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Arcsquad12 posted:Is Thyferra pronounced like Thai Ferra, or like Thy Ferra? This is more confusing than when I thought Tycho's last name was pronounced Kelchoo.
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Rouge Squadron (the game, that is) also used Thy
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Angry_Ed posted:Rouge Squadron (the game, that is) also used Thy Empire at War used Thai, IIRC.
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Mar 8, 2017 04:19
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Empire at War had some strange pronunciations of other things, though. The one that comes to mind immediately was that it said "Saleucami" as "Sal-yoo-kommi" rather than the "Sa-luke-amai" that got used in ROTS.
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Mar 8, 2017 04:22
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I really wish the ground portion of that game without mods wasn't slow poorly animated frustrating rubbish to play. It really was a nice idea, maybe they should give it a try again?
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Mar 8, 2017 04:23
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Speaking of Empire at War, I just downloaded Thrawn's Revenge. I absolutely love it.
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Mar 8, 2017 05:12
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That's what the Death Star 2 is for. gently caress ground battles forever and just fight space battles all the time.
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Mar 8, 2017 05:12
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Chairman Capone posted:Empire at War had some strange pronunciations of other things, though. The one that comes to mind immediately was that it said "Saleucami" as "Sal-yoo-kommi" rather than the "Sa-luke-amai" that got used in ROTS. The Clone Wars also had its own pronunciation. Salooko-my. Also while I'm certain Thrawns Revenge is the superior mod, I still have a soft spot for absolute corruption 2.4. Worth it to have an army of Dark Troopers and AT AT mk2s March across a map. What happened to that monstrously big EAW mod that made every ship to exact scale and had a campaign map so unreasonably big that it took thirty seconds to pan from one planet to the next?
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Mar 8, 2017 16:17
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The little pause Luke does at the end of Empire before Hamill remembers how to pronounce Tatooine is still the funniest.
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Mar 8, 2017 17:48
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Arcsquad12 posted:The Clone Wars also had its own pronunciation. Salooko-my. My only complaint about Thrawn's Revenge is that it doesn't have enough planets! The largest galactic conquest campaign is the Thrawn one with 57 planets...and you lose a lot of planets from the original game. I wanted a map that had like 80 planets and would take me forever to play. Oh well. Still fun as hell re-enacting the Thrawn trilogy and building up my forces at Bilbringi.
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Mar 8, 2017 18:13
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Remembered the name of the mod. It was phoenix rising.
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Mar 8, 2017 18:23
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Arcsquad12 posted:Remembered the name of the mod. It was phoenix rising. Ah that one, It was very ambitious. It was determined to bring the correct number or laser and turbo laser cannons to the heavier ships in space and make land battles realistic as possible.
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Mar 8, 2017 20:27
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i would like them to make eaw good before they made it realistic
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Mar 8, 2017 20:55
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In the movies et al. they pronounce "Coruscant" as sort of like "Corus-sant", right? However, there's an interview Tim Zahn did where he explained that when he came up with the word, he imagined it as sounding more like an adjective, and he'd always pronounced it "Co-RUS-cant". I thought that was interesting.
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Mar 8, 2017 20:58
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Jake Lloyd must have been an EU fan when he first read the script for phantom menace.
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Mar 8, 2017 21:16
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Wheat Loaf posted:In the movies et al. they pronounce "Coruscant" as sort of like "Corus-sant", right? However, there's an interview Tim Zahn did where he explained that when he came up with the word, he imagined it as sounding more like an adjective, and he'd always pronounced it "Co-RUS-cant". I thought that was interesting. In the audio books for the Bantam books that came out in the 90s, it was always pronounced "Cor-RUS-kant," with a hard second C like the actual adjective is, and it was only after TPM came out that everyone shifted to the soft-C that Lucas apparently preferred.
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Mar 8, 2017 22:20
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I just finished Empire's end. I didn't like the conclusion with Sloane.
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Mar 9, 2017 03:28
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A bit late but I've found Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion (with the Galactic Empire mod http://www.moddb.com/mods/sins-of-a-galactic-empire ) to be a perfect successor to Empire at War. No ground combat though.
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Mar 9, 2017 08:32
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No ground combat seems like it would be an improvement over Empire at War 
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Mar 9, 2017 09:21
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It has always puzzled me, ground combat was slow and really clunky but some of the guys behind Empire At War worked on the Command & Conquer games?
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Mar 9, 2017 15:17
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I'm working my way through the star wars books. Currently I'm in the middle of "Lost Stars" and I desperate need to find the thread dedicated to complaining about Star Wars books.
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Mar 9, 2017 16:11
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Catberry posted:I'm working my way through the star wars books. We had two in the book barn, you need archives though.
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Mar 9, 2017 16:12
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Catberry posted:I'm working my way through the star wars books. ...I think you're in that thread. SeanBeansShako posted:We had two in the book barn, you need archives though. Oh, the Let's Read threads? Yeah, though it's not like you can make new posts. We complain about Star Wars books in here all the time.
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Mar 9, 2017 16:14
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All five of them!
