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This is all ripped off available on Wookieepedia, but not with the conversion to CRC readily done and also not in a convenient list. Movie protagonists and Jedi, mainly.

A/BBY	CRC	who/what
896	7081	Yoda
509	7468	Yaddle
232	7745	Yarael Poof & Oppo Rancisis on council; Tera Sinube alive
104	7873	Jocasta Nu (A)
102	7875	Dooku, Sifo-Dyas
92	7885	Qui-Gon Jinn, Ki-Adi-Mundi
84	7893	Sheev Palpatine
72	7905	Mace Windu, Shmi Skywalker
66	7912	Adi Gallia (latest <-Siri), Eeth Koth (X)
65	7913	Cin Drallig (A)
64	7914	Tarkin, Depa Billaba (A)
60	7918	Shaak Ti (M)
58	7919	Luminara Unduli
57	7920	Obi-Wan Kenobi, Quinlan Vos
55	7922	Siri Tachi
54	7923	Maul, Agen Kolar (X)
52	7925	Stass Allie (X/A)
48	7929	Aayla Secura
47	7930	A'Sharad Hett
46	7931	Padmé Amidala
44	7933	Ferus Olin
41	7936	Anakin Skywalker
36	7941	Ahsoka Tano
35	7942	[Great ReSynchronization 0 year]
33	7944	Kanan Jarrus
32	7945	[TPM] [3 GrS]; Han Solo
29	7948	Hera Syndulla
22	7955	[AotC] [13 GrS]
21	7956	Sabine Wren
19	7958	[RotS] [16 GrS]; Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Ezra Bridger
0	7977	[ANH]
2	7979	Poe Dameron
3	7980	[ESB]
4	7981	[RotJ]
5	7982	Ben Solo
11	7988	Finn, Rose Tico
15	7992	Rey
34	8011	[TFA, TLJ]
35	8012	[TROS]

Canon birthdate used when available; if not, I used the Legends one. Explanation of codes:
A: Actor. If the actor was 30 when the film was released, I assumed the character would also be 30 in-film.
X: As above, but I couldn't find an official age for the actor so I guesstimated.
M: In Legends, Shaak Ti has two padawans who were Knighted before 22 BBY, so she would've needed the time to get herself Knighted and also train them.

In my grand tradition of coming in late with starbucks, I watched all 6 episodes of the Kenobi show yesterday. Overall I was a bit underwhelmed. Baby Leia was great, and I appreciated what they were trying to do with Obi-Wan, except that the arc felt like it was missing something – they should've tied the idea of letting go of the Anakin Obi-Wan once knew in more, or had Obi-Wan mention that though he be tied to Tatooine, he'd still do stuff to help the Rebellion.

Also they should've spent some of their budget on lighting. The day scenes were okay, but all the night scenes were just dark smudges on a dark background moving around. The camera also shook so much it was like it was experiencing its own personal earthquake, which didn't help matters.

( spoilery complaints )

I watched this in case there would be any footage I could use to touch up my vid. Given the constant shakiness of the camera, I'd say no, though I did mark the potentially useful timestamps down. If you like logical resolutions or are invested in Obi-Wan Kenobi not being a complete idiot, you should skip this one.

If any of you still remember my post about Anakin, the Tusken Raiders, and justice, I have written a fic about it, in case any of you care to look: Desert Sons. Anakin goes and confesses his crime to A'Sharad Hett as a prelude to fessing up to the Council. A'Sharad's POV.

I did sort of cheat by keeping it to A'Sharad POV and a single conversation, rather than including the Council, but I wanted it to be a manageable size and I did not in this moment feel like doing a deep dive into various philosophical schools of thought to see what they think of this sort of problem. I hope the fic will be enjoyable nonetheless.

I've just finished up on Dathomir, so I'm most of the way through; just the climactic stuff to do on Bogano. (And I need to get every planet to 100%. Who cares about saving a record of every Force sensitive child in the galaxy, I have crates to open!)

The game is very obviously designed for console. Playing with mouse and keyboard, it feels like Cal is drunkenly stumbling through pea soup. The various map and galaxy map steering is also very much psychic damage inducing. I tried playing the game on normal difficulty, went "fuck it" when I realized how much I was fighting the controls, and downgraded the difficulty to Story. I also later turned off quicktime events, having come to the conclusion that I did not enjoy them. I'd still not recommend it for people with a slow reaction speed, since there are a few sequences where you slide down a slippery slope and have to angle yourself correctly + jump just at the right moment to not fall into an abyss. (One such sequence on Zeffo nearly had me ragequit.)

Storywise, I like that it's extremely thematically about grief and betrayal and how people move on from that or Fall to the Dark. Cal, Cere, the Inquisitors, Taron Malicos, all were Jedi once. The game is Cal working to move past his past and heal his connection to the Force, while the Inquisitors and Malicos instead choose to cling to the dark. Merrin, too, is the survivor of a genocide. (That leaves Greez as the only member of the crew with a normal past.) It's inevitable, given the time period, but I like that they included Malicos and Merrin there as additional examples of the theme. Characterwise, I like Merrin much more than I expected, and I am content with the extremely basic hetship of Cal/Merrin they seem to be setting up.

