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exquisite tea posted:Hey Star Wars people, I was just watching the Empire Strikes Back and noticed that at the very end, the Rebel fleet is orbiting the outskirts of the entire galaxy. They've got to be at least 100k light years out to have a view like that! If they can get that far outside their own galaxy, why do the Rebels risk detection by hanging around on planets instead of just grabbing the resources they need and returning to deep space? I always assumed they were seeing another Galaxy, not their own. So they're in a galaxy that's close to (by close I mean about 100k light years) to another galaxy so they get a great view of it. It's probably not scientifically correct that they would see a galaxy that clearly that's that far away, but this is star wars, so we can just say the force made it look like that or something. Gianthogweed fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Nov 12, 2011 |
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Since I like the NJO I just pretend that the thing they were looking at at the end of ESB was anything but the galaxy.
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exquisite tea posted:Hey Star Wars people, I was just watching the Empire Strikes Back and noticed that at the very end, the Rebel fleet is orbiting the outskirts of the entire galaxy. They've got to be at least 100k light years out to have a view like that! If they can get that far outside their own galaxy, why do the Rebels risk detection by hanging around on planets instead of just grabbing the resources they need and returning to deep space? It's home. Even if they could feasibly explore outside the galaxy(I think the EU mentions that going too far out becomes a huge pain in the rear end, like Outbound Flight or whatever) most of them probably wouldn't leave because they don't want to just escape the Empire. They want to burn down an evil dictatorship and give their families and loved ones a freer life. Luke hated living on Tatooine, Alderaan is smoked, and I don't know how Han feels about Corellia. But I can see your average Rebel infantryman or pilot being in it to give his planet back to the people.
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Nov 12, 2011 04:57
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Did anyone else get the TOR Online weekend beta test e-mails?
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Der Luftwaffle posted:I think it's pretty well accepted here that Stackpole's books are better than most of the EU by a good margin, but that they do have the downside of Corran Horn being the biggest Mary Sue (or whatever the masculine equivalent is) ever. Stackpole's notorious for that poo poo. If you look at his BattleTech work, he does the exact same thing with Justin Allard in the Warrior trilogy, and Phelan Kell / Victor Davion in the Blood of Kerensky trilogy. He just can't keep from injecting an all-knowing, all-powerful ubermensch into his work. The other thing he loves to do is try and update current-day metaphors to the fiction of the universe he's writing in. "That doesn't ring a bell for me" becoming "That doesn't manipulate a hologram for me" in one of his BattleTech books still makes me cringe, and I haven't read one of those things in probably twelve years. Timby fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Nov 12, 2011 |
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Nov 12, 2011 22:36
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How does traveling in single file hide sand peoples numbers?
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Darth Freddy posted:How does traveling in single file hide sand peoples numbers? They only leave one set of tracks.
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Darth Freddy posted:How does traveling in single file hide sand peoples numbers? E:fb.
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So yeah, I found and played a pretty neat Star Wars mod for the original Mount and Blade which is professionally done and maybe the only chance we'll get of a open ended RPG set in the OT ever. I'd grab it when original Mount and Blade goes on sale on STEAM for a buck. SeanBeansShako fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Nov 13, 2011 |
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Darth Freddy posted:How does traveling in single file hide sand peoples numbers? 
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It still seems like single file would really make no difference what so ever compared to two people side by side. Hell they should drag a cloth behind them to cover up the foot prints.
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Darth Freddy posted:It still seems like single file would really make no difference what so ever compared to two people side by side. Hell they should drag a cloth behind them to cover up the foot prints. If an entire tribe or clan or war party or whatever are tooling along single-file it'd be a lot harder to tell how many of them there were than if there was a huge swath of tracks from traveling side-by-side.
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Nov 14, 2011 02:51
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That quote doesn't necessarily refer to footprints. Approaching a target in a single column along mostly flat terrain would make it difficult to tell how many there were relative to Imperial troops marching in ranks.
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Darth Freddy posted:It still seems like single file would really make no difference what so ever compared to two people side by side. Hell they should drag a cloth behind them to cover up the foot prints. True, it's not that much better than two people side by side. But it's way better than, say, 30 side by side. The point is, when there's only one set of tracks, there might be 2 of them, might be 50. There's no way to know. And a cloth would be worse as well, because if you had 30 people side by side, all dragging a cloth, that would be a massive area all smoothed out, giving you an idea of how many people there are.
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I'm not sure if I first saw this here or not, but here is a link to some geek who has either the best or worst idea I have ever heard: http://atatforamerica.tumblr.com/ The latest update is from back in may, and it seems he's given up on his epic quest and settled for asking people to do mediocre things in public spaces. Shame.
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How did Leland Chee get his job?
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:How did Leland Chee get his job? Virgin sacrifice.
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In Empire Strikes Back, Admiral Ozzel drops the Imperial fleet out of lightspeed just beyond Hoth. The rebels see them, put up a giant shield, and start evacuating. When Darth Vader gets off the phone with the Emperor, Captain Piett tattles, Vader flips his poo poo, and kills Ozzel. Question is, what should've Ozzel done? If he dropped out of lightspeed farther out, the rebels couldn't have seen them? They already began evacuations after seeing the probe droid. Should Ozzel have dropped out of lightspace with dropships ready to go, and attacked immediately? Or did Vader just feel like killing Ozzel, no matter what?
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"With all the meteor activity in this system, it's going to be difficult to spot approaching ships." -General Rieekan There's asteroids everywhere in that system -- imagine a radar screen of it all. Which would be harder to spot: a fleet slowly sneaking up on you through the rocks, or one suddenly appearing in low orbit in perfect military formation?
