Mr.Pibbleton posted:

Endor was the Empire's Nam.

Fetus Tree posted:

Thats good news, I thought that had ended up cancelled tbh

SaltLick posted:

http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/19/8257853/star-wars-battlefront-debut-star-wars-celebration-2015


i am excited for new star wars game

The Mentalizer posted:

Tatooine... poo poo; I'm still only on Tatooine... every time I think I'm gonna wake up back on the Endor.

When I was home after my first tour, it was worse.

I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the forest. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute those furry little bastards squat in the bush, they get stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter.

BurnBlackJay posted:

Light Gun Man posted:

That line is bullshit because what's he implying did it then? The Empire? Yeah those are dudes known for being accurate, sure. Meanwhile Kenobi has been at a podrace where sand people shot at them for fun and actually hit things.

Light Gun Man posted:

That line is bullshit because what's he implying did it then? The Empire? Yeah those are dudes known for being accurate, sure. Meanwhile Kenobi has been at a podrace where sand people shot at them for fun and actually hit things.

"wikipedia posted:

Differences from the film
There are several portions of the novel that deviate from the film, such as scenes that were filmed but not included in the final cut of the movie. Most notable are scenes with Luke Skywalker and his friends at Tosche Station on Tatooine. Various small details, such as the callsigns used by the Rebels in the Death Star assault, are different (e.g. Luke is "Blue Five" instead of "Red Five").

At one point, Han Solo mentions a Corellian friend named Toccnepil (Lippincot backwards). This is a reference to Charles Lippincott, the mastermind of the Star Wars marketing campaign. "Droid" is spelled with an apostrophe in the front, as the term was used as a contraction of the word "android". The references to Rebels are listed as rebels. The Imperial Stormtroopers board the Tantive IV through the ceiling rather than blasting apart a door. The callsign of the stormtroopers guarding the Millennium Falcon is THX-1138 as opposed to TK-421 in the film. The destruction of Alderaan is not described in the book, nor does Obi-Wan sense the planet's destruction.

The prologue says that after Emperor Palpatine rose to power, he was "controlled" by the "boot-lickers he had appointed to high office", implying that he is merely a victim of manipulation by Imperial bureaucrats rather than the true string puller. However, all subsequent media sources revise this, so that he is in fact the true commanding force behind the Galactic Empire.

The death of Obi-Wan Kenobi is different in the book in that Darth Vader succeeds in defeating him during their lightsaber duel, while in the film Obi-Wan allows Vader to strike him down, in order to provide Luke and the others a diversion to escape the Death Star. The novel refers to Darth Vader as a Sith Lord. Although he was referred to as this in various merchandising tie-ins at the time of the original film, he is not referenced as such in the movie. In fact, the term Sith Lord is not actually mentioned in the films until the first prequel, 1999's Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

In the film the order of events in the final dogfight over the Death Star is also somewhat different. In the novel, Blue Leader makes two bombing runs down the trench toward the exhaust port. In the film, he only manages to make one before being shot down. In the film, Wedge's X-Wing is damaged by Darth Vader and his wingmen, thus forcing him to leave the battle since he can't stay with Luke, and then Biggs is killed outright by the pursuing Darth Vader and his fighters. In the novelization, Biggs is killed first by his ship being destroyed, and then Wedge must retreat due to a malfunction caused in the battle with the enemy fighters.

muscles like this? posted:

Written by "George Lucas" (actually by perennial novelization author Alan Dean Foster.)

drunk asian neighbor posted:

Which means it's probably at least a half-decent read instead of a festering shitpile

OneThousandMonkeys posted:

"Which means it's probably at least a half-decent read instead of a festering shitpile," he essayed with a sardonic grin.

Wolfsheim posted:

If it ends up literally being Apocalypse Now set in Star Wars then I will officially forgive the prequels, EU and everything else. Bonus points considering Apocalypse Now was originally supposed to be directed by George until he dropped out.

red polo shirts posted:

What is the in-universe explanation for Carrie Fisher's coke nail?

red polo shirts posted:

What is the in-universe explanation for Carrie Fisher's coke nail?

shiksa posted:

The citizens of Alderaan were known for their use of a stimulant found in the planet's lush forests, known as Kibosh. Once processed, it formed a crystalline green (!) powder that was often inhaled through the nostrils (link to Wookiepedia page on noses). Kibosh was legal on Alderaan, but was still treated as a minor vice. Users were often spotted with an abnormally long fingernail used for scooping the fine powder. It never found much of a user base outside of the system, due to other planets not having the lax laws Alderaan had concerning the substance, so after the destruction of Alderaan, Kibosh is assumed to be an eradicated, or at least extremely rare substance.

david... posted:

this is eerily good

david... posted:

this is eerily good

david... posted:

this is eerily good

Young Freud posted:

I actually want a found-footage film of George Lucas and John Milius going out to film Apocalypse Now in Vietnam in 1968 as they had planned when graduating from USC-LA (which would likely have them dropped in the middle of the Tet Offensive) and the whole thing ends as a mash-up of both films with John wielding a flaming napalm-covered sword at hordes of Viet-Cong and shooting down helicopters with a M16 in the other while George films it.

shiksa posted:

The citizens of Alderaan were known for their use of a stimulant found in the planet's lush forests, known as Kibosh. Once processed, it formed a crystalline green (!) powder that was often inhaled through the nostrils (link to Wookiepedia page on noses). Kibosh was legal on Alderaan, but was still treated as a minor vice. Users were often spotted with an abnormally long fingernail used for scooping the fine powder. It never found much of a user base outside of the system, due to other planets not having the lax laws Alderaan had concerning the substance, so after the destruction of Alderaan, Kibosh is assumed to be an eradicated, or at least extremely rare substance.

Cyberball 2072 posted:

LIKE A MYNOCK WITH ITS TAIL ON FIRE!!!!!

Elukka posted:

How would a mynock's tail be on fire when they live in vacuum

Hingehead posted:

Actually thought this was real.

Also the kibosh are force sensitive that drew in the death star's laser as it would ensure Darth Vader would complete his prophecy to balance the force.

Fetus Tree posted:

thats not as bad as captain needa being a rebel sympathizer

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

Coruscant's lower levels are abandoned and polluted, it's basically fallout down there with actually ogres http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Coruscani_ogre There is some grisly stuff in that article though. "An operation needed to lobotimize an ogre and implant them with cybernetics was less expensive when compared to purchasing a new droid."

quote:

Jaina Solo: "We are lost."
Jacen Solo: "Please help us find our home."
Ogre: "No. Gonna eat you!"
―The Solo twins encounter a Coruscani ogre