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The2ndQuest  40066 posts
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Date Posted: 3/6/06 12:12am Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86)
It's tricky to add alien characteristics in a workable sense- sometimes, like with Cetsus Deception's sex-rotating giant spiders, it can backfire and come across as excessively silly- alienness fo the sake of being alien.

 

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Super_Battle_Droid  3489 posts
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Date Posted: 3/6/06 6:34am Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86) - Date Edited: 3/6/06 6:56am (6 edits total) Edited By: Super_Battle_Droid
Halagad I know one Jedi you forgot about that was killed in Labyrinth of Evil, the one that was killed in the Jedi Starfighter that was destroyed by the disabling burst from the Invisible Hand that was ordered by Grievous. tongue

If you didn't forget about him/her, you should've named him/her. tongue

Could you pleeeaaasssseee some how add it into the endnotes or something? praying

 

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Date Posted: 3/6/06 1:07pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86)
Super_Battle_Droid posted:


Could you pleeeaaasssseee some how add it into the endnotes or something? praying



Still Super, adding something like that to the endnotes wouldn't make it canonical, I don't think.

 
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Rogue_Follower  8535 posts
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Date Posted: 3/10/06 12:11pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86)
Do we know what color Grand Moff Grand Moff 4-8C is? Because there's a gold IG-unit in the background of Tales: Emperor's Court... thinking batting

 
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The2ndQuest  40066 posts
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Date Posted: 3/12/06 8:27pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86)
>>If TFN ever makes a Halagad icon, I'll switch.

 

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Date Posted: 3/20/06 12:00pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86) - Date Edited: 3/20/06 12:02pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Rogue_Follower
Finally found the Huk quote in The Swarm War:

"That's odd, Captain Solo," C-3PO said. "I don't see any bugs at all. The Verpine are a species of mantid, the Fefze are more closely related to beetles, and the Huk are much closer to vespids than---"
-The Swarm War, p. 96

Now, vespids are kinds of wasps, so this doesn't jive with the Huk's new identity as an alias of the Yam'rii, who are mantids. So. We need a retcon.

The fact that the name "Huk" is a slang term for the Yam'rii could be used as an advantage, especially since it means "soulless bug.". Perhaps the term was taken up by those in contact with the Kaleesh as a term for any insectoid species, and it stuck to one. This could explain why Threepio uses the term, and could explain why he says their vespids: they aren't the true Huk, but another species altogether. Of course, this poses problems of its own; notably, why any species would be given/take on such a derogatory name.

Hey Abel, maybe you could connect these mysterious waspish Huks to the Nevoota (which we know are bee-like wink ) and the Brizzit, which also appear to be some sort of wasp or fly. After all, the Brizzit are nearly extinct, and the Nevoota were (supposedly) wiped out by the Mandalorians... maybe they're trying to hide their identity... wink mischief batting

 
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JMM  289 posts
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Date Posted: 3/21/06 8:25am Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86)
Rogue_Follower posted:
Hey Abel, maybe you could connect these mysterious waspish Huks to the Nevoota (which we know are bee-like wink )


Maybe the Dark Nest Trilogy is just the revised title of the
Nevoota Bee Trilogy? grin

 

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Super_Battle_Droid  3489 posts
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Date Posted: 3/21/06 12:28pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86) - Date Edited: 3/21/06 12:40pm (5 edits total) Edited By: Super_Battle_Droid

Halagad is this B'ink Utrila?



I know you said she was a pre-existing character of sort over at the official site forums.

 

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Super_Battle_Droid  3489 posts
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Date Posted: 4/2/06 5:22pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86) - Date Edited: 4/2/06 5:41pm (3 edits total) Edited By: Super_Battle_Droid
We have Endnotes, Part I. grin Goes off to read, thanks Halagad! grin

http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena/53

Edit: AWESOME, can't wait for part II, when should it be up? grin

 

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Date Posted: 4/2/06 7:07pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86)
Hey folks,

Super_Battle_Droid posted:
We have Endnotes, Part I. grin Goes off to read, thanks Halagad! grin

http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena/53

Edit: AWESOME, can't wait for part II, when should it be up? grin
You're welcome. Part 2 should be up some time this week.


Super_Battle_Droid posted:
Halagad is this B'ink Utrila?

I know you said she was a pre-existing character of sort over at the official site forums.
Bingo brother. I'll be talking a little bit more about B'ink in Part 2 of the Grievous endnotes.


The2ndQuest posted:
Ta-dah!

<img src="http://www1.theforce.net/jc/icons/expandeduniverse/swav-halagad.gif">
This was an awesome surprise Quest, thank you.

...and this is hilarious, BTW; I might have to steal it:

"In return, I will turn you into an eggplant."


Rogue_Follower posted:
Do we know what color Grand Moff Grand Moff 4-8C is? Because there's a gold IG-unit in the background of Tales: Emperor's Court... thinking batting
4-8C is depicted as a plain looking IG-88 type assassin droid in the playing cards that come with the Star Wars Missions. Who knows though, maybe he's ballin so out of control he got gold-plated. wink

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Date Posted: 4/2/06 7:16pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86) - Date Edited: 4/2/06 7:16pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Thrawn McEwok
JMM posted:
Rogue_Follower posted:
Hey Abel, maybe you could connect these mysterious waspish Huks to the Nevoota (which we know are bee-like wink )


Maybe the Dark Nest Trilogy is just the revised title of the
Nevoota Bee Trilogy? grin


Best. Post. Ever.

grin

I don't recall Balmorra being involved, though... thinking

And, Abel: nice notes!

Although the Official Site's anti-dirty-word software is ###ing out a bit... tongue

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Date Posted: 4/2/06 7:31pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86)
Thanks T-Mac.

I thought I got all those. They really don't like that sound to come out in any letter combination other that this one, do they? This from a corporation that promotes "jizz wailing."

Fixed... m ore or less.

 

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Date Posted: 4/2/06 7:52pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86)
laugh

 

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Date Posted: 4/2/06 9:03pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86) - Date Edited: 4/2/06 9:04pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Rogue_Follower
[i]>>>"In return, I will turn you into an eggplant." >>Who knows though, maybe he's ballin so out of control he got gold-plated.

 
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Date Posted: 4/2/06 9:29pm Subject: RE: "Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous" & "Lord of War" by Abel & Joe (SWI #86)

HV posted:
I definitely don't think Grievous ever fit into the hierarchy beneath Tann, that's for certain. I think Grievous was still in "developing experiment" status while Tann had her day in the sun.


I believe Wallace mentions in the NEC that Tann did hold more authority than Grevious in the early days of the war.

 

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