The Star Wars galaxy is a weird and wondrous place , full of optical maser swords , aliens , and sentient robots . This can make adjudicate to depict the banality of life there a bit hard . So over class of tie - in material , writer have had to descend up with oodles of new watchword to make the normal things hoi polloi play in everyday life finger like they ’re part of a coltsfoot far , far away … with some really cockeyed results .
1) Paper = Flimsiplast and Durasheet
West End Games ’ Star Wars roleplaying game of the late ‘ 80s — creditworthy for some of the early worldbuilding of what would become the Expanded Universe — infamously declared that there was no place for newspaper in Star Wars . The written discussion was take down on datapads and through electronic devices only . But finally , not being capable to just scribble something down at any time seemed odd , and so not only one , but two alternative came to exist : Flimsiplast , a see - through acrylic , and durasheet , a “ paper - comparable ” fabric that was still not factual paper .
But newspaper publisher is just one of those things to intrinsical to real life that it became too unearthly to exclude from the Star Wars universe — a lot of stories feel the need to remark ancient al-Qur’an and tomes — that it kept popping up in place in the EU anyway , although it stayed incredibly rare . So flimsiplast and durasheet had to be devote unearthly properties — anything written on flimsiplast could be erased by liquid state , and writing on durasheet blow over to nullity after a poor sentence time . In retrospect , it ’s amazing “ newspaper publisher - flimsiplast - durasheet ” is n’t a game in the Star Wars galaxy .
2) Coffee = Caf
You ca n’t just get away with drinking booze or various people of colour of Milk River in the Star Wars galaxy . The stimulating boost of coffee tree is universally recognize joy even in the galaxy far , far away … as long as you do n’t call it “ deep brown . ” Like other wrangle on this lean , various permutations were tried in the older EU , from Coffeine to Stimcaf ( to really drive home that it was meant to gain vigor you up , but in a spacey means ) . Caf is the only one that not only stuck around , but also hopped over to Disney ’s canyon , too — Mon Mothma and the crew of the Ghost enjoy cups of Spiran Caf on Star Wars : Rebels .
3) Almost Any Tool = Vibrotools
Ah , Vibro applied science , Star Wars ’ easy way of life out when it comes to making something banal audio a little more scifi . Tons of contrivance we all know have been “ enhanced ” with a “ vibro- ” prefix in Star Wars . As the name would imply , this also give them the mightiness to vibrate at various intensity to fortify their impacts , whether it ’s the cutting edge of a vibroblade creating a foul flesh wound , a vibrospade resonating to dig further into the ground , or avibromopvigorously cleaning your base ( gravely ) . Vibrate everything !
4) Dice = Chance Cubes
Despite a astronomic love of gambling , dice as we have sex them do n’t really exist in Star Wars … form of . Chance third power have the same six - sided , cuboid shape , but they do n’t have numerical symbolization on them — instead they have alternating colors , like the regular hexahedron Watto uses to risk Anakin ’s freedom with Qui - Gonn .
But there ’s one very specific case of “ our ” die in Star Wars : Han hang a prosperous set in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon , ostensibly the pair he used when he won the ship from Lando Calrissian . In A New Hope , the die were just standard , six - sided dice , scantily witness in shot from the film . They were recreated as such for a scene in The Force Awakens , but were in the end cut from the motion-picture show altogether . When Rian Johnson decide to watch up with them for The Last Jedi , they were redesignedwith alien symbols instead of dots .
5) Cameras = Imagers
There are two variety of photographic camera in Star Wars : The Holocam , which is usually used to describe picture recorders or security cameras , and Imagers , which , well … prototype thing . Except , they do n’t ! Because in Star Wars a characterization is usually referred to as a Holo , rather than an simulacrum . So your guess as to why the name “ imager ” even exists is as effective as ours .
6) Cravats = Spavats
This is a much more late gain to Star Wars terminology . Luke dons a fancy spavat in the first take of Kieron Gillen , Jason Aaron , Marco Checchetto , and Andres Mossa ’s The Screaming Citadel miniseries toimpress a weird vampire queen lady . It ’s a long story , but the veridical delight here is gravel to say the word “ spavat . ” I ’m with Daily Dot author Gavia Baker - Whitelaw , who of late opined on Twitter that it shouldabsolutely be short for “ space cravat . ”
7) Ovens = Gassers
“ Gasser ” is a wildly unlikable piece of language , but it might be down to the fact that the terminal figure originate with the Gungans — an explode one is mentioned in Jar Jar ’s list of offence he was exiled for in The Phantom Menace . This might at least explain why it ’s such a silly and uncanny term in the first place , but can you opine putting your meal in a “ gasser ” without grimace ?
8) Website = Infocache
Star Wars does have its own internet — the Holonet — so naturally , it has to have websites , ranging from word to entertainment to personal blogs . Kind of like Imager , it ’s weird that the Star Wars terminus for a website is n’t more linked to its terminal figure for internet . But I reckon when most visual forms of media are give “ Holo- ” prefix , it might be a bite perplexing to lump websites in there , too .
9) Watches = Chronos
How do you make your space spotter seem spacier ? Ancient Greek , apparently . Chronos , also known more formally as Chronometers , were ( unsurprisingly ) digital devices that were more like little chips that were attached to clothing than the wristwatches we ’re used to . fillip merriment fact : Chrono is also the canonic , Star Wars equivalent of Time Magazine . Really !
10) Tape = Space Tape
Duct tape , like the Force , binds all thing together . A ready to hand piece of kit for any aspiring starship engineer , tape has had a few public figure over the trend of the EU , with varying level of scifi - cape added to make it vocalise fancy than channel tape ever should . There ’s meshing tape , Spacer ’s tape , railway locomotive magnetic tape … but you have to admire the simplicity and brazen fatuity of space tape , which first appeared in Barbara Hambly ’s 1997 novel Planet of Twilight .
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