of “Jedi” that seems to contradict the
grammarsplaining I did just a few footnotes ago arguing the plural possessive.
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(page 48) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Using the Force to levitate a
person should be no harder than levitating a big rock. In theory:</i> “Levitation
of another ‘body’ was first seen in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Return
of the Jedi</b>, when Luke levitates See-Threepio. Marvel Comics #89, published
soon after, extended the idea by demonstrating that Luke was also capable of
levitating a human body, albeit no longer living. The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clone Wars</b> TV series extrapolated the next logical step, by showing
Anakin levitate a living being, Padmé, in ‘Destroy Malevolence.’” [The idea of
using the Force to levitate a living person may not seem controversial, but the
fact that I could recall no precedent of it for decades (until the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clone Wars</i> TV series provided an example
in the midst of my writing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers</i>)
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(page 48) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…committing my heart to the
simple idea that if people only helped each other, there would be far fewer
problems in the galaxy:</i> “‘Mom, you said that the biggest problem with the
universe right now is that no one helps each other.’—Anakin, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Phantom Menace</b>”</span></div>
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49) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If this prophecy of “the One” you
speak is true:</i> “The prophecy of ‘the One’ and the S’kytri’s pledge of
loyalty, established in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Annual
#1</i>, is here logically dovetailed with the prophecy of the Chosen One from
the prequels.” [This is one of those serendipitous coincidences that I was always
grateful for when working with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i>
continuity. As often as sources unwittingly contradicted one another, it seemed
almost supernatural when a story published in 1978 essentially predicted a plot
element of a movie from 2002.—ed.]</span></div>
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of a thousand-thousand worlds—no one:</i> “There are hundreds of billions of
stars estimated to populate the Milky Way Galaxy, and we might expect something
similar in the Star Wars galaxy. But the phrase ‘thousand-thousand worlds,’
though suggesting a much smaller number, is a poetic metaphor for the extent of
the Empire/Republic established in West End Games books such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Imperial Sourcebook</i>. The more
scientifically sound estimate is referred to later in the narrative.” [On page
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of invisible crawlers:</i> “That should indeed be ‘shooked’ and not ‘shook.’ A
bit of poetic license.” [This “poetic license” was certainly less egregious
than the neologism in the immediately preceding sentence,
“micronnia,” which I coined with some reluctance when I couldn’t find a suitable
“millennium” equivalent for a million years—the deeply awkward “megaannus”
for astronomical contexts notwithstanding (and whose compatriot is the equally ungraceful thousand-year-counterpart “kilannus,” after all). Instead,
I followed the SI-prefix conventions in the direction with belletristic
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term ‘echolocator’ comes from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Children of
the Jedi</i>, pg. 65.” [And there’s actually a typo here. The “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tera</i>hertz penetrating radar,” of which
the echolocator is supposed to be one variety, was introduced in the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines</i>.]</span></div>
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61) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Obi-Wan didn’t entirely blame Anakin
for sometimes confusing the clone troopers for something … less human:</i> “Obi-Wan’s
misgivings about clone troopers are spelled out in detail in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Cestus Deception</i>, pg. 60: ‘If
Obi-Wan was entirely honest with himself, he had to admit that large groups of
clone troopers made him slightly uncomfortable… although genetically human,
they had not led human lives: clone troopers were born and bred purely for war,
without the nurturance of a mother’s embrace, or the safety of a father’s
loving discipline. They looked human, they laughed and ate and fought and died
like men. But if not human, what exactly were they?’”</span></div>
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threading through her thoughts like fingertips through locks of hair:</i> “This
is a technique for detecting Force-sensitivity introduced in the Jedi Academy
Trilogy novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jedi Search</i>.”</span></div>
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before her face:</i> “Jaina Solo performs a similar trick in the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Crystal Star</i>, pg. 105-106.”</span></div>
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if he could make out her “</i></span><i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "aurebesh"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">” “</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "aurebesh"; font-size: 10.0pt;">N</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">”
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reader in an aurebesh font.” [It was pivotal for this scene that Anakin’s nickname
“Ani” be spelled in the well-established alien script of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> called <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Aurebesh">Aurebesh</a>.
But because the manuscript was being submitted electronically, even though the
font showed up fine on my computer, there was no guarantee that would be the
case when it got to Lucasfilm. Hence, this footnote.—ed.]</span></div>
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the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shatterpoint</i>, the word
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">37</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> (page 74) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Well, facts are facts… Here’s another one: </span></i><span style="color: black;">Magnus<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> is a Sith
title:</i></span> “Darth Malak is referred to as a ‘Sith Magnus’ in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide</i>.
Its meaning given here is new.”</span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">38</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> (page 74) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">The “Second Sith theory” had gained little
traction:</span></i><span style="color: black;"> “</span>The concept of the
‘Second Sith,’ as a formal theory, is introduced in the comic Republic #63,
wherein Jedi double-agent Quinlan Vos kills a senator because Dooku has led him
to believe he is ‘the Second Sith.’ According to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Labyrinth of Evil</i>, pg. 58, the Jedi Council overwhelmingly believes
Dooku was lying about Darth Sidious and that Dooku himself is the ‘Dark Lord.’”
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~ <a href="http://www.abelgpena.com/">Abel
G. Peña</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Welcome!
First things first. If you haven’t read my novella <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story</i> (and its companion short “Lone Wolf:
A Tale of Obi-Wan and Luke”), your ass needs to do me and yourself a favor and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150317094129/http://www.abelgpena.com/SkyeWalkersCWstory.pdf" target="_blank">enjoy the hell outta that</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Writing
a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> project is often a fun
and rewarding assignment. But even after you’re done writing and editing it,
and it is finally published, there still often remains for an author the task
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">promoting</i> it, especially in modern
publishing. One of the tools I’ve traditionally used for this end is what has become
popularly known among fans as “endnotes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I can
identify at least three different styles of footnotes/endnotes common to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> authors. The most familiar of
these are “endnotes” of a style pioneered by Pablo Hidalgo in a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110628232008/http://www.starwars.com/eu/lit/ref/f20051025/index.html">StarWars.com
companion piece</a> to Daniel Wallace’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New Essential Chronology</i>. This was a species of notes that amounted to a
blow-by-blow account (or bean counting) of every cross-reference to another <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> work—movie, novel, comic, video
game, trading card, toy, etc.—mentioned in the newly published project. It was a
labor-intensive yet inexpensive style of self-promotion that I emulated early
in my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> writing career <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110707065740/http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena/73">again</a>
and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081003084400/http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena/47">again</a>
and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100305132640/http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena/53">again</a>.
The tone of that class of notes is what I like to think of as “for the fans”: They’re
technical checklists that can really only interest the most hardcore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
second distinct, and less common, form of endnotes/footnotes in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> publishing has been a kind of
reflective remarks, similar to a director’s running commentary selectable in
the “Special Features” submenu of a Blu-ray. Examples of this style include the
<a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Heir_to_the_Empire:_The_20th_Anniversary_Edition">“annotated”
20<sup>th</sup> anniversary edition</a> of Timothy Zahn’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heir to the Empire</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-reads-day-special-book-of-sith-endnotes">endnotes
for Book of Sith: Secrets From the Dark Side</a></i> by Daniel Wallace. The
tone of these notes tends to be somewhat “artsy”: a reader-who-is-also-a-writer’s
or creative type’s cup of tea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There
is a third category of notes that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> authors deal in which fans are much less familiar with, however. These
are what I’ll call “editorial footnotes.” These are the footnotes that
accompany some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> authors’
manuscripts when those works touch on subjects of particular interest for an
editor at Lucasfilm and/or at one of its licensees. These footnotes may take up
a technical textual detail, a particularly knotty or obscure piece of
continuity—a significant concern in the sprawling mythology of the original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars</i> Expanded Universe—or even
comment on some current event or consideration indirectly relevant to the
project. The tone of these notes I like to think of as “blue collar”: they’re a
behind-the-scenes look at what the practical writing and approvals process for
a major franchise project can be like. Sometimes the statements in the
footnotes may seem overly obvious, while sometimes the contents border on the
oblique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There
are about 80 editorial footnotes between <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers</i>
and its companion story “Lone Wolf” (about 60 for the former and 20 for the
latter). So I’ll break those up into four parts of about 20 footnotes each. For
hardcore fans, this will only scratch the surface of the “checklist”-style
endnotes I used to produce following a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Wars</i> project. But they will also give some insight into the idiosyncrasies
of writing in a galaxy far, far away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well,
without further ado, here is the first collection of editorial footnotes for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story</i>—albeit
presented to you in the form of endnotes. (Confused yet?)</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(page 8)
—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his affectation for the wardrobe of
Onderon’s bygone royal Magi Sentinels: </i>“Named here for the first time,
these elaborately robed Onderon guards appear in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Freedon Nadd Uprising</i>.”</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> (page
13) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But I thought these Kamino units were
supposed to take all orders without question?</i> “In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Attack of the Clones</b>, Lama Su describes the clones to Obi-Wan as
follows: ‘You’ll find they are totally obedient, taking any order without question.
We modified their genetic structure to make them less independent than the
original host.’”</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> (page
14) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Kaminoans </i>did<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> say they considered a Thyrsus Sun Guard as
prime donor for the GAR</i>: “As stated in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Galaxy
at War</i>.”</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> (page
15) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We had the Triplehorn mountains
bordering the Aldera Royal Palace</i>: “<sup>4 </sup>The name for this mountain
range is taken from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Galaxy of Fear:
Planet Plague</i>.”</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (page 16) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reminds me of my first lightsaber … Qui-Gon
Jinn’s</i>: “As explained in the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rogue
Planet</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vader: The Ultimate Guide</i>.”</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (page 17) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I guess that’s what happens when someone
builds one of these in just two days</i>: “According to the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I, Jedi</i>, during the Clone Wars Jedi
Knights often built lightsabers in the span of two days.”</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">7</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> (page
17) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anakin and Halagad had recently
partaken in an ancient ritual known as the Concordance of Fealty</i>: “As
stated in ‘Aliens in the Empire, Part II’ on StarWars.com, retconing a passage
from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Annual #1</i>.”</span></div>
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28) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And this is grounds for a newborn’s
death sentence?</i> “‘A small percentage of the population are born with
reverse pigmentation, but the S’kytri consider them an abomination of nature
and destroy these babies as soon as they are detected.’—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Gamer #1</i>, ‘The University of Sanbra Guide to Intelligent
Life: The Marvel Series,’ pg. 61”</span></div>
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30) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hope—or lack of it—Obi-Wan knew, had
a manifestive influence on the energy field surrounding all living things:</i> “From
the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Planet of Twilight</i>.” [“But
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31) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anakin experienced a decisive falling
out with his closest Jedi Temple acquaintances: his best friend, Tru Veld, and
his occasional rival, Ferus Olin:</i> “As seen in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown</i>.”</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">11</span></sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> (page
32) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But Halagad’s master never made it
back</i>:<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> </span>“This mission was established
in the HoloNet News article ‘Virgillian Jedi Envoy Declared Lost’ at
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anakin had become considerably withdrawn
since the loss of his mother</i>: “Obi-Wan would be aware of this, as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Clone Wars: Wild Space</i> shows Anakin
telling his master almost immediately after the Battle of Geonosis that his
mother is dead.”</span></div>
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32) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The young man was as atypical as
apprentices came. Not in terms of appearance</i>: “Halagad’s physical appearance
is established in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Domain of Evil</i> and
‘Republic HoloNet News Special Inaugural Edition’ in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars Insider</i> #84, while his background is predominantly drawn
from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Domain of Evil</i>.” [The physical
description of Halagad, as well as the assertion that “he looked every bit the
heroic stereotype of a Jedi Knight,” was maybe the most cringe worthy meta moment
I experienced while writing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SkyeWalkers</i>.
