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TalonCard  7509 posts
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Date Posted: 11/13/05 11:31am Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion - Date Edited: 11/13/05 11:34am (1 edits total) Edited By: TalonCard
Here's mine for the Jedi:

Mari-Elan Nora

Mari-Elan nearly missed becoming a Jedi. Born on the grim world of Necropolis, she went undiscovered by the Jedi Order until the age of seven. She was one of several Force-sensitives discovered by the maverick Jedi Master Djinn Altis. Like his other students, she was trained alongside multiple padawans, but she never truely believed in his dissidant philosophy and missed the authority that came with affiliation with the Temple on Coruscant. She left Altis at the age of twelve and petitioned the Jedi Council to join the Order, a request initially denied. Nora's skill and discipline could not be denied, however, and she was finally accepted as a padawan.

After passing the trials, Mari-Elan chose not to take a padawan herself, and instead accepted a teaching position at the Jedi training center on Kamparas. When the Clone Wars broke out, Nora recognized the need to complement the Jedi's shrinking ranks. She volunteered to coordinate the military actions of the Order with factions sympathetic to the Jedi cause, bringing some legitimate athority to what would otherwise be considered rogue groups. She brought her master Altis and his students back into the fold, and also dealt with the Iron Knights, Freedom's Sons, and the Antarian Rangers.

Nora became friends with Obi-Wan Kenobi during the Outer Rim Seiges, and participated in the Battle of Belderone. She attended his briefings on the seiges in order to bring up-to-date information to the group of allies she had assembled. It proved to be the last time she saw Kenobi. While attending a meeting with the Jedi allies on Kamparas, the training center was destroyed from orbit during Order 66.

I wish I'd submitted an entry for the Wol Cabbashite--I love Quest's, but am I the only one who thinks that the Jedi might have room for an intelligent species of immobile slugs? Or that one could attain mastery over a Force that is present in *all* living things? I don't think the Trill/Yeerk-type parasite/symbiote thing is needed here.

TC

 

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The2ndQuest  40241 posts
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Date Posted: 11/13/05 11:46am Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion - Date Edited: 11/13/05 7:46pm (1 edits total) Edited By: The2ndQuest
Well, the thing is we know they are parasites, or at least evolved from parasites.

However, I couldn't see a parasitical creature becoming a Jedi (no more than an Anzati who actively drank soup could remain a Jedi), so I went with the symbiote approach that had a connection to their ecosystem to make it less sinister and more in balance/harmony with it's surroundings. Kinda ties into the whole midichlorian aspect of things too.

In other words, I didn't want a Goa'uld or a Tok'ra. It's been too long since I've seen DS9 to remember what the Trills were like.

 

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Valin__Kenobi  1018 posts
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Date Posted: 11/14/05 12:07am Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
Djinn Altis, Kamparas, Freedom's Sons, Antarian Rangers ... egad Talon. wink

 

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LawgSkrak  2483 posts
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Date Posted: 11/17/05 9:25am Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
So the winners get posted in 2 days (correct?)

Where do they post it??

 

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Rogue_Follower  8560 posts
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Date Posted: 11/17/05 9:41am Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
Usually its announced as an update at the starwars.com main page. And I'm sure somebody will post a link to it in this thread.

 

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LawgSkrak  2483 posts
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Date Posted: 11/18/05 8:28am Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
Well today's the day. What time do they usually update the site?

 

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Rogue_Follower  8560 posts
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Date Posted: 11/18/05 8:35am Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
I think they usually updated in the afternoon (3-7), Pacific Standard Time.

 

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The2ndQuest  40241 posts
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Date Posted: 11/18/05 11:51am Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
Well, the WTS usually updates around 9:30 EST, but the Databank update might go up earlier.

 

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jawajames  10022 posts
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Date Posted: 11/18/05 12:29pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
got my e-3po entry in.

E Chu Ta!

 

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Date Posted: 11/18/05 7:49pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion - Date Edited: 11/18/05 7:55pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Rogue_Follower
Same to you. not_talking

They're up!

cool

Winners: (Diva) Valin Kenobi, nelwyn53100

(Lt. Oicunn) jawajames1, Jedi Master Daniele F

(Leektar the Ewok) Hecko Tenton, Arf Maul

(Melee) jarjarsmeagol, Ghent_the_Slicer, Cockroach King FS, jawajames1

(Acros-Krik) NarbFlick

(Tzizwt) Sompeetalay

Congrats everyone!

 

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Super_Battle_Droid  3489 posts
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Date Posted: 11/18/05 7:50pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion - Date Edited: 11/18/05 7:54pm (3 edits total) Edited By: Super_Battle_Droid


Congrats to those who got picked! grin

The new WTS is a Clone Wars planet from the toon.

 

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The2ndQuest  40241 posts
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Date Posted: 11/18/05 7:52pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
Congrats to the winners! happy

(though curses to those who beat my Tzizvvt entry! wink )

 

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Rogue_Follower  8560 posts
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Date Posted: 11/18/05 8:02pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
Could Melee be the old woman Luke nearly runs over in Anchorhead in the ANH novel? Hmmm...

thinking

 

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President_Sharky  1191 posts
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Date Posted: 11/18/05 10:50pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion
Damn, it seems that no one was able to sneak in the name of Lt. Oicuun's Venator Star Destroyer in his entry. I like the fact that he's from Humbarine; ever since the ROTS:ICS mentioned that the world was depopulated by Grievous, I've been seeing more and more references to it. Supposedly it's an ancient founding Republic world. Unfortunately, I found the rest of the entries to be rather...bland. plain

Which planet from the Cartoons is up for the next WTS?

 

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Date Posted: 11/18/05 10:55pm Subject: RE: Official "What's the Story?" Hyperspace Databank Feature Discussion - Date Edited: 11/18/05 10:59pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Super_Battle_Droid

 

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