It should have been fairly easy from the Empire's perspective, too.
Tom Send a noteboard - 24/11/2009 02:04:49 AM
They had a battle station, they wanted to test a battle station, they just lost the plans to the battle station when an escape pod went down to Tatooine (note there is only one "n" in Tatooine, and it's after both "t"s). Tatooine wasn't significant. Forget Alderaan - just blow up Tatooine.
Your statement that it was important is contradicted by everything said in the movies:
1. In Phantom Menace, they say it was a minor, unimportant planet on the Outer Rim that consisted mostly of moisture farmers and controlled by the Hutts - a group neither the Republic nor the Empire particularly liked.
2. In the original Star Wars, Luke says "If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet it's farthest from" and repeatedly calls it a "rock". Its chief city is described with the words "Never will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
3. If you're ignoring the injunction not to talk about the Expanded Universe, then I might as well point out that (a) Tatooine is not in Hutt Space and would not have been a major planet owned by the Hutts, (b) it had only 2,000,000 inhabitants and so was sparsely populated and (c) the planet had no valuable resources to mine.
As for the novels you're talking about, it's about time somebody killed Chewbacca. I mean, what's a Wookie doing on a planet full of Ewoks?
Your statement that it was important is contradicted by everything said in the movies:
1. In Phantom Menace, they say it was a minor, unimportant planet on the Outer Rim that consisted mostly of moisture farmers and controlled by the Hutts - a group neither the Republic nor the Empire particularly liked.
2. In the original Star Wars, Luke says "If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet it's farthest from" and repeatedly calls it a "rock". Its chief city is described with the words "Never will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
3. If you're ignoring the injunction not to talk about the Expanded Universe, then I might as well point out that (a) Tatooine is not in Hutt Space and would not have been a major planet owned by the Hutts, (b) it had only 2,000,000 inhabitants and so was sparsely populated and (c) the planet had no valuable resources to mine.
As for the novels you're talking about, it's about time somebody killed Chewbacca. I mean, what's a Wookie doing on a planet full of Ewoks?
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
A different take
- 23/11/2009 08:00:42 PM
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This writer makes a huge mistake...
- 23/11/2009 08:35:49 PM
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That's not really true. They want order and power.
- 23/11/2009 08:41:02 PM
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Well yeah
- 23/11/2009 08:44:20 PM
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on the other hand, he's been taught that's how you maintain order
- 23/11/2009 10:10:35 PM
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Jonathan V. Last could do with a good game of Dungeons and Dragons.
- 23/11/2009 08:40:22 PM
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Re: Jonathan V. Last could do with a good game of Dungeons and Dragons.
- 23/11/2009 09:10:09 PM
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I like it.
- 23/11/2009 09:05:11 PM
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if you read the Expanded Universe (which I understand this author disregards)
- 23/11/2009 10:08:12 PM
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Well, then maybe the Empire was better
- 23/11/2009 10:43:59 PM
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yes, that's easy to say from our perspective
- 23/11/2009 11:02:25 PM
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It should have been fairly easy from the Empire's perspective, too.
- 24/11/2009 02:04:49 AM
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i am not saying that tantooine was important
- 24/11/2009 02:29:34 AM
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Once again, Tatooine, not "Tantooine"
- 24/11/2009 02:34:21 PM
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people are probably getting Tatooine and Dantooine mixed up.
- 24/11/2009 10:52:04 PM
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You would think that, but Dantooine is also mentioned in a previous reply.
- 24/11/2009 11:07:28 PM
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And let's not get Dante's and Randall's timeless discussion...
- 23/11/2009 09:18:24 PM
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Yeah, but they were probably all Unionized, so it's sort of crappy either way. *NM*
- 24/11/2009 02:05:39 AM
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yeah, I used that dialogue in a thread on the CMB that links to this article
- 24/11/2009 11:02:23 PM
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He does make some good points.
- 23/11/2009 10:23:22 PM
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He should have done the creation of the Roman Empire instead of Star Wars.
- 24/11/2009 06:19:28 AM
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Sounder, but not necessarily stronger.
- 24/11/2009 10:50:17 AM
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If you include Vespasian and Titus in "the creation of the Roman Empire," sure, I guess.
- 24/11/2009 10:16:01 PM
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