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Mar 9, 2017 16:21
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Really the OP meant nerds bitching about what they liked and hated about the old EU rather than awkwardly written prose. Go nuts.
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Mar 9, 2017 16:26
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SeanBeansShako posted:Really the OP meant nerds bitching about what they liked and hated about the old EU rather than awkwardly written prose. Go nuts. We do a lot of that as well, of course.
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Mar 9, 2017 16:38
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Wheat Loaf posted:We do a lot of that as well, of course. But mostly in good humour.
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Mar 9, 2017 16:40
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What's EU?
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Mar 9, 2017 16:40
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Catberry posted:What's EU? European Union, duh.
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Mar 9, 2017 16:41
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SeanBeansShako posted:European Union, duh.
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Lord Hydronium posted:Does that make the UK Legends? Pretty much yeah. The dumb political poo poo in the LOTF is more or less happening now.
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Mar 9, 2017 16:49
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SeanBeansShako posted:European Union, duh. Okay. Who were those guys who made the clone army in the first place and how much money did they pay Jango Fett? I mean these guys created the greatest army that ever existed just on order. Why didn't they just make the army twice as big and take over the world? What happened to them after the clone wars? Did they also create all the weapons and equipment for the clones or did the Federation already have that? The aliens who created the largest army that ever existed said that Jango Fett's fee was "considerable" and that gives quite a perspective, But Jango Fett is still flying around bounty hunting. He then dies unceremoniously defending Dooku in an unwinnable fight against an army of Jedis. If the cloners considered his fee to be "considerable" in the context of "These guys made the largest army ever and then just sold it" How much money did he get? What did he do with it all and why didn't he just peace out when things got hot for Dooku? He should have had enough money to buy his own planet at least.
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I note that the first teaser for The Last Jedi has been shown, but only to a meeting of Disney shareholders and some journalists at the moment. I wanted to make some kind of joke about how it probably ends with the words, "I'm Bob Iger, and I'm running for president," but couldn't think of one. 
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The Kaminoans were contacted at some point by a dude named Sifo-Dyas who left the Jedi because they were sitting around not doing anything. He wanted them to make an army to fight a war he'd foreseen. Sidious arranged his death, and when Dooku became his apprentice, Tyrannus oversaw the rest of the process, as part of Sidious' plan to form an army to take over the galaxy. The exact size of the armies is extremely vague for narrative purposes, but my pet theory is that the Clone Wars weren't as galaxy-encompassing as people thought they were and most of the fighting took place where Sidious and Dooku arranged for the maximum 'shock value', so people would give Palpatine more and more emergency powers. The battle at the opening of ROTS is a super obvious example, because it's the Star Wars equivalent of Iraq invading Washington and kidnapping the President. The short answer is "there were enough clones, but only just". The Kaminoans themselves are a bunch of amoral weirdos. There's some Legends stuff about there being a rebellion against the Empire, but canonically it seems like they stopped production and went back to whatever else they were doing beforehand. Jango Fett didn't really get much of an opportunity to change his mind between successfully fighting and killing Jedi and getting owned like a chump by Mace Windu. From what I can gather, he enjoyed his line of work, and his son seemed to like it too, so he didn't really have a reason to stop. Mostly his death is to demonstrate that Fetts have a history of dying in uncool and stupid ways.
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Seriously, the Sifo-Diyas thing is so stupid because it could have easily been "Sidious" but then nope! Diyas was an actual Jedi!
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ungulateman posted:The Kaminoans were contacted at some point by a dude named Sifo-Dyas who left the Jedi because they were sitting around not doing anything. He wanted them to make an army to fight a war he'd foreseen. Sidious arranged his death, and when Dooku became his apprentice, Tyrannus oversaw the rest of the process, as part of Sidious' plan to form an army to take over the galaxy. Lucas doesn't understand scale, and the none of the numbers in the clone war make any sort of sense. Best not to think about it at all.
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Mar 10, 2017 02:53
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Jango got a ton of money and squirreled all of it away for Boba I believe.
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pubic works project posted:Jango got a ton of money and squirreled all of it away for Boba I believe. iirc Boba also lost a lot of that cash during the young adult series, when a Clawdite screwed him over on Aargau. Those actually weren't that bad for YA novels. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Seriously, the Sifo-Diyas thing is so stupid because it could have easily been "Sidious" but then nope! Diyas was an actual Jedi! Real talk, the first draft had the character named 'Sido-Dyas' and was just Sidious in disguise, but Lucas decided that made the Jedi look too stupid. I preferred that version too but I can see it really stretching people's sense of disbelief that Sidious would be that unsubtle and the Jedi couldn't figure it out. i81icu812 posted:Lucas doesn't understand scale, and the none of the numbers in the clone war make any sort of sense. Best not to think about it at all. we're talking about 'twelve parsec kessel run' 'point five past lightspeed' star wars here, i don't think 'understanding scale' was on the list of Important Star Wars Things for anyone, especially not Lucas in fact, a lack of specificity produced six seasons of a pretty good kid's show and a good chunk of the old EU, so i take it as a positive rather than a negative
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