D6 Star Wars: Unlearning What You Have Learned

We waited years to once again see Star Wars movies on the big screen. What we finally got were some lame-ass prequels and extremely shitty sequels. I won't argue that there was some cool stuff and interesting stories told here and there (at least in a few things, like The Mandalorian.) However, much of our craving for Star Wars was fulfilled by the Expanded Universe fiction and also the Star Wars Roleplaying Game by West End Games. To play D6 Star Wars, I like to go back to the mindset we had then. I like to revert to assumptions that still make sense. Anything that happened in things that came out starting in 1999 remain in their own alternate universe. I present to you some guidelines that will keep the game faithful to the original trilogy and the parts of the Expanded Universe that were once canon, now referred to as "Legends."

STAR WARS THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY

The Short, Quick Version:

- Han shot first.

- The Force is metaphysical energy and has nothing to do with microscopic creatures in people's blood.

- Any Jedi or Force Sensitive who uses the Force to attack earns a Dark Side Point.

- Boba Fett wasn't a clone. Clones weren't stormtroopers.

- "Kyber crystals" are not used in lightsabers or energy weapons, but other crystals are.

- Star Destroyers and similar ships don't typically enter atmospheres. They're also built in space, NOT on planets.

- Not everything happens on Tatooine.

- Forget anything said about Anakin Skywalker that wasn't mentioned in the Original Trilogy.

The Longer Version: 

 BOBA FETT, CLONES AND STORMTROPERS

- The Clone Wars were fought against evil, soulless creatures, not carbon copies of a New Zealander.

- Boba Fett was a Mandalorian foundling who was a soldier and a law enforcement officer on Concord Dawn before becoming a feared bounty hunter. He was NOT a clone of anyone.

- Stormtroopers are standard humans trained to be Stormtroopers. See above.

THE FORCE

- "The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together." 

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

Never is it microscopic, intelligent organisms called midi-chlorians that live in your blood. 

The Force is a metaphysical and ubiquitous power in the Star Wars fictional universe. "Force-sensitive" characters use the Force throughout the franchise. Heroes like the Jedi seek to "become one with the Force", matching their personal wills with the will of the Force, while the Sith and other villains exploit the Force and try to bend it toward their own selfish and destructive desires. George Lucas created the concept of the Force to address character and plot developments in Star Wars. He also wanted to "awaken a certain kind of spirituality" in young audiences, suggesting a belief in God without endorsing any specific religion. He developed the Force as a nondenominational religious concept, "distill[ed from] the essence of all religions", premised on the existence of God and distinct ideas of good and evil. Lucas said there is a conscious choice between good and bad, and "the world works better if you're on the good side." Taylor, Chris (2014). How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise.

"The act of living generates a force field, an energy. That energy surrounds us; when we die, that energy joins with all the other energy. There is a giant mass of energy in the universe that has a good side and a bad side. We are part of the Force because we generate the power that makes the Force live. When we die, we become part of that Force, so we never really die; we continue as part of the Force." —George Lucas during a production meeting for The Empire Strikes Back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Force

- "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack."

- Yoda

A Jedi using a Force ability to attack, whether it's a "Force Push" or anything else, gets a Dark Side Point. Yoda using the Force to throw chairs? Never happened.

- Kaiburr or kyber crystals are rare force artifacts. Shards of them can be used to make lightsaber crystals, but not all lightsaber crystals are Kaiburr crystals. They're certainly not mined and used to power Death Star lasers.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Kaiburr_crystal

- Darth Vader can't crush or bring down a starship. If anyone could have done that, it might have been Yoda. Your character is not Starkiller either.

- Anakin's Force Spirit should look like older Anakin, not like Hayden Christensen. I doubt this will come up.

SHIPS

- Giant starships are constructed in space, not on a planet. The former doesn't make sense for any spacefaring society, let alone in the Star Wars Universe.

- Star Destoyers don't enter planetary atmospheres and descend. If they could, we might have seen that in the original trilogy, even considering the visual effects of the time. If they could do it, they would. It is not their purpose, nor are they designed for it.

TECHNOLOGY

- The "stolen data tapes" mentioned in Star Wars A New Hope were exactiy that - physical data media objects. A data tape, also called an information tape, was a recording device that could be read by a holoprojector, such as the one standard in R2 units, or at a computer terminal. A "data tape" or "data card" is seen being inserted into R2D2. Conceivably they can be copied or transferred to another source, but their information was not simply transmitted to the Blockade Runner. The original assumption was that the "tape" inserted into R2 was the only copy. In a scene cut from the movie Rogue One, Jyn Erso is seen to be carrying physical date tapes as she attempts to escape. It's interesting to note that Admiral Motti mentions "stolen data TAPES." If he's using this in the plural sense, what other ones went missing, presumably at the same time?🤔

- Beskar, also known as Mandalorian iron is incredibly strong and very rare in the Rebellion Era. Mandalorian armor was also made of durasteel and alum, so not all armor suits contain beskar. Armor forged of beskar could withstand blunt force, strikes from a lightsaber, and repeated blasterfire, though the force of the impact still transferred in part to the wearer. Beskar weapons could conceivably parry a lightsaber, and beskar was sometimes used in the construction of lightsaber hilts https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mandalorian_iron Presumably, Boba Fett's helmet and breastplate incorporate beskar. His jetpack clearly does not.

- You cannot make multiple hyperspace jumps, one after the other. Han Solo explains very clearly why hasty jumps are dangerous. Having a prodigy in the cockpit doesn't change this bit of pseudoscience.

OTHER NOTES

- Obi-Wan met Anakin as a young pilot, not a pre-pubescent one. Presumably Anakin began his training at a similar age as Luke, which gives even more weight to Yoda saying that Luke is too old to complete the training. Perhaps Yoda feels at first that Luke has already acquired a mindset like his father that could see him tempted by the Dark Side.

- Anakin was not a product of immaculate conception.

- Han shot Greedo first in the cantina. It was a clear case of justifiable homicide.

- Not everything happens on Tatooine. Stop showing it, or desert planets that look suspiciously like Tatooine.

- Space whales that travel through hyperspace is kind of a bizarre concept for Star Wars, but that's just me.

- No one cares how the Emperor became Emperor. We're not playing D6 Senate Meetings.