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Question for all you EUros (haha that's what I call people who know to much about this stuff funny right?): does the Star Wars expanded universe go in for alternate reality stuff the same every single comic book franchise does? Like, oh, whoa, here's a universe where Darth Vader raised Luke in the darkside, or look out!! Jar Jar Binks just murdered Palpatine before he took over!!!
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May 13, 2016 14:29
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Mordja posted:Question for all you EUros (haha that's what I call people who know to much about this stuff funny right?): does the Star Wars expanded universe go in for alternate reality stuff the same every single comic book franchise does? Like, oh, whoa, here's a universe where Darth Vader raised Luke in the darkside, or look out!! Jar Jar Binks just murdered Palpatine before he took over!!! Yeah, the Infinities line. But they were "non-canon" not true AUs like in Marvel or poo poo.
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May 13, 2016 14:38
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KiteAuraan posted:Yeah, the Infinities line. But they were "non-canon" not true AUs like in Marvel or poo poo. Yeah, they had one for each of the OT where something different happened. One of them involved Yoda dropping the Death Star on top of the Emperor and another had Luke dead but Leia takes his place and is able to actually save Vader. Since Vader becomes good he switches to an all white suit. Something I think is pretty crazy about the OT is how apparently they didn't keep very good records for a lot of stuff. Like it took until last year for anyone to figure out who played the 70's spaceman in the Cantina scene. He had an action figure and everything but nobody knew who he was.
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May 13, 2016 15:22
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The Infinities were kinda goofy fun in the style of Marvel's "What If..." line, changing a single event, and then going through the remaining movies imagining what they would have been like if that event had changed. In the New Hope one, Luke misses blowing up the Death Star, and it manages to blow up the rebel base on Yavin IV. In the Empire on, Luke dies on Hoth, and Han goes to Dagobah, mistakenly thinking that Luke wanted him to go train with Yoda. In the Jedi on, Jabba knocking over C-3PO results while Leia is doing the thermal detonator routine, so they can't communicate with one another, and the whole plan to rescue Han goes off the rails. They were kinda interesting, over the top, fun if you're a Star Wars fan, esp. because they don't do the whole "Here's some minor character from the background of Cloud City I'm going to make the main character" thing. If you want to read some Star Wars comics, there are worse ways to spend you time.
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May 13, 2016 15:39
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muscles like this? posted:Yeah, they had one for each of the OT where something different happened. One of them involved Yoda dropping the Death Star on top of the Emperor and another had Luke dead but Leia takes his place and is able to actually save Vader. Since Vader becomes good he switches to an all white suit. Did they ever figure out who Icecream Maker Man was?
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May 13, 2016 15:49
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For ANH it wasn't that Luke missed but instead the torpedo was faulty and blows up halfway down the shaft. It damages the Death Star but not enough to stop it from blowing up Yavin IV.
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May 13, 2016 15:57
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muscles like this? posted:For ANH it wasn't that Luke missed but instead the torpedo was faulty and blows up halfway down the shaft. It damages the Death Star but not enough to stop it from blowing up Yavin IV. <surviving rebel fighters return to alternative rebel base> Wedge: <mocking Luke> "I've got this, I've got this! WHY THE gently caress did you turn off your firing computer?" Luke: "This magic voice told me to trust me feelings and . . . " <12 rebel pilots put the boots to Luke until he dies>
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May 13, 2016 16:52
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Han and Luke quit the Rebellion and instead go to Dagobah where Yoda tries to pull the whole "Who's Yoda?" thing but Han calls him on it right away. Han fucks off to go be a smuggler again while Luke trains with Yoda and since nobody is captured he doesn't leave prematurely and Yoda is able to fully train him in the ways of the Jedi.
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May 13, 2016 17:13
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Luke tries to levitate Threepio but Endor's pollen gently caress with his allergies. Ewoks devour the gang. The rest of the comic is just scenes of the feast. Maybe one frame of Lando - "Well, at least I got the Falcon back!"
