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Reprising the Grand Admiral's Easter message for 2026

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"Neither Timothy Zahn in his books or Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni in their animated or live-action shows ever encouraged me to say anything about Chiss religious beliefs. But as someone who has made a lifelong study of the culture, art and beliefs of every species I encounter, I have a message today for any humans on Sol III (also known as Earth) who may reading this. To all Christian people celebrating the resurrection of Jesus today, and also to anyone else celebrating Easter, I wish you all a happy and peaceful Easter." Mitth'raw'nuruodo.

This week's best joke from X, formerly Twitter

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All too often X is full of anger and hate, but we keep reading it because every so often you see a fascinating exchange or something very amusing. "Spaceballs The X Account" posted that  "Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁"

A music spot for today.

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The Gesualdo six perform J. S. Bach's " O sacred head, sore wounded. "

A message from the Grand Admiral to all celebrating Passover, Easter, or both

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To all who are celebrating the feast of the Passover: Jesus also celebrated Passover just before he was betrayed, and he said of the bread and wine, " Do this as often as you eat it, in remembrance of me. "  May Jesus be with all who celebrate Easter this year. Whether you celebrate Passover, Easter, both or neither, may you have a peaceful and happy time this weekend. Mitth'raw'nuruodo.

Picture of the week

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For those with any interest in beautiful pictures of powerful wet navy as well as space navy ships: HMS Revenge, HMS Ramillies, HMS Royal Sovereign and HMS Resolution Steaming in Line in the Atlantic (c.1930.) (Hat tip to "Empire Aesthetics" on X)

Screen Rant on how one of the best Star Wars stories ever written was an April Fool's Day joke

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  No, this isn't an April Fool - but it started as one. Hat Tip for a great story from Screen Rant, which you can read in full at: One Of The Best Star Wars Stories Ever Written... Was An April Fools' Day Joke