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No, but anyone who is singled out in any way whatsoever, either by looking unique or by having *gasp* at least one word of dialogue, certainly does.
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Pretty much any random alien from the background has an action figure and thus someone wrote a story about them. Individual Stormtroopers don't usually have backstories because they all look the same and thus have the same toy. Unless we're talking Clone Troopers, who have slightly different armor in different colors so they can sell as many toys as possible. They all probably have different backstories. Which is ironic, as they are literal clones.
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Blistex posted:The fact that you were even able to find out who that character was means that I now have a much lower opinion of you Fojar. i googled "star wars cantina characters" and then punched the guys name into wookiepedia
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Sep 24, 2015 20:29
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Given the number of Clone Wars episodes the focus on the troopers, the mass-produced soldiers made from the exact same genetic code and all raised in the exact same manner actually do have unique back stories. And that's not even getting into the hunchback or deserter or amnesiac clone.
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Sep 24, 2015 20:29
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SirPhoebos posted:I'm still waiting for my Bea Arthur action figure
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Tom Brady posted:isnt jodo kast actually admiral thrawn Jodo Kast was entertaining if only for his backstory. West End Games wanted Boba Fett in their RPG but we're wary of resurrecting him, so they made up Jodo Kast, some guy who uses similar armor and gets off on claiming credit for Fett's exploits, but isn't actually him. And then Dark Empire resurrects Fett, and WEG is all "oh, poo poo". It did lead to "Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction", an awesomely   comic where Boba Fett gets sick of Kast's poo poo and takes him out.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:03
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Wait, so Jodo Kast was also done in by his jetpack? Doesn't that make Boba Fett about the dumbest guy ever?
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Sep 24, 2015 22:07
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how did Thrawn become a grand admiral. that's like Woody Allen becoming the leader of the Nazis.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:18
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homullus posted:Wait, so Jodo Kast was also done in by his jetpack? Doesn't that make Boba Fett about the dumbest guy ever?
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Sep 24, 2015 22:52
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Groovelord Neato posted:how did Thrawn become a grand admiral. that's like Woody Allen becoming the leader of the Nazis. The prequel book about how Thrawn became a grand admiral was actually kinda fun, in a way. Better than the two sequels, for sure.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:58
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silvergoose posted:The prequel book about how Thrawn became a grand admiral was actually kinda fun, in a way. Better than the two sequels, for sure.
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Blistex posted:The fact that you were even able to find out who that character was means that I now have a much lower opinion of you Fojar. Any creature or thing that appears in frame for even a moment in Star Wars has a backstory and probably a toy.
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Sep 25, 2015 01:25
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Xenomrph posted:Which book was that, Outbound Flight? That's the one. Basically, "all jedi are assholes, jedi masters even more so" and "Thrawn and his species are kinda bloodthirsty".
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Any creature or thing that appears in frame for even a moment in Star Wars has a backstory and probably a toy. Seth Green did his take on the whole "backstory-padding" phenomenon in one of the Robot Chicken Star Wars specials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdEUwHF7d7I Seth Green posted:Pruneface was in one frame of “Return of the Jedi.” Literally one frame. And he got an action figure. I remember seeing this action figure, and the toys came out before the movie, so you always were like, “Oh man, who’s this guy going to be?” With that cape and that eyepatch and that gun. A hood. This guy must be a Jedi. Maybe he’s a badass. And then he’s not even in the movie, so what’s his subplot? So you can see through all the fans they’ve made their own interpretation of who these characters are. They’ve written entire backgrounds for them published in entire encyclopedias that are put out by Lucasfilm and we just think that’s really funny to play around with.
