• Yeat [he/him]
    hexagon
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    10 months ago

    has star wars shown any type of press or media at all in their universe? that’d actually make for a good show or something

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      Rebels does, as did the Imperial campaign in the Rogue Squadron game. One of the characters is someone who unironicall supports the empire but wants to restore senatorial power, like the "Moderate" republican to Mon Mothma's shitlib.

      Its implied she's even more of a moral void than the outright fascists who at least openly want and revel in war and bloodshed.

      Rebels has things like Empire Day where there are parades etc and you see the average Imperial's apathy.

      And andor has incel guy mall cop as a main character who buys the kool aid, of course

      • GarfGirl
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        10 months ago

        There was also the shitty battlefront 2 story mode where you play as a stormtrooper special ops lady for like 3 missions before realising that committing genocide is bad when you're told to do it to humans so defect to the rebels

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      10 months ago

      Not quite what you're looking for, but I remember in that Han Solo movie that I saw a few years ago, that I reacted to how the Empire's recruitment efforts used a major key version of the Imperial March.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 months ago

      Yes, in many books from EU Holonet was mentioned to be republic(and empire)-wide instant communication network with functions like the TV and internet. Coverage and function varied from author to author though.

      • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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        10 months ago

        it was a very 90s kinda internet, and none of the characters we followed were posters.

        one of the smarter things to not go into exhaustive detail about really.

        • GarfGirl
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          10 months ago

          Star wars hexbear and there's people posting edits of Tusken raiders shooting stormtroopers down with the words "Another SStormtrooper down! Unlimited Battle of Yavin on the galactic core!" splashed over it

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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          10 months ago

          As it turned out, hard sci fi is obliterated by a test of time very quickly. But those with either no technobabble like Dune or completely asspulled one like Star Trek endure lol. SW also avoid it and fare pretty well.