Books A/V Rogue One: Ultimate Visual Guide (contains untagged movie spoilers)

The 'Art of' book has a 4-page spread on Bor Gullet. Most of it is concept art but there is a write-up about how the character came about. Article says he is an empath but doesn't say if he is sentient.

 

Nothing on Kafrene in the book at all, sadly. Not even mentioned.

Has anyone seen any of the decraniated on Jedha or were they all cut from the film? In later viewings, I've found the tall salamander mounts from the maps book but haven't found any decraniated...

 

I dare someone to add this to the thread title.

 

Well it was marked on the map at the front of the book, but yeah, I wish we got something more substantial since the little of it we saw in the film seemed pretty interesting to me.

 

When I saw that scene in the movie my first thought was "Is this Guardians of the Galaxy or Star Wars?". Then again, GotG was pretty great so following their example isn't exactly a bad thing.

I hope tentacle monsters aren't required in every Star Wars movie. Well, there was that trash compactor monster in ANH, then maybe that swamp monster on Dagobah, maybe Jabba counts for RotJ. And TFA had that rip-off from nuTrek '09 too, hm, maybe it is a tradition (unfortunately).

And if they ever borrow a scene from Muppet Treasure Island, I hope someone references this scene someday-

 

No, the Sarlacc is ROTJ's tentacle monster.

Also, I'm now renaming Bor Gullet to Borg Mullet.

 

I FINALLY FOUND A COPY AVAILABLE OF THIS GODDAM BOOK IN JAPAN AMAZON!
It has been temporarily out of stock for weeks and it was driving me nuts.
And lol it’s temporarily out of stock again. It hasn’t even been a day since the restock.

 

A monster scene is certainly a Lucas staple (as is a chase of some kind, inspired by his love of cars and American Graffiti). The sea monsters in TPM (long tongue in place of tentacles), the arena monsters in AOTC (nexu's tail and acklay's claws), the deleted nos monster from ROTS, the dianoga in ANH, wampa and dragonsnake in ESB, rancor and sarlacc in ROTS, and now the rathtars and bor gullet. The latter seem kinda like mandates; "we've got to have a monster scene! And a cantina! And a lightsaber!"

 

We are the Borg. Lower your hats and surrender your scalps. We will add your trichological and tonsorial distinctiveness to our own. Your business in the front will adapt to service party in the back. Resistance is futile.

 

Finally got my copy...can I just say WOW

 

The way Saw pronounced Bor Gullet sounded more like Boo-golly to me. Maybe the word is French/Twi-Lekki?

 

I'm not sure if this has been brought up yet, but the breakdown of the Alliance High Command sheds some light on the makeup of the Supreme Allied Commanders mentioned in the Rebel Alliance Sourcebook. Although the VG never actually mentions the title of SAC, it does mention a number of senior officers who head each branch of the Alliance Military which was described as being led by an SAC in Legends. Under Legends, there were seven branches of service which formed High Command; Fleet Command (headed by Gial Ackbar), Ordnance and Supply (headed by Ral'Rai Muvunc), Starfighter Command (headed by Jan Dodonna), SpecForce Command (headed by Crix Madine), Intelligence (headed by Vernan, then Airen Cracken), Sector Command (headed by Carlist Rieekan; Who's Who in Echo Base mentions that he "became a permanent member of High Command as Chief of Sector Command"), and Support Services (no leader identified). It must be noted that some of these figures seem to have been promoted to the title of SAC later in the Galactic Civil War, leaving it ambiguous as to who preceded them.

