Old Age?

spideycw · Post by **spideycw** » 2003-05-26 08:50pm

I was reading Force Heretic 1: Remnant and several quotes by Pelleaon intrigued me.

"He had spent almost a century in space"
"He had been born before the empire, before the anti alien propaganda, before the fall of the Jedi - even before the birth of the child who woudl grow up to become Darth Vader"

Im wondering around how old this would make him, as well as the averaged age one can expect to live to. Thanks for the help in advance

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-05-26 09:02pm

Well a guy on a small outer rim of Bakura lived to 150 before he had a heart attack.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-26 09:02pm

At the time of that book, Pelleon was somewhere around 90 years old.

SW Humans have an average lifespan of about 125, IIRC. As GAT said, 150 can be reached, and I think even up to 200 years is rarely possible.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-05-27 03:39am

If I'm not mistaken, wouldn't it be due to faster than light travel coupled with medical advancements. Supposedly a human wouldn't age that fast seeing how time slows down the faster you go. Plus with the medical technology they must weild.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-27 04:00am

Wright, relative time only slows down when you're traveling at subluminal velocities. When you're traveling at superluminal velocities, relative time actually speeds up. SW MUST use time dialation technology to eliminate the accelerative relativistic effects of FTL travel, otherwise, at the speeds they travel at, everyone would die of old age as hundreds or thousands of years pass on ships.

I'd say that SW Humans' old age is probably due to medical technology and that they've been around for many thousands of years...

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-05-27 04:10am

Cal Wright wrote:If I'm not mistaken, wouldn't it be due to faster than light travel coupled with medical advancements. Supposedly a human wouldn't age that fast seeing how time slows down the faster you go. Plus with the medical technology they must weild.

I thought relativity isnt relevant while in hyperspace.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-27 04:13am

Tycho, I already corrected Wright's error...

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-05-27 04:18am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Tycho, I already corrected Wright's error...

Damn this board lag!

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-05-27 05:22am

Don't forget the Raëlian-style cloning methods Palpatine used to keep himself alive in. For those who haven't heard of the Raëlian Movement, Palpatine cloned new mindless bodies, grew them to adulthood and used The Force to transfer his soul into the new body. Maybe Pellaeon pulled a Raël!

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-05-27 07:36am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Don't forget the Raëlian-style cloning methods Palpatine used to keep himself alive in. For those who haven't heard of the Raëlian Movement, Palpatine cloned new mindless bodies, grew them to adulthood and used The Force to transfer his soul into the new body. Maybe Pellaeon pulled a Raël!

With no Force powers? I remember some Jedi having his mind transfered to a Data-like droid, but that's different.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-05-27 08:16am

StarshipTitanic wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Don't forget the Raëlian-style cloning methods Palpatine used to keep himself alive in. For those who haven't heard of the Raëlian Movement, Palpatine cloned new mindless bodies, grew them to adulthood and used The Force to transfer his soul into the new body. Maybe Pellaeon pulled a Raël!
With no Force powers?

Maybe he had a Jedi do it for him.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-05-27 05:38pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
StarshipTitanic wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Don't forget the Raëlian-style cloning methods Palpatine used to keep himself alive in. For those who haven't heard of the Raëlian Movement, Palpatine cloned new mindless bodies, grew them to adulthood and used The Force to transfer his soul into the new body. Maybe Pellaeon pulled a Raël!
With no Force powers?
Maybe he had a Jedi do it for him.

We're going into way too many unknowns territory.