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Pththya-lyi posted:
So we are like the Mexicans of the Star Wars Galaxy? That's awesome 
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This is just a theoretical question. If one wanted to be a Storm Trooper for Halloween where would they go to find good quality suits like you would see the 501St going around in at conventions and what not. This is all in theory of course and no one plans on trying it.
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Sep 11, 2010 21:22
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Buy a suit from somebody who makes them in the 501st.
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Sep 11, 2010 22:37
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Darth Freddy posted:This is just a theoretical question. If one wanted to be a Storm Trooper for Halloween where would they go to find good quality suits like you would see the 501St going around in at conventions and what not. This is all in theory of course and no one plans on trying it. Got a bunch of money to spend? http://www.sdsprops.com/armour-intro.html Of course, I imagine you can probably find it from people who are not the original makers for more cheaply. 
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Sep 12, 2010 00:37
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As I understand it, a snowspeeder is a modified T-47. What does an unmodified T-47 look like? Does someone have a pic?
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Sep 12, 2010 03:41
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beze posted:As I understand it, a snowspeeder is a modified T-47. What does an unmodified T-47 look like? Does someone have a pic? Basically the same. If I remember correctly, the modification consisted of that grate-thingie on the back. Supposed to help with the cold.
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Sep 12, 2010 03:47
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I don't think it had the laser cannons either.
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Sep 12, 2010 03:56
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Basically it was an upside-down shovel with a tow hook on it.
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Sep 12, 2010 03:59
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Darth Freddy posted:This is just a theoretical question. If one wanted to be a Storm Trooper for Halloween where would they go to find good quality suits like you would see the 501St going around in at conventions and what not. This is all in theory of course and no one plans on trying it. I believe most of the people in the 501st make their own suits and helmets. So unless you want to pay an ungodly amount of money on a suit, your best bet is to make your own.
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Sep 12, 2010 10:38
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sniper4625 posted:Basically the same. If I remember correctly, the modification consisted of that grate-thingie on the back. Supposed to help with the cold. So who made the T-47's? Are they the same bunch that made Luke's T-16 skyhopper? Also, did we ever see what that looked like? Because, as far as I recall we only see a part of it in ANH in the garage scene and it uh looked sorta trianglar I guess? Speaking of ANH, I've always wondered, how much did Luke know Obi-wan prior to the events of ANH? I mean he does seem pretty upset with the whole Ben being cut in half by a dark armoured figure thing, but I'm sure most folk would be at least a bit disturbed seeing that happen to the nice old guy from down the road.
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Sep 12, 2010 11:31
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http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/T-16_skyhopper
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Sep 12, 2010 12:20
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Not A Bear posted:Speaking of ANH, I've always wondered, how much did Luke know Obi-wan prior to the events of ANH? I mean he does seem pretty upset with the whole Ben being cut in half by a dark armoured figure thing, but I'm sure most folk would be at least a bit disturbed seeing that happen to the nice old guy from down the road. He knew of him a little bit I guess, he refers to him as "old Ben Kenobi" but he probably was just the weird old man down the road. In fairness, Luke's decided to go off on an adventure with him and be trained as a Jedi immediately after witnessing his only remaining family get murdered. When they're on the Death Star Luke is way out of his depth and Ben is basically all he has left.
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Sep 12, 2010 13:54
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I vaguely recall in one of the older enclyclopedias that I own Luke, Tank and Biggs did some dumb early teen poo poo in the desert and almost died but Obi-Wan saved their asses. Also, I'd make fun of Tank being called Tank but I read the kick rear end webcomics he and Biggs we're in so no. Plus he teased Luke in his whiny rear end stage.
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Sep 12, 2010 15:14
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SeanBeansShako posted:I vaguely recall in one of the older enclyclopedias that I own Luke, Tank and Biggs did some dumb early teen poo poo in the desert and almost died but Obi-Wan saved their asses. Do you have a link to the webcomic? I don't think I've ever read that one.
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Sep 12, 2010 17:32
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SeanBeansShako posted:Also, I'd make fun of Tank being called Tank but I read the kick rear end webcomics he and Biggs we're in so no. Plus he teased Luke in his whiny rear end stage. Tank is also the dude from the Empire comics, so he's actually awesome.
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Sep 12, 2010 18:24
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Not A Bear posted:So who made the T-47's? Are they the same bunch that made Luke's T-16 skyhopper? Also, did we ever see what that looked like? Because, as far as I recall we only see a part of it in ANH in the garage s You can see one flying over Mos Eisley in the Tatooine celebration scene from the ROTJ SE.
