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Could The US Military Defeat One Imperial Star Destroyer?If the Star Destroyer were foolish enough to fly into Earth's atmosphere, the US military would probably win. Nuclear missiles could break its shields and blow it apart. The Empire would never fight that way, though. It would sit in orbit and run a Base Delta Zero.
Did Darth Maul Become Less Powerful After His Duel With Obi-Wan?No. Maul grew stronger after losing his legs, while Vader never recovered from Mustafar, and the difference was mental rather than physical. Losing limbs did not reduce a Force user's potential. What reduced it was the confidence the injury took away, and Maul had confidence to spare.
Do Blasters Ever Run Out Of Ammunition?Yes. Blasters run on compact gas packs holding a blend of over a hundred gases, and a standard E-11 pack is good for around five hundred shots. The reason nobody reloads much is that the packs last, not that they are endless.
How Did Coruscant Become Hell After The Fall Of The Empire?Coruscant went through four separate catastrophes in under seventy years. Imperial warlords carved it up, the Yuuzhan Vong conquered it and terraformed it into a jungle, the rebuild never reached the lower levels, and finally Abeloth tore chunks of the planet apart with seismic activity.
How Could The Pearl From A Krayt Dragon Create The Most Powerful Lightsaber?Krayt dragons swallow stones to grind their food, and the pearls that come out of their guts are formed from kyber. Drop one into a hilt and it produces an extremely powerful, destructive blade that howls when it ignites. Getting one means killing a krayt dragon first, which is why almost nobody has.
How Did Grievous Almost Become Force Sensitive and Dooku's Sith Apprentice?Dooku engineered the crash that nearly killed Grievous, then had the dying Kaleesh transfused with the midi-chlorian rich blood of the Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. The blood saved his life. It never gave him the Force.
How Did IG-88 Almost Destroy The Star Wars Galaxy?IG-88 woke up on a laboratory bench, killed everyone in the room and took over the droid factory world of Mechis III. Every droid built there shipped with hidden code that would trigger a galaxy-wide droid revolution. He got as far as the second Death Star before Lando Calrissian blew it up with him inside.
How Was Cad Bane So Good At Defeating Jedi?Most bounty hunters avoided Jedi work entirely. Cad Bane went looking for it, and he kitted himself out specifically to shut down what Force users do best, down to the breathing tubes that made a Force choke useless.
Were Regular Guns The Perfect Weapon To Defeat Jedi?Slugthrowers worked on Jedi in a way blasters never did, because a lightsaber cannot deflect a physical round. The catch is that they only worked as well as they did because most Jedi were never trained to deal with them.
Were There Any Sith Lords Who Used Their Powers For Good?Two Sith from the Rule of Two era come close. Darth Gravid rejected the dark side and tried to drag the order back towards the light, burning centuries of Sith lore before his apprentice killed him. Darth Vectivus kept his old moral code intact and died of old age surrounded by friends.
What Excuse Did Vader Give For His Defeat By Obi-Wan Kenobi?Vader never blamed his own arrogance for losing on Mustafar. He blamed inexperience, and specifically the Jedi Order. In his telling, Obi-Wan had been handed far more chances to fight real opponents during the Clone Wars while the Council kept holding him back.
What Happened To The Girl Who Hit On Darth Vader?An Imperial nurse on the first Death Star became obsessed with Darth Vader, hoarding scraps of his armour and a vial of his blood as keepsakes. When she finally walked into his quarters and confessed, he stared at her, ran her through with his lightsaber and called the bridge to have the body removed.
What Happened When A Clone Commando Got A Jedi Padawan Pregnant?Jedi General Etain Tur-Mukan and clone commando Darman of Omega Squad had a son, Venku Skirata, and formalised their union under Mandalorian custom. Etain survived Order 66 only to be cut down by accident, by a Jedi she was trying to save, metres from the family waiting to collect her.
What Happened When Darth Vader Found A Picture Of Jar Jar Binks, Kenobi And Padme?Hunting for whoever hid his son, Vader went to Naboo and ended up sheltering in a Gungan monument to the Trade Federation's defeat. On the wall was a painting of Palpatine, Jar Jar Binks, Kenobi, Padme and a nine year old boy from Tatooine.
What Was It Like To Be Hit By A Blaster Bolt?A blaster bolt is a packet of high energy plasma, and it does three things at once. It vaporises the flesh it passes through, cauterises the hole it leaves, and boils the fluid inside you while the concussive force ruptures organs further out. It hurts in ways a bullet does not.
What Was The Devastating Ability That Only Starkiller Could Use?The lightning bomb. Starkiller could pour Force lightning into a target and then keep amplifying it until it hit a critical point and detonated, destroying the victim and everyone unlucky enough to be standing near them. It sits at the far end of a discipline he had already rewritten.
When Darth Maul Fought Darth VaderIn Legends, a cult of Sith fanatics used alchemy to bring Darth Maul back and sent him after Vader on the volcanic moon Kalakar Six. Maul had the duel won until Vader ran a lightsaber through his own body to reach him.
Who Was The Only Force User That Boba Fett Feared?In Legends, the only Force user who genuinely rattled Boba Fett was the renegade clone of Galen Marek, codenamed Starkiller. Fett took a contract from Darth Vader to hunt him, saw what he had done to a Gorog and an entire city, and decided to go after the clone's lover instead.
Why Did Ancient Sith Lords Hate Palpatine And Darth Vader?Some older Sith thought Palpatine and Vader were not really Sith at all. The clearest case is Darth Momin, who accused them of failing the dark side by fixating on the Jedi, and of ruling through a bureaucracy that looked far too much like the Republic they replaced.
