The Arcona take the term” getting salty” to a whole new level
@michaelandreipalon35911 ай бұрын
Thankfully, not of the too irate kind.
@IIIC3YLOCO11 ай бұрын
The best comment😂❤
@YasugoLiehu11 ай бұрын
“Man, why're you so salty?” “How dare you; salt destroyed my brother's life!”
@user-kq7rf6uq4m11 ай бұрын
Ten points! 😂😂😂😂
@JaelaOrdo11 ай бұрын
“How addiction crippled an entire generation” Star Wars gets too real with some of the lore at times and that’s part of why I’ve always loved it
@seanzibonanzi6411 ай бұрын
Now if someone ever asks you "what's the saltiest species in the Star Wars galaxy?" You'll know the answer
@cameraman50211 ай бұрын
It reminds me of those Harry Turtledove books where aliens invade in the middle of WW2 and find ginger to be an addictive substance.
@theluftwaffle111 ай бұрын
Do your duty! Grow ginger today!
@gasparg6432 ай бұрын
I read Ginger’s for a moment
@alecsmith344811 ай бұрын
So was El Les just constantly getting high off of sea spray on Kamino?
@CrazyWeridoRH11 ай бұрын
“Dude chill… these clone cadets earned it man” *takes a swig of salt water
@thorsday12111 ай бұрын
Why do you think he took the contract in the first place?
@Daniel_Huffman9 ай бұрын
Do we know if Kamino's oceans even contained salt?
@lerneanlion11 ай бұрын
Too much salt can actually killed humans too. But the lack of salt is also equally damaging. However, I also wondered that the Arconans will like the pink salt from the Himalaya Mountains without getting addicted or not. Also, this video is definitely one of my favorites on this channel now because it featured a Blue Giant.
@RayvenTheNight11 ай бұрын
Always amazed me how much detail and lore that is put into each different species.
@kingofmonsters1411 ай бұрын
considering that we had conflicts over spices here in real life, this isn't all that surprising for me.
@panzerviiimaus158111 ай бұрын
"The ceiling is salt, the floor is salt, the walls are salt. And to an extent the air is salt. And you breathe that in and you constantly taste the salt"
@warhammer886711 ай бұрын
Mustard Gas: Yes, I smell salty.
@Obiwan710011 ай бұрын
Perhaps the Celestials Terraformed Cona to have life, in the legends it is said by an artificial intelligence Rakata that he supposedly created the Twi'leks or Zabraks.
@kezia802711 ай бұрын
lol or maybe they just make stuff up and it has no basis in anything lmao and they just see what sticks/gets popular
@marcusblackwell237211 ай бұрын
There's one thing you didn't mention: Apparently, the Arkona's designers were inspired by E.T.
@Joe_Potts11 ай бұрын
"Hey you wanna buy some salt?" (waves hand) "You want to go home and rethink your life"
@finnmchugh9911 ай бұрын
Pk if I owned a restaurant I would have to guard the sachets and shakers very closely... imagine what they'd do to the Dead Sea
@corvusdominus983511 ай бұрын
They would snort it all.
@MegaRogash11 ай бұрын
Maybe their star system arrived from a parallel universe, where blue giants either live longer or life evolves with extreme speed. That universe could also lack Sodium entirely, only other salts with chlorine, so introduction to an entirely new element might mess with their biology.
@WolfeSaber993311 ай бұрын
The Arcona homeworld could have come from another system, where the planet was once an orphan world after it lost its star. Only for it to be caught in the gravity of its new star, that blue giant.
@xxansongamingxx895911 ай бұрын
I remember discovering this fact in swtor, this is one of the most interesting lores of star wars
@kyleslavik632411 ай бұрын
Their eyes literally turned golden yellow compared their non addicted counterparts they had green eyes.
@inquisitorgarza31211 ай бұрын
The amount drugs affecting so many will no doubt change entire species who take the drugs will be different from what they could have been, similar to how people with a lot of potential and drive could change for the worst when they consume drugs.
