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[Fyraltari]

So this scene was cut from the movie, right? I don't remember a shot of Hux standing in front of the sun like that.

The GM is in on it too. It's not "the guard releases your restraints", it's "the guard releases your bonds". Pretty small, but still.

I'm guessing, in-universe, the GM just randomly decided to make a Bond impression for that one bit character. After all, in the universe the players inhabit, Star Wars does not exist. That's the premise of this entire comic, after. But most of the other things we know and love (such as James Bond) do, albeit modified by the lack of Star Wars.

[dmmaus]

So this scene was cut from the movie, right? I don't remember a shot of Hux standing in front of the sun like that.

No, it's in the movie.

[VoxRationis]

I'm not sure he actually does have the power to change history retroactively. After all, the accidental destruction of the Hosnian system happened before anyone made the decision to fire.

[Gez]

Well now he just needs to cancel the order, and wait 159 minutes to make sure the fire sequence is indeed not initiated.

[Anonymouswizard]

Ah, 'roleplayers who don't quite understand the topic' logic.

The sad thing is, taken at face value, this still makes more sense than the film.

[Fyraltari]

Ah, 'roleplayers who don't quite understand the topic' logic.

The sad thing is, taken at face value, this still makes more sense than the film.

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"But what if I jump out of lightspeed just as we pass the shield" is such a roleplayer moment.

[Gez]

So Nien Nunb had a thing for Mon Mothma?

This is kinda messing with my head because of Blue Milk Special where Nien Nunb had a thing for Lando instead. (And it's Ackbar that courted Mon Mothma, because a fan thing happened.) And obviously they're different Star Wars parodies with different continuities and stuff, but they're still the same side characters that don't really get enough focus to really get distinct identities.

[b_jonas]

Gez: no, in Da&Dr, it was always Mon Mothma that Nien Numb loved. We found out in #1402. Basically all of Nunb's dialog in Da&Dr is about how he loves Mon Mothma. He specifically says Mon Mothma's name again in #1438 and again in #1515. As far as I understand, his love was unrequited.

[KillianHawkeye]

Does anyone know what's the deal with the guy in the background who doesn't know where or when he is? I am seriously confused why this background conversation is taking place...

Is it just a jab at how the resistance base superficially resembles the rebel base on Yavin?

[Fyraltari]

Maybe they just felt like adding another odd NPC.

Or maybe they're setting up some more time-travel stuff.

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Might explain how Palpatine returned, he didn't blow up on the Peace Moon, he was sent forward in time.

[Taevyr]

Maybe they just felt like adding another odd NPC.

Or maybe they're setting up some more time-travel stuff.

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Might explain how Palpatine returned, he didn't blow up on the Peace Moon, he was sent forward in time.

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Could also play into a better explanation for Luke being as he is in episode VIII: the emperor escaping alive, and the Endor system either blowing up or being severely impacted by timey-whimey shenanigans (or Luke himself being impacted by them) could have quite a depressing effect on the man.

[Gez]

I was wondering if the chalcedony waves necklace mentioned here had some plot relevance, and it turns out that while it doesn't seem to have been talked about in previous Da&Dr strips, it is a real tidbit of Star Wars lore. Since it only appears in A New Hope, however, this is just a joke about why Leia no longer has it.

[ghbok]

Oh, that's a good eye, thank you for sharing that. I even googled the word 'chalcedony' to see what was up with the necklace, but it didn't help.

[Taevyr]

....I'm real curious what "campaign" they're talking about in that last exchange. Sounds like fun.

[137beth]

Yep, this is the part of D&D that usually leaves me feeling left out, because I really want to know what their previous campaign was but I haven't seen enough movies to make a reasonable guess.

[MinimanMidget]

Last thread someone said it was the new Voltron series - I haven't seen it myself, so I can't confirm it.

Edit: the D&D wiki and the TvTropes page both say the same thing.

[Cog]

I'm curious to look back and see the other references, but this comic's one sounds exactly like Evangelion, down to the do-over on the last two sessions.

[Taevyr]

I'm curious to look back and see the other references, but this comic's one sounds exactly like Evangelion, down to the do-over on the last two sessions.

....Damn. That might actually be it.

Honestly, it being a tabletop campaign would be a good explanation for how weird that series gets.

[Cog]

....Damn. That might actually be it.

It's a shame that I did look back, then, because the Zaiforge Cannon thing sure sounds like Voltron after all. I'm not sure there's a way to square that; I don't think even Super Robot Wars has an entry with both Evangelion and Voltron/Golion.

[Kantaki]

Could be both.
Like with Annie's vampire campaign. (Twilight/Van Helsing it was I think?)
It started as Voltron and Sally's meddling turned it into Evangelion.

[Fyraltari]

I don't know what Ben's complaining about. They've got almost an entire two-hundredth of a second to throw that lever.

[Gez]

It is rather odd that exiting hyperspace is not done automatically by the navigation computer. At a faster-than-light speed, there's really no room for manual guesstimations.

My theory: normally the ship's navigation computer exits hyperspace, but Zeppo's tinkering broke that function and ever since then he has had to "emergency break" by just cutting off hyperspace manually instead of letting it exit as programmed.

[Fyraltari]

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Honestly can't wait for memnarch to find out that the movie incuded no special hyperdrive tech and the only justification for bypassing the shield and crashing into the planet is "Han Solo is just that good."

[Aeson]

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Honestly can't wait for memnarch to find out that the movie incuded no special hyperdrive tech and the only justification for bypassing the shield and crashing into the planet is "Han Solo is just that good."

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One of the characters in the movie also stated that the shield protecting Starkiller Base, and perhaps shields in general in Star Wars, flickers on and off at some high frequency rather than being a constant barrier, presumably as justification for how they can get through the shield in the first place - which, mind you, is yet another timing issue, especially if the duty cycle is high.

[theangelJean]

What's with the plethora of titles on the latest comics? Is there a reference I'm not getting?

[sihnfahl]

What's with the plethora of titles on the latest comics? Is there a reference I'm not getting?

They're titles of songs, mostly by Pink Floyd.

Just references to the songs and the situation they're in.

[Kantaki]

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The GM just running with it when the players come up with their own obstacles is just great. Kinda mean, but if they want to make things harder on themselves...

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Hux pondering what would happen if he fires early got me thinking.
Might Palpatine's* return be caused by some temporal wonkyness from the Peace Moon going krakaraboom before firing?
He did die pretty close to the thing.

Same with the whole dagger thing. Time travel might make that slightly less weird.

*Whoever it will be.

And the explanation for the crossbow is interesting.
I'd probably have just said something about Wookiees being silly strong.

[KillianHawkeye]

And the explanation for the crossbow is interesting.
I'd probably have just said something about Wookiees being silly strong.

I'm pretty sure that used to be the case, and a normal person couldn't actually fire it without hurting themselves. But then they let Han use it in Episode 7 and I guess threw that out the window...

[hamishspence]

It's less the firing (though it's on the heavy side) and more the pulling back of the string. Firing an already loaded and ready bowcaster is easier.

[theangelJean]

It's less the firing (though it's on the heavy side) and more the pulling back of the string. Firing an already loaded and ready bowcaster is easier.

Doesn't solve the kickback issue, though. Conservation of momentum and all that.