Karen Traviss posted:Let's not [debate the clone number again]. I have nothing to hide, but I deplore ideological battles of orthodoxy and I've said so from day one. So I'll answer it here, because there will be an end to this, period. I've never gone public on this. I will in the next few weeks. A number of folks - including Abel Pena and others -have seen my solution, which has been around for a fair old time, and said; "Oh! Never thought of that..." It's actually surprised some people, although I'm not sure why. The answer is very, very obvious. To me, anyway. I'm not being a smart-a$$ - but I genuinely don't understand why nobody saw this. I hinted and hinted and hinted, but nobody got it. I didn't spell it out at the time even though it might have stopped the garbage that Ryan and I were getting, because it could have killed a story. Merc as that sounds, I have to eat. Names will never hurt me, but starving will. I even gave a huge hint in my recent SW blog, but...nothing. The answer is there in the title of the blog entry. And it's has been on our TVs and in our newspapers for three years solid, and probably will be for years to come, alas. And still nobody is making the connection. I think this is because I have such a different professional background to most folk, and so such a different take on life, that I see things that others don't. (Just as others see things that are obvious to them and not me. That's life.) I've spelled out every single piece of evidence about this except one - the screamingly obvious one as far as I'm concerned; it was my first thought and apparently everyone else's last. I accept that might be because I'm weird. But there were even hints in the GAR article: one of my writer buddies reminded me of that. Ryan and I did lay the ground... But remember two things: what I do know very intimately is politics and military, and that the mindset I used for this was Palpatine's. Read Odds when it comes out in Insider #87. I know some will prefer never to accept it, and that's their choice. But to me, and now others, it made perfect sense in a much wider strategy aimed at creating a totalitarian empire. One thing I'll say: Palpatine was a very, very shrewd player with a very long game plan. Getting in his head - not for the POV, for the research - was educational. Respect, Palps, And that's praise indeed coming from an old spin doc. We're still seeing the aftermath of what you did. I won't be getting into long debates about this until April 1, because I'm way behind on a book that has to be with my other publishers by the end of the month at the latest. So if discussion takes place, you'll have to wait for me to show up at the party ....
QuentinGeorge posted:And for the record, I'm not even close to a Saxtonite. I don't give a crap about the SSD's length or name...this clone number is a far bigger error than either of those two, and I can't understand why the EU consists in perpetuating it.