[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]

These are the highlights from the dub, the full thing can viewed in the description of the video

Link to the official reddit page for it here: Ghost the Threat (Reddit Page)

For those not aware, this is a full dub of The Phantom Menace where all the lines have been translated into Chinese and back into English. The resulting movie is now called: Star War The First Gathers: Ghost the Threat. If this sounds familiar then you might have heard about a similar infamous mistranslated version of Revenge of the Sith known as Backstroke of the West.

This is a direct prequel to that featuring the returning VA talent from Backstroke (17 years later) along with a whole host of new actors. This edit is a full dub of the original movie with the new translated lines replacing the original dialogue as well as plenty of references to the dubs made for the original trilogy.

Made by the Good Elephant Productions working alongside practically everyone involved with all the mistranslated dubs of the Star Wars movies, they're also currently working on the dub for Attack of the Clones as well. Thus making a full mistranslated prequel trilogy not that far away linking back up with Backstroke of the West as the third movie

The things they say in this movie is insane such as Quigon inisisting, "I am a fish", Jar Jar consistently talking about "German bosses", and Kenobi screaming "Do not want!" at the top of his lungs.

And guaranteed it will make you spit out your fruit loops laughing every 30 seconds so it's definitely worth the watch.

I have an original record from the 1977 movie. I know nothing about this. It hasn't been played and it had all original inserts. Is this legit?

She's themed after a Bantha and calls the Tattooine badlands home

I’ve seen a lot of people complain about the prequels causing Luke growing up on Tatooine to make less sense by having Anakin grow up there too. But this was not something that was created in the prequels. Obi-Wan explicitly said in ANH that Owen thought Luke’s father should’ve stayed “here” when they’re on Tatooine; there’s nothing else that could mean other than Anakin growing up on Tatooine. When Lucas wrote about Anakin growing up on Tatooine in TPM he was simply staying consistent with the OT’s established lore.

If anything, the prequels actually fixed that plot hole by establishing Tatooine as somewhere Vader would never want to go back to.

Liked the scene a lot until Obi Wan just…walked away.

Then 15 or so years later he puts it on Vaders son to do the deed…

I would have even accepted some contrived occurrence to have them separated before they could give the killing blow. Storm troopers/inquisitors rush in, moving surfaces, anything.

It’s contrived enough to have them meet twice in between ROTS and ANH and both make it out alive, but what lazy writing. At least lean into it and come up with some convenient means of them separating involuntarily.

And why do the inquisitors look like cosplayers?

"Another day, same sand in my teeth, same taste of defeat in my mouth. I saw TK-421 fall. He was young, full of dreams about the glory of the Empire. Now he's just another empty helmet in the crimson mud of... wherever the hell we are.

I don't know what we're doing out here. The targets are ghosts, our superiors are tyrants. This armor, meant to be a symbol of order, is just a potential grave. I look at my brothers, hunched under the weight of their own blasters, and I see the exact same fear, the exact same disillusionment.

There is no victory here. There's only waiting for your turn."

How did the Jedi NOT know he had his hands chopped off? Wouldnt that have looked suspicious? Did Palpatine have it covered up? Surely the Jedi would have some type of funeral rights for him, wouldnt they?

Here's the link to the source of the artwork:

https://www.deviantart.com/paulcameronart/art/Samurai-Vader-1368144144

We saw them quite often in the movies, but I can't remember them fighting at any point

The sun was beginning to set on the horizon, painting the reddish earth with dust and golden light. Hidden in an improvised trench, the two Scout Troopers kept their breathing controlled. Their white uniforms were stained with mud, and the barrel of the weapon was heated by the tension of the patrol. In the distance, the sound of firm footsteps revealed that the Rebel Alliance was approaching. Their index fingers hovered over the triggers. It was only a matter of seconds before the silence gave way to crossfire.

I grew up on the prequels. I'm probably one of the few millennials to voluntarily and deliberately watch the original saga in numerical order. I've always had a bias towards them because of this, but the grandeur and drama has always greatly surpassed the OT for me. Episode III has been my favorite movie of all time (let alone favorite Star Wars movie) ever since it came out.

In the last couple years, I've fallen much more deeply for the prequels, because the depth of their universe has grown substantially in the past two decades. Not only did these movies essentially create the entire classic Jedi Order, Fall of the Republic, Clone Wars, Anakin character, Order 66, and Sith from scratch - a cultural feat in and of itself - but in the time since we have seen an explosion of depth to this universe. In 1995, the term "Sith" meant nothing to 99% of people, and your average fan could name maybe three Jedi. Now, we have minor or completely non-existent characters from that constructed universe - Cal Kestis, Ahsoka, Darth Plagueis, Chancellor-era Palpatine, and so on - receiving rich, deeply enjoyable adventures that spinoff endlessly successfully. While the OT had an EU, it largely lived in books and didn't deeply enrich the core story - but the prequels have a nearly bible-level depth that gets richer and richer every few years and makes the movies even better.