@benscerri647211 ай бұрын
Very cool lore, but it baffles me how it could have taken so long to discover the effects of salt on their species. Did they just never eat food prepared by or for another species, or partake in any drinks that had salt in them? It seems extremely unlikely, to the point of impossibility, for such a wide spread and evidently curious species to have never noticed this effect until then...
@loserinasuit788011 ай бұрын
Also biologically they would have to be comprised of salt somewhat.
@Nostripe36111 ай бұрын
@@loserinasuit7880I wonder, since it’s only table salt, could their bodies use a different salt for biological processes. Like how not all species have iron based blood
@johnrandolph198911 ай бұрын
I mean how we humans in the far distant past waged apocalyptic wars over salt and many more spices what is now a common in every household.😳
@L4g__5 ай бұрын
It wasnt that long ago, only a few hundred years back. Id wouldnt call that distant let alone far distant
@nineballmk211 ай бұрын
hide the salt shakers!
@zexalbrony479911 ай бұрын
I guess Greez should never invite El-Les to diner, given how much he likes to season his food with salt and pepper.
@michaelandreipalon35911 ай бұрын
More sugar and the SW equivalent of soy sauce then?
@zexalbrony479911 ай бұрын
@@michaelandreipalon359 Sure why not.
@emeraldcityelicitor228111 ай бұрын
Must have been Center Point Station that moved the Arcona home world to the blue giant, maybe out of the way of The Maw
@demi-femme482111 ай бұрын
It's kind of funny, but also makes perfect sense. Of course with all the species out there in the Star Wars galaxy, one of them would get fucked up by salt.
@michaelandreipalon35911 ай бұрын
I hear ya.
@kezia802711 ай бұрын
no, that doesn't make any sense at all. Salt is so prevalent and so simple, no it actually makes incredibly little sense that this would happen. In fact, you have to completely suspend any understanding of real world science to believe it. Sodium Chloride is not physically capable of giving anything hallucinations. It doesn't matter what their body chemistry is, table alt, NaCl is not complex enough to interact with ANYTHING in the known or unknown universe to that extent. It is physically impossible. As in, physics does not allow it. Good for a cliched story tho
@Star4wars111 ай бұрын
So I guess Crait is a literally death sentence.
@Parocha11 ай бұрын
Overdose planet
@CrazyWeridoRH11 ай бұрын
Imagine falling onto a planet where the entire surface was comprised of cocaine
@garmandino450611 ай бұрын
Better hope there isnt a Bear on that planet.@@CrazyWeridoRH
@MrTable67817 күн бұрын
I want a planet made of melatonin ngl
@quantemwensday11 ай бұрын
i'm just here for the salt
@thorsday12111 ай бұрын
Cona sounds like it was artificially seeded with life.
@MiguelSantos200211 ай бұрын
Cona is slang for pussy in Portuguese so yeah seeded would be a good expression
@marshalllatta207311 ай бұрын
I love star wars species included the arcona species can you guys do the zygerrian species next please
@snoopy_peanuts_7711 ай бұрын
3:26 3:31
@taylorlibby764211 ай бұрын
Almost sounds like they didn't evolve on their "home" planet.
@cioplasmmajic832711 ай бұрын
When you say "table salt" is that a specific kind of salt? Like say, as opposed to sea salt. In that case, it might be the combination with iodine that's usually added to table salt that makes it dangerous to them.
@kezia802711 ай бұрын
Table salt is Sodium Chloride. NaCl. Sea salt will have impurities. Iodine might be added to table salt to fortify it, but table salt is just sodium chloride. Insnely common elements across the entire universe, that would have to disobey the laws of physics in order to have any effect like this on any organism in the universe, no matter how infinitely huge the universe is.
@michaelandreipalon35911 ай бұрын
Well, beats my suspect cinnamon cravings at the slightest least, the Arcona thang.
@taln0reich6 ай бұрын
I think I remember a different star wars species that had some weird thing going on with salt. Salt was, for them, neutralizing some badly needed nutrient. Can't remember what novel it was (it was part of a series that followed the adventures of Obi Wan in his early days of being qui gons padawan) and there was like one at the jedi temple, who covered their foods because obi wan was nearby salting his, and then, in a different scene, one who was forcefully given (by some bad guys) some salt to induce a painful lack of that nutrient for interogatation purposes.
