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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2019 3:40:45 GMT
Well he will react like everybody from the 1970s with shock and awe. True. I brought up a more general and all-encompassing take on this question in the 'Miscellaneous Star Wars Thread' on AH.com, and received quite the answer in turn. And speaking of Star Wars, 'Mace Windu And Nick Fury Have A Glare-Off. Who Wins?' Yes, yes, I know that the SHIELD director has one working eye left, but that gets discounted for this contest of wills since it only matters who blinks first. The galaxy losses as it can not handle this awesome Glare-Off. |
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 19, 2019 15:04:05 GMT
True. I brought up a more general and all-encompassing take on this question in the 'Miscellaneous Star Wars Thread' on AH.com, and received quite the answer in turn. And speaking of Star Wars, 'Mace Windu And Nick Fury Have A Glare-Off. Who Wins?' Yes, yes, I know that the SHIELD director has one working eye left, but that gets discounted for this contest of wills since it only matters who blinks first. The galaxy losses as it can not handle this awesome Glare-Off. Probably, yes. Outside of engaging in a glare-off, I wonder how an actual encounter between the Master of the Order and the Director of SHIELD would proceed. The two would certainly exchange dirty and suspicious looks at first, but perhaps finding themselves fight side by side might cause them to develop a grudging respect for one another. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2019 15:07:10 GMT
The galaxy losses as it can not handle this awesome Glare-Off. Probably, yes. Outside of engaging in a glare-off, I wonder how an actual encounter between the Master of the Order and the Director of SHIELD would proceed. The two would certainly exchange dirty and suspicious looks at first, but perhaps finding themselves fight side by side might cause them to develop a grudging respect for one another. I think they would go along well with each other, despite looking alike, i think both have different personalities to speak off. |
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 19, 2019 19:03:48 GMT
Probably, yes. Outside of engaging in a glare-off, I wonder how an actual encounter between the Master of the Order and the Director of SHIELD would proceed. The two would certainly exchange dirty and suspicious looks at first, but perhaps finding themselves fight side by side might cause them to develop a grudging respect for one another. I think they would go along well with each other, despite looking alike, i think both have different personalities to speak off. In what ways are their personalities so different, would you say? They're both serious and stern badasses played by Samuel L. Jackson, albeit brought up in completely separate settings. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2019 19:05:15 GMT
I think they would go along well with each other, despite looking alike, i think both have different personalities to speak off. In what ways are their personalities so different, would you say? They're both serious and stern badasses played by Samuel L. Jackson, albeit brought up in completely separate settings. On use a force to guide him and a other a pistol. |
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 19, 2019 19:06:40 GMT
In what ways are their personalities so different, would you say? They're both serious and stern badasses played by Samuel L. Jackson, albeit brought up in completely separate settings. On use a force to guide him and a other a pistol. Well, they certainly employ different weaponry and wargear. That doesn't make their personalities all that dissimilar. |
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 22, 2019 19:33:46 GMT
'US Congress Replaces Galactic Senate' (from Star Wars). Given how many senators the Republic would have who come from so many different worlds, a comparatively pitifully small grouping of Terrans most certainly wouldn't be enough. Plus, humans who wind up representing predominantly non-human worlds that they'd only be introduced to right then and there makes for an even more ineffectual and disconnected galactic government than already exists at the time.
