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The lore is that the saarlac actually keeps you alive while digesting you. ~~Like, it puts roots in that act as life support so it has a constant source of protein or whatever. ~~ eh, that last but might not be accurate but there is some kind of enzyme in their stomach that keeps you alive? Whatever.
That makes as much sense as The Matrix using people for energy. You can’t feed people to keep them alive and get more energy out than just digesting (or in the Matrix burning) that food for energy.
Maybe you get “digested” in the sense that you get incorporated into the sarlacc’s body, like it’s using you in a parasitic sense. It makes you one of its internal organs, and it keeps you alive as it slowly uses you up over the course of a thousand years (assuming we take that phrase literally). I think acting as a gall bladder for an underground sand monster sounds like a fate worse than death.
You also can’t choke people with your mind so idk what your point is
I thought it also used them for neural CPU cycles but maybe I’m misremembering
No, that’s exactly the original thing. “Wetware”, basically… But test audiences got upset and confused, so it was changed to “batteries.”
The original script for the Matrix had the machines use human brains for data processing, but the Wachowskis were told by the studio to simplify it.
The sarlaac isn’t eating your body; it’s eating your mind.
The worst thing about this is ‘threepio’
The worst worst part is that’s actually how it’s spelled in novelizations (or at least how they used to spell it). Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio.
I’ve never read a Star Wars book but this makes me unreasonably
unsetupset.You should get reset
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I used to have a copy of the original novelization of ANH I could post a picture of that had it but I have no idea what happened to it.
Have I got some ‘news’ for you:
This is hilarious
Damn, I quite like that now.
I worked with an Arturo once and his nickname was R2
That’s a good one!
They absorb their prey into their own bodies
It’s Star Wars. Of course someone took an offhand comment that wasn’t meant to be thought of past the scene it’s in and wrote a whole story about it.
It’s canon
FIRST escape? Did he do it again??
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The sarlaac keeps you alive, duh
