I've seen fan-art of an Ezra/Leia non-romantic pairing in various places on the 'net, so having a short arc (two episodes) with Leia as a guest character could be interesting.

She's about Ezra's age, and it might help further develop the Ezra/Sabine dynamic if Ezra is able to interact with a girl his own age, and maybe help (most likely unintentionally) give Ezra some clues on how to actually talk to Sabine and get her to actually like him as opposed to the unpolished cheesy attempts at "smooth" talking that he's tried in the past.

Han Solo might be interesting, though unless Kanan and Ezra play it real close to the vest regarding their Jedi-ness, don't quite see how Han's dismissive attitude about Jedi and the Force would hold up after seeing a couple of them in actual action.

I've seen fan-art of an Ezra/Leia non-romantic pairing in various places on the 'net, so having a short arc (two episodes) with Leia as a guest character could be interesting.

She's about Ezra's age, and it might help further develop the Ezra/Sabine dynamic if Ezra is able to interact with a girl his own age, and maybe help (most likely unintentionally) give Ezra some clues on how to actually talk to Sabine and get her to actually like him as opposed to the unpolished cheesy attempts at "smooth" talking that he's tried in the past.

Han Solo might be interesting, though unless Kanan and Ezra play it real close to the vest regarding their Jedi-ness, don't quite see how Han's dismissive attitude about Jedi and the Force would hold up after seeing a couple of them in actual action.

Unless they both get killed in the Han arc. Which would be epic.

Unless they both get killed in the Han arc. Which would be epic.

Considering Ezra is the main character around which the entire series revolves, that would have to be on the very last episode — if it were to ever happen.

Somehow, I don’t think Ezra dies in this series. Kanan and Ahsoka, no problem. Now, Ezra could die in the next series, as we pass the torch to Obiwan and Luke — that would be a fitting end.

I've seen fan-art of an Ezra/Leia non-romantic pairing in various places on the 'net, so having a short arc (two episodes) with Leia as a guest character could be interesting.

She's about Ezra's age, and it might help further develop the Ezra/Sabine dynamic if Ezra is able to interact with a girl his own age, and maybe help (most likely unintentionally) give Ezra some clues on how to actually talk to Sabine and get her to actually like him as opposed to the unpolished cheesy attempts at "smooth" talking that he's tried in the past.

Han Solo might be interesting, though unless Kanan and Ezra play it real close to the vest regarding their Jedi-ness, don't quite see how Han's dismissive attitude about Jedi and the Force would hold up after seeing a couple of them in actual action.

Unless they both get killed in the Han arc. Which would be epic.

Hell. The point of contact between Han and the team might be Academy Boy

So is it just me or does Ezra use Ataru.

^^^

Okay. I gotta ask. How do you differentiate between Lighstaber styles?!?

So is it just me or does Ezra use Ataru.

He's probably more of a "use whatever works" kind of combatant rather than using a formal style.

It's likely a blend of Ataru for the moving around and Shien for dealing with blaster fire. I think Ahsoka was also a primarily a Form V user in TCW, and she made fair use of acrobatics in her fighting style. And Obi-Wan still employed some of the acrobatics of Ataru in his predominantly Soresu-based style.

Prior to the prequels and the introduction of the Seven Forms, in the post-RotJ EU/Legends at Luke's Yavin Academy they developed what was termed the "Three Styles" of Lightsaber Combat, each of which could be seen as a blending of elements of the Seven Forms in spite of being developed largely independently of said Forms. Since the number of Jedi Knights that survived with full knowledge of each of the Forms is probably a very low number, most post-O66 Jedi are going to wind up developing their own techniques for using a lightsaber.

Of course, we don't really know how much Jedi knowledge and information that Kanan's holocron really holds. It might have a wealth of lore on the Seven Forms, or it might have next-to-nothing on them.

Yeah, as the primary viewpoint character, Ezra's pretty safe until the series wraps.

What I thought interesting about the Interdictors is that now instead of just tricking the hyperdrives into thinking that "Hey, there's gravity here, I'd better abort!", that they actually suck things towards the ship with Black Hole like intensity. Which seems like a minor design flaw to me - drawing every ship and object in the general area towards you willy nilly - but hey, that's The Empire for you.

Its only after sabotage by Chobber..

Usually, the gravity trap is probably directional

Its only after sabotage by Chobber..

Usually, the gravity trap is probably directional

Even being directional would still be a problem as it would "suck" in any ships in that direction if it projected an actual graviton field.

The only cases I recall a gravity well projector sucking objects towards it in canon were the result of malfunction or sabotage so I don't think it does that during normal operations.

What I thought interesting about the Interdictors is that now instead of just tricking the hyperdrives into thinking that "Hey, there's gravity here, I'd better abort!", that they actually suck things towards the ship with Black Hole like intensity. Which seems like a minor design flaw to me - drawing every ship and object in the general area towards you willy nilly - but hey, that's The Empire for you.

Well, the weapon was undergoing testing.

Presumably that's a design flaw that will be sorted out in later models of the Interdictor cruiser.

The only cases I recall a gravity well projector sucking objects towards it in canon were the result of malfunction or sabotage so I don't think it does that during normal operations.

Well, I recall something about the high maintenance cost of the ships due to the gravity wells attracting all sorts of space junk.

Do you remember where that was said?

Presumably that's a design flaw that will be sorted out in later models of the Interdictor cruiser.

