Re breakfast: something the Ghost crew might have. Or like, the stuff a ship might carry with it. Sorry for the not-enough-info; my mind was a drillion places, and I impulse-asked.

It’s no problem at all! Most ships carry food rations to be used in case of an emergency, and more rations are very easy to get (and they’re cheap) so they could well be eating those for breakfast.

Rations don’t taste very good, though, and the Ghost crew has access to other foods. Plenty of fresh ingredients are found in abundance on Lothal, as I’m sure you know, so they could be having jogan fruit, maize rolls or cereal with blue milk. It’s also possible, though not confirmable, that they could have picked up something else like bread, jogan fruit cake or, of course, space waffles.

I hope that’s more helpful!

~ Jacen

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Star Wars – The Unknown Regions (2010)

Interesting notes:   While no longer canon

(as of April 25, 2014), this RPG supplement guide can be useful for helping to provide more background for this area of space.  Currently, the only planets we know of that are canon for this region are Rakata Prime and Ilum, but it’s also where the ice planet used for Starkiller Base was from.

Potentially useful for:   If you want some neighboring planets for the First Order to interact with, these might be of use!

→ Unknown Region Planets:

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Hi again! Kinda complex question here: Are there any special marriage ceremonies in Coruscanti culture in the Rise of the Empire Era, and would they be fashionably opulent or rather modest? And do you think it’s frowned upon to forgo a ceremony and simply marry on paper, so to speak? If it helps – the characters getting married in my fic are both Imperial senior officers, down-to-earth, no-nonsense types.

Hmm… I suppose the first thing to consider is the incredible variation in different cultures on Coruscant. I’m not sure you could say that there’s even a singular Coruscanti culture, especially as the Empire rose and started introducing their policies of xenophobia. However, with your Imperial officers, you would almost certainly be dealing with the culture within the Empire itself. The Empire put a lot of effort into promoting ideals of minimalism, and would probably encourage a very simple wedding. I doubt anyone within the Empire would protest skipping the ceremony altogether.

The general culture of rich humans living on Coruscant doesn’t include any Coruscanti-specific marriage traditions (as in, they might still follow some from a religion or a homeworld other than Coruscant), but a lot of the stuff they did was very extravagant, simply because they could afford it. If your officers have rich family on Coruscant who have an influence on the wedding plans, it might turn out very differently from a plain old Imperial marriage.

Basically, neither human culture in the Empire nor Coruscanti High Human Culture included a special marriage ceremony. Following the former would result in a very simple ceremony or none at all, and the latter would result in the opposite, provided they had enough money to pull it off. I hope that’s helpful!

~ Jacen

Thank you for answering that! Is there any type of “ceremony” that either is a thing, or could be repurposed? The non-Mando has been having a VERY bad time of things, and the Mando wants to distract him with excessive pomp.

The closest thing I can find is a few old songs and chants that the Mando could preform. None of them are very relevant to your specific scenario, but your non-Mando doesn’t have to know that. Ka’rta Tor is one that’s a nice length, you can look at it here. Naasad’guur mhi – Mhi n’ulu (the “official” name of the song is unknown) is supposed to sound pretty solemn even though it really isn’t, so that could be a pretty convincing stand-in. Here’s the link to it. And a few more songs if you want more options. As for actual, full-on ceremonies, I couldn’t think of or find any that would work. There aren’t many records of ceremonies, besides the death ceremony. Sorry :/

A lot of these songs were preformed with some kind of drum or instrument, though, so there’s no reason why you couldn’t spice it up a bit. Hopefully one of these will work alright for you!

~ Jacen

I’m having a Mandalorian character swear, to a non-Mando, that they will not perform a certain action. Is there any type of oath that would work for that in Mando culture? And if there isn’t anything in sources, what might it be like? The non-Mando character hadn’t been serious in suggesting a formal oath, but the Mando character decided to take him up on it for lulz, and to make it as fancy/formal/etc as possible.

Haat, ijaa, haa’it is something said to seal a pact, meaning “truth, honor, vision.” It’s not that fancy, but I figure it would still throw your non-Mando character a bit. You could also develop your own little phrase to suit the conversation more specifically, in which case you might want to use ori’haat (it’s the truth, I swear) somewhere in there. An ending like oya! could serve to add a little humor and further confuse your non-Mando. Anyway, if you do want to make up your own saying I would give this Mando’a dictionary a shot, and the Wookieepedia artice on grammar.

Feel free to ask again if you get stuck. Good luck!

~ Jacen

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Great Temple of Massassi on Yavin IV (Complete Star Wars Locations)
     (Rebel base in Rogue One + A New Hope)  
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Great Temple Layout (Geonosis and The Outer Rim Worlds)

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Interesting notes: While no longer canon

(as of April 25, 2014) it still provides a useful diagram of the rebel base in 0 BBY.  It includes the locations of the hangars and the medallion ceremony and mess hall and barracks/sleep quarters and the main briefing rooms.

The Rogue One characters spend some time here, where Cassian and the other Rebels are operating out of when the movie starts, and it will be used through the time of the destruction of the Death Star.  If you want to have a better idea of what’s available there or the layout for ficcing purposes, this may help!

Hey so uh, is there anywhere else in the galaxy besides thyferra that makes/produces bacta? Or is that the only place?

This is actually something that can be unclear within the EU. Much of the time, Thyferra is referred to as the main source of bacta in the galaxy, or it is said that almost all bacta comes from Thyferra. It is possible that it can be produced on another world, but it would be too expensive, and probably low quality, to buy from anywhere else. No other world is specifically named, either. Thyferra is definitely the only world that has an abundance of the materials needed. You probably wouldn’t ever come across bacta produced anywhere but Thyferra, if such a thing does exist.

Do let me know if you need more information about bacta, its one of my favourite things to talk about. Good luck!

~ Jacen