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Milkfred E. Moore posted:Corran Horn is a [...] goddamn [bad character] Fixed that for you.
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Cross-Section posted:I thiiiink the only place he gets any significant characterization is the novella included with the X-Wing game and strategy guide. The actual player in-game is a blank slate archetype with no dialogue. NuCanon can get hosed, Keyan Farlander was at Yavin. 
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I kinda want to read that, what happens?
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Arcsquad12 posted:The Traviss/Denning spat started in Legacy of the Force. Denning is very big on Jedi and Traviss was very not big on Jedi and was more or less the main writer for Mando content at the time. Legacy and Fate were both written round robin by trios of authors and they had almost no planning on what each author would do. Traviss would denigrate Jedi and Denning in turn tried to kill off Traviss's characters in his books, to the point where he had Mandalore virus bombed to specifically kill any living being with a hint of Jango Fett DNA. I don't really have any love for Denning and I'm pretty ambivalent on the Jedi, but Traviss's incessant Mandalorian fellatio got real old real fast; seeing her get dunked on puts a smile on my face no matter who's doing it. What was this teenage sexual assault thing? That's pretty messed up.
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I dunno, on the whole I liked the NJO. My EU headcanon timeline ends with that, though.
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I was at Barnes & Noble and saw two Halo books right next to each other, one by Traviss and one by Denning. I had a bit of a giggle.
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Speaking of Halo books, wasn’t there a Forerunner trilogy or something? Was that worthwhile?
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VaultAggie posted:Which is a shame, because the early Halo names were awesome. Pillar of Autumn, Truth and Reconciliation, Foward unto Dawn, Arbiter, etc. Really? I always thought those names (Arbiter aside) were somehow simultaneously dumb, clunky, and pretentious, as if the shipbuilder was just a bit too far up their own rear end. And the Covenant using the same nonsense-words naming scheme that the humans did made me roll my eyes even harder. Like if *only* the Covenant did it I could almost get behind it, but having both factions just string words together and call it a ship name felt bizarre.
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Angry_Ed posted:I mean the human ships started out being named reasonably after locations etc. then they just started going wild with the full phrases General Battuta posted:To the contrary it owns. Jazerus posted:pillar of autumn/truth and reconciliation are great names and they aren't at all alike. one conveys a very napoleonic militarism while the other implies either religious fundamentalism (which turned out to be the case) or, much more interestingly, a post-revolutionary society. i won't pretend that all of the later ship names are as good, but they do tend to keep to their themes based on which society built them. "Emancipation Of Silence" "Beginning Through Fate" "Eagerness With Strife" "Benevolence And Hardship" I could probably do this all day. Edit-- "Questions Upon Mirth" Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Dec 25, 2020 |
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Jazerus posted:the problem with the names you made up, and similarly the actual names that the later halo writers created, is that they follow the form of "truth and reconciliation" without understanding it. the other covenant ships shouldn't be "virtue x and virtue y" because that was not actually the process used to create the name "truth and reconciliation". i guess when they decided the covenant were religious fanatics they kind of made it hard to extend the implicit theme of post-revolution justice since the revolution didn't actually happen until the end of halo 3 Carteret posted:Next you are going to tell me the Culture names are bad. I don’t know what the Culture is 
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ScottyJSno posted:Culture novels and short stories by Iain M. Banks. Good stuff check em out. Oh, so like racehorse names.
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Chairman Capone posted:Did you ever play the original Outpost? It's buggy as hell but it's entirely about building a functioning colony. Though also really difficult and there's no ability to win or even end the game outside of eventually dying, as the game was rushed so the promised endgame conditions weren't implemented. I played the poo poo out of the original Outpost, it had two endgame conditions and I remember them both being present in the version I played. You could exhaust the tech tree in one of two ways - either researching terraforming and making an atmosphere for your planet, or researching rocketry and launching a new colony ship.
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VaultAggie posted:Speaking of Star Wars book, when do the High Republic books come out? I’ll need something to tide me over since Mando finished. The randomized choices also include Maarek Stele (player character from TIE Fighter) and Ace Azzameen (player character from X-wing Alliance).
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NinjaPete posted:This is a bit off topic, but I figured people here might be interested. I am running a Star Wars Choose Your Own Adventure game on the forums. Right now people are voting for what Era/Tone the game is going to be. I invite everyone to come read/vote! Era: 6,000,000 years BBY
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I considered making that very joke when I posted. 
