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Where is this image of Vader from?
This is a production still from the 2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi series:
Source: https://www.starwars.com/obi-wan-kenobi-stills-gallery
It depicts Vader on the unidentified moon from the sixth and final ...
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Why did the Sith want to build the Death Star if "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."?
The evidence of why is in Motti's reply to Vader's statment. From the Episode 4 script at IMDB:
VADER
Don't be too proud of this
technological terror you've
constructed. ...
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Why did the Sith want to build the Death Star if "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."?
A few things to unpack here; first off Tarkin didn't come up with the idea for the weapon, he just co-opted and took credit for it once it was clear the thing was finally working as advertised.
The ...
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What is written on Darth Vader's Chest control panel?
This is addressed by Leland Chee (AKA Lobot) in Star Wars Insider 103. Apparently the letters are random nonsense and have no meaning whatsoever.
Q. What do the Hebrew letters on the chest box of the ...
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What do the buttons on Darth Vader's suit do?
Vader - a 3-D Reconstruction Log
The chest plate is Vader's life systems computer. The silver bands that
bracket both sides of the box are life functions sensor arrays that
constantly monitor Vader's ...
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Has Darth Vader ever laughed?
Legends: Yes
He laughs in Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows:
Sing tensed. She had no weapons, but that did not mean she was unarmed. "Are you calling me a fool— Lord Vader?"
He laughed....
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Why did the Sith want to build the Death Star if "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."?
What you're hearing in this scene is Vader's opinion. By comparison, Palpatine seems overwhelmingly in favour of mechanical terror weapons to try to control the galaxy. This is his fifth attempt (that ...
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When did Vader fight IG-88?
Darth Vader #13 is the thirteenth issue of the canon comic series Star
Wars: Darth Vader. It was written by Greg Pak, illustrated by Guiu
Vilanova, and published by Marvel Comics on June 23, 2021.
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Does "Vader" carry connotations of "father" to a speaker of Galactic Basic Standard?
According to Star Wars creator George Lucas, he experimented with various combinations of names for the character built upon the phrase "Dark Water". Then he "added lots of last names, ...
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If Darth Vader sensed Kenobi aboard the Millennium Falcon, why didn't he go aboard?
For a couple of reasons.
Vader was told that no one was in the ship, and so he assumed it was empty. This leads to #2
The Force has many abilities, and one of them is sensing someone's location. ...
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Was Grand Moff Tarkin under Darth Vader's control?
No, In The new Canon Darth Vader 2017 comic Tarkin does not have authority over Vader at first but they worked together.
But later Palpatine specifically told Vader he had to obey Tarkin.
In Legends I ...
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Could Vader have become strong enough in the Force to leave his suit?
Legends: It's possible
Around 4,000 years before the time period of the films, the Sith Lord Darth Sion suffered much more extensive injuries than Darth Vader, and held himself together with the Force....
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