If we assume that each of these branches is still represented by a Supreme Allied Commander, then we can derive that all seven SACs (at least as of the Battle of Scarif) are as follows:
- Fleet Command: Admiral Raddus (Presumably succeeded by Gial Ackbar).
- Ordnance and Supply: General Baccam Grafis.
- Starfighter Command: General Antoc Merrick (Although he is mentioned as having a close overlap with General Jan Dodonna, especially on missions where Merrick was unavailable or command was more efficient from the ground. Possibly a joint SAC, or an unofficial collaboration with Dodonna due to his experience in the field, followed by Dodonna taking over full time upon his death).
- Support Services: General Dustil Forell.
- Intelligence: General Airen Cracken, represented in absentia during meetings by General Davits Draven.
- SpecForce Command: General Pitt Onoran (possibly succeeded by Crix Madine later in the war?).
- Sector Command: General Jan Dodonna. (I was curious about this one, since Dodonna is the only High Command member mentioned in the VG who was already identified as the SAC of another branch in Legends. Given that Rebels makes mention of him leading a prominent Rebel cell, it's possible that he'll be shown later leading some coordination between cells, with his appointment in Canon reflective of that).

As an old school WEG fan, I just love having all seven SACs identified and heading High Command in a specific period. That said, on a rather embarrassing note and at the risk of undermining my WEGgy credentials, I've spent close to a decade thinking that there was a separate Army Command. I used to grumble at all these smug Fleet, Starfighter, and SpecForce jocks who snagged all the attention, with something as basic as the head of the regular old Army never getting a shout-out. I actually fumed over the fact that Army Command was the only one left out in this VG, only to look up the High Command structure in preparation for this post and subsequently discover that the position never existed in the first place. Presumably control of the Alliance Army is shared between Sector Command and SpecForces.

Lost a Supreme Commander, Master Paxis has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing...

 

I think it was the great Republic-era holoplaywright Cosar Ildwe who said, "To lose one Supreme Commander may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose more looks like carelessness..."

 

Looking at the cross section of the UT-60D I am thinking they short changed the body count for passengers. It looks to me like they could easily put in an additional 6 seats (2 aft and 4 forward) connected to the seating they have in there. This would allow it to carry 14 total passengers. It might not be the most comfortable ride they have....but it is a troop transport....not Sheev's personal shuttle. This would make it comparable the the Vietnam era UH-1/Huey.

 

Speaking of the U-wing, upon reflection I think it was a mistake that the guide states that U-wings were a limited production. It seems like that was their way of explaining why it hadn't shown up in Star Wars works before, just like the entry for the TIE Striker explained it was a prototype. But the thing is, if the Striker becomes a popular design that appears in future works they can always say that the Imp designers decided to go forward with it. With the U-wing, stating that it was limited is sort of discouraging writers and artists from using it in the future.

I mean it's not like there weren't already reasonable explanations for why it wasn't in the OT. They weren't on Yavin in ANH since their U-wings got blown up over Scarif. They weren't on Hoth because of all that "we're having trouble adapting our vehicles to the cold" stuff. And they weren't at Endor because their primary purpose is troop drop ship, which has limited use when the planet's full of dense trees and the generator presumably shields itself from an air strike.

If A-wings can appear in Rebels without anyone complaining that they weren't at Yavin or Hoth, I don't see why they have to impose a limit on U-wings.

 

I was surprised at that as well. Seems like an unneeded limitation that could cause future complications, something which Pablo usually tries to avoid.

On the other hand, for all we know "limited production" in the SW universe means thousands were made.

 

They could also always just make more at a later date.

 

I concur, we have only really seen a very tiny fraction of the many locations and vehicles that are found in the Galaxy. Since its a very big place to explore, I believe its pretty reasonable to think we did not see everything the Galaxy has to offer in the OT alone.

 

It does fit with the general push for the Rebel equipment to be old, discontinued, one-offs, failed runs, anything they can get their hands on. It was a huge deal later on that the NR Fleet was finally standardized.

 

At the same time it could have been something that was in production for a while and there are a a whole lot out there with planetary security forces and are being funneled to the Rebellion.

 

I got this book today at Books A Million, It was originally $30.00 but with a BAM card and Coupon I got it for $24.00 and change!!!!!! I love It, It has to be the Thickest DK Star Wars Visual Guide, lots of content. I heard someone In this thread say there are no cross sections in the book, I counted at least 3 cross sections in the book. Krenics ship, A Tank and one other I cant remember what it was, mind you I just skimmed through it.

 

Aw.

 

My heart.