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2022-09-11, 07:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Corellia's a pretty old part of the EU and Hal's home planet there, but I mostly know of it because it's the last planet of SWTOR's original class stories, right before Ilum.
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2022-09-12, 07:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Millennium Falcon is canonically a Corellian Engineering Corporation YT-1300 Light Transport, something I learned from all the time I spent playing through the whole X-Wing series.
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2022-09-12, 07:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Corellian" - and thus the implied concept of a "Corellia" - first appeared in Star Wars in A New Hope, when Han boasted that "I've outrun Imperial starships - not the local bulk cruisers, mind you; I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now" while he and Obi-Wan were discussing passage to Alderaan in the Mos Eisley cantina. I don't recall if Han himself was ever identified as being Corellian in the Original Trilogy, but he was certainly accepted as such in the EU very early on.
The term "Corellian corvette" was not to my recollection used in the movies. However, "Corellian Corvette" is one of the more common names that EU material (particularly older EU material, though that may also describe the type of ship as a "Rebel Blockade Runner;" more recent EU material might use some part of "Corellian Engineering Corporation CR90 Corvette" instead) applied to the type of ship which carried Princess Leia in the opening scene of A New Hope; at least one more such vessel appears in Return of the Jedi as part of the Rebel fleet attacking the Death Star at Endor. Tantive IV, the specific corvette featured in A New Hope, reappears at the end of Rogue One and - apparently, despite Darth Vader ordering its destruction during the events of A New Hope - as part of the fleet that shows up to attack Exegol at the end of The Rise of Skywalker.
The films contain at least two other types of ship, both featured in the Prequel Trilogy, which could fairly reasonably be referred to as "Corellian Corvettes" but which usually aren't what is meant when that term is used:
- Most reasonably, the Corellian Engineering Corporation CR70 Corvette, a predecessor of the CR90, which featured as Senator Bail Organa's personal starship at the end of Revenge of the Sith.
- Slightly less reasonably, the Corellian Engineering Corporation Consular-class Cruiser, sometimes also called a "Republic Cruiser," which featured as the type of ship which carried Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi to the Trade Federation command ship over Naboo. This type of ship is canonically unarmed in the standard pre-Clone Wars configuration, so "cruiser" is probably meant to indicate something more along the lines of a pleasure cruiser than the warship classification; given its size and apparent similarity to the CR70 and CR90, a warship version of it would most likely be used for the same roles as these and thus should most appropriately be classified similarly, so it could therefore could be termed a corvette - though Star Wars (especially EU Star Wars) is not especially consistent with its classification conventions.Last edited by Aeson; 2022-09-12 at 07:02 PM.
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2022-09-13, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, amazing reply! And yeah, I think the "Corellian Corvette" from the old flight-sim games is specifically the same model of ship as the Tantive IV.
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2022-09-18, 09:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Darths & Droids VI: Thread title will appear here when received
Originally Posted by memnarch
Unless you're talking about the movie.
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2022-09-18, 10:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-09-18, 11:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-09-20, 11:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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In the comic Anakin claims the title of Sith, but really so could any Jedi who wanted to. IIRC D&D doesn't have the Light Side/Dark Side distinction, and thus no real distinction between Jedi and Sith. Anakin was, as far as we know, the first Jedi to claim the title, but you could argue that's just him snapping after everything and that the 'real' Sith are just the Jedi equivalent of Boogeymen.
Kylo is just a Jedi/Force User (I'm not sure if D&D restricts the title to official Cheddar* Monks).SpoilerAs for Snoke I've forgotten if D&D has established him as a force user, but he gets the same deal.
As for the moviesSpoilerKylo is a Dark Jedi and Knight of Ren, which I believe are two different things and not mutually exclusive. If you take TFA era commentary I believe that Snoke is not a Sith but his order, if any, are unknown. By Resurrection of the Emperor he's a Sith in all but name, and possibly a Sith in name as well.
On that noteSpoiler: Comic Speculation, Movie SpoilersThe comic's Knights of Ren, force users or not? I don't remember them using it explicitly on screen, and they can easily be turned into Kylo's bodyguards or personal hit squad.
* Which after all these years still sounds nothing like Jedi.
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2022-09-21, 12:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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* Which after all these years still sounds nothing like Jedi.with more of an elongated schwa at the starta more closed version of the back vowel, making probably more like [[ʌˑɪ]]; and we don't bother with the rhotic "ar" so we get another vaguely-open back vowel instead. So we get [[ˈdʒe̝dʌˑɪ]] as a half-rhyme with [[ˈtʃe̝dʌ]]. (Apologies to those whose devices won't display IPA.)
edit: some Australian accents; and I'm not a phonologist so I had to revise this a few times.Last edited by theangelJean; 2022-09-21 at 12:36 AM.
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2022-09-21, 12:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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I live about 150 miles from Cheddar Gorge. While you could mangle the first syllable to be close enough, I've been to where the cheese comes from and there they don't rhyme.
Like, I legitimately spent years wondering what the bloody cheese that supposedly sounds like Jedi is. You might think it's obvious from the comic, but I'm fairly certain that Jim is not just the kind of player who misremembered names, I'm fairly certain he's the kind of player who'll use a silly term to mess with the GM
And it might be ten to seven, but I've had a lot of trouble sleeping and could murder an IPA.
