Hello! I’m writing a personal SW story and was wondering if there are other neutral or shady resort worlds (preferably in the Outer Rims but I’m flexible!) like the one Canto Bight was on? Lavish or scummy will work! Also any mining planets that the Empire may have taken over, or heavily populated but poor areas that produce something of value? Thank you!

Right, sorry this took so long! I had to do some digging for this one. For resort worlds, I was pretty loose with the definition, but if they aren’t exactly resorts then they are certainly shady and have plenty of places for gambling and criminal activities. As well, there will be places on many planets where high-class criminals do business (some places on Coruscant, for example, would work very well) but these worlds are just better known for it:

Cloud City (Bespin), Keyorin, Llanic, Nar Shadda, Ord Mantell, Pembric II, Kerev Doi, Corellia (certain places, such as Treasure Ship Row), Mon Gazza, Ord Antalaha, the Lol sector and specifically Kendamar, and Pavo Prime. 

As for Imperial mining worlds, a whole lot of planets with significant resources were taken over during the Imperial era, so if you’d like to look through the mining planets category you will find quite a few that work. This link specifically will take you to the category intersection for Imperial worlds and mining planets, for a more specific but less comprehensive list. 

Generally, you won’t find heavily populated planets that are considered poor overall, especially if they have valuable resources. The planet itself will be quite rich, but the wealth will usually be highly concentrated among the corporations that own the resources, which in most cases are metals, minerals, and tourist destinations. Try looking through the ecumenopoleis; most of them will be very densely populated, and will have some large source of revenue that allowed them to get that way, which means they will have very poor areas as well. Coruscant and Empress Teta would be good examples. 

I hope some of those work for you!

~ Jacen 

Do you know if there’s an in-universe equivalent to Dungeons and Dragons? I’m looking for something to have my characters do to pass the time during a long hyperspace flight :D

(I believe you sent this ask twice, so I’ll just answer the one.) I’m not super familiar with D&D so I may have simply missed a reference to it, but I am not aware of any game that resembles it in-universe. If anyone knows otherwise, please correct me! There’s no reason you can’t make one up, though, or if you want a canonical game for them to play you could take a look through the games category on Wookieepedia. 

~ Jacen

Just a heads up, it’s exam break for me so my answers are going to be sporadic for a bit. I have two exams tomorrow and then a couple left next week; the asks in my inbox will be answered tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!

~ Jacen

Are there any known instances of a padawan’s master being killed? If so, what’s their course of action after that? Do they just get put with a new master right away, or are they alloted some time for grief?

Sorry this took so long, my notifications seem to be going weird! Yes, there are instances where a Padawan’s Master has died while they lived. Bant Eerin would be one example; her Master, Tahl, was killed during a mission. She did have time to grieve before Kit Fisto offered to continue her training and she accepted. This seems to be standard procedure, but there will likely be exceptions made for special circumstances. During wartime, for example, when it’s all-hands-on-deck and the Padawan has forces to lead. 

Hope that helps!

~ Jacen

Hello! I just had a quick question. I was wondering about starfighter dogfights and what sort of system they use to identify threats and such on a spatial level. They dont use 5 o’clock and such I dont believe, and was wondering if you might know? I tried myself but got as far as the Galactic coordinate system. Perhaps similar? Thank you!

The most accepted system is simply using degree measurements to identify headings and the relative placements of other ships and objects in space. It seems that the measurement can be given as an angle in standard position (degrees from 0-360 going counterclockwise from east) or as an angle with a specified heading. For example, a squadron leader could direct their starfighters to follow them on a heading of 200 degrees, depress four degrees; or a flight coordinator watching the dogfight from a capital ship could direct a fighter twelve degrees west; or a different reference could be used, e.g. approaching at a forty-five degree angle to the flight path of the target. Port and starboard are also used in place of left and right or west and east. Basically, any way you can think of to express an angle will work. 

Hope that helps!

~ Jacen

Do you have an example for a very very unpopular job onboard a Star Destroyer, ideally something that is also dangerous (as in life threatening) but it would also do if it’s just a ‘lowly’ task. TIA so much

trooperst-3v3:

phasma-first-order:

writebetterstarwars:

I’m sorry, nothing like that is coming to mind. The issue would be that most of the dangerous jobs and some of the menial ones were done by droids rather than crew members. The closest thing I can think of would be sanitation duty, which probably isn’t all that dangerous but would likely be considered lowly and unpopular. 

If anyone else can think of an example, please add on!

~ Jacen

@trooperst-3v3, provide some examples for this anon.

The worst job would probably be the time M4-RT1N’s crew had to clean the toilets after the Space Sushi Incident.

The most dangerous would probably be trying to dispose of the bodies that litter the bottoms of our many gaping chasms that sit below railing-less bridges and trying to work fast enough so you don’t get hit by falling objects. Or maybe trying to sober up the Knights of Ren after one of their alcohol-soaked board game nights. One of the two.

Here you go, anon, maybe these would work!

How was Coruscant protected at the height of the empires power? How would palpatine ensure that the stationed fleet can’t turn against him?

Coruscant was guarded by the First Army, a powerful reserve fleet put in place during the Clone Wars. The rest of the Core Worlds surrounding the Coruscant Sector were also protected by their own sector armies, numbered two through seven, making it very difficult for enemy operatives to fly or land in the area without detection. Coruscant also had the benefit of a very big on-world security force and a large population of rich humans to support Palpatine. 

I doubt that Palpatine ever really believed the First Army would turn against him. The Imperial sector armies were commanded by Grand Moffs, all of whom were pretty close confidants of the Emperor, relatively speaking. They would have been unlikely to betray him, and their subordinate officers were generally either truly loyal to the Empire or scared of defecting. In addition, it was a huge fleet; there’s no way the entire force would defect together, and a few ships wouldn’t be able to do much of anything. 

I hope that helps!

~ Jacen

In ESB, when Luke tosses a detonation device to the rear of an AT-AT, why does the front explode first ?

My guess would be that either the beginning of the series of explosions occurred inside the AT-AT before reaching the cabin, or the detonator managed to land far enough towards the front end of the belly that the explosion reached the cabin right away. Of course, there’s probably no canon explanation for this specifically, so I’m just speculating. 

~ Jacen

How was the imperial probe droid able to broadcast the image of the rebel base on Hoth to the super star destroyer so quickly?

Imperial probe droids were equipped with high-frequency HoloNet transceivers for exactly that purpose. Because the HoloNet functioned by routing messages through hyperwave transceivers, not subspace ones, communication over the HoloNet was nearly instantaneous and depended little on the distance between the source and the destination. 

~ Jacen