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Rogue_Follower Title: Manager: • Lit Registered: Nov '03	Date Posted: 10/8/05 3:16pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	Behold! Lerbue Hyllib and his amazing droid partner, T-2Q.
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 10/8/05 3:53pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion - Date Edited: 10/8/05 3:53pm (1 edits total) Edited By: The2ndQuest
	You can't blame a guy for trying... -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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Commander5052 Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 10/8/05 4:01pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	That African-american pilot is actaully named Mak Case. I remember reading that a guy did a custom fig of him and found that name in some old Lucasfilm documents. -----signature----- Honored recepient of Thrawn McEwok's Bronze Thranta™ A Liberal and proud of it "Politics is simply the continuation of war by other means." --Mandalore the Ultimate
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Rogue_Follower Title: Manager: • Lit Registered: Nov '03	Date Posted: 10/8/05 4:02pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion - Date Edited: 10/8/05 4:05pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Rogue_Follower
	[i]>>>You can't blame a guy for trying...
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 10/8/05 5:20pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	What do you mean? -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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Rogue_Follower Title: Manager: • Lit Registered: Nov '03	Date Posted: 10/9/05 2:16pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	About the update, or what? I mean that if it turns out that this guy already had a name, then the powers-that-be over at the TOS could be pressed into making an update. Of course, it would be doubly as nice if the update was written by fans, too...
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jawajames Title: Vice President/Chapt er Rep San Diego, CA Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 10/11/05 4:58pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	here's my Ongree: Hailing from the Skustell Cluster, Tass Shumill was an accomplished pilot and trader. He often bought and sold along the Hydian Way in his Byblos Drive Yards’ F-8 freighter, the Keelstar Navigator. When not shipping stem bolts to Bogden or alta-wave calibration devices to Malastare, Tass searched for new opportunities on Coruscant. Because Ongree were relatively rare on Coruscant, Tass began impersonating Senator Sweitt Concorkill to avoid Coruscant’s customs officials. Avoiding inspections allowed Tass to smuggle contraband onto Coruscant, making a generous profit. While he cared little for politics, Tass knew that political shifts could spell success or failure to the independent businessman. Days before the outbreak of the Clone Wars, he completed a delivery of illegal gizkas to an Ithorian biologist in The Works. Afterward, he went to the Outlander Club, one of the few places where he could buy drinks palatable to an Ongree and where he could hear the latest news from both from Republic sources and sources allied with the growing Separatist movement. After hearing the latest gossip about a failed assassination attempt on a senator, Tass headed back to his ship. On his way through the Uscru entertainment district, he felt the crowd tighten around him – a burning airspeeder crashed in the street, with its driver running off, chased by a young Jedi. After the crowd dispersed, Tass was watching the holovids on the street when he spied an armored rocketman flying onto the roof of a nearby building. Tass deduced that Jango Fett’s presence was connected to the attempts on Senator Amidala, which meant that war was probably imminent. Seeing a business opportunity, Tass immediately acquired cases of Blossom wine imported from Naboo. Several days later, as news of the Battle of Geonosis reached the Keelstar Navigator, Tass sold the wine for a hefty profit on Cato Neimodia, now cut off from trading in the Republic’s luxuries. For some risk-takers, war was good for business. whipped it up late thursday night - didn't try to spackle anything, but rather simply reference various things - his ship might be a predecessor to the Mist Hunter, we got alta-wave calibration devices, blossom wine, gizkas, Uscru, etc. the stem bolts came about as a reference to the self-sealing stem bolts from DS9 (jake and nog use these as a trade commodity) -----signature----- Prophet of the Church of Waru. "Jawajames, can I have your girlfriend? Please?" - TalonCard and my eye just fell off...
