Potential Imperial-perspective novel in the works...

Sweet!

 

Awsome! *puts on imperial march*

 

But it won't have strong Imperial characterisation. Most likely some people who'll end up defecting, throw in some chummy romantic ideas of rebellion and betrayal, and off they'll go to switch sides.



Unless . . . it's Katarn's Impy days!

 

But, which "Imperial perspective"... I definately wouldn't mind Imperial Commando, or a subtle military thing; but I'm switched off by what I suspect we'll get, which is too much metaphysics, and not enough genuine character-driven story...

- The Imperial Ewok

 

Could be a great novel in the works here. Of course it could bomb, too.

 

Well, they are the same thing right Ex? Good old KK getting chummy with certain rebels. Defecting. Blah fecking blah...I'm with Ex. Most likely we will get the "Young and brave Imperial pilot *insert name*, fresh from the acadmey oges off to fight the rebels. But, he realizes the Empire is evil and tries to defect etc."

 

Mareek Steele. *crosses fingers,toes,and eyes*
cmon man

or maybe Soontir Fel

But YEAH BABY.

 

The return of Kir Kanos!

 

I'd love it if they had someone who actually believed in the Empire and had no problem fighting for it.

 

Even better, a Tie Fighter series similar to the X-Wing series.

 

What I would have done, is pov a black ops operative (did I say Alias?) and give the reader the impression Zarion will defect in the end, after killing the Impy commander of the book. The surprise finale in actual fact sees s/he ursurping the (revealed to be rebel) commander's flag and destroying the rebel cell. Mission accomplished, reader surprised.

But this double dealing is rare in Star Wars, alas. Cloak of Decept aside, of course.

 

Lt. Sunber!

 

Steele Chronicles.. ? never read em or seen em.. I just read the books that came with the Tie Fighter Collectors edition way back when (windoze 95 baby)

 

I think an Imperial perspective novel featuring some competent loyal imperials would be great, as long they don't end up joining the rebellion in the end.

 

Point One: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Point Two: I remeber the Steele Chronicles quite fondly, and felt that both they and TIE Fighter (I really need to find an appropriate religious sign to make every time I invoke that name)did an astoundingly succesful job of showing us an Imperial's Empire. It would have to be a novel written the gray areas of the Star Wars galaxy, where the Rebels are more like terrorist and the Imperials, though perhaps murderously heavy-handed, are still in the right.

Needless to say, a Karen Traviss Imperial Commandoswould trancend writen language's ability to express joy at the utter **** sweetness of such a concept.

 

I could think of a couple good Imps from the films it would bne nice to have more background about: Ozzel, Piett and Veers.

For the EU: Pellaeon. Definitely.

 

I'd love to see some perspective on how the average Imperial views the big three... specifically Luke. Is there anything out there like that?

 

I wouldn't mind simply rehashing the OT from an Imp POV, but then again, I'm old fashioned and still relatively new to EU.

And I hope they don't introduce some huge rival that's totally off the walls (Black Sun in SOTE comes to mind. Third in power only to Sidious and Vader, and we never hear about him...why?). I'd almost like to see a section of the Imperial Navy fighting against Sen. Garm Bel Ilblis's dreadnaughts.

 

Sounds fantastic, but I can see this turning out to be another noble Imeperial defector type thing. Rogriss, Fel, Petothel, Tantor, Katarn... and we all know where Sunber is headed... can't we have a normal, likeable Imperial who isn't eventually a traitor? I hardly believe it'd be possible for the rebellion to be shown by most authors as anything but shining and virtuous. I'll hold out hope, though.

In other words, I'd rather see Karen Traviss write this one than an Allston or a Stackpole.

And please, no following just grunts. Portray the higher-ups as sympathetic and likeable, too. Go out on a limb.

 

This has a lot of potential... just as the noble defector syndrome keeps its ugly head away.

 

There's the Union comic, for one. Some Remnant admiral hates Luke enough to try and...disrupt his wedding.