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Maybe just my nostalgia for old star wars lore, but I found this to be a surprisingly pleasant read. It felt like a conversation with old friends at 3 in the morning.

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When fiction’s grounded like this, even if much of it is fantastical, you can have fun filling in gaps this way. It’s fertile ground for BSing about. Stuff kinda makes sense, just as a consequence of the media taking inspiration from the real and the familiar, and from the writers trying not to do anything too silly in ways that would strain credulity to the point that they break immersion.

If you write your fiction like a couple of 6-year-olds making up stories with toys in a sandbox, where there’s far less grounding in real world events and context, and plot beats or world-building elements are more likely to occur solely for the script-writer’s convenience than because they seem plausible and appropriate… well. You get what the author alludes to at the tail end of the piece.

I grew up playing 1/72nd tabletop wargames with my dad and his friends - Napoleonic to WW2 usually. Often with Star Wars/Trek or Babylon 5 on the TV.

This was our 3am conversations.

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