Star Wars names...

[neotoma]

Given that political practice on Naboo involves the Queen using a name for her reign that is not her personal or family name, do we think Palpatine's name is likewise a regnal name?

And do Jedi rename the children given to them? I'm wondering where Obi-Wan came up with "Ben", and I have a sneaking suspicion that it was the name he was given at birth.

Comments

[caliburn.livejournal.com]

I don't know, given the sheer nigh-unimaginable size of the populated galaxy, it might not be so unusual to skip over name coincidences.

Vader: "Find Kenobi!"
Officer: [checks a computer console] "I have multiple matches on the name..."
Vader: "How many?"
Officer: "Only 1.2 million. It's quite uncommon, really."
Vader: "Hmmm...narrow the search. Are any of them near...a Skywalker? Just in case my wife managed to give birth after I killed her and left her unconscious in a collapsing building over an active volcano planet."
Officer: "That narrows the search to...11,236."
Vader: "Oh, bugger it." [chokes the officer]

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

but that's what search algorithms are for. You eliminate all the Kenobis that are female, wrong age, wrong ethnicity and whatever other traits that Obi-Wan is definitely and unchangeably *not* (like 6' tall), and you might have a manageable number to hand off to the Imperial Security Services.

[moojja.livejournal.com]

That is assuming Tatooine has a censor every 10 years. Otherwise, why would you assume anybody know about kenobi, if they don't live on Tatooine.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Uhm, becuse totalitarian governments like to keep track of their citizens. There is a garrison of stormtroopers on Tatooine in ANH -- it's been absorbed into the Empire.

[moojja.livejournal.com]

I thought it was only there for the search?