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  • Author Author: spannerspencer
  • Date Created: 4 May 2016 9:21 AM Date Created
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What's the Best Tech in Star Wars?

It's May the 4th, so you know what that means? Star Wars day!

 

In celebration of the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire, for one day only you can grab our exclusive element14 Jedi badge. How, ask you?

 

  • First, update your profile image and avatar to your favourite Star Wars character. image(I've already done that, although in honesty I was more interested in working a pun into my username than including my fave character (Boba Fett). But you get the idea.)

 

  • Then add your favourite saga quote as a status update.

 

  • Finally, vote in our poll below to determine the coolest technology as seen in the galaxy far, far away.

 

You've only got today to complete these items, and then a Jedi will you be!

 

 

UPDATE: A Long Time Ago, in a Community Far, Far Away...

That's Star Wars Day over for another year. I know it's entirely, even brutally, commercial, but I really hope this becomes a global holiday! I love May 4th, and it beats out the likes of Valentine's Day for engagement value.

 

As the element14 Jedi Temple is now closed, I thought you'd like to know that within 24 hours we managed to recruit a staggering 98 Jedi! Anyone who wasn't indoctrinated into the hokey religion will now have to wait until next year, when your Jedi training commences once again (assuming we don't all get wiped out by Sith).

 

The hyperdrive came out as the top Star Wars tech (which is weird given that lightsabers are clearly the coolest thing ever), and you guys picked out some classic quotes for your protocol droid-style status updates that we can live our lives by (until next May 4th), including, but not nearly limited to:

 

  • Do or do not, there is no try.
  • Fear is the path to the dark side.
  • "He will learn, patience." - Obi-Wan
  • "He will learn, patience." - Obi-Wan
  • You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon??!
  • “I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
  • “It’s a trap!” – Admiral Ackbar
  • An elegant weapon for a more civilized days.

And this one from gihu that's so monumentally bad, it's absolutely awesome!

  • Mesa cause one, two-y little bitty axadentes

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  • Matt
    Matt over 9 years ago +3
    Hyperdrive would be a game-changer for the human race.. give me that over anything else.
  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 9 years ago in reply to Matt +3
    Good luck trying to chop someone's hand off using a hyperdrive motivator, though.
  • scott_pdp
    scott_pdp over 9 years ago +3
    It's all about the hyperdrive . I suspect that solving the power requirements to make hyperdrive possible would probably open up most of the other technologies as well. "Traveling through hyperspace ain…
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    Matt over 9 years ago

    Hyperdrive would be a game-changer for the human race.. give me that over anything else.

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    Matt over 9 years ago

    Hyperdrive would be a game-changer for the human race.. give me that over anything else.

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    spannerspencer over 9 years ago in reply to Matt

    Good luck trying to chop someone's hand off using a hyperdrive motivator, though.

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  • hlipka
    hlipka over 9 years ago in reply to spannerspencer

    Well, I would prefer something that helps the human race to spread out over something that's used for killing people.

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    Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Matt

    We will need the technical equivalent of hyperdrive in the future to travel on a galactic scale.

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  • ecotack
    ecotack over 9 years ago in reply to hlipka

    Where's the fun in that?  Give me a Speeder Bike any day.

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  • pocketbrain1
    pocketbrain1 over 9 years ago in reply to hlipka

    It's not for killing people;  The lightsaber is a Jedi weapon used to defend innocent life.  It isn't as clumsy or random as a blaster, it's an elegant weapon from a more civilized era.

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  • jack.chaney56
    jack.chaney56 over 9 years ago in reply to pocketbrain1

    Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things.

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  • gadget.iom
    gadget.iom over 9 years ago in reply to jack.chaney56

    But who could resist a death star! image

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    ejohnfel over 9 years ago in reply to Matt

    I would have to agree with it being a game changer, but I am also partial to Droids... and admittedly, blasters. image

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