How long ago is 'A long time ago...?'

     'Far, far away....' is a given.

     For me, a long time ago would be 100 B.C., or 10,000 B.C.

     So, when did the events in Episodes 1-6 happen in correlation to us?  Or is it all false, and it is all actually in the future? 

     So, humans that look just like us developed in another galaxy?  Or do we migrate to another galaxy?

    

     I've been confused by the year system in Star Wars.
     I finally got it. 
     'BBY' refers to 'Before Battle of Yavin'.
     'ABY' refers to 'After Battle of Yavin'.

     This makes the destruction of the first Death Star the prime event in The Star Wars Universe.
     In our Earth time, it is 'The Birth of Christ', which is also possibly fictional.

     Anyway, this before and after way of keeping time is confusing.
     I think the Chinese have their calender well into the 5000's.

     Then, the events of 'The Old Republic' take place 3000 years before BBY 0.  Or is it 30,000 years?  I get confused.

     So, is BBY 0 the year 1977 in our years?  Star Wars was supposed to happen a long time ago.  So how long ago?  I haven't found this out yet.  It seems important.
     Also, where is this Star Wars galaxy located? 

     We know Gilligan's Island is supposed to be somewhere in The South Pacific Ocean.  So I see no reason why a group of astronomers, or even Lucas himself,  can't pick a galaxy where the events of Star Wars takes place.
     We'll never be able to get there in ten generations anyhow, so what does it matter?

     Also, who discovered hyperspace?  Who was the first jedi?  Who got into space first? 

     Here is my character Goth'girl from 'The Old Republic'.  She is a level 13 Sith Warrior right now.  I like her.  She is a fun gal.
     She has a nice rack, too, but maybe she's wearing a padded bra, even though George Lucas said, "There are no bras in space".
     That was all a ploy to get Carrie Fisher not to wear a bra in Episode IV.
     It worked out.  Star Wars made a lot of money probably because in part there was a running, bouncing princess all in white.
     I know all this made my father appreciate Star Wars more when we first saw it.

     Anyway, I'm listening to 'The Thrall Trilogy' audiobooks on youtube.  They are pretty good.  There is a voice actor who sounds like Ricardo Montalban.
     One would think that they would find a female to do the voices of Leia and Mon Mothma, so that they don't sound like transvestites.

     So Han and Leia ended up having sex to produce their children.  Someone needs to make some porn of that.
     Watching Han Solo and Leia do it would be pretty funny.

     Part man, part machine, Darth Vader continues to intrigue us.  Meanwhile, I'm not too interested in Annakin at all.  I don't really like him much as a character.  He doesn't seem to have too much of a sense of humor.

     Slavery seems more than quite acceptable in The Star Wars Universe.  No one is surprised or alarmed at this.
     Even Quai-Gonn claimed ownership of Jar Jar for a life debt.
     Sure, it is all for fun, and it is all made-up, but the connection to us here on The Planet Earth is that human trafficking still continues.
     I am disturbed by this, as I am sure others are.
     What anybody can do about it is questionable.  Not even governments seem able to snuff this problem.
     It looks like human slavery on Earth will not end anytime soon, unfortunately.
     In Star Wars, though, slavery is just a part of life, like breathing air.
     The thing that Star Wars never addresses is what actually happens with female slaves.  Certainly they function as consorts, and provide warmth on a cold night.  Not complying would mean death, I would assume.
     Annakin was a slave, but he didn't seem to have it that tough, even though he was bitter about it for the rest of his life.

     While I'm thinking about it, "Who was Annakin's father?"  I'm confused about it.  Who impregnated Schmee is what I want to know.  Was it a virgin birth?  That is ridiculous.  Sperm has to hit an egg at some point.

     I'm also curious what happened with Leia while she was a slave.  Did Jabba have that little stupid laughing Kaworkian monkey molest her?  Who knows.  It is all conjecture.

     So, the whole point of Jar Jar Binks is he was the one who accidentally discovered Annakin, The Chosen One.
     Great.
     Quai-gon, one of my favorite jedi claimed a life debt on Jar Jar.

     Another thought is, "When did Luke Skywalker lose his virginity?"  He may have lost it on Tattooine, but he always seemed to young and eager, and not like the kind of person who had laid down some pipe.  Plus, he was always farming, or dusting crops, shooting womp rats for fun.
     Yeah, Luke wasn't thinking about pussy, or getting laid much.

     One other thing is that dang space worm that the Millenium Falcon lands inside while escaping TIE Fighters.
     How did the worm survive in the vacuum of space?  Also, what did the worm eat?  The asteroid?  What happens when the worm eats most of the asteroid?  Does the worm have to jump onto another asteroid?
     It's basically the Star Wars version of 'Jonah and The Whale', from The Bible.

