Expounded Universe

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/expounded-universe-54-the-nightwitches-of-jacksonville.mp3 The story heats up as the team raids the prison!  Will they find Gethzerion?  Will they find love?  Is Chewie gonna do anything this episode (spoiler: no). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/expounded-universe-53-the-star-eugenics-wars.mp3 The gang’s all together!  And now they’re fighting!  Like first graders!  Let’s check in on proud naked Tenenniel, Isolder and Han splashing each other, and Luke afraid of cooties in a chapter where everyone looks bad (except Augwynne and Chewbacca, they cool). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/expounded-universe-52-groove-is-in-the-boob.mp3 We get to step in the wild head and untamed boobs of everyone’s new favorite force witch Tenenniel Djo today!  There’s fights with Nightwitches, battles of wits (Han is terribly equipped as always) and yet more whuffa to discussa! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/expounded-universe-51-divine-secrets-of-the-dark-side-sisterhood.mp3 Turns out this book can actually be pretty good when it’s not about the scintillating Han/Leia dynamic, so these two chapters, which don’t let the two of them anywhere near each other, are fairly interesting!  (PS before you @ me the Wookie language is Shyriiwook everyone knows th...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/expounded-universe-50-the-s-is-for-sucks.mp3 Han continues to be the absolutely worst, but at least he’s a handsome king now (thanks Threepio), and we finally encounter some hotnsexy rancors in today’s thrilling installment!  Plus, Luke is apparently just the absolute best at hyperspace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/expounded-universe-49-drakmar-noir.mp3 We took a week off for GenCon but we’re back and the story just keeps getting weirder!  We finally meet Ta’a Chume!  We finally set down on Dathomir?  And is someone trying to rascal a droid?  Who knows? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/expounded-universe-48-character-assassins-creed.mp3 Oh for the love of god Han, no.  Stop.  Everyone just stop.  Chewie, obviously you’re cool, but the rest of you just cut it out.  This is it, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the nadir of Star Wars.  Here is is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/expounded-universe-47-wookie-clicker.mp3 Finally things start to pick up steam as Han deploys his standard gambling skills, Leia ruffles his hair like an adorable dog, and Chewie just sorta checks out entirely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/expounded-universe-46-isolder-isoldhat.mp3 The novel begins to search for a groove as we settle in for some deeply bodice-ripping action-free times.  Isolder used to be a pirate!  Han and Leia have the worst relationship in the history of space!  Chewbacca wisely removes himself from the conversation!  And more on this week’s thrilling episode! Lea...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/expounded-universe-45-hapes-simplex.mp3 Expounded Universe is going back to basics.  Let’s talk about Leia, Han, and their dumb stupid relationship for idiots.  Let’s talk about woot horns!  And what’s Luke up to?  Something something Dathomir something something?  YOU BET! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/expounded-universe-44-mos-eisley-roundup.mp3 It’s over!  We discuss the best and worst of the characters, chapters, and themes of the Mos Eisley Cantina anthology, answer some listener questions, and look to the future! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/expounded-universe-43-eat-lamprey-love.mp3 Now this is the kind of weird shenanigans we WANT from our Expanded Universe.  Thrill to the love story of a wet sock puppet and a cheap werewolf costume!  Can love bloom between these weird monsters?  Oh shit yes it can!  Today, System Mastery gets ficcy with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/expounded-universe-42-hot-wet-tatooine-niights.mp3 So this chapter is about maps.  It’s about maps and moisture farmers and Jawas and Tusken Raiders and a surprising amount of Norwegian Star Wars folks. Got Star Wars questions?   We’ve got answers.  Send them to the usual place, systemmastery@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/expounded-universe-41-the-make-an-aqualish-foundation.mp3 A long long time after the cantina, on a planet far, far away from the cantina, a new story is unfolding.  It’s the Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba show, and it’s… a whole big Dr. Frankenstein thing?  Star Wars gets extra gothic on today’s exciting episode.  Plus, Jon’s childhood! Got Star Wars qu...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/expounded-universe-40-boshek-spaceman.mp3 Oh man, get ready for excitement folks, because today’s story is about a guy in the movie that kinda has a line, sort of!  It’s BoShek, and is he a space wizard?  No.  No, he’s just a pilot.  Or wait, is he?  Maybe! Got Star Wars questions?   We’ve got answers.  Send them to the usual place, systemmastery@g...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/expounded-universe-39-with-unlimited-salad-and-breadsticks.mp3 Finally, we get to meet the hookah-smoking man.  The mysterious figure that everyone knows to be scared of, the … dude who’s obsessed with soup.  It’s the tale of Dannik Jerriko, racer of wrestle cars and lover of sitting on his ass doing nothing, in today’s thrilling episode of Expound...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/expounded-universe-38-davin-busters.mp3 Back at it again with the story of a the rise and fall of one of the Empire’s finest. Follow the story of Davin Felth as he goes through basic training, piloting lessons, and then suddenly finds out that the Empire is actual an evil pile of shit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/expounded-universe-37-jawa-nman.mp3 It’s a super special episode as we finally reach the chapter by the man himself, Kevin J. Anderson. He asks the tough questions like “what do Jawa smell like” and “what if there was a Jawa that was pushed TOO FAR”. You’ll find the answers and probably some more elephant anecdotes on this weeks episode. Learn more...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/expounded-universe-36-elephant-tales.mp3 This week at the cantina we are following around that guy in the dollar store devil costume to see what he is up to. Turns out, he is balls deep into the stories of everyone else that has come along so far in the book. Also, we go kind of crazy talking about elephants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/expounded-universe-hes-a-goat-yall.mp3 While Mos Eisley has been described as a den of “scum and villainy”, so far the book hasn’t been too full of real scumbags. All of that is going to change this week the introduction of Feltipern Trevagg, the biggest asshole on Tattooine. It’s a whole chapter of letting us know just how much of a pile of crap t...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/expounded-universe-wuher-i-got-you-all-in-check.mp3 Though weary and facing insurmountable odds, our heroes manage to put together a podcast this week. Jef is baby-tired and Jon is slowly turning into pure mucous. However, we still manage to bring you the tale of a bartender that doesn’t like droids but then maybe does. Woooo! Learn more about your...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/expounded-universe-momaw-nadon-mo-problems-nadon.mp3 A wise, old Ithorian in exile as penance. An evil officer of the Empire that haunts his memory. See what happens when these two oddly competent characters have to square off with the fate of Tattooine in the balance. Ok, maybe not that much is at stake. But definitely the fate of a bunch of weird...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/expounded-universe-32-batman-and-robbing.mp3 The meta-plots really start to thicken as we examine the tale of Muftak and Kabe, otherwise known as the Hairy Four-Eye and his good friend, the adorable little bat thing.  Characters are beginning to emerge from the woodwork, such as the craggy and evil Captain Alima, the wise old Ithorian Momaw Nadon,...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/expounded-universe-31-built-tonnika-tough.mp3 Jon’s pretty grumpy from the word go in the tale of the “Tonnika Twins” that contains less than 2% of the following ingredients: Tonnika Twins.  Timothy Zahn weaves us one of his usual “badass warriors do badass things because of their tactical genius and cool honor code” narratives, with a weirdly brie...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/expounded-universe-30-greedo-and-gallant.mp3 The sad tale of Greedo is such a comedy of terrible decisions and avoidable circumstance that the only thing it’s missing is a Ron Howard voiceover.  We follow the suck-fingered bounty hunter on his journey from little jerk kid to little jerk teenager and beyond (well, not that much beyond, you all know...