Havac posted:The Great God Quay says: Extremely doubtful.
Manisphere posted:Frankly I'm more excited about Amazon sending me my TOTJ Omnibus.
Renzo posted:Manisphere posted:Frankly I'm more excited about Amazon sending me my TOTJ Omnibus. You and me both. Can't wait.
Barriss_Coffee posted:Renzo posted:Manisphere posted:Frankly I'm more excited about Amazon sending me my TOTJ Omnibus. You and me both. Can't wait. Have a tissue handy just in case. Not for any sentimental reason, of course, but there's an awful lot of spitting in those books. I'm surprised Uliq Qel-Droma wasn't drowned in his own saliva before the series came to a proper conclusion. Back on topic, however. I bet Tarkin doesn't allow Anderson-esque salvating on the Death Star. Although there's a good chance he doesn't know about the spitting competitions done between off-duty troops hocking loogies off into the numerous bottomless trenches. Hey Manisphere, you're reading this book -- did they give an explanation why there are so many darned bottomless trenches on the Death Star?
Manisphere posted: I'm hoping for a bang up ending.
Manisphere posted:There is quite a bit of talk about design by Teela Kaarz who is a force sensitive slave and adept architect who I think talks about exhaust ports as of course it's the exhaust ports yada yada yada a million people living on the Death Star dead at Luke's hands blah blah blah. There is a lot of construction business but the reason for bottomless trenches is as yet unanswered.
QuinineVos posted:I'm about 100 pages in and am finding it a bit underwhelming as well. The narrative weaves back and forth between 5 or 6 main characters but each section covering each individual character(s) is so short and disjointed that it's kind of hard to get into any of the individual stories. Clearly all these characters will intersect at some point at the end of the novel, and I'm hoping they'll have something to do with the stolen plans that we know the rebels eventually end up with.
TalonCard posted:I read through it today. It looks pretty good--the author created characters are interesting enough that they don't detract from Vader, Tarkin, etc. Daala is used well. I like the book, I really do. However. Why, oh why is it that any time the Death Star plans are involved in a story, the author feels compelled to put some unique twist that contradicts another source? In the book, the librarian character puts a set of Death Star plans into an "interesting files" folder he'd kept when working on Danuta. This is supposed to be why they are there for Kyle Katarn to steal. Tarkin then wonders why the plans were on Danuta. But Danuta had already been established in the Dark Forces novels and the Dark Forces Saga as one of the Death Star design sites, so there was no need for this explanation. In addition, the novel states that the plans were smuggled out of Danuta to Darkknell, which is I guess is supposed to be a reference to the datapacks in the Interlude at Darkknell story. But that had already been retconned into just being the location of the Despayre construction site (TNEGTC), and in any case, the datapacks in the story were brought directly from Despayre, not from Danuta. *sigh* Still, there are a number of fixes for other issues, so the whole book isn't a continuity mess--just that one small part. At this point, it almost seems like creating conflicting Death Star theft plans is done intentionally, as a kind of running joke. TC