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Sep 12, 2010 19:28
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Chairman Capone posted:Do you have a link to the webcomic? I don't think I've ever read that one. Blue Milk Special isn't mentioned in the OP? here is the URL. http://www.bluemilkspecial.com/ Tank kicked major rear end in the Empire comic too.
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I'm close to finishing the 3rd FOJ book, Abyss. I'm listening to audio books at work, so I don't know off hand which chapter I'm on. Did anyone else get tired of the mind drinker/walker plot before it started? It just feels really boring to me. Although I did just get past the part where they talk to anakin/mara, so that wasn't so bad. Loved the brief mando skirmish, kept waiting for han to fall and break a hip or something.
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Sep 13, 2010 00:52
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Not A Bear posted:So who made the T-47's? Are they the same bunch that made Luke's T-16 skyhopper? Also, did we ever see what that looked like? Because, as far as I recall we only see a part of it in ANH in the garage scene and it uh looked sorta trianglar I guess?
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Sep 13, 2010 02:44
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My local comic shop held a Star Wars Family Day event where the 501st showed up and they offered discounts if you showed up in costume. I hope they gave that kid 80% off. 
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Sep 13, 2010 03:17
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D'awwww. I still kind of love Star Wars if it brings young kids the same joy we got from it.
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Kingtheninja posted:I'm close to finishing the 3rd FOJ book, Abyss. I'm listening to audio books at work, so I don't know off hand which chapter I'm on. Did anyone else get tired of the mind drinker/walker plot before it started? It just feels really boring to me. Although I did just get past the part where they talk to anakin/mara, so that wasn't so bad. Loved the brief mando skirmish, kept waiting for han to fall and break a hip or something. Yeah, for a group of communal solipsists, things turned to bullshit pretty quickly. And personally I felt the parts with Anakin/Mara/Jacen to be pretty worthless too. It felt like a half-hearted attempt to give more closure that ultimately just took up page space. Oh also it may not even have been real, so there's that too. The Mando fight was kinda fun, I just wish Denning would stop making up new Force powers that play out like comic book superpowers. It wouldn't surprise me if in his next installment a Jedi develops laser vision or shape-shifting. Enjoy the next book where Han and Leia continue to have adventures in bad parenting!
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Speaking of Star Wars vehicles...I'm willing to accept that space fighters have 'wings' - fine, maybe you need to land on planets sometimes and anyway it's just a movie. But is there any explanation as to why the wings have to be set in "attack position" for combat...in space? In a vacuum? Where there is no air, therefore no way for wings to generate lift or do anything useful other than look cool? (I should have never even opened this thread. I picked up a couple EU books at the library over the weekend. My transition to the Dark Side has begun.)
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Sep 13, 2010 18:23
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TorpedoFish posted:Speaking of Star Wars vehicles...I'm willing to accept that space fighters have 'wings' - fine, maybe you need to land on planets sometimes and anyway it's just a movie. But is there any explanation as to why the wings have to be set in "attack position" for combat...in space? In a vacuum? Where there is no air, therefore no way for wings to generate lift or do anything useful other than look cool? I may be wrong about this, but I believe when they're together (we're talking about X-Wings, right?) the engines work together for traveling through hyperspace, and when they're apart, since the guns are on the wings themselves, it gives you four streams of lasers to hit your enemy instead with of just two. Granted, after typing that out, it doesn't make a ton of sense, but it's something like that.
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Sep 13, 2010 18:32
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Dash Magnum posted:Yeah, for a group of communal solipsists, things turned to bullshit pretty quickly. And personally I felt the parts with Anakin/Mara/Jacen to be pretty worthless too. It felt like a half-hearted attempt to give more closure that ultimately just took up page space. Oh also it may not even have been real, so there's that too. Yeah, just started it today. Han and Leia just landed on dathomir and are planning on leaving allana and her pet nexu alone on the ship. No sub plot could possibly develop from that situation 
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Sep 13, 2010 18:39
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Some EU traditions never die. Oh keep an eye on STEAM this week they are doing discounts for all LA Star Wars games on it. Right now is the first Force Unleashed for the PC up for grabs. STEAM has both KOTOR Games and the Jedi Knight collection as well as Battlefront 2 and Republic Commando.
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Sep 13, 2010 18:47
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SeanBeansShako posted:Some EU traditions never die. I'm not seeing the second KOTOR game; I've been waiting for that to come out on Steam.
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Suenteus Po posted:I'm not seeing the second KOTOR game; I've been waiting for that to come out on Steam. Odd, I thought KOTOR 2 was out already on STEAM. I can't see any reason why Obsidian is keeping it back then. Out of the two I enjoy the 2nd ones slightly more darker feel.