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Valin__Kenobi Title: Author: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 10/11/05 5:12pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion - Date Edited: 10/11/05 5:13pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Valin__Kenobi
	Nhemal Skroob had always demonstrated strong inquisitive tendencies that stood out from her fellow hatchlings on Onansamr. Upon graduation from journalism school she was hired by a planetwide news publication, but groundbreaking stories were scarce on her homeworld’s fungus ranches and purple seas. Yet her dedication and thorough reporting got her recruited by a Skustell Cluster regional affiliate of the popular HoloNet News, and she was eventually transferred to HNN’s Coruscant branch. She gravitated toward the interface of politics, celebrity, and commerce, covering influential VIPs like Simon Greyshade and Miltin Takel. The night of the 2nd assassination attempt on Senator Amidala she was pounding the pavement in the Uscru entertainment area looking into rumored questionable activities by Skustell’s own Senator, Sweitt Concorkill, and witnessed a certain airspeeder crash in the thoroughfare. Conveniently, Skroob’s exposé was bumped by war coverage from Geonosis. Soon the Confederacy invaded the Skustell Cluster. Concluding that ground combat against the entrenched Loyalist partisans was futile, Grievous ordered Onansamr’s largest landmass bombarded from orbit. The Cluster was reconquered but Onansamr’s ecology and infrastructure lay in ruins. The Ongree retreated within their borders to rebuild and were rarely seen abroad until finally drawn out by the Diversity Alliance. HoloNet News became Imperial Holovision and Skroob found herself thwarted at every turn by smothering censorship and increasingly blatant pro-human bias. As an alien--and a particularly exotic one--she was unofficially blacklisted from holding a job at the major Coruscant newsfeeds. With insufficient credits saved to get offplanet, Skroob sank into the murky undercity like too many starry-eyed arrivals before her. She entered the employ of Dalla the Hutt, putting her investigative skills and contacts to use; her recon helped Dalla quash several rival gangs like the Sligo Pirates. NOTES: 1) Pablo Hidalgo mentioned in the Hyperspace Drop Box Q&A that Pablo-Jill was named in reference to Pablo Helman and Jill Brooks of ILM. As you can see, I took their respective surnames and scrambled each one. "Skroob" also serves the double purpose of being a Spaceballs* reference. 2) Miltin Takel is a socialite who later became a part of the Emperor's court and an Imperial Grand Admiral. (Mainly from the guide to the GAs feature in Insider). 3) The Diversity Alliance is from the Young Jedi Knights series, 23ish years post ROTJ. It was a political movement made up entirely of aliens, against the New Republic. 4) HoloNet News --> Imperial Holovision is from the latest Insider (#84). 5) Dalla the Hutt is from either The Courtship of Princess Leia or Dark Apprentice. I also used him in my submissions for Magaloof and Kalyn Farnmir. 6) The Sligo Pirates were from ... somewhere or other. * 7) Looks like we all screwed up on Sweitt Concorkill. From Leland Chee's blog and comments: "Sweitt Concorkill was originally supposed to be an Ongree Senator, which is why the Coleman Kcaj image was used for the ROTS Visual Dictionary. The clothes were changed from Senate robes to Jedi robes and the character's name was changed to Coleman Kcaj because the CG modelers completely redid the Pablo-Jill model." and "In my current notes, Sweitt Concorkill is supposed to be the Vurk seen in Palpatine's box at the Opera House. Aside from comments I've made on the boards, I'm not aware of any published source that identifies the Vurk as Senator Concorkill. But given that a character in Jedi robes is identified as a Senator in the Visual Dictionary, I'm inclined to call it an error." I only realized this after I'd submitted mine. Hopefully whoever vets the entries will catch and correct this. -----signature----- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Fanboy: http://blogs.starwars.com/valinkenobi Generation Bantam/KJA/WEG "Before the "Oprah effect" bookstores were like monasteries. Now it's like going to Best Buy." -- Arawn_Fenn
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Valin__Kenobi Title: Author: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 10/11/05 5:17pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion - Date Edited: 10/11/05 5:18pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Valin__Kenobi
	Lerbue Hyllib -----signature----- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Fanboy: http://blogs.starwars.com/valinkenobi Generation Bantam/KJA/WEG "Before the "Oprah effect" bookstores were like monasteries. Now it's like going to Best Buy." -- Arawn_Fenn
