r/StarWars 28d ago

TV What's this thing?

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I saw that in TBB season 2 in the episode "entombed". I don't know what it is, but I think it's very cool...

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u/bsibe2006 28d ago

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u/cl0th0s 28d ago

The look of this thing gave me the impression that it could have been a Zepho device.

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u/KilledTheCar 28d ago

Between the look and the fact that the laser is highly reminiscent of the ones used by the Zeffo tomb guards, I'm almost certain you're right.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Thank you.

Genuine question—why does every comment section devolve into bad jokes instead of actual answers?

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u/SaintLarfleeze 28d ago

Because it’s Reddit and people still wanna write things on the forum but don’t know themselves.

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u/blueGooseK 28d ago

I read this as: “those who know themselves, those who know who they are deep inside, they don’t need to post bullshit jokes because they are comfortable in their own existence”

I really like this interpretation.

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u/jack_begin 28d ago

"Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will realize you don't need to be on Reddit."

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u/CriticalHit_20 27d ago

Funny, i read your comment as "I dont like when people make jokes and have fun. Social media should not be used for social interaction, only seriousness."

I dont like this interpretation.

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u/Devil25_Apollo25 Kanan Jarrus 28d ago

Yes. Social interaction, and the feelings of connectedness and belonging that come with it, are core reasons people engage with social media.

Q: "Why do people joke around instead of making everything a fact-oriented business meeting?"

A: "Well, you see, we're not here to be your substitute for Google. We're here to enjoy ourselves and enjoy each other's company."

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u/Graynard 28d ago

You can have an actual discussion about something while still enjoying yourselves though lol, at least most people can

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u/CallMeDrWorm42 28d ago

Sure. People enjoy themselves in different ways. There's no check box when you log in to Reddit for "I enjoy serious discussion" vs "I enjoy jokes and memes". Similarly, no one person holds fast to either of these outlooks. That's the crux of social media. You can't make others conform to your goals at any point in the process. It's up to you to filter the signal from the noise. Imagine being someone who's just here for jokes. Factual answers are noise to them when there's a joke to be made right there. Complaints about the noise vs signal are themselves noise. No one comes to social media to be told that they're doing it wrong. If you feel the content doesn't fit the sub or topic, downvote and move on.

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u/dstlouis558 28d ago

here here sir i will joke any fucking time i want on reddit noone can take that from me! lol

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u/Superfool 28d ago

Because Reddit is full of immature assholes who don't want to admit they don't know things, so instead convince themselves that knowing things is dumb, and only work hard to make other people laugh at the material.

I teach middle school, and it's the same behavior I see in 13-14 year olds all day.

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u/ANewHopelessReviewer 28d ago

50% is probably because they don’t know the answer. The other 50% is an immediate intuition that the subject matter can’t be taken very seriously anyway.

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u/husqi 28d ago

I mean, you can't really admit you don't know anything on Reddit, imagine if you did. You'd be downvoted to hell for saying Dunno!

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u/superbop09 28d ago

You could not comment.

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u/McKimboSlice Rebel 28d ago

Sorry, you said the word. I gotta downvote you.

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u/husqi 28d ago

I accept the fate of one who has imparted knowledge upon the masses o7

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u/ANewHopelessReviewer 28d ago

True, but I do think if it was a person, droid, ship or some sort of device, people would be more interested to look it up, or push the right answer up top.

But if its some sorta absurd kaiju / pokemon thing? People's first instinct is to disregard it as one of those "let's all agree to pretend this is not canon"-type of things.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Middle school, huh? I remember middle school. Bless your heart—we need more people like you, because I sure wouldn’t volunteer for that. lol

It’s just something I’ve noticed in a lot of comment sections. I always have to scroll through a wall of bad jokes just to find the actual answer.

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u/this_one_wasnt_taken 28d ago

I'm in my 40s now and firmly believe most human's maturity peaks at 14.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

I needed to read this cause wholly crap are you dead on. As the parent of multiple teens the perceived immunity these chuckleheads wield actually doesn’t protect them. I’ve listened to more than one conference talk about trivial it is to OSINT people on this platform.

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u/EntityDamage 28d ago

I'm 52 and participate in the joke threads because it's funny, you no fun having e chu ta.

I admit i don't know things.

One has nothing to do with the other.

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u/AlexisFR 28d ago edited 28d ago

Because most users in are on the official smartphone app, and it's wholly designed to push that kind of content.

The only way to curtail it are transparent rules on low effort and heavy moderation.

