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Post by Zyobot on Apr 8, 2019 19:59:52 GMT
If you send only a Star Wars planet like Coruscant which has population over 1 trillion it already has 1/10 of the population of the Federation which according to Wiki called Memory Beta is about 9.85 trillion.
Even if you assume a lot of very small aliens that's a huge population for a planet that is as I understand it basically terrestrial in character. I could see that for a system say with the vast bulk of the population being in off planet structures but its excessive for a single planet if their anything like humanoid in size.
Regarding Coruscant, this Wookieepedia article--which may contain spoilers in your case--provides a summation of what you'd need to know about the place. In addition: {Spoiler}
Also beware of the Canon and Legends tabs near the top of the page, as they each detail two different versions of the same world based on the fact that Canon and Legends are effectively two different timelines.
In other words, something that may be true in one isn't necessarily true in the other, and vice-versa.
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 9, 2019 0:43:16 GMT
How about '1980s Lucasfilm Reacts to Modern Star Wars'? I imagine some pretty damned mixed reactions from G. Lucas & Co., perhaps even another mass lore-scrapping, if you know what I mean  . |
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Post by lordroel on Apr 9, 2019 2:47:55 GMT
How about '1980s Lucasfilm Reacts to Modern Star Wars'? I imagine some pretty damned mixed reactions from G. Lucas & Co., perhaps even another mass lore-scrapping, if you know what I mean . Well it will save 1980s Lucasfilm from making any new movies for a while. |
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Post by stevep on Apr 9, 2019 20:29:03 GMT
Even if you assume a lot of very small aliens that's a huge population for a planet that is as I understand it basically terrestrial in character. I could see that for a system say with the vast bulk of the population being in off planet structures but its excessive for a single planet if their anything like humanoid in size.
Regarding Coruscant, this Wookieepedia article--which may contain spoilers in your case--provides a summation of what you'd need to know about the place. In addition: {Spoiler}
Also beware of the Canon and Legends tabs near the top of the page, as they each detail two different versions of the same world based on the fact that Canon and Legends are effectively two different timelines.
In other words, something that may be true in one isn't necessarily true in the other, and vice-versa.
I hope this helps,
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Many thanks. Just checked it on my other PC - my main one doesn't have a decent set of speakers so can't really hear anything else. Suggests massive levels of development but wonder how the population was fed as either very, very advanced industrial production of food or a hell of a lot of imports which would make it very vulnerable to disruption. Also how energy production and dissipation would be handled to avoid the planet cooking the bulk of its population. Could presumably be handled by suitably advanced science but still a little doubtful to be honest. 
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 10, 2019 13:26:36 GMT
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Many thanks. Just checked it on my other PC - my main one doesn't have a decent set of speakers so can't really hear anything else. Suggests massive levels of development but wonder how the population was fed as either very, very advanced industrial production of food or a hell of a lot of imports which would make it very vulnerable to disruption. Also how energy production and dissipation would be handled to avoid the planet cooking the bulk of its population. Could presumably be handled by suitably advanced science but still a little doubtful to be honest.
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That's Star Wars for ya'. The Force, FTL travel, and other soft sci-fi/outright fantasy-themed shenanigans that make the general setting exceedingly difficult--if not impossible--to rationalize with real-life science (at least, for now). The idea of them employing much more advanced science than us in-universe seems to be a given, if you ask me. {Spoiler}
Another scenario I've been pondering for a while is 'WI Dooku and Vader Had A Conversation?'. Since a generic encounter between them would probably mean a fight to the death, which I don't think is as productive, I wonder how the Serennoan Count would make of his cyborg replacement. |
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Post by lordroel on Apr 10, 2019 13:51:24 GMT
Zyobot Many thanks. Just checked it on my other PC - my main one doesn't have a decent set of speakers so can't really hear anything else. Suggests massive levels of development but wonder how the population was fed as either very, very advanced industrial production of food or a hell of a lot of imports which would make it very vulnerable to disruption. Also how energy production and dissipation would be handled to avoid the planet cooking the bulk of its population. Could presumably be handled by suitably advanced science but still a little doubtful to be honest. Steve
That's Star Wars for ya'. The Force, FTL travel, and other soft sci-fi/outright fantasy-themed shenanigans that make the general setting exceedingly difficult--if not impossible--to rationalize with real-life science (at least, for now). The idea of them employing much more advanced science than us in-universe seems to be a given, if you ask me. {Spoiler}
Another scenario I've been pondering for a while is 'WI Dooku and Vader Had A Conversation?'. Since a generic encounter between them would probably mean a fight to the death, which I don't think is as productive, I wonder how the Serennoan Count would make of his cyborg replacement. And still the Storm troopers cannot shoot and hit their target. |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 11, 2019 12:02:57 GMT
'WI On December 8, 1941, America Stopped Being Racist?'
