Thrawn McEwok posted:People don't always follow the rules precisely, even in 'correct' prose; and context always plays a role in defining meaning - which is what I mean by language being flexible. Can you insist on a punctiliously grammatical interpretation if a less rigid one produces better sense when compared with other relevant statements?
Thrawn McEwok posted:Consider this sentence: The first batch of conscript divisions are ready for deployment; millions more are undergoing intensive performance evaluation. Gramatically, the subject of "millions" might be "divisions"; common sense requires us to - at the least! - consider the possibility that the subject is actually "conscripts"...
LtNOWIS posted: Anyways, do we know if 3 million clones was actually Traviss's idea, or whether she just had to work it into canon? I'm still against the number, but I've really gotten used to it.
DarthBoba posted:Excellence posted: What was the issue again? hear hear. There's more important things to think about, like how characters go to the bathroom on the Falcon.
Excellence posted: What was the issue again?
Ender_Sai posted: But the only concept of tactical warfare I have is from playing Commander and Conquer, so I can't possibly see how 3,000,000 could work! If I added eighteen zeroes, it might satisfy my shortcomings on that front but until then, how am I to cope? This is why I don't care about the clone wars, Chuck. E_S
Dooku posted:The forces on our borders and outlying colonial assets are admittedly facing greater numbers, but with our inexhaustible supply of troops and materiel from the Neimoidian coffer-worlds, Techno Union home foundaries and might guild-worlds, its only a matter of time before the republic is overwhelmed.
New Essential Chronology posted:San Hill, the arrogant chairman of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, had worked to make his homeworld of Munnilinst an unassailable castle keep. The Republic countered with sheer numbers, sending hundreds of assault ships, each one groaning from the weight of troopers and war machines. Many vessels reached the surface only as smoldering hulks; others found themselves cut off from their drop zones, forced to make landings behind enemy lines.
Ender_Sai posted:But the only concept of tactical warfare I have is from playing Commander and Conquer, so I can't possibly see how 3,000,000 could work!
razzy1319 posted:LFL said no concrete numbers. So, right now the 3 million is to be considered precursory number to a whatever LFL has in the future. People blame Traviss and Kaufman for "lack of research" into the article, even after they had stated that LFL didnt let them pin down the right one.
Lord_Hydronium posted: razzy1319 posted:LFL said no concrete numbers. So, right now the 3 million is to be considered precursory number to a whatever LFL has in the future. People blame Traviss and Kaufman for "lack of research" into the article, even after they had stated that LFL didnt let them pin down the right one. So why did they write any concrete numbers? In fact, it would have been very easy to just say "countless soldiers" and avoid the whole thing.
000 posted:Really, there's no way to retcon, work around, or fix Traviss's number. She wrote herself into a hole, and tossing it out is the only way it can be resolved.
Lord_Hydronium posted:000 posted:Really, there's no way to retcon, work around, or fix Traviss's number. She wrote herself into a hole, and tossing it out is the only way it can be resolved. I rather like my "The 'Grand Army' is a tiny subset that's the elite of the elite/that's given all the publicity/that was specifically trained in Tipoca under Jango's supervision/that's under the direct command of the Council/that serves as a specialized strike force" explanation. In other words, the entire GAR is the size it ought to be, but a small detachment of that known as the Grand Army has some special significance, be it in their quality or just in that the cameras always focus on them. We'll just say that the rest were ignored in the article.
QuentinGeorge posted:It is of interesting to note that no one here defending the "3 million" absurdity would agree with it had, say, a random poster said it....
Sinrebirth posted:QuentinGeorge posted:It is of interesting to note that no one here defending the "3 million" absurdity would agree with it had, say, a random poster said it.... Um, Quentin, thats a fact. Because, you know, its a random poster!?! If the guys up above accept Karen Traviss's answers, I'm fine with it. We just have to work these facts into continuity. True enough, 000, but that could be more machines than troops, more troops than machines, fighters galore, or gunships galore, and so on. Which, as the episode attests, we have Acclmators filled with fighters, hundreds of the things. And then Acclamators filled with Larti's. So shrug. Its not an accurate source, really.