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Wedge Antilles, Tycho Celchu, Hobbie Klivian and Wes Jason once got stranded on a planet of people who were obsessed with dueling using rapiers with blasters instead of a sharp tip. It was inspired by The Three Musketeers, and the planet was called Adumar after Alexandre Dumas. In a separate book, a group of Chiss (Thrawn's race) successfully managed to keep a bunch of hostile aliens in the dark as to what a Jedi can actually do by being assholes to Luke and Mara.
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Hazo posted:Oh wow, is that what Starfighters of Adumar is about? That sounds kind of awesome. Starfighters of Adumar is a legitimately fun space opera book that just happens to take place in the Star Wars universe, and has some really funny writing to boot. It's not going to go down in the pantheon of Great Sci-Fi Literature or anything but there are some really fun action sequences, they give a sort of less-advanced outsider's view of X-Wings and TIE Fighters and, as Zoran said, it has the best pun in the entire history of the franchise. Gulping Again posted:That's literally taken from Galaxy Express 999. Captain Harlock uses that exact weapon. I've not seen that but does he still have to poke someone in order for the shooty part to work? Because the ones in Starfighters are literally described as "a gun that you have to stab someone with in order to shoot them", which is so stupid it wraps back around to awesome (and this is 100% deliberate on the author's part, based on the pilots' reactions to the things).
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Jan 26, 2020 06:05
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Why do writers feel the need to create new (and horrible) species? Like, there are already 1,000 different types. There is more than enough material to have 10+ different species in every book ever made. There was a wolfman in A New Hope.
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Jan 26, 2020 21:43
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Vernii posted:I think that might be the one where the Rebels and some frontier Imperial system team up to fight off an invasion by soul stealing dinosaurs. Not just parasite eggs, but more or less xenomorph eggs. He had to use the Force to vomit them out instead of them coming out through his ribcage.
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Feb 4, 2020 02:36
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Up Circle posted:Didn't luke fall in love with a lady in the battle of bakula book where the lizardmen human traffickers attack the planet bakula, and for absolutely zero reason the rebels go to save them? And she ended up marrying the Imperial captain and died in a suicide attack against droid warships.
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Feb 7, 2020 13:37
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Argus Zant posted:
And then Thrawn found it and threw it at the New Republic. Well, actually, it was found by Jorj Cardas who told Talon Karrde and Thrawn managed to stumble onto it independently. I think it went something like that.
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Feb 11, 2020 03:06
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quote:Kam Nale, also known under the alias "Elan Mak," was a Fluggrian male professional Podracer pilot who flew an outdated Kurtob KRT 410-C around 32 BBY, during the final decades of the Galactic Republic. The son of the crime lord Borzu Nale, Nale received his inheritance early when the Glymphid hitman Aldar Beedo murdered his father. Nale sought to avenge his father's death and vowed to track down Beedo, following him to the Outer Rim world of Tatooine, where Nale discovered that Beedo had entered as a contestant in the upcoming Boonta Eve Classic Podrace. Nale began to use the pseudonym "Elan Mak" in order to join the race without raising suspicions, all the while hoping to be able to eliminate Beedo by shooting him during the race. Legends was wild. I have zero memory of this character (which, trust me, is saying something) but he still has a full backstory involving murder and revenge.
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Feb 13, 2020 19:54
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Hazo posted:Just going from memory here, but are those the Ssiii-roovi or whatever the hell from that Truce at Bakura novel? Ssi-Ruuk, yeah.
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Aug 4, 2020 18:16
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Jazerus posted:that's what that one human dude who's helping them hold down the imperial officer is for. he has known no life but servitude under the ssi-ruuk as "the vest guy" IIRC, he's basically their Force-sensitive Judasgoat. He'd convince the humans everything was fine right up until their souls got ripped out of their bodies and stuffed into a fighter drone.
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Aug 5, 2020 02:12
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Did it even actually get a resolution? I remember she went undercover to try to stop Borsk from getting power and then next thing we know he's head of the New Republic.
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Aug 14, 2020 21:55
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shame on an IGA posted:That time the Hutts built a death star and the rebels hosed the pooch ten ways from sunday trying to stop them but it was okay because they used low-bid contractors for everything and cut the navigation system budget too close to the bone so it flew straight into an asteroid as soon as they tried to use it Darksaber Andersonnnnnn 
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Nov 16, 2020 21:09
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karmicknight posted:Gand Findsmen should have gotten the amount of deep loyalty that Mandolorians recieved Bring back Ooryl!