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Young Freud posted:Seth Green did his take on the whole "backstory-padding" phenomenon in one of the Robot Chicken Star Wars specials. Like everyone else here I've probably seen ROTJ eighty times and I don't even remember this fucker. quote:The wrinkled character who eventually became Orrimaarko was created for the film Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, originally released in 1983. A number of these beings appear in the Endor briefing scenes, among the few alien Rebels depicted in the films. Later, Kenner produced an action figure of one and named him "Prune Face." Some fans speculated that the Prune Faces were in fact the Bothans mentioned by Mon Mothma in Return of the Jedi, but the release of Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire in 1991 dispelled that theory, revealing the Bothans to be a furred species, completely unlike the "Prune Face" and his comrades.[7] Later, the 1995 West End Games sourcebook Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens — Enemies and Allies, written by Pablo Hidalgo, established the Prune Faces as Dressellians, and named the Kenner-produced character "Orrimaarko." His name is a tuckerism of Orrin Marko, a friend of Pablo Hidalgo.[18] Bolded: Of course Wookieepedia is oblivious to how lovely they are. But then again Pruneface is in at least three books. Here they are as the appear on screen, not even well lit: 
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Like everyone else here I've probably seen ROTJ eighty times and I don't even remember this fucker. Oh man, I don't even remember that, either but given that they appear in that scene as cloak and dagger looking dudes and Mon Mothma mentions the Bothans in that scene, I would have taken them as the Bothans. In fact, I wasn't half way through that quote and I was already thinking that. So it seems even the Bothans as furry cat people were wholly made up by the EU. It would have been hilarious if they had abandoned the Zahn furry Bothans and made them all Prune Faces, but it looks like the new bosses are going to keep up with that impression given the only visual representation in the new canon comes from a Rebels product and it looks like a wolfman.
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the bothans themselves have gone from humans with fur and claws (zahn) to cat people (stackpole) to goat people (galaxies) so that's all you really need to know about old school EU
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I played SWG as a bothan and they will always be cool goat dudes to me. Also Orrimarko owns and was a sweet scout in my endor scouts deck for the card game. Didn't even know he was in the actual movie - I thought he was a CGI mockup they made for the game.
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silvergoose posted:No, but anyone who is singled out in any way whatsoever, either by looking unique or by having *gasp* at least one word of dialogue, certainly does. Isn't there some crazy story involving the "Look sir, droids" Stormtrooper?
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muscles like this? posted:Isn't there some crazy story involving the "Look sir, droids" Stormtrooper? holy poo poo yes. busted down from at-at pilot for being genre aware of their weakness, then he does fratricide there's a lot more to it than that but that's the high points
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In hindsight Zahn's stuff has a lot of problems, it's decent young-adult fiction at best, but it definitely stands out from most other EU stuff. I'm not really sure what it is. I think part of it is that it's the first entry in the EU canon so it's just focused on telling its own story, and his set pieces and the technology/ships he introduces have a real 80's sci fi quality to them that I dig. Like a walking city juryrigged out of a derelict ship bolted onto the backs of a dozen AT-ATs feels more real and cool than yet another secret warship made of unobtanium and perfectly crafted to be the ultimate weapon. I know there's still poo poo like "the emperor's personal secret Jedi that no one knew about" and secret clone vats and a near-omniscient villain but Zahn is better at selling that stuff than most other EU authors. Wraith Squadron is still the best poo poo though. Tender Bender fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Any creature or thing that appears in frame for even a moment in Star Wars has a backstory and probably a toy. Bea Arthur when?  Hell, I'll settle for Itchy's porn simulator.
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SirPhoebos posted:Bea Arthur when? Holiday Special. Watch it, preferably on drugs.
