Author Topic: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Ris_jSarek  2555 posts
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Date Posted: 10/27/07 7:50pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Master-Chief-Kenobi posted:
Very cool. I wasn't aware of either event. revisiting it would be good. If they'll erase KJA's death star bit like that whats to stop them from erasing Kyp or the Vong? That was a very big part of the JA trilogy. It's not that bad tho, as an old star trek fan i'm used to this sort of thing.


No worries, they didn't erase it, just tweaked its history a little. The prototype was a proof-of-concept model to assuage growing doubts that the superlaser was workable technology.

 

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Arawn_Fenn  10379 posts
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Date Posted: 10/27/07 8:01pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Wookiepedia still mentions the KJA stuff; I haven't seen what the NEC said about it, but I assume it's all being retconned in somehow.

 

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Dark Lady Mara  26473 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 2:25am Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Hey, people wanted to see more characterization on Tarkin. Maybe it just happens that the only depth to his personality is his fangirlishness. tongue

 

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SuperWatto  5932 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 3:59am Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
I'm left with two notions, after reading this thread:

- seems the prime reason this book was made was to correct or reaffirm canon
- I don't get why people say 'not good enough for a hardcover'. If it's not good enough for a hardcover, how can you recommend it? How can it be any good at all? It wastes exactly as much of your time as a paperback.

 

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TwiLekJedi  70038 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 4:53am Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Mange posted:
TwiLekJedi posted:
this book was worth the money purely for the 12.8km long Super-class Star Destroyer love mischief
and all those other little things that have been horribly mangled since Bantam, too.

Um, no. The Super-class ship Tenn fantasizes about being transfered to in the future is a reference to the fake schematics which were produced for the Imperial Senate, not the actual 19 km Executor-class ships which was built later (information which a mere gunner wouldn't have been privy to).


Rogue_Follower posted:
Though, we do know that there was at least one early "Super Star Destroyer prototype" that was in the 12km ballpark, a part of the "Sarlacc Project" in the period between RotS and ANH. According to the Dawn of Defiance campaign, it was "not the final version."

The "Super-class", however, probably does refer to the fake specs given to the Senate.


I do know the 19km Executor-class Star Dreadnaught nonsense is technically canon or I wouldn't have mentioned the old length at all, let alone with the smug mischief smiley. Read between the lines tongue

What I mostly find funny, though, is that none of said nonsense ever made it into anything I read - the stuff that really counts, i.e. novels. mischief And whenever the old names/numbers pop up, everyone's always like "yeah, but it's fake and stuff!" I just can't help but make fun of it every now and again. It's just so unreal.


Besides, I said that was one of the things that made me like this novel. You want me to dislike it? shame_on_you

 

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Ris_jSarek  2555 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 5:07am Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
SuperWatto posted:
I don't get why people say 'not good enough for a hardcover'. If it's not good enough for a hardcover, how can you recommend it? How can it be any good at all? It wastes exactly as much of your time as a paperback.


But not exactly as much of your money.

 

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Date Posted: 10/28/07 12:04pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
ITV showed ANH this afternoon here in the UK. I found myself looking at the guards during the conference room scenes in a new light..

 

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Mange  1393 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 12:42pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
TwiLekJedi posted:
Mange posted:
TwiLekJedi posted:
this book was worth the money purely for the 12.8km long Super-class Star Destroyer love mischief
and all those other little things that have been horribly mangled since Bantam, too.

Um, no. The Super-class ship Tenn fantasizes about being transfered to in the future is a reference to the fake schematics which were produced for the Imperial Senate, not the actual 19 km Executor-class ships which was built later (information which a mere gunner wouldn't have been privy to).


Rogue_Follower posted:
Though, we do know that there was at least one early "Super Star Destroyer prototype" that was in the 12km ballpark, a part of the "Sarlacc Project" in the period between RotS and ANH. According to the Dawn of Defiance campaign, it was "not the final version."

The "Super-class", however, probably does refer to the fake specs given to the Senate.