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jawajames Title: Vice President/Chapt er Rep San Diego, CA Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 10/14/05 6:33pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	This week we get a ROTS Imperial Officer, Lt. Oicunn, as seen on the star destroyer at the end of ROTS. here's what i got for Diva Shaliqua: Diva Shaliqua It was whispered there was only one way out from being a slave dancer for Jabba the Hutt: death. Diva Shaliqua refused to believe it. Born Cheldi, she was sold into child slavery to Dardo, a Rodian vigo in Black Sun. Dardo sent Cheldi to the Diva dancing school. There Cheldi befriended the red haired Foon Kitap. After five years, Cheldi earned the title of Diva and chose the name Shaliqua. Dardo then had Shaliqua trained as a spy, but without combat skills – Dardo did not want to follow the path of Walla the Hutt, who had paid for Aurra Sing’s assassin training by Anzatis and was later killed by Aurra. Master of both dance and intelligence gathering, Shaliqua was sold to Tatooine slave traders secretly, and was eventually purchased by Bib Fortuna for Jabba’s entertainment. Pleased by his plan’s success to have an agent in Jabba’s court, Dardo promised to buy her back after two years. However Jabba knew of the Diva’s connection to Black Sun. Over several months, Shaliqua sent reports back to Dardo on Jabba’s dealings, not knowing that Jabba occasionally provided her misinformation. Just before the Battle of Naboo, Diva Shaliqua accompanied Jabba to the Mos Espa podrace arena, and was reunited with Foon Kitap, now called Diva Funquita, employed by Jabba’s business partner, Gardulla. During the race, Funquita reported that Black Sun had been destroyed mysteriously, and Dardo was dead. With her escape plan lost, Shaliqua nearly fainted in her revealing metal dance costume. Excusing herself, she contacted a local Black Sun agent who confirmed her story. After the race, she and Funquita plotted to have Gardulla buy Shaliqua to annoy Jabba. Jabba wasn’t bothered as he instructed Shaliqua to spy on Gardulla in return for eventual freedom. When Gardulla fled Tatooine to avoid slavetrading charges, Jabba kept his word and freed both Divas. In gratitude, Diva Shaliqua sent back the dance costume Jabba liked best. Settling on Commenor, Cheldi opened her own dance studio. this story ties into the Darth Maul comic (Dardo was introduced in this, and killed by Darth Maul when he took down Black Sun), settles whether Diva is a name, species or title and brings more reference to Aurra's Song, and Gardulla's fate, as well as the metal bikini, which is what Leia wears in ROTJ. -----signature----- Prophet of the Church of Waru. "Jawajames, can I have your girlfriend? Please?" - TalonCard and my eye just fell off...
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 10/14/05 6:36pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	Imp Officer, sweet! Didn't have the time or inspiration for Diva, alas. -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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-E- Registered: Sep '03	Date Posted: 10/14/05 8:40pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	Gotta say, it's nice to see the Diva get some play on the boards. It'll be nice if someone actually recognizes me when I get the costume made. -----signature----- Working on a profound sig. Until then, be content that I like Star Wars.
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Kwenn Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 10/15/05 1:58pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	This Lieutenant Onion (whatever) could turn out to be interesting. Can someone try and work in a name for the Star Destroyer he's on? Since it's apparently Vader's pre-Devastator flagship, it deserves a name. -----signature----- "A true Knight, Qui-Gon is. Forever on his own quest." - Yoda, Cloak of Deception
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Starkeiller Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 10/16/05 7:59am Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	I have a feeling that entries mentioning the Destroyer's name won't be chosen. Let's all include a name so they have no choice! -----signature----- "Ston Germano, echeis tin Dynami!" ~Diafimisi gia Germano
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BootlegVader Registered: Aug '04	Date Posted: 10/16/05 8:43pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
	I have a question how long do they normaly take on each character? -----signature----- Archie Goodwin and Abel G. Pena best Star Wars EU Writers ever!!!!!! Pet a Hoojib for Good Luck.
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