#battle of yavin

[star-wars-forever]

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: The Card Game - Red Three by ameeeeba

[gwempire]

Imagine, for a moment, that you're an evil sinister Dark Lord battling an uprising against your empire, and you notice a young pilot with the same magic powers as you, is the age that your child who died when your wife gave birth would be, shares your old surname, and has the preferred boy name you and your wife picked out. Would it take your evil sinister Dark Lord Overlord telling you that that's your son?

And IMAGINE, for a moment, that you're an evil sinister Dark Lord who's just come to power. You see that a close politician friend of your pregnant politician wife, who has recently died by your hand, has adopted a young girl who has the preferred GIRL name you and your wife picked out, would you be suspicious? Or would it take using your magic powers in a battle against your son by pluck his fears from his mind to realise you have a daughter as well?

Anyway I think Darth Vader was in active denial or dumb as a rock because dude?????

[errantindy]

A New Chapter IS AWAY!

Sand Becomes Pearls Chapter 39: Fear Like Fireflies has been posted.

The attack on the Death Star continues as TIE fighters arrive. Gold Leader begins his attack run, and Pearl and what remains of Red Squadron must defend themselves, defend Gold Squadron, and attempt to mask the rebels real purpose of the attack.

[sidonius5]

[grayrazor]

There are people who say that Clone Wars era starfighters were broadly better than Imperial ones, but in the movies at least, TIE Fighters have a way better K/D ratio than Vulture Droids. Nine TIEs took out 26/30 Rebel fighters over Yavin, while after the Droid Control Ship exploded there were at least half of the ~14 Naboo fighters left despite going up against hundreds of droids.

[thecleverqueer]

Random thoughts during A New Hope:

*Rogue One really did enhance the first scene of this movie for me. They went through such an epic battle to get those plans, and now they must follow through to honor the sacrifice that brave crew made. Get ‘em!

*I just love R2-D2 and C3-PO. Those damned droids have changed hands so many times, and yet, they’ve been kept in the family.

*Leia Organa was the original. She’s such a badass. Smart, snippy, resourceful, all around brilliant character.

*GNK or gonk droids are also amongst my favorite. I wouldn’t want one personally, but I appreciate that they exist.

*I’d forgotten C3-PO’s first job was programming binary load lifters. Holy shit! I’m going to assume because his memory was wiped at the end of The Revenge of the Sith that it wasn’t the same binary load lifters that Ahsoka and Trace chased down in the under city on Coruscant, and none of that was C3-PO’s fault (though it wouldn’t surprise me).

*Owen blatantly telling C3-PO to shut up is peak Star Wars. Seriously.

*That red R2 unit’s motivator blowing at the moment that it did was either a fine example of how coincidentally chaotic the universe is, or how incredibly the force works in mysterious ways… and since this is Star Wars…

*It warms my heart that Luke was still playing with that space ship that Obi-Wan gave him so many years ago.

*C3-PO telling Luke that he’s not good at storytelling is also bullshit. We saw you in The Return of the Jedi telling your story to the Ewoks… with your compelling narrative and your sound effects. Come on.

*Since Owen calls Old Ben a wizard, does this mean Obi-Wan was being ballsy and tinkering around with the force after his rescue of Leia? Is that what the kids are calling Jedi these days? Space wizards?

*I love how Obi-Wan emerges using force scream to frighten off the sand people. That might be a power I would want. I dunno. It wouldn’t be my first choice if choices are given.

*I also wonder why Obi-Wan doesn’t seems to remember R2-D2 and C3-PO. How could he forget them? They were always there running around with him in space…ESPECIALLY, R2-D2.

*Oops. Luke just called the droids “robots”. Close, not quite.

*Leia probably could have resisted it, but I wonder why Vader opted to use drugs to get the location of the Rebel base and not mind probe? That’s a power all good Sith Lords should possess.

*I really wish Disney would release the original versions of the original trilogy before it was digitally remastered. I watched it hundreds, if not thousands, of times on VHS before they did it, but it’s hard to remember and I’d like to.

*Luke’s Intro to Jedi mind tricks.

*Obi-Wan is the undisputed king of chopping off arms.

*You also have to give it to Obi-Wan when he pulls out the lightsaber in the cantina in the first place. Balls. It didn’t seem to bother the majority of the patrons that there was a Jedi in their midst, people looked, the Bith band kicked back up and folks returned to their drinks. Still, there’s always a fascist rat in the crowd someplace that squeals to the Empire. Every. Time.

*”I’m never coming back to this planet again.” -Luke. Don’t be so sure.

*Han shot first.

*One of my least favorite things about the digitally remastered version of A New Hope is the conversation between Han and Jabba in the hangar. Han and Greedo had the exact same conversation in the cantina that he and Jabba had in that hangar verbatim. It’s almost as if Lucas just couldn’t help himself as the Jabba/ Han conversation was probably his original plan that he couldn’t pull off when Star Wars was originally released. And at this point, they couldn’t replace the Han/ Greedo interaction because it is iconic. Now, it all feels like a pointless, redundant afterthought. Also, it’s odd that Han calls a Jabba a wonderful human being. What!?! Jabba is a huge f*^%ing space slug! TF you mean, “human being”?

*The Millennium Falcon is a badass ship. That is all.

*I can’t stand Tarkin. He’s such a f*^%ing fascist asshole.

*Oh Alderaan…. The Empire did that shit on purpose. They blamed / tried to guilt Leia, but I bet they wanted to take out Bail equally bad. RIP Bail.

