Chat corner 18: Spaceships

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner! How has your week been? Did anything Star-Wars-related happen?

 

Optional chat prompt

If you’re looking for a topic, the prompt is “spaceships”. Any spacecraft lovers around here? Do you have a favorite?

 

Comments

[annathecrow]

Courtesy link to this week's Dark Side post.

From next week, there will be no more weekly Dark Side posts, just one big bucket. I'll keep linking to it in the first comment as a reminder.

Actually... what has been your experience in the comm so far? Do you feel comfortable sharing your thoughts here? Do you feel comfortable loving things others don't, and vice versa?

For the record, I haven't seen anything that I thought should have gone into a Dark Side post but didn't. Have you? (If you don't feel comfortable speaking up, you can DM me.)

I know I myself can get a bit snarky about things (as a fan I've always been drawn to stories that I feel are flawed, and I'm not shy voicing that opinion), but I hope it hasn't been too much...? I don't know. It's a thin line and it's dark as heck our here in the real world. XD

[yourlibrarian]

I haven't either, and agree that a thread for it probably makes more sense than a separate post.

[annathecrow]

That's good to hear, thanks. :) We'll see how it goes.

I want to say ALL THE THINGS but lets start with this

[annathecrow]

Not gonna lie, even though I'm an aviation nerd, when someone says “spaceships” I think of the Starships fanvid by bironic. (Yes, that vid has made me cry in the past.)

…on no. Now I want to make a fanvid to Starships about Anakin, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan and flying. That would be so good.

 

Re: I want to say ALL THE THINGS but lets start with this

[yourlibrarian]

That's a good vid alright.

[fleurviolette]

I’m so ready to watch that Luke Skywalker special on D+ in two days!!!

I like Luke’s xwing from the ot. Meanwhile from the pt, I like the Naboo royal cruiser? So shiny!

[annathecrow]

Oh yes, Luke's X-Wing is a fave. Although... oh no. I just thought about those multiple-day galactic travel times. That must be HELL in a cockpit DX

SW is deliberately vague about travel for narrative reasons, so it's easy to handwave, and pilots do routinely sit in a cockpit this small for long hours, but all I can think of is "no toilet" and AHHHHH.

The Naboo cruisers are all VERY pretty. The one that gets blown up in the beginning of Ep II is my favorite, 100% for this scene:

The way the tops of the Coruscant buildings peak above the cloud cover... the shadow it throws on the cloud... how it disappears in them at the end... ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[fleurviolette]

You’d think the ships in Star Wars, particularly in hyperspace, they go by very quickly. But yeah, it’s quite cramped and small.

Wow! That’s a beautiful shot!

[annathecrow]

I would have made a gif if I had the time, the whole sequence is amazing. 😍

[fleurviolette]

Yup! Even their Naboo fighter ships look cool.

Oh gosh imagine if Luke finds Padme’s ship tho. 😭

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, very nice shot and a great observation. And yes, the Naboo ships were very stylish.

[yourlibrarian]

The thing I immediately thought of was a recently completed Star Wars puzzle with several spaceships in it. I'm afraid I recognized Luke's X Wing and the Millenium Falcon and that's about it 😉

It also made me think about plots in Rebels that involved new Empire tech and their need to get data on it (or sabotage it) which ended up involving some theft.

[annathecrow]

Ooh, puzzles! Do you have a picture? I wonder which ones it had...

Not that I recognize everything, mind you, but with a bit of google I hope I'd manage 😅

[yourlibrarian]

I do now! Here's the link

[annathecrow]

Dang, it's Sequel trilogy! Turns out I'm no better than you, I recognize maybe two of those, and one of them is the Millenium Falcon XD I'm trying to look the rest of them up, but it's surprisingly difficult!

Thanks for sharing, I'm having fun with it. :D

[yourlibrarian]

😁