(Second place goes to Halagad and Magnus staring vulnerably into each others
eyes.)—ed.]</span></div>
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32-33) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ventor was a product of the
heterodox Almas academy, admitted into the Jedi Order at the tender age of </i>seventeen<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">:</i> “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Domain
of Evil</i> states, ‘When he reached manhood, Ventor set out to find a Jedi Master
to teach him the arts.’ Halagad is established as having attended the Almas
academy, known for taking older Padawans, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dawn of Defiance: Echoes of the Jedi</i>.”</span></div>
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33) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the Jedi Watchman responsible for the
gaffe in protocol, Master Jorus C’baoth—dead five years now</i>: “Jorus
C’baoth’s position as Jedi Watchman for Alderaan is mentioned in the Pello
Scrambas databank entry at StarWars.com. His death occurs in the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Outbound Flight</i>.”</span></div>
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33) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Obi-Wan had often wondered whether it
was right of the Jedi to take infants from their families in the first place</i>:
“As seen in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Approaching Storm,</i>
pg. 107.”</span></div>
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34) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">living life outside the Jedis’ rules
and strictures:</i> “Everyone knows that the term ‘Jedi’ is used in the
singular and plural instances, but multiple times in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Phantom Menace</b> screenplay, George Lucas himself writes the
plural possessive as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jedis’</i> with an
‘s,’ followed by the apostrophe.” [This footnote cuts REAL deep. To quote Mark Hamill in <i>Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back</i>, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span>Don't fuck with the Jedi Master, son</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">—ed.]</span></div>
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to fight in the Melida/Daan Civil War:</i> “As seen in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jedi Apprentice: Defenders of the Dead</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jedi Apprentice: The Uncertain Path</i>.”</span></div>
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34) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and, later, there had been that
harrowing year spent on Mandalore:</i> “As mentioned in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clone Wars</b> TV episode, ‘Voyage of
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A brother. It was all so long ago:</i> “From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jedi Apprentice: The Hidden Past</i>, pg. 97. Written before <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Attack of the Clones</b> confirmed that
Owen is Anakin’s (and not Obi-Wan’s) step-brother, I’ve injected some ambiguity
into Obi-Wan’s recollection of the visit in order to retain the viability of his
emotional response to that ‘memory.’ The theme of ‘brothers’ is not just the
central thesis of this story, but proves key to Obi-Wan working through his
feelings about having Halagad as an additional apprentice (foreshadowing his
dialogue and confession in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revenge of the
Sith</i>, ‘You were my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">brother</i>, Anakin!
I loved you!’), since Anakin shares with Halagad a distinctly brotherly bond
that Obi-Wan feels envious of.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">~
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdwbmx2QONo3lDgrOcDX_20ORASuMlNCL2XzXvkfem-caaGbmd9ntDlHUK11PdMAtucf34DJCbWDJGXtdWMJpRyY5G1bIpJmiKzzyf0EaRyH8hArzjeGQIsmhsinyUelnXWAPqIFNFIw/s1600/Leia+attitude.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdwbmx2QONo3lDgrOcDX_20ORASuMlNCL2XzXvkfem-caaGbmd9ntDlHUK11PdMAtucf34DJCbWDJGXtdWMJpRyY5G1bIpJmiKzzyf0EaRyH8hArzjeGQIsmhsinyUelnXWAPqIFNFIw/s1600/Leia+attitude.jpg" height="270" width="320" /></a><span class="content"><b>14TH UPDATE: By cracked teeth and charred guts, Cussing in a Galaxy Far, Far Away is back with a vengeance, you nerf-brained pieces of bantha slime! Now with a whole new Ewokese section ... <i>Katoog!</i></b></span><b><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Thanks to everyone who has been filled my inbox with Star
Wars profanity over the years. The list continues to grow, showing just how
demented both Star Wars fans and authors can be. I'll continue to update with your contributions and with the
curses I find, marking new entries with <i>italics</i> every update. Cheers!</span></b><br />
<br />
<span class="content">One of my favorite fanish hobbies is keeping track of the
curses used in the Star Wars universe. This diversion traces its roots to a
healthy curiosity with real-life curse words. As I've mentioned before, I love language,
and I believe my first conscious experience with the power of language came
with the utterance of my first curse. When I was 3 or 4 years old, I took to emulating
my older sisters' inclination for using certain "bad words," much to
my parents' dismay, but to my great delight. Seeing the shocking reaction I
would get from saying just one particular word was a power unlike, well,
anything in the galaxy.</span><br />
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<span class="content">My sisters got the better of me, however, when they duped
me into thinking the word "Tonka," the name of a popular line of toy trucks (and,
coincidentally, also having the meaning "up" in Huttese), was the
most vile slur known to man by calling each other Tonkas, then acting as if
they were about to faint each time someone dropped the dreaded T-bomb. I
eagerly replaced all the cuss words in my repertoire with this one. Growing up
in a rougher neighborhood, though, I quickly learned what the real forbidden
words were, especially since all of the kids on my block were significantly
older than me.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">In my college days, I wrote an editorial outlining the
oft-ignored merits and pitfalls of this oh-so-human pastime, which still gets
me e-mail, not all of it pleasant. While living in Italy, I also did extensive
research with some lovely loose-lipped <i>signorine</i> and compiled a list of
essential Italian curses, which I distributed to my grateful American friends.
For years I've tried to do the same thing with Star Wars.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">In 1977, right off the bat, <i>Star Wars: A New Hope</i>
introduced us to the first curse of the Galaxy Far, Far Away... "Blast!"
Though Princess Leia teased us with witty quips like, "Can someone get
this walking carpet out of my way?" it wasn't until the first Star Wars
spin-off novel in 1978, Alan Dean Foster's <i>Splinter of the Mind's Eye</i>,
that we were introduced to another legitimate curse straight from the
princess's pristine lips (perhaps channeling Carrie Fisher): "Stang!" <i>A
Guide to the Star Wars Universe</i> tells us that this is a curse Alderaanian
in origin, and one finds himself wondering what other creative expressions that
planet's pacifistic culture has engendered.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Of course, it was all downhill (properly speaking) from there.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">With her classic line "You stuck-up, half-witted,
scruffy-looking nerf-herder!" in <i>The Empire Strikes Back</i>, the
Princess completely throws caution to the wind, but she isn't the only guilty
party. The years since 1978 have seen the creation of a number of curses,
exclamations, and general profanity by the many authors contributing to the
Star Wars mythos. From Timothy Zahn (The <i>Thrawn Trilogy, Hand of Thrawn</i>)
to Michael Stackpole (<i>X-Wing series, New Jedi Order: Dark Tide</i>), from
Jude Watson (<i>Jedi Apprentice, Jedi Quest</i>) to Karen Traviss (<i>Republic
Commando: Hard Contact</i>), John Ostrander (<i>Republic</i> comic series) to
Sean Stewart (<i>Yoda: Dark Rendezvous</i>) and a bunch more. Some of them are
funny, some of them are cheesy, some are cool, some are awful, and some are
unpronounceable.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">This is by no means a comprehensive compilation of Star
Wars curse words, but it aims to be. In the meantime, here's a few terms and
phrases to get interested parties started. If anyone has any curses (Star Wars
only, please) they'd like to add to this list, just e-mail me at <i>abelgpena@gmail.com</i>
with the vulgar expression in question, its usage (interjection, insult,
etc.), and the title of the source, and I'll update it regularly!</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Without further delay, I present the cuss words of the Star
Wars galaxy! ~ <i><a href="http://www.abelgpena.com/" target="_blank">Abel G.