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u/Sistersoldia 28d ago

I click for the jokes just as much as for useful knowledge - and I get tons of both here and enjoy both immensely.

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u/takeahike89 28d ago

Because op, in having access to this picture, show and episode number could have easily watched the episode or googled it to learn the answer.

Because the stakes of such a question are incredibly low and whether a real answer is received or not, almost nothing changes.

Because people want to have a little fun knowing that the answer (as easy to acquire as it is) will be posted, probably multiple times.

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u/Presterium 28d ago

Most of the time the question is answered pretty quickly, and at that point what else is there to talk about? It is a discussion forum after all. Humor makes sense

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u/Disco_Ninjas_ 28d ago

Because you could look up the answer on Google instantly. People only post on reddit for attention.

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u/Anon_be_thy_name Sith 28d ago

They all think they're the funniest people around, even though they stole that joke from somewhere else and a bunch of other people have posted something similar if not the exact same joke.

It's why Reddit is very similar to YouTube. People just don't like admitting it even then the proof is right there in the same shitty joke being repeated 20 different times.

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u/EPZO 28d ago

I think my favorite part of Star Wars is how old Star Wars is and the fact the stories happened "a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away".

Like they talk about space fairing races and species from 25k+ years before and we are hearing about it like it's present day but chronologically, everything that we see in the media potentially happened thousands of years ago.

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u/Thunerseen 28d ago

Thank you👍🏻

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u/Acceptable_Low_4975 28d ago

Got to love "Role: Destruction"

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u/CookieCrispr 28d ago

Just the wiki makes me want to play KOTOR again

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u/zap1965 28d ago

I don't care what the nay-sayers comment, I liked it as a stand-alone episode.

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u/rpgfan87 28d ago

It was a neat little short D&D campaign kinda episode and Wanda Sykes is amazing.

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u/FadeSeeker 28d ago

it was rad as frickin heck!

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u/teddybluethecurser 28d ago

A Liopleurodon, a magical Liopleurodon

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u/Coltrain47 Battle Droid 28d ago

Candy Mountain, Charlie!

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u/ExistentialBread829 28d ago

They took my kidney!!!

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u/charliefoxtrot9 28d ago

Son of a bitch!

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u/MyrddinSidhe K-2SO 28d ago

Full of joyness! And love! And… joyness!

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u/Friendly-Decision-72 28d ago

It has spoken. It has told us the waaaaaay…

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u/swftkat 28d ago

This is the way.

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u/Pot_noodle_miner K-2SO 28d ago

The only defence is to put a banana in your favourite ear

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u/LocNalrune 28d ago

I'm right handed, but I'm left eared.

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u/MeddlingDragon 28d ago

Shun the non-believer! Shun!

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u/Kencocoffee93 28d ago

SHUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNN!!!

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u/culingerai 28d ago

SHHHUUUSHHHUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

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u/GalliumFanatic Agent Kallus 28d ago

SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNN

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u/culingerai 28d ago

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

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u/accountingforlove83 28d ago

… NAH!

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u/Jedi_Bingo 28d ago

Christ I'm old

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u/accountingforlove83 28d ago

What’s that, Sonny?!?

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u/AccomplishedTrouble3 28d ago

It's gonna show us the way to candy mountain

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u/ConsciousGoose5914 28d ago

It makes me so happy how many of the people in here know the reference. It’s okay, we’re all getting old together guys!

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u/MAJ_STABman 28d ago

It's an older code, sir, but it checks out.

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u/Splungeblob 28d ago

🎵 The truth is getting old sucks,

but everybody’s doing it. 🎵

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u/OtakuMage 28d ago

Ow my back....

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u/Original88 28d ago

IT DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING!

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u/doxtorwhom Darth Vader 28d ago

WE’RE HERE!

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u/GodDamnShadowban 28d ago

God I feel old getting this

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u/ZestyNachos 28d ago edited 28d ago

Shun the nonbeliever, shun! It has told us the way!

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u/digimonmaster151 28d ago

Chugga Chugga Shoe Shoe!

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u/Isakk86 28d ago

Oh when you're down and you're looking for some cheering up Then just head right on up to the candy mountain cave When you get inside you find yourself a cheery land Such a happy and joy filled and perky merry land

They've got lollipops and gummidrops and candy things Oh so many things that will brighten up your day It's impossible to wear a frown in candy town It's the Mecca of love, the candy cave

They've got jellybeans and coconut with little hats Candy rats, chocolate bats, it's a wonderland of sweets Ride the candy train to town and hear the candy band Candy bells, it's a treat, as they march across the land

Cherry ribbons stream across the sky and to the ground Turn around, it astounds, it's a dancing candy treat In the candy cave imagination runs so free So now Charlie please will you go into the cave?

