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https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Socialism
I like how if you dig into this, it boils down to "a 10 year old RPG sourcebook said this one Gran planet was cool and space communist"
It's funny, because that entire RPG line (the Fantasy Flight Star Wars RPG) provided a lot of good material for worldbuilding obsessed nerds - it's often the only cited material for a lot of what you would think are important concepts (like socialism). They're usually cool about the socialist, labor rights, and liberation stuff in the setting, certainly more so than cringe didney stuff that makes "anarchists wot believe in nothing" central villains.
FFG was making a lot of great SW tabletop stuff during the 2010s. I liked the X-Wing dogfight game quite a bit. Never had an RPG group during those years, but that sounds like a dope one!
That's more on the Marvel side of Disney, right? Maybe I'm too
whenever Saw Gererra comes on the screen to realize you're supposed to think he's "too extreme" or whatever
Oh that's not even getting into Saw! Check out his fallen order portrayal for that "too extreme doesnt care about anything" stuff. I meant these clowns https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nihil
The RPG system is great though, possibly my favorite all around - fun mechanics, depth for people who want to get into it, and super accessible for new players.
Lots of resources online like https://star-wars-rpg-ffg.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_RPG_(FFG)_Wiki
I nearly forgot about his appearance in Fallen Order lol.
I'm a fake fan and never got into the High Republic stuff lol. Can you at least headcannon it as "these dorks are being viewed through the lens of the radical centrist Jedi order"?
His fallen order portrayal, his clone wars portrayal, his rogue one portrayal…
He's cool in...Andor? At least not portrayed as a cartoonish "madman"
Andor is the best Star Wars. No other sw has had a character say “everyone is a liberal except me”
best star was convo
Luthen: Think of it. Think of Spellhaus in flames. Neither of you could do it on your own, but together-
Saw: Kreegyr’s a Separatist. Maya Pei’s a Neo-Republican. The Ghorman Front. The Partisan Alliance? Sectorists! Human cultists! Galaxy partitionists! They’re lost, all of them lost! Lost. What are you Luthen? I’ve never really known. What are you?
Luthen: I’m a coward. I’m a man who’s terrified the Empire’s power will grow beyond the point where we can do anything to stop it. I’m the one who says, “We’ll die with nothing if we don’t put aside our petty differences.”
Saw: Petty? I am the only one with clarity of purpose.
god that show added a richness to Star Wars that i really didn't think was possible
maybe we'll have a genre in the distant FALGC future that's just like "treats of the past, but really well written and performed"
Andor is the best Star Wars thing ever put to screen
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