Darths & Droids

Wait, there's a pun in that last panel?

It's a pun on a song from Les Miserables.

Y'all are discussing this as if George Lucas had or has the slightest knowledge of or interest in science when he was making this. Silly biots. Star Wars is and was a fantasy story but with rayguns and spaceships thrown in.

edited 21st Jul '14 1:09:29 PM by tricksterson

But Darths and Droids isn't. It's got people calling the GM on his science.

I'm well aware of Lucas' take on scientific accuracy, but he did at least have the grace to have Cloud City mine a made-up substance that could possibly be rare and valuable enough to justify the effort.

The question here is whether Sally and/or the GM will justify/explain Cloud City's existence, period. As I said before, most cities serve some kind of purpose, whether it be as an administrative hub, a commercial hub, a shipping hub, etc., and they require a vast and continual influx of resources. You don't just plop a big city out in the middle of nowhere without access to food, energy, fuel, etc., unless that city has some economic value.

edited 21st Jul '14 1:55:43 PM by Fighteer

Ah, but you see, they only export the highest quality air. They make up for lack of volume (ah hem) with a higher profit margin per cubic liter.

edited 21st Jul '14 2:48:46 PM by demarquis

Page.

They missed K.

I think Chewie/Ben is deliberately ignoring the alphabetic order.

K's always been a very sinister letter anyway.

All my ex-girlfriends had names starting with the letter K.

New strip's up!

Come to think of it, do we ever see Han pilot the Falcon again after Cloud City?

It's funny you should mention that. At the end of V, Han's frozen in carbonite and Lando is piloting the Falcon. I don't recall if Lando is seen piloting the ship when they leave Tattooine in VI, but he also pilots it in the Battle of Endor. So yeah, it would be rather funny if Darths & Droids has Lando actually get Han's ship.

Han's backstory of holding was inspired by a certain droid's character sheet cheating.

I assume that when they were leaving Tattooine, Han was still blind a bit, so Lando or Chewie took over. But yeah, Han never is seen piloting the ship after this.

Eheheh.

Loved it. The GM seems to be playing along for now.

He's read Jim's backstory, he knew this could come up.

There's something magical in the air...

The atmosphere gets you drunk? What is this, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

edited 29th Jul '14 6:35:39 AM by Fighteer

Ah, so that's what they export...

I love how this throws you off so much that you lose comma-nd.

The perils of typing quickly while laughing.

The GM will turn this into a drinking game, with terrible results.

....this explains so much...

Like I said, their main industry is air mining. A very special kind of air...

Reverse distilled?