Peña</a></i></span><br />
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<span class="content"><b>BASIC PROFANITY:</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Aiwha-bait</b> - An insult, usually directed at members
of the Kaminoan species (Republic Commando: Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Backrocket</b> - A derogatory modifier used to
insinuate a subject is of an order significantly inferior to the norm or ideal,
for instance, "His superiors had seen fit to shunt him to this backrocket
planet in the hind end of nowhere" (Medstar: Battle Surgeons).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bad-batcher</b> - An insult referring to a
physically (and possibly also psychologically) defective clone ("Clone
Cadets").</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bantha</b> - A large, slow-moving hairy quadruped; an
insult connoting the characteristics of such a creature, as in, "You
brainless, lice-ridden bantha" (Knights of the Old Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bantha Brain</b> - An insult indicating one has the
intelligence of the slow-moving Bantha ("Goatgrass: The Tale of
Ree-Yees," Tales From Jabba's Palace). <i>See also <b>blaster-brained</b>,
<b>brainbolted</b>, and <b>void-brain</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bantha Fodder!</b> - An exclamation. The word
"fodder," meaning food for livestock, has likely been contaminated in
this instance by the double-meaning of the Huttese word <b><i>Poodoo</i></b>
(New Jedi Order: Star by Star, Return of the Jedi).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bantha Sweat</b> - A colorful description used to demean
something, as in "That planet is a ball of bantha sweat" (Darth Bane:
Path of Destruction).</span><br />
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<span class="content"><b>Barve</b> - A six-legged animal with a reputation for
being unclean, raised for its meat; an insult, insinuating the filthiness of
said creature. Also, <i>barve-face</i> and <i>son of a barve</i>. ("A
Barve Like That: The Tale of Boba Fett," Tales From Jabba's Palace; Legacy
Vol. 2: Shards, Boba Fett: A Practical Man).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Barvy</b> - A variation on the above, it
insinuates an individual is acting erratically, as in, "Are you barvy? You
can't take on the whole Empire yourself!" The equivalent of being "barmy"
(Legacy of the Force: Invincible, Fate of the Jedi: Abyss).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bastasi</b> - An Ansionian oath (The Approaching Storm).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Battlecan</b> - A somewhat disparaging term used in
reference to canny and/or aggressive veterans of the military (Legacy of the
Force: Tempest).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Blast!</b> - An adaptable expletive, the equivalent of
"shoot!" or "damn!" (A New Hope).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Blaster Bolts!</b> - An interjection (Young Jedi Knights
series).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Blaster-brained</b> - A derogatory description implying
dim-wittedness (Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy). <i>See also <b>Bantha-brain</b>,
<b>brainbolted</b>, and <b>void-brain</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bloah</b> - An interjection, used independently and as
part of longer exclamations, such as "What the Bloah?" (Tatooine
Ghost, Dark Nest: The Joiner King).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bludfly</b> - An insult referring to a form of insect
("Lando's Commandoes: On Eagles' Wings," Tales #5).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bomarr cast-off</b> - An insult insinuating that an
individual is rejected by the Bantha-worshipping Bomarr religious order, or
simply a kind of outcast (Knights of the Old Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Borked</b> - An adaptable expletive; <i>see</i> <b>Farkled</b>
<i>and the other</i> <b>"F" WORDS</b> (Galaxies).</span><br />
<i><br />
</i><span class="content"><b>Brainbolted</b> - A derogatory modifier
suggesting a tendency toward unthinking or robotic behavior (see <b>boltbrain</b>),
as in, "I'm a Jedi Knight, not some brainbolted soldier"; (Legacy of
the Force: Inferno). <i>See also <b>Bantha-brain</b>, <b>blaster-brained</b>,
and <b>void-brain</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Braintick</b> - An insult, likely referring to a kind of
arachnid that attaches itself to an individual's brain (Legacy of the Force:
Tempest).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Broggle</b> - An unspecified act, often used to denote
surprise, as in "I'll be broggled" (Outbound Flight).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Buckethead</b> - A derogatory term for
Mandalorians and likely other helmet-wearing soldiers (Legacy of the Force:
Invincible).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bugger</b> - A derogatory term used to refer
to Geonosians and possibly other insectile species; also <b>buggies</b> (Clone Wars:
Weapons Factory, Legacy of the Force: Invincible).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bug-lover</b> - A low-level insult often directed toward
children (Ewoks: The Battle for Endor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bumblefluff</b> - The equivalent of "nonsense"
(Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Byss' Blind Eye!</b> - An exclamation of the one-eyed
Abyssin, it refers to their homeworld, rather than the Deep Core planet by the
same name ("Ghost," Tales Vol. 3).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Can of corrosion</b> - An insult (Dark Nest: The Joiner
King).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Cantina rat</b> - An insult directed toward bar loungers
(Knights of the Old Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Carbon flush!</b> - An exclamation (Emissary of the
Void).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Chitin-brain</b> - An insult directed toward races with
a chitinous exterior (Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Chuff-sucking Leech</b> - An insult, likely referring to
the habit of some species of annelid. Jabba was referred to as a chuff-sucking
leech for his appearance, his moral character, or both. ("Goatgrass: The
Tale of Ree-Yees," Tales From Jabba's Palace).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Core-slime</b> - An insult directed toward inhabitants
of the Core Worlds (Knights of the Old Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Crimey</b> - An oath, possibly of Bith origin (Legacy of
the Force: Tempest).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Crink</b> - An adaptable expletive, as in, "Go
crink yourself, crinking Imperial" (Allegiance).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Cute as a Gamorrean's sister</b> - An insult that
derives its impact from sarcasm, as the general population does not view the
porcine Gamorrean race as particularly attractive (Knights of the Old
Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dag</b> - An exclamation (Boba Fett: Twin Engines of
Destruction).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dark Side Take You</b> - A curse (Wretched Hives of Scum
and Villainy).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Demon of darkness</b> - A curse (Queen of
Empire).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dinos of Dellalt</b> - An exclamation (The
Despotica: Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Doellin's Triple Teats!</b> - A Gran exclamation,
referring to the species' doe-like goddess ("Goatgrass: The Tale of
Ree-Yees," Tales From Jabba's Palace).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Double-spawner</b> - An Ishi Tib insult for an
unfaithful spouse or lover; a two-timer (Dark Nest: The Joiner King).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Druk</b> - An obscenity used in conjunction with other
words for emphasis, as in "A drukload of stormtroopers" (Star Wars
Tales Vol. 4, "Kessel Run").</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dubesor</b> - An insult on Antipose XII (Lando
Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dung beetle</b> - An insult referring to a kind of
insect native to Neimodia (Starfighter: Crossbones #1)</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dungcreeper</b> - An insult, referring to a vile
creature (Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown). See <b>lylek-dung grubber</b>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dungpit</b> - An insult signifying a place,
possibly referring specifically to a method of waste disposal of Barabel
origin, as in, "Now you have dragged us all into the dungpit!"
(Legacy of the Force: Invincible).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Durned</b> - A derogatory modifier (Republic #62: No
Man's Land).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dwarfnut</b> - Neimoidian for a fool (Galactic Phrase
Book & Travel Guide).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dyeesh</b> - An interjection (Rookies: Rendezvous).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Emperor's Black Bones!</b> - An exclamation (X-Wing
novels).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Emperor's Black Heart</b> - A derogatory modifier (I,
Jedi), as in, "What in the Emperor's Black Heart...?"</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Fangface</b> - An insulting nickname for members of the
buck-toothed Aqualish race (Dark Nest: The Joiner King). <i>See also <b>Hammerhead</b>,
<b>Prune Face</b>, and <b>Slanthead</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Flyboy</b> - A potentially disparaging synonym
for a male pilot, depending on context, as in, "Into the garbage chute,
flyboy!" (A New Hope). <i>See also <b>star-boy</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>For galaxy's sake</b> - An exclamation (Jedi Quest: The
Moment of Truth).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Force-forsaken</b> - A derogatory modifier (Legacy of
the Force: Sacrifice).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Freeze in the Ninth Circle of Damnation</b> -
A pejorative request, likely referring to the last of the Nine Corellian Hells
("Skin Deep: The Fat Dancer's Tale," Tales From Jabba's Palace).
<i>See also <b>Rot in Boboqueequee</b>, <b>Rot in Qasak</b>, and <b>To the
Hells...</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Frizzle</b> - The verbal form of <b>Frizz</b>, it
denotes an act of betrayal, as in "You frizzled me!"; to screw-over
(Outbound Flight).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Full-feathered</b> - A derogatory modifier, as in
"I look like a full-feathered idiot." (Jedi Quest: Changing of the
Guard).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Fuse my bus-bars</b> - An exclamation (Luke Skywalker
and the Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Gamorrean pig-man</b> - A childishly redundant insult
that relies on the general population's low opinion of the porcine Gamorrean
race (Knights of the Old Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Garp</b> - An oath, as in, "They're pounding the
wheezing garp out of us!" (Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Gfersh</b> - An adaptable expletive, likely Rodian in
origin, as in "What the gfersh is this?" (Galaxy Guide 11: Criminal
Organizations).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Give a mott's backside</b> - An impolite expression,
meaning not to care, as in, "I don't give a mott's backside about
clones" (Republic Commando: Triple Zero, Legacy of the Force: Revelation).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Glurd</b> - An oath, as in, "Hot staggering
glurd!" (Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor).</span></div>
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<i><b>Good Galaxies!</b> - An exclamation; also </i>Great Galaxies<i> (Star Comics: Droids #3, Star Comics: Ewoks #10).</i> See also <b>Stars!</b><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Good Gordy</b> - An exclamation (Boba Fett:
Enemy of the Empire).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Good novas!</b> - An exclamation (Rookies: Rendezvous).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Gorple zo-zo</b> - An offensive alien curse (The Pirates
of Tarnoonga: A Droid Adventure).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Gravel maggot</b> - An insult, referring to a species of
worm that feeds on rotting flesh indigenous to the hills and rocky badlands of
Tatooine. Sometimes the insult "chuff-sucking gravel maggot" is used,
which may be a reference to an actual subspecies or simply a corrupt variation
on <b>chuff-sucking leech</b> (Galaxy Guide 7: Mos Eisley, A Guide to the Star
Wars Universe, 1st Edition, Legacy Vol. 1: Broken).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Great balls of fire!</b> - An exclamation (Jedi Trial). <i>Note
that this is an homage to rock 'n' roll artist Jerry Lee Lewis' song,
"Great Balls of Fire."</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Great Gobs of Bantha Poodoo!</b> - An exclamation (The
Phantom Menace novelization).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Great gods of the waters</b> - An exclamation of Mon
Calamari origin (Legacy of the Force: Revelation).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Great skies!</b> - An exclamation of Ferroan
origin (Rogue Planet).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Great waves</b> - An exclamation, possibly
Kaminoan in origin (Clone Wars: Act on Instinct).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Grist</b> - An interjection, possibly of Feeorin origin
(Starfighter: Crossbones #1).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Gug</b> - An insult generally reserved for a broken-down
shockboxer past his or her prime, as in, "Burn out yer mitts, ya
gug." (Fists of Ion).</span></div>
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<i><b>Gundark-face</b> - An insult referring to the unattractive, long-eared species native to Vanqor (Rebel Force: Taget).</i></div>
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<span class="content"><b>Haja</b> - A curse (The Approaching Storm).</span><br />
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<span class="content"><b>Hairless Wookiee</b> - An insult that derives its impact
from its juxtaposition of two incongruent concepts, i.e. members of the
intimidating Wookiee race are generally quite hairy. This insult is sometimes
used among humans in a somewhat playful manner (Knights of the Old Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Hammerhead</b> - An insulting nickname for members of
the Ithorian race (A New Hope, Jedi Academy Trilogy: Dark Apprentice, Star Wars
Sourcebook). <i>See also <b>Fangface</b> and <b>Prune Face</b></i>.</span><br />
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<span class="content"><b>Hang this</b> - An expression of scorn or contempt, akin
to "screw this," possibly suggesting "hang" as an adaptable
expletive (Legacy of the Force: Revelation).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Holy beek-monkeys!</b> - An exclamation (Star Wars #10,
"Behemoth from the World Below").</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Holy Irreducible Garbágina</b> - An
exclamation referring to a deity in the refuse-worshiping culture of the Ugors.