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muscles like this? posted:Isn't there some crazy story involving the "Look sir, droids" Stormtrooper? Early life and indoctrinationEdit "They told me the military would change my life, but this is crazy. I expected to get some time to look around." ―Davin Felth[src] Davin Felth was born sometime around the founding of the Galactic Empire. He was raised to believe in the integrity and honor of the New Order, so much so that he was inspired to enlist in the Imperial Army as an eighteen-year-old not long prior to the Battle of Yavin. On his homeworld, Felth believed joining the ranks of the Imperial Military was all fun and games. Becoming a part of the Emperor's elite forces invoked in him a sensation of adolescent pride.[1] Felth was shipped to the Imperial training world of Carida for basic training at the Academy of Carida,[1] the toughest training facility in the galaxy,[3] along with an induction class of 120 other wide-eyed eighteen-year-olds. As soon as he departed his transport shuttle, however, his romantic ideas of a career in the military were quickly dashed. The impression created by rumors of a seemingly wonderful life on Carida's multi-climate world was soon destroyed with the harsh introduction to what a life in the Imperial Military truly entailed. Felth and his fellow recruits were hammered with an incomprehensible barrage of shouting and orders from a welcoming committee of superiors meant to intimidate the youths. It was all Felth could do to simply scream back in response, adding to the confusion, a ploy that succeeded in diverting attention from himself. To Felth, his initial experience with military life was a rude awakening to what the next six months of his life would hold in store.[1] With only a blue duffel bag of belongings from home and an assortment of freshly administered personal supplies, Felth was assigned to a barracks room with two other cadets, Geoff f'Tuhns and Mychael Ologat. No sooner had Felth chosen his cot and introduced himself to his new roommates than an intimidatingly large drill instructor wearing the helmet of a stormtrooper entered their barracks. F'Tuhns had previously been casually munching on smuggled-in snacks, a violation of the program's carefully monitored caloric intake. When the instructor demanded to know to whom the bag belonged, Felth took it upon himself to vouch for his new friend, claiming it was in fact his food. Only his status as a first-day recruit saved Felth from further punishment other than a strict warning.[1] DavinFelth Davin Felth Basic trainingEdit "An AT-AT! Can you believe we've been picked for the chance to command one of them?" "Yeah, and I'm going to make sure I'm not one of those nine recruits who washes out." ―Davin Felth assures a fellow cadet of his desire to become an AT-AT pilot[src] Felth's sixth-month training regimen was an endless grind of breakneck physical and mental conditioning preparing him for Imperial Military service. After a relentless day of physical training and environmental conditioning in Carida's many planetary climates, consisting of fitness runs, winter training in Carida's southern ice fields, a week-long expedition of survival training in the planet's Forgofshar Desert, and a three-day battle against nature in the equatorial rain forest, Felth would get no more than five hours of sleep before having to wake up and do it all over again. Awakening once to a stormtrooper sergeant's sonic whistle at reveille, Felth soon learned to get up a half-hour before wake-up call and dress himself before climbing back into bed. He and his roommates would not dare be caught out of bed before reveille after witnessing firsthand the punishments handed down to such violators. After a few months of this routine, Felth had lost fifteen pounds, but was considerably stronger.[1] Displaying a unique prowess and aptitude during his training and typically finishing at the top of his class, Felth was suddenly selected one day to report to the academy's All Terrain Armored Transport detachment. He and several other fellow cadets, whom Felth also recognized as top-tier achievers, learned from a personal holo-recording from Colonel Maximilian Veers, head of the Imperial Army's AT-AT forces, that they had been chosen as candidates for Imperial Army pilot duty in the cockpit of one of the assault walkers. Veers instructed them that they were about to embark on a six-week intensive training program of virtual reality simulations and, for those who succeeded, actual hands-on training with an AT-AT. Those who passed the training's initial qualifying stages would then be selected for a role in Veers's own elite AT-AT squadron. However, he left them with the warning that fewer than one in ten would successfully complete the arduous training.