A/V Battlefront II: Campaign Content (spoiler tags required for DLC story)

I think they just mean the officers beneath the captains and admirals. Like the ones we see on the bridge with Yularen.

 

You're probably right. But I wonder: where do these non-clone officers come from? Are they Judicials? How come these non-clones seem to be captains and flag officers only? Surely, there must be some in the lower ranks. You simply can't promote every single Judicial to the rank of captain at the lowest.

 

Yeah, they're Judicials. Tarkin, an officer in the GAR, wad part of the Judicials, and they were the primary peacekeeping force prior to the Clone Wars, with their own fleet apparently.

Also, while it isn't explicitly stated, we can infer that Yularen was also a Judicial. He participated in the Battle of Malastare Narrows, which happened years prior to the Clone Wars, and the only force I can think of that would be involved is the Judicial Fleet.

 

Something interesting in the Essential Guide to Warfare that doesn't seem to get mentions is the Republic Army. It was the direct predecessor of the Imperial Army, formed from the PSFs and Judicials. Also, it was specifically non-clone.

 

Honestly, the answer to your questions is largely "budget" - which is why it would be kind of silly to go too far with interpreting this as definite canon.

 

TBH, I don't see what it has to do with budget. It's not like face randomizers to generate distinct characters easily are particularly expensive or high tech nowadays.

 

No, I'm saying that the reason TCW originally only had high-ranking naval officers be non-clones was so they could reuse the same clone officer model to save costs, and it doesn't need to be continued too much in-universe if that's not a concern (as seems to be the case here).

 

Any news out of gamescon in germany?

 

Sorry for the double post (and answering my own question)

Looks like a good space battle.

https://www.gamereactor.eu/grtv/331853

 

It's gonna be good when Iden finds out that operation Cinder isn't really about retaining order throughout the galaxy but actually just Sheev being a sore loser

 

Oh brother, this looks good. Not that there was any doubt before, but the pre-order goes in this weekend...

Or is it. Do we really have the whole story yet about Operation Cinder and the Contingency? Maybe it's really not all about Palpatine simply trying to burn it all down because he can't take it with him. I wonder if there isn't yet more to be revealed about that...

 

There were good ideas in Shattered Empire but the product in general was a mess. I'm hoping Battlefront II will take those interesting ideas and make them more what I was hoping to get from the comic. I'm glad they're using the Messenger Droids, since I thought those were one of the more interesting ideas from it... although that being said, in the comic, the officers thought that the droids were actually real-time messengers from Palpatine who hadn't actually been killed at Endor, right? (But were possibly just being used by the commander of the base at the end to give his commands to the rest of the Empire, or at least that was the implication I took away.) Here it seems like the Versos know and accept that Palpatine was killed and these guys are giving out "the last command" (nice reference, too). I kind of like the comic version better.

 

This game (and Red Dead Redemption 2) is forcing me to finally purchase a PS4. Can't wait for what looks to be an epic single-player campaign. Hope additional campaign missions eventually come in DLC.

 

I loved the cutscene; the campaign looks more promising the more I see. I'm excited to see how they connect Operation Cinder to the Contingency. I do hope it's a fairly long campaign.

One thought about Palpatine's plan: maybe the goal of Operation Cinder was to begin transforming the Empire into the First Order. While Aftermath makes it seem that Rax was going beyond Palpatine's plan, it could be possible that he was planning it all from the start.

 

Well, if the Shattered Empire version was indeed supposed to be the tree base commander using the Messengers for his own end, that would seem to imply that Operation Cinder was his own idea. Which Aftermath definitely did not run with. So it's possible that the overall purpose of it has changed between writers.

Another reason I like the Messengers, they hearken back to the Royal Guards with the fake Palpatine from YJK.

 

I'd assume what we saw in Aftermath was more accurate since it had the ability to go more in depth than Shattered Empire. In the comic, I just assumed that the base was where the Sentinels were manufactured rather than the base's commander using them for his own purposes. So the comic was vague enough to be interpreted in multiple ways.

I agree, the messengers were a great idea.

 

It would make sense that an intelligence officer would have access to intel.

 

I don't even think Rax really wanted to rebuild the galaxy in his image so much was just burning everything.

He was following THE LAST COMMAND because he's Thrawn/Jade.

However, given how Cinder is framed in that scene, I totally think our heroine is going to kill her father.