"Solo" Discussion
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 9:26 pm
Alright, having re-watched "Solo: A Star Wars Story", I thought I'd talk about what this movie added to the Star Wars canon. Or in some cases, brought back in.
Much like in Legends, in Solo....
- Han was a former Imperial Navy cadet who got kicked out for being too independent - though in this case, he got sent into the Imperial Army first.
- The Imperial Naval Academy is on Carida.
- The early years of the Empire were ones when crime syndicates ran rampant.
- The Maw is also canon again - though in this case, it's a mysterious "gravity well" as opposed to a cluster of black holes.
Solo also confirms that most starships in SW are powered by fusion reactors.
Now, as for things Solo adds...
- Kessel is surrounded by something called "The Maelstrom" - which is what you'd get if the Mutara Nebula and the Hoth Asteroid Field somehow had a lovechild.
- Coaxium is a form of hypermatter that's extracted from planets, is used as hyperdrive fuel, and is volatile as hell. 100 kilograms of the stuff is said to be enough to power a fleet of 12 ISDs. Putting a single drop of it into the Millennium Falcon's fusion reactor was enough to give the Falcon enough energy to break free of the Maw's gravity.
- Coaxium has to be refined, or it will eventually explode. And when a case of 100 kilograms of coaxium DOES explode fairly early in the movie, they produce what looks like a low-kiloton explosion - that is, before sucking a lot of the surrounding matter into hyperspace, and causing the mountain that it detonated on to collapse.
- The main crime syndicate of the movie - "Crimson Dawn" - is led by Darth Maul.
I think that's it for now, regarding tech and lore...
Much like in Legends, in Solo....
- Han was a former Imperial Navy cadet who got kicked out for being too independent - though in this case, he got sent into the Imperial Army first.
- The Imperial Naval Academy is on Carida.
- The early years of the Empire were ones when crime syndicates ran rampant.
- The Maw is also canon again - though in this case, it's a mysterious "gravity well" as opposed to a cluster of black holes.
Solo also confirms that most starships in SW are powered by fusion reactors.
Now, as for things Solo adds...
- Kessel is surrounded by something called "The Maelstrom" - which is what you'd get if the Mutara Nebula and the Hoth Asteroid Field somehow had a lovechild.
- Coaxium is a form of hypermatter that's extracted from planets, is used as hyperdrive fuel, and is volatile as hell. 100 kilograms of the stuff is said to be enough to power a fleet of 12 ISDs. Putting a single drop of it into the Millennium Falcon's fusion reactor was enough to give the Falcon enough energy to break free of the Maw's gravity.
- Coaxium has to be refined, or it will eventually explode. And when a case of 100 kilograms of coaxium DOES explode fairly early in the movie, they produce what looks like a low-kiloton explosion - that is, before sucking a lot of the surrounding matter into hyperspace, and causing the mountain that it detonated on to collapse.
- The main crime syndicate of the movie - "Crimson Dawn" - is led by Darth Maul.
I think that's it for now, regarding tech and lore...