Why Are Orange Lightsabers Weak?Some orange blades are not powered by kyber at all. They run on kohlen crystals, a near identical cousin that looks the same and even resonates in the Force the same way. The blade it produces is low powered and struggles to cut, which earned the crystal the nickname fool's kyber.
Why Wasn't Count Dooku Deformed By The Dark Side?Dooku never went far enough into the dark side to pay for it. The disfigurement and yellow eyes came from prolonged, total immersion, and Dooku used the dark side sparingly, leaning on his Makashi lightsaber form instead. His eyes only turned during moments of real anger.
Why Did Jabba The Hutt Force His Favourite Dancer To Wear Strange Make-up?Because she reminded him of his mother. Jabba was close to her as a young Huttlet, and when he first saw the Askajian dancer Yarna d'al' Gargan he thought her size resembled a Hutt's. The make-up was there to push the resemblance further, and it is what kept her out of the rancor pit.
Why Didn't Darth Vader Upgrade His Suit?Vader's armour was slow, heavy and painful, and in Legends he was offered the chance to replace it with something far better. He turned it down because the procedure could have killed him, and because the pain kept him tied to the dark side.
Why Was General Grievous So Weak In Revenge Of The Sith?Grievous spent the Clone Wars slaughtering Jedi Masters, then lost to a single Obi-Wan Kenobi. In Legends the reason is Mace Windu, who crushed his chest with the Force during the Battle of Coruscant. In canon the cough and the frailty were always there, built into a botched cyborg conversion.
Why Did Both The Jedi And Sith Hate This Lightsaber Variant?The flicker phase blade switched itself on and off at random, which made it nearly impossible to block and impossible to lock. The Jedi called that an unfair advantage. The Sith called it a crutch. Both refused to use it.
Why Couldn't The Jedi Sense That Palpatine Was A Sith Lord?Palpatine was the most accomplished user of Force concealment in the galaxy, the Jedi Temple was built on top of a Sith vergence the Order never fully capped, and a thousand years without an enemy had left the Jedi out of practice at looking for one.
Why Did Luke Skywalker Use A Sith Lightsaber Crystal?Luke built his green lightsaber on Tatooine with no way to reach a natural crystal world like Ilum. So he fell back on notes and equipment left in Obi-Wan Kenobi's hut and grew a synthetic crystal, a method the Sith pioneered and the Jedi discouraged.
Why Did Palpatine Love Maul's Lightsaber?Because of what it told his own master. Sidious trained Maul as an assassin rather than a Sith Lord, and the brutal, ancient saberstaff advertised exactly that. It made Maul look like a weapon instead of a successor, which kept Plagueis from noticing what his apprentice was really building.
Why Plagueis Went to Meet Anakin in The Phantom MenaceIn Legends, Darth Plagueis was still alive during The Phantom Menace. The moment he saw Anakin Skywalker arrive on Coruscant he was hit by a vision of a black helmeted cyborg, and he went looking for the boy. He was too late.
Why Do People In Star Wars Use Blasters Instead Of Guns?Blasters won on logistics and stopping power. A single small gas canister feeds hundreds of shots, ammunition is cheap and light to carry, and bullets simply were not powerful enough. Even low grade armour that blasters cut through would reliably stop a slug.
Why Didn't The CIS Make Lightsaber Resistant Battle Droids?They did. The Techno Union built the C-B3 cortosis battle droid, armoured in a material that could deflect and even short out a lightsaber blade, and it worked. The programme died on Metalorn when Anakin Skywalker destroyed the factory producing them.
Why Did The Empire Make Boba Fett's Disruptor Rifle Illegal?Disruptors do not kill you, they take you apart. The Imperial Senate banned them after the Empire used T-7 ion disruptors to almost wipe out the Lasat, and even Darth Vader told Boba Fett there would be no disintegrations.
Why Did Palpatine And The Sith Fear Qui-Gon Jinn More Than Any Other Jedi?Sidious sent Maul after Qui-Gon personally, and not because Qui-Gon was the best duelist in the Order. He was the one Jedi openly questioning whether the Jedi should be serving the Republic at all, and he believed in the Chosen One when nobody else did.
Why Was Darth Vader Terrified After His Duel With Obi-Wan Kenobi?Because the body disappeared. Vader had waited two decades to kill Obi-Wan, and when he finally did there was nothing left but robes. He suspected a mind trick, found nothing under his boot, and realised the dark side had no explanation for what he had just seen.
Why Was General Grievous So Pathetic When He Fought Obi-Wan In Revenge Of The Sith?Two things gutted him. Obi-Wan was a master of Soresu, the defensive form built to punish exactly the kind of wild aggression Grievous relied on. And by Utapau the general was already badly damaged, carrying the crushed chest and the cough that came with it.
Why Was Hyperspace So Terrifying?Nobody in the galaxy actually understands it. Ships fly into stars, get pulled apart by gravity wells, and occasionally end up somewhere that is not space at all. Outside a hull it kills faster than vacuum, and in Legends staring at it too long could drive a person mad.
Why Was It So Difficult For Non-Force Sensitives To Use A Lightsaber?The blade has no mass but the weapon still fights you. Energy pouring through the kyber crystal creates a gyroscopic effect that makes a lightsaber pull and wobble in the hand. The Force lets a wielder feel the crystal's rhythm and cancel it out. Without that, you are wrestling the thing.
Why Was Moff Gideon So Terrified Of Luke Skywalker?Gideon spent two seasons unbothered by anything. Then a single X-wing docked and a hooded Jedi walked through his dark troopers. To what was left of the Empire, Luke Skywalker was the man who had personally ended every symbol of Imperial power they had.