Naboo is like a historical China/Japan or England/France rivalry, but then an outsider threatens both of them. They both had standing armies built around skirmishes with each other.
Wouldn’t N1’s (‘big’ for a projectile, fast) get through their shield to allow for interior bombing runs?
peopleproblems@lemmy.world
on 11 May 16:22
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I think an N1 would be too fast to safely enter, bomb and leave without also running the risk of blowing yourself or having too low of an altitude to finish the dive.
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social
on 11 May 16:34
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They very clearly had a counter-attack plan. And expected Naboo to attack any time soon.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
on 11 May 16:44
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They do nit breathe underwater. Gungans are more akin to frogs than to fishes or aquatic life, and since they maybe worship nature (or at least hold environmentalism very highly) I will presume that they chose to live underwater in order to allow more space for forest.
They probably gather to fight other gungans on land, historically speaking, or have land forces so they can meet invading armies long before they reach the city.
Uhm. Also the human Nabooans are colonists from coruscant, so the gungans might have been forced to live in underwater orbs the humans can’t reach.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
on 11 May 17:12
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Also the human Nabooans are colonists from coruscant, so the gungans might have been forced to live in underwater orbs the humans can’t reach.
Wait, is that actually canon? Lots of other sci-fi franchises have in universe explanations for why there are humans everywhere. In Stargate for instance they were slaves that were taken everywhere in the galaxy. But I didn’t know there was an actual in universe reason in Star Wars.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
on 11 May 18:39
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It’s at least a solid part of legends and so much of disney canon has just been adopting the cool parts of canon so i expdct it is/will be canon.
Here's what wookiepedia says
Human History, Canon
- Vague on whether humans were the first colonial power, strongly implied to be the dominant colonial power when measured against other empires like Duros.
- So, unlike legends for first point, like legends for second point.
In Stargate for instance they were slaves that were taken everywhere in the galaxy.
I’m looking forward ro getting around to watching Stargate. If i understand the premise, star wars legends has a very similar story leading to the origins of hyperspace and space travel for humans.
Maybe it was lifted straight from stargate. This is all by writers independent of George Lucas, for the record
Oh and for the record, some planets are in a region called “The colonies,” which i would think of like New England for the Star wars galaxy - the original colonies of groups setting out from the inner rim of worlds as they progress outwards.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
on 11 May 22:21
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It’s confusing as well because there’s a double layer to the lore; humans rose up against from the ashes of the Rakatan Infinite Empire, who had enslaved them and other worlds using the infinity gate technology. The rakatans had themselves rebelled against the Kwa, who enslaved them and other worlds using the infinity gate technology.
The Kwa received the technology straight from “the celestials,” a small family of force wielding deities who help to keep the balance in the force and also keep on leaving random super-tech spacestationa lying around in space.
Then the kwa, after being defeated by Rakatans, turned into dinosaurs for some reason that i don’t understand. Completely un-evolved.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
on 11 May 19:43
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Only from external, extended universe sources (RPG sourcebooks, etc).
According to The Phantom Menace film, Padme says there was never hostilities between Humans and Gungans when speaking with Boss Nass. Boss Nass does not refute this statement.
This sentiment was also reflected on starwars.com at the time of the movies release.
The 2001 video game Star Wars: Galactic Battleground was originally going to have levels about a war between the Humans and the Gungans, but the creative team was informed directly by LucasFilm that no such war ever took place. So the developers changed it to a Gungan civil war instead.
It was not until many years later that new sources began to popup that contradicted the original claim that Humans and Gungans were always peaceful (except for one RPG sourcebook in 2000).
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
on 11 May 16:52
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There’s a joke in here about an amphibious assault
You feeling froggy?
If them terries tryna start something we gonna wrlex them sklounst
Because with great power, come great responsatrillatris
This just makes me like the Darth Jar-Jar theory even more.
Naboo is like a historical China/Japan or England/France rivalry, but then an outsider threatens both of them. They both had standing armies built around skirmishes with each other.
Wouldn’t N1’s (‘big’ for a projectile, fast) get through their shield to allow for interior bombing runs?
I think an N1 would be too fast to safely enter, bomb and leave without also running the risk of blowing yourself or having too low of an altitude to finish the dive.
I volunteer as tribute
Wrong universe.
<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/d873eab8-25e2-4564-9c1b-80e14533b904.jpeg">
Jar Jar’s Jars of Jar Jar.
quite jarring
We live on land yet have navy, so them living in the ocean yet have land armies kinda makes sense.
They very clearly had a counter-attack plan. And expected Naboo to attack any time soon.
They do nit breathe underwater. Gungans are more akin to frogs than to fishes or aquatic life, and since they maybe worship nature (or at least hold environmentalism very highly) I will presume that they chose to live underwater in order to allow more space for forest.
They probably gather to fight other gungans on land, historically speaking, or have land forces so they can meet invading armies long before they reach the city.
Uhm. Also the human Nabooans are colonists from coruscant, so the gungans might have been forced to live in underwater orbs the humans can’t reach.
Wait, is that actually canon? Lots of other sci-fi franchises have in universe explanations for why there are humans everywhere. In Stargate for instance they were slaves that were taken everywhere in the galaxy. But I didn’t know there was an actual in universe reason in Star Wars.
It’s at least a solid part of legends and so much of disney canon has just been adopting the cool parts of canon so i expdct it is/will be canon.
Here's what wookiepedia says
Human History, Canon - Vague on whether humans were the first colonial power, strongly implied to be the dominant colonial power when measured against other empires like Duros. - So, unlike legends for first point, like legends for second point.
I’m looking forward ro getting around to watching Stargate. If i understand the premise, star wars legends has a very similar story leading to the origins of hyperspace and space travel for humans.
starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Infinity_Gate
starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Infinite_Empire/Legends
Maybe it was lifted straight from stargate. This is all by writers independent of George Lucas, for the record
Oh and for the record, some planets are in a region called “The colonies,” which i would think of like New England for the Star wars galaxy - the original colonies of groups setting out from the inner rim of worlds as they progress outwards.
<img alt="" src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/0/02/KwaStarTemple-SWREP24.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20251205055137">
Wow that’s uncanny, I had no idea
It’s confusing as well because there’s a double layer to the lore; humans rose
up againstfrom the ashes of the Rakatan Infinite Empire, who had enslaved them and other worlds using the infinity gate technology. The rakatans had themselves rebelled against the Kwa, who enslaved them and other worlds using the infinity gate technology.The Kwa received the technology straight from “the celestials,” a small family of force wielding deities who help to keep the balance in the force and also keep on leaving random super-tech spacestationa lying around in space.
Then the kwa, after being defeated by Rakatans, turned into dinosaurs for some reason that i don’t understand. Completely un-evolved.
Only from external, extended universe sources (RPG sourcebooks, etc).
According to The Phantom Menace film, Padme says there was never hostilities between Humans and Gungans when speaking with Boss Nass. Boss Nass does not refute this statement.
This sentiment was also reflected on starwars.com at the time of the movies release.
The 2001 video game Star Wars: Galactic Battleground was originally going to have levels about a war between the Humans and the Gungans, but the creative team was informed directly by LucasFilm that no such war ever took place. So the developers changed it to a Gungan civil war instead.
It was not until many years later that new sources began to popup that contradicted the original claim that Humans and Gungans were always peaceful (except for one RPG sourcebook in 2000).
Take back their planet?
(idk)
That’s like saying because the United States has a water-based army (a.k.a. a navy) that they are planning on invading Atlantis.
…actually wait, please don’t give them any ideas. Forget I said anything.
Do you have any idea how much oil there is in Atlantis?