Filling in Literary Gaps

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I'm finally reading Darths & Droids. It took me so long because I stalled about fifty strips into DM of the Rings and figured that Darths & Droids was more of same.

It isn't that DM of the Rings is bad. It's not. But, Darths & Droids is better.

I'm at Episode 78, but so far, the most hilarious thing has not been anything the players or the GM has done. Nope, it's Naboo. I hadn't realized that Naboo had a sponge-like core. Heck, I hadn't quite realized that the Jedi had landed, with the droid army, on the opposite side of the planet from the capital. I hadn't realized that the Jedi had sailed through the planet's core, only to be beaten to the capital by the droid army.

mnemex said that the No-Prize explanation is that the army landed everywhere on the planet. The Jedi just happened to be with a unit that landed on the far side from the capitol.

mnemex: After all, who'd send a droid army only on the wrong side of the planet to invade?

Me: George Lucas.

Comments

[jl8e]

They can't have landed everywhere. There's too much space on a planet.

What they'll have done is land forces at important locations. Such as a godforsaken forest in the middlle of nowhere. Or far enough outside the capital city that they get there about the same time as the Cheddar Knights who had to go through the entire planet en route.

It makes sense if they're not going through the planet, but I think that's actual movie canon.