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that’s some Dune shit right here!
They’re called tyranids. They’re in 40k … They literally consume whole planets and take things from the genetic code of the various species they’ve made contact with. They’re a hive mind entity.
Sure, it’s no pit in the ground eating someone for a stupid long time but it’s pretty close.
I mean don’t rippers consume organic matter then throw themselves into reclamation pools? Its still a pit in the ground, just much faster and much much more violent.
This thing (lavos, Chrono trigger)
Is that canon?
Legends
I figured as much. Thank you!
I remember i’ve read about it in a official wiki about half a year ago. Was it Star Wars?
Doesn’t feel as horrifying as something like refuling a ship
Is that some baby Sarlacc budding off?
No, that’s the male Sarlacc. They’re kinda like anglerfish.
Because it was a Dune reference.
Somwthing like this was in a 40k book i dont remember the name of, except it was a tree. It used the psychic anguish of this to “call for help” to other humans, thus drawing more in.
They bombed it from orbit iirc
Tell me if you remember what it was
Wait what happens if it absorbs a Jedi
Well, seeing how Luke had to jump around and escape, we’ll never know.
40k?
Warhammer 40,000
Impossibly ancient sith Lord spending millennia using the force to escape a sarlacc and arriving just as the empire falls and the new republic is trying to start would have been so much better than “somehow… Palpatine returned”
I’d prefer it if the sarlacc was a sith lord.
Could even tie in to other lore like Boba Fett’s escape, but nope. Clones again
Genuinely considered Boba Fett’s escape being the catalyst that sets the guy free. Could even retcon in that the only reason either worked was because of the other. Boba fett’s bombs could only weaken it because of the psychic battle it was already in, sith guy won the psychic battle because the sarlacc was distracted by the bombs.
Could even capitalize on book of Boba fett by having fett play a reluctant hero role for the new cast, informing them of the sith guy’s plans because they were both connected through the sarlacc so there was some bleed over.
Palapatine was never in the Sarlaac?
I think they are making to a new character that’s an ancient Sith Lord long ago consumed by the sarlaac
Yes, but they’re also right, Bisney would just make it palps again…
IMO Boba’s escape precludes the sarlacc from being able to contain a sith lord.
All canon/noncanon stories essentially have Boba blowing his way out with thermal detonators and/or subsequently being spat out.
I feel like the only reason that method of escape wouldn’t be common knowledge is because of how rare sarlaccs are to begin with.
To be fair, you could easily say that Boba piggybacked on the escape on an ancient Sith and come up with numerous reasons why he wouldn’t tell the true story. From embellishment to some deal with the Sith lord, or maybe just fear
You could also explain the timing of the Sith’s escape by saying that after Palestine’s death there was suddenly some surge of “free Sith energy” or something because there was no Sith master left. You could even go as far and say the rule of two was specifically created to seal the power and prevent that Sith from escaping. You could’ve easily make that Snoke’s bakckstory, that he was malformed in the aeons trapped inside the sarlacc.
There were so many options and basically anything would’ve been better than “somehow he returned”
Also canonically (at least before Disney acquired Star Wars) when he fell into the pit in ROTJ it was his THIRD time in the pit! So he had fallen in, gotten out, fallen in at a later incident, gotten out, and then fallen in the third time on screen and gotten out (off-screen). In a massive galaxy with millions of planets and stuff what kind of shit luck or coincidence would you need for that to happen?
While I didn’t watch the later season of the Mandalorian or the Book of Boba Fett, I did see a part where some scattered pieces of the Sarlacc were all over the desert, meaning he wanted to make sure he never fell in again by blowing the shit out of the Sarlacc. Smart move, I wanted to see that when I was a kid since the Sarlacc really did frighten me as a kid.
ROTJ it was his THIRD time in the pit!
Wait what??? I’ve found 3 different versions of how he got out during ROTJ, depending on material. Never heard of him getting out of a sarlacc more than once tho.
@Canconda @mushroommunk Also probably how infrequently people are thrown in WITH thermal detonators :P
I guess the real question is how well known is this escape method? Obviously not everyone eaten by a sarlacc was a disarmed prisoner. So like is Boba just the first one to try?
Apparently his jet pack explodes as well as the grenades. So maybe that extra boom is required??
Why don’t the explosions kill him
Bruh 100%. I’m guessing his armour?
So like there’s effectively 3 versions of him escaping.
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He’s just spat out for no explained reason (Star Wars magazine 1983)
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He uses telepathy with the other trapped souls, his jet pack explodes plus he uses grenades to escape. (Legends)
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BOBF he steals a convenient stormtroopers O2 and cuts/burns his way out, no grenades (I didn’t watch the show tbh). He loses his helmet through this process somehow tho.
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So much better than “somehow palpatine returned” huh? Insert, Do you know how little that narrows it down meme
I didn’t see the movie and for years I though it was a meme. An absurd one, too dumb to even be really funny.
After last Jedi, I decided to wait for reviews. Never ended up watching Rise and just read the silly synopsis instead
Palpatine in the last star wars movie was the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Why? Palpatine needed to be in the last movie so Darth Vader could have a sudden yet inevitable change of heart that was tragically too late.
Smart ass…
The people actually going to see Star Wars movies nowadays don’t know what the fuck a sarlacc is. They are there because: Han Solo, Wookie, Jedi, ICONIC!
The start of Return of the Jedi? The sand vagina with teeth.
Fuck, i love this so much as an idea, or what if the Sith Lord’s consciousness became dominant rather than merged. The only problem is that Boba Fett cut himself out of one with some armor shards and hatred. An ancient sith lord could probably wear one as a hat.
Extra idea, Sith Lord’s consciousness has been waiting for a perfect force sensitive victim to fall in, so they can transfer to that body, Naruto style.
If they’re in the same sarlacc, maybe Boba only managed it because the sarlacc was currently weakened by the psychic battle with the sith lord. Who in turn capitalizes on the distraction caused by Boba to then escape himself.
That’s a very star wars, I love it. The galaxy is a small world vibe.
Reminds me of the Mystery Flesh Pit. He probably got his inspiration from the sarlac come to think of it.
This seems like a cruel fate for innocent womp-rats.
Wouldn’t you die of starvation/dehydration long before being digested, leaving no conciousness to absorb?
The absorbtion process provides food and water, you’re essentially part of the beasts body tissue.
Yeah, even with plenty of water and food I’ll still be ded within a few decades
I always figured that “digested over a thousand years” was a bit of a misnomer. I’m inclined to think that the almighty sarlacc incorporates its victims into its own biology, and uses them up over a thousand years. Like, you spend a thousand years as an unwilling gall bladder in the depths of the sarlacc, until the process very slowly eventually kills you.
Sounds like this violates the laws of thermodynamics.
Only if the people absorbed are the creature’s only source of energy.
Yeah it could be like carnivorous plants on earth, where they can get a decent amount of nutrients from the soil and through photosynthesis but they still need to eat flies and whatnot to get fully enough nutrients.
Although given the thousand year digestion it would make more sense if they digestion is a form of reproduction or life extension than if it’s for nutrient gain
Maybe it’s like the matrix where they’re for processing power!
Let alone die of old age. If I’m in Star wars. I would immediately dig one out and start a pharmaceutical company for anti aging products
