A Long Time Ago In a Galaxy Far, Far Away.... - Star Wars General Discussion

[Dake]

This one more than the rest felt disjointed, but still some good movement and curious developments.

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I assume we'll see them traveling to some of the other planet coordinates from the temple in an attempt to see if one of them can lead them back home, and discover the history behind them all being hidden along the way.

Obviously, the rest will have been destroyed too, but our mysterious previous "Captain" managed to protect At-Attin.

The real question is, does anyone on At-Attin know what's happened in the wider galaxy?

 

[Axaday]

The real question is, does anyone on At-Attin know what's happened in the wider galaxy?

I doubt it. I imagine that the Great Work will end up being something that got finished a long time ago or has become obsolete. Like calculating hyperspace lanes or something. They may have been planted during a big war like the Sith War to preserve culture in case the war was lost.

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I think the show could've had a better name. When I first heard it, I assumed the ship would be bigger. We see ships like that crewed by 1 or 2 people all the time and that's even what we are seeing here. They don't need as many people as they have. So I guess it is just a pirate-y sounding fun name because the original crew are all skeletons.

 

[LiamA]

I feel like At Attin being hidden is a shout out to "The Foundation" series.

 

[ZacWilliam1]

Me a my wife are loving Skeleton Crew so far. It just feels really 80s Star Wars in the best way.

-ZacWilliam, also I just got the robots name and had to text my wife about it immediately.

 

[Ultra Magnus13]

I doubt it. I imagine that the Great Work will end up being something that got finished a long time ago or has become obsolete. Like calculating hyperspace lanes or something. They may have been planted during a big war like the Sith War to preserve culture in case the war was lost.

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I think the show could've had a better name. When I first heard it, I assumed the ship would be bigger. We see ships like that crewed by 1 or 2 people all the time and that's even what we are seeing here. They don't need as many people as they have. So I guess it is just a pirate-y sounding fun name because the original crew are all skeletons.

With the reveal of the other At-At____s, and with the one we see, seeming to have once had a city with the same layout, I'm wondering if the "Great Work" was "identical" planets with a control variant. This could have been a noble experiment to try and find the most successful and prosperous form of governing a planet, or it may have been insidious to try and discern the most effective way to control a planets population.

 

[Dake]

I feel like At Attin being hidden is a shout out to "The Foundation" series.

That's actually a really great idea, and fits with other Asimov nods in SW.

 

[Axaday]

I am not sure how much Isaac Asimov would like being nodded at in an episode where a robot reveals that he killed his entire crew and proceeds to start killing children only stopped by being deactivated.

 

[Dake]

He'd likely think it's about right. He wrote frequently about the flaws in the three laws - many of his stories rely on it.