• Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    The lore is that the saarlac actually keeps you alive while digesting you. Like, it puts roots in that act as life support so it has a constant source of protein or whatever.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      That makes as much sense as The Matrix using people for energy. You can’t feed people to keep them alive and get more energy out than just digesting (or in the Matrix burning) that food for energy.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      It’s Star Wars. Of course someone took an offhand comment that wasn’t meant to be thought of past the scene it’s in and wrote a whole story about it.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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        12 days ago

        Well if people like OP are going to hate on it of course someones going to work out an explanation for it.

  • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    Well we know Tatooine orbits a pair of stars somehow and it’s still in the Goldilocks zone just enough to make it semi habitable still. My assumption is that these are white dwarfs or something smallish.

    Could this be explained that the local year is much shorter? Add in that Hutt is well versed in his own biology which assuming a he isn’t strangled by a tentacle, could be slowly digested alive for a 1000 Tatooine years? He probably forgets that about his pathetic cute biped pets.