Expounded Universe

Oh wow, the shit all hits the fan here! Action! Intrigue! Extended lawn orgy! Thrill as we finally meet the legendary richest man in the galaxy Bohhuah Muttdah and his desperate attempts to enjoy his day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh wow, the shit all hits the fan here! Action! Intrigue! Extended lawn orgy! Thrill as we finally meet the legendary richest man in the galaxy Bohhuah Muttdah and his desperate attempts to enjoy his day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cue the Strawberry Alarm Clock, because it’s time for a trippy flight through a rainbow space montage! Also there’s sabotage afoot, and fighters attacking! Exciting times indeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/expounded-universe-225-a-waywa-with-words.mp3 Well, it may have been a bit, but dang it we aren’t continuing the intriguing tale of Lando in jail, Rokur Gepta in monologue, and Klyn Shanga and his motley fighter squadron in space.  Also joining us this week are the worst cop ever, a cop that is Big Bird, and Lob Doluff, recently bereft of his godda...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/expounded-universe-224-back-to-back-sabacc.mp3 Finally some quality time with Rokur Gepta, who is rapidly shaping up into one of those villains who already knew you were going to do that, which might suck, but let’s face it, his method of torturing his own underlings are funny as hell.  Meanwhile you’re never going to guess what Lando’s doing!  Oh,...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/expounded-universe-223-twisted-steel-leather-toilet.mp3 Next book!  And whoa, this one starts out with the libertarian coming on strong.  Man, how did I not notice this when I read these at 14? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/expounded-universe-222-mindharp-wrap-up.mp3 The poll isn’t over yet, but it’s looking very likely that we’ll just stay right here in the Centrality with young Lando and his cool droid companion for at least one more book, which is just fine by us.  Also, we discuss every little detail of our thoughts and then answer a bunch of questions.  We’re pro...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/expounded-universe-curse-your-sudden-yet-irrelevant-betrayal.mp3 Time to bring it home!  We finally discover not only the titular Mindharp of Sharu, but also what it does!  And we confront this book’s big villain… well sort of.  But revelations abound all the same! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/expounded-universe-220-vuffis-adventures-in-wonderlando.mp3 Is this episode big?  Little?  Both!  We’re not sure exactly who’s doing the size changing around here, but everyone is brand new sizes (except Mohs, who instead has liberate’d tutemi ex inferis, apparently(yes I know what it actually means)).  Also we’re inside the pyramids now, so that’s...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/expounded-universe-219-the-taking-tree.mp3 We’re stepping up the pace to three chapters.  Today we check in with Lando (tied to a tree, dying) and Vuffi Raa (full of arrows, dying), and then amazingly more stuff happens!  What a concept! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/expounded-universe-218-who-gave-that-toka-a-crossbow.mp3 First, a brief discussion that has a surprising lack of detail available without going to a website: Does the Falcon have a bedroom?  Feels like it should, right?  But here’s Lando sleeping on the floor under the Dejarik table.  Then other stuff happens!  Mohs breaks bad! Learn more about you...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/expounded-universe-217-mohs-tavern.mp3 A man with a gun bursts through the door!  And then things get slapstick, confusing, slapstick again, a little weird, maudlin for a second, really really confusing, and finally Jon and Jef fight for like 10 minutes!  What an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/expounded-universe-216-toka-and-fugue.mp3 Well heck, the last episode was certainly a bottle episode, never leaving Duttes Mer’s office, but this one is almost a bottle episode too, insofar as it’s set exclusively in a series of bars.  Oh wait, that’s a pun too!  Hooray!  Lando gets started on his surprisingly vague assignment and we learn a little...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/expounded-universe-rokur-gepta-i-hardly-know-er-gepta.mp3 Bottle episode time!  These two entire chapters never leave the office of one of our two villains.  This time around, we’re going to meet Duttes Mer, the regional governer of the Rafa star system, and his boss, A motherfucking lunatic SORCERER.  That’s right, it’s time to bring in Rokur Gept...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/expounded-universe-214-this-mynock-empty-yeek.mp3 Oh my goodness it is a new book, and instead of dealing with Corran Horn for even one more goddamn second, we can finally hang with the cool man with the capes, the Tuxedo Mask of Star Wars, it’s Lando Calrissian!  This book series is very old (1983!) so get ready for a world free of the EU baggage,...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/expounded-universe-213-i-jedi-wrapup.mp3 Time for the moment where we ask ourselves what the hell did we just read?  A little bit of final thoughts and a lot of listener questions, plus the big announcement of what we’re gonna do next! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/expounded-universe-212-i-jensaari.mp3 And the rocket ride comes to a sudden stop.  And was Jef right last week? No!  Jef was only about 1/5th right!  Oh well, I guess those aren’t just the Yavin students, but what are they then?  Surely no one would wait til the last 8 pages of a novel to introduce a HUGE new element of the Star Wars world, would t...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/expounded-universe-i-vengeance.-i-the-night..mp3 As the title may suggest, this is a bit of a Batman set of chapters, as our hero sets about scaring all the pirates off the planet they live on.  For reasons.  I’m sure they make sense.  I assume it somehow has to do with rescuing Mirax in the next… four chapters?  What!?  But for now we’re really fo...

[/audio]https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/expounded-universe-210-i-dont-care-about-things.mp3 Another episode, another few weeks spent in pirate town.  We have the big showdown with Remart, a whole chapter in Horn’s head (shudder) and we meet an exciting new coincidenc-I mean character, Elegos the Camaasi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/expounded-universe-209-i-oceanbound.mp3 Chapter 36 opens with our new favorite phrase: “Several months later.”  The languid pace of this rescue is wild, right?  Anyway, all three chapters this week concern Corran’s attempts to impress a bunch of pirates.  He hasn’t advanced on the case of his wife yet.  The book has about 12 chapters left. Learn mo...

[/audio]https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/expounded-universe-208-aye-pirate.mp3 Okay, here we go!  We’re done with the Jedi temple, we’re done with Grandpa’s house, time to finally rescue Mirax, all we gotta do is… join up with a pirate crew for at least a month WHAT IS THIS HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/expounded-universe-207-i-not-a-jedi.mp3 Obviously Corran is feeling a little down on himself for spending two and a half months at the Jedi academy instead of just looking for his wife, so the most natural course of action is to go crash at his grandpa’s house for an impromptu family reunion and night on the town!  Okay, fine other stuff is happeni...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/expounded-universe-206-i-died-offscreen.mp3 Ooh lots of ground to cover this week, as get this, Corran Horn is leaving Yavin 4!  With about half of the book left, will we finally start the book?  Also we get to deal with Exar Kun, and meet Booster Terrik! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/expounded-universe-205-i-gonna-get-you-sucka.mp3 The cavalcade of guest stars visiting Fantasy Planet continues, as we are now getting a chance to meet Han (again, remember!?) and Leia, along with the Solo twins, make brief appearances to deal with the Luke being in a coma situation.  Also, we finally meet Exar Kun!  Gotta admit, it is sorta funny...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/expounded-universe-204-i-try-to-say-goodby-and-i-choke.mp3 I can’t help but wonder just exactly how much of this book is Jedi school.  It became increasingly weird to deal with a book about a missing wife, clearly in some form of mortal danger, where the answer was “Take a few college classes and then go look for her.”  Anyway here I am, looking at...