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Dec 9, 2020 03:31
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Defiance Industries posted:It's amazing how he managed to come off as pretty likeable and interesting despite being paired with Stackpole's self-insert. I think he might genuinely be the best character Hackpole ever made. I always liked the bit where Corran realized the blood-rimmed hole in the back of a Stormtrooper's helmet looked awfully like Ooryl's fist. fartknocker posted:Being paired with Corran meant he got among the most development of any character in those books, since Stackpole couldn’t ignore him like he tended to do with half the squadron. What I think matters more is that the Rogues that die almost never affect the others. Riv Shiel, to use your example, gets blown out of space by Isard's pet Victory-class SD during an ambush (IIRC, anyway) and Gavin is never shown reacting to it. The next time we see him he's fled to an ice planet that Isard bombs off the map and that gets more of a reaction out of him than losing his wingmate of several years. Meanwhile, every single dead Wraith has an effect on their comrades. Kel is distraught about not being able to save Jesmin, Falynn Sandskimmer dying does a serious number on Myn and Phanan's death wrecks everyone. I think Grinder's death has the least effect and that's mostly because he dies at the same time as Falynn and was explicitly a lot more of a hermit than everyone else. Why the gently caress do I remember all of this.
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Dec 9, 2020 05:05
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IIRC the space demon also ate Luke's ex from two of the worst books, Children of the Jedi and Planet of Twilight.
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Jan 29, 2021 05:16
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Defiance Industries posted:*two of the worst books (non-Kevin J. Anderson division) I am more than willing to put Planet of Twilight in with the KJA books. None of them are Crystal Star, though.
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Jan 29, 2021 18:01
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Sodomy Hussein posted:See here we make the classic mistake of ragging on something by making it sound 5,000 times cooler/funnier than it is They manage to have all of that and be boring.
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Jan 29, 2021 21:34
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karmicknight posted:I forget what book it was in, maybe the bug trilogy or somewhere within the NJO series, but there is deffo an exchange between a surviving space nazi and like han solo, where the nazi opines "if only the empire had been around to stop the vong" and getting told "no, the empire was a bunch a stupid gently caress ups. they would have built a superweapon that then blew up and got themselves killed. idiots" "That's not what The Empire would have done, Commander. What the Empire would have done was build a super-colossal Yuuzhan Vong-killing battle machine. They would have called it the Nova Colossus or the Galaxy Destructor or the Nostril of Palpatine or something equally grandiose. They would have spent billions of credits, employed thousands of contractors and subcontractors, and equipped it with the latest in death-dealing technology. And you know what would have happened? It wouldn't have worked. They'd forget to bolt down a metal plate over an access hatch leading to the main reactors, or some other mistake, and a hotshot enemy pilot would drop a bomb down there and blow the whole thing up. Now that's what the Empire would have done."
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Feb 15, 2021 05:13
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Toph Bei Fong posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzk78aItaUQ She's not wrong.
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Feb 23, 2021 23:00
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Jazerus posted:
Yeah, I think the EU eventually settled on Interdictors being more or less garbage in straight-up combat because of all the power the gravity well generators drew, which meant they could never be left alone if there was any chance they'd accidentally grab something with some teeth.
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Apr 19, 2021 13:22
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Tatooine's been implied to be the human homeworld a few times, IIRC. And I feel like humanity having no known homeworld definitely came up in conversation in the EU at least once.
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Apr 20, 2021 18:21
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W.T. Fits posted:You're assuming that the Empire told her what they were actually planning on calling these things and not just giving her a fake name like, "Asteroid Mining Station 001" or something bland and generic to keep her from realizing what she was really working on. I'm pretty sure there's a scene in one of the X-Wing books where Rogue Squadron is undercover on Imperial Coruscant and watches a presentation of the Emperor's death that calls the Death Star some variation of "Imperial Planetary Ore Extractor"
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Jun 21, 2021 22:34
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I've always felt that original design matched the Falcon's reputation as a crazy-fast hot rod better than the design it ended up with.
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SlothfulCobra posted:That was the main reason, yes. You can even see a model of that ship below the Falcon in the picture!
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