The character models are all reskinned actor mocap. Cal's model is nice and believable, which is good. Merrin is using the Force to keep her bangs in place but otherwise also good. Cere's is sort of on the edge of the uncanny valley, like they took all the features of her face and put them together a bit ineptly. Baby Cal from the flashbacks is an Eldritch abomination.

I'll report back after I've actually finished the game. And maybe play the sequel at some point.

Having watched all 18 episodes of the anthology series (~15 min each), I present the following opinions! Starting with season 1. S2 will be in a later post.

The Duel
I really liked this one! The stylization wrt the color choices was on point, the fight scene animation was nice, and I really liked the concept of an ex-Sith walking the earth, intervening on the side of good whenever possible. Some minus points for having the Sith woman wear high heels, but, other than that, great. Not wholly canon-compliant, but you could place it in the deep past and I wouldn't bat an eye.

Tatooine Rhapsody
I cringed out of my skin right at the start, then skipped to the end and cringed out of my skin again. Not into Hutt rock bands.

The Twins
I watched this the whole way through and my chief reaction is wtf the fuck. Unhinged. Decided to let go of canon worldbuilding and go its own way.

The Village Bride
This one mostly felt like it was in the wrong medium. The plot hinged on the padawan choosing to step up and connect with the Force and be a Jedi after seeing the locals of a world connect to the Force, but that was all introspection and our protagonist was taciturn and didn't speak a word of it to anyone. Either this should've been a short story, or it should've been much longer than the 15 minutes. Canon-compliant for a post-Order 66 world.

The Ninth Jedi
I really liked this one! I really liked the protagonist child and the twist was not the one I'd foreseen. I like how they played with the setting – kyber is rare and lightsabers a lost art, a master sabersmith can make lightsabers that reflect the Force connection of their current wielders, Sith and Jedi are both common but the Jedi Order driven deep underground – and I'd really enjoy more of this AU.

T0-B1
The titular T0-B1 is a precious child (android edition), and I hate precious children. The entire plot also felt very compressed. I might've liked this more had it been 30 minutes, but OTOH, I just on principle dislike pwecious childwen who get people into danger because they can't bear to follow the rules, so at least this was short. Set post-Order 66 with Inquisitors and such, but I'm pretty sure that in canon, droids can't use the Force.

The Elder
This is wholly canon compliant for a prequels-ish era and I liked it very much! Dan and his eagerness were great, and his master kind and wise. I am declaring this part of my personal canon so I can include Dan somewhere.

Lop and Ochō
A story about family, legacy, and adoption, as well as resisting vs appeasing the occupying Empire. I really liked the ending and how the narrative's positioning of Ochō and the dad changed. The setting is canon enough, even if the family's legacy Jedi-given sword isn't.

Akakiri
Didn't vibe with the art style of this one, and the decision to make the female Sith Lord buff and mannish while the princess was reedy sure was A Choice. Interesting interplay about destiny – the Jedi doesn't believe in it, and saves someone despite another person saying his destiny was to die, but in the end Falls because he didn't heed his master's warnings about attachment. Doesn't do anything wild with the Force or Jedi.

In general, they did the Jedi much better than most of fandom, lol. If you want to watch only a subset, I'd rec The Ninth Jedi, The Duel, and The Elder, roughly in that order. If you want to add on a fourth one, go for Lop and Ochō.

Star Wars: The Old Republic, Jedi Consular storyline (and massive spoilers thereof). I made this one for vid_bingo's 2023 same song challenge. The song of choice was Level Up by Vienna Teng. Despite the temptation, I did not actually use any footage of my Consular leveling up. *g*

AO3.



( process thoughts )

( what the bits were trying to accomplish )

I made a new Consular just to record all this on Ultra graphics with the UI hidden. With a constant XP boost on, max exploration & class mission XP bonuses, and a subscription, I finished the story at level 47. I was playing Serenity, which gets the ball rolling at level 15 and is enjoyable from 23 onwards, and had Qyzen on DPS the whole time. :D I had to do a few heroics to stay on level, but as a stealther, those weren't a problem. More of an issue was getting to level 10 before starting the recording (due to wanting clothes that required level 10 to wear), but I managed that as well.

For the posting meme, solo asked what my oldest and newest fandom have in common. After some soul-searching on what my oldest fandom was, I decided it was the Yoko Tsuno bandes dessinées. I don't think I was ever fannish about the Donald Duck comic books or various children's lit I read, and I think Yoko and Khâny were the first shippy feelings I had, even if I didn't write any fic for them the first time round.

My latest fandom is ... well, it's Star Wars, whichever way you slice it. Technically the latest piece I saw was the prequel trilogy, but I'd seen The Clone Wars earlier, so I was already into the era, and I played Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO between them, so either the PT or SWTOR, depending on your interpretation.

