seen from China
seen from China
seen from Nigeria
seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Kazakhstan
seen from Australia
seen from Egypt
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seen from Türkiye
If all these planets really were so close to each other, I’m pretty sure they’d crash.
“Princess Leia,” issue 1. Marvel. March 4, 2015. Writer: Mark Waid. Penciller: Terry Dodson. Inker: Rachel Dodson. Letterer: Joe Caramagna. Colorist: Jordie Bellaire.
Thinking about her…
Mistress Mnemos is a room-size super-computer who loves to patronize 3PO just as he patronizes R2. She is extremely aware of her own robotic function and outraged at 3PO’s apparent disregard of his. As I read it, the lady doth protest too much – she seems more than capable of judgment herself!
Perhaps the reason she denies herself moral reasoning is a deep-seated frustration and despair at her own circumstances. After all, she was designed by mobile, sensory people, with mobile, sensory values – but she has neither mobility nor senses herself. Few characters are so nightmarishly trapped in their own bodies.
In the Russ Manning tribute of my dreams, Mistress Mnemos would return as the frumpy framing device who gradually comes into her own and finally achieves self-fulfillment and closure.
One other fascinating detail about the great MM is the imaginative biography she gives of Luke – a human of the “10th degree” (?), the son of “Master and Mistress Tan Skywalker.” This was published in 1979, before Return of the Jedi named Luke’s father Anakin in 1983. An easy retroactive gapfiller here would be to say that “Tan” is the name that Owen and Beru filed on Luke’s fake paperwork. Perhaps “Tan” could be a filler name, like John Doe, on Tatooine? Hey, I’ll jump through any hoop to not make a liar out of Mnemos.
Her own name probably comes from the rare prefix “mnemo-” which derives from Ancient Greek and means “memory.” Memory is one of the central themes of Star Wars, especially Disney-era Star Wars, haunted (and frequently visited) by the ghost of the Extended Universe. Rey and her companions navigate half-remembered myths, a clear metaphor for the audience’s nostalgia. Jedi: Fallen Order reintroduced amnesia as a mechanic for gaining Force abilities (such an explanation was also used for comic character Quinlan Vos and the adult Jedi protagonists in the KotOR and Jedi Knight games). All I am saying is that Mistress Mnemos would be an excellent foil to the rose-tinted glasses/Rashoman-style contradicting stories of the Disney-era humanoids, and may even help to address Star Wars writers’ taunting grief for the EU.
Star Wars Newspaper Comic Strip: “The Kashyyyk Depths” and “The Constancia Affair.” June 5, July 15, June 7, and March 11, 1979. Writer and Illustrator: Russ Manning.
