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CeiranHarmony Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 9/7 7:05am Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	just got it today, spoilers soon after I read it. The first chapter was good and the book is thicker than I expected. It starts with a team of Clones inspecting the wreckage of the Malevolence and ties in very well so far with the series. Stylistic and quality wise I can say it reminds me of the Jedi Apprentice books. More later -----signature----- www.njoe.com (Govsec Author) "Less is more!" Union In Love with the Star Wars Atlas Dark Horse: Star Wars: Invasion (best idea ever!!!) My life is an Idiots Array, PURE SABBACC
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Liliedhe Registered: Feb '09	Date Posted: 9/7 7:52am Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	goes green with envy I preordered the stupid thing. Why did you get it so soon and I didn't? sulks off -----signature----- Joint Winner - PT Trivia Challenge 18+New Edition
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Tzizvvt78 Registered: Jun '09	Date Posted: 9/7 9:28am Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	Since this seems to have some Fleet Junkie-relevant info, what exactly are the "secrets" behind the Malevolence?
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 9/7 9:50am Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	Are these a subscription or normal publication? -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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eddie1969 Registered: Feb '05	Date Posted: 9/7 10:11am Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	normal publication... My pre-order is currently in transit somewhere above the Atlantic... -----signature----- EUDF Rogue 5, Captain check upcoming books and comics at http://www.starwarstimeline.com and through http://www.twitter.com/onceuponagalaxy
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CeiranHarmony Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 9/7 4:33pm Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	I preordered it 1 year ago with amazon germany as soon as its release was announced. that's how I get all stuff nearly first. lately especially it works spoilers later, got to work now -----signature----- www.njoe.com (Govsec Author) "Less is more!" Union In Love with the Star Wars Atlas Dark Horse: Star Wars: Invasion (best idea ever!!!) My life is an Idiots Array, PURE SABBACC
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jacenskylo Registered: Feb '06	Date Posted: 9/7 11:43pm Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	I would like to know how many books are going to be in this series? And if Windham is going to write them all? -----signature----- "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home" Edward R. Murrow "People shouldn't be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people" V "Awww shutup and shoot something" Cade Skywalker
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jacenskylo Registered: Feb '06	Date Posted: 9/7 11:48pm Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	I enjoyed the book also but there were times when it felt like a rehash of Hard Contact. -----signature----- "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home" Edward R. Murrow "People shouldn't be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people" V "Awww shutup and shoot something" Cade Skywalker
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Plaristes Registered: Jul '07	Date Posted: 9/8 2:23pm Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	My pre-ordered copy from amazon just arrived. I haven't read it yet, but I noticed in the back of the book the description for the next book in the series, Curse of the Black Hole Pirates. -----signature----- "Adaption" is not an English word. Ahsoka is annoying; seeing "Ashoka" typed is even more annoying. "Begs the question" does not mean "raises the question"
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jedimasterED Title: Moderator Emeritus Registered: Oct '99	Date Posted: 9/9 6:19pm Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS) - Date Edited: 9/9 6:43pm (5 edits total) Edited By: jedimasterED
	Tzizvvt78 posted: Since this seems to have some Fleet Junkie-relevant info, what exactly are the "secrets" behind the Malevolence? The circuitry (or, at least, some of it) was made by KynachTech on the planet of Kynachi, which was previously believed to only manufacture it's "exotic" technology for peaceful purposes. Though Kynachi isolated itself and cut off ties to the Republic ten years prior, this came as a surprise to the Republic. The part that wasn't a surprise but was confirmed in the wreckage on that moon was that the Malevolence was built at the Pammant Docks by the Free Dac Volunteers Engineering Corps, part of the Quarren Separatists (I'm guessing the Quarren Isolationist League). That's about all of the Fleet Junkie-relevant info I gathered from the book. Oh, Clone Commander Lock and his "shinies" (the troopers starring in this book and later named "Breakout Squad") are assigned to the Demolisher. Like CH said, the book does remind one of the Jedi Apprentice series mostly because of the assumed audience and main characters and somewhat of Hard Contact (like jacenskylo mentioned) due to the splitting up of master and apprentice, but it does a fair job of standing on its own and endearing me to wonder about where it's going. The young Jedi on the cover, Padawan Nuru Kungurama, is confirmed as a Chiss, but Windham mentions (at least twice) that very little is known of the Chiss and even Nuru doesn't know any more than the practically nothing that the galaxy at large knows about his people as he was an infant when he was brought to the Jedi Temple. Nuru's original Master (Skaa) "did not return from Geonosis" (more on that later) and Nuru was just recently assigned to his new master, the (maybe-not-so-coincidentally) Kynachi Ring-Sol Ambase. The exotic circuitry was delivered to Ambase and he brought it to Chancellor Palpatine who, in turn, asks Ambase to take on a secret mission to Kynachi to ferret out what's going on there. But, the whole thing is a gigantic-yet-ambiguous plot by