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

rswtotd:

Bacta was a synthetic chemical substance that consisted of gelatinous, translucent red alazhi and kavam bacterial particles that were mixed within a colorless, viscous fluid known as ambori. When a patient was exposed to bacta, the bacterial particles within sought out wounds and promoted rapid tissue regeneration while preventing the emergence of scar tissue. Bacta was often thought of as a “miracle fluid”, and seemed to be effective against almost every type of injury and ailment across an incredible cross-section of species throughout the galaxy. It was considered to be the best medicine available anywhere, replacing the previously-used kolto.

Would it be possible at all to partially dismantle DS-2’s superlaser and install three of its nodes in, say, the Executor? If so, does it sound plausible that the reactors (which would have to be upgraded, of course) would produce just barely enough juice to fire that thing, leaving the ship unshielded for approximately a minute after discharge?

Honestly, with something as specific and unexplored as this idea, I think you can do whatever you want. As for plausibility, it sounds just fine to me. The only thing is, if you want those three nodes to form a converging beam like they would if combined with the other five, you’re going to need a cone-shaped forcefield in the middle. If not, it should function more or less like a powerful individual laser.

Now, if this is related to your other ask where you talked about getting a hypermatter reactor, I think it’s reasonable that it would barely be able to fire the beams and might have to recharge for a while. The reactor installed on the Death Star is an advanced version of the ones that other ships often have, so I doubt it would be able to produce as much power as the lasers and shields combined would like to take up.

It sounds like you have a very interesting story here. Good luck!

~ Jacen

(Kinda spoilery I guess?) So, in Rogue One we see an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer enter a planet’s atmosphere as low as ~2000m. Could an Executor-class Star Dreadnought do that too (and fly back out without plummeting to the surface) or would it require more repulsorlifts than the ship comes with?

I think the main issue here is that the Executor-class Dreadnought is just such a huge ship (19 km in length, 100 times more massive than the Star Destroyer). The I-class Star Destroyer already needs full power to the repulsors to stay in the air in an atmosphere, so I can only imagine how much power would be needed to keep the Dreadnought up. To even have a chance, you would probably have to lower the shields and redirect all available power to the engines. Ultimately, even the relatively tiny Star Destroyer is not suited to flying in an atmosphere, so the Dreadnought might be pushing it. Perhaps you could try just keeping it in a low orbit?

That said, if you’ve got a pretty small planet or a moon with not a lot of gravity, you could still give it a shot. There just isn’t enough information available to say you couldn’t do that if you wanted to. But anything Jedha-sized like in Rogue One, I would say it wouldn’t work.

I hope your Dreadnought cooperates with you more in the future!

~ Jacen

How much do you think an AT-AT costs, minus crew and all the stuff that’s stored inside (blasters, speeder bikes etc.)? Like, just the walker fresh off the assembly line?

This is a hard one. Within the Star Wars universe, AT-AT walkers aren’t available for commercial purchase, which means Wookieepedia doesn’t have a price listed for it. In our universe, people are making estimates of anywhere from $100M to $230M and probably higher, but that’s in our currency with our materials so I can’t give you a very accurate price. If you’re going to mention this as a one-off, it could be safe to just go with “over a hundred million credits” or even “hundreds of millions of credits.” If you need more detail than that, consider making up a price somewhere in that range. You can often take a bit of creative liberty with Star Wars.

Good luck!

~ Jacen