Cara Dune is from Alderaan?
Holy fuck.
That right there is more character motivation and backstory than all the dipshits in ST combined.
She keeps making the "I want a baby" eyes at Baby Yoda. I volunteer to put one in her.
I gotta agree, you're right.
Between being from Alderaan, being a Drop Trooper, basically admitting that after the cease-fire/truce she kept killing every Imperial she met (What I've been doing carries death sentences), and making "belly go tik tik tik tik" eyes at Baby Yoda, they did more for her character than three fucking movies did for MaRey SueWalker or anyone else.
She's someone that if she saw Leia, there would be a reason for a tearful hug. She's someone we could see being part of the early Resistance.
I'm wondering if they'll let Baby Yoda start talking or anything. If Yoda was 900 years old and died the aging process at that 50 years per 1 year would make him 18 when he died. I'm sure this has been covered.
I would imagine he ends up aging quickly during his middle years and then slows down again towards the end.
To get all nerd aging occurs differently in all sorts of species. For example your dog ages to what would be human adulthood within a year or two. They then slow down the aging process quite rapidly in comparison. Perhaps the Yoda species ages normally to 1 year old then slows down allowing the brain to develop slower to gain more access to the force and ability to use powers. It may then age at a different rate once the brain has fully developed for the body to catch up. I'm sure there's all sorts of acne scarred debates elsewhere on line but I figured I'd throw my two cents in. You folks have any thoughts on it?
Well, there's the "Elf" bit. This was covered in Shadowrun (the best, right down to endocrine data) and AD&D. Elves in AD&D don't mature all the way until 125 years old, which led to questions.
See, herd animals and other cooperative races mature slower so provide better in-group bonds. Slower maturity allows for some social and emotional development before the big muscles kick in.
By keeping Yoda's race an infant for say fifty years, then probably a quick 50 years to adolescence, then 25 years of "hormonal storm" adolescence, he gets time not only to learn about the Force, form emotional bonds, learn to handle his empathy, it prevents his race from pretty much going all Kylo Ren.
Let's go with humans. Real slow to grow the first 5 or so years. Then a pause for a couple years with slow growth. Then... BAM! Full adulthood really fucking fast. Remember the growth pains, the muscle aches, and practically getting taller every damn day?
Which also answers the question of why Yoda could throw lightning. More than likely angry teenage Yoda's throw that shit at each other all the time when they lost their shit. That's why he was able to catch it so easily. If you had your older sister chasing you throwing lightning at you because you put her bra in the space-freezer, you'd learn to deal with that shit in a quickness.
So, in a way, I feel it's a call-back to the more fantasy side of Star Wars. "900 years old you will, look this good you will not" shows he was elderly as fuck, probably his life extended by the Force anyway.
At 50 years the Force powers kick in. Brain patterns begin shifting, Force neural wiring begins forming, (Midichlorian count increases? Is Midiclorian still canon?), the Force ability of empathy kicks in (Why did he strangle Cara Dune? He senses the aggression and competition as well as her long standing rage and willingness to murder and tried to "help" Mando from a "physical attack"), he begins forming attachments that go along with the empathy. Mastery of all those abilities takes decades. But the small body doesn't have the training or the willpower reserves to allow him to do any of the Force tricks for long, making his learning safety gauged by his willpower score, to use gaming speak. Say, 50 years for that, then it's time for his body to grow, and his powers to expand, grow, and strengthen. By the time he's an adult, at say, 125 (using the elves again), he's got good control, knows how powerful he's going to be, and there's a lifetime of growing his power, attaining wisdom, teaching others.
Say, 125 years to maturity, then 600-700 years past that, with massively slowed (by our standards) aging.