Due to the amoebic Ugors' slobbering speech patterns, the phrase is frequently
pronounced, "Holy Irrebducible Garbágina" (Dawn of Defiance: Echoes
of the Jedi).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Holy Sith!</b> - An interjection ("Pax
Empirica," Galactic Battlegrounds: Prima's Official Strategy Guide).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Holy Womp Rats</b> - An exclamation (Star Wars ongoing
#27, "Starcrash").</span></div>
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<i><b>Huttbag</b> - An insult, generally directed at members of a non-Hutt species (Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison).<br />
</i><br />
<span class="content"><b>Huttwash!</b> - An accusatory exclamation of disbelief;
the equivalent of "hogwash" (Dark Nest: The Swarm War).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Hutt Slime</b> - (also <i>Huttslime</i>) An oath, used
in a variety of ways, from an exclamation to a general insult, as in,
"Once you send the message, we both know our names will be Hutt
slime." A particularly colorful smuggler's oath makes reference to Twi'lek
huttslime wrestlers (New Jedi Order: Balance Point, Dark Nest: The Joiner King,
Dark Nest: The Swarm War).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Hutt-spawn</b> - An insult for a member of any species,
save Hutt (Knights of the Old Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>In Alliance's cause</b> - An exclamation used
by members of the Rebel Alliance, as "In Alliance's cause, why'd you do
that, old woman?" (Splinter of the Mind's Eye).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>In the dwang</b> - Also <b>in deep dwang</b>. A crude
way of saying one is in trouble, as in, "You're going to be in the dwang
when you get back to HQ, General" (Republic Commando: Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>In the name of crushing black holes</b> - An exclamation
(Yoda: Dark Rendezvous).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>In the name of the Force</b> - An exclamation, often
used as an interrogative, as in, "What in the name of the Force?"
(Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice, Legacy of the Force: Revelation).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>In the name of the Sith</b> - An exclamation,
often used as an interrogative, as in, "What in the name of the
Sith?" ("In Triplicate," Star Wars U.K. #3)</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Jactna!</b> - An interjection, possibly of Rodian origin
(Star Wars Tales Vol. 2).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Jango's Bones</b> - An exclamation used among Republic
clone troopers, referring to their deceased donor, bounty hunter Jango Fett
(Reversal of Fortune).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kanushka</b> - A Kubaz exclamation (MedStar: Battle
Surgeons).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kark!</b> - An adaptable expletive; also <i>Kark on you!</i>
(Republic #66, Clone Wars Vol. 5 and Vol. 6).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kath-mutt</b> - An insult; see son-of-a-kath-hound
(Darth Bane: Path of Destruction).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kiss My Asteroid</b> - A pejorative request
("Skreej," Tales Vol. 3).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kiss My Wookiee</b> - A pejorative request (The
Courtship of Princess Leia). <i>Note that this double entendre adds another
layer to Leia and Han's exchange in the Empire Strikes Back. Leia: "I'd
just as soon kiss a Wookiee"; Han: "I can arrange that."</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kleeg</b> - An insult, as in, "You kleeg"
(Allegiance).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kork</b> - An exclamation (Legacy of the
Force: Fury).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kriffing</b> - A derogatory modifier (Vision of the
Future).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Krong</b> - An adaptable expletive, as in, "What if
you krong up?" (Allegiance).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Ktah!</b> - A rare Chiss curse (Force Heretic: Refugee).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Krazzsch</b> - A Riilebi derogatory modifier
("Rendezvous With Destiny," Adventure Journal #6).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kreetle</b> - An insult, referring to a kind of parasitic
insect from Tatooine (Dark Nest: The Joiner King).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Krink</b> - An adaptable expletive, as in,
"What the krink are you doing?" (Allegiance).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Krop!</b> - An exclamation, possibly of Gotal origin
(Legacy Vol. 1: Broken).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Laserbrain</b> - An insult, as in "I don't know
where you get your delusions from, laserbrain." (The Empire Strikes Back).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Loz noy jitat</b> - A curse ("Medstar:
Intermezzo," Star Wars Insider #83).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Lust-toad</b> - An insult, perhaps referring to a real
creature (Legacy of the Force: Inferno).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Lylek</b> - An insult, comparing an individual to a
vicious insectoid predator native to the planet Ryloth, known to eat its own
kind when food is scarce. Also <i>lylek-dung-grubber</i>, perhaps referring to
another unappealing eating habit of the creature (New Jedi Order: Star by Star,
The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons, Legacy of the Force: Tempest). <i>See
<b>dungcreeper</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Madclaw</b> -- A derogatory term reserved for dishonored
Wookiees who have used their climbing claws in an attack (Knights of the Old
Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Maker-forsaken</b> -- A derogatory modifier,
suggesting a person or thing has been deserted by its creator (MedStar: Battle
Sugeons). <i>See also <b>Thank the Maker</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Mandalorian-loving</b> -- A pejorative
description for a supporter of the Mandalorian armies especially popular around
the time they were a strong galactic faction, such as the Mandalorian Wars
(Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords). <i>See also <b>MANDALORIAN
MALEDICTIONS</b> section below.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Manka spit</b> -- A derogatory term comparing a thing to
the salivary ejecta of the predatory manka feline of Alderaan, as in,
"Your opinion isn't worth a bucket of manka spit" (The Cestus
Deception).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Mattball</b> - An insult directed toward fur-covered
creatures, such as Ewoks; a furball (Dark Nest: The Joiner King).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Meat-can</b> - A disparaging term used for a clone
trooper (Republic Commando: Triple Zero). <i>See also <b>meat droid</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Meat droid</b> - A disparaging term used for a clone
trooper ("Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji"). <i>See also <b>meat-can</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Milking</b> - A derogatory modifier, as in,
"Big milking surprise" (Medstar: Battle Surgeons).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Minions of Xendor!</b> - An exclamation (The Lando
Calrissian Adventures). This also refers to the followers of the dark sider
Xendor during the Jedi conflict known as the First Great Schism.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Misery-guts</b> - An insult used to describe an
overbearing and trying individual ("Omega Squad: Targets," Insider
#81).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Monkey-lizard</b> - An insult referring to a diminutive
and annoying species of Kowakian beast (Dark Forces: Rebel Agent audio drama,
Knights of the Old Republic). <i>See also, <b>Son of a monkey-lizard</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Mooka</b> - An insult suggesting diminished
intelligence; it refers to a kind of popular four-legged domesticated animal
with avian features (Starfighter: Crossbones #1, The Lost City of the Jedi). <i>See
also <b>smooka</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Moons and stars</b> - An interjection. See also <b>stars</b>
(Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Moons of Baroli!</b> - An exclamation (Reversal of
Fortune).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Moons of Yavin!</b> - An exclamation referring to the
many satellites of the gas giant Yavin (Classic Star Wars: A Long Time Ago...
Vol. 1).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Mradhe Muck</b> - A curse, as in "What the blinkin'
mradhe muck is going on here?" (Hand of Thrawn: Specter of the Past).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Mudcrutch</b> - An insult referring to some form of
lowly creature. <i>Also mudcrutch whelp</i> (Star Wars Republic #55-58: Battle
of Jabiim, Darth Bane: Path of Destruction).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Munk-whelp</b> - An insult, possibly of Ruusan origin
(Darth Bane: Rule of Two).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Murglak</b> - An insult (The Stark Hyperspace War). Most
likely a species of foul creature; see <b>Son of a Murglak</b>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Nek</b> - An insult, comparing someone to a nek battle
dog (Legacy of the Force: Fury).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Nerf</b> - An insult referring to a well-known
quadruped bred for its meat, it suggests an individual exudes a foul odor
and/or has a low level of intelligence. Also <i>nerf-head</i> (Legacy of the Force:
Inferno, The Despotica: Evocar). <i>See <b>nerf-brained</b>.</i></span></div>
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<i><b>Nerf-brained</b> - A derogatory description deriving its force from comparison with the intelligence of said surly animal (Rebel Force: Target).</i> See <b>bantha brain</b> and <b>ronto-brained</b>.</div>
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<span class="content"><b>Nerfherder</b> - A legitimate occupation on the planet
Alderaan; an insult among Alderaanian nobility (The Empire Strikes Back). See <b>Scruffy-looking</b>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Nikkle-nut</b> - An insult, referring to a fruit of
Haruun Kal origin, as in, "That nikkle-nut Jedi" (Shatterpoint, Luke
Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Nova-happy</b> - A derogatory description,
insinuating a lack of good judgment; crazy (Marvel Comics #7). <i>See <b>Space-happy</b>.
</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Noski</b> - An insult, possibly of Besalisk origin,
translating as "idiot" (Clone Wars: Wild Space).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Oink</b> - A particularly heinous insult in
the Gamorrean native tongue. On at least one occasion, its use set off a clan
war (Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments From the Rim).</span></div>
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<i><b>Piece of bantha slame</b> - An insult (Rebel Force: Target).</i><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Piece of chizk</b> - A curse or insult, possibly of
Besalisk origin (Clone Wars: Wild Space).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Piece of Dianoga Dung</b> - A curse ("A Hunter's
Fate: Greedo's Tale," Tales From the Mos Eisely Cantina).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Piece of rankweed</b> - An insult (Star Wars: Clone Wars
"The Hidden Enemy"). <i>See also <b>rankweed sucker</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Polluters of Z'gag</b> - An exclamation,
referring to a river on the planet Ruuria (The Despotica: Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Prugnuficating</b> - An as yet unknown disgusting act or
natural phenomenon; possibly some variation of defecating, putrifying, or both
(Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Pruneface</b> - An insulting nickname for members of the
Dressellian race, possibly popularized by the Rebel SpecForce commando
Orrimaarko who took this derogatory description as an alias (Return of the
Jedi, Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens -- Enemies and Allies, Ultimate Alien Anthology).
<i>See <b>Fangface</b>, <b>Hammerhead</b> and <b>Slanthead</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Purge-hole</b> - A generic term for the
terminus of the digestive tract in such species as possess them, often used to
indicate one's posterior, as in, "Sit your purge-holes down now!"
(The Despotica: Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Queen's eggs!</b> - An exclamation of the insectile
Flakax race (Dark Nest: The Swarm War).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Rankweed sucker</b> - An insult, referring to the
pre-processed form of rank, a food with a gummy texture, served in a bucket
(Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, MedStar I: Battle Surgeons, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous).
