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poodookoo Registered: Feb '04	Date Posted: 9/19/05 7:45am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	Hi Karen, any chance of a quick precis of what's in the article? e.g. what legions and commanders are named, anyone we didn't see in ROTS, etc? -----signature----- WAR! The Republic is crumbling under attacks by the ruthless Sith Lord, COUNT DOOKU. There are heroes on both sides. Evil is everywhere.
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Thrawn McEwok Title: TFN EU Staff Registered: May '00	Date Posted: 9/19/05 8:03am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84) - Date Edited: 9/19/05 8:03am (1 edits total) Edited By: Thrawn McEwok
	surreptitiously funds an anti-war demo in the thread Oh, okay... that's just me causing trouble... I'm as eager for more GAR information as the next 'Wok... Any chance of an appendix of recipies? - The Imperial Ewok -----signature----- A/T = OTP :===8[#]8===: Kyp/Jaina fans: stand up and be counted!
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KarenTraviss Title: Author: -Har d Contact -Tri ple Zero -LOTF Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 9/19/05 8:08am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	poodookoo posted: Hi Karen, any chance of a quick precis of what's in the article? e.g. what legions and commanders are named, anyone we didn't see in ROTS, etc? Creation and training: ORBATs, with strengths: equipment and transport: named men, some of whom you've seen before, and some who'll be new to you: and why they were so damned good. -----signature----- Website: http://www.karentraviss.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/karentraviss/ "Karen, put that stormie down at once!"
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KarenTraviss Title: Author: -Har d Contact -Tri ple Zero -LOTF Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 9/19/05 8:11am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	Thrawn McEwok posted: Any chance of an appendix of recipies? - The Imperial Ewok My "100 Low-Carb Ways With Ewok and Kaminoan" will be out soon, brought to you by MandoMeals Press. -----signature----- Website: http://www.karentraviss.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/karentraviss/ "Karen, put that stormie down at once!"
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AdmiralNick22 Registered: May '03	Date Posted: 9/19/05 8:12am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	Karen: Is the number of clones every discussed? I know there is alot of disagreement on this, especially given that Lucas said that there were only a few million clones total. Without spoiling us, how did you and Ryan tackle this? --Adm. Nick -----signature----- Fleet Junkie Founding Father Official Greatest Admiral Ackbar Fan "A peaceful Galactic Alliance is the strongest pillar of a peaceful galaxy." - Luke Skywalker "I will surrender, Admiral, when I can no longer fight!" - Admiral Gar Stazi A New Hope
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KarenTraviss Title: Author: -Har d Contact -Tri ple Zero -LOTF Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 9/19/05 8:31am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	AdmiralNick22 posted: Karen: Is the number of clones every discussed? I know there is alot of disagreement on this, especially given that Lucas said that there were only a few million clones total. Without spoiling us, how did you and Ryan tackle this? --Adm. Nick Yes, we give numbers, and the reason they were so effective despite those numbers. (Broken down, too.) Well, it was the proverbial quart into a pint pot, and the hardest bit was how much overmatter we still had - and the feature is still a lot longer than it was supposed to be. We staged a two pronged approach: Ryan, who'd wanted to do this for some time, had been keeping a careful tally of continuity issues that needed infilling or backgrounding, and I came up with a list of must-have headings to structure it. Then we divvied up the tasks between us and went off to collate our respective areas of info. Then Ryan sent me his material and I merged it with mine, and we kicked it around again to see what was missing and that it was consistent. Once we'd decided what was going into the final copy (with a shoe-horn if need be) I subbed it into one style and sections so that the Insider folk could lay it out, and then sent it through LFL's continuity checking process. Voila. Eight pages of clonely wonderfulness. Then we received the finished layout with artwork, and went "Squeeeeee! It's lovely! Oooh!" We did. We really did. There was still a lot that we had to leave out, and I believe TOS will be running an interview with us about why we did what we did and what we wished we'd had room for. -----signature----- Website: http://www.karentraviss.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/karentraviss/ "Karen, put that stormie down at once!"
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Thrawn McEwok Title: TFN EU Staff Registered: May '00	Date Posted: 9/19/05 8:38am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	KT: My "100 Low-Carb Ways With Ewok and Kaminoan" will be out soon, brought to you by MandoMeals Press. Looking forward to it! "After the Battle of Endor, a low-level war continued for several years between surviving Fett clones and the Ewoks of the Bright Tree Village, marked by widespread eating of enemy captives on both sides." No, really; I really am. - The Imperial Ewok -----signature----- A/T = OTP :===8[#]8===: Kyp/Jaina fans: stand up and be counted!