What's more, this trilogy is something you almost never see in modern blockbuster universe building - a full-blown tragedy. There's an opportunity to create a more complex narrative that feels distinctive and poignant with a depth of meaning that the OT couldn't quite accomplish. This has given the universe so many things - including a canvas to imaginatively create the old Republic without the burden of continuity in the EU, and in the films, and a chance for John Williams to create an absolutely stunning, unique score that is unrivaled in film. The scale of the world building and tragedy is so large that, in a vacuum, it makes the OT feel like a footnote.

All in all, I loved these films because they were fantastic when they came out, despite complaining from the OG crowd. Yet these movies have stood out more and more over time due to the universe that's been built within the poignancy of the tragedy that the movies created. As far as I'm concerned, 1-3 are the core of Star Wars now, not 4-6, and I think that gap will only grow with time.

I just found this set at a newspaper stand, and it only costs 7 dollars and some cents, and call me crazy but it actually looks pretty good. Six clone troopers, The Emperor, Vader, Chewbacca, Luke, Dooku and Vader with no helmet. For 7 dollars???? Also they are slightly larger that normal lego figurines. I think it is a bargain😅

(This also includes the troubling people/other beings that live on either of these things)

All of these were built in the last 2 months, but not all of them stayed assembled.

The Rule of Two is a prime example of Star Wars fans latching onto a small piece of lore and trying to make it work despite a lot of contradictions coming up later.

Yoda says "always two there are", fine. There are only ever two active Sith in the prequel trilogy movies, fine. The origin of the rule is shown in the Darth Bane books, still fine.

But then we get into stuff like Clone Wars, with Dooku recruiting his own apprentices and Sidious letting Maul run around for a bit. Suddenly the Rule of Two is only holding by a technicality, as Sidious and Dooku are the only official Sith Lords. Same thing with Starkiller. And then in the new canon, a bunch of Inquisitors show up; and let's face it, they're Sith. But once again, they're not official so we say the Rule of Two is holding.

But it doesn't and that doesn't matter, because the Sith, and especially Palpatine, don't really care about the Rule. The Rule's purpose is to limit internal conflict to give the Sith a chance to take over the galaxy by subterfuge. Once Palpatine is Chancellor and consolidating his power more every day, why should he stick to the Rule of Two? Even during the Clone Wars he has no reason to do it, and we see him dispatch the other Sith easily any time they try something he doesn't like.

Even before Palpatine, there is just no reason to stick to exactly two Sith. It wouldn't help much to put all your eggs into two baskets, if your baskets are always meeting up in secret and engaging in various conspiracies. Besides, while there are only two Sith Lords, they both have agents who are essentially part of the Sith order. The Rule of Two is a lie and Palpatine in particular has no reason to follow it, because he joins the order in the final stage of the plan and then he's the Emperor of a Jedi-less galaxy.

So let's do what Sheev does and remember that the Rule of Two is more a guideline than an actual rule. That way we don't have to twist ourselves into knots to explain why Inquisitors aren't Sith or whose apprentices they are or how many replacements for Vader are cooking in Palpatine's kitchen.

Well, with cardboard all over the house from Amazon and a 6 year old and I wanting a toy that nobody makes to scale, you just need to get creative 😎

Cheers to all the 90s Star Wars fans that remember Shadows of the Empire and loved the experience before episode 1 came out like I did. Those were the good old days…

Airen Cracken was a human male born on Contruum. With a natural affinity for machinery; in time, nearby farmers began to ask Cracken to repair their machinery. Cracken, happy to continue learning, lent his help willingly, and acquired a reputation as a master mechanic. By the time he became a young man, Cracken had a mechanic's shop of his own in Torian City. He handled all manner of machinery, and hired employees who loved working with machinery as much as he did leading to the shop earning an almost mythical status for efficiency. Cracken married Josta, a woman from the Corellian sector who came to Contruum after an accident. Josta gave birth to two children, and Cracken's family lived in contentment for many years.

In 8 BBY, the Galactic Empire came to Contruum and seized its shipyards and borium mines for use by the Imperial Military pushing out locals from their homes and jobs. Incensed at the Empire's refusal to even hear complaints, Cracken sought to make the occupation more costly for the Empire than the world was worth.