<i>See also <b>piece of rankweed</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Ring-tail</b> - The term is used to insinuate
an individual is timid or cowardly, likely referring to some craven creature
exhibiting a similar physical characteristic (The Despotica: Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Rockhead</b> - An insult referring to a stubborn or
stupid person; bull headed (Dark Nest: The Joiner King). <i>See also <b>ronto-brained</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Rodder</b> - An adaptable expletive, used as an
interjection and as an insult, as in "You stubborn rodder!" (Dark
Nest: The Joiner King).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Ronto-brained</b> - An insult derived from the
perception that the mammoth ronto beast of burden is stubborn due its small
brain (Jedi Quest: Changing of the Guard).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Root-heads</b> - An insult among Ukians,
referring to meddlesome or prying individuals (Clone Wars: Act on Instinct).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Rot in Boboqueequee!</b> - A pejorative request,
referring to some terrible place (Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Rot in Qasak</b> - A pejorative request,
referring to some terrible place (Dooku's Secret Army).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Ruskakk</b> - A kind of scavenger native to the planet
Haruun Kal; an insult, as in, "That old ruskakk" (Luke Skywalker and
the Shadows of Mindor). <i>See also, <b>son of a ruskakk</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Saen</b> - A Coway swear word involving
parentage (Splinter of the Mind's Eye).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sandbag</b> - A slur directed at the
diminutive, hooded Jawas of Tatooine, as in, "Whaddaya know, the l'il
sandbag's got a gun!" Sometimes also <b>dirtbag</b> (Tales #4, "Sand
Blasted")</span>.<br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Scampweasel</b> - An insult, likely referring
to a small breed of carnivore, as in, "You black-hearted
scampweasel!" (Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Schutta</b> - A Twi'leki insult, generally reserved for
females (Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords). <i>See also <b>schutta-spawn</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Scrag-end</b> - An insult (Republic Commando: Hard
Contact). See also <b><i>skrag</i></b>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Scruffy-looking</b> - A derogatory modifier, as in
"You low-down, stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerfherder!"
(The Empire Strikes Back).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sculag</b> - An insult, as in, "It would
be no challenge at all to deceive the witless sculags in your command"
(Legacy of the Force: Inferno).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sexless marsh-toad</b> - An insult comparing an
individual to a gender-neutral species of amphibian (Knights of the Old
Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sha-nag!</b> - A Chevin interjection (Fists of Ion).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Shavit</b> - A curse (The Hand of Thrawn: Vision of the
Future).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>She-Hutt</b> - An insult directed toward non-Hutt
females relying on the Hutt race's widely-regarded ill repute for effect. The
insult plays on the fact that Hutts are a hermaphroditic species (Legacy of the
Force: Tempest).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Shee</b> - A Haruun Kal curse (Shatterpoint). <i>Note
that this is an homage to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Shunfa</b> - An exclamation, as in, "Oh
shunfa!" (Allegiance).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sith-loving</b> - A derogatory modifier used by Repbulic
soldiers during the ancient New Sith Wars, as in "Sith-loving scum"
(Darth Bane: Path of Destruction).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sith's blood!</b> - An exclamation (Knights of the Old
Republic II: The Sith Lords).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sithspawn</b> - An interjection (X-Wing: Rogue
Squadron). Note that Sithspawn also refers to a <a href="http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena/6" target="_blank">specific kind of
creature mutated by Sith magic</a>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sithspit</b> - An interjection (X-Wing: Rogue Squadron).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skalworm</b> - An insult, referring to some form of
annelid, possibly Bothan in origin (Dark Nest: The Unseen Queen).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skidcrust</b> - The equivalent of
"roadkill," the term may be used as an insult (Crash Course).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skin a Pui-ui</b> - An exclamation, referring
to the cilia-covered indigenous sentients of Kyryll's World (The Despotica:
Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skloob</b> - Urine or the act of urinating, as in
"Technically, you haven't got a receptacle to skloob in" (Han Solo
and the Lost Legacy).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skrag</b> - An Old Corellian curse (Adventure Journal
#7).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skrimp</b> - An adaptable expletive, as in,
"I'll be skrimped" ("Buyer's Market," Star Wars Insider
#126)</span>.<br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skroggin'</b> - A derogatory modifier (Legacy Vol. 1:
Broken).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skug</b> - An insult, likely Huttese in origin.
It is used in the exclamation of surprise, "Vench my skug!" <i>Skuggs</i> in
plural form (Tales #4, "Sand Blasted"'; Podracing Tales; The Clone
Wars: Slaves of the Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skulls of Spinax</b> - An exclamation (The
Despotica: Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skulo</b> - An insult, possibly of Barabel
origin (Legacy of the Force: Invincible).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Slag!</b> - An interjection (Shadow Stalker).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Slagchucker</b> - An insult (Wretched Hives of Scum and
Villainy).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Slag-sucking</b> - A deragatory modifier (Darth Bane:
Rule of Two).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Slanthead</b> - An insulting nickname for members of the
Yuuzhan Vong race (Legacy Vol. 2: Shards). <i>See also <b>Fangface</b>, <b>Hammerhead</b>,
and <b>Prune Face</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Slime dog</b> - An insult, possibly specifying a species
of canine (Honor and Duty).</span></div>
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<i><b>Slugbrain</b> - A generic insult (though possibly linked to the Hutts), as in "Why aren't we blowing this Imperial slugbrain out of the sky?" (Rebel Force: Target).</i><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Slug-breath</b> - An insult directed at Hutts (Republic
Commando: Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Slug-lover</b> - An insult directed toward any
individual perceived to be in under a Hutt's employ or influence (The
Despotica: Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sluggy</b> - An insult, as in, "You deaf,
sluggy?" (Allegiance).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Smooka</b> - An insult, referring to a class of winged
rodent native to the planet Dagobah (Legacy of the Force: Inferno). <i>See also
<b>mooka</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Snake of Argai</b> - Used as both an insult
and exclamation, it is possibly in reference to an actual serpent native to the
planet Argai (The Despotica: Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Snarkin'</b> - A derogatory modifier (Republic #59:
Enemy Lines).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Snoigit</b> - A Talz curse (Empire Vol. 5).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Space</b> - An adaptable expletive, as in, "Space
this!", "Space me!", and "What the space?" (Honor and
Duty, Dark Nest: Unseen Queen, Dark Nest: The Swarm War, The Cestus Deception).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Spacejunk</b> - A disparaging term indicating
incredulity, such as, "You're going to help me? That's a load of
spacejunk" (Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Space-happy</b> - A derogatory description,
insinuating a lack of good judgment; insane (Millennium Falcon novel). <i>See <b>Nova-happy</b>.
</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><i><b>Space-slug</b> - An insult, referring to silicon-based
gastropods that live in the vacuum of space (The Pirates of Tarnoonga: A Droid
Adventure). See also <b>spawn of space slug</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Spast!</b> - An interjection (Jedi Knight II: Jedi
Outcast).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Spirits of Cadomai</b> - A Snivvian exclamation
referring to the species' homeworld (Labor Pains).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Spoggick</b> - An insult. It may refer to a small
animal, possibly from <b>Boboqueequee</b>, as indicated by the phrase,
"Rot in Boboqueequee, you scrunty prugnuficating spoggick!" It may
also be an inanimate object, as suggested by the phrase, "Don't be such a
wet spoggick!" (Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal, Legacy Vol. 2:
Shards). <i>I'm indebted to Jean-Francois Boivin for bringing the first quotation here to my
attention, as it is likely unparalleled.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Squark</b> - An adaptable expletive, as in, "Squark
that!" (Honor and Duty).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Stang!</b> - An Alderaanian curse (Splinter of the
Mind's Eye).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Star-boy</b> - A potentially disparaging term used as a
blanket label for any male individual, such as a Republic soldier, that spends
a great deal of time in space or hopping from planet to planet (i.e. among the
stars). (The Cestus Deception) <i>See also <b>flyboy</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Starforsaken</b> - A derogatory modifier (Labyrinth of
Evil).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Stars!</b> - A common interjection. Variations include: <i>Stars
and Galaxies!</i>, <i>Stars and novas</i>, <b><i>Moons and stars!</i></b>, <b><i>By
the stars!</i></b>, and <b>For star's sake!</b> (Star Wars Annual #1, Honor and
Duty, Jed Apprentice series, Secrets of the Jedi, Jedi Quest: Changing of the
Guard).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Stars' End</b> - A curse, referring to the penal colony
located at one of the far ends of the galaxy in the Corporate Sector (Labyrinth
of Evil).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Stick-in-the-swamp</b> - An insult, referring to someone
dull or who avoids trying new things; a stick-in-the-mud (Jedi Quest: The
Changing of the Guard).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Stones in space</b> - An exclamation,
generally indicating surprise or disgust (Creatures of the Galaxy).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Suffering comets</b> - An exclamation
indicating surprise or frustration (Adventures in Hyperspace: Fire Ring Race)</span>.<br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Swamp rat</b> - An insult, possibly referring to the
swamp variety of womp rat from the planet Cularin or some other similar wetland
rodent (Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan: Aurorient Express).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sweet Gundark</b> - An exclamation (Evasive Action:
Recruitment).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sweet Sookie</b> - An exclamation (MedStar: Battle
Surgeons).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Tail-head</b> - A derogatory term used to indicate a
Twi'lek (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, "Innocents of Ryloth"). <i>See
also <b>wormhead</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Tarkin's Teeth</b> - An Imperial exclamation, it refers
to a mountain range on the planet Carida, and presumably the late Grand Moff
Tarkin's himself or one of his ancestors (The Hand of Thrawn: Vision of the
Future, "Carida: Heavy Duty, Part 3: War Games").</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Thunderbucker</b> - An insult, as in "If you're
going after that huge crazy thunderbucker, I'm coming with you!" (Luke
Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Tides of the Force</b> - An exclamation (Reversal of
Fortune).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Tinker-tot</b> - A belittling insult or derogatory
modifier, likely tailored for individuals of a mechanical disposition, such as
ship engineers. Example: "Shuffle off, you tinker-tot wing nut..."
(Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan: Aurorient Express).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>To the Hells...</b> - A curse, as in "To the Hells
with you!" It likely refers to the Nine Hells of Corellian mythology, as
in the similar curse, "To all Nine Corellian Hells." However, it may
also refer to the <b>eight Stalbringion hells</b> (Clone Wars: Wild Space).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Tundin'</b> - A derogatory modifier ("Galaxywide
NewsNets," Adventure Journal #10).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Two-toed swamp-sucker</b> - An insult, likely referring
to an actual creature (Droids, "The White Witch").</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Urpghurit</b> - A particularly raunchy curse (Republic
Commando: Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Vape</b> - An adaptable expletive, as in "vape
it!" and "vaping attack droids!" (Clone Wars: Wild Space).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Verre d'n Nocka!</b> - A Kerestian curse (Secrets of the
Sisar Run).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Verre!</b> - A short version of the previous (Secrets of
the Sisar Run).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Void-brain</b> - An insult (X-Wing: The Bacta War). <i>See
also <b>Bantha-brain</b>, <b>blaster-brained</b>, and <b>brainbolted</b>.</i></span><i><br />
<br />
</i><span class="content"><b>Void-breahting</b> - A derogatory modifier (Dark Nest:
The Joiner King).</span><i><br />
<br />
</i><span class="content"><b>Vongspawn</b> - An insult generaly directed at a being
mutated by Yuuzhan Vong growths (Legacy Vol. 3).</span><span class="content">
<i>See also <b>YUUZHAN VONG INVECTIVE</b> section below.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Wampa-breath</b> - An insult akin to
suggesting someone suffers from halitosis ("In Triplicate," Star Wars
U.K. #3).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>When the Core goes dark!</b> - An exclamation of
disbelief (Dark Nest: The Joiner King).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Where in eight Stalbringion hells...</b> - An
exclamation, as in, "Where in eight Stalbringion hells did that come
from?" (Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Where in the moons...</b> - An exclamation (Rookies:
Rendezvous).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Wobber</b> - Possibly an adaptable expletive, as in
"You don't give a wobber!" (Darth Bane: Path of Destruction).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Wormhead</b> - A common slur against members
of the Twi'lek race and possibly other species sporting tentacular head
growths, such as Nautolans, Togruta, and Chagrians (Twilight). <i>See also <b>head-tail</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Your brood-mother...</b> - A phrase used by the
insectile X'Ting as an introduction to a disparaging judgment about another
individual's immediate female progenitor (The Cestus Deception).</span> <i>Note: this seems to be the Star Wars equivalent of playing the Dozens (a.k.a. 'Yo mama so [blank]....).</i><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Zucca Pig</b> - An insult, referring to a class of swine
(Darth Bane: Path of Destruction).</span><br />
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<span class="content"><b>THE "F" WORDS</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Farkled</b> - An adaptable expletive, as in, "You
just got farkled" (Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal; Tales #4,
"Sand Blasted).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Feech</b> - Ewokese equivalent for "darn!"
(Caravan of Courage: The Ewok Adventure).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Feek!</b> - A Jawese exclamation (Tales #4,
"Sand Blasted").</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Festering</b> - An adaptable expletive (Children of the
Jedi, Planet of Twilight).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Ferglutz</b> - An interjection (Clone Wars Vol. 5).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Fierfek</b> - Huttese for a "hex" or
"curse"; mistakenly adopted as a <i>curse word</i> by the rest of the
galaxy (Tales From Jabba's Palace).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Flaming</b> - A derogatory modifier (The Han Solo
Adventures).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Flanked</b> - A disparaging adjective, as in, "Get
these flanked smugglers hoofing, anyway" (Allegiance).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Floogy</b> - A disparaging adjective, as in,
"Floogy things take up way more room than they're worth"
(Allegiance).</span></div>
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<span class="content"><b>Flot</b> - An insult, as in, "You useless
flot!" (The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Frack</b> - An adaptable expletive (The Black Fleet
Crisis: Shield of Lies). <i>Note that this is an homage to the television program
Battlestar Galactica.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Frag</b> - An adaptable expletive (Wretched Hives of
Scum and Villainy).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Frakkin</b> - A derogatory modifier (Legacy Vol. 1:
Broken).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Frappin'</b> - A derogatory modifier (Luke Skywalker and
the Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Freg'd</b> - A derogatory verb insinuating destruction,
as in, "My moisture farm got freg'd to the ground!" (Galaxy Guide 11:
Criminal Organizations). </span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Frell</b> - A curse (Wizards of the Coast Web Site: The
Living Force). <i>Note that this is an homage to the Farscape sci-fi series where
the term frell originally appeared.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Fripping</b> - An adaptable expletive
(Millennium Falcon novel).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Frizz</b> - (Verb form: <b>Frizzle</b>). An adaptable
expletive, it is commonly used as part of an exclamation or a derogatory
modifier. (Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, Outbound Flight). <i>See also <b>Frizzle</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Frotz</b> - A curse[?] (Wizards of the Coast Web site:
Planet Hoppers).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Fusst</b> - An exclamation, as in, "Oh, <i>fusst</i>!"
(Allegiance).</span><br />
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<span class="content"><b>HUTTESE INSULTS</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Baay shfat</b> - A curse, likely of Hutt origin,
referring to an indeterminate and indelicate Hutt act (Republic Commando:
Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Chuba</b> - (Also sometimes spelled "Chubba").
Translating from Huttese as "You" or "Hey you," but also
literally the Huttese name for an animal resembling a frog or toad, it is used
as an insult and also a curse or exclamation, as in "What the chubba is
going on?" (The Phantom Menace; Dark Nest: The Joiner King, The Unseen
Queen).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>E chu ta!</b> - An insult (The Empire Strikes Back,
Legacy Vol. 3).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Grancha</b> - A curse (Legacy Vol. 2: Shards).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Koochoo</b> - Huttese for idiot (Galactic Phrase Book
& Travel Guide).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kung</b> - An insult (or compliment) translating as scum
(Return of the Jedi), as in <i>U kulle rah doe kankee kung</i>: You are my kind
of scum.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Peedunky</b> - An insult, translating loosely as punk (The
Phantom Menace).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Poodoo</b> - Huttese for excrement (The Phantom Menace).
Oddly, this term also translates from Huttese to Basic as "fodder,"
as in "You might have been a good smuggler, but now you're just Bantha
fodder!" (Return of the Jedi).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Shag</b> - An insult, translating as slave (The Phantom
Menace).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Skocha</b> - An insult (Legacy Vol. 3).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Sleemo</b> - An insult, translating as slimeball (The
Phantom Menace).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Stoopa</b> - Huttese for a fool or fools (Galactic
Phrase Book & Travel Guide, Legacy Vol. 2: Shards).</span><br />
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<span class="content"><b>MANDALORIAN MALEDICTIONS</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Chakaar</b> - Literally meaning "thief" or
"grave robber," but used as a general insult. <i>Chakaare</i> in
plural form (Republic Commando: Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dar'yaim</b> - Literally Mandalorian for "not
home," it is the equivalent of "hell" in some dialects
("Mandalorians: Culture and Language," Star Wars Insider #87).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Di'kut</b> - Mandalorian for a fool. <i>Di'kute</i> in
plural form; <i>di'kutla</i> in adjective form (Republic Commando: Hard
contact, "Omega Squad: Targets" Insider #81).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Haar'chak</b> - A Mandalorian insult (Legacy).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Haran</b> - A derogatory term, literally translating as
"cosmic annihilation," as in, "Our industrial infrastructure is
still shot to <i>haran</i> after ten years" (Legacy of the Force:
Sacrifice).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Hut'uun</b> - Mandalorian for coward. <i>Hut'uune</i> in
plural form; <i>hut'uunla</i> adjective form. (Republic Commando: Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Osik</b> - Mandalorian for feces (Republic Commando:
Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Osik'la</b> - Something that is badly screwed up or
disgusting, from the root <i>osik</i> (Republic Commando: Triple Zero). See also
<i>shabiir</i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Osi'kyr</b> - An exclamation (Legacy of the
Force: Sacrifice).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Shab</b> - An extremely harsh curse. More or less the
Mandalorian equivalent of the "F" word, it is the root for several
other Mandalorian insults, including the patronizing <i>shab'ika</i> (Legacy of
the Force: Sacrifice, Legacy of the Force: Revelation).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Shabiir</b> - To badly screw up, from the root <i>shab</i>
(Republic Commando: Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Shabla</b> - A derogatory modifier, from the root <i>shab</i>
(Republic Commando: Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Shabu'droten</b> - A curse, from the root <i>shab</i>,
roughly translating as, "F***ing people" (Republic Commando: Triple
Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Shabuir</b> - A harsh insult, from the root <i>shab</i>
(Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Shebs</b> - Mandalorian for one's posterior. <i>Shebse</i>
in plural form (Republic Commando: Hard Contact, Triple Zero).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Usenye</b> - A very rude expression, from the same root
as <i>osik</i>, meaning "go away" (Republic Commando: Triple Zero).</span><br />
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<span class="content"><b>INDELICATE DROID ETIQUETTE</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bag of bolts</b> - An insult directed at droids (Tales
From Mos Eisley).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bolt-board</b> - A belittling term for a droid
(The Despotica: Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Boltbrain</b> - An insult geared toward
automatons, as in, "Yee-haw! Boltbrain's good as scrap!" (Tales #4,
"Sand Blasted").</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bucket of bolts</b> - An insult directed
directed toward machinery, including ships and droids, as in, "This bucket
of bolts is never gonna get us past that blockade!" (The Empire Strikes
Back, Star Wars: Republic Commando).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Bullethead</b> - An insult in reference to
droids (The Despotica: Xim at Vontor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Carbon-scored</b> - A derogatory modifier used among
droids, as in, "You carbon-scored cry-baby!" (Marve Comics #31,
"Doom Mission").</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Chipbrain</b> - An insult used by humans toward droids.
Also, <i>chips for brains</i> (Dark Nest: The Swarm War, Legacy Vol. 2:
Shards).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Chiphead</b> - An insult directed toward droids (Legacy
of the Force: Tempest).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Circuit-brain</b> - An insult directed at droids (Dark
Nest: The Joiner King).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Clanker</b> - A derogatory term for a droid, especially
the Separatist battle droids during the Clone Wars (The Clone Wars film). <i>See
also <b>tinnie</b> and <b>tinhead</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Half-bot</b> - An insult directed toward
organic beings that have had some kind of cybernetic modification to their
persons (The Despotica: Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Glitch-head</b> - An insult used among droids
(The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Gonk</b> - A droid curse, as in "Gonk me,"
derived from the sound a GNK droid makes (Clone Wars Adventures Vol. 7).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Meatbag</b> - An insult popularized by the assassin
droid HK-47 in reference to organic life forms (Knights of the Old Republic). <i>Note
that this is likely an homage to the character Bender, from the TV show
Futurama, who used the term in a similar fashion.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Metal mouth</b> - An insult often directed at verbose
droids (Dark Nest: The Swarm War).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Motormouth</b> - An insult often directed at
verbose droids (Adventures in Hyperspace: Shinbone Showdown).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>No-bit</b> - An insult referring to a droid's
processor, suggesting it is the robotic equivalent of brainless (The Despotica:
Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Rustbucket</b> - A pejorative droid
description (Tales #4, "Sand Blasted").</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Scrap-pile</b> - An insult used among and directed at
droids, as in "You'll be malfunctioning within a day you near-sighted
scrap-pile!" (A New Hope).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Scrapheap</b> - A general insult directed
toward droids (The Clone Wars: Headgames).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Short-circuit</b> - An insult directed toward droids, as
in "You short-circuit!" (Dark Nest: The Joiner King). <i>See also <b>Circuit-brain</b></i>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Thank the Maker</b> - An exclamation used among droids
in reference to their manufacturer or builder (A New Hope).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Tinhead</b> - A pejorative droid description
(Tales #4, "Sand Blasted). <i>See also <b>tinnie</b>.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Tinnie</b> - A derogatory term for a droid, especially
the Separatist battle droids during the Clone Wars (Republic Commando: Hard
Contact). <i>See also <b>clanker</b> and <b>tinhead</b>.</i></span></div>
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<i><b>By cracked teeth and charred guts...</b> - An oath of the Ewoks' cousin species, the Duloks (Ewoks: Shadows of Endor).</i></div>
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<i><b>By the Spirit Tree</b> - An Ewok exclamation (Ewoks, "The Haunted Village").</i></div>
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<span class="content"><b>Dustcrust</b> - An insult, possibly of Ewok origin (Dark
Nest: The Unseen Queen).</span></div>
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<i><b>Katoog!</b> - An Ewokese exclamation (Star Comics: Droids #4).</i></div>
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<span class="content"><b>Kvark</b> - Ewokese for the rough equivalent of
"darn" (Star Wars: Ewoks).</span></div>
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<span class="content"><span class="content"><b>Lurdo</b> - An Ewokese term meaning jerk, dummy, etc.