*”That’s no moon. It’s a space station!” -Obi-Wan. You can feel that HOLY SHIT moment. Yeah. I don’t know. It’s one part Geonosian (because those stupid f*^%ing bugs) and one part Galen Erso… luckily, Galen rigged it to blow. The bugs would have destroyed the galaxy.

*This goes without saying, but stormtroopers are kinda stupid.

*Tarkin says “the Jedi are extinct”. Nah, fam, there are, like, four of them and a part-timer…

*I have to wonder what all the water was in the trash compactor. Was it sewage, or… ? Yuck. Get out of there! There’s some sort of space worm in there amongst human excrements and god knows what else!

*I appreciate the fact that they left the scene where the stormtrooper hits his head on the door in the digitally remastered version.

*Luke tells C3-PO to shut up. See!?! Peak, I’m telling you.

*Vader telling Obi-Wan that he’s the master is laughable. No. You’re still not a master. You’re Palpatine’s bitch.

* Turns out, Anakin was the death of Obi-Wan. Sadly, Obi-Wan becomes one with the cosmic force. It’s okay. He will manifest himself into a force ghost. Now there are three Jedi and a part-timer…

*Does a simulator where you sit in those gunner seats of the Millennium Falcon and blow up tie fighters exist? If it doesn’t, it’s a hugely missed opportunity in every arcade on the planet. What a game that would be! I’d play.

*They’ve got 15 minutes to blow that shit up before it beats them to the punch.

*I feel like Wedge Antilles is an often underrated character. Wedge is an utter badass, and one hell of a pilot.

*Three minutes.

*One minute.

*Thirty seconds.

*”You may fire when ready.” F*^% you, Tarkin.

*Han comes in clutch. Luke blows up the technological terror (and Tarkin). Party on Yavin!!

*I can’t believe that Chewy will have to wait until The Rise of Skywalker to receive his medal.

[inquisitor-apologist]

I think Sabine cried at the Battle of Yavin. I think it was the most beautiful explosion she’d ever seen.

[sandsu03]

Death Star Destruction Service🫡

[domonicriley]

I think the BBY/ABY date system works OK, but considering most of Star Wars is set around the same time, it might be better to make an in universe dating system called the 'Galactic Standard Calendar or similar which starts 1000 or so years before The Clone Wars

So, for example, the Battle of Yavin would take place in something like 1022GSC.

This would make the dating system more like our own and remove the confusion over a 'year 0' which the BBY system has.

[beasanfi1997]

Maybe Anakin sense Ezra frees Lothal kidnapping Thrawn and using the escape pod in the scene of a New Hope After his son Luke blows up the Death Star and so Anakin went to find Ezra

[catsandcatci]

ooohhh new pet peeve just now. when people use BBY for fics that take place before BBY (battle of yavin) or even for fics where ITS AN AU SO THE BATTLE OF YAVIN DOES NOT TAKE PLACE. it hurts my little calendar nerd heart

[nawilla]

Fic Excerpt: Vader is a bit more frustrated during the Battle of Yavin

Another scene from my Star Wars Original trilogy AU.  Vader is in the thick of the Battle of Yavin, and is a bit more frustrated in this version.

* * *

On his own ship, Vader kept his escorts close, hoping to block in these insolent rebels.  

This group moved differently.

They felt different.

Particularly the leader.

“The Force is strong in this one,” Vader observed.

His comm crackled.

“Kriff, not this Force shit again.”

Vader snarled at the disrespect and with a wave of his hand, his left escort slammed into the wall of the trench, exploding on impact.  

“Do you have anything to say?” he asked his remaining escort.

“Sir, no Sir,” came the meek reply.

[iron-crakka]

Happy new year! Here's a new years Glup Shitto for you: The year 0 BBY!

As you all know, i'm sure, the calendar in the Star Wars universe is measured in years before and after the battle of Yavin, or BBY and ABY for short. this makes a certain amount of sense from an in universe perspective, as the first major victory of the rebellion against the empire, as well as an out of universe one, being the events of the first star wars movie. However, it gets a little bit weird in the year of battle of Yavin. See, the year numbering is based on the battle, but the year start is inherited from a previous system. This means that the battle of Yavin happened in the middle of the year (during the third month). So, what is that year titled? Is it 0 BBY or 0 ABY? Or is it maybe 1 ABY?

If we consider real life calendars for a moment, the in the Gregorian calendar, there is no year zero, it simply goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE. However, several real world calendars do have a year 0, though as best as I could find they don't use a before/after scheme (feel free to correct me if this is wrong).

The galactic standard calendar, though, has an odd way of handling this: there is a year 0, and the portion of the year before the battle is designated 0 BBY and the portion after is 0 BBY (not sure what the day itself is considered to be part of). Therefore, there is a 0 BBY, but it is only about 3 months long, and the year 0 ABY is roughly 7 months long (the calendar has 10 months).

Another fun bit of trivia (but only one, lest this turn into a full calendar post (more calendar fun facts coming soon (probably))): the galactic standard year, used in most calendars—including the BBY/ABY system—is based on the orbit of Coruscant, which is actually 368 days long.

Glup Shitto Classification: Look, it's new year's eve and I ran out of queued posts so this is just a quick one, but there's more calendar stuff to mine for later.

[contactingpluto]

Life of a Tie Fighter Pilot (Battle of Yavin)