Meanwhile, in real life, we don't have space wizards who can perform magic, yet we have generals who live in fear of magical leaders of make believe religions.
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because they have millions of followers they don't want to piss off.
Cult followings are the highest form of magecraft.
... more powerful incentive than a telekinetic force choke
I mean, they can still economically Force choke your campaign
Jo is that profile pic you?
"Bruh, we're trying to get this project done on time and under budget, talking about space magic isn't going to-"
"we need to stop cutting corners and put a cover over that hole that blows up the whole station if someone drops a rock in it"
You seem to have too much time to waste. Here, I've just cut your jira ticket deadline by a week. Pray I don't cut it further.
We will reconvene this meeting at 5:20.
Don't be silly, every moon-sized station has a hole that destroys the entire structure if someone drops a rock in there. That's the way it's always been done. That is industry best practices according to our stakeholders.
thats just venting
These puns are exhausting.
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Vadey-poo weweaseee himmm
Calls Vader's religion bullshit
Gets telepathically choked out
Vader: "Oh I guess it doesn't hurt since it's all bullshit, huh? I find your lack of faith disturbing. Especially since you've seen me do this shit, like, a million times before."
He was actually criticising the mystical thinking of the Sith, not the scientific reality of midichlorians.
Wasn't he more criticizing the scale? Like, a sith warrior is great, but he can't really compete with the power of the Death Star when it comes to sheer scale. Just ask Alderaan.
In case someone also wondered who this is, here is a summary. Dude is hardcore
Darth Nihilus: A Sith Lord's Hunger for Power and Destruction
• Darth Nihilus, a Human male, rose as a Dark Lord of the Sith after the Jedi Civil War, driven by an insatiable hunger for Force energy.
• He was found by Darth Traya and trained to feed his hunger, eventually becoming one of three Sith Lords in a triumvirate.
• Nihilus' hunger consumed him, leading him to destroy entire planets and absorb their Force energy, including the devastation of Katarr.
• He formed a powerful bond with his Shadow Hand, Visas Marr, who could support and weaken him in battle.
• Nihilus' pursuit of a growing Force presence led him to clash with Meetra Surik, a former Jedi, and ultimately met his demise at the hands of Surik and her allies.
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When I saw this scene as a kid, I thought Motti coughed up the yellow button on the console. I didn't know what it was at the time and thought Vader somehow put some yellow choking pill inside him. It was very disturbing to me. This was before I knew what a Force choke was.
So you're saying you find his lack of puke... disturbing.
I used to think roughly the same thing. I thought that Vader choking him caused him to puke up an egg.
I thought the same! We had to use our imagination watching these movies on VHS on a 14" CRT TV from eight feet away.
Ahahaha I’m amazed there are three people who had that same impression with something I never even noticed!
Four! I thought oh his puke looks like a Pacman pill because space people eat space food and I guess it's like that.
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I always thought he licked the table for some reason
Imagine you were to do this shit after someone talking about how Jesus will strike sinners down, then suddenly a buff Jesus appears and chokes you out a little bit. Thats what this guy went through.
Leave Korean Jesus alone. He ain't got time for yo problems. He busy. With Korean shit.
I don’t think he wasn’t believing in the force, he knew Jedi were real, he just wasn’t buying the mysticism surrounding it and didn’t think it’s such a big deal. He knew Vader is a powerful force user, but the Death Star is literally one shotting entire planets, so the force didn’t feel that significant to him in the grand scheme of things.
He said he didn't know about the force before he even knew the Death Star existed.
I think it's very silly to think there is a galactic civilization but the people in that civilization don't know, even though there's absolutely no secret about it, that magic exists.
Is Han really that ignorant of what's going on around him? I doubt he'd be that effective a smuggler if he didn't pay attention to news and politics.
How many Jedi are there during their peak? I think it's around ten thousand jedi. Compared to the galaxy population of 100 quadrillion sentient beings spread across the galaxy, I'm not too surprised a lot of people thought they're a myth.
Okay, but we're not talking about a bunch of inconsequential people. This is an ancient order of magicians who has a lot of control over their government. And then one of the magicians becomes the emperor of the galaxy with his magic power. And all of that when Han Solo was alive. Young, but alive.
It's like saying a knowledgeable guy like Han Solo in our world wouldn't know about Reagan getting shot. He was born in the 70s, he took history classes, he read up stuff on his own, he heard older people talk about it... but he didn't know it happened.
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And he (Admiral Motti) got the first name of Conan by George Lucas while on the Conan O'Brien show!
Damn. Conan has been on TV forever.
I'm sure he was celebrated for his strength. His body wasn't just tossed out with the rest of the garbage. Not at all.
True heroes aren't appreciated in their time.
People are complaining about Motti not knowing Jedi were real. But how many times did we see things written down, much less recorded video/holograms?
In this essay on how recorded media was made illegal by the Empire to clamp down on shared knowledge and control the public, I will prove without a doubt...
Fahrenheit 451 is canonical prequel to Star wars.
He would have been in the military during the Clone Wars. They served as Generals in the Republic armies. If he had not witnessed the exploits of the Jedi first hand, he most likely would have seen and heard the reports.
He was correct too in a way. It wasn't The Force that was keeping the Galaxy in line, it was economic and logistical power. If anything, it was the Sith's constant need for conflict and backstabbing seeping into the officer corps that hampered The Empire, and the Tarkin Doctrine is what happens when you base your military strategy on the whims and wishes of an autocratic religious fanatic.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
And how'd that go for him?
He survived
Motti's ambitions, which grew in the wake of the battle station's completion, were short-lived, however. The Rebel Alliance, who had obtained a copy of the Death Star plans during the Battle of Scarif, discovered a weak spot in the station's thermal exhaust port and successfully exploited it, leading to the destruction of the battle station along with the deaths of everyone onboard, Motti included.
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