6 minutes ago, Ahrimon said:

Wasn't there something about the Hutt empire falling after Jabba died and the Nikto took over their empire?

I doubt that.

27 minutes ago, Ahrimon said:

Wasn't there something about the Hutt empire falling after Jabba died and the Nikto took over their empire?

From Wookiepedia: 'During the New Republic era, the Hutts lost much of their former power over the galactic underworld and were supplanted by Nikto crime cartels like Rinnrivin Di's cartel. The Hutts were disliked by both the Populists and the Centrists, the two main factions in the New Republic's Galactic Senate. Several Nikto like Rinnrivin admired Leia Organa for her role in killing Jabba and christened her "Huttslayer."'

These events are from the book "Bloodline" which takes place six years before the new trilogy.

3 hours ago, Ahrimon said:

Wasn't there something about the Hutt empire falling after Jabba died and the Nikto took over their empire?

Is that WEG d6 canon/pre-disney canon or Disney Corporate Buyout Canon? I'm setting my Canon Mindset as 'Anything I don't like that exists after the Disney Buyout IS NOT CANON...' including Solo movie but using the stuff in Rogue 1...and I'm saying Mace Windu survived, as SLJ is waaaay to cool to kill of in any universe!!!

which doesn't really affect my new Edge campaign as I'm setting it between Ep4 and Ep5 anyway

13 minutes ago, DidntFallAsleep66 said:

Is that WEG d6 canon/pre-disney canon or Disney Corporate Buyout Canon? I'm setting my Canon Mindset as 'Anything I don't like that exists after the Disney Buyout IS NOT CANON...' including Solo movie but using the stuff in Rogue 1...and I'm saying Mace Windu survived, as SLJ is waaaay to cool to kill of in any universe!!!

which doesn't really affect my new Edge campaign as I'm setting it between Ep4 and Ep5 anyway

3 hours ago, Mistervimes said:

From Wookiepedia: 'During the New Republic era, the Hutts lost much of their former power over the galactic underworld and were supplanted by Nikto crime cartels like Rinnrivin Di's cartel. The Hutts were disliked by both the Populists and the Centrists, the two main factions in the New Republic's Galactic Senate. Several Nikto like Rinnrivin admired Leia Organa for her role in killing Jabba and christened her "Huttslayer."'

These events are from the book "Bloodline" which takes place six years before the new trilogy.

Bloodline is Disney-Canon.

On ‎2‎/‎14‎/‎2020 at 9:18 PM, kmanweiss said:

I see 2 possible explanations.

A band of pirates raided some lightly guarded Imperial facility expecting to haul away armor, weapons, resources, stuff to sell on the black market. This happened to be a research facility that had the child, and they took the child also. While this makes sense for a set up, it doesn't make sense for why they'd still have the kid or have taken the child in the first place. Who cares. It took us awhile for the child to show any ability, and in the heat of a smash and grab raid, why would you want to take some random alien child with you.

2nd option would be someone hired the gang/pirates/thugs to protect the child. Someone (ex-jedi on the run?) found the child, perhaps even broke into the facility to steal the child. They knew about the species due to their jedi past and decided they needed to keep the child out of Imperial hands. But as they are being hunted by Imps/First order/who knows what, they decide the safest thing to do is dump the child on some band of pirates they can pay to protect the child. I could see Mando and the child running across this person in a future season and having the guy explain that he had a vision of an armor clad warrior protecting the child in a way that they couldn't, so he left the child with the pirates. A bit more far fetched in the explanation, but it makes more sense that these pirates are paid to take care of the child than them wanting to steal a child themselves.

In the former case, it really depends how common a Yodaling is. Given the species doesn't even have a name to the extent of referring to it with increasingly vague names, baby yoda, yodaling. They probably mightn't have even thought it was a sentient creature, but rather something they would keep around as a pet or to sell off as an exotic creature when they next hit port. Strangely, Bounty Hunters keep turning up but ehh, the hardware those tools bring in is almost worth the weekly intrusions. It's getting kinda annoying though, who would call a bounty in on us? That's pretty believable as the Empire is more or less designed to be cruel from the ground up, that even generations after the fall of the Empire would uphold the same prejudices for as long as they draw breath.

Equally likely that they didn't know they had it. A bunch of mercs aren't going to be too particular with a package, just seal it up, throw it to one side. Done.

Besides, I'm fine with them being a bunch of random mercs. The how's, whys and what's aren't really important to the Mandolorian and his world is literally this empty silence between conversations. There's a strong impression that the long times between interactions made his world exceptionally hollow up until he found the kid, he had only ever been a one man unit with everyone else either being the enclave or a client. He just entered the job, did the job and immediately onto the next one. It was only after having his void filled up with a companion that filled those empty spaces between stars? Yeah, it was a cool message and it didn't need a single line of dialogue.


Then again, I've always been a bit dismissive of fluff in other sources, especially the art sources. That coffin was on mustifar? Cool story bro, nice way of keepin the costs down by setting the scene in a forest, like pretty much every star wars fan movie ever. XD There's so much fluff and small universe that just doesn't matter. Then again, I'm just here to read and get hyped for roleplaying days. Heheh

2 hours ago, DidntFallAsleep66 said:

Is that WEG d6 canon/pre-disney canon or Disney Corporate Buyout Canon? I'm setting my Canon Mindset as 'Anything I don't like that exists after the Disney Buyout IS NOT CANON...'

What are you doing in a thread about a Disney+ show then?

13 hours ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Bloodline is Disney-Canon.

Thank you... there's so much DisCan coming out I'm just sticking with old school d6 canon as well to make it easier to remember 👍

10 hours ago, micheldebruyn said:

What are you doing in a thread about a Disney+ show then?

Because Mando is awesome

On 2/13/2020 at 9:43 AM, andyrross said:

I forgot about this in the Aftermath books, but the Guardian of the Whils podcast brought this up: someone found Boba Fett's armor on Tatooine and picked it up to be Tatooine Batman (vigilante). I think it was that person since you could hear the spurs as the character walked up to the Imperial sniper's body.

Another theory I've heard mentioned is the person at the end of episode 5 that walked up to Fennec Shand's body was the daughter of Boba Fett, Ailyn Vel. She was born in 15 BBY, so she'd be 24 at the time of the show. She was known to have found her father's armor and would masquerade as Fett while doing bounty hunter work. Another bit of news I've heard is Sasha Banks, WWE wrestler, is involved with filming of season 2. Could she be playing Vel in season 2? Maybe. Just a thought.

3 hours ago, T70 Driver said:

Another theory I've heard mentioned is the person at the end of episode 5 that walked up to Fennec Shand's body was the daughter of Boba Fett, Ailyn Vel. She was born in 15 BBY, so she'd be 24 at the time of the show. She was known to have found her father's armor and would masquerade as Fett while doing bounty hunter work. Another bit of news I've heard is Sasha Banks, WWE wrestler, is involved with filming of season 2. Could she be playing Vel in season 2? Maybe. Just a thought.

Big hole in that: this was not a person who was masquerading as Boba Fett. Or wearing armour of any kind. And she doesn't exist. They're not bringing back a character from the comics that even people who really followed the comics back then (like me) have never heard off.

And if it is her, the reveil would be a gigantic facepalm moment. Fans in general do not like that everybody is related to somebody, and Rey being a Palpatine is the most disliked story element in a huge, big pile of disliked story elements.