Doesn't feel as horrifying as something like refuling a ship
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This little bit of lore tries to be so horrifying with its “slow digestion over a thousand years” but wouldn’t you be dead from lack of water within 2 days?
(mad scramble)
“Acksully no, the Sarlaac taps into your bloodstream to provide you with sustenance the whole time so you stay alive and conscious.”
Okay but lifespans are not 1000 years even.
(madder scramble)
“Ackshully the Saralaac rewrites your DNA to extend your lifespan so you can be conscious over 1000 years.”
Wow that’s pretty impressive. How many species is its process compatible with? And how does such a lengthy expenditure of energy make sense, nutritionally? It takes more energy to keep a human body alive for 1000 years than the Sarlaac can possibly derive from one human corpse.
(mad mad mad mad scramble, this time using the Force)
“IT’S STAR WARS OKAY. STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT ALL DETAILED.”
Haven’t you been adding all the details?
“Mods! Rule 1!”
My headcanon (and actually reading the wiki, it is pretty much canon) is that none of this is actually true, but just stories past down over generations.
We hear of the whole being digested over 1000 years thing from Jabba (translated by C-3PO) while he's threatening them with execution, so it's not exactly reliable info.
In fact evidence actually points to the contrary, from the wiki:
During Boba Fett's escape, he spotted the body of a stormtrooper that was likely part of a search party years before. Despite this, the stomach acid of the sarlacc was still potent enough to have dissolved holes in the stormtrooper's armor and scar Boba Fett after only hours of exposure.
Or we recognize that the Canon is in the hands of whichever writer is currently holding it by the throat and none of it ever lines up, in true George Lucas fashion.
The most reasonable, if not most accurate, scifi biology I have seen is in HBO's miniseries, Scavengers. I'm not an expert, but as someone with biology degree, I never really questioned the evolution and biology portrayed in the show. Except for a few creative liberties of course, I watch the show and my mind goes "interesting and it makes sense". Most SciFi shows don't really even go into the detail as to why xenobiology even develop the biological features that they do.
Going back to the Sarlaac pit, how did it even get so big if there is not enough nutrients to consume to go around? That's also assuming that there is so much oxygen in the environment, and maybe the gravity in the planet is light?
probably only needed your brain,and memories, while your body dissolves away. like how several movie genre had this similar monsters, slither, thing, "doctor who, sarah jane adventures(had a monster that absorbs humans and takes thier conscieness"
Even with star wars woowoo magic, there's no way this wouldnt be a net loss of energy to the degree of absolute ridiculousness lol like the victims would have to get so much energy input from the creature to stay alive for millennia so what would the point be
Who says the Sarlax eats things for nutrition?
Most carnivorous plants don't actually need to eat bugs to survive. They just.. do?
Most carnivorous plants don't actually need to eat bugs to survive
Source pls.
Most of those plants live in extremely nutritionally poor ground, so when you grow them at home and they have nutrition, they wouldn't require eating I guess.
But evolution did not make flycatcher plants just for the lulz.
It's easier than that, it's not feeding on the creatures protein and fat it's predating on the creatures soul, or pain.
A creature of this size wouldn't get there or stay there on victims stumbling into it. Especially in the deep desert, it's victims are likely few and far between. When it gets a conscious species, it tortures it for 1,000 years until the things' spirit and consciousness merge with the hive mind. They are clearly putting energy into maintaining the life of the victim.
I do a different kind of imagination work in my head for mysteries like this. The way you think seems very mundane and boring.
Hey if you prefer “imagination work” to “thinking,” don’t let me discourage you. But I did easily as much sweaty rationalization as you did.
I prefer fantasy creations that have some internal consistency and don’t overstrain credulity in service of one super obvious on-the-nose effect. When I can hear the author grunting with effort trying to horrify me, it ruins the horror.
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Impossibly ancient sith Lord spending millennia using the force to escape a sarlacc and arriving just as the empire falls and the new republic is trying to start would have been so much better than "somehow... Palpatine returned"
I'd prefer it if the sarlacc was a sith lord.
