What would be a typical list of duties for an Imperial Admiral (say, Piett, because Death Squadron would probably be slightly different)? Just on like a day-to-day basis?

It appears that the duties of such a high-ranking officer would be mostly coordination of the fleet, administrative duties, paperwork, and reporting to their superiors. Soon after the Battle of Yavin, for a few years, the Death Squadron was mostly hunting down the Rebels. That consisted of a whole bunch of space travel with intermittent battles, during which the admiral would be on the bridge, giving orders and controlling ship movements and strategy. When not fighting, he was probably planning for the next battle and following up on leads as to the Rebels’ whereabouts, avoiding/reporting to Vader, or doing related paperwork. Basically, the position of admiral is largely desk work until an actual war breaks out.

I couldn’t find a proper list; unfortunately, there tends to be a lack of information on the day-to-day routines of officers, because battles are shown far more often. I hope you can work with the more general info without too much trouble!

~ Jacen

Who was on the Senate’s Security Council at the time of Order 66?

misslearn:

writebetterstarwars:

I’m sorry, I don’t know. I don’t think the information is canonically available. I do know that Padmé and Bail were both part of another group called the Senate Security Committee, but I don’t think it had the same powers as the Security Council. According to Wookieepedia, the only mention of the Security Council is in the book Republic Commando: True Colors, so if anyone has read it and can confirm or deny whether any members of the council are mentioned then please feel free to. If you’ve already read it, then I’m afraid I know no more than you here.

Now, if you want, I can get you the names of some other Senators and you can make up your own list? Many of them are on multiple committees and councils, so plenty of known Senators could well be on this one as well. It’s your choice.

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful!

~ Jacen

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately I haven’t read the book. I came to the same conclusion that the Security Council was different to the one that Padme and Bail sat on. If anyone out there does know the answer – let me know. But in the meantime a list of some Senators who could be on it would be great! @writebetterstarwars

Okay, sorry this took so long! The obvious ones would be Bail and Padme, because they’re on the Security Committee already, as well as Mon Mothma. I would also suggest: Mas Amedda, the Vice Chair of the Senate and a close associate of Palpatine; Garm Bel Iblis, a Corellian Senator who strongly opposed Palpatine’s growing powers near the end of the Clone Wars; Fang Zar, a Senator on the Loyalist Committee; Nee Alavar, also a Loyalist who was executed after Order 66; Bana Breemu; Des’sein; Largetto; Chi Eekway Papanoida; Malé-Dee; Terr Taneel; and, if you want, Jar Jar.

I’m naming a lot of Senators from the Loyalist Committee or the Delegation of 2000. First, this gives you a better chance at finding a biography or other information on them. Second, you can kill them off if you want, because a lot of the Delegation of 2000 was murdered by the Imperials. And third, the Security Council had the power to enact Order 65, which, if the majority of the Senate or the Security Council voted that the Chancellor was unfit for duty, could have Palpatine removed from office, captured, or killed. It would make sense that Senators opposing his rise to power would put themselves in a position to protect the Republic from him if necessary.

I would also direct you to the Wookieepedia category for Republic Senators (be careful – some are from long before Order 66, some died before it happened, and some are technically Separatists), and the article for the Delegation of 2000, which has a list of many Senators who were involved in it.

Hope that helps!

~ Jacen

@Fic Writers!

sexyroguejedi:

writebetterstarwars:

pomrania:

kdazrael:

stormears:

If anyone’s writing a Star Wars fic and wants to know the other species in the galaxy to populate the background of your fic, THIS is a good visual guide to use. It’s one long, alphabetized list with a picture of each species and where they’re seen in the movies or other EU material.

It does NOT include any other details or history about the species, so for more in-depth information, Wookiepedia is still your best bet. I use that as well, but since I only wanted a quick glance at what the many sentients look like and where they’re from, this list was more helpful than opening 12 new tabs.

@vadianna this seems like something you should know about.

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This is HOLY COW incredibly useful. The information is slightly out-of-date, and doesn’t seem to include the stuff from Rebels or TCW (has no Lasat, and no Togruta), but it’s a great reference regardless.

Tagging @writebetterstarwars, and I suppose @pep-no as well; trying to think of people who would want to see this, that don’t follow me.

Reblogging for anyone who needs this!

Info on the Sith is wrong, as is the Noghri. The Noghri appear in many of the books, up to the NJO and possibly beyond. One of the Vong kills one of Leia’s bodyguards early in the series, IIRC. And the Sith weren’t “long vanished” by 4000 BBY. They’re still around ~3600 BBY, per SWTOR and the related books.

Yes, I noticed the bit about the Noghri too. I would guess this list was published before SWTOR came out, as it also doesn’t include any mentions of TCW

@Fic Writers!

pomrania:

kdazrael:

stormears:

If anyone’s writing a Star Wars fic and wants to know the other species in the galaxy to populate the background of your fic, THIS is a good visual guide to use. It’s one long, alphabetized list with a picture of each species and where they’re seen in the movies or other EU material.

It does NOT include any other details or history about the species, so for more in-depth information, Wookiepedia is still your best bet. I use that as well, but since I only wanted a quick glance at what the many sentients look like and where they’re from, this list was more helpful than opening 12 new tabs.

@vadianna this seems like something you should know about.

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This is HOLY COW incredibly useful. The information is slightly out-of-date, and doesn’t seem to include the stuff from Rebels or TCW (has no Lasat, and no Togruta), but it’s a great reference regardless.