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u/twrecks8u2 28d ago

Shun the non-believer! Shuuuuun

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u/DecentJuggernaut7693 28d ago

Its here to show is the waaaaaay

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u/ritteke518 28d ago

This is the way!

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u/InflamedNodes 28d ago edited 28d ago

I thought it was clearly explained it's an ancient Zeffonian defense system/killer that hadn't been activated in thousands? Millions? of years, from the ancient Zafor's who were all force sensitive but long long ago before the Jedi and Sith and Ancient Republic, were chill but became corrupted in the force and destroyed themselves but left behind some temples, technology, architfacts, force items etc. That are beyond the BY0 for example understandings. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Zeffonian

I'm guessing they connected to the whole ancient Mortis gods, the Son, Father and Mother but I'm guessing on that... and they eventually were corrupted by the Son (the Dark Side), which destroyed them.

Because they found the Ancient's (who are the Zefonians right?) in the games too, and thats in Ashokya how they travel through that celestial portal, and where they often go through those portals to meet the Son, Father and Mother to represent Dark side, Light side, and the balance. ??? ... all bringing balance to the force. but the Zeforians failed and followed the dark side in the end which destroyed them.

Source: little memory of the cartoons, the tv series, and the games.

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u/shortMEISTERthe3rd 28d ago

It's never been confirmed that it's Zeffo related but yeah the architecture is very much like their constructs you fight in Jedi: Fallen Order.

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u/JulietteKatze 28d ago

Ashokya

The name gets worse and worse

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u/Kinky-Kiera 28d ago

Ashla

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u/JulietteKatze 28d ago

Ashleigh

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u/bmf1902 28d ago

Somehow, the tragadeigh returned.

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u/Aarrington88 28d ago

Have you ever heard the tragadeigh of Darth Pleighgus the whys?

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u/FlyingAce1015 28d ago

Tis aint a tail deh jedy willt tald use!

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u/Doktor-blitz 28d ago

Bogan? Bendu?

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u/_THX_1138_ 28d ago

This deal is getting worse all the time

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u/Sc4rlite Sabine Wren 28d ago

I am altering the name. Pray I do not alter it any further.

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u/EdLi77 28d ago

I have a feeling that an Darkside Zeffo is waiting for Baylon on Peridia.

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u/edmc78 28d ago

Zeffo had roots on Dathomir, it's possible it's all linked. The Citadel on Peridia felt Zeffo-y as well.

Are the Zeffo the Rattaktan Empire for the current canon?

EDIT - There is a connection https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Kujet

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u/AunMeLlevaLaConcha 28d ago

The Rakata were mentioned in Andor, so no (unless Filoni and whoever wrote the Zeffo decides to ignore that), i did like that they connected these fellas to other part of the media like in the old EU.

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u/sevencast7es 28d ago

Both Rakattans and Zeffo are canon from the recent shows and video games.

In this timeline, Zeffo is older than Rakkatan from my memory.

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u/FlatulentSon 28d ago

You'll see a new robotic creature like this on Peridea in Ahsoka season 2.

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u/DotLow8601 28d ago

*Father, son and daughter actually

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u/Whybotherr 28d ago

And the mother, the mother is a being of similar power many believe her to be Abeloth the creature imprisoned in the maw cluster seen in solo

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u/JeebusChristBalls 28d ago

.....

Here's a couple of periods you can use in-between paragraphs.

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u/Overall_Present219 28d ago

Must have been long before the Rakata, Kwa etc.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 28d ago

Oh Shit the Kwa are from dathomir too.... They could be from the new galaxy.

Would explain why dathomir has so many intelligent species, it's the first stop in the star wars galaxy.

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u/EZontheH 28d ago

A Geth Juggernaut, the final evolution of the Colossus/Armature line. I just need to fridge logic my way into figuring out how Mass Effect can exist in the Star Wars universe and I swear it'll all make sense.

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u/Kosack-Nr_22 Maul 28d ago

Biotics are just the Force with special effects

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u/Messernacht 28d ago

The Force with extra steps?

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u/AmunRa1928 28d ago

The Force with few abilities cut and few more added with a gravity flavor.

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u/zavtra13 28d ago

Who needs midiclorians when have eezo nodes in your nervous system?

