Its a purely visual concept, one that equates the nabooeans and gungans together as denizens of the planet, both benefitting from the special plasma enabling shield tech never seen before.
You see the gungans throwing balls of the stuff at enemies. It happens simultaneously as the fight with Maul amongst the tubes.
The visual language is clear. This is the source of nabooean wealth and why they're crushed by a blockade.
Well obviously there are in-universe controversies, I'm sure there are Corellians that argue Naboo ships are overprized trash for elitist snobs that are just buying the brand, and that Corellian tech is sturdier and better. Corellia did make the fastest starship in the Galaxy in the form of the Millenium Falcon, after all. Just like an American muscle car fanatic will bash Euro cars.
But that's what made the lore great.
Of course not, which is why I'm curious as to what Naboo offers. Hell, I started this entire chain of posts off by asking if it was just something as simple as a vacation spot for Republic citizens.
Then I wondered why the script didn't include any third parties who were also in defense of Naboo, establishing the logistics of their relevance.
It's quite a strange predicament. Here you have an economy that is proclaimed to be so beneficial to its allies that it successfully relies on them for defense so they can be largely pacifistic, yet when the bill comes due, nobody cares. So was Palpatine controlling every person on gorillions of planets, or is Naboo really just an annoying tagalong with its head up its own ass?
Either way you slice it, the story's retarded.
replace the word "plasma" with "something" and i agree with you but why should anyone assume it's "plasma"
this is ignoring that "plasma" means basically nothing
basically i hate that it gets called plasma i would honestly rather it was called nab'uar or some other gibberish
it's not named in the film so it doesn't have a name and if you're going to give it one then do better than "fluid"
Nobody knows Naboo was getting invaded, retard. That's why they cut communications and the Queen decides to go to the Senate directly to request intervention.
For most people in the Galaxy it was just a dumb trade dispute nobody knows what's going down.
Also nobody expected the Trade Federation to have such a large droid army they built it in secret subcontracting the Collicoids (another race specializing in droid manufacturing). This last bit is EU lore though.
Yeah, I'm not talking about the invasion. The blockade is enough. I mean, if you're dependent on them for trade, it would create a bit of a crisis for your planet as well. Nobody is dependent on Naboo.
Imagine if Russia invaded Finland and Finland somehow couldn't communicate that.
Finland produces its own weapons and they are pretty good. They have a proportionally large and well trained militiary in addition to a conscripted population. Yet they wouldn't stand a chance (is what I might have said 5 years ago lmao) because of the scale disparity.
yet when the bill comes due, nobody cares
It's a filibusteted issue. People absolutely do care hence it is debated and the queen has supporters but without a majority decision action isn't taken. It's not as though Naboo is left for months and they ultimately do defend themselves.
The blockade had sparked a political crisis and it was due to be debated in the Senate. (Where the TF would ultimately lose). But we are told the Republic is mired in bureaucracy and subcomittees and it would take forever to decide, it's like the space UN.
But no, it wouldn't create a Galactic economic crisis because we are told Naboo is a small, mid-rim, low-population planet. It's prosperous but it isn't some massive core world economic hub.
It's named in Lucas' canon side books, stupid fuck. The movie shows, not tells. Stop whining about the thirty year old children's film not being exactly what you want.