True. Mind you, it doesn't speak well of Imperial R&D, if a slob like me can figure out in about half an hour "Hey, that's a terrible idea" when a team of starship engineers cant in the several years of building the interdictor.

Do you remember where that was said?

It's from the Wookieepedia page on the Immobilizer Cruiser but the source is missing from there.

"Another problem was the fact that active gravity wells attracted space debris. An Interdictor could—and would—suffer external damage from larger pieces of such hazards. While most damage was minor—as the largest debris would be detected and fired upon by the gunnery crews—it was one reason Interdictors required more maintenance than many other fleet vehicles."

Presumably that's a design flaw that will be sorted out in later models of the Interdictor cruiser.

True. Mind you, it doesn't speak well of Imperial R&D, if a slob like me can figure out in about half an hour "Hey, that's a terrible idea" when a team of starship engineers cant in the several years of building the interdictor.

Ivory Tower Syndrome combined with Top-Down Management. Plus, part of the notion behind prototypes, military or otherwise, is to test out variations on a given theme to see what works best. And since the Imperial Military pretty much has an unlimited budget, they likely take a "spaghetti on the wall" approach, and simply throw all their ideas at the wall and see what sticks.

Then again, considering the Death Stars are probably the highlight of "terrible ideas" in terms of practicality...

Presumably that's a design flaw that will be sorted out in later models of the Interdictor cruiser.

True. Mind you, it doesn't speak well of Imperial R&D, if a slob like me can figure out in about half an hour "Hey, that's a terrible idea" when a team of starship engineers cant in the several years of building the interdictor.

There's a huge difference between being able to recognize the existence of a problem, and actually diagnosing that problem...and a greater difference than that between diagnosis and solution.

The entire business of auto repair shops depend upon people being able to recognize a noise/shake/delay/smell that wasn't there before, while being unable to actually diagnose and address the root problem themselves.

Similarly, it doesn't seem too far out of the realm of plausibility that Imp R&D might get an experimental weapons/countermeasures system working, and that the top brass would push it into a working prototype before a *full* battery of worst-case-scenario testing had been done. I could see an eager but hesitant admiral asking the lead engineer, "Are you telling me the whole thing might just as easily blow up as work?!" and the engineer going, "No no...in fact, in our testing, it was quite stable...anything short of deliberately disabling the system's safeguards and messing with the control systems should be perfectly safe, just perhaps not fully effective in certain situations, and..." "That's all I needed to hear. Build the thing."

Presumably that's a design flaw that will be sorted out in later models of the Interdictor cruiser.

True. Mind you, it doesn't speak well of Imperial R&D, if a slob like me can figure out in about half an hour "Hey, that's a terrible idea" when a team of starship engineers cant in the several years of building the interdictor.

I think it speaks more to how difficult it is to develop that technology than sloppiness of Imperial R&D. Also, consider what the technology is and how it is to be used. It also shows a flaw that helps explain why they just don't blockade a planet with Interdictors later on.

I mean come on. If you could perfectly pull just what you want out with an Interdictor then the Empire would just build a new Star Destroyer which has a Gravity Well Generator in it and just stop ships its chasing from going into hyper space. Oh their jumping to hyper space, wait for it, just pulled them out with the GWG. It's like to perfect of an idea then.

I've always looked at Interdictors like a Commercial Fishing vessel trolling with large nets than road blocks. So It just pulling in random space junk makes a lot of sense. They use it to draw in a group of ships from hyperspace and search through them for what they are looking for.

Then again, considering the Death Stars are probably the highlight of "terrible ideas" in terms of practicality...

True. OSHA would have a field day with some of that.

"Sir, if we reduce all the handrails in size to 2.5 feet tall station wide and eliminate them all together in key areas, we can shave 3 billion credits off the project budget and the reduced mass will increase hyperdrive efficiency by 18 percent."

"Fantastic! Do it."

Then again, considering the Death Stars are probably the highlight of "terrible ideas" in terms of practicality...

True. OSHA would have a field day with some of that.

"Sir, if we reduce all the handrails in size to 2.5 feet tall station wide and eliminate them all together in key areas, we can shave 3 billion credits off the project budget and the reduced mass will increase hyperdrive efficiency by 18 percent."

"Fantastic! Do it."

My friend is a city planner...this kind of thing drives him nuts

"Should we include some kind of shielding between that superlaser pre-beam and the gunnery crew? Looks like they're going to be exposed directly to it, based on these plans..."

"If they're doing their jobs properly and wearing their PPE, they'll be far enough back and facing away. We can use the money for the shielding to increase the size of the throne room window by another half meter."

My friend is a city planner...this kind of thing drives him nuts

After countless hours and hours of Sim City, I would probably drive your friend nuts too. Mind you, real life doesn't have a "Unleash Godzilla" button. . . . .

Then again, considering the Death Stars are probably the highlight of "terrible ideas" in terms of practicality...

True. OSHA would have a field day with some of that.

"Sir, if we reduce all the handrails in size to 2.5 feet tall station wide and eliminate them all together in key areas, we can shave 3 billion credits off the project budget and the reduced mass will increase hyperdrive efficiency by 18 percent."

"Fantastic! Do it."

My friend is a city planner...this kind of thing drives him nuts

Maybe Star Wars believes in survival of the fittest. So, if you lack the balance to walk on those walkways without handrails, then it is your problem if you fall. The joy of a world without lawyers, heheh.