canadianjedimama posted: I just find it crazy that Tahiri alone is being called to task on the GA/Jedi side of things (Luke aside). Tahiri was at least following orders of a legally installed head of state when she offed Pealleon. Jaina was dispatched by the Jedi Order to assinate the Co-Cheif of State of the Gallactic Alliance. She even refers to herself in her own internal monologue as an assassin during Invincible when she lands on Nickel One! --------- So why arrest Tahiri now? Wasn't it Kyp the Imps filed an extradition order on? What happened with that? Isn't the death of an entire planet's populace a little more punishable than the death of one man, no matter what his station. But hey, it's not like the people of Carida haven't waited 20 odd years for justice, what's a bit more? And really, shouldn't it be Imperial troops who show up to arrest her? Now obviously, I don't know what happens in Abyss. I just really hope that Denning takes all the little threads by Allston and Golden and weaves them into something really cool. Because if all that results from this is that everyone feels that the Jedi Order is being punished by arresting an ex-Jedi bounty hunter who technically hasn't done anything wrong... well, that's silly. CJM
Robimus posted:Always nice to see you stop in CJM
Robimus posted:I think Tahiri is probably the only person available for Daala to lash out at come the end on Omen. Daala is on the defensive at this point. Everything has kinda started to slide. She lost her observers, she couldn't pry Seff and the Bothan from the Jedi. She was looking to make a splash and Tahiri was her only target.
Robimus posted:I will take odds with you about Tahiri "technically" doing nothing wrong. Even if Pellaeon's death was somekind of legal act of war, strapping Lon Shevu to a table and torturing him for information until he died was not. That said I don't think observers killing allied commanders during a war falls on the legal side, especially in a pre-planned coup attempt against the legitimate head of state of the Empire.
Robimus posted:I think Nawara Ven is going to be a busy guy.
Hendo255 posted:maybe they're striving for realism? 7 US troops died in Afghanistan just the other day. China is having massive riots. North Korea flips the US the nuclear finger. The jury is still out on Iranian elections. And yet Michael Jackson has been on the news 24/7 for the past week
FireJade posted:What do you all think of the Abyss preview? Some speculation here. I think at this point it should be clear that Jedi are going to keep going insane, and to me, the preview seemed to imply that Barv is next. However, another nutcase along the lines of the Horns/Natua/Seff seems a bit extraneous, so I wonder if Barv will act differently because of his nature. So far, it hasn't quite been Jedi going crazy as it has been that they perceive everyone else differently. And the title Abyss suggests that something will go drastically wrong, and will not be resolved at the end of the book. Aside from character deaths, which have already been discussed to death (unintended pun?) on this forum, there's also the matter of Allana, whom Barv is taking care of... I doubt they would kill another kid like Allana. Instead, maybe Barv kidnaps Allana, and the Solos end up returning to find only a confused Artoo and a dead nexu. We don't know what skills Barv will learn. If Barv is only interested in escaping, it would be convenient for Barv to have the Fallanassi skill of hiding, perhaps, which would be why Artoo had no idea what happened to him. (In most of the cases so far, we've learned about the ability in the same book that someone with Force Psychosis mysteriously gains it. Luke and Ben aren't going to the Maw to learn new techniques, so presumably it's something we've seen before, like the Fallanassi hiding/illusion-creating technique or the ability to move objects from the Aing-Tii.) It would be a change of pace, because Barv would be the first case that isn't really a public threat. A difference perhaps due to Barv's more kind nature? Alternatively, Allana could also go insane from her encounter with the thing in the Maw. But this seems less likely. But if Allana gets "Force psychosis," this could also be a potential bomb to drop in Abyss: the Solos chase after Barv, and when they catch up to him, Allana refuses to go to them because she believes they're imposters (and this would be a surprise because we would only see her with Barv). My money's definitely on Allana for giving Abyss its title. It wouldn't be another character death, and it wouldn't be particularly expected (unlike Daala's death or something similar). Plus, if Han and Leia can spend a whole book going to the zoo, they can certainly spend a whole book chasing Allana and Barv around Coruscant...
killfire posted:I don't know. I bought Outcast because I usually like Allston's books, and I bought Omen to give Golden a fair chance. The writing is ok in both books so far, but the plot is too slow for my taste. I don't need another galactic conflict, but a little space action wouldn't hurt. I mean it's Star Wars, not medieval knights. So, unless something happens I won't buy Abyss. Assuming I'm not the only one going by this ratio, something is going to happen. I expect a big death.
The2ndQuest posted:Hendo255 posted:maybe they're striving for realism? 7 US troops died in Afghanistan just the other day. China is having massive riots. North Korea flips the US the nuclear finger. The jury is still out on Iranian elections. And yet Michael Jackson has been on the news 24/7 for the past week I'm not talking about the actual media subjects- if Jedi are going nuts and causing mass panic and deaths at an exotic zoo in the galactic capital, of course it's going to be the top story. I mean more in terms of the reporter's personality, perception and exploitative intentions. Every time the media or a media rep is brought up or appears, it's always our heroes' first reaction to go "those karking reporters!", "damn media!", "journalistic scum!", etc. Not every reporter or media personality is going to be a Geraldo Rivera, Sean Hannity or the papparazi- surely there are reporters and correspondants not out to demonize the Jedi and are people our heroes actually like? Where are the Brian Williams or Anderson Coopers of the GFFA? It's been decades since we last saw Den Dhur or Cindel Towani- where are reporters like them?
FireJade posted:killfire posted:I don't know. I bought Outcast because I usually like Allston's books, and I bought Omen to give Golden a fair chance. The writing is ok in both books so far, but the plot is too slow for my taste. I don't need another galactic conflict, but a little space action wouldn't hurt. I mean it's Star Wars, not medieval knights. So, unless something happens I won't buy Abyss. Assuming I'm not the only one going by this ratio, something is going to happen. I expect a big death.So you want a death in Abyss just to "spice things up"? I don't think I would agree with that, but maybe that's just me. I don't want another character death, simply because there are other ways to make an impact.