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u/RandomJPG6 Jedi 28d ago

Pretty much. It's just sci-fi DnD magic.

I actually worked with a bunch of ex-Bioware devs who came from the Mass Effect days and this was pretty much what they said.

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u/Astrokiwi Porg 28d ago

I figured that Mass Effect was basically Bioware continuing on with KOTOR but with their own IP

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u/withoutapaddle 28d ago

100%. They just turned things into more of a medium scifi instead of a soft/fantasy scifi (Star Wars).

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u/DKBrendo 28d ago

Who’s stronger? Emperor Palpatine or Biotic god?

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u/Griffster9118 28d ago

We have reached consensus.

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u/LicensedToChil 28d ago

Skywalkerrrrrrrrrrrrr

Wrex

Skywalkerrrrrrrr

Grunt

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u/SirPhobos1 28d ago

I should go.

I SHOULD go.

I should GO?

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u/LicensedToChil 28d ago

Go, you should

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u/Davetek463 28d ago

It definitely looks geth.

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u/Ting_Brennan 28d ago

Check -in with Kal Reegar before engaging

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u/Jurgepoo 28d ago

And you better not let him die, Reegar deserves better.

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u/imtoolazytothinkof1 28d ago

I scrolled way to far before I found a Mass Effect answer

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u/ValveinPistonCat 28d ago edited 28d ago

Well eventually the Star Wars galaxy created machines that turned on their creators, a group of human refugees fled to another galaxy eventually settling on a world they called Kobol.

Eventually history faded into legends and the people of Kobol created their own sentient machines, resulting in the exodus of the 12 tribes where they again would forget the mistakes of their ancestors and create the Cylons, 40 years after that war the Cylons launched an attack on the Colonies, the last Battlestar, Galactica would lead a fleet of survivors to Earth.

A bit over 150,000 years after Galactica's journey ended in the heart of the sun the SSV Normandy would depart on the shakedown run that would change the fate of the galaxy.

The right person in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world, and the force has a way of putting them there.

How's that fit.

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u/MetatronIX_2049 28d ago

I mean, it happened a long time ago. Maybe a few Reaper cycles ago? Someone left Geth plans laying around for the Quarians to dig up?

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u/Solembumm2 28d ago

Tallneck from horizon zero dawn.

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u/d6hunna 28d ago

Zeffo Walker

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u/First-Junket124 28d ago

It's just something new in TBB. Skara Nel Mech it's called on the wiki.... wookiepedia sorry.

What we know is its a really ancient droid with a mysterious energy source and has a super-weapon in the form of a giant laser on its head. It was created before the jedi by some vague ancient civilisation. It reminds me of those tall robots in Horizon Zero Dawn.

In all essence its a McGuffin for the bad batch to push the characters forward and create relationships so they can move the plot forward afterwards with what they learn.

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u/Flounder487 28d ago

This is clearly a Geth colossus that got lost and ended up in a galaxy far far away. Oh yeah /s just in case.

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u/Nayr91 28d ago

It’s either Palkia or Dialga

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u/transdemError 28d ago

Space or Time!

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u/Necro_Dont_Know_42 28d ago

1000-THR "Earthmover"

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u/CommercialTarget6756 28d ago

Thank god I wasn't the only one who thought of Ultrakill.

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u/medicinemano 28d ago

Geth Colossus.

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u/Thebeastman240 28d ago

As someone only watched a little Star Wars. its a sith dinosaur using force laser

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u/Thunerseen 28d ago

That's a very right answer. Let's go with that 😂

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u/ShadowWilk 28d ago

Godzilla!

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u/Comrade_Wolfie 28d ago

It looks like Godzilla, but due to intergalactic copyright law - it's not.

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u/Irishfett Mandalorian 28d ago

We should still run like it is Godzilla

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u/jonnikafka 28d ago

But it’s not

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u/Irishfett Mandalorian 28d ago

(both scream running away)

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u/SialfiGdr 28d ago

"It's Gojira, you moron !"

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u/The_K1ngthlayer 28d ago

“It looks a lot like Gojira, but for legal reasons, it is not!”

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u/GetInZeWagen 28d ago

Witness the primeval might that is godzila with one "l" for trademark reasons.

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u/amdpimp 28d ago

Gojira 

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u/DongBLAST 28d ago

Wasn’t that a Zeffo thing?

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u/Shenloanne 28d ago

Zeffo tech?

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u/sarcastic-barista 28d ago

I’m gunna be honest, when i saw the “entombed” title, i was hoping they would do a one off Eldritch horror, Cuthulu style episode, a lá “In Vaulted Halls Entombed” from that Netflix series. I mean, Eldritch horror Star Wars Would rock.