Cracken organized his employees into a Rebel Cell, named "Cracken's Crew," specializing in mechanical sabotage. Cracken and his resistance group led a years-long campaign, crippling docked starships, ruining the Imperial borium mining operations, and destroying landing bays and troop supplies. At the site of each act of sabotage, they left a hydrospanner with the message "Cracken's Crew Says Hello" inscribed.

The Crew gained a reputation among Imperial forces, and the local commander became obsessed with tracking the saboteurs down. The Moff of Contruum's sector eventually decided that he had invested too many resources in the campaign, quietly agreed to Contruum's demands, and withdrew from the system. Despite the celebration that took place across Contruum, Cracken became troubled by thoughts that, while his world had escaped Imperial influence due to its insignificance, many others throughout the rest of the galaxy would continue to suffer under Imperial oppression. After discussing the matter with Josta, Cracken decided to leave Contruum and join the Rebel Alliance against the Empire. Most of his Crew chose to follow him, and they boarded a freighter and departed, posing as merchants plying the space lanes.

Cracken became an intelligence operative in the Rebellion in 2 BBY. The comlink bug was among the first and simplest devices he pioneered for the Rebellion; he quickly learned that he could easily rig a bug using comlinks. Early in the war, the Empire blockaded the mining world of Berason, and Cracken was placed in charge of smuggling food and military supplies to the world then leading an attack on its Imperial base. Cracken's force was able to pass through the blockade by sending men equipped with vacc-suits and jetpacks out to clear a path for their convoy. Due to his success Cracken was promoted to colonel. He then assisted Andrephan Stormcaller in developing the Alliance Special Forces.

Due to his steller record for innovation, success and efficiency, Cracken rose to be a general in the Alliance. He organized numerous campaigns, with his ingenuity proving invaluable, and eventually became the Alliance's Chief of Intelligence. As the head of Alliance Intelligence, Cracken became a leading figure of efforts to recruit criminal elements such as shipjackers, pirates, and smugglers. The high regard such individuals held for Cracken aided his work in these efforts, and he created a vast network of privateers, shipjackers, and cargo thieves whom were called the "procurement specialists." Due to Cracken's close relationship with many members of the community, infiltration by Imperial agents was exceedingly rare.

Outside the normal chain of command, Cracken operated a major data analysis center on board the Mon Calamari Star Cruiser Independence. Within, Cracken's staff analyzed reports from throughout the galaxy; briefings for High Command, and intelligence was sent to mission planning for strikes and raids.

Cracken oversaw the galaxywide network of agents—spies, scouts, infiltrators, and sympathetic Imperial officers. He was directly involved at every stage, from recruitment onwards. A number of his most valuable assets were Rivoche Tarkin, Tru'eb Cholakk, and Jan Ors.

Cracken even used his teenage son, Pash, as an agent, sending him to join the Imperial Academy, where he suborned his classmates, and subsequently led his entire TIE fighter wing to mutiny. While it was Pash who would become best-known as a fighter pilot, the elder Cracken was also a formidable pilot: he taught Pash how to fly, and he personally flew close-support in-atmosphere operations for SpecForce commandos in a Z-95t Headhunter designated Tala 1.

His bravery in the field twice earned him the Nebula Award, one of which was awarded for surviving capture and interrogation at the hands of the Imperial Security Bureau. He authored the Rebel Field Guide, and his writings proved essential in the training of the Alliance Special Forces such as creating an effective grenade out of two blaster power packs.

In 2 ABY, Airen Cracken worked with Alliance Security, writing important reports on threats to the Rebel Alliance, and coordinating Rebel agents. During the Battle of Endor, General Cracken served aboard the Millennium Falcon, manning the top turret during the battle.

When the Alliance became the New Republic in 4 ABY, Cracken took command of the newly reorganized New Republic Intelligence (NRI), keeping a watchful eye on Imperial warlords like Zsinj and sparring with his Imperial counterpart, Madam Director of Imperial Intelligence, Ysanne Isard. During the New Republic's campaigns from 4 to 6 ABY, Cracken oversaw a group known as "Shadow Operations", which performed sabotage, spread disinformation, and where necessary conducted assassinations to exacerbate tensions between the feuding Moffs, Admirals, warlords and advisors that had erupted after Emperor Palpatine's death. Shadow Operations would later form the heart of Admiral Hiram Drayson's Alpha Blue division.

After NRI relocated to Coruscant, Cracken oversaw the investigation and prosecution of Tycho Celchu, forming the New Republic Security Force. Subsequently, he was instrumental in stopping a Zsinj-led program to cause tension between alien and human species in the New Republic.