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Sep 13, 2010 20:58
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Kingtheninja posted:Yeah, just started it today. Han and Leia just landed on dathomir and are planning on leaving allana and her pet nexu alone on the ship. No sub plot could possibly develop from that situation
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Sep 13, 2010 21:04
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thrawn527 posted:I may be wrong about this, but I believe when they're together (we're talking about X-Wings, right?) the engines work together for traveling through hyperspace, and when they're apart, since the guns are on the wings themselves, it gives you four streams of lasers to hit your enemy instead with of just two. Basically, though there are indications in some of the books that the hyperdrive works with the s-foils split, and that you can fire with them together.
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Sep 13, 2010 21:18
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thrawn527 posted:I may be wrong about this, but I believe when they're together (we're talking about X-Wings, right?) the engines work together for traveling through hyperspace, and when they're apart, since the guns are on the wings themselves, it gives you four streams of lasers to hit your enemy instead with of just two. I always assumed the wings spreading was for heat dissipation till I realised that you don't get that sort of heat dissipation in space (Do you? Would a CPU Heatsink work in a vacuum?)
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TorpedoFish posted:Speaking of Star Wars vehicles...I'm willing to accept that space fighters have 'wings' - fine, maybe you need to land on planets sometimes and anyway it's just a movie. But is there any explanation as to why the wings have to be set in "attack position" for combat...in space? In a vacuum? Where there is no air, therefore no way for wings to generate lift or do anything useful other than look cool? edit: That'll learn me to post before refreshing.
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EA Pro Posting 09 posted:I always assumed the wings spreading was for heat dissipation till I realised that you don't get that sort of heat dissipation in space (Do you? Would a CPU Heatsink work in a vacuum?) Without air as a medium for direct heat transfer, it takes a long time for an object to cool off. It will still lose energy through radiation but that's a hell of a lot slower. It's why the vacuum in a Thermos works so well as an insulator. I guess increasing surface area would help a little, though.
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EA Pro Posting 09 posted:I always assumed the wings spreading was for heat dissipation till I realised that you don't get that sort of heat dissipation in space (Do you? Would a CPU Heatsink work in a vacuum?) Fun fact: heat radiation is why the space shuttle orbits with the cargo bay doors open (and why it usually faces Earth, because that's most often away from the sun) - there's a whole big water and freon-based cooling system that runs through inside of the doors. So I guess there's a teeny tiny little microscopic bit of something like actual real science in Star Wars! But the thing about the laser guns is cooler.
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TorpedoFish posted:Speaking of Star Wars vehicles...I'm willing to accept that space fighters have 'wings' - fine, maybe you need to land on planets sometimes and anyway it's just a movie. But is there any explanation as to why the wings have to be set in "attack position" for combat...in space? In a vacuum? Where there is no air, therefore no way for wings to generate lift or do anything useful other than look cool? All spergin' aside, the only real reason for this is because it looks neat. Unfortunately, that's not sufficient for most of us fanboys.
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You could also argue that it's a better attack profile than the two wings. >o< would be harder to hit than =o=.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:You could also argue that it's a better attack profile than the two wings. >o< would be harder to hit than =o=. More importantly, it makes landing hits easier as compared to, say, the nose mounted lasers on a tie fighter or y-wing, since you've got a wider shot spread - a target juking & jinking to avoid your fire has to move further. Then again they're setup angled slightly inward so that they converge at a point, so I dunno, maybe not quite so much.
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I always thought that the different configuration of the engines in the S-foils' attack position allowed for much greater maneuverability, akin to the Fury from Babylon 5.
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I know people don't talk poo poo on Michael Stackpole's XWing books in this thread, BUT I just read them all and the one thing that really bothered me was how in every book at least 1 character dies, but then NOPE they're actually alive the whole time, everyone just thought they were dead. It gets to the point where you know anyone who dies is coming back. In Isard's Revenge basically every single character thinks the other characters are dead, AND the bad guy they killed in a previous book is back with her clone...
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Torael_7 posted:More importantly, it makes landing hits easier as compared to, say, the nose mounted lasers on a tie fighter or y-wing, since you've got a wider shot spread - a target juking & jinking to avoid your fire has to move further. This would make sense, but I remember back in SWG's JTL expansion if you had a TIE interceptor or X-wing, it was almost impossible to shoot at TIE fighters or any small ship because they didn't have any sort of shot convergence distance. You could literally spend an hour shooting at the back of a TIE or A Wing and the shots would just shoot around the outside of the enemy.
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