[1] AT-AT scenarioEdit "I don't know how you did it, recruit, but I have a feeling you've been marked for a one-in-a-million career!" ―A training instructor congratulates Davin Felth for his natural AT-AT piloting abilities[src] Felthy Davin Felth, Imperial stormtrooper Felth advanced far enough in the elite training program to be able to tour the cockpit of an AT-AT. After taking a moment to marvel at the majesty of the walker's inner mechanisms, he was surprised when a training instructor suddenly appeared behind him, asking if Felth wished to take the AT-AT on a test drive, to which he eagerly agreed. While Felth sat in the co-pilot's seat, his instructor operated the machine from the pilot's seat beside him, slowly allowing Felth to assume control as he settled in. The instructor soon told Felth that he wanted to check on the AT-AT's weapon cache in the body of the walker, leaving the recruit alone in the cockpit. As soon as his instructor had departed, Felth noted four fighter craft approaching the AT-AT on an attack vector. He called frantically to his superior for help but received no answer. Left as the sole operator of the massive war machine, the untrained recruit frantically found himself under fire by enemy targets.[1] At first, Felth sat in his command seat frozen with fear as the attacking craft make several strafing runs on the AT-AT. Throughout his career at the Caridan Academy, Felth had been instructed to follow procedure. Independent thought was not encouraged. Yet he found himself in a situation not covered in any textbook or training sequence. Felth surmised that it was none other than Rebel Alliance forces that had infiltrated Carida and were firing on him. Angrily, he took control of the AT-AT's offensive systems, vowing not to go down without a fight. Felth noted to himself, surprisingly, that none of the Rebel craft showed up on the cockpit sensor systems. In response, forced to track the fighter craft manually, Felth decided to put himself in the greatest strategic position possible by setting the AT-AT to "kneel" to the ground with the walker's command head hunkered flat with the body. With the AT-AT in this unique position, the fighters were unable to fly underneath the walker, and were forced to come to him from angles advantageous for defensive targeting. Felth was able to destroy each of the enemy craft using this maneuver.[1] Sitting in dazed silence in the cockpit, Felth struggled to comprehend what had just transpired. His instructor soon rematerialized from the rear of the walker and informed the cadet that a command party had landed and was waiting for him outside. Once outside, Felth was shocked that no wreckage from the battle was visible on the surrounding terrain. As his instructor noted, the skirmish Felth had just been through was nothing but a premeditated training exercise to test the recruit's abilities, and he had excelled beyond expectations. Adding to Felth's awe-filled morning was the presence of another vessel swooping in from the horizon. When the craft's boarding ramp extended, Maximilian Veers himself disembarked. He questioned Felth on the ingenious kneeling maneuver he had executed, eager to learn from the trainee what advantages he felt the move entailed—as well as the disadvantages of allowing enemy craft access to the walker's underbelly. Felth hesitantly speculated that an enemy could use cables to tie up and trip the AT-AT. Captivated by Felth's resourcefulness, Veers ordered the recruit to keep this information classified, promising Felth that his staff would find him an assignment in the Imperial Army worthy of his talents. The young Felth could only marvel at the career that awaited him under the elite command of Veers.[1] Assignment to TatooineEdit "I'm an AT-AT operator, not a…a foot soldier!" ―Davin Felth[src] The hush-hush orders handed down from Veers had done nothing but confuse Felth. Rather than receiving a career promotion to the crux of the Imperial Army, Veers instead assigned Felth to the Stormtrooper Corps, burying the recruit and his incredible discovery of the AT-AT's glaring weakness into anonymity. With this move, Felth's discovery effectively died with Veers, who kept the AT-AT design flaw a secret rather than allowing it to threaten his career.[1] Felth had in fact received assignment to the Desert Sands sandtrooper detachment[3] aboard an Imperial troop transport under the command of one Captain Mod Terrik. Terrik's unit had been ordered to relieve the 37th Detachment in the spaceport city of Mos Eisley on the Outer Rim Territories planet Tatooine. Felth's new position on the remote desert world would be about as far as he could have possibly imagined himself being while back on Carida. Although Felth argued with Terrik that he belonged in a more prestigious position, his captain only replied that he had followed Veers's orders precisely as directed and threateningly remarked that he would have a month before they arrived on Tatooine to personally mold Felth into a proper "foot soldier."[1] Felth's training under Terrik put him in the best shape of his life. A three-month regimen had been compacted into a never-ending hell of disciplining, schooling, and physical fitness. The other twenty stormtroopers in the detachment had each made sure to properly welcome Felth into their ranks as well. They were not about to admit an AT-AT operator and graduate of the Academy of Carida as one of their own without a period of ritualistic hazing.[1] As part of his indoctrination into Terrik's detachment, Felth,[1] by then a Sergeant,[4] was assigned identification number 1023, finalizing his absorption into the beast that was the Imperial Army. With his individualism all but stricken from him, Felth became just another nameless servant of the Emperor's will.