I do know the 19km Executor-class Star Dreadnaught nonsense is technically canon or I wouldn't have mentioned the old length at all, let alone with the smug mischief smiley. Read between the lines tongue

What I mostly find funny, though, is that none of said nonsense ever made it into anything I read - the stuff that really counts, i.e. novels. mischief And whenever the old names/numbers pop up, everyone's always like "yeah, but it's fake and stuff!" I just can't help but make fun of it every now and again. It's just so unreal.


Besides, I said that was one of the things that made me like this novel. You want me to dislike it? shame_on_you

happy Not at all, buddy.

 

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DarthLassic007  9878 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 7:09pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Couldn't Bast simply have a twin brother? That would solve everything.

 

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timmoishere  7861 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 7:16pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
I say there's only one Bast. After all, given that the Death Star did blow up, I'd be willing to bet that Vader would be forgiving towards the Death Star survivors (Veers and Bast, among others). Or they could have had a legitimate need to leave the station prior to it being in danger.

 

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Ris_jSarek  2555 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 8:26pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed) - Date Edited: 10/28/07 8:30pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Ris_jSarek
DarthLassic007 posted:
Couldn't Bast simply have a twin brother? That would solve everything.


That's been my thoughts on the matter ever since it was confirmed he wasn't a survivor.

timmoishere posted:
I say there's only one Bast. After all, given that the Death Star did blow up, I'd be willing to bet that Vader would be forgiving towards the Death Star survivors (Veers and Bast, among others). Or they could have had a legitimate need to leave the station prior to it being in danger.


Bast is on the Overbridge with Tarkin when Tarkin gives the order to fire. Either he's a REALLY fast runner to make it to an escape pod, or that's not the Death Star Bast in the Holiday Special.

 

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Barriss_Coffee  5786 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 8:53pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

Ris_jSarek posted:
Bast is on the Overbridge with Tarkin when Tarkin gives the order to fire. Either he's a REALLY fast runner to make it to an escape pod, or that's not the Death Star Bast in the Holiday Special.


OR....

Like the infamous Glove of Darth Vader, Bast was miraculously saved when he was sucked up by the mini-blackhole that formed during the destruction of the fist Death Star, and was somehow transported onto a habitable planet. Being the competant Imperial Officer he was, he immediately called up an Imperial shuttle, and went back to work without a scratch by the time of the Holiday Special.

 

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timmoishere  7861 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 9:12pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Ris_jSarek posted:
DarthLassic007 posted:
Couldn't Bast simply have a twin brother? That would solve everything.


That's been my thoughts on the matter ever since it was confirmed he wasn't a survivor.

timmoishere posted:
I say there's only one Bast. After all, given that the Death Star did blow up, I'd be willing to bet that Vader would be forgiving towards the Death Star survivors (Veers and Bast, among others). Or they could have had a legitimate need to leave the station prior to it being in danger.


Bast is on the Overbridge with Tarkin when Tarkin gives the order to fire. Either he's a REALLY fast runner to make it to an escape pod, or that's not the Death Star Bast in the Holiday Special.


"Shall I have your ship standing by?" says to me that there's a small docking bay near the overbridge that would allow Tarkin a quick escape if necessary. I bet Bast commandeered that ship.

 

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Ris_jSarek  2555 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 9:16pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
timmoishere posted:
"Shall I have your ship standing by?" says to me that there's a small docking bay near the overbridge that would allow Tarkin a quick escape if necessary. I bet Bast commandeered that ship.


Bet what you like, the official line from The Powers That Be is that he's dead.

 

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QuentinGeorge  4763 posts
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Date Posted: 10/28/07 11:13pm Subject: RE: The Official Death Star Novel Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

"Shall I have your ship standing by?" says to me that there's a small docking bay near the overbridge that would allow Tarkin a quick escape if necessary. I bet Bast commandeered that ship.


Still not good enough. He's standing next to Tarkin about five seconds before the Death Star blows up. Unless he's the Flash, he's not escaping.

 

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