Darths & Droids

Wouldn't lowering Padme's voice two octaves still leave it pretty close to Anakin's voice as-is?

you all forgot the obvious solution.

mpreg is a possibility in the Star Wars universe.

ophelia, you're breaking my heart

Well, sure.

Wait, did you mean for humans?

is anakin a human

ophelia, you're breaking my heart

I assume so. He's the mailed right hand of the humanocentric Empire, after all.

he could be a robot

how do you know that robots can't get pregnant regardless of gender

edited 1st Feb '15 9:13:46 PM by Maridee

ophelia, you're breaking my heart

I'm pretty sure even that wouldn't work without a major retcon.

they're aliens. there's got to be at least a few seahorse humanoids out there.

...some of them may be robots

ophelia, you're breaking my heart

Saga makes it seem like only the women robots get pregnant.

Well it makes sense, if the robots adopt human society's gender roles as-is, they would take the concept of "who gets pregnant and who does not" with it.

We know that droids are made in factories; the idea of designing a mechanical lifeform that would precisely mimic human methods of reproduction is ... well, maybe not too crazy for George Lucas, but any sci-fi author worth the paper their work is printed on would come up with a better idea than that.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Science Fiction isn't just about plausible ideas. Sometimes you gotta take a bizarre idea and extrapolate it all the way to the bitter end.

And Star Wars is more of a fantasy than an SF story, anyway.

I didn't write any of that.

Vader's first panel had been bugging me for awhile. Then I realized that Annie was continuing his "Nooooo" from last update.

(V)(;,,;)(V)

There are a lot of Ridiculously Human Robots that usually include wombs and the capacity to give birth in many SF stories.

It's so mind-bogglingly inefficient, though. Why would a mechanical life form need to go through an organic development stage?

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I wrote a series of stories in which a group of interstellar ship-minds needed to "grow" a new self-aware consciousness because of how complex such a mind is. It didnt involve a womb, though.

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

It's innefficient if we want to mass produce the robots. If we want gynoids that serve as women substitutes in the bear and raises human children department, then it makes sense. Even if rides onto some weird Unfortunate Implications. I'd guess those apppeared most often before the idea of straight up cloning and genetic material preservation came more in vogue.

edited 2nd Feb '15 10:49:34 AM by vandro

@Vandro: Obviously one could build such a thing if one were addicted to form over function, but I'm saying that it's completely absurd from the perspective of needing to create new robots.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

It's completely absurd, I agree.

Birthing allows things to use the force!

Wait, robots in Star Wars can't use the force, can they? Great, so they can't even blame it on pseudo-magic!

In the example I'm thinking of, the robots have televisions for heads, and given that the king has a giant flatscreen and a janitor has a black-and-white, there might be some Fantastic Caste System going on there. The giving birth is arguably not the weirdest part.

Also, I'm not sure they actually had a creator, so it might just be a quirk of evolution.

You know, the title of Episode #1145 is suddenly way more appropriate.

The twist is explained!

The reasoning, that is. We still have no idea how this happened, and neither does Corey.

They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!

But we saw Anakin turn into Vader in Ep3 strips. How is it possible for anyone else to suddenly be Vader?

I'm waiting with bated breath for the next one. This is wonderful.

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