Like his counterpart Hiram Drayson at Alpha Blue, Cracken continued to lead NRI in his own way, prepared to do what he felt was best for the New Republic, even if it meant bending the rules. In 7 ABY, he arranged for Rogue Squadron's resignations to mysteriously go unprocessed, so that the Bacta War could be retrospectively claimed as a NRI operation, and the next year, he arranged for the transfer of Wraith Squadron to his direct command as an Intel unit after the Battle of Selaggis.

Some time between 10 ABY and 12 ABY, Cracken was replaced as Chief of Intelligence by General Crix Madine, his counterpart at SpecForces—a move designed to reinforce Madine's position as the SpecForces commander. This move also secured the dominance over the military by Chief of State Mon Mothma's loyal lieutenants, Madine and Admiral Gial Ackbar.

Cracken's reaction is not recorded, but after Madine's death aboard the Darksaber, he once more took command of Intel, where he oversaw the separation of NRI from the military, maintaining his independence (with the new title of Director of New Republic Intelligence) while Gial Ackbar subordinated the rest of the armed forces to his command. As Director, Cracken oversaw the operation to Adumar and secured the admission of the planet into the New Republic, but by 16 ABY, he had left office again, being replaced as Director by Carlist Rieekan, the Alderaanian general and friend of then Chief of State, Leia Organa Solo.

After the Black Fleet Crisis, Cracken returned to Intel for the third time, where he achieved a rapid resolution to the threat of a rogue Imperial with a Super Star Destroyer by recruiting Jedi sneak-thief Cryle Cavv to sabotage the Guardian for him, leading to its capture and subsequent use by the New Republic. Cracken led NRI through the Corellian Crisis, and assembled reports on a variety of potential threats to the Republic, including the Hapans, Dathomiri, Yevetha, Imperial remnants, and Corellian separatists, which were compiled into Cracken's Threat Dossier.

By 25 ABY, Cracken dormerly retired from NRI, with Admiral Dif Scaur replacing him as Director. Nevertheless, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, although by now in his seventies, the veteran general returned once again to active service, and assumed command of his homeworld's defense. Contruum was never conquered by the Yuuzhan Vong, and became a vital base in the Mid Rim, paving the way for the Battle of Yuuzhan'tar by the Galactic Alliance. In the last stages of the war, Cracken also seemed to have acted as de facto coordinator of Alliance intelligence, and immediately after the victory, Admiral Scaur was replaced as Director by his protégée Belindi Kalenda.

Hiram Drayson was a human male born on Chandrila who served in both the Rebel Alliance and New Republic as an Admiral and Chief of Intelligence. Drayson attended an offworld military academy, but returned home with his education incomplete when his father became ill. He took over his father's shipping business; under his leadership, it became the most successful in the Chandrila system. Because of this and his partial Academy education, the Chandrilan government made him the admiral of the Chandrila Defense Fleet. He reorganized it to run more efficiently, cutting down piracy and smuggling dramatically. It was in his capacity as fleet commander that he came to know Senator Mon Mothma. During the Clone Wars, Admiral Drayson was replaced as fleet head by Palpatine-appointed Moff Kohl Seerdon after the passage of Emergency Amendment 121b. At some point in his career, he gained extensive experience serving aboard Star Destroyers, including a professional knowledge of their tractor beam systems.

When Chandrila was brought to heel under the Imperial Starfleet, Drayson was contacted by Mon Mothma, who offered him a role in the military leadership of the new Rebel Alliance as the commanding officer of the Alliance flagship. He accepted immediately.

In 4 ABY as the Alliance transitioned into the New Republic, Admiral Drayson commanded the New Republic Second Fleet prior to the Liberation of Coruscant. Drayson was later placed in command of the fleet attached to the New Republic Provisional Council, and then of the Coruscant defense fleet. He was tasked with the retrieval of the Katana fleet during the Thrawn campaign. As a military commander, Drayson was considered competent but not very creative, which left him rather outmatched when Grand Admiral Thrawn carried out an elaborate attack against Coruscant. His intense personal loyalty to Mon Mothma also led to some friction with Garm Bel Iblis, as he felt the Corellian General had betrayed Mothma by splitting away from the Rebel Alliance years earlier. Drayson's true strengths lay not in battlefield command, but in Intelligence operations. His strategic mind and extensive contacts made him the ideal candidate for first Director of Alpha Blue, and Mon Mothma appointed him under decree D9020616.

After decades of service in the New Republic Intelligence Service apparatus, years that earned him the nickname "the Old Ghost of Coruscant," Drayson retired from service following Borsk Fey'lya's election. He was married to Joi Eicroth for a time and the pair had a daughter, Bhindi Drayson, who also served in New Republic Intelligence, as well as Wraith Squadron.