Darth Sidious. The task force (including three clone squads under Lock's command) is ambushed aboard their sabotaged freighter, split up in (you guessed it) sabotaged escape pods, beset on the cold and rainy planet by native nasty crustacean creatures and Vulture Droids, beguiled by an an usually helpful ally in the bounty hunter du jour Cad Bane (under unknown orders from Sidious himself), joined by grounded smuggler (and female Han Solo wannabe) Lalo Gunn and her converted/combined navigator droid/Droid Commando Teejay/Cleaver (who turns out to be pretty cool, though he might a spy?), and reconnects in a prison break (thus the name, "Breakout Squad") gone awry that results in everyone but the still-unconscious Ambase getting away safely. Ten years prior, the planet had been subjugated by the Trade Federation who jammed all communications to hide what they were doing. In the break out attempt, a clone re-opens communications and calls in the cavalry. The Skakoan Overseer Umbrag of the Techno Union flees the manufacturing/jamming/prison facility (and the planet... in his Metalorn yacht - is that Fleet Junkie stuff, too?) and sets the auto-destruct sequence. Cad Bane also cuts and runs (but with Ambase in a box) and is told to go to the Bogden system and await further instructions. Although Yoda is none to pleased with Nuru Kungurama's unauthorized absence from the Temple and his stowing away on the task force's freighter, Palpatine intervenes and, seeing that the padawan is a Chiss, taps him and the squad to meet (yet another coincidence) a Chiss ambassador, like, ASAP on Csilla... in the next book... maybe? Oh, and Gunn and Cleaver will take the squad in their formerly-a-diner-now(again)-a-freighter. Bring on The Curse of the Black Hole Pirates! Anyway, there are some interesting plot threads exclusive from Jedi Apprentice and Hard Contact: 1) Nuru Kungurama seems to have been singled out by Palpa-Sids for some reason. 2) Breakout Squad seems to have been singled out by Palpa-Sids for some reason. 3) Cleaver might be a spy? He is half Droid Commando, after all. 4) Breaker might be a spy? He is the Clone who spotted the circuit and who un-jammed communications after all. And he is seen as "resourceful" by Palpa-Sids. 5) Nuru's former master (Skaa) is never said to have died at Geonosis; he just "did not return". Maybe he's the Jedi the Sith Lords attempt enlist in the next book? Maybe it's Ambase? Maybe... I don't know. -----signature----- Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. ... and all that that implies...
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Tzizvvt78 Registered: Jun '09	Date Posted: 9/9 6:49pm Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	Thanks for the info! Sounds very interesting, especially the part about the Chiss having an Ambassador to the Republic.
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JediAlly Registered: Oct '00	Date Posted: 9/28 5:47pm Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS) - Date Edited: 9/28 6:59pm (1 edits total) Edited By: JediAlly
	I admit this is definitely an interesting novel. From the title and so forth, I was thinking it was going to have a DarkStryder theme to it - exploring unknown territory while ferreting out hidden enemy outposts. Did anyone catch the ANH reference: "Lock the door" "And hope they don't have blasters" I was disappointed Cleaver didn't say, "That's not reassuring." As for the Chiss angle, given how the Chiss weren't widely known by name in The Thrawn Trilogy, I think the diplomatic mission will either fail, turn out to be a trap on Sidious' part, or it may serve as a means for Sidious to send a message to Thrawn. I'm basing that on what happened in Outbound Flight. As for Cad Bane, I don't know if we have a continuity conflict or not. I'm under the impression that Cad Bane was just an independent bounty hunter who gained Sidious' notice in Hostage Crisis. Sidious decided to retain his services, and Bane became a part of the Separatists. Now it seems that Sidious knew about Bane before Hostage Crisis. I guess we'll have to wait until Friday before we find out if there's a continuity problem here. -----signature----- A Gathering of Light - new site: http://boards.theforce.net/Beyond_the_Saga/b10477/15798221 Liberty and Custody: http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=14219579 Solo Rogue Jedi: http://boards.theforce.net/Beyond_the_Saga/b10477/15798533
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HedecGa Registered: Apr '06	Date Posted: 9/28 8:01pm Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	Saw this at Books-A-Million last night and was this close to picking it up. I'm still considering it... Decisions, decisions -----signature----- "The Coming Evil, Book One: The Strange Man" available NOW at http://www.thecomingevil.blogspot.com Author of the Dusty Duck databank entry - The 71st "Greatest Thing About Star Wars...Ever!" - SW Insider 100 Co-author of the Silya Shessaun databank
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Liliedhe Registered: Feb '09	Date Posted: 9/29 7:33am Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	I finally got it last week and it was really nice. The series sounds quite promising. -----signature----- Joint Winner - PT Trivia Challenge 18+New Edition
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GARTH_MAUL Title: LACWAC Manager & White Wizard Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 9/29 2:21pm Subject: The Clone Wars: Secret Missions #1 by Ryder Windham (SPOILERS)
	JediAlly posted: As for Cad Bane, I don't know if we have a continuity conflict or not. I'm under the impression that Cad Bane was just an independent bounty hunter who gained Sidious' notice in Hostage Crisis. Sidious decided to retain his services, and Bane became a part of the Separatists. Now it seems that Sidious knew about Bane before Hostage Crisis. I guess we'll have to wait until Friday before we find out if there's a continuity problem here. Not really surprising to me that Sidious might have already known about Bane in Hostage Crisis. -----signature----- Dustin + Tina = 5 years of marriage Obama given First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence
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