Lit Fleet Junkie Flagship- The technical discussions of the GFFA (Capital Ships thread Mk. II)

Zahn does consistantly emphasise the differences between the two. Sometimes Thrawn himself saying so:

"I am not the Lord Darth Vader, Ferrier. I do not spend my men recklessly. Nor do I take their loss lightly."

and sometimes Pellaeon contrasts them in his thoughts:

"Minutes which we no longer have, thanks to their shadower's carelessness." Thrawn bit out. "He's to be demoted one grade."
"Yes sir." Pellaeon logged the order. A rather severe punishment, but it could have been much worse. Lord Vader would have summarily strangled the man.

I'm guessing that back then, Jedi weren't seen as so powerful by Zahn- thus there's more than "zero chance"- especially since they're mostly being sent after Leia rather than Luke.

That said, his "A few Noghri, more or less, won't strain anybody's resources" line seems a bit wasteful, considering they are apparently much more dangerous than stormtroopers (going by the maitrarkh's account in Dark Force Rising).

Thrawn's lack of Vader's "legendary and often lethal temper" also gets brought up.

That said, Luke is frequently very far from Leia in those books.

Different writers tend to have different takes on Vader- some might have him as cold- others as in a permanent state of simmering rage which he lets out every now and then.

Come to think of it- that might be why Palpatine goes into full-blown rage mode at certain moments in Revenge of the Sith.

As the Sith put it: "Peace is a lie. There is only passion."

When Vader says "Apology accepted" in ESB, he's just being a huge jerk. He executed a competent officer - one that was courageous enough to personally go to Vader and accept responsibility for his failure - so he could get a one-liner in.

Actually, there are a number of SW-related posts on there - one of the more recent being "Charlie Kenobi's War" re: the TCW episodes set on Onderon. Not that I bother watching TCW, but if you tend to follow real-world foreign policy debates it's amusing.

http://blogtarkin.com/2012/10/28/charlie-kenobis-war/

It looks like we got some new CIS ships this episode. Well, kind of - the shuttle looked different than usual, and it looks like the CIS has some Gozanti Cruisers in their colors.

It's about time.

That makes me very happy.

"Admiral! It is the Enterprise."

Ours is much prettier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise_(H88)

The new USS Enterprise may at some point be armed with laser weapons. They aren't ready/developed yet, but the Ford class is designed for that potential upgrade

Aren’t a set of rail guns more likely? After all they seem to have kind of gotten those to work.

I'm mostly interested in the name Enterprise as a Star Trek fan, honestly, but still, I had heard about the ship being retired, and glad to see they're going to give the name to another ship soon enough.

Actually the Enterprise herself begs to differ there...

Considering it had these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS

Onboard. But I get what you mean with the rail-guns, since you think more along the lines of the Essex class and its 5-inchers when you think rail-gun right? Or at least I do


(and yes, I'm being nit-picky with the definition of a 'gun'. That was more sarcastic honestly. Since it most likely was bigger (the aforementioned 5-inchers) you were talking about. )

That's what I figured. It was just too good to pass up

Yeah, lasers are more useful as AA and point defense, while Rail guns are for long range bombardment.

Here's the spoilerrific concept art for the new star base in TCW. Hope all the new designs make it in. Hope we get some actual EU ships, too.