@Comet555111 ай бұрын
Humans to Arcona: All these flavours and you chose to be salty
@alphatyrant867710 ай бұрын
Getting arcona addicted to salt has to be one of my favorite companion quests in SWTOR. Gault is a legend for that scam.
@asmithgames59267 ай бұрын
I have yet to read a Star Wars book but I'm highly interested. Judging by these videos, their quality of writing and lore seems to exceed the prequel and sequel trilogies by orders of magnitude.
@dennischristopher995211 ай бұрын
This is the reason i was kicked out of the jedi order
@THEDEVIOUSDEATHTROOPER11 ай бұрын
Imagine if the Arcona landed on Crait!
@blankface505211 ай бұрын
Nbd 6:15 slip up with the typically lol. I thought I was tripping for a second.
@aliastheabnormal11 ай бұрын
Salt! Salt! Jumbo salt! Nobody want spice no more! Almost nobody wants deathsticks no more! It's all salt! Jumbo salt!
@brianrunyon26611 ай бұрын
Nice covering a rather obscure species.
@kyleslavik632411 ай бұрын
The Arcona are a interesting species.
@thunderK511 ай бұрын
the story of the Arcona's salt addiction reminds me of the Opium Wars in China.
@Daniel_Huffman9 ай бұрын
*Fun facts:* Arcona is also the name of a genus of flies, as well as a headland on a German island. This headland, known in the German language as Kap Arkona, is the namesake of three warships of the Prussian and Imperial German Navies, as well as the SS _Cap Arcona,_ a German ocean liner that notably served as the set of the 1943 propaganda film _Titanic._ Many elements of subsequent films and miniseries in this genre originated here.
@Chew_bacca113811 ай бұрын
Salt, Don't tell them about Crait.
@Ikcatcher11 ай бұрын
Imagine your entire species being salty
@Legio_Purpura_10_282 ай бұрын
Gault did it.
@KlaxontheImpailr11 ай бұрын
The Salt must flow!
@Horace-810 ай бұрын
If one were to say that getting addicted to salt is ridiculous, I point to the European wars of salt. Perhaps not true addiction, but it had profound economic and social effects.
@chrispygoatsman219911 ай бұрын
First heard of these from the jedi apprentice books
@nickvinsable379811 ай бұрын
🤔 . . . To each their own. That typed, how would the Arcona react to Death Sticks? If negatively, then Death Sticks is worse than salt…
@troyheymanwhatsup299611 ай бұрын
Somehow, palpatine has returned
@mythrick710910 ай бұрын
Is this a re-upload? I could’ve sworn I watched this longer than 4 weeks ago.
@dylan-kk2ni11 ай бұрын
Imagine getting high from salt something we put on our food is their drugs😂
@matthewst53711 ай бұрын
Get that man space McDonald’s 🍟
@randycheow426811 ай бұрын
Salt is the way of life
@ANP41586 ай бұрын
I was like “what”
@Thaumh11 ай бұрын
It was knowledge of the Arconan salt addiction epidemic which inspired a facet of my own homebrew Sci-Fi universe. In my galaxy's version of Federation/Republic, there are *STRICT* anti herb-trade laws. As you stated at the start of this vid, something that is a culinary flavoring for one specie can be toxic to another and an intoxicant to a third. (And this isn't even going into things like food allergies!) It's hard enough for Bios to remember who can and cannot have what seasoning. Thus, typically, most rely on Ché-Bots and AI food dispencers which rely on artificial flavorings. Sorry to prattle off topic from SW, it's been a while since I had someone to talk to about my OC.
@america279311 ай бұрын
Just imagine having salty chips and getting high
@nickrwidmer11 ай бұрын
In a galaxy where there is sound in space humans don't have to breathe oxygen
@shawnpage633311 ай бұрын
Even I get unducted to salt on my MC Donald fries🍟 😅
@user-kq7rf6uq4m11 ай бұрын
Is this the space Mad Hatter? 0:40
@jamiewalsh334911 ай бұрын
Well. I won't be giving aliens salt when intergalactic travel is possible
@sonofeyeabovealleffoff546210 ай бұрын
I think you mean interstellar travel. Intergalactic means between galaxies.
