Books The Essential Guide to Warfare by Jason Fry and a pseudonymous Scotsman

MandalBusiness, Incorporated. Also parent to MandalFoods, Mandal Heating and Air Conditioning, and MandalPants.

 

I hear MandalFood's Fett Fudge and Manda'lor Muffins are second only to the Biscuit Baron

 

Don't forget Mandal City Engineering Incorporated - When You Want Your City A Cube, Call The Mandos!

 

No McMandals where you get a Mythosaur Burger and large Mandallian Fries? A shame...

 

And of course, Mando'ade for the drink.

 

(by Dark Spork, aka Dunc T'racen)

 

Makes me think of beloved Cube, Cube 2 and Cube Zero movies... a pity TCW homaged them with Moralo Eval (or however you spell him) and his Bounty Hunter contest instead of some Mandalorian Cube prison

 

Woah, resurrection taking place. GrandAdmiraIJello - I remember we were discussing over on the temp boards the possibility that the Emperor had a personal fleet. While flicking through The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook, I found this:

I think this may be the first concrete reference to a personal fleet? Now the disclaimer. Its written from an IU perspective in Deposition 87638/37 by Alliance Intelligence Major Breslin Drake, so it may be discountable since its not from an Imperial or omniscient source.

 

Interesting. The Death Squadron could be the Emperor's personal fleet, with Vader as the Emperor's personal fleet commander. It might actually work! Plus it would explain why folks always wanted those particular Star Destroyers.

--Adm. Nick

 

I still think I'd want Death Squadron and the Emperor's fleet to be separate entities. Vader certainly warranted his own entirely independent command, and as a decent Sith, he'd want his own power base. Plus, the two different and frequently opposing command structures might help explain the breakdown at Endor.

 

Obviously, MandalBurgers cure cancer and are only one of three substances in the universe that can turn lightsabers into balloon animals just by touching them.

And MandalPants all wear helmets. Don't ask me how

 

"Emperor's fleet" might be a colloquism for ships that were outside the normal Imperial Navy chain of command - i.e. not under one of the Grand Admirals, but under the Emperor's representative - Vader. That would be extremely powerful symbolism for Thrawn, stepping into the role of the "deceased" Emperor's fleet commander, and also explain why Death Squadron wasn't claimed by one of the warlords or regional Imperial powers - the IRC probably held on to the command for fear of granting such prestige to a leader until Thrawn proved himself to them.

I assume that the Grand Admirals that were at the DS II had at least a token flagship (if not more) present - we know for sure that at least one, Teshik, did.

 

What, exactly, would be the regular duties of an Emperor's Personal Fleet if it existed? Presumably, the Emperor spends most of his time hanging out on Coruscant--would the Fleet then be assigned to regular active duty when not needed, used as a special strike force, or simply hang out at Coruscant waiting for the Emperor's call?

Of course, if it's Death Squadron, then obviously it has its own special role to play--but you could certainly question the cogency of having the Emperor's private fleet out hunting Rebels half a Galaxy away from the Emperor himself.

 

Taking the degenerating "Mandal" conversation in a less ridiculous direction...

jasonfry
When you have a moment, I was wondering if the new Mandalore you introduced in Warfare, Mandalore the Uniter, was given that title as an intentional nod to Novall Talon, leader of the Mandalorian Mercs.

 

True, but by their very title they were, in effect, Imperial Navy. Prior to their existence, I imagine that there was probably some sort of loosely-organized military council of "senior" admirals that would've been reporting to Palpatine anyways (and, no doubt, a number of the Grand Admirals were members already)

 

Well I may as well import an argument from the temp boards. I remember a claim that TOR made the Sith Empire xenophobic out of the blue when I believe it's not true and pointed out in stuff in the Lost Tribe and Book of the Sith and the fact that they put any schmucks unfortunate enough to wind up in their neck of the woods in chains during the Golden Age that wasn't a force user.

 

Not to steal Jason's thunder but I believe the answer is yes.

I seem to recall Novall mentioning this in the EUC Oya Fan Club some point.

 

I would imagine that the regular duties of the Emperor's personal fleet would be mainly to guard his main holdings at Coruscant and Byss, with maybe some at Naboo as well. And probably a few that fly around with him while he swans about the galaxy conducting Emperor-type duties like inspecting superweapons. I would suspect it to be a small, elite unit in terms of size; did the Imperial Sourcebook give a number of how many ships comprised a fleet?

 

I know Novall was all stoked because that was the same title he used, but I was just looking for some kind of official confirmation that it was an intentional reference. I thought the Endnotes might have something of the sort, but unfortunately not.