Palpatine in the last star wars movie was the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Why? Palpatine needed to be in the last movie so Darth Vader could have a sudden yet inevitable change of heart that was tragically too late.
Smart ass...
Could even tie in to other lore like Boba Fett's escape, but nope. Clones again
IMO Boba's escape precludes the sarlacc from being able to contain a sith lord.
All canon/noncanon stories essentially have Boba blowing his way out with thermal detonators and/or subsequently being spat out.
I feel like the only reason that method of escape wouldn't be common knowledge is because of how rare sarlaccs are to begin with.
Also canonically (at least before Disney acquired Star Wars) when he fell into the pit in ROTJ it was his THIRD time in the pit! So he had fallen in, gotten out, fallen in at a later incident, gotten out, and then fallen in the third time on screen and gotten out (off-screen). In a massive galaxy with millions of planets and stuff what kind of shit luck or coincidence would you need for that to happen?
While I didn't watch the later season of the Mandalorian or the Book of Boba Fett, I did see a part where some scattered pieces of the Sarlacc were all over the desert, meaning he wanted to make sure he never fell in again by blowing the shit out of the Sarlacc. Smart move, I wanted to see that when I was a kid since the Sarlacc really did frighten me as a kid.
To be fair, you could easily say that Boba piggybacked on the escape on an ancient Sith and come up with numerous reasons why he wouldn't tell the true story. From embellishment to some deal with the Sith lord, or maybe just fear
You could also explain the timing of the Sith's escape by saying that after Palestine's death there was suddenly some surge of "free Sith energy" or something because there was no Sith master left. You could even go as far and say the rule of two was specifically created to seal the power and prevent that Sith from escaping. You could've easily make that Snoke's bakckstory, that he was malformed in the aeons trapped inside the sarlacc.
There were so many options and basically anything would've been better than "somehow he returned"
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Fuck, i love this so much as an idea, or what if the Sith Lord's consciousness became dominant rather than merged. The only problem is that Boba Fett cut himself out of one with some armor shards and hatred. An ancient sith lord could probably wear one as a hat.
Extra idea, Sith Lord's consciousness has been waiting for a perfect force sensitive victim to fall in, so they can transfer to that body, Naruto style.
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The tech to film at that resolution doesn't exist, and even if it did we don't have any devices capable of playback at such high resolution. You're way past diminishing returns, why do yiu think there's no 8K widespread yet??
Took me a moment
that's some Dune shit right here!
That's dumb.
You're dumb >:(
Wouldn’t you die of starvation/dehydration long before being digested, leaving no conciousness to absorb?
Let alone die of old age. If I'm in Star wars. I would immediately dig one out and start a pharmaceutical company for anti aging products
The absorbtion process provides food and water, you're essentially part of the beasts body tissue.
I always figured that "digested over a thousand years" was a bit of a misnomer. I'm inclined to think that the almighty sarlacc incorporates its victims into its own biology, and uses them up over a thousand years. Like, you spend a thousand years as an unwilling gall bladder in the depths of the sarlacc, until the process very slowly eventually kills you.
Sounds like this violates the laws of thermodynamics.
Only if the people absorbed are the creature's only source of energy.
Yeah it could be like carnivorous plants on earth, where they can get a decent amount of nutrients from the soil and through photosynthesis but they still need to eat flies and whatnot to get fully enough nutrients.
Although given the thousand year digestion it would make more sense if they digestion is a form of reproduction or life extension than if it's for nutrient gain
Maybe it's like the matrix where they're for processing power!
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Because it was a Dune reference.
They're called tyranids. They're in 40k ... They literally consume whole planets and take things from the genetic code of the various species they've made contact with. They're a hive mind entity.
Sure, it's no pit in the ground eating someone for a stupid long time but it's pretty close.
This thing (lavos, Chrono trigger)
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If it was 40k, as the sarlac consumed more souls it would gain the ability to manipulate people into feeding it more with increased power. It would also be capable of growing to the point it could consume planets.
Seriously ? that's the Flood in Halo. I didn't know Star Wars could be so hardcore. Nooice
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