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<span class="content"><span class="content"><span class="content"><b>Woodrat</b> - An insult, possibly referring to a
creature within the forests of the Endor Moon (Ewoks: Battle for Endor).</span> </span> </span></div>
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<span class="content"><b>BY THE WHAT?</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the abyss</b> - An exclamation (Clone Wars Vol. 6).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the Core!</b> - An exclamation (The Lando Calrissian
Adventures).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the Dark Lord</b> - An exclamation of possible Sith
or Jedi origin, who understood the gravity of invoking the title of such a
being (Star Wars Annual #1).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the Dawn Wind</b> - An exclamation used among the
aerial S'kytri, whose culture viewed the winds as sacred. <i>By the Great Wind</i>
was another favored exclamation (Star Wars Annual #1).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the Eternal</b> - An exclamation (Star Wars Annual
#1).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the Force!</b> - An exclamation (Marvel Comics #89).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the Grand Protector</b> - An exclamation, likely of
Rodian origin (Starfighter: Crossbones #2).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the Immortal Gods of the Sith</b> - An exclamation of
Sith origin (Star Wars #6).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the ocean's hair</b> - An exclamation originating
from the aquatic Mere species (Starfighter: Crossbones #2).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the Original Light</b> - An exclamation (Han Solo at
Stars' End).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the red seas of Knores...</b> A curse (The Politics
of Contraband).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the seven moons of Skärtis</b> - An exclamation (Star
Wars Annual #1).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the stars</b> - An exclamation, often accompanied by
elaboration for empahsis, as in, <i>By the pitiless stars</i> and <i>By the
black stars</i> (Classic Star Wars: A Long Time Ago... Vol. 1, Yoda: Dark
Rendezvous).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the Thousand Tides</b> - An exclamation of Nautolan
origin (The Cestus Deception).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the Twi'lek Goddess</b> - An exclamation (Tales of
the Jedi audio drama).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By the White Dwarf of Rinn</b> - An
exclamation of Tintinna origin (The Despotica: Xim at Vontor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>By Tion's spleen</b> - An exclamation
referring to the ruler of the Tion Cluster (The Despotica: Evocar).</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>WHAT THE ...?</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What in the Marches</b> - An exclamation of
Argai origin (The Despotica: The Pirate Prince).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What in the moons of Bogden...</b> - An exclamation
(Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What in the Nine Moons</b> - An exclamation, possibly in
reference to the number of satellites surrounding the planet of Tirahnn (Star
Wars Annual #1).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What in the stinking fumes of Imperial Center garbage</b>
- A particularly labored interrogative precursor (likely employed very rarely)
used during the time of the Galactic Empire to show extraordinary surprise, as
in, "What in the stinking fumes of Imperial Center garbage was Vader doing
here?" (Allegiance).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What in the three rings of Anstares...</b> - A curse
(The Politics of Contraband).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What in the worlds?</b> - An exclamation (Outbound
Flight, Allegiance).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What on Imperial Center</b> - An interrogative precursor
used during the time of the Galactic Empire, as in, "What on Imperial
Center did you do that for?" (Allegiance).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What the brix</b> - An exclamation (Outbound Flight).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What the garzal</b> - An exclamation (Dark Nest: The
Joiner King).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What the Hutt...</b> - An exclamation (Qui-Gon &
Obi-Wan: Aurorient Express, Dark Nest: The Swarm War).</span></div>
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<span class="content"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><b>What in the universe...?</b> - An exclamation (The Clone Wars: Defenders of the Lost Temple).</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What the vape</b> - An exclamation (Clone Wars: Wild
Space).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What the varp</b> - An exclamation (Clone Wars: Wild
Space).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Why in the six novas</b> - An interrogative (Legacy of
the Force: Inferno).</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>SON OF A WHO?</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Schutta-spawn</b> - An insult (Darth Bane: Rule of Two).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Son of a Bantha</b> - Used as both an insult and a curse
(The Politics of Contraband, Star Wars Insider #89 "Underworld: A Galaxy
of Scum and Villainy").</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Son-of-a-drabble</b> - An insult (Allegiance).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="content"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><b>Son of a gundark</b> - A curse or insult (The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi).</i><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Son of a jumpin' ...</b> - An exclamation (The Empire
Strikes Back novelization).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Son-of-a-Kath-hound</b> - An insult (Darth Bane: Path of
Destruction).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Son of a monkey-lizard</b> - An insult (Luke Skywalker
and the Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Son of a Murglak</b> - An insult (Knights of the Old
Republic II: The Sith Lords).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Son of a Pervickian dung camel</b> - An insult (Luke
Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Son of a ruskakk</b> - An insult (Luke Skywalker and the
Shadows of Mindor).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Son-of-a-Sith-harlot</b> - An exclamation (Dark Nest:
The Swarm War).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Son of a Sow</b> - A Gamorrean curse (Planet of
Twilight).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Spawn of a Space Slug</b> - An insult; see <b>space-slug</b>
(Domain of Evil).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Spawn of Nilgarian Worm</b> - An insult
("Goatgrass: The Tale of Ree-Yees," Tales From Jabba's Palace).</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>SLIMY? MY HOME THIS IS!</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Dung-hole</b> - Insinuating a place is
suitable as a fecal depository (Medstar: Battle Surgeons).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Rockball</b> - A denigrating name for a barren
or out of the way planet (Twin Stars of Kira).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Slimy mudhole</b> - A derogatory appellative
for a muddy or swamp-like world (The Empire Strikes Back).</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>COMMON EARTH CURSES FROM THE FILMS</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>I'll see you in hell!</b> - An exclamation (The Empire
Strikes Back).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Scum</b> - An insult, as in "You Rebel scum!"
(Return of the Jedi).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>What in the blazes...</b> - An exclamation (Star Wars
Annual #1, Attack of the Clones).</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>YUUZHAN VONG INVECTIVE</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Gods-cursed</b> - A derogatory modifier (Dark Tide I:
Onslaught).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Kane a bar</b> - An insult, translating from the Yuuzhan
Vong language as "dung of a meat maggot" (Star by Star, New Jedi
Order Sourcebook). Note that this is a play on a Yuuzhan Vong word denoting
status in the social hierarchy, <i>Kanabar</i> which means "Fellow
low-caste person."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Khapet</b> - A curse (The Final Prophecy).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Lungworm</b> - An insult, referring to a class of
Yuuzhan Vong annelid that could be worn and used as an oxygen source in
environments ill-suited to sustain humanoid life (New Jedi Order: Edge of
Victory II -- Rebirth, Legacy of the Force: Tempest).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Puul</b> - A curse (Edge of Victory: Conquest).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Stink-beetle</b> - A bug of Yuuzhan Vong origin,
presumably having an objectionable odor; an insult, insinuating the ownership
of said characteristics (The Unifying Force, Legacy Vol. 2: Shards).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Tsup</b> - An insult, translating loosely as a wicked
slave (Edge of Victory: Rebirth).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Vhlor</b> - Used as an insult, it is the name of a
filthy Yuuzhan Vong animal (Edge of Victory: Rebirth).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Vong</b> - A grave insult among the pious Yuuzhan Vong
when used alone, with connotations that an individual is godless or barbaric
(Edge of Victory: Conquest).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Whelp of a machine</b> - A grave insult implying that
someone is the offspring of a non-living thing (Dark Tide I: Onslaught).</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Yadaj dakl, ignot!</b> - A venomous curse (New Jedi
Order Sourcebook).</span><br />
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<span class="content">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><i>Got anymore? E-mail 'em to <b>abelgpena@gmail.com</b>
with the name of the source.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>Contributors:</b> Doug Allord, Angel, Sturm Antilles,
"Princess Artemis," Curtis Bateman, Mike Beidler, JF Boivin, Noel C.,
Leland Chee (a.k.a. Tasty Taste), Bruce Clark, Mike Cooper,
"CryHavok," "Som Davarya," Joe Dvorak, "Tam Elgrin,"
Ed Erdelac, "Eyrezer," "FAN4YRS," "ferumfierfek,"
Eddie van der Heijden, Daphne Hiew, "Tresk Im'nel,"
"Jonodrake," "jSarek," "katzcrawford,"
"Kaxs," Valin Kenobi, Ryan Kunz, Michael C. Leone,
"Lukasavage," Gareth Marsh, "Pol' McEwok," James
"JMM" McFadden, "Mike," "myopi," "Trak Nar,
the Ramblin' Rodian," Alex Newborn, "Nex: the T is Hott!!,"
Tracey Perry, "Jaymach Ral'Tir," Eric M. Snyder, Michael
"Spell" Spellacy, "General Tarfful," "Twineball,"
Luke Van Horn, Tim Veekhoven, Kat Wenger, Peter Whiting, Ari Z., Wanda Zolev,
Zetta Zofia, Xander, <i>More Forthcoming</i></span></div>
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<span class="content">Well, we all know that besides the
Emperor, Obi-Wan's got the reputation of biggest liar in Star Wars. But who's
really the bigger liar, Obi-Wan or Yoda?</span><br />
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<span class="content">It all goes back to 1983 and that fateful little scene in <i>Return
of the Jedi</i> in which Luke and Obi-Wan's ghost do a little catching up. <b>"Why
didn't you tell me?"</b> Luke's cross-examination begins. <b>"You
told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father."</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Luke, of course, is talking about Old Ben's original
statement to him in <i>A New Hope</i>: <b>"A young Jedi named Darth Vader,
who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down
and destroy the Jedi Knights. He betrayed and murdered your father."</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Obi-Wan's defense in <i>Return of the Jedi</i>? <b>"Your
father was seduced by the dark side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin
Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your
father was destroyed. So what I told you was true ... from a certain point of
view."</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Lots of people cried foul on that one. But Obi-Wan really
put himself under the bus more recently (at least, from <i>our</i> point of
view) with this doozy to Luke's father Anakin, from <i>Revenge of the Sith</i>:</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"Only a Sith deals in absolutes!"</b></span><br />
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<span class="content">Criticism for this Jedi gem mounted quickly, not only
because it's a rhetorical trap (the word "only" condemns Obi-Wan's
statement itself as an absolute), but because it seems to directly contradict
the wisest Jedi Master of em all, in particular Yoda's black and white lesson
from <i>The Empire Strikes Back</i>: </span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"Do or do not,"</b> he tells Luke. <b>"There
is no try."</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Ah, those vaunted, inspirational, uncompromising words.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">But hold on a minute. Don't be so quick to put the little
green supercentenarian on a pedestal. After all, ain't this the same Jedi
Master who purposely <i>deceived</i> Luke upon meeting him, pretending to be
dumber than Jar Jar and not the astute warrior Yoda?</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><i>Oh, but Yoda's, like, the superest, wisest, most
powerfulest Jedi of them all. He gets to do that. Cuz he knows what's right.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Maybe.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">But isn't this the same individual who told Luke that fear,
anger, and aggression were part of the dark side? Indeed. Yet, isn't this the <i>same</i>
Jedi Master who sent chills down our spines when he earlier promised Luke that
the boy would know fear in his training under him?</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Let me refresh your memory. From <i>The Empire Strikes Back</i>:</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"I won't fail you,"</b> Luke says. <b>"I'm
not afraid."</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"Oh, you will be,"</b> Yoda replies ominously.
