ThrawnRocks posted:I'd be really really surprised if Jaden was female in the novel, as there are a number of other "undeveloped" female Jedi around that could be used with a lot less controversy.
Ackbar_Van_Gungan posted:It seems pretty obvious that we are going to have another Sith artifact/Sith cult/Sith something being created during the Great Hyperspace War and found and defeated by Korr who now leads the Jedi Shadows in the NJO. Korr is on the Jedi clean-up crew. They are going to introduce us to a team of Jedi trained and staffed specifically for combating the Sith menace. And I can't wait... -The Rebel Gungan
ClubeJade posted:Yesterday, Sue Rostoni indicated that Paul S. Kemp’s Jaden Korr novel (we really need a name for this thing) was set during the Great Hyperspace War, events which happen several centuries before the birth of his protagonist. On his Livejournal, Kemp explains: I don’t want to give away major plot points, but in an effort to lessen some of the confusion, I will say this: The novel does contain a scene or scenes that take place during The Great Hyperspace War, and scenes that take place in the present, post LotF period, and the plot of the novel turns on the (I hope interesting) way that past and present intersect. So I’m seeing something in the vein of Outbound Flight/Survivor’s Quest, if they were one book. Capiche?
JEDI-KILLER_17 posted:Don't know if this has been posted yet. But the Great Hyperspace War thing has been cleared up...a little. http://clubjade.net/?p=7436 ClubeJade posted:Yesterday, Sue Rostoni indicated that Paul S. Kemp’s Jaden Korr novel (we really need a name for this thing) was set during the Great Hyperspace War, events which happen several centuries before the birth of his protagonist. On his Livejournal, Kemp explains: I don’t want to give away major plot points, but in an effort to lessen some of the confusion, I will say this: The novel does contain a scene or scenes that take place during The Great Hyperspace War, and scenes that take place in the present, post LotF period, and the plot of the novel turns on the (I hope interesting) way that past and present intersect. So I’m seeing something in the vein of Outbound Flight/Survivor’s Quest, if they were one book. Capiche?
fanboyskywalker posted:But I think it's cool that we have another book with something (however minor) set in the Old Republic. I hope they retcon the lightsaber's battery plug-in stuff to being due to an energy crisis that the Jedi decided to do that to their lightsabers, not because of technological reasons being that they couldn't be wireless.
Wookiepedia posted:By the time of the Duinuogwuin Contention around 15,500 BBY, the order's studies in energy technology yielded success; the Jedi developed a method to generate a focused beam of energy that arced circumferentially back to its source, creating the first portable high-energy blade. These preliminary lightsabers were highly unstable and inefficiently guzzled power from a belt-mounted power supply; they could only be used for a brief duration before overheating. Owing to these flaws, the first lightsabers were little more than ceremonial appurtenance to the Jedi apparel, seldom worn, and much less utilized. The stability shortfalls that plagued the weapon's previous designs were corrected through the ages, so that by the Hundred-Year Darkness of 7,000 BBY the cumbersome and rare siege weapons gave way to elegant and more commonly used lightsabers. Despite their stability, however, power output continued to be an issue. They still required the belt-worn power pack of previous generations. The power cable from belt to blade tended to restrict the Jedi's movement in combat and prevented the discovery of the saber throw. However, the newly stable blade granted them a superior advantage in hand-to-hand combat against heavily-armored foes. It was not until after the Great Hyperspace War that the earliest modern lightsaber was designed. The restricting power cable and external power pack of old designs were replaced with internal power components by the time of the Gank Massacres in 4,800 BBY. An internal superconductor was introduced which transferred the returning looped energy from the negative-charged flux aperture back into an internal power cell. With this modification, the power cell would only expend power when the energy loop was broken (when the lightsaber blade cut into something), solving the ages-old power supply problem.
Arawn_Fenn posted:Seems like the same basic idea used for Millennium Falcon ( with a greater time gap, obviously ). Hope this idea doesn't get played out.
fanboyskywalker posted:IDK, it's only a few scenes or possibly just a scene. I'm guessing either the opening or a flashback.
Valin__Kenobi posted:fanboyskywalker posted:But I think it's cool that we have another book with something (however minor) set in the Old Republic. I hope they retcon the lightsaber's battery plug-in stuff to being due to an energy crisis that the Jedi decided to do that to their lightsabers, not because of technological reasons being that they couldn't be wireless. Why's that? How would an energy crisis have anything to do with it, in the sense that running off an external battery would be any easier/cheaper than an internal one? Per the Wooki, the advance that "unplugged" the saber was that which returned the blade energy to the battery except when you cut something: Wookiepedia posted:By the time of the Duinuogwuin Contention around 15,500 BBY, the order's studies in energy technology yielded success; the Jedi developed a method to generate a focused beam of energy that arced circumferentially back to its source, creating the first portable high-energy blade. These preliminary lightsabers were highly unstable and inefficiently guzzled power from a belt-mounted power supply; they could only be used for a brief duration before overheating. Owing to these flaws, the first lightsabers were little more than ceremonial appurtenance to the Jedi apparel, seldom worn, and much less utilized. The stability shortfalls that plagued the weapon's previous designs were corrected through the ages, so that by the Hundred-Year Darkness of 7,000 BBY the cumbersome and rare siege weapons gave way to elegant and more commonly used lightsabers. Despite their stability, however, power output continued to be an issue. They still required the belt-worn power pack of previous generations. The power cable from belt to blade tended to restrict the Jedi's movement in combat and prevented the discovery of the saber throw. However, the newly stable blade granted them a superior advantage in hand-to-hand combat against heavily-armored foes. It was not until after the Great Hyperspace War that the earliest modern lightsaber was designed. The restricting power cable and external power pack of old designs were replaced with internal power components by the time of the Gank Massacres in 4,800 BBY. An internal superconductor was introduced which transferred the returning looped energy from the negative-charged flux aperture back into an internal power cell. With this modification, the power cell would only expend power when the energy loop was broken (when the lightsaber blade cut into something), solving the ages-old power supply problem. I like the idea of less-advanced sabers showing up earlier, and since we currently know of no way to make one, it is logical that it appeared in stages rather than all at once 25,000 years ago in the form we know from the movies. The only problem I have is with the dates--the first two should have been pushed back so that the corded sabers had been around since maybe 20 or 15,000, because as it stands now, the first 18,000 years of Jedi really did not have lightsabers in any useful sense.
StateOfLoveAndTrust posted:Is anyone else thinking/hoping this might deal with Korriban somehow? Both the GHW and Jaden have ties there, and it could answer the question of why none of the NJO goes there to see if something is up.