     Another thing is this whole Annakin/Darth Vader thing as the chosen one.  It kind of gets tiring, especially when Paul Atreides was the chosen one in 'Dune'.
     Is nothing original in Star Wars?  I don't know.  Lightsabers are original, but the jedi knights seem to come from The Knights Templar, who used to be employed by The Catholic Church.

     I've come to the conclusion that all historical and literary events in Star Wars can be synthesized into The Star Wars Universe.

     Meanwhile, I'm starting to investigate selling items online.  It is a thing I should have and could have done long ago.  I wasn't ready for it, though, nor very much inclined.  I would try and get interested in ebay in the past, but I would always get burned out on it really fast.  Plus, I know nothing about taxes, or running a business.  I normally just do 'under the table' art sales, and that works out fine with me.

     Anyhow, I'm listening to 'The Phantom Menace' audiobook.  The movie presented such a confused story that I found it hard to follow all the seemingly useless details about Separitists and The Trade Federation, and all that garbage.

     Meanwhile, some guy tipped me five bucks at the cafe for my art.  That was cool.

     Final Thoughts For Right Now:  The first time I got burnt out on Star Wars was halfway through 'Return of The Jedi' with all the Ewoks and the accumulation of all this Sesame Street stuff.  No one seemed in danger anymore.  They were going to destroy the second Death Star, no big deal.  Star Wars had turned into a kiddie fest.
     To cut to the chase, it would be good if Quentin Tarentino could make a Star Wars film, and just turn things upside down, and just make a film more for adults.  F*** the kids, make an R rated Star Wars film.

     Oh yeah, I forgot...it bothers me that Annakin built C-3PO.  That just seems like a lame way to introduce Threepio into the story.  I don't like it.  I just want to rewrite it.

     One final last thing...some kid on The Old Republic game said, "This game would suck if not for the sith!"
     People are never happy.  If you give them $100, they want $105.
     SWTOR is 'free to play', and people want something for nothing, and then they complain.
     Let's see them do something besides playing online games all day, with their only accomplishment in life being a level 100 character.  Geez.

    

     'Star Wars: The Rise of Darth Vader' audiobook in five parts on youtube...is really good, and worth listening to.
     It is so good, I am going to listen to it again.
     It has what everybody wants, but were not shown in the movies....Darth Vader kicking ass on the battlefield with Stormies at his side.
     There is some of that in the video game 'Star Wars Battlefronts II', but to have the audiobook and the story available is awesome.
     I don't know how the author could write such a thing...I guess it was a lot of research about what the possibilities could be.
     There is an attack on the Wookiee home world of Kysshhyk, and Chewbacca is a featured character.
     Chewy has no love for the Empire, I will tell you that.
     Anyway, there's that, and while all this is going on, I am playing 'Star Wars: The Old Republic' which continues to blow my mind.
     I have a brother who tried it, but for some reason he wasn't as thrilled about it.  I'll have to ask him why.  Maybe he didn't give the game enough of a chance, or maybe he was busy.
     I like to camp a spot while I write, and I just stand there until my character gets attacked, and then I kill my enemy, and keep writing.

     Meanwhile, I started watching ebay videos.  I have no experience with ebay whatsoever.  I know nothing about it.
     The idea of doing ebay has been gnawing at me for a long time.  I would like to sell my paintings, possibly for outrageous prices.  That would be fun.
     I shudder about doing taxes, but I think you have sell two-hundred items before you have to worry about it too much.
     In Star Wars terms, which is all anybody cares about, well, in online games, you can sell items...and ebay is the real world equivalent of that, if you need to make everything into a fantasy, like I do, just to make it through the day.
     The thing I am worried about is I don't want some bastard to buy my art for cheap, and then turn a profit on ebay.  If anybody is going to sell my art on ebay, I want it to be me.
     I heard that this happened to an artist, so I want to be ready for that.

     Then there is the other thing, "Do I really want to spend all day shipping crap out to people just so I can make a couple bucks?"  It hardly seems worth it, unless there is a good chunk of profit involved.
     Anyway, again in Star Wars terms, I'm trying to get some mercenary xp.

     Another question that I've been thinking about in last day is, "What is more plausible?  Star Trek or Star Wars?"
     I don't know...there are ridiculous things that happen in each that make it virtually impossible to ever happen.

     Just as an aside, people in online games always ask me, "Dude!  Why do you level up so slow?"
     I don't know why it matters to them, to be honest, what I do, but the answer is that I am reading, drawing, and writing while playing, so I'm not going to level as fast as these hardcore players who devote every waking moment to these games.

     Even in the film 'Alien', the biggest problem with space science fiction is, "How in hell do you get ships to travel such vast distances and what about time dilation?  You don't want to be traveling for a year at the speed of light, and then come home, and have your family be dead for two-hundred years while you were away."
     It's a problem.

     That means that hyperspace is not just accelerated spacetime.  It has to be another dimension, where the physics of time and space are different.
     If outer space is a city, hyperspace would have to be a 'subway system'.

     Also, how can you answer a distress call if it takes you twenty years to get there?