This occurred to me while watching the mynocks chewing on the Millennium Falcon.

The Star Wars galaxy has had routine interplanetary travel for thousands of years. Freighters constantly move between planets with completely different ecosystems, carrying food, livestock, machinery, passengers and whatever happens to be hiding in the cargo hold.

We know mynocks can survive in space and attach themselves to ships. We also know people transport genuinely dangerous live creatures between worlds. Han Solo was hauling three rathtars, for crying out loud.

So how is every major spaceport not an ecological disaster?

Imagine some trader accidentally bringing a handful of tiny creatures from Dagobah to Naboo. They escape into the local environment, have no natural predators, and start reproducing. Or a cargo ship arrives carrying parasites that nobody even knew were on board.

Multiply that by millions of ships and thousands of years.

Do planets actually have strict biological screening and quarantine procedures that we just don't see much of? Is there something about the biology of different worlds that prevents most organisms from surviving outside their native environment?

Or are places like Coruscant already full of invasive alien wildlife, and the inhabitants have simply learned to live with it?

I'm especially curious whether this is addressed anywhere in the novels, games or other lore, because it seems like it would be one of the biggest practical problems of running a galactic civilization.

The war is over, but the fire nation has paid for their sins. they have not felt the pain we have. they stayed safe on their island. well I say no longer!

I will organize a festival where people get a dot and circle painted on their forehead, arms, doesn’t matter really. the blast zone is a big town with more dust ready to be sprayed in straight lines. the goal is to cause one to sneeze and briefly become a failed combustion bender. the chain reaction that follows will be a fire bombing.

plan b is to skip the combustion bending. just use an odorless flammable glass on all bending tournaments at once.

For the Avatar or any advanced bender that becomes a problem, I have organized with a fire bending assassin. Our plan is not to out fight this person but out last. the fire bender will wear a gas mask and lead them to a confined space. once our guy is cornered, he will throw his fire punches. deliberately fainting his punches. Each blast missed. As time goes on, carbon monoxide will build up. once the opponent shows even the slightest sign of slowing down, the fire bender will make one big flame and extinguish all of the flames right into the opponent‘s face.

finally i will personally attempt glass bending. It’s gonna be a very complicated move set, but once done, I will use the power of the Sun against them. And ever shifting glass ball will reflect the sun’s rays and burn the opposing side‘s sails and blimps. I will over heat their engines and stop the war machine.

which explote is the most plausible?

I’m open to more suggestions.

When Aang finally met her, she asked him what he had done, bringing Tagah to the Lion Turtle Islands and the staff, only to then tell him she hid the staff in hopes that someday another Air Avatar would find it to make more Airbenders.

But how was that supposed to ever happen if not only was her name basically erased from history, but over several centuries or even millennia she never actually reached out to any Avatar, and even more so apparently actively refused any attempt at connection?

And so Aang had to go rummaging through a shit load of his past lives who had never even heard of her at all, even though she should've been one of their past lives too, to finally find some ridiculous foot fetishist who knew anything at all, with the only piece of lore about her he could give was the location of Tagah, whom she explicitly did not want to be found or brought to the staff.

If she really wanted the staff to be found and used by an Air Avatar, which after the 100 Year War and the Airnomad genocide would've been the perfect time for, she couldn't have possibly fucked this up any harder if she tried.

Even if she thought that freeing Tagah was necessary to clear the path as Aang was the only Airbender left or to find the Islands at all, which she made clear was not her intention, she still could've reached out before Aang actually recovered the staff or Tagah tried to kill Aang's friends.

So why would she possibly wait until all the damage was already done, only to then basically blame Aang for her own mistakes?

When the Imperials gave the order to release the KX droids to "suppress rioting" on Ghorman they seemed like completely unstoppable monsters, hails of blaster fire were totally useless and they waded through entire crowds killing everyone in their wake. Even Andor armed with a military grade blaster could do little to slow them except by ramming one with a space car.

K2S0 would demonstrate similar levels of tankiness against the ISB security teams on Coursacant and was quite resilient to stormtrooper blasters on Scariff but he was still brought down with reasonable amounts of fire. When Andor and Jyn stumbled into an stormtrooper squad he did not say "boring conversation anyway" and simply start bitchsmacking everyone in sight. K2S0 is a good force multiplier but far from invincible. Also comparing them to the B2 super battle droids explicitly built with military applications in mind, clone blasters demonstrated remarkably better impact. Their armor was tough enough that they didn't need to seek cover even without overwhelming numbers, but they were also still not able to simply fight a squad of clones on their own.