[1] Desert droid searchEdit Felth-Terrik Davin Felth and Captain Mod Terrik search the Dune Sea. "We're deploying to the surface, bypassing Mos Eisley to participate in a search-and-destroy mission." "What are we searching for, sir?" "An escape pod. It jettisoned from a Corellian Corvette evading Lord Vader's Star Destroyer and landed somewhere on Tatooine." ―Captain Mod Terrik, explaining Zeta Squadron's duty[src] By the time Felth's troop transport reached Tatooine, his detachment's orders had been changed. Rather than assuming guard duty over Mos Eisley as they had originally been assigned, Felth, as part of scout unit Zeta Squadron, would instead be combing the endless deserts of Tatooine in search of a rogue escape pod that had jettisoned from a fugitive starship captured by the Lord Darth Vader.[1] Unknown to Felth, the escape pod had launched from the CR90 corvette Tantive IV—Princess Leia Organa's consular vessel—carrying the droids C-3PO and R2-D2, the latter of which had escaped from Vader's forces carrying the stolen plans to the first Death Star.[5] When Felth spoke up and inquired why the escape pod was so important, Terrik snapped that he should perform his duties without questioning orders.[1] Felth's unit searched the desolate sands of the Dune Sea for hours without success. At one point, Felth reported to Terrik that he believed he had found the pod but was disappointed to unearth a rock. Later, however, a glint of sunlight reflecting off something in the sand caught Felth's eye. Rushing over to the source, he saw that he had indeed discovered the escape pod buried in the sand, recognizable by familiar Imperial markings. Leading away from the pod, Terrik also discovered, was a set of tracks, which Felth soon attributed to an R2-series astromech droid[1] after fishing a mechanism out of the sand[5] that could only belong to an R2 unit.[1] Terrik and Zeta Squadron followed the tracks in the sand until they came upon a group of Jawa traders. The stormtroopers were able to discern from them that the scavengers had picked up an R2 unit and a protocol droid near the escape pod crash site. Terrik ordered a comprehensive sweep of the Jawas' giant sandcrawler in search of the droids—with Felth searching through the droid repair bay—without success. After questioning one particular Jawa, Terrik learned that its group had sold the two droids to a moisture farmer only the day before. As Zeta Squadron began to depart for the moisture farm, Terrik ordered the sandcrawler destroyed and the Jawas slaughtered, and instructed it to be done in a manner as to appear as if the deed had been committed by a group of Tusken Raiders, notoriously known for their savagery, much to the dismay of Felth. While his fellow stormtroopers cheered the annihilation of the Jawas, Felth could only turn away in silence.[1] DavinFelth-Cantina-ANHHD Davin Felth searches the Mos Eisley cantina. Tracking the droids to the Lars homestead, Zeta Squadron again discovered that they had once more just missed the droids. While the stormtroopers ransacked the interior of the homestead, Felth, still shaken by the Jawa slaughter, lingered behind his group rather than joining in the raid, careful not to draw attention to himself. Terrik discovered from the moisture farmer Owen Lars that his nephew had taken the droids away from the farm, to which Terrik surmised could have meant only one location—Mos Eisley, where the boy could smuggle the droids off-planet. Preparing to depart the farm, Terrik once again ordered its destruction and the death of Lars and his wife, Beru Lars, as a reminder of what happens to those who give quarter to Rebels. Once again, Felth could only avert his gaze from what he perceived as further senseless murder.[1] Subversion at Mos EisleyEdit "Where's Captain Terrik?" "Leave him. He's dead. Killed in the crossfire." ―Zeta Squadron stormtroopers fail to realize Davin Felth's act of rebellion[src] Hot on the tracks of the two rogue droids, Felth and his unit arrived at the port city of Mos Eisley, where they immediately began digging through records, interrogating charter pilots, and rummaging through repair shops.[1] At one point, after questioning a passing Talz named Muftak if he had seen the droids, Felth reported his progress to a Lieutenant Alima, informing him that all had been quiet in the city. Alima instructed Felth to interrogate everyone he saw and to make sure he kept a wary eye on those around him, for they would not hesitate to kill him.[6] After their search uncovered nothing a day later, Terrik resorted to sending Zeta Squadron on a methodical door-to-door sweep, simultaneously setting up roadblocks at every entrance point to the city. When Felth heard a sudden scream emanate from a blockhouse not far from his position, he took the opportunity to break away from the sweep to investigate the source of the disturbance.[1] A citizen named Garouf Lafoe[7] informed Felth and his partner, 1047, of a skirmish inside a nearby cantina.[5] Despite the protests of his fellow stormtrooper, Felth continued his search into the dimly lit building. After running a quick scan through the bar, noting the array of aliens and other unsavory characters, Felth determined there was nothing to be found. Little did he know that he had actually caught a brief glimpse of the very beings who were trying to sneak the droids off-planet,[1] an old man and a young farmboy—Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker—talking to an athletic-looking Human—Han Solo.