Star Wars - Timeline issues

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STEGASAURUS

Thursday, June 8, 2006 2:37 AM

In regards to the Death Stars, if you read any of the books, the Jedi Academy trilogy explains that there is actually a third (or more appropriately the prototype) one located in "The Maw" (a secret Imperial Weapons and Research Facility located in the center of a cluster of black holes that is near Kessel. The prototype is a basic skeleton with a fully functional laser emitter. Oh, and Tarkin came up with the design.

Interestingly, the books were written before any of the Prequels, and thus there are some discrepancies. They explain in the books that Vader looses his hand because he failed the Emperor in some way. I'm not sure but I think it was when the Death Star was destroyed in EpIV:ANH.

There are 2 trilogy series that I recommend, the Thrawn series and the Jedi Academy series. If you can look past some of the major discrepancies, they do make for a very good read.

SINGATE

Thursday, June 8, 2006 6:51 AM

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Originally posted by Stegasaurus:
In regards to the Death Stars, if you read any of the books, the Jedi Academy trilogy explains that there is actually a third (or more appropriately the prototype) one located in "The Maw" (a secret Imperial Weapons and Research Facility located in the center of a cluster of black holes that is near Kessel. The prototype is a basic skeleton with a fully functional laser emitter. Oh, and Tarkin came up with the design.

Interestingly, the books were written before any of the Prequels, and thus there are some discrepancies. They explain in the books that Vader looses his hand because he failed the Emperor in some way. I'm not sure but I think it was when the Death Star was destroyed in EpIV:ANH.

There are 2 trilogy series that I recommend, the Thrawn series and the Jedi Academy series. If you can look past some of the major discrepancies, they do make for a very good read.

Finally another fan of some Star Wars EU! Those two storylines were outstanding. Just one thing, I thought it was some Imperial scientist named Bevel Lemelisk(sp?) who devised the plans for the Death Star. Wasn't there a female character in the Jedi Academy series named Qwi, stationed in the Maw, who mentioned working under the man who designed the Death Star? If I remember correctly his punishment for the exhaust vent design flaw was particularly brutal.

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PRAIRIEDOGG

Thursday, June 8, 2006 10:49 AM

Star Wars makes me angry! I watched the first (which I refer to as Star Wars) last night and thought about how pathetically weak the others are. Star Wars was great, The Empire Strikes Back good. All others were absolute rubish! I liken them to watching someone else play a video game. Its interesting visually for about 10 minutes and then you check your watch and think about how much you should be washing the dishes. Lucas says he's a visual story teller and not a literary story teller, but this always struck me as a great cop-out for the crappy story lines of all of the movies after the first. On top of that the visuals weren't even that spectacular. The acting was weak but I totally blame the pathetic scripts, the "every next movie has to outdo the last" computer generated effects (Yoda bouncin around was kinda funny for a minute and then you just put your hand on your forhead and think how miserably this guy screwed up a potentially really cool universe worth of story telling). Someone could come along and make a new movie set in the Star Wars universe with almost no special effects, tell the story of a Jedi and make it great. But I have absolutely no faith that Lucas can or will.

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MICK91

Thursday, June 8, 2006 11:14 AM

Being a die hard Star Wars fan, I agree that the story telling has seriously gone down the crapper! My friends and I often talk about the Star Wars that could have been and have become very disappointed with George Lucas (although he has made a hell of a lot more money than most). Episode III tried hard to bring back the Star Wars we used to know, but was still a victim of poor acting and dialogue - "Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo." Ouch!!!

DUG

Thursday, June 8, 2006 12:42 PM

3 points:

1. If Obi Wan aged due to drinking at the cantina there would be a lot more one-armed people on Tatooine.

2. By the time the ROTS came out I don't think Lucas even qualified as a visual story teller anymore. He was just slapping visuals on the screen because he liked them and at the end of each scene moving the plot along with one or two lines of dialog. Amazing fight; amazing fight, awesome powers, oh? It's time for Anakin to lose so he does for no real reason.....Same for almost every scene in that movie.

3. Referring back to the reason Anakin lost. Remember, Obi-Wan had the higher ground, right? Forget force-jumps, speed, telekinetics, etc. 3 feet makes *all the difference*. That means Yoda can never win a fight. Ever.

CYBERSNARK

Thursday, June 8, 2006 1:17 PM

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Originally posted by singate:
Finally another fan of some Star Wars EU!

And another here.

And, regarding the Death Star, it was Tarkin's concept (the "rule through fear" doctrine), as produced by a design team headed by Lemelisk (i.e., they did all the work, Lemelisk took the credit, because he was a human, and Palpatine was a bigot against non-humans).

The Jedi Academy trilogy explains how Tarkin went around rounding up the best and brightest (from Omwati, and presumably other worlds as well) and testing them. If they failed, their cities were destroyed. That's how he recruited Qwi Xux. She was on the Maw Installation team.

FWIW, all the Maw Installation's team really had to do was perfect the superlaser; the "large spherical spacestation" idea had already been done before, in the form of the Torpedo Sphere --a large orb-shaped craft designed to break through a planetary deflector shield. You can see them in a few of the old WEG RPG sourcebooks.

In my own fanon, that's what the Geonosians were designing, not the Death Star itself.

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STICK

Thursday, June 8, 2006 1:54 PM

eh, yall give Lucas far to much credit. He's been playing fast and loose with the cannon for a while now. One such example that comes to mind is Luke and Leia's mother, I think it was in episode 5 after Luke finds out Leia is his sister he asks her some thing to the effect of did you know our mother. Leia's responce "Yes, she was very sad" or something like that. How would she know know her mother if, according to episode 3, she died giving birth? I'm not a huge fan of the Star wars universe, and even I picked up on that one.

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