A/V Star Wars: Commander (new Rebellion Era iOS strategy game)

Pfft, my group was created weeks ago. Check out "RebelHighCommand".

--Adm. Nick

 

Hear that, my fellow Imperials? We have a new enemy. AdmiralNick22, and his RebelHighCommand. I bet they don't even know Mon Mothma.

 

Or, worse yet, they *do* know Mon Mothma.

 

That's not a very fun name Nick.

How about "the Dapper Trappers."

 

Now we are under Veers' command; seeking out a traitor who is selling Imperial weapons.

 

Always liked Veers. Now that's an army commanding officer, if you ask me.

 

Her full name is Liana Kor.

Also, she said this



Which annoys me; because the word 'fascist' has a very terrestrial root. The Italian word fascio is used to name a political group and acquired its famous meaning through the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, which evolve into the Fascist Party. The EU would have made up a planet called Fascia which had a dictatorship thousands of years ago to justify the term and cover for this writer's blunder... but nowadays...*sigh*

EDIT: She is deservedly working on Kessel now.

 

Yeah, I also miss these convoluted and completely unnecessary retcons that ignored every single word in the English language has an Earthly origin. Every. Single. One. I mean, take lightsaber. Saber comes from the Hungarian word szablya.

GUESS WHAT THERE'S NO HUNGARY IN THE GFFA

 

yeah... It ain't the same. This is a word which acquired another meaning/usage in addition to its original one based on what happened. Next we'll hear about Han being on a Mexican standoff , Leia getting a brazilian wax and Luke using karate to fight.

 

So does most things about the Galactic Republic and Empire, like how their histories are based on the Roman Republic and later Empire. In the very country you just complained about.

 

Ah, but the word's origins are on an insignificant world of Tatooine, where 25.000 years ago a shark-looking animals called Shabr used to live and eat an occasional native. When the Rakata attacked, the locals who had no name for them called them Shabr because of their resemblance to the beasts. Because of a misunderstanding in language (the Rakata thought that when the natives shouted "Shabr!" they were saying what they preferred to be killed with) the Rakata ended up calling their weapons "Sabers." With Xesh the word entered into Jedaii vocabulary.

And let's not even go into detail with the Darth coming from a Rakatan word Daritha coming from the name of the first Rakatan Emperor, who herself was named after a dog.

 

Can't wait to visit a wild west planet and a 30's era gangster planet.

 

What's next? Naming a fleet after a Japanese sword?

Main difference here is that 99.9% of the population hear "fascist" and don't think "hey, Mussolini's party!".

But I understand these are just pet peeves, and we all have ours, I would be very annoyed if "generalissimo" ever entered the Star Wars lexicon, but for very different reasons. Every time I hear Stan Lee calling himself "Generalissimo Lee" I wonder how "Führer Lee" would fly.

 

I'm surprised Denning hasn't mentioned that in a book yet.

I also remember quite a fuss over the word Consecrate...

 

Wasn't Thrawn referred to as "shogun" in one of the WEG books- maybe Dark Empire Sourcebook? Or was it only Publius's fan-work that used the term?

http://web.archive.org/web/20120204063509/http://www.domuspublica.net/analysis.html

 

There are ships named Chimera and Manticore and Basilisk and Gorgon and Hydra guys. Let it go.

 

I know this is off-topic, but anyone know if this game is coming to Windows Phone?

 

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/star-wars-commander/d30b584c-050d-4995-90a9-8a30bd388ed6

 

How can my phone not run this game?

 

have not played this game, from the reviews it seems underdeveloped. might wait till more updates happen.

 

"Fascist", along with every other word (almost) in Star Wars is a "translation" of Basic to make us understand. Fascist is just the English equivalent of whatever word that means fascist in Basic. It's no big deal, really...

 

EDIT: Just checked Wookieepedia and saw that Basic and English actually are the same. Sorry, guys, my mistake! But I still prefer what I just wrote.
(I accidentally replied to my own thread instead of editing at first, hence the double post.)

 

What phone is it? The 520 can't run most.