[5] Sandtroopers2-hd Zeta Squadron marches toward Docking Bay 94. As he and his partner exited the cantina to rejoin the search, Zeta Squadron came marching determinedly around a corner toward Felth. At the same time, a maddened Jawa jumped out from behind the cover of a long-wrecked starship,[1] the Dowager Queen. The robed creature—Het Nkik, a Jawa seeking vengeance for the death of his slain brother, Jek Nkik, killed during Zeta Squadron's sandcrawler slaughter[8]—aimed a DL-44 heavy blaster pistol at the stormtrooper squad and pulled the trigger several times, though nothing happened.[1] The Jawa was unaware that his weapon had been stripped of its power cell and was otherwise useless.[9] Felth's partner casually flipped off a shot at the creature with his own blaster rifle, killing the Jawa and sending him crashing back against the wreckage. Once more, Felth was left aghast. He had almost grown to forget the killing of the Jawas and the moisture farmers in the desert, but this latest round of indiscriminate murder led him to one fundamental reality—the belief that the Empire he had worked so hard to serve was basically evil.[1] Just as Felth joined Zeta Squadron's march, the group was alerted of a disturbance at Docking Bay 94. The droids had been found, and a group of Rebels were trying to whisk them away from Imperial clutches. Felth and his companions converged on the docking bay, where a man—the same athletic-looking Human Felth had noted back in the cantina—was defending a modified YT-1300 light freighter, holding off the entire contingent of stormtroopers at twenty-to-one odds. Feeling a strange twinge of solidarity, an empathetical respect for this single man who braved to defy the Empire, Felth refrained from joining in the firefight. At that point, Felth noticed Terrik just ahead of him, crouched down on one knee and taking careful aim at the Rebel. Without hesitation, Felth took the opportunity to shoot Terrik in the back,[1] his first kill in the Imperial service.[3] Felth's killing of his superior officer allowed the man the time needed to board his ship and escape from Tatooine with the droids in tow. Although the rest of his squad was disheartened and angry at the loss of their leader, Felth felt renewed and shared a sense of kinship with the fugitive Rebels. Secretly yearning to join their cause against the tyrannical Empire, Felth knew he could not just abandon his Imperial duties. Instead, he reasoned, he could aid the Rebellion by staying in the Imperial ranks and acting as a spy, perhaps even passing on his knowledge of the AT-AT's vulnerability.[1] At some point during his service in Mos Eisley, Felth helped to save a male Rodian from the physical advances of five full-grown, excited male rontos, who mistook the Rodian's scent for one given off by a female ronto in heat. Seeing the Rodian surrounded by the five creatures, who were butting and rubbing up against him as a sign of biological attraction, Felth was able to frighten the rontos away by firing several shots at their feet. Felth and his comrades had to wake the unconscious Rodian using smelling salts.[10] Personality and traitsEdit When Davin Felth entered the Academy of Carida at age eighteen, he possessed a romantic view of Imperial Military life, left completely unprepared for the harsh rigors that awaited him. He looked forward to the new experiences of government service, gaining usable skills, and hopefully working toward a command position, unaware of the Empire's oppressive nature. Basic training destroyed his youthful enthusiasm, however,[2] and he soon came to regret his decision to enlist.[3] He learned to adapt to his discomforts by doing whatever was necessary to survive and appease his superiors, all in the name of becoming a stormtrooper.[2] While at the academy, Felth was an exceptional student,[2] consistently performing at a level above his fellow cadets, earning him the opportunity to compete for a position in Maximilian Veers's elite AT-AT squadron. He took to this rare chance with determination, promising himself that he would not be denied such a prestigious position. Felth's first dry run in an AT-AT cockpit proved to be a groundbreaking achievement for the young trainee. During the exercise, he ingeniously utilized an impromptu tactic that destroyed each enemy target, something his drill instructor had never before seen, and concurrently succeeded in exposing a vital weakness of the AT-AT design.[1] After graduating from the academy, Felth was left in peak physical shape and was trained in survival on any livable planetary surface.[2] Upon assignment to Tatooine among Captain Mod Terrik's Desert Sands stormtrooper detachment, Felth was assigned the designation 1023, signifying the elimination of his individualism and the complete assimilation into the unquestioning service of the Emperor. While his fellow troopers eagerly reveled in the mystery that surrounded the indistinguishable nature of the Stormtrooper Corps, Felth was unwilling to make such a commitment. He was left feeling miserable and alone, often turning to thoughts of his family.[1] When Terrik ordered Zeta Squadron to destroy the Jawa sandcrawler, Felth did not erupt into celebratory cheers as his comrades did. His thoughts, instead, rested on the hapless Jawas, sympathizing with the creatures who were indiscriminately murdered. After the subsequent massacre of Owen and Beru Lars, Felth began to truly question what was happening before his eyes. The butchering of innocents over two droids did not make sense to him.