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hard counter posted:there needed to be anti-force stuff in the EU so i can super easily forgive the force-sloth thing Here's the thing, though: The Thrawn trilogy was the start of the EU. It literally didn't exist until those books. (Which is also why the books are so fondly regarded, incidentally)
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Only if you ignore splinter of the minds eye and like a half dozen other books according to this atleast https://www.orderofbooks.com/characters/star-wars/
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Feb 21, 2020 02:28
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Polaron posted:Here's the thing, though: That does not endear me to the Thrawn trilogy
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Stravag posted:Only if you ignore splinter of the minds eye and like a half dozen other books according to this atleast https://www.orderofbooks.com/characters/star-wars/ Smav drink ? Smav drink ?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Also I honestly hate that Chiss are a thing now. Excuse me his species name is the Dug.
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Stravag posted:Only if you ignore splinter of the minds eye and like a half dozen other books according to this atleast https://www.orderofbooks.com/characters/star-wars/ There were 7 plus the movie adaptations, but those were pretty contained bits of material compared to the Thrawn trilogy. There's also a pretty stark gap if you look at a chronological list. Last book put out in 83, then the Zahn books start in 91, and then there's a whole snowball effect where there's 6 books coming out in 94 and then there's 21 books in 97. If you poke around and look at more ancillary material, the old marvel comics, the Droids and Ewoks cartoons, and the TV movies were all done by 86, and 91 was when Dark Horse got the license to publish new comics as well. Even the videogames started to branch out into more original material in the 90s rather than just following the movies like they used to, and there was a weird synthesis between the books, comics, and games all creating their own material and using eachother's material to support themselves, but rarely calling back to the 80s material that wasn't in the movies. And at least 80% of it all is either terrible or mediocre, but 80% of anything is garbage, that's just the reality of fiction. Also: Some EU fighters for the new page.   
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Feb 21, 2020 05:40
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Stravag posted:Only if you ignore splinter of the minds eye and like a half dozen other books according to this atleast https://www.orderofbooks.com/characters/star-wars/ Splinter was weird as hell though - it was written as a low-budget sequel idea in case ANH tanked, and there's a bunch of wonky poo poo like a budding romance between Luke and Leia, and the absence of Han and Chewie (because Harrison Ford had only signed on to do 1 movie at the time)
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OTOH the old Han Solo Adventures trilogy and the Lando trilogy were a ton of fun. The Solo trilogy was published, like Splinter, between ANH and ESB, and the Lando trilogy was published right around RoTJ's release. They're good clean goofy fun, pulpy space pirate stuff.
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Feb 21, 2020 05:45
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can xwings fly without an r2 unit
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Feb 21, 2020 07:33
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sure, they just don't know how to hyperspace
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I guess this is the thread for Brown Squadron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k-IgxNOpCg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi4pmEQriAg SlothfulCobra posted:The hellraiser aliens from outside the galaxy were dumb, but I like the Coralskipper. Yuzhan Vong: Good idea, terrible execution Anyhow the mechanics for fighting coralskippers were pretty tailor-made for video games (their black hole-based shields absorbed nearly all ship-to-ship weaponry, and the ships themselves were impervious to laser fire - but if an X-wing managed to land all 4 laser blasts in one volley, it opened up the shields to proton torpedo strikes.) Imagine a world where Lucasfilm wasn't focused on the prequels and took a risk on a NJO starfighter combat game
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SlothfulCobra posted:But you know what? There's in-world ships that are literally bolted-together pieces of garbage, and they're great. The official name for these is "uglies". I really love them because they really reinforce the idea that all these wild and crazy bits of a ship really each serve a purpose on their own. I mentioned this thing earlier. The Deathraven was some pirate's dream machine and was an absolute beast in combat, being a purpose-built super fighter built from factory fresh machines rather than old garbage welded together with Space Bondo. It was also really cramped and uncomfortable in the cockpit and he couldn't stand to use it to travel for any meaningful distance.
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JethroMcB posted:Imagine a world where Lucasfilm wasn't focused on the prequels and took a risk on a NJO starfighter combat game Meh, I'd rather have an X-Wing game set in the Clone Wars than the NJO. ARC-170s knockin down droid fighters, Y-Wings murdering everything they can land bombs on, escorting waves of gunships down. And gimmeee coop,. Everyone could be a different Jedi in a fighter with some Force abilities. You go up against a CIS fleet.
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Starfighter tail-gunner is cool as gently caress
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Do any hyper nerds have the behind the scenes art books for the ST, I’m really curious what they say about the ship designs or lack thereof.
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This design doesn't exactly feel starwarsy to me, but I like it. That looks like somebody tried to reduce the poly count of one of those Romulan ships.
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dupersaurus posted:Uh excuse me yes the a-wing is a beautiful thing. Sheilds off, lasers 75%. That's how real men fly. lasers 0% for a bit now and then like in-universe NOS
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https://twitter.com/ArmyStrang/status/1254798190307610629
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only one of these took out the super star destroyer 
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Squizzle posted:only one of these took out the super star destroyer at the cost of the a-wing and pilot tho  
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The fastest fighter we have, capable of matching a TIE Interceptor at speed.
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JethroMcB posted:The fastest fighter we have, capable of matching a TIE Interceptor at speed. alright fair enough 
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the best fighter remains the prowler from farscape because it looks  , can fly space-opera-adventure distances, and can carry a passengerall you need to imagine yrself having adventures in one
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If shuttles go here, so does the Sentinel-class landing craft. Just a big, chunky space bus and I love it.
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Looks like a dog that's lost both its front legs.
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if you were a bad guy in the star war and used any shuttle but this one, you were robbed:  shiny rear end beetle bullet
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I don’t think anyone has posted anything from Halo yet, which in my mind has some fairly iconic ships like the pelican. My personal favorite is the YSS-1000 Sabre from Halo Reach. It’s basically strapped to multi-stage detachable rockets to escape a planet’s gravity and get to space, where its main role is orbital defense.   For sci-fi, it feels like a plausible near-future kind of idea without too much in the way of exotic engines and weapons.
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How they forget. Fleet Command posted:We made it. Hyperspace jump complete! All systems nominal and the quantum wave effect has dissipated. Fleet Intelligence posted:We have mis-jumped. The support ship is not here. Fleet Command will signal the Khar-Selim while we confirm our current position. Fleet Command posted:This is Mothership calling Support Vessel Khar-Selim. Come in please. We have mis-jumped and are requesting your beacon… This is the Mothership calling Support Vessel Khar-Selim. Please Respond… Fleet Intelligence posted:Priority Alert. We have picked up the Khar-Selim’s automated beacon. Send a probe to make contact and re-establish communications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnP-LQOKLy0&t=142s The sheer style and quiet class of this introduction alone, puts these two guys in the museum of best starfighters.
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