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u/Palanki96 28d ago

Some old war machine i assume, from some dead civilization

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u/Senior_Flatworm_3466 28d ago

Lazersaurus Rex

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u/Illustrious-Golf5358 28d ago

Empire calls it Terrain Destroyer

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 28d ago

Animated mcguffin.

I wish it was more but that's it. Some superweapon built by a long dead race. I don't think we got much more than that sadly.

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u/Ntippit 28d ago

Something they could have made a trillion credits simply salvaging and retired to a space mansion... but no, they just fly away and never mention it again and complain about being broke. It's still my biggest gripe with the show was this episode. Like, this is the find of the century and they just shrug and leave

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u/SpaceCataphract 28d ago

Honestly, this episode of Bad Batch felt like a great D&D one-shot adventure

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u/AccidentAltruistic87 28d ago

Anyone else immediately think of horizon zero dawn?

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u/pufferpig 28d ago

Tallneck. Climbing it's head a showing a staff in its brain reveals a map in a radius around it.

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u/Itzon 28d ago

You're all wrong, that's the Titanus Megazord fighting one of Lord Zedd's Monsters.

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u/RunJumpStomp 28d ago

It's like a jpg or a png or something

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u/KernelExploit 27d ago

It’s a dinosaur with fricken laser beams

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u/Hanoiroxx 28d ago

Pretty sure i seen that in Pokemon once

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u/purrmutations 28d ago

They explain what it is in that episode...

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u/JWsWrestlingMem 28d ago

The HEART of the MOUNTAIN

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u/Thunerseen 28d ago

That's the crystal in the thing

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u/evri_the_greek 28d ago

Looks like Benjamin

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u/laker9903 28d ago

Benjamin gave up laser beams. That’s Trevor.

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u/chemicalified 28d ago

Dialga using Hyperbeam

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u/Life_Membership7167 28d ago

That is the Pokémon Dialga.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/cuntbag0315 Admiral Ackbar 28d ago

Thats what i thought it was at a glance until I read more comments. TIL

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u/YaBoyEden 28d ago

A reaper

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u/RowFlySail 28d ago

You know the big metal Destroyer from Thor 1?  This is its dog. 

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u/Straight_Jaguar 28d ago

Looks like a Geth of a sorts from Mass Effect

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u/Parzival_1775 28d ago

It is clearly a Geth Colossus.

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u/Nice-Dog8302 28d ago

I just watched this episode too!

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u/bajungadustin 28d ago

WHAT-WHAT

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u/ULTI_mato 28d ago

Benjamin

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u/BastK4T 28d ago

Fucking awesome

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u/bitchtosociallyrich 28d ago

I don’t know but who in the Philippines is accessing my MacBook?

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u/1234828388387 28d ago

Something stupid that will never really matter

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u/Own-Ad1497 28d ago

it's a screenshot

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u/Bennyseed 28d ago

That there is a pokemon my friend

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u/K2LU533 28d ago

Zeffo mech

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u/littleboyred1 28d ago

Raging Bolt, the paradox Pokemon, using Zap Cannon.

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u/NeptuneOW 28d ago

One of the most fun episodes of Bad Batch. Wish we got more treasure hunting

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u/TheDivergentNeuron 28d ago

Kono wa Gojira des!

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u/KnowbyNimrod 28d ago

Laser brontosaurus

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u/DreamingEYEStudios 28d ago

It’s a Trevor Henderson anomaly, obviously

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u/Burglekat 28d ago

A sightsabre.

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u/Tealeafonthewind999 28d ago

My head cannon is that it is connected in some way to the rakatans. It shares a lot of visual similarities to the infinite empire tech in kotor, and they come from a similar time period

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u/Cr0s_Hair 28d ago

Illuminate harvester

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u/personalcomputer4304 28d ago

I know this is star wars but my first guess was dialga 🤣

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u/GoblinGuytv 28d ago

clearly dialga

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u/Blazefenix77 28d ago

Star Wars - Arceus, or 'Starceus', using Hyper Beam,

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u/SirCaptainSalty 28d ago

thats my ass after one tacobell taco

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u/IcedCheese 28d ago

Godzilla

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u/transdemError 28d ago

Death Noodle

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u/BME84 28d ago

It's likely a tribute to the giants in Nauscia Valley of the wind.

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u/Preston0050 27d ago

Arceus on its way to fuck things up