<b>"You will be...."</b></span><br />
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<span class="content">And how about this bit of Yoda wisdom, also from <i>Empire</i>:</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"If once you start down the dark path, forever will
it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's
apprentice."</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">That would be Anakin Skywalker, right Yoda? The guy who
became Darth Vader for twenty-odd years, then turned back to the good side by
sacrificing his life to kill the evil Emperor and save his son from certain
death. That's the example of someone forever consumed by evil you're talking
about, right?</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Note that Yoda apparently considered this view of the dark
side so important, he actually repeats it to Luke <i>again</i> in <i>Return of
the Jedi</i>, and this time from his death bed, no less:</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it
dominate your destiny."</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">That's a long, long time that "forever." You
might even say it's ... absolute.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Now, I know--Yoda couldn't have known that Vader was going
to trump the dark side. Difficult to see is the future, right little guy?
That's right. Here, take this shiny, little flashlight ... there's a good Jedi
Master.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Now for a frightening, irrevocable thought: the chronicled
advice of the Jedi Masters, the superheroes of Star Wars, is not fool-proof. We
<i>cannot</i> take their words at face value, or at least, we cannot be so
naïve as to think we can convert their words into hard and fast rules--that is,
into absolutes. If we postulate the infallibility of the Jedi Masters (and
there is ample reason not to), we have to at least confine their advice to the
context in which they give it.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Only, what good is it to follow their advice then?</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Well, that's just it. We're not meant to follow their
advice. We're meant to understand the lesson they were trying to convey <i>at
the time they spoke</i>--that is, the <i>meaning</i> of what they were, yes, <i>trying</i>
to say.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">So in <i>Empire</i>, it's not, "Do or do not. There is
no try." It's, "Do or do not. <b>This time,</b> there is no try, <b>Luke,
because you have to learn not to be such a wuss and give up so easily!</b>"</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">And "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" does not
mean that Jedi don't also make absolute statements, but that, "Only a Sith
deals in absolutes <b>hastily drawn while in a state of anger, despair, and
selfishness</b>."</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><i>Oh, you mean I have to <u>interpret</u> this stuff, now?
Well, F all that. That's too hard.</i></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Well, that is why you fail, eh?</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">So Jedi lie, Jedi deceive, and Jedi misjudge, is that it?
Well, hold on a minute. It's not that simple. Let's say that Jedi Masters
contradict themselves. Is that so wrong?</span><br />
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<span class="content">According to legend, a sneaky trick for helping Buddhists
attain enlightenment is said to be to reply to a Nirvana-seeker's question with
nonsense; in trying to make sense of the answer, the questioner creates a
mind-expanding analogy or bridge between two unrelated concepts, thereby
clinching Bliss. Alternately, let's take a look at <i>The Guide of the Perplexed</i>
by Maimonides, the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, which reveals
that deception may be a fundamental tool of the sage for helping pupils to
reach a greater state of understanding: </span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">"Contradictions or inconsistencies may be found in a
book through any one of seven causes.... The fifth cause is the exigencies of
method in teaching and explaining. It may happen that an involved and abstruse
point has to be mentioned by way of introduction to the treatment of an easily
understood subject which is quite properly discussed before that other one,
because one should always proceed from the easier to the more difficult. The
teacher must then rely on some superficial and crude method of explaining the
point in question, without trying to expound it in full, and leave it to the
imagination of his audience to understand of it what must be understood for the
present. In the proper place he can then treat that more involved matter in
full and bring out its true meaning."</span><br />
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<span class="content">In plain English, that means that sometimes your Padawans
aren't yet smart enough or experienced enough to absorb certain facts. So, you
tell em the half of the truth they <i>are</i> ready to accept, letting it seep
in so that they start deriving the logical conclusions from that fact <i>themselves</i>,
thus helping them to prepare themselves for the <i>second</i> half of the
truth.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Sounds tricky, we say.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Indeed it is. Nobody ever said being a Jedi Master was
easy. Just ask Obi-Wan.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Here's another one from good ol' Maimonides:</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">"The vulgar <b>[that's you and me--ed., Abel]</b> must
however not be allowed under any circumstances to become aware of the
contradiction of these premises, and the author <b>[that's Maimonides--ed.,
Abel]</b> will therefore at times adopt every possible means to camouflage
it." </span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">You mean, he's saying our teachers should hide things from
us? Oh, the humanity! Oh, the disillusionment!</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Now, remember in <i>Return of the Jedi</i> how Luke calls
out Yoda for <i>hiding</i> the fact that Vader is his father?</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"Is Darth Vader my father?"</b> Luke asks.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"Your father he is,"</b> Yoda admits. Then, <b>"Unexpected
this is, and unfortunate."</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"Unfortunate that I know the <i>truth</i>?"</b>
Luke yells.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"No,"</b> Yoda says. <i>That</i> part's fine,
actually ... because Luke's old enough to know camouflage and half-truths are
the name of wisdom's game.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">We can now return to the most notorious lie of the Jedi
Masters. Again, from <i>Return of the Jedi</i>:</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content"><b>"So, what I told you was true, from a certain point
of view..."</b> Obi-Wan says. <b>"Luke you will find that many of the
truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Among <i>Return of the Jedi</i>'s many towering lessons,
and as the culmination of the Star Wars saga there are many, this is one we
should make light of at our moral peril, unpalatable though it is. It is, at
last, the confession of inevitable human agency. As Obi-Wan now unpacks his
original statement about absolutes, laying it plain in all its ugly glory, a
Jedi Master admits to his pupil what Maimonides does: that if the circumstances
call for it, in a Jedi Master's best judgment, he will lie to you. <i>Lie</i>
to you! It's the most fundamental form of betrayal.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Now our confidence in the Jedi must disintegrate ... save
that here is a Jedi Master, appointed guardian of peace and justice, not only
admitting his dishonesty, but <i>explaining</i> it--almost like another lesson.
There's something extraordinary in this, almost overwhelming, in its pitiful
and contrary nature. How can we ever believe Old Ben again, or rather, how can
we ever <i>trust</i> him again, anything he ever said, this deceptive, <i>fallible</i>
man? How can we ever trust <i>anyone</i> again--anyone except ourselves? Anyone
except <i>myself</i>....</span><br />
<br />
<span class="content">Now we've taken the <i>second</i> painful step into that
inconceivably large, sometimes lonely world. <i>~ <a href="http://www.abelgpena.com/" target="_blank">Abel "Gautama" Peña</a></i></span></div>
Abel G. Peñahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195314009440635891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8710336342893452203.post-61810408968856974012013-12-31T17:34:00.000-08:002014-01-01T16:00:42.266-08:00Best of 2013 Consumption<span class="userContent">It’s that time, amigos, to say goodbye to
2013. I’ve once again made a note of the best stuff I spent my time
reading or seeing. You’re most welcome to it. Not all of it is from said
year, just consumed in it. Please, too, consume with a grain of
subjectivity.</span><br />
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<b><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent">BEST FICTION BOOK</span></span></b><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent"><b>:</b> <a href="http://immunitysec.com/downloads/TheArmageddonBlues.pdf">The Armageddon Blues: A Tale of the Great Wheel of Existence</a> by Daniel Keys Moran</span></span><br />
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<li><span class="userContent">RUNNER-UP: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/West-Coast-Seattle-Boy-Hendrix/dp/B007ZC92FA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388536185&sr=8-1&keywords=west+coast+seattle+boy+voodoo+child">West Coast Seattle Boy—Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child</a> by Bob Smeaton (director)</span></li>
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<span class="userContent"><b>BEST COMIC BOOK:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Four-Immigrants-Manga-Experience/dp/1880656337/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388450614&sr=8-1&keywords=four+immigrants+manga">The Four Immigrants: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924</a> by Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama</span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><b>BEST BOOK OF POETRY:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-Rainer-Maria-Rilke/dp/0060907274/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388450775&sr=8-1&keywords=selected+poems+of+rainer+maria+rilke">Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke</a> translated by Robert Bly</span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><b>BEST THEATRE SHOW:</b> <a href="http://www.terminatortoo.com/terminatortoo/HOME.html">Terminator Too: Judgment Play</a> by Thomas Blake (writer, director) and Jim Cunningham (writer)</span><br />
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<li><span class="userContent">ADDITIONALLY: Supertyphoon Haiyan, ongoing Syrian Civil War</span></li>
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<span class="userContent"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[1dd8a].[1][3][1]{comment10151852696232286_28802992}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[1dd8a].[1][3][1]{comment10151852696232286_28802992}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1dd8a].[1][3][1]{comment10151852696232286_28802992}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]">That's it for my first outing here, and my return to blogging. See ya on the flipside of the New Year, friends! ~ </span></span></span></span><span class="userContent"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[1dd8a].[1][3][1]{comment10151852696232286_28802992}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3]"><span data-reactid=".r[1dd8a].[1][3][1]{comment10151852696232286_28802992}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[1dd8a].[1][3][1]{comment10151852696232286_28802992}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]"><i>Abel G. Peña</i> </span></span></span> </span>Abel G. Peñahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10195314009440635891noreply@blogger.com0