• One, I suspect totally unintentional, thing I kinda like about the Star Wars world building, is it seems like most alien species are a bit “whatever” about all the political shit the humans are getting into.

    Clearly there are exceptions, you seem some aliens with the rebellion, a few aliens get close to humans and get involved in their affairs (Chewbacca), but it seems like a lot of them just have an attitude of “not really our business”. Which is kind of how I expect things would be if we ever ended up in a universe with a lot of diverse sapient species, some would get involved with our affairs but most would just be like “hey I’ll trade you some Wagpog for your Dingloo and I don’t really give a shit about anything beyond that”.

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          The Rebellion’s official name is “The Alliance to Restore the Republic”, it’s a group of autonomous resistances acting in coordination. This is old canon I think but one of the big ones are the squid people who supply the Alliance with ships.

          • I actually knew that but I find it a bit weird now because Andor seems to imply that there were a lot of pro-separatist factions in the rebellion. I think Andor himself was in a pro-Confederation militia before the events of the show.

            IDK I guess Neo-Republicans took over.

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            This is old canon I think but one of the big ones are the squid people who supply the Alliance with ships.

            Mon Calamari, yeah, the species Admiral Akbar is. I don’t think it’s ever stated in the movie, but all the more round ships in ROTJ were theirs, meant to contrast with the much more angular human designs.

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      One, I suspect totally unintentional, thing I kinda like about the Star Wars world building, is it seems like most alien species are a bit “whatever” about all the political shit the humans are getting into.

      Never get into the old expanded universe

      • That’s cuz the EU is pretty hit or miss quality wise. For every KOTOR there’s like ten really bad comics about the robot that patched Luke up at the end of Empire was also friends with Yoda and ran a coffee shop with him.

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      There’s also probably a heap of aliens who are like “okay I breath Methane and everyday I interact with humans I have to wear this stupid suit, can I just deal with my shit right now thanks?”