Lit GENERAL QUESTION THREAD (What to read? Where to start? What's canon? What's not? Duros, etc.)

I'm fairly sure they are different sabres because these ones curve wheras the TCW do not. It follows that the crystals are different.

Maybe the Ahsoka book will explain it.

 

Are there any primitive/pre-industrial human societies in the Galaxy?

 

I think there was in the old Archie Goodwin newspaper strips. But in the canon, I don't think so. Star Wars doesn't deal with more primitive cultures the same way Star Trek does; like the Ewoks, the heroes are willing to introduce all of their advanced technology and don't care about preserving the lifestyle.

 

the Ewoks are a good example of the kind of society I was thinking of. and yeah, there's no "prime directive" in star wars but there's still isolation.

 

Dathomir might qualify as "de-industrialised" - a society of alien/human hybrids that appear to have turned a long way away from industry.

 

The CoPL and YJK incarnation on Dathomir do qualify, they where per-industrial and possibly did not even have wind- or watermills. Some of the later incarnations, like Infinity's End, had their hands on some high-tech, but it is possible that tech was just scavenged

 

TCW higher tech included the energy bows, the speeder (pretty sure Ventress couldn't have brought it with her) and those pop-up blocks in the arena - assuming that it's mechanisms that cause them to rise and fall, and not Ventress using telekinesis.

 

Didn't the human colonists Thrawn encountered on Wayland use bow and arrow level of technology? Or am I remembering this wrong?

 

They used crossbows.

 

ok,got to ask but since the nuking of the EU does any one know if the Legions of Lettow and Xendor may come back and or if some one as ask PH about this.


P.S sorry but i don't know of another thread about this question and or if it's cannon in some way or form......wookiepedie gets bigger by the day lol

 

Lettow got a passing reference in jasonfry 's Servants of the Empire series, as part of a marching song. Details still remain Legendary though.

 

ok,thanks.

 

Am I misremembering, or does one of the TCW episodes mention some kind of year system? Maybe in one of the Senate-related episodes?

 

I am rereading the Force Awakens novelization and may have found a continuity mistake in the new canon. The novels describes a ship (AAL) of twenty stormtroopers as a single squad but the visual dictionary and incredible cross-sections for Force Awakens define a squad as ten Stormtroopers with the AAls (Atmosphere Assault Landers) being able to carry twenty stormtroopers, two full squads.

The novel does describe it as a squadron though...is there any difference between a squad and a squadron?

 

Jormak, Weik, Kesh, Ossus, Eol Sha and Dellalt spring to mind, which interesting enough all used to be more advanced, but just devolved from it.

 

Weik is exactly the kind of planet I was thinking of!

and yeah, if humans started on Coruscant as is the in-universe theory, obviously any human on another planet had to get there via high tech space travel.


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Might the Cha'a and Trandoshans be related? Bossk and Ssk Kahorr both ate their siblings.

 

The people of the Tion at least don't think so

 

How do you pronounce Eriadu?

 

eh-rii-ah-do I think

 

Or possibly, Eh-rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrii-ah-do, if they're trying to look posh, right?

 

Listen to the Tarkin audiobook on youtube, they say it a lot


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Hello! I've been meaning to get involved more in the Lit/EU fanspace here, since that's where my primary Star Wars love resides. I'd also like to take some photos of my book and comic collections to share and didn't spot the appropriate thread on the first three pages. Would it be alright to start a new thread so people can show off their bookshelves/novel/comics collections (some probably more polished than mine, I have no doubt!)?

I also have this bizarre compulsion to organize my books chronologically as best as possible, even wanting to buy the individual films so I can mix the blu rays and novels and comics together (but I really hate the steelbook art choices for the individual films that came out).

Also, some of these books I've read a few times, and there's about 1/3 of my collection of the old EU (and most of the new EU) that I've yet to read. I do want to get to them, but I also love the idea that I still have unread Star Wars stories to pull off my shelf any time I'm interested in trying something new.

I saw the bookclub thread pop up for Darth Plagueis (which I already read about a year or so ago). Is there anyone interested in taking a long, winding chronological stroll through either the old or new EU or both? And are there other events or activities coming up that would be a good jumping on point to get more involved in this sub-community?

 

I'm crazy about arranging things in chronological order too! My collection is mostly Legends but I wracked my brain for a good hour trying to figure out where to place the new Marvel Vader TPBs. also books that take place over multiple time periods are really annoying too lol


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If I could like your post multiple times I so would! My solution has been to separate new canon from old, since they're different "bubbles" anyway. Also, some things like the original Marvel run just go in their own spot because so little of it translated to later material. Off the top of my head, Lumiya is the only significant remainder, and even then only toward the end of Legends.

And the multiple likes is for those books which span a greater length of time... (I'm looking at you, Han Solo III: Rebel Dawn! The original Han Solo book collection is wedged between that trilogy on my shelf.) Not to mention the short story collections. Tales from the New Republic, Empire being the hardest to pin down.

Lost Stars will eventually become problematic on the new-canon shelf, (and I still need to read it, I know, terrible!), and since the old Star Wars movie novelizations aren't included in the new canon, I used the young adult recap versions in their stead (and will probably eventually pick up the re-colored Marvel Comics adaptations of the CT)... wondering if a similar treatment will be given to the Prequels...otherwise the next solution might be to eventually get individual copies of each film to mix them in with the "official canon" material.

Edit: Should I move this convo to the social thread or is here okay?