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Baron Fuzzlewhack posted:I read the Legacy comic a long time ago (and actually really liked it, at the time anyway), and so I had a passing familiarity with the Fel Empire. What I did not know, until I went poking around just now, was that Baron Soontir Fel was married to... Wedge Antilles' sister.
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Kemper Boyd posted:If Disney had some courage, they could declare that podracing is no longer canon.
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I liked the YVH droids, I’ve got an action figure of one. 
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Jun 3, 2021 20:27
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The ones that looked like literal Terminator endoskeletons.
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Jun 3, 2021 21:36
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Bring back Mara Jade as an Emperor’s Hand/Jedi assassin, no Luke needed.
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thrawn527 posted:Oh like during the reign of the Empire? Duh, I don't know why I didn't think of that. That would work perfectly. Even post-Empire, you could have her as a part of Operation Cinder murdering the poo poo out of, well, just about anybody.
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T___A posted:Also Sorch briefly appears in the latest episode of the Bad Batch.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Nope. Raphael didn't voice him, sadly. That’s hosed up.
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Cross-Section posted:Tbf he wasn't voiced at all, it was a very quick (but significant!) cameo Still hosed up
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thrawn527 posted:loving THANK YOU. I was wondering why this whole thing was making me think of Alien but the Zahn books didn't. It was driving me more than a little crazy. You should always be thinking about Aliens.
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Arc Hammer posted:Any expected outrage over Slave 1 being renamed the Firespray? Is this true?
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Arquinsiel posted:Treating that series of books as canon is really silly, since in the first one alone it contradicts itself a couple of times. Every author got complete freedom to just make poo poo up because it's all unreliably narrated. The contradictions were inevitable with them getting 40 stories out of what we saw on-screen. There's only so much you can do there. Also I'm pretty sure the statement that it's "canon" is stretching the concept to appease nerds. It sure is a book that Disney published, but that doesn't mean they give a poo poo about it being consistent.
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Casimir Radon posted:New continuity has Mon Mothma get rid of most of the military right after Endor. Which is stupid as gently caress. Narratively, ending the Star Wars one year after Endor in a franchise called Star Wars was stupid as gently caress and painted the EU into a ridiculous corner.
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Cross-Section posted:In the end I’m less down on the Battle of Jakku than others because it ended up getting some pretty sick depictions in Aftermath, Lost Stars, and Alphabet Squadron (among other works) In the NuEU, you’ve got Rebels cribbing a ton of stuff from Clone Wars, The Mandalorian cribbing a ton of stuff from Rebels, Hera Syndulla shows up in literally everything, Alphabet Squadron gets mentioned in everything, the High Republic has distant ancestors of OT-era EU characters, which has ancestors of sequel trilogy era characters, newly-invented Imperial Light Cruisers show up in Rebels, Squadrons, and the Mandalorian, and it’s all so interconnected that it just feels too small and constrained. I don’t need every new book to be littered with references to other contemporary books/videogames that are otherwise narratively disconnected. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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Cross-Section posted:(though I really don't get the Arquitens criticism given the mass-produced nature of the Imperial Navy in both canons).
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Hey I’m talking Star Wars books on a discord server and I remembered the Bounty Hunter Wars betrayal flow chart, can someone do me a solid and hook me up?
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Edit— beaten!
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I think the best part of that chart is that I genuinely do not know how to read it. Like, what do red Xs mean? What does the direction of the arrow mean? Does it matter?
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fartknocker posted:I believe the X’s are all people who died. Like, at all? Because I’m pretty sure Xizor wasn’t killed in the Bounty Hunter Wars, unless the trilogy overlaps Shadows of the Empire.
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Casimir Radon posted:Technically his plotting in the trilogy ends up getting him killed in Shadows of the Empire. I really need to reread those in order to see if they kind of make sense together or not at all. I thought Xizor getting himself killed in Shadows was pretty self contained, no other backstory required. 
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The Shame Boy posted:Holy poo poo they actually killed Mara Jade didn't they? That’s not canon and never was, and anyone who says otherwise is objectively wrong and also a bad person
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Like I said, not canon, never was
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Rochallor posted:Around the time of Rise of Skywalker, somebody made the (salient) point on Twitter that canon doesn't actually matter except to IP holders, and that you can hold whatever set of stories you want as the important ones.
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I was hoping at least one of the swoops would use the design from the Kenner Shadows of the Empire toy line. Oh well, maybe next time.
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Robot Style posted:It's hard to tell in the movie, but the Shadows of the Empire swoop was actually first designed for the Star Wars Special Edition. Hah, that’s awesome.
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