[1] He had not joined the Imperial ranks to kill innocent beings,[2] and he could only wonder what he would do if he was personally ordered to kill someone. Only during his search through Mos Eisley, when his partner killed another Jawa who posed no immediate threat, did Felth finally come to the shattering belief that the Empire he had lived to serve was basically an evil institution.[1] During the firefight in Docking Bay 94, the sight of one man deftly holding off an entire stormtrooper squad resonated with Felth. He felt empathy toward the Rebels whom his captain had decried as being the enemy. Feelings of solidarity washed through Felth, who had fallen into the mindless monotony of stormtrooper service, emotions he had not felt since his days back on Carida. After killing Terrik and landing on the idea of serving the Rebellion as a spy, Felth felt rejuvenated, once again finding something in which he could believe and for which he could live.[1]
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RFC2324 posted:Holiday Special. Watch it, preferably on drugs. I've seen it, on and off drugs. I want my fecking action figure!! 
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How do you sperg that hard and leave out that he shot his captain because he was aiming at Han Solo and about to fire.
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"'sonic whistle"
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The best part about that is that it's some hidden secret that if you tie a cable around the legs of a thing and that thing tries to move, it will fall. TRADE loving SECRET right there.
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Trevor Hale posted:The best part about that is that it's some hidden secret that if you tie a cable around the legs of a thing and that thing tries to move, it will fall. TRADE loving SECRET right there. This trooper discovered one weird trick to trip a walking robot tank. Generals HATE him!
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And of course the guy from the movie just also happened to be commander for all AT-ATs which makes total sense for him to actually be going into battle personally.
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Sep 25, 2015 23:52
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To be fair Darth Vader is like the vice president and he goes into battle personally all the time.
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Tender Bender posted:To be fair Darth Vader is like the vice president and he goes into battle personally all the time. if biden was also a wizard i can picture him taking the fight to isis personally
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Sep 25, 2015 23:56
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Trevor Hale posted:The best part about that is that it's some hidden secret that if you tie a cable around the legs of a thing and that thing tries to move, it will fall. TRADE loving SECRET right there. Speaking of which, why do Snow Speeders not have front firing bolas rather than the lovely way they had to fly around. Or gently caress, a backward firing bolas. Why do you need to shoot 100 yard magnetic cables anyway on a loving ice planet in the first place?
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why would you use speeders that are controlled manually, travel at mach 2, and fly underneath the canopy on a forest planet how many stormtroopers get instagibbed trying to deliver tonights dinner menu because they veered an inch in the wrong direction and splatted into a redwood
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Sep 25, 2015 23:59
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happyhippy posted:Speaking of which, why do Snow Speeders not have front firing bolas rather than the lovely way they had to fly around. Because they were industrial things that they stuck guns on. I wonder how dangerous industrial harpoons are
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Zahn got retroactively hosed by a lot of the poo poo written after his books came out, so it kind of comes off like the New Republic just forgot about their captured Super Star Destroyer and dozens of massive capital ships and basically get punked by Thrawn with, like, six Star Destroyers.
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Sep 26, 2015 00:31
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Trevor Hale posted:The best part about that is that it's some hidden secret that if you tie a cable around the legs of a thing and that thing tries to move, it will fall. TRADE loving SECRET right there. Judging by some of the weapons programs I've read about, that's the single most realistic thing to ever happen in the EU.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Judging by some of the weapons programs I've read about, that's the single most realistic thing to ever happen in the EU. lockheed martins new 5th generation multirole robot elephant
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Otisburg posted:lockheed martins new 5th generation multirole robot elephant I'm not even talking about Lockheed because bringing up the F-35 is like cheat mode when it comes to military weapon system boondoggles.
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The only good thing about Daala was how they handled her dealing with attrition.
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