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2022-09-21, 01:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, now I really want to know what distinction you're making.
Here's "Cheddar" as pronounced by a local starting at 1:25, and an Australian in the rest of the video - yes, we completely mangle it, but we're using the same phonemes.
Here's Jedi as pronounced by Alec Guinness starting at 0:17,
as pronounced by Frank Oz as Yoda starting at 0:51,
and in a similar Australian accent to the above.
I can hear the difference between the English, American and Australian accents. But other than the voiced vs unvoiced consonants (CH vs J), I can't hear the distinction within the same accent. Is it a different vowel?I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2022-09-21, 05:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm not on WiFi, so I'll watch later, but in my experience it really is a different vowel sound* (with cheddar having the shorter vowel). I get now that it's an accent dependent joke, but at least for me it wasn't obvious for years.
* I am not a linguist, this is just guesswork from what I regularly hear.
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2022-09-21, 05:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Was it really years? Jim says “a type of cheese” in #3, and “Cheddar” first in #75 then several times later. That's only half a year.
Though on the other hand, I still have no idea if Padawan being a “woven rug” and the Sarlacc being a “buttered snail” are supposed to be puns and what they refer to. Plus of course there are lots of strip titles that are obscure puns that refer to song lyrics, and I likely don't understand half of them.
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2022-09-21, 06:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-09-21, 06:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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I can't even mangle the "Ch" sound into a "J" listening to the Australian example. In all the videos it's clear people are saying Cheddar and Jedi. I get what they were going for and it works as a "Jim is being weird/dumb" joke, but the pronunciation never worked for me either.
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2022-09-21, 06:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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It might just be monophtonghization in jedi producing the same syllable as the terminal one in cheddar (if pronounced in a non-rhotic fashion). I'm no expert on Australian dialects and sociolects, however, so I'm not sure how common smoothing is thereabouts.
I mean, those two affricates form a voiced/voiceless pair. They couldn't be more similar while still distinct.Last edited by Metastachydium; 2022-09-21 at 06:25 AM.
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2022-09-21, 07:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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That's similar to what I was trying to describe a couple posts ago, until Anonymouswizard said the difference was the first syllable.
edit: ahh, I wasn't thinking of smoothing, just the rhyming parts of the words up until the ɪ in Jedi. We have some smoothing but not usually for the "I" sound.
I mean, those two affricates form a voiced/voiceless pair. They couldn't be more similar while still distinct.
In practice, given how many different pronunciations of "ch" there are in different languages, I guess I shouldn't be surprised if people form them differently in different dialects as well. Or that there are different vowels to go with them, for that matter.Last edited by theangelJean; 2022-09-21 at 07:17 AM.
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2022-09-21, 07:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-09-21, 10:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ooh! I misinterpreted you, then:
Right then. I thought you meant that the first syllables were not close enough to even rhyme, unless you mangled them. If it's the "ar" vs the "aye" you're talking about, then no, they don't rhyme. But in General Australian I'd call it close enough to be a half-rhyme, like "clothe" and "close" - same starting vowel sound, different ending. And we elongate the "a" sound in "Cheddar" a tiny bit to make up for dropping the "r".Last edited by theangelJean; 2022-09-21 at 10:23 AM.
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2022-09-21, 01:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Cheddar" and "jedi" are not supposed to sound the same, it was a running gag that Jim would provide spontaneous explanation that made no sense. Like "droid" -> "butler", and who can forget "tuna booze oil"?
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2022-09-21, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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But this raises the question: was Anakin the Leicester Monk? Because Leicester cheese is red (orangish) while Cheddar cheese is white (yellowish).
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2022-09-21, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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If you want an evil cheese for the Sith, I suggest casu marzu.
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2022-09-21, 04:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've still never heard the word "cheddar" pronounced with a hard I sound the way Jedi always is...
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2022-09-21, 11:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yes, but part of the joke was that tuna booze oil was Ben mishearing the GM describing them stepping on "to Naboo's soil" and Jim providing spontaneous explanation - that made no sense for the situation, but was a plausible description of "tuna booze oil". I've had to go back many times to check that it wasn't Jim who misheard, but it's got to be Ben, as there are only two players plus the GM at that point and they all speak in that panel. In the case of "Jedi" Ben repeated it correctly and it was Jim who misheard.
Now I'm wondering if he misheard it as "Cheddar-y".I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2022-09-22, 11:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-09-23, 07:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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I made a webcomic, featuring absurdity, terrible art, and alleged morals.
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2022-10-04, 07:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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New comic: something is definitely up.
Am I misremembering, or did Rey remove a part from a mechanism not long ago?I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2022-10-04, 10:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm... Is it the thing that allows the new Peace Moon to do the time-traveling beam thing, and it's now giving Rey some sort of time-based power by being in her possession? (Also, the fact that I barely remember the movie makes the comic exciting, I don't really know where this scene is going!)
I'm curious about the title of today's strip though... it couldn't be Tippett as in Benjamin Tippett, from the Titanium Physicists podcast?The Heplion Contingency - Low-tech Cyberpunk with Psychic Powers!
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