I love it when pre Original Trilogy era shows how much effort went into making the Death Star. It took decades, literal decades, and it took so much money and so many people and it was such a secretive thing and it’s staffed by millions because it’s the size of a small moon.
I cannot express how much all of the added information makes it so much funnier that Luke blew it up.
Luke destroys literally everything Palpatine built. He blows up the Death Star, which was referenced in universe as early as the second movie. He blew up the weapon of mass destruction twenty years in the making. And he blew it up pretty much directly after it’s first and only successful attack. It was operational for fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes that Palpatine had the thing he’d been building for longer than Luke has been alive, and Luke blows it up. First day retirement, but first hour retirement.
Luke convinces Darth Vader to turn back to the light side, a feat thought literally impossible by literally everybody. Sidious clearly doesn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming. Vader’s betrayal was not in his plans, nor was it something he was prepared for. Sidious is a powerful Force user with all four limbs while Vader is a man in the tin can Palpatine put him in. If Palpatine had seen Vader turning coming, he would not have allowed it to happen.
Luke literally should not even be alive. Palpatine almost definitely got Padme out of the way on purpose, and he almost certainly was trying for her unborn child as well (there was way too big of a risk that a cute liddol bebe would bring some humanity back to Anakin, and Palpatine did not want Anakin to have any humanity) Luke living is literally the first step in Palpatine’s ultimate downfall, especially once Vader finds out that Luke is his son. His very alive son. His son that is not dead, despite Palpatine claiming Anakin killed Padme. Implying that Anakin killed Padme and she posthumously gave birth. But, she didn’t give birth on Mustafar, which was the last place Anakin interacted with her. And once the mother dies, you have to get those fuckers out fast or they die too.
I imagine Darth Vader piecing all of this together is that meme with all the math floating around his head, because how could Padme have died by his hand and then given birth like two hours later?
Luke killing Palpatine is what ultimately leads to the dissolution of the Empire as an omnipotent entity. Luke killed the Empire. Luke spends a good amount of his adult life killing Empire remnants. We see that in the Mandalorian, since he’s so recognizable that Gideon immediately knows he’s fucked just by seeing an X-wing. We read it in Legends’ continuity, where Luke terrifies Imperials because he can walk into their changing room and stand in their for a minute and they don’t even notice.
Luke destroyed Palpatine’s life’s work. Everything Palpatine spent his whole life working towards, and Luke kills all of it. He blows up not one, but two Death Stars (he may not have pulled the trigger on the second Death Star, but without him, it never would have been destroyed). He convinces not one, but multiple Sith and Dark Jedi to return from the Dark Side. He is the only reason that Obi-Wan Kenobi, the biggest pain in Palpatine’s ass ever born, lives long enough to make it to the Death Star.
Palpatine went through so much effort. And just when he had finally won, when he finally had a weapon capable of destroying entire planets with a single blast, making it impossible for any planets or peoples to go against him, Luke shows up nineteen years late to the Jedi party with space Starbucks and a droid twice his age and almost singlehandedly destroys everything Palpatine ever had a hand in creating.
Luke manages to become even worse than Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate thorn in the side of politicians, and Luke doesn’t even understand any politics. He wasn’t trained in diplomacy like Obi-Wan and Leia, no, he’s a farmboy who left home for the first time in his entire life, just this morning. And he is the one to destroy the Empire.
If they rewrote Star Wars and had it entirely from Palpatine’s perspective, Luke Skywalker would be his greatest foe. Luke Skywalker would be the final boss. Luke Skywalker is the antithesis of everything Palpatine believes in and he is the one character that Palpatine cannot predict. He isn’t as moldable as Anakin, he doesn’t respond to threats very well, he’s apparently impossible to kill via Force lightning (still the funniest scene of all times, the progression of Palpatine’s face falling and him looking like “what the fuck??? Is this kid rubber??? I’ve electrocuted him eight times???”), his unwavering faith in his father’s goodness makes Darth Vader want to be a better person, Luke Skywalker is the big bad of Palpatine’s story and—
There is nothing in this world that is funnier than someone’s biggest antagonist being Luke fucking Skywalker. Luke Skywalker, who saved the galaxy with the power of love and who shouldn’t exist, by Jedi rules and by Palpatine’s own attempts, and whose best friends are literally droids, which Palpatine canonically hates!
Everything about this is hilarious, this is the funniest thing in all of media, Palpatine loses absolutely everything to some backwater farmboy who fucking likes droids.
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Bly: *falls head over heels for Aayla*
Ponds: Haha look at that dork, falling for his General.
Wolffe: *falls in love with Arran, a Jedi healer*
Fox: *rolling his eyes* well, at least it's not a General this time.
Cody: *falls in love with Obi-Wan*
Ponds: ...you cannot be serious.
Fox: Well, I guess it's just you, me, and Rex.
Fox: *meets Quinlan*
Fox: Never-mind, I get it now.
AFTER THE WAR:
Rex: -and yeah, before everything started to go to shit at the end and Anakin started to turn, I fell in love with hi-
Ponds: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? YOU WERE MY LAST NORMAL BROTHER!
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Moments before disaster🫶
This is probably not original at all but I headcanon that Togruta bite as a form of affection when they’re happy with their situation. It’s also a way they express positive feelings when words aren’t enough. Biting can be LIGHTLY territorial as well (It is for Uvosee and he wont ever say it), but that’s only for the jealous types.
In adulthood,it’s typically done between couples and it’s also common between close friends. Signs that it’s about to happen is when they’re far clingier and warmer (I also head canon they have body temperature lower than humans) than usual.
In Adolescence, it happens all the time. Kids just do it unexpectedly when they’re super happy or like something. Bite marks everywhere! No signs for them.
Also yes it hurts like hell for humans, they’re carnivores with sharp teeth.
The aftermath:
Unfortunately for Avello doesn’t know and just thinks his husband is trying to embarrass him. He’s usually good on avoiding it but every now and then he (foolishly) trusts that his partner wont “attack” him and lets his guard down. He is very mistaken! Uvosee is just a happy guy!
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Star Wars OC visual development drawings- from order 66 to when we see Maul again in Rebels is a fifteen year gap. Given that Maul is desperate for connection but doesn't know how to relate to people other than as master+apprentice, I think it's incredibly unlikely that he never tried to take another apprentice during those years.
The Apprentice in question was nine years old during the Jedi purge and escaped by crawling into a ventilation duct. Maul was guided by visions to seek her out, misinterpreting what saw as proof that Ahsoka was alive. Instead, he found Charnel half dead in the gutter. Charnel is not the most brave, athletic or force-attuned, and frankly would not have successfully become a knight if order 66 hadn't happened. However, she's the only force sensitive Maul's been able to find, so he's got no other choice.
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