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Leto II Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 9/19/05 8:46am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	Have them pop some of that scissored content up on "Hyperspace," as a bonus for us gleeps. (Or something. ) AdmiralNick22 posted: Karen: Is the number of clones every discussed? I know there is alot of disagreement on this, especially given that Lucas said that there were only a few million clones total. Without spoiling us, how did you and Ryan tackle this? --Adm. Nick At the war's beginning, though -- those 1.2 mils were only those ready for delivery by Kamino; there were still "millions more" already detanked and undergoing combat-testing around Kamino, according to Inside the Worlds of AOTC. By the third year, there are tens of millions pouring out of the birthing-crèches, ready for deployment. KarenTraviss posted: Thrawn McEwok posted: Any chance of an appendix of recipies? - The Imperial Ewok My "100 Low-Carb Ways With Ewok and Kaminoan" will be out soon, brought to you by MandoMeals Press. But I feel that young Ewok fresh off a Gonk-droid hibachi is still best. Razorback-pork is also delish, I hear. -----signature----- "If there's one thing I hate, it's losing. If there's TWO things I hate, it's losing and getting cancer." - Kenny Powers
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KarenTraviss Title: Author: -Har d Contact -Tri ple Zero -LOTF Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 9/19/05 9:31am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	With a raspberry vinegar and walnut oil vinaigrette, pan-seared Kaminoan belly is to die for. Wait...we're veering off-topic again... -----signature----- Website: http://www.karentraviss.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/karentraviss/ "Karen, put that stormie down at once!"
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Ryan_Kaufman Title: DHC Author & Former LucasArts Content Supervisor Registered: Mar '05	Date Posted: 9/19/05 9:59am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	Deliciously off-topic. -----signature----- LucasArts Writer Author: CWA "The Package," "Orders," and "Spy Girls" Co-author of SWI84 GGAR and SWI89 "Underworld" SW blog: http://blogs.starwars.com/RyanKaufman Lead Designer of After Burner PSP
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Commander5052 Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 9/19/05 10:02am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84) - Date Edited: 9/19/05 10:03am (1 edits total) Edited By: Commander5052
	I love the smell of roasted Kaminoan in the morning. Or afternoon. Or whenever. -----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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KarenTraviss Title: Author: -Har d Contact -Tri ple Zero -LOTF Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 9/19/05 10:11am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	Ryan_Kaufman posted: Deliciously off-topic. Not the eyes, though. You know what happened last time. Can you recommend a sake to accompany this? -----signature----- Website: http://www.karentraviss.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/karentraviss/ "Karen, put that stormie down at once!"
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Commander5052 Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 9/19/05 10:13am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	How about a Mando vintage. Bottled just before Galidraan. -----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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Qu_Klaani Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 9/19/05 10:38am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	"Okay, let me answer this the other way, then. I have clone warships coming up in Triple Zero. All clone crew, with a Jedi. (For ballast, probably.) So I've given them their own flotilla, at least for what I like to think of as the HMS Fearless role." Hmm, so do the Clones crew the Acclamators and other troop transports (along with some positions on warships as seen in RotS) while the rest of the fleet is gradually built up using veterans from sector navies/new recruits etc? -----signature----- "Perhaps George Lucas should have copied the methods of Peter Jackson in order to make the otherworldly corruption of Anakin's soul more obvious to those who can't fill in the lines without slow-motion close-ups and pounding heart-beat sound effects"
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KarenTraviss Title: Author: -Har d Contact -Tri ple Zero -LOTF Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 9/19/05 10:47am Subject: RE: Guide to the Grand Army (Insider #84)
	Qu_Klaani posted: "Okay, let me answer this the other way, then. I have clone warships coming up in Triple Zero. All clone crew, with a Jedi. (For ballast, probably.) So I've given them their own flotilla, at least for what I like to think of as the HMS Fearless role." Hmm, so do the Clones crew the Acclamators and other troop transports (along with some positions on warships as seen in RotS) while the rest of the fleet is gradually built up using veterans from sector navies/new recruits etc? My counsel advises me to respond thus: At the risk of having this taken down and used against me in evidence one day, that deployment would make most sense to me. However, I reserve the right to throw the occasional clone crew in where I feel they would be most effective, which could be anywhere, because this is simply maritime...er, space/air capability. This is consistent with my estimate planning. That is all. Carry on. -----signature----- Website: http://www.karentraviss.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/karentraviss/ "Karen, put that stormie down at once!"
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