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salutatem do.

Way back when people tried to organize to write the entire SW EU with the concept that Darth Vader lived.

Never went anywhere.

Valete.

 

Fun sucker.

 

salutatem do.

Hey, I was only trying to state facts.
I actually signed up for the Vader EU.
and then there were these bunch of guys writing bug huggers or AU NJO.
I'm pretty sure their Anakin didn't die.
Except they were pretty exclusive, and did not allow me to join.
So I'm pretty bummed about that.

Vale.

 

Hey, I was just poking fun at you. Don't take anything I say personally or seriously.


F.A.D.A FTW!!

~Felf

 

now now children, play nice ...sorry i couldn't resist

As i've said earlier i'm all for the project , the problem is organization and logistics .. and the ever present danger posed by our old nemesis Darth Real Life..

 

You have to decide first if you would like the project to be exclusive or not.
Whether to accept new members just like that, or very very exclusive with dedicated, set membership, or whether there would be probational periods involved for new writers, etc.

Far too many times I have seen project die without even being launched.

P.S.
As for the bughugger AU, I think they actually carried it out pretty well, wrote at least a complete book, but eventually they went on hiatus because no one of their six members team could write anymore? Or some other very very mysterious and exclusive reason.... which schmos like me would never find out.

FYI I think they got the wrong impression of me when I suggested mindslaves.

 

Relating to that "Anakin is Alive" AU EU rewrite has any movement been made there?

Another thing to consider:

Is this an dedicated set of shared fics (i.e. each fic written by a group) or just a new EU Bible where people can plug new stories into the AU architecture

Personally, I'd rather have basically a new EU architecture where we can allow anyone to write stories in this shared AU. Additionally, any new creations would be added to the AU Bible. Which means that other writers could utilize them for their own stories/purposes.

This would also mean we would need to have some type of editorial council (two/three folks who get to say yea/nay to plot outlines for new stories being added to the AU, maybe with revolving membership) kind of like how Sue over at LFL does for current EU. We'd also need someone to basically be Pablo in order to set things in the right spot of the timeline, and be able to explain plot contradictions

 

That sounds pretty cool

 

Thanks!


So, do we have any additional ideas/concepts?

 

At this point, I think you have the right idea. There would have to be some sort of AU bible and someone or several someones who decide whether additional stories work within the established continuity of the AU

 

*pokes thread* anyone else has any ideas related to this?

 

sounds like a good idea

well the first thing to be debated is how far back in the current time line does the new architecture branch off in to an AU.

what parts of the current EU is kept and/or perpetuated and what will be discarded. ie. if the AU branches out right after RoTJ, will Leia have three children named Jaina, Jacen, Anakin or will there be characters named Tahiri, Zek, Jag etc and will their basic characteristics/personality be kept as per the current EU or replaced completely?

thoughts?

 

I only just now clued in to the fact that this thread is about Anakin SOLO. Not Skywalker.

 

Ah, Hi.
I'm kind of new, and I was wondering how I become a member of F.A.D.A?

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I guess that basically becomes a question of if one wants the EU as a whole, or just chop of the Vong, or what. The original post about the idea, had the fulcrum being SbS, but I could see the argument for dropping all of the NJO and later stuff...

 

Kidan:

well i personally didn't mind the vong themselves.. i thought their introduction was a good thing, a sort of third element to the usual Republic/Imperial dynamic... it was the execution of the story and the butchering of the SW universe and/or characters in the process that i found annoying.

Perhaps before deciding on what to remove we should figure out what (characters, plots, settings and concepts) we love about the EU as it stands and then design the story architecture around that.

thoughts?

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tahiriveilax:

As far as i know there is no membership process. anyone can claim membership of FADA

welcome to our motley crew

 

Okay cool thanks

 

Actually, that follows my personal proclivities towards the Vong and the NJO in general as well. Especially since at the end of the Bantam era, the NR/Imperials were at peace.

While there were some things in the Bantam era that I found.... amusing *cough*Waru*cough* they were not as depressing as the NJO as a whole. I'd want to keep pretty much broad strokes of Bantam stuff, and I wouldn't mind the broad plots of the NJO as well.

Ultimately, I wouldn't mind just picking a point in the NJO timeframe and reboot from there.

 

Star by Star?

 

The Vong's whole "Embrace the Pain" thing was really annoying, like for fun they would hurt themselves was really odd. And they were ugly as hell.
And their meaning for peace is literally "willing and appropriate submission from conquered to conqueror."
Ah well, its their culture.

 

While there were some things in the Bantam era that I found.... amusing *cough*Waru*cough*

lol yea Waru was one of the more... interesting brain farts to come out of the Bantam era

As for when in the NJO is a good time for a reboot? perhaps just before or just after chewies death? At that point the vong a threat and as an idea have taken root but not yet overly discussed and detailed. Furthermore at that point the changes to the personalities of the main characters and the galaxy as a whole hasn't been messed with too much yet.

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The Vong's whole "Embrace the Pain" thing was really annoying, like for fun they would hurt themselves was really odd. And they were ugly as hell.

The embrace of pain idea is not really that much of a stretch if u think about it. While not quite as extreme as the Vong portrayed in the NJO, there have been many human groups/civilizations in real life that have practiced similar types of behavior either as a right of passage or as part of religious ceremonies.

That said the authors of the NJO really did use the idea to death

And their meaning for peace is literally "willing and appropriate submission from conquered to conqueror."

lol true but then not that far from the mindset of Imperial Rome.

 

Yeah, well it was said that most of the inspiration for the Yuuzhan Vong was from the Aztecs.

 

To me the Vong just seemed like all the most violent/absurd ideas the writers could take from other cultures, real or fictional. (Romans/Aztecs/Klingons )

 

Well, they killed Anakin Solo. That was the most absurd thing they ever did

 

Well, they killed Anakin Solo. That was the most absurd thing they ever did

truer words have not been said!