Tagging @writebetterstarwars, and I suppose @pep-no as well; trying to think of people who would want to see this, that don’t follow me.

Reblogging for anyone who needs this!

How does blood get taken (like to have a blood sample available or what) in the ‘verse? Do they use needles?

A hypospray, hypo-syringe or just hypo is the in-universe equivalent of a syringe, which is an option in the real world to take a blood sample. A tourniquet is tied around the upper arm, the skin (usually on the inner elbow or back of the wrist) is cleaned, in this case with a disinfectant pad or spray, and then the needle is inserted into a prominent vein. While it’s not specified whether those injectors actually use needles, needles are canonical objects and there are really no other normal ways to draw blood.

As a sidenote, the most widely used diagnostic equipment would be forms of a medisensor or a mediscan unit, which don’t need blood samples to operate. Even toxin detectors don’t actually need a sample, they just scan the subject. You may not even need to draw blood for whatever purpose you’re asking for.

Hope that helps!

~ Jacen

Who was on the Senate’s Security Council at the time of Order 66?

I’m sorry, I don’t know. I don’t think the information is canonically available. I do know that Padmé and Bail were both part of another group called the Senate Security Committee, but I don’t think it had the same powers as the Security Council. According to Wookieepedia, the only mention of the Security Council is in the book Republic Commando: True Colors, so if anyone has read it and can confirm or deny whether any members of the council are mentioned then please feel free to. If you’ve already read it, then I’m afraid I know no more than you here.

Now, if you want, I can get you the names of some other Senators and you can make up your own list? Many of them are on multiple committees and councils, so plenty of known Senators could well be on this one as well. It’s your choice.

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful!

~ Jacen

Would it be possible for the Nightsisters to time travel (or let other people time travel)? I’ve seen some of their magic in The Clone Wars and at least some of them seem to be really powerful, but I’m not sure if they are powerful enough to influence time. Besides, if they can’t do that, is there any other way to time travel? Thank you!

There’s no known instance of a Nightsister being able to time travel, even Mother Talzin. However, she’s known to be able to teleport, create fire, and cause objects to materialize; if she or someone like her could influence space at a molecular level, I would not consider it too much of a stretch to say that they could also influence time.

Although I couldn’t say for sure whether the Nightsisters could do it, I do know that the Aing-Tii monks were able to use a form of pseudo-time travel and that other Force users were capable of learning it too. It’s called flow-walking and it doesn’t allow one to travel through time so much as transcend it through use of the Force and move backward and forward through time, seeing events that happened or will happen. Someone using this technique can’t influence the events they see except to leave a “Force imprint” in that time and place, which people could sometimes sense or see. In case you need to know, the theory is that the Force doesn’t allow significant changes in the timeline, and will ensure that minor changes are counteracted so that the future doesn’t change.

The whole Legacy of the Force series got really deep into this subject at one point, if you want to get a really good sense of how it all works. Basically, if you want to say that the most powerful Nightsisters could time travel, that’s your decision and I think it could work.

~ Jacen

Where do the officers/stormtroopers eat at SSD/ISDs? are there giant cafeterias for both? Do officers/technicians/stormtroopers/pilots eat at the same room or at separate ones? Do admirals have their own private areas? Sorry if this is too much lol I’d like to know about the Empire’s everyday.

It’s not too much! Sorry for taking a while to answer, though. School got in the way.

Officers and troops eat in large mess halls while onboard ships (and while on land). We know that the Executor-class Star Dreadnought’s mess halls were located in the bridge tower, and most SSDs follow the same basic layout. ISDs are often significantly smaller, but still share a bridge design with the Executors, so they probably also had multiple halls near the bridge. All enlisted men (stormtroopers, pilots, etc.) eat in the mess halls, although there’s almost always more than one mess hall in any ship or building, so they probably span several levels. Lower-ranked officers also don’t have their own areas, but, knowing Imperials, they probably congregated in one specific hall.

High-ranking officers like admirals have their own quarters, also found in the bridge tower, and could presumably eat there if they wanted, although I couldn’t confirm it. Admirals also have their own private escape pod near their quarters.

I hope that’s helpful!

~ Jacen

I read Catalyst about a month ago so my details might be a little shakey, but the basics are that the Jedi very tightly controlled kyber crystals and their sources until Order 66. The Tarkin Initiative is secretly started during the Clone Wars (after they get the Death Star plans from Geonosis). I can’t remember exactly when Galen starts working for Krennic under the false “clean energy” program, but it’s after the Empire takes over. (1/2)

The first kybers Galen’s given to work with are cut/finished, implied to be from Jedi lightsabers, or from their temples. I can’t speak to when Jedha began to be mined, but it’s not mentioned in Catalyst at all. It might be in the Rogue One Visual Dictionary (I read that even longer ago and there are good sections on Jedha and the building process of the Death Star). (2/2)

Thank you! @maptowhereialreadyam, take a look at this as well

Are clone trooper body gloves all one piece? Or tops and bottoms? Do we know how did they got into them if one piece? Or how they were secured if multiple pieces? Thanks!

Body gloves (or bodysuits) are all one piece, yes. In real life, they’re really only used for diving, scuba, etc., so they have zippers going from the neck to the lower back. It’s possible that they’re is used for the clones’ armour, but Phase I armour was pressurized, so it seems more likely that some other mechanism that can create an airtight seal was used. It’s also possible, since bodysuits aren’t as tight as scuba gear, that they fastened in the front. I’m sorry, I don’t have any more details than that, but I hope it’s at least a bit helpful!

~ Jacen