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May 13, 2016 17:16
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Shmi get's an abortion, meaning no Chosen One, therefore the Trade Federation wins on Naboo but no one cares because Naboo is a backwater with no important exports. The Clone Wars still happen but Mace Windu murks Sheev.
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May 13, 2016 19:04
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KiteAuraan posted:Shmi get's an abortion, meaning no Chosen One, therefore the Trade Federation wins on Naboo but no one cares because Naboo is a backwater with no important exports. The Clone Wars still happen but Mace Windu murks Sheev. Post reminds me that the emperor's first name is Sheev and I almost spat out my coffee. Goddamn.
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May 13, 2016 19:10
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The Senate Accounting Committee launches an inquiry into just who the hell paid for a poo poo ton of clones and to fully equip them as a military. The Senate and Jedi pump the brakes on this whole war thing and begin doing more than sending half-trained apprentices to protect high value targets. The Palpatine regime crumbles when an investigator discovers that Sheev has been paying to house a hutt mistress.
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May 13, 2016 19:36
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Cthulu Carl posted:The Senate Accounting Committee launches an inquiry into just who the hell paid for a poo poo ton of clones and to fully equip them as a military. The Senate and Jedi pump the brakes on this whole war thing and begin doing more than sending half-trained apprentices to protect high value targets. The mistress being Mama the Hutt, grandma of Jabba.
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May 13, 2016 20:04
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The Lando Calrissian Adventures books were the bomb when I was a kid, it's all about lawless black guy in a fast ship driving around the galaxy telling The Man to get hosed and making riches. Blaxploitation Star Wars pretty much
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May 13, 2016 20:09
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Does wookipedia still have the entry for unnamed rodian wearing a jacket?
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May 13, 2016 20:15
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Deleted for insufficient notability
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May 13, 2016 20:56
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skasion posted:Deleted for insufficient notability Enough about your posting
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May 13, 2016 20:57
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However there's no shortage of unidentified rodians out there, take your pick: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Unidentified_Rodian
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May 13, 2016 21:04
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Luke accidentally sends the Falcon into hyperspace during their escape from Mos Eisley. They end up bouncing too close to a supernova which ends their trip real quick. The Empire executes Leia on the Death Star but never finds the Rebel base. The Rebellion peters out with the loss of their key Senator supporter.
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May 13, 2016 21:14
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skasion posted:The Lando Calrissian Adventures books were the bomb when I was a kid, it's all about lawless black guy in a fast ship driving around the galaxy telling The Man to get hosed and making riches. Blaxploitation Star Wars pretty much Wasn't that series written by a hardcore libertarian so Lando comes off as a horrible person?
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May 13, 2016 22:23
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Mordja posted:Question for all you EUros (haha that's what I call people who know to much about this stuff funny right?): does the Star Wars expanded universe go in for alternate reality stuff the same every single comic book franchise does? Like, oh, whoa, here's a universe where Darth Vader raised Luke in the darkside, or look out!! Jar Jar Binks just murdered Palpatine before he took over!!! In addition to the Infinities line already covered, there was the novelisation of Star Wars which was based on an earlier draft of the script for the first Star Wars film. It's pretty different.
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May 13, 2016 23:30
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muscles like this? posted:Wasn't that series written by a hardcore libertarian so Lando comes off as a horrible person? Yea he later went on to write a zillion books about how time traveling federalists want to destroy libertopia with their taxes and gun control or someshit
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May 14, 2016 02:15
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skasion posted:Yea he later went on to write a zillion books about how time traveling federalists want to destroy libertopia with their taxes and gun control or someshit Libertarians are terrible at making their side look good. The adventures of time traveling John Adams sounds awesome!
