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Lumiyas_Head Registered: Jul '07	Date Posted: 8/9/07 9:14pm Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	DarkStarkiller posted: why does Palpy say he's unarmed when he has a hidden saber in his sleeve. He proably does at least. Technically, we don't know if he still has his lightsaber hidden any longer. In Dark Lord he mentions that the Sith, in the present, only use lightsabers to humiliate the Jedi. So, it wouldn't suprise me at all if he had discarded his lightsaber all together. ROTJ Palpatine though, to me, gives off the impression that he is above wielding a lightsaber. Though there's always the possibility.
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obi-rob-kenobi4 Registered: Apr '07	Date Posted: 8/11/07 6:34am Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	what is palpatines first name??? i have always wondered this? -----signature----- "You call THIS a diplomatic solution?" "No, I call it aggressive negotiations." so this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause..... who am I, where am I going? -Tony Soprano
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TwiLekJedi Title: Classic Trilogy Manager Registered: Jun '01	Date Posted: 8/11/07 8:34am Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	Frank. Frank Palpatine. Proof: "I must be Frank, your highness..." he doesn't have one, canonically. He had a couple different names in earlier drafts and such, but he pretty much only has Palpatine and Sidious as names. -----signature----- We do what we must Because we can For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead
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DarthButt Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jun '03	Date Posted: 8/11/07 11:01am Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	Yes, his first name is Frank.
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anakinandpadmedoomed Registered: Jun '07	Date Posted: 8/11/07 11:08am Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy - Date Edited: 8/11/07 11:10am (1 edits total) Edited By: anakinandpadmedoomed
	I wonder if he put Sidious on his business cards. -----signature----- Somebody save me...I don't care how you do it.
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obi-rob-kenobi4 Registered: Apr '07	Date Posted: 8/12/07 9:02am Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy - Date Edited: 8/12/07 9:03am (1 edits total) Edited By: obi-rob-kenobi4
	i herd some wear that he had a first name but forgot it. -----signature----- "You call THIS a diplomatic solution?" "No, I call it aggressive negotiations." so this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause..... who am I, where am I going? -Tony Soprano
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icqfreak Registered: Mar '99	Date Posted: 8/16/07 6:18pm Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	I was thinking about the anh battle and this question arose. At the point that the imperial officer tells Tarkin that they had analyzed the attack plans of the rebels and there was a real danger to the station and Tarkin dismisses his idea to evacuate, why doesn't Tarkin order all TIE fighters to launch? It's one thing to not want to evacuate, but there was no reason why he couldn't launch all the fighters to quickly annhilate the rebels just to be on the safe side. He hadn't launched them earlier because he believed the rebels to be no threat to the station, so vader launched his own personal fighters instead. Once Tarkin knew of the danger he should have launched the fighters. -----signature----- Your focus determines your reality. - Qui-Gon Jinn For shame... - Homer Simpson I have no idea what's going on right now! - Towelie Heh Heh...Allll right! - Quagmire
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Darth_Falcon Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 8/16/07 11:39pm Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	His over confidence and greed to be the destroyer of the Rebels took over I would assume. -----signature----- AHBY!!! \| HC Member \| The Flipped-out Flying Fool of Luminescent Lunacy http://blueyodasociety.com/ @ The Lurker
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timmoishere Registered: Jun '07	Date Posted: 8/16/07 11:46pm Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	Tarkin was overconfident. He didn't think the fighters would be any real threat to the Death Star. -----signature----- Will do moose stuff for money. Everything tastes better wrapped in bacon, especially bacon 11/20/2008: The day I married the most wonderful woman in the world.
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MasterCece Registered: May '06	Date Posted: 8/17/07 6:38pm Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	I was recently playing a game of the young players edition of Trivial Pursuit with my husband when this question came up: "What had the Emperor been known as before his galactic takeover, in the movie Return of the Jedi?" The answer, of course, is Senator Palpatine. This is a 1984 edition of the game, purchased more than 20 years ago. Where in Return of the Jedi do they make mention of the Emperor's previous identity? -----signature----- "The sunshine bores the daylights outta me." -- Rolling Stones 1972
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Lumiyas_Head Registered: Jul '07	Date Posted: 8/17/07 7:13pm Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	The original Star Wars novel, published in 1976, gave the reader a prologue about the events leading up to A New Hope. In reference to Palpatine, it says, "...the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic....Once secure in his office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace". However, it presents Palpatine as just a politician, weak and controlled by more powerful men instead of the Sith Lord we see in Return of the Jedi.
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MasterCece Registered: May '06	Date Posted: 8/17/07 8:37pm Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	Thank you so much Lumiyas. I'll have to find the book! -----signature----- "The sunshine bores the daylights outta me." -- Rolling Stones 1972
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Arawn_Fenn Registered: Jul '04	Date Posted: 8/22/07 3:46pm Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	Also, he is called Palpatine in the ROTJ novelization, IIRC. -----signature----- His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks. <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> "Why don't you take your simplistic good/evil dualism and found Zoroastrianism?" - zweebex
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anakinandpadmedoomed Registered: Jun '07	Date Posted: 8/22/07 5:32pm Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	not to be dumb, but what does IIRC stand for? i thought this thread would be good as place as any to ask..thanks! -----signature----- Somebody save me...I don't care how you do it.
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General Kenobi Title: Administrator Emeritus Registered: Dec '98	Date Posted: 8/22/07 5:55pm Subject: RE: Official Thread: Quick and/or Random Questions About the Classic Trilogy
	If I recall correctly, "IIRC" stands for "Isolder's Imperial Roof Contractors".
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