Anyway, as for the actual question, the trivial answer on what they have in common is blue-skinned space babes. Khâny could honestly pass as Pantoran.

Left: Khâny. Right: Riyo Chuchi.

The canons are actually pretty compatible – the Vinéans (Khâny's species) come from the Andromeda galaxy and escaped to Earth due to their Sun going supernova two million years ago. This counts as a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, so honestly someone could write a crossover where the Vinéans are a colony of Force-blind Pantorans and I wouldn't even blink. There's also a similar sense of swooping scale and a lot of exploring old ruins on Vinéa when they go back.

In addition, the protagonist, Yoko Tsuno, is a highly qualified electrical engineer and mechanically minded. She also has an engineer's approach to problem-solving, in that she doesn't spend any time waffling over why, but sets out solving problems and being nice to people. If it is not Jedi philosophy, it is reasonably compatible with it. And of course on the Star Wars end, I don't think I would like Anakin Skywalker half as much if he weren't a relentless tinkerer and mechanic.

(Also it seems like Roger Leloup has written and drawn another few albums that have also been translated into Finnish. I last took a look when Khâny had made a hybrid Vinéan-human baby based on her and Yoko's DNA; it seems Yoko has gone on a bunch of time travel adventures since.)

...it's actually funny how much they have in common now that I think about it. What most strikes me about Yoko Tsuno is Yoko's ever-growing collection of female friends and mentees, which is not really something I associate with Star Wars, lol. Though I suppose looking at Yoko's general kindness and ability accept situations as they are before fixing them, the fact I like the Jedi shouldn't be that much of a surprise.

I finished up the vid I was talking about yesterday with some minor color grading and put it on AO3. Start a War, T-rated, Padmé as a POV character of sorts, but really it's about Palpatine the Warbringer.

I've also gone on a dive through some really archaic vid meta, like this Wiscon vidparty references link, laurashapiro's Why the Average Popsong Makes for a Boring Vid, another references post party, and storytelling and narrative. And I guess I'm not properly a part of the Vividcon vid tradition, since some of the narrative/storytelling talk seems to go over my head, but idk if it's something like me kinda knowing what they'd be doing on an instinctual level if not on the verbal, or if it's because I (like most modern vidders) am also a product of the AMV tradition, which treats the music-clip matching process differently.

ETA: Found the comment on differences between Vividcon and YouTube vidding traditions! (By seekingferret in vexercises)

I came across some complaints about a trend in fic tagged as Anakin/Consequences where Anakin gets punished for his misdeeds by all his friends kicking him to the curb in an OOC fashion and started thinking about fics where Anakin faced actual, constructive consequences that include some restitution to the Tuskens. There's a lot of fic where his Fall is averted by a time-traveling Obi-Wan determined to do right by him this time, or in general someone else saving him, with a few fics where he himself wises up and reforms himself (mandatory plug for In Fire here), but I don't think I've ever come across a fic involving restitution to the Tuskens in the wild. I mean, I wrote one (though the Tuskens themselves are more of a side note), and one of the commenters outright said Also you’re the first author I’ve seen actually take a stab at having Anakin offer reparations to the Tusken people and then spell out what those reparations were, so kudos to you I at least thought that was really well done so I assume it's not a case of me being in a fic bubble of my own making wrt filtering and all the people writing justice for the Tuskens fic being, idk, Anidala OTPers.

(FTR, the official novelization states Anakin went personally lightsabering all the warriors/adult men, then came out of his murder fugue to discover he'd created a Force sandstorm or something that killed the women and children as well.) (ETA: This was the junior novelization. I have been lied to.)

Then I started thinking about what restitution the Tuskens could possibly be offered. Sing Dead the Dark (linked above) had Anakin vaccinate the Tuskens' banthas against a settler-brought virus. Parts 2b and 3 of the series of my current WIP of doom, All That is Solid Melts into Air, will have him negotiate some sort of peace treaty/land usage settlement so as to break the cycle of Tuskens and settlers killing each other out of vengeance. What else could he offer? Help rebuilding for the survivors of the clan he massacred, even if all the adults were at best complicit in torturing his mother to death? He might also go OTT in his personal penance out of guilt and, idk, shroud Tatooine in a perpetual sandstorm to get the Hutts and the moisture farmers and the like to evacuate the planet and leave it just to the Tuskens.

But the Tuskens also seem to have a completely different moral code to the rest of the GFFA. What if Anakin turns up on Tatooine, ready to make what amends he can and atone for his crimes, only for the general Tusken opinion to be "Oh, they were torturing your mother to death? Massacring them was 100% the right thing to do, gj on succeeding with it! Honestly you're an inspiration." Like, what does he do then? How does one make amends if the people one needs to make amends to see your severe crime as no big deal? At what point does wanting to make restitution become more about one's own comfort than morality and justice?

What are the clones but an organic botnet?