That's canonically just 52 military staff, which sounds off but whatever
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Wait, WHAT? 52. people?
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I may be mixing it up because Wookiepedia is in the process of merging "Ilum" with "Starkiller" and "Solo" and they may mean in an earlier era
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
It was 5200 total with only 20% military though so my math was wrong, it's like 1100 military
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That's... ..that's smaller than a canonical Star Destroyer's crew per the (ridiculous) crew numbers in background material.
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Sci-fi writers and especially Star Wars writers have no sense of scale
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Probably yeah but it notably became a big kerfuffle involving Karen Traviss who ended up writing a story to try and justify it as the clones basically being black ops forces and the figures of the droid army numbering in quadrillions being part of Palpatine's misinformation.
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That whole thing and the degree to which Traviss got sucked into it was embarrassing, even if the fan haters' obsession with her was equally embarrassing And yet compared to the fandom menace now it was peanuts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nivenus and
That said, while I think KT got way too much hate and a lot of it was sexist bullshit, she also really was a cringey military fetishist and the politics of her books ended up being borderline proto-fash
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I am willing to tolerate a certain amount of "warrior culture" wank from my science fiction entertainment but the level KT took it to was genuinely uncomfortable
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Oh yeah she definitely bought into the mythos of the warrior ethos more than a little. Like I said it was nice to see things from another POV but I can definitely see why her books made people uncomfortable.
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Was it worse than the Mandalorian? I never read her books
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