@jamiewalsh334910 ай бұрын
Both I would say
@greatazuredragon11 ай бұрын
Nice episode.
@cheesaliciousable11 ай бұрын
Iunno man, salt makes me hyper, and I can get addicted to it like most would get addicted to sugar. Which is weird I guess. bruh
@wither56739 ай бұрын
the dinosaurs extinction came about 65 ish million years ago, just to put the time scales into somewhat of a perspective for how short lived 10 million years is for a star to exist, that is *NOTHING* on interstellar timelines.
@IBW_300011 ай бұрын
So… many… salt jokes…
@jon630911 ай бұрын
I would say Death sticks were much worse compared to Salt because they impacted many different species within the Star Wars Galaxy whereas salt only affected Arconans which made up a minority of the entire galaxy.
@tea______709910 ай бұрын
So basically, it's the opiod crisis
@blightstrider481811 ай бұрын
Salt....salt.....
@geeker63504 ай бұрын
So, salt was to the Arcona what spice was to the rest of the Galaxy.
@ZackAttack00511 ай бұрын
Maybe Cona was captured rouge planet.
@bizmasterTheSlav11 ай бұрын
To be fair, 100% of humans are addicted to salt as well. We need it to survive
@josephsteven160011 ай бұрын
Salt
@harsa201711 ай бұрын
A species of League players
@knabdank11 ай бұрын
this reminds me of fentanyl monkeys
@user-kq7rf6uq4m11 ай бұрын
Huh?
@Ahmed-tf9bd11 ай бұрын
5:35 the opposite of humans..
@Supyloco11 ай бұрын
Probably salt, too much salt is bad for your heart.
@theluftwaffle111 ай бұрын
Comment of the week? Oh hell yeah.
@vaughnsolo842511 ай бұрын
so theres a world out there with cocaine oceans
@user-kq7rf6uq4m11 ай бұрын
Yes, it's called the '80s.
@odatatsunobu10 ай бұрын
Si Treemba
@racspartan111 ай бұрын
👍
@jackieanderson940811 ай бұрын
😊
@ottooctavius955211 ай бұрын
The coin flip noise was annoying
@Josh_Hammond11 ай бұрын
So the fact that real table salt exists in the Star wars universe also means someone who is or was a jedi can be called a ronin in the Star wars universe regardless if it makes sense in universe or not.
@kezia802711 ай бұрын
import laws?? It's sodium chloride. They could make it in a literal bathtub out of some of the most easily obtainable compounds in the universe. Also, how the hell does sodium chloride provide hallucinations?? It doesn't matter how your body chemistry works, sodium chloride is not capable of that kind of complex interactions with any living organism. Because it's SALT. that isn't how this kind of thing works and god it's so frustrating how often star wars does this. Just makes physica and chemistry with zero effort at all. Like they could have made up a chemical, but no it had to be table salt. Something we can categorically look at and say 'no actually, this won't be able to make any species in the universe have hallucinations that isn't how salt works"
@kezia802711 ай бұрын
I know trying to apply a real world framework to an imaginary species is an exercise in futility, but honestly this makes no sense at all. Somehow this species survived with minimal air pockets on their home planet, despite there being no oxygen in the atmosphere and all from 'pockets' how did they survive as a species in order to become sentient??? They also just 'can't survive without ammonia for some reason??' And they never came into contact with salt either on their own planet or abroad? It's so insanely common that seems almost literally impossible. Honestly, starwars is fun so long as you remember it is a fantasy story with its own rules. The "science" side of starwars likes to pretend its real science, but honestly it's just space magic. This species, worse than most, was clearly designed by someone with an idea in mind, rather than someone trying to create something realistic/reasonable. This species is like what you get when you have a kid playing with action figures making up their 'stats' as they play.
@kyleslavik632411 ай бұрын
Addiction is terrible.
@cjthebeesknees11 ай бұрын
Ukraine been a leading exporter of Salt the last two years.. y’all believe that? Russians, Rahhh.