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dude star wars is so good and/or bad and/or mediocre sometimes, depending

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I think one of the best and unintentionally funniest worldbuilding aspects in Star Wars is the reasoning of why did Bail and Breha adopt Leia instead of having their own children. Leia is first established as the princess of Alderaan before she is written to be Luke's sister. So now we need to figure out how she got to Alderaan. She was adopted because she needed to be hidden and separated from her brother. Bail was placed there to be one of the only people who knew so there would be a reason why it was them who got her. They specifically wanted a daughter. Why? Because Alderaan is a matriarchal society, so they needed a princess. Why didn't the Queen and her husband have biological children? Because they can't. Why? Because the Queen can't have kids. Why? Because she got injured as a teenager and got her internal organs replaced and her body can't handle a pregnancy. How did she get injured so badly? She fell off of a mountain. How did that happen? She was climbing it. Why was the future Queen climbing a mountain in the first place? Because she needed to go through three challenges in order to inherit the throne and one of them required her to go through something physically impressive. Why? Because before that they just held a Battle Royale for all the heirs and the one left alive got the throne and they at some point figured out that maybe they shouldn't be doing that, actually. Oh, okay.
I am once again reminded of this image
they're always bringing experts or activists on the news to agitate about porn and there's a standard script for this that's like "I think sex education is important, I'm not anti-sex, but so much of this porn is violent and misogynistic if not outright illegal, and it's far too accessible to our children"
I want to see someone finally be brave enough to say that the government should just make its own porn for teenagers that accords with community values, so they don't have to go to these shady places to get it. I think the government porn would probably be pretty bad but I would be so eager to hear about the process of designing it. there would be so many stakeholders and consultations. in canada it would have to be bilingual
no-one would find it at all sexy at first but then in 20 years there'd be a thriving fetish scene where people develop elaborate codes and practices around culturally-embedded tropes from government porn
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I'm convinced this exists in the Star Trek universe. It's labeled "educational," starts with trigger warnings, and includes explicit consent and proper condom procedure. At the end they both go to sickbay to be checked for new cross species STIs.
Okay, hear me out.
One of the quiet background realities of the Star Wars galaxy is that it is spectacularly bad at labor. Not just βlate-stage capitalismβ bad, but structurally, culturally, and institutionally allergic to the idea that workers should have enforceable protections. Youβve got child soldiers, child labor, debt slavery, corporate fiefdoms, and a Republic that can field a galaxy-spanning bureaucracy but somehow never gets around to standardizing βmaybe donβt enslave people.β The Empire of course doesnβt fix this; it industrializes it.
So in that environment, formal labor law is either nonexistent, unenforced, or actively hostile. Which means if youβre operating in a sector where the state either canβt or wonβt protect you, you get a classic historical pattern: workers build their own rules.
Enter the gray economies.
Groups like the Smugglers' Alliance (Legends) and the Bounty Hunters' Guild (new canon) look, at first glance, like professional associations for criminals. But if you squint at them through a labor history lens, they start to look a lot like early, proto-union structures β especially the kinds you see in maritime or extralegal industries on Earth.
Think pirate codes (yes actual ones, Pirates of the Caribbean didn't make that up). Think matelotage agreements. Think dockworker brotherhoods that predate formal unions.
Because what do these groups actually do?
They:
set norms for compensation and contracts
regulate competition to prevent destructive undercutting
provide a framework for dispute resolution
establish reputational systems (βyou donβt honor contracts, you donβt get workβ)
Thatβs industry self-governance in the absence of law.
Take bounty hunting. Without something like the Bounty Hunters' Guild, the field collapses into chaos: clients donβt pay; hunters underbid each other into oblivion; jobs get duplicated, interfered with, or sabotaged. And nobody trusts anybody!
The Guild steps in and says: here are the rules of engagement. Hereβs how claims work. Hereβs how you get paid. Hereβs what happens if you break contract.
Thatβs basically a union crossed with a licensing board and a regulatory agency, just without any moral pretense.
Same with the Smugglers' Alliance. Smuggling is inherently risky, decentralized, and dependent on trust networks. If everyone is constantly betraying everyone else, the whole system stops functioning. So instead, you hash out agreed-upon routes and territories, informal protections against betrayal, mechanisms for information sharing, and consequences for breaking the code
Again: not altruism. Stability.
And the reason this emerges specifically in gray/illegal sectors is because they have to. The Core Worlds might pretend they have laws, but those laws donβt meaningfully protect the people actually doing dangerous, itinerant, high-risk work. So the margins of the galaxy β where enforcement is weakest and risk is highest β become the places where labor organization evolves first.
Which is very historically grounded.
On Earth, some of the earliest labor protections didnβt come from governments; they came from workers in dangerous, decentralized industriesβsailors, pirates, minersβwho literally wrote their own rules because no one else was going to save them.
Pirate codes, for example, often included:
compensation for injury
shared distribution of loot
limits on captain authority
Which is β¦ shockingly progressive compared to a lot of contemporary working conditions (cough Amazon cough).
So in the galaxy far, far away, you end up with this ironic inversion:
The βlegitimateβ systems β Republic, Empire, megacorporations β are exploitative, inconsistent, or indifferent.
The βillegitimateβ systems β smugglers, bounty hunters β are the ones building functional labor frameworks, because they need to survive.
And that feeds back into why the galaxy feels so unstable overall. Thereβs no universal baseline of rights. Everything is hyper-local, network-dependent, and contingent on whether youβre inside a system that has rules you can rely on.
If youβre a clone trooper? You are literally property.
If youβre a factory worker on a corporate world? Your protections are whatever your employer feels like offering.
But if youβre a smuggler or a bounty hunter?
You might actually have clearer expectations about your pay, your risks, and your recourse β because your βunionβ is the only thing standing between you and total chaos.
So yeah: the Smugglersβ Alliance and the Bounty Huntersβ Guild arenβt just flavor. Theyβre a glimpse of what labor organization looks like in a galaxy where the state has fundamentally failed to provide it.
Which is both deeply funny and a little too real.
#you're telling me han solo is a union man? (via @professorsparklepants)
Han Solo look SO MUCH like a union man.
I did some changes to the fit of my riddler cause I thought his coat felt a little too generic (this checker pattern will definitely not come bite me in the ass later)

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Harvey Dent week! Starting with a banger. Sometimes Two-Face inexplicably hangs out in the sewer. If you see this, you might be in trouble (50/50 chance).
Credit to @tworiddles for inspiration.
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