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Post by lordroel on Apr 11, 2019 12:45:04 GMT
'WI On December 8, 1941, America Stopped Being Racist?' Well it would help a lot. |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 11, 2019 13:30:14 GMT
'WI On December 8, 1941, America Stopped Being Racist?' Well it would help a lot. Yes, yes it would. In fact, this is one of those ASB scenarios that I probably wish had actually happened.
Certainly, the sudden attitude change would give a certain MLK Jr. a whole lot less work to do.
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Post by lordroel on Apr 11, 2019 13:59:29 GMT
Well it would help a lot. Yes, yes it would. In fact, this is one of those ASB scenarios that I probably wish had actually happened. Certainly, the sudden attitude change would give a certain MLK Jr. a whole lot less work to do.
But here is a question I always have, is it wrong to impose something on a person regardless if we find what he believes in is wrong. |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 11, 2019 14:05:34 GMT
Yes, yes it would. In fact, this is one of those ASB scenarios that I probably wish had actually happened. Certainly, the sudden attitude change would give a certain MLK Jr. a whole lot less work to do.
But here is a question I always have, is it wrong to impose something on a person regardless if we find what he believes in is wrong. I assume you refer to the '40s racists who suddenly made a U-turn due to ASB intervention? If so, then I get that there's a potential slippery slope to forcibly imposing ideas upon people. Even so, there are certain cases where I believe that--while it's wrong to make it a crime to think otherwise--it'd still be beneficial to when the ideas in question can be treated as axiomatically just, i.e. human rights. To refer to some real-life examples, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would've counted as forcing every American to live with a new attitude of racial equality, regardless of their personal beliefs. And we (er, well, most of us) today still regard that as good. |
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Post by lordroel on Apr 11, 2019 14:09:43 GMT
But here is a question I always have, is it wrong to impose something on a person regardless if we find what he believes in is wrong. I assume you refer to the '40s racists who suddenly made a U-turn due to ASB intervention? If so, then I get that there's a potential slippery slope to forcibly imposing ideas upon people. Even so, there are certain cases where I believe that--while it's wrong to make it a crime to think otherwise--it'd still be beneficial to when the ideas in question can be treated as axiomatically just, i.e. human rights. To refer to some real-life examples, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would've counted as forcing every American to live with a new attitude of racial equality, regardless of their personal beliefs. And we (er, well, most of us) today still regard that as good. Well it always a question I have when I see these kind of ASB ideas but you answer my question verry well, thanks Zyobot |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 11, 2019 14:14:14 GMT
I assume you refer to the '40s racists who suddenly made a U-turn due to ASB intervention? If so, then I get that there's a potential slippery slope to forcibly imposing ideas upon people. Even so, there are certain cases where I believe that--while it's wrong to make it a crime to think otherwise--it'd still be beneficial to when the ideas in question can be treated as axiomatically just, i.e. human rights. To refer to some real-life examples, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would've counted as forcing every American to live with a new attitude of racial equality, regardless of their personal beliefs. And we (er, well, most of us) today still regard that as good. Well it always a question I have when I see these kind of ASB ideas but you answer my question verry well, thanks ZyobotYou're welcome. And to be clear in case my initial post was worded rather weirdly, I don't mean that we ought to criminalize racist beliefs and/or expression, however much I wish they'd one day disappear. What I do mean, though, is making it so that no one (or at least, no American) feels any inclination to engage in either of those activities anymore, therefore causing both of them to disappear throughout the country without a single new law. |
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Post by Zyobot on Apr 11, 2019 15:03:11 GMT
'What Would Aliens On Social Media Look Like?' When I say aliens, I mean the conventional definition of extraterrestrial beings (a.k.a. from outer space).
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Post by lordroel on Apr 11, 2019 15:04:09 GMT
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