Yeah, the years not quite adding up were what got me thinking along these lines... I assume the Imperial Starfleet isn't meant to work like the Star Trek Starfleet in the new film, where you can be a captain before you've, technically speaking, graduated.
I'm fine with the idea that Jabba's just that big a player that you can't realistically ignore him entirely. And maybe Jabba doesn't go into the large scale slaving operations the Empire does; he buys dancers from slavers, but he feels actually running slave raids himself is a little too risky, and draws too much official notice. Maybe the Rancor's a new addition to the palace, and slave dancers normally have a longer lifespan - Jabba's just a little obsessed in RotJ with showing off his new pet.
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on 2009-05-28 04:06 am (UTC)I'm fine with the idea that Jabba's just that big a player that you can't realistically ignore him entirely. And maybe Jabba doesn't go into the large scale slaving operations the Empire does; he buys dancers from slavers, but he feels actually running slave raids himself is a little too risky, and draws too much official notice. Maybe the Rancor's a new addition to the palace, and slave dancers normally have a longer lifespan - Jabba's just a little obsessed in RotJ with showing off his new pet.