MEP EP#307: Sixth Annual MacroFab Star Wars Christmas Special - The Bad Hunch

MEP EP#307: Sixth Annual MacroFab Star Wars Christmas Special - The Bad Hunch

Latest in Star Wars Media

• What has released since last year's Star Wars podcast episode 255?
  
  
  • Star Wars Visions
  
  
  • Ending of Mandalorian Season 2
  
  
  • LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
  
  
  • Bad Batch
  
  
  • Does Audible count?
    
    
    • Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy book 2 and 3 were this year
    
    
    • Star Wars: The High Republic
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Upcoming releases you're excited for?
  
  
  • The Book of Boba Fett
  
  
  • Ahsoka when it finally comes out
    
    
    • Mostly because it should have a live action version of Thrawn
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

Parker

• StarWars Visions Ep 5: The Ninth Jedi asteroid grabbing trebuchet engineering exercise
  
  
  • PDF of the document
  
  
  
  

Stephen

• The battle of exegol is dumb….
  
  
  • PDF of the document
  
  
  
  

Hyr0n

• Star Wars Visions episode 9: Akakiri
  
  
  • Praise/Rant
  
  
  
  


• Lego Star Wars - Could you actually build…
  
  
  • The stupidest spreadsheet ever
  
  
  • TLDR: The only thing in LEGO SW Universe that could produce enough LEGO to build Death Star 1, is Death Star 1
  
  
  
  

Chris

• Technology in Star Wars


• What fictional technology do you think would make the most immediate impact on your life? How would you integrate it into your own work?
  
  
  • Anti-gravity, repulsors (floating stuff)
    
    
    • Vehicles are the obvious cool application
    
    
    • Manufacturing?
      
      
      • I worked in a foundry
      
      
      • The heat from the hot iron and the refractory sand constantly wore down the bearings in the conveyor system
      
      
      • If things could just float it would be amazing
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Droids
    
    
    • How does anyone actually program these?
    
    
    • In The Mandalorian it seemed like it wasn’t a simple task to reprogram IG-11
    
    
    • Anakin “built” C3PO but did he really build it or assemble it?
    
    
    • In the series they say to “wipe the protocol droid’s memory” it seems like whatever the tech is it is easy to wipe memory but not easy to change programming
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Hyperspace
    
    
    • Outside of exploration and colonization would this really make an immediate difference in day to day life
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Power Density