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Should've pulled a Galactica and jumped into the atmosphere. You think they poo poo themselves after spotting slow walkers? Try the Imperial flagship suddenly appearing half a mile over your head.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Should've pulled a Galactica and jumped into the atmosphere. You think they poo poo themselves after spotting slow walkers? Try the Imperial flagship suddenly appearing half a mile over your head. Canon explanation for that is the gravity pull from planets interfering with hyperdrive, but it would be pretty awesome.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Should've pulled a Galactica and jumped into the atmosphere. You think they poo poo themselves after spotting slow walkers? Try the Imperial flagship suddenly appearing half a mile over your head. Henceforth, the legendary Ozzel Maneuver.
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Considering the Executor is doomed to smash into a artificial moon two years later, It would have been easier to bail and jump that thing right into the Rebel base.
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Sounds like some people are forgetting the shield capable of withstanding any bombardment. Does ramming a 17 km ship into it at orbital speeds count as 'any'? I think so. 
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I'm not sure what to say about this, but...it's certainly a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU2jqIRjJVI Carrie Fisher going after Shatner in very very weird ways. Also some hilarious ways.
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Thank you eBay!
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drat this whole replica business. Sometimes I go on sprees looking for a good replica Imperial tie pilot helmet. I'm probably never going to find one I can afford, but that doesn't prevent me from looking 
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Have you asked the 501st guys? I'm sure there's someone who produces cheapish TIE stuff for members. Also those sabers are sexy. I love the Graflex hilt.
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Red posted:In Empire Strikes Back, Admiral Ozzel drops the Imperial fleet out of lightspeed just beyond Hoth. The rebels see them, put up a giant shield, and start evacuating. When Darth Vader gets off the phone with the Emperor, Captain Piett tattles, Vader flips his poo poo, and kills Ozzel. There's also that explanation that Han has about jumping through stars and whatnot in A New Hope that suggests you have to be careful with moving objects and plotting courses when you're jumping around in hyperspace. Ozzel probably forgot that an entire fleet dropping into normal space would show up as something huge happening on Rebel scanners. So he jumped as close as he safely could instead of dropping out of the range of the scan and then coasting in.
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Muppetjedi posted:Have you asked the 501st guys? I'm sure there's someone who produces cheapish TIE stuff for members. Yeah, I go here to drool over everyone's custom painted, screen-accurate, widow's tear'd helmets. They all seem to be based in the US though, so it's mostly shipping costs across the pond that screws my dreams of going to the supermarket dressed as a tie pilot over.
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evobatman posted:Thank you eBay!
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Hazo posted:My personal geeky Star Wars question is why Anakin's lightsaber changed between the time Obi-Wan picked it up and the time he gave it to Luke but as far as I can tell there's no official explanation. The second lightsaber is actually a Yuuzhan Vong infiltrator.
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Hazo posted:My personal geeky Star Wars question is why Anakin's lightsaber changed between the time Obi-Wan picked it up and the time he gave it to Luke but as far as I can tell there's no official explanation. It was stolen from Obi-Wan's Kenobi's hut by a Jawa, and it ended up having wacky adventures all over Tattooine before Obi-Wan could retrieve it. The casing was damaged at some point, and Kenobi had to fix it afterward with replacement parts, explaining the slightly different appearance. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Follow_That_Lightsaber!
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Powered Descent posted:It was stolen from Obi-Wan's Kenobi's hut by a Jawa, and it ended up having wacky adventures all over Tattooine before Obi-Wan could retrieve it. The casing was damaged at some point, and Kenobi had to fix it afterward with replacement parts, explaining the slightly different appearance. I often click a link on SA fully expecting the goat man or a party of lemons to greet me. It's different in the Star Wars thread. Instead of a gaping anus or orgy of old men blowing each other, I expect any ludicrous idea or explanation, followed by a link to Wookieepedia, to be true and some level of EU canon.
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Powered Descent posted:It was stolen from Obi-Wan's Kenobi's hut by a Jawa, and it ended up having wacky adventures all over Tattooine before Obi-Wan could retrieve it. The casing was damaged at some point, and Kenobi had to fix it afterward with replacement parts, explaining the slightly different appearance. I fall for these fake links every time.
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How does time work in the Star Wars universe? Everyone talks about days, hours, and years, but won't measurement of each vary greatly by what planet you're on? Is there a canon explanation for this?
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zakharov posted:How does time work in the Star Wars universe? Everyone talks about days, hours, and years, but won't measurement of each vary greatly by what planet you're on? Is there a canon explanation for this? In-Universe Answer: Coruscant's size and rotation was used as the basis for the Galactic Standard Calendar, and hyperdrive eliminates all those relativity worries. Real Answer: It just does, okay?
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Yeah well, there is local planetary time, the day/night cycle, the solar revolution year and all that. The one used in local daily life. And then, as noted above, GalacST is CorusST, but that only matters for people starhopping. I guess the Holonet has got some kind of timekeeping signal in-built. TIME!
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^^ It's funny, there's an official canonical calendar/time system based off the Coruscant day/year, with a year having 368 days divided into 10 months with five-day weeks or something really weird like that. But most authors just ignore that and use the typical 7-day, 12-month earth calendar. Powered Descent posted:It was stolen from Obi-Wan's Kenobi's hut by a Jawa, and it ended up having wacky adventures all over Tattooine before Obi-Wan could retrieve it. The casing was damaged at some point, and Kenobi had to fix it afterward with replacement parts, explaining the slightly different appearance. This actually isn't too far off from not one, but two comics from Star Wars Tales. Admittedly only is about Luke's hand and not a lightsaber, but still: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lost_Lightsaber http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Secret_Tales_of_Luke%27s_Hand!
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Darth Freddy posted:I fall for these fake links every time. Me too. Every drat time.
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