James Whitbrook of io9 has taken a look at some of the silliest names used in Star Wars for real world objects.
The Star Wars galaxy is a weird and wondrous place, full of laser swords, aliens, and sentient robots. This can make trying to depict the banality of life there a bit difficult. So over years of tie-in material, writers have had to come up with oodles of new words to make the normal things people encounter in everyday life feel like they’re part of a galaxy far, far away… with some truly ridiculous results.
1) Paper = Flimsiplast and Durasheet
West End Games’ Star Wars roleplaying game of the late ‘80s—responsible for some of the early worldbuilding of what would become the Expanded Universe—infamously declared that there was no place for paper in Star Wars. The written word was noted on datapads and through electronic devices only. But eventually, not being able to just scribble something down at any time seemed odd, and so not only one, but two alternatives came to exist: Flimsiplast, a see-through acrylic, and durasheet, a “paper-like” material that was still not actual paper.
For the rest of his top 10, take the link to the full blog.
