If we take Legends as canon, it was also full of hostile sentient giant bug-people that could literally embrace other humanoids into their hive-mind against their will.
Killiks are terrifying and it’s good the planet is gone.
im starting to think it was a good idea all of the ‘legends’ stuff got death star’d
like really what’s the point in coming up with countless reasons as to why one of the defining, in your face, ‘these guys are the bad guys’ moments from the first movie of your franchise should be undermined like that
Legends have some good stuff, but Star Wars has always felt a need to explicitly rewrite and re-contextualize every tiny piece of lore or part of the setting.
It’s a huge part of why it was made into Legends in the first place. It’s impossible to have a coherent universe if you need to adhere to all of that.
i wish i was paraphrasing to the extreme but murder attempts over slights, decade long grudge lists enshrined in gold and bickering over who knowns a shack in the middle of nowhere because of an imaginary piece of paper signed by lord farquad tirion mcfording the 14th says its yours and every other house is smelly actually is the daily grind of alderaan
Deciding to give a intricate backstory to everything and every background character and object, including making the death star a sentinent AI, was always one of legends weaknesses honestly.
Alderaan RP on Swtor is basically the bottom barrel of the WoW House RP guilds. Family drama, copious amounts of ERP and alot of OOC bickering about who is more powerful in the lore. (They all try to one-up each other in wealth).
The Mandalorian already proved that Star Wars is at its best when it straight-faced plays as a Western. Or at least a street-level, slightly grubby and dangerous but much more Real world.
The fantastical elements are neat and all, but there’s only so long you can go with years and years of Sith and Jedi before it grows stale.
IG-88, some murder robot, got into its core or something. Death Star blew up just because he was about to do bad robot nonsense. It didn’t make sense then, doesn’t now.