At the end of TFA Snoke says he is going to complete Kylo's training. That right there implies that he is a Force-user, and Kylo's teacher.

So, knowing what we know of Sheev Palpatine, do we take what he told Tarkin at face value or did he have some other agenda for seeking out Tarkin?


Well the actual interaction goes like this:

General Hux: Supreme Leader. The fuel cells have ruptured. The collapse of the planet has begun.

Supreme Leader Snoke: Leave the base at once and come to me with Kylo Ren. It is time... to complete his training

Source: IMDB*

*Now Khajiit doesn't know how accurate IMDB's quotes are but Khajiit remembers it being very close. He never says he will be the one to train him.

Probably both knowing Palpatine. I think Palpatine saw Tarkin's potential as well perhaps as a means of exploiting his past and his ambitious spirit to further improve the Empire. Same as he did with Vader.

Yes, Khajiit can see this. Palps knows that if he wants to spend his time digging up Sith secrets then he will need capable (and loyal) politicians to run the Empire's day to day business.

I see what you are getting at. But I cannot see Kylo taking orders from Snoke, unless Snoke is a more powerful dark-side user. Only a Force user could control him. In the novels we have seen people try to control force users. But it always ends tragically for the would-be puppet master. The Force is the ultimate power in the Star Wars universe. Luke amply demonstrated that when he destroyed the Death Star.

That's a good point. It could be like a "Vader doing as Tarkin asked and not choking the life out of the guy in the boardroom" kind of thing.

Khajiit doesn't buy wholly into the "Snoke is Tarkin" theory for a couple of reasons:
1. If Snoke is not a force user and is instead a rehabilitated Tarkin, why bother hiding the fact that Tarkin survived the Death Star?
2. If Snoke is not a force user and is instead a rehabilitated Tarkin that a Sith or other Darksider is using as a buffer to hide their presence to the Galaxy at large, who is going to train Kylo? Maybe the big bad posing as a "servant" of Snoke?

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Sep 11 2017, 02:05 AM

Damn just saw this.

Didn't look at it because of possible Rebels spoilers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYF2_wQS61U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qniy8aDSFLA

That looks like disintegration to me. Certainly no sizable chunks of it floating around, hardly surprising considering the amount of power it would need to be generating. Bringing back Tarkin would directly contradict what we see in A New Hope.

Not that I put it past them to do that mind, it would just be mind-numbingly stupid.

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Sep 11 2017, 10:45 AM

Yes, it would be stupid if you look at it from the perspective that the Death Star was completely and absolutely disintegrated leaving not one single part of it intact. The problem for Khajiit with the scene of the Death Star exploding is distance from the point of view. This one would suggest that at that distance, against the black back ground of space, the only thing you would see is the light emitted by the explosion; it would look like disintegration because you can't see the pieces of it flying away from the explosion. Again, it's not something Khajiit wholly buys into, but not something he immediately dismisses either.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Sep 11 2017, 05:55 PM

I can't get this stupid song out of my head and even worse its been playing on the radio: https://youtu.be/U9t-slLl30E .

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Sep 14 2017, 08:02 PM

Check the link, Khajiit can't get anything when he clicks on it.

Works for me...unless you said that to make me click on my link and hear that song...Why would you play a mean trick like that ?

Oh ok it's working now. Must've been Khajiit's connection. Sorry!

I feel your pain man, had it stuck in my head on and off for weeks

Do y'all remember the Star Wars song by Weird Al? That was good stuff.

Remember it? Off the top of my head I can't tell you if I've ever heard it

Spoofs The Phantom Menace.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU

So. Much. Cringe.

I'm not gonna lie, I didn't watch much of it.

Hadn't heard it before though.

I've been hearing this song 24/7 since I've first heard it. Its that combination of dumb and catchy thing that always seems to get into my head and stay there .

And it's still a better romance than Twilight...