I also wonder how the Democratic elements of Congress would cope with a civilization so hyper-capitalistic that it makes Corporate America look like a social democracy, but then that'd be way too political for 'Fandom AH'.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 22, 2019 19:44:49 GMT
'US Congress Replaces Galactic Senate' (from Star Wars). Given how many senators the Republic would have who come from so many different worlds, a comparatively pitifully small grouping of Terrans most certainly wouldn't be enough. Plus, humans who wind up representing predominantly non-human worlds that they'd only be introduced to right then and there makes for an even more ineffectual and disconnected galactic government than already exists at the time. I also wonder how the Democratic elements of Congress would cope with a civilization so hyper-capitalistic that it makes Corporate America look like a social democracy, but then that'd be way too political for 'Fandom AH'. Do we know how many senators there where in the Galactic Senate before, lets say the beginning of the Clone War. |
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 22, 2019 20:00:01 GMT
'US Congress Replaces Galactic Senate' (from Star Wars). Given how many senators the Republic would have who come from so many different worlds, a comparatively pitifully small grouping of Terrans most certainly wouldn't be enough. Plus, humans who wind up representing predominantly non-human worlds that they'd only be introduced to right then and there makes for an even more ineffectual and disconnected galactic government than already exists at the time. I also wonder how the Democratic elements of Congress would cope with a civilization so hyper-capitalistic that it makes Corporate America look like a social democracy, but then that'd be way too political for 'Fandom AH'. Do we know how many senators there where in the Galactic Senate before, lets say the beginning of the Clone War. , there were 2,000 senators in the Senate. That's a woefully disproportionate ratio of legislators to member worlds throughout the galaxy, but whatever. Compare this to 541 members in the US Congress, 6 of whom don't vote. Among the remaining 535 voting members are 100 senators and 435 representatives. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 22, 2019 20:01:35 GMT
Do we know how many senators there where in the Galactic Senate before, lets say the beginning of the Clone War. , there were 2,000 senators in the Senate. That's a woefully disproportionate ratio of legislators to member worlds throughout the galaxy, but whatever. Compare this to 541 members in the US Congress, 6 of whom don't vote. Among the remaining 535 voting members are 100 senators and 435 representatives. Wait, only 2,000 in a senate that rules over trillions of people, that is not much. |
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 22, 2019 20:10:18 GMT
According to Wookieepedia's page on the Galactic Republic from Canon, there were 2,000 senators in the Senate. That's a woefully disproportionate ratio of legislators to member worlds throughout the galaxy, but whatever. Compare this to 541 members in the US Congress, 6 of whom don't vote. Among the remaining 535 voting members are 100 senators and 435 representatives. Wait, only 2,000 in a senate that rules over trillions of people, that is not much. Yeah, that's exactly what I was saying. In fact, the Galaxy would probably have way more than "mere" trillions of people within its bounds; quadrillions to quintillions-plus seem like more satisfactory estimates to me. Moreover, Congress doesn't even have a third as many members as the Galactic Senate, so it's woefully understaffed in its current form. And that's without accounting for them being dropped into their newfound role as galactic legislative branch cold, and on the brink of war with Dooku's Confederacy to boot. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 22, 2019 20:11:51 GMT
Wait, only 2,000 in a senate that rules over trillions of people, that is not much. Yeah, that's exactly what I was saying. In fact, the Galaxy would probably have way more than "mere" trillions of people within its bounds; quadrillions to quintillions-plus seem like more satisfactory estimates to me. Wait what, how many, quadrillions to quintillions-plus, that is a heck of a number of people. |
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 22, 2019 20:15:47 GMT
Yeah, that's exactly what I was saying. In fact, the Galaxy would probably have way more than "mere" trillions of people within its bounds; quadrillions to quintillions-plus seem like more satisfactory estimates to me. Wait what, how many, quadrillions to quintillions-plus, that is a heck of a number of people. To us, certainly. But when operating on a galactic scale as the Star Wars universe does, those numbers actually make sense. Not the "1 million Clone Troopers" or "25,000 Star Destroyers" (albeit with hordes of additional ships, but still) shtick that have been tossed around. |
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Post by stevep on Jun 23, 2019 11:53:46 GMT
Yeah, that's exactly what I was saying. In fact, the Galaxy would probably have way more than "mere" trillions of people within its bounds; quadrillions to quintillions-plus seem like more satisfactory estimates to me. Wait what, how many, quadrillions to quintillions-plus, that is a heck of a number of people.
When you consider the size of a galaxy, especially if your assuming high technology and multiple intelligent species then not greatly so, even if the republic and then the empire only occupy was it less than half of the galaxy. After all wasn't the population of Coruscant is described as ~2 trillion humans - just checking quickly on Wiki - and there are bound to be other heavily populated world's out there.
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Post by Zyobot on Jun 24, 2019 13:10:18 GMT
'Slave I Crashes Onto Earth'. Assuming he endures the destructive landing, I wonder how Boba Fett would go about surviving on a comparatively backwater world located in uncharted space.
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