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May 14, 2016 02:29
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The Millennium Falcon is wrong. Why do the stains from outer pairs of exhausts(?) go off diagonally instead of straight back with the airflow? In fact the radial staining pattern on the whole ship really only makes sense if the Falcon was sat in the rain for 100 years. I'm assuming there's a spergy explanation for all this?
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May 14, 2016 02:30
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Dreddout posted:Libertarians are terrible at making their side look good. To be fair though, Lando is a horrible person, the first poo poo he does after we meet him is sell his friend out to Hitler.
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May 14, 2016 02:33
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Kilmers Elbow posted:The Millennium Falcon is wrong. There's no rain in space so those stains are probably from rain during all the times it's landed on the ground and not flying around?
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May 14, 2016 02:37
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skasion posted:To be fair though, Lando is a horrible person, the first poo poo he does after we meet him is sell his friend out to Hitler.
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May 14, 2016 02:38
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"I've never seen anyone more worthy of my tears! You are a true hero, young Teebo. Take all the tears you want!" Pictured: a bitchy mountain with depression. Mount Sorrow is a sentient mountain with a goony personality. He is located on Endor and likes to murder children in his spare time. Also his tears are magic or some poo poo, luckily the ewok hero 'Teebo' tells him to calm the gently caress down. This takes place roughly at the same time as the show 'Rebels' so I am pretty sure it's still canon! 
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May 14, 2016 02:49
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This story still owns, paints George in the best possible light, and B.J. Dart is an incredible name.
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May 14, 2016 02:54
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skasion posted:To be fair though, Lando is a horrible person, the first poo poo he does after we meet him is sell his friend out to Hitler. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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May 14, 2016 02:55
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Tbf lando had to do it. The alternative was everyone gets gassed. And he got Han back in the end right? We can't all be altruistic like Obi Wan "Ned stark" "Ben" Kenobi and tell every goddamn body we know what's up instead using it as leverage
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May 14, 2016 03:16
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Baka-nin posted:In addition to the Infinities line already covered, there was the novelisation of Star Wars which was based on an earlier draft of the script for the first Star Wars film. It's pretty different. This is the version I read as a pimply junior high nerd. I know it is because of the only scene that I really rmemeber as "This was in the book but not the movie": quote:Kenobi refers to a duck, a creature Luke is unfamiliar with. Later films established that ducks (or duck-like creatures) exist on Naboo. I have no idea, why, of all things, Luke asking "What's a duck?" has stayed with me for all these years.
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May 14, 2016 04:27
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Kirtan Loor did nothing wrong.
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May 14, 2016 06:16
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I guess the most tragic casualties of the disneying are the thrawn books and the x-wing books.
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May 14, 2016 11:15
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Otisburg posted:Kind of lovely when Lucas wouldn't even sign off on a wookiee Jedi. I was running a Star Wars game and when one of my players became a jedi knight I told him he'd be getting a padawan that was "A shy girl nerdy girl with a massive chest." Needless to say he was utterly thrilled to have a wookie padawan. 
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May 14, 2016 15:23
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E Equals MC Hammer posted:I guess the most tragic casualties of the disneying are the thrawn books and the x-wing books. Oh yeah man I'm pouring one out for the loss of great content that should be preserved in the canon forever like Luuke.
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May 14, 2016 15:25
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gohuskies posted:Oh yeah man I'm pouring one out for the loss of great content that should be preserved in the canon forever like Luuke. Don't forget the true hero Luuuke, rear end in a top hat!
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May 14, 2016 15:45
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*Devises foolproof military plan after spending hours locked in a room, staring at a painting of a meadow picnic as rendered by a mentally ill man plagued by synesthesia*
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May 14, 2016 16:34
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The Rogue and wraith squadron books were rad as all fuckin hell 
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May 14, 2016 17:05
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I was running a Star Wars game and when one of my players became a jedi knight I told him he'd be getting a padawan that was "A shy girl nerdy girl with a massive chest." Needless to say he was utterly thrilled to have a wookie padawan. Can I get a tsundere padawan
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