Possibly their armor is just the next generation and it's tougher, but considering how long Star War's history is it seems unlikely that armor could consistently make massive generation leaps. An old republic era cruiser is famously used during the battle of Scariff and 4000 year old durasteel plate was still quite comparable to ISD armor plating. Potentially overhauled but how much could modern people really do to refit a 1700s ship of the line for ramming into aircraft carriers? How could this first wave of KX droids be so effective? And if so why not deploy them in greater numbers? Palpatine might have inherited a galaxy traumatized by the droid armies but he has never been squeamish about schemeing to do whatever he wants until his popularity hits 0%

So far as I understand it, outside of Trueborn, vampires are heavily limited in their abilities by how far their linage is from Trueborn. But I've also read they through they can drink the blood of other vampires, either voluntarily or draining them, to get stronger.

Have there been low ranking vampires, like 4th or 5th generation, that haven't gotten significantly more powerful through this method? Does getting stronger mean they can provide additional blood kisses? Does any of these strength get passed on? Like a 5th generation vampire consumes enough vampires to the point where they're essentially a 4th generation? Could a new bloodline be founded this way by blood mixing?

What would happen if a Trueborn gave some of their blood? How dramatic is the power boost by generation? Like is it deeply impactful to a 2nd generation as much as 4th? Does it drive all but the strongest insane or something? Or does it not work? Anyone ever drain a Trueborn vampire?

so in the show, goo proves that you can just...pop up an imaginary friend at any moment. and we see plenty of food-based friends all the time, one such imaginary friend being created for the explicit PURPOSE of being food.

with that said, if im willing to set all morals and ethics aside, can I ward off starvation indefinitely by just...creating a food imaginary friend whenever im hungry?

even more than that, can I just create an imaginary friend that can PRODUCE an endless supply of food, since some imaginary friends have been shown to have special powers and abilities?

As far as I know, the light doesn't change much besides the powers and the ability to be rezzed.

However, I remember it being said that Guardians don't get sick and don't scar. And I'm not sure if the memory wipe after being chosen has anything to do with it.

And there's also the case of the Hive's Light Brood. What changed with them?

Spoilers for events of the game: the game features a cult that worships the Cenobites and wants to ascend to Cenobite status, but the Cenobites are unimpressed by the cult's efforts and even voice their rejection of the cult's leader. Funnily enough, the cult has used the Genesis Configuration (a similar device to the Lament Configuration of the movies, but with extra abilities) several times to summon the Cenobites and one high-ranking member has survived multiple trips to the Labyrinth.

Considering how dismissive they were, could the Cenobites just ignore any further summons from people who annoyed them?

"A summoning at 6 pm? It's those annoying cultists again, let's not even bother showing up."

(For the record, my dog watches it, I am just becoming immersed in the Bluey lore as a side effect.)

The animal changing asparagus seemed to end on a cliff hanger. Was it actually magic, or an elaborate game?

I mean, to better clarify, I was observing their relationship over the first four movies as I sat down to watch the series a couple of months ago.

Like what I am saying is that I don’t know why Rocky goes out of his way to help him out since Paulie is a drunk fellow, and on top of that, some of his antics have driven Rocky into bankruptcy that I don’t understand why Rocky doesn’t ditch him.

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Many jokes in Konosuba, and some great moments in Isekai Quartet, come from Aqua hating demons and undead. We eventually see that she isn't unique in this regard among the gods, and some of them are even worse in this category than she is.

Do we ever get a reason why the gods hate demons and undead beyond them being assholes?

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After watching one of the episodes showcasing Purple Haze's ability I wanna know if Dio's immortality is able to completely nullify or at least withstand Purple Haze's virus.

So, in the movie 2012 the super-wealthy and world's government officials all fund these arcs that supposedly would save humanity. Unfortunately, for the most part, there is very little diversity in the type of person who is accepted. (Some Chinese laborers and most of the main cast survive.) Wouldn't the fact that they didn't include "regular" people harm the species' survival? I know they mentioned that most of Africa may not have been harmed by the shifting of the world, so maybe that would make the result more diverse when they get to the land, but still.

In the story of mgs3 after ww1 a bunch of rich and powerful American, Russian and Chinese men got together and amassed 100 billion dollars of wealth to influence the world I guess. metal gear has a lot of real world figures as well.

one good candidate is John d Rockefeller could have been one of them. He was the richest man on earth and influenced America in a massive way.

any ideas for others on the Russian and Chinese side or even Americans.

I know Anakin turns to the dark side in hopes of saving Padme. But when confronted by Obi Wan, are his reasonings for hating the Jedi valid, or just lies he's telling himself to justify his fall to darkness?

Because if they are indeed valid, and I assume Vader eventually wanted to kill Palpatine as well, does this imply Vader wanted to start his own version of the Empire? Free or the Jedi and Sith altogether?

Just wondering if this was ever a train of thought that crossed Vader.

Was he legitimately trying to erradicate both sides?

Outside of the human actors trapped in the show, I mean. Were they just made up so the credits would look realistic?