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Dan Wallace  569 posts
Title: Author: Essential Atlas, Essential Guides, RPG
Registered: Aug '98
8002_Ric Olié<br>Mountain Dew
Date Posted: 10/10/07 7:26am Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
Ris_jSarek posted:
What, Star Wars: The Essential Atlas creeps ever closer, and no one has anything to say about it? I'm shocked.


I have something to say! New blog entry here.

Dan

 

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dp4m  36459 posts
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Date Posted: 10/10/07 7:45am Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
Havac posted:
I have this to say:



Oh, Hiromi... you make me laugh even today...

 

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Dan Wallace  569 posts
Title: Author: Essential Atlas, Essential Guides, RPG
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Date Posted: 10/22/07 12:04pm Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
I just finished doing an interview with the TFN podcast, which was lots of fun. You can download the episode from this link!

Dan

 

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Dan Wallace  569 posts
Title: Author: Essential Atlas, Essential Guides, RPG
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8002_Ric Olié<br>Mountain Dew
Date Posted: 2/19/08 10:34pm Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
More info on the Star Wars Atlas can be found here:

http://blogs.starwars.com/danwallace/99

Dan

 

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JediHobbit  6496 posts
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Date Posted: 2/22/08 6:10am Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
Really looking forward to this book. I can be a real geek for maps sometimes, and it'll be nice to see such a definitive represntation of the GFFA. happy

 

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Eyrezer  750 posts
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Date Posted: 3/28/08 4:58pm Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
Hi Dan.

Have you got a moment to have a look at a continuity problem? In Making a Full Recovery that you co-wrote with Craig R. Carey and Jason Fry, there's an entry on Eelysa.

It says Eelysa was born "after the Emperor's apparent demise aboard the second Death Star", so 4 ABY at the earliest.

It says that "It was the perceptive Eelysa who first sensed Master Skywalker's unease when he suffered the impact of a vision received during the mass murders caused by Kueller, some seventeen years before the Yuuzhan Vong thrust into the galaxy." However, The New Rebellion was actually about 8 years before their invasion (17 ABY).

I think based on this timeline placement, the article says "In the dozen or so years she operated in this capacity on behalf of the Jedi, NRI estimates that she went on perhaps five missions." If TNR had been 17 years before the invasion, there would have been plenty of time for her to graduate and spend 12 years on missions. However, when only 8 years has passed, there is not, especially considering she dies 26 ABY. This would mean she started missions before she joined in TRN, and while she was at best 10 or 11 years old.

Any suggestions as to how to re-interpret this so that it works? Does the "dozen or so years" get reduced to less than 8?

~ Eyrezer

 

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Dan Wallace  569 posts
Title: Author: Essential Atlas, Essential Guides, RPG
Registered: Aug '98
8002_Ric Olié<br>Mountain Dew
Date Posted: 7/22/08 11:49am Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
Just wanted to let everyone know I'll be at San Diego Comic-Con from July 24-27. I'm arriving Thursday, and will be doing two signings at the DK Publishing booth (Booth #2913D), located in the Lucasfilm/Star Wars Pavilion:

Thursday July 24, 5:00-6:00
The Marvel Encyclopedia

Friday, July 25: 2:00-3:00
Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide

Hope to see you there! I'll be trackable, and contactable, via Twitter feed:

http://twitter.com/danwall88
http://friendfeed.com/danwall88


Eyrezer posted:

Have you got a moment to have a look at a continuity problem? In Making a Full Recovery that you co-wrote with Craig R. Carey and Jason Fry, there's an entry on Eelysa.

It says Eelysa was born "after the Emperor's apparent demise aboard the second Death Star", so 4 ABY at the earliest.

It says that "It was the perceptive Eelysa who first sensed Master Skywalker's unease when he suffered the impact of a vision received during the mass murders caused by Kueller, some seventeen years before the Yuuzhan Vong thrust into the galaxy." However, The New Rebellion was actually about 8 years before their invasion (17 ABY).

I think based on this timeline placement, the article says "In the dozen or so years she operated in this capacity on behalf of the Jedi, NRI estimates that she went on perhaps five missions." If TNR had been 17 years before the invasion, there would have been plenty of time for her to graduate and spend 12 years on missions. However, when only 8 years has passed, there is not, especially considering she dies 26 ABY. This would mean she started missions before she joined in TRN, and while she was at best 10 or 11 years old.

Any suggestions as to how to re-interpret this so that it works? Does the "dozen or so years" get reduced to less than 8?

~ Eyrezer


Eyrezer, sorry for not picking up on this earlier. I think the definitive references to the Emperor's death and Kueller's activities imply we should treat those as real, so let's assume Eelysa was born 4 ABY and was thirteen during the Kueller incident (17 ABY). Charitably assuming she started on NRI missions when she was fourteen, that gives her seven years to run missions until the Yuuzhan Vong invasion (25 ABY).

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that there's definitely a contradiction here (sorry!) and that the "dozen years" reference is the most flexible part of the contradiction for retconning.

Dan

 

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IG_2000  171 posts
Registered: Aug '08
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Date Posted: 8/7/08 9:00am Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
Hey. Any plans on writing the Essential Guide to Military with Karen Traviss?

 

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Dan Wallace  569 posts
Title: Author: Essential Atlas, Essential Guides, RPG
Registered: Aug '98
8002_Ric Olié<br>Mountain Dew
Date Posted: 12/1/08 11:39am Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread - Date Edited: 12/1/08 11:40am (1 edits total) Edited By: Dan Wallace
IG_2000, no plans for working on the Essential Guide to the Military -- but I did get a peek at Karen's outline and it looks awesome!

The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia goes on sale 12/8. I worked on it with a whole crew of writers, and it's an impressive (and heavy) tome. More info here:

http://geekosity.blogspot.com/2008/11/complete-star-wars-encyclopedia.html

Dan

 

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Exar_Xan  16644 posts
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Date Posted: 12/1/08 11:58am Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
Mr Wallace sir, what can you tell us about information that came from Whats the Story that has been added to either the Encyclopedia and the Essential Atlas? Is there any? If so, can you spill some beans? As a WTS winner (with Niai Fieso, I also introduced the Troiken capital city Veterned) I am sure we are curious about it.

 

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ArtyEwok  1096 posts
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Date Posted: 12/1/08 6:19pm Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
Don't want to Hijack Dan's thread here, but Castaways of Endor (Which I know he mentioned in this thread earlier) is now live on hyperspace!

http://www.starwars.com/fans/hyperspace/source/feature20081201.html

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Dan Wallace  569 posts
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Date Posted: 12/2/08 6:46am Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
Yay Amy! Thanks for posting the link! happy

Dan

 

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ArtyEwok  1096 posts
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Date Posted: 12/2/08 7:52am Subject: RE: The Official Daniel Wallace Discussion Thread
No problem, Dan happy

I am so flipping excited this actually got published. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to co-write it with you.

 

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