Books Star Wars: Inferno Squad

It still happens sometimes. I know it sounds weird to think that a typo can slip through even after half a dozen people (all specifically looking for errors) have read a book about 20 times, but it does happen. Just kind of the nature of the business. When we find them, they get fixed in reprints, and we move on.

 

Can THIS be the "Typical Zeta" image?

 

"Arthas" is one of my all-time favorite spin-off books from any media franchise and Christie Golden has a LOT of great books. It's just Fate of the Jedi and Dark Disciple trapped her in areas which were never going to turn out good.

 

I have no idea what sort of literary quality to expect from this book (I will probably love it regardless) but I do have to say that I am hugely impressed by the cover art. It might very well be the most badass cover image of any Star Wars novel to date, in my recollection.

 

The covers for the canon novels have been pretty consistently solid.

 

Please don't kriffing defect.

PLEASE.

Is there no loyalty?! What kind of message is Disney sending if they defect at the end?

 

Loyalty to evil is wrong. All decent people should defect from the Empire. That Ciena Ree didn't show how rigid her thinking was and how effective Imperial brainwashing was. If the cause you serve is evil, brutal and completely immoral, you shouldn't be serving it. If you do, you're a part of that evil. People like to admire Imperial Officers like Thrawn and Piett. But they're a part of the Empire, just as Tarkin was. They serve the same evil master, the same corrupt organization that condones the massacre of civilians and destruction of planets.

 

So you've read the book via ARC and are now breaking every rule of its acquisition by giving out a massive spoiler untagged?

 

no I have not read the book. Nor even the excerpt.

Just a question, if say someone such as me write comments or fanfic that turns out to be true in a future book ahead of time, did I committ plagilarism?

Edit:

Besides, are you telling me they do in fact defect at the end?! Dang it! I was going to buy that book!

 

Almost certainly not, considering they're the protagonists of Battlefront II, which this book is a prequel to.

 

No Mu, I'm saying you're being foolish convincing yourself that the book will be crap ahead of time.

And, if you can't let the fear go, you know there'll be spoilage here probably before and on day of release, so it's not as if you're going to be at risk of buying a book you'll hate.

Oh and as for plagiarism? If you took material from the book and attempted to present it as your own, without acknowledgement of source, that would be probably plagiarism and copyright theft and your arse would be sued unto oblivion by LFL Legaltroopers.

 

okay to avoid spoils I will be out of here.

 

So which is it? You don't want to risk buying a book you might not like a plot development of, but don't want spoilers either?

In any case spoilers will be tagged on pain of the Wrath of the Mod Squad, so you have to choose to open them.

 

I was going for playful with the spoiler quip, as the book isn't out for over a month, but was actually trying to give a proper answer on Mu's plagiarism Q as I did read it as a genuine question, but accept it all got horribly muddled.

Might have been better to have added an emoji or two I suppose.

 

You can never go wrong with emojis.

 

Kind of yeah, but I kind of thought a spoiler quip about a book not out for over a month would be an obvious joke, but such is discussion by text alone. I was going for the idea of Mu clearly being a time traveller but was too subtle about it.

EDIT: In any case if we're being serious about whether there would be any defection of the squad, there's really only one answer and no, it's not mine:

 

Looking for ARC's got me fired.

 

Just read the excerpt and I'm midly confused. Suppose I'll have to wait to find out how long

Spoiler

Iden was stuck in the Yavin system until she returned to the Empire. This is considering that according to Lost Stars, Ciena and Barisse could only find Darth Vader's ship among the Death Star debris.

 

Clearly, she makes it to Yavin IV and ends up staying there until fighting Princess Leia.

Then she ends up escaping with the help of Kylo Ren and Rey Skywalker.

...

Wait, wrong universe.

 

Spoiler

If I remember correctly Vader requested Ciena or someone from the Devastator to pick him up. So it could be possible, that she was picked up first, by a different ship. That ship could have been told to leave Vader because someone would be their soon.

 

Is there a technical term for the phenomenon of Star Wars fans freaking out over the possibility that things which are EXTREMELY unlikely to happen in forthcoming movies/books/games/comics might actually happen?

Asking for a friend.

 

I know who you're referring to

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Qorl

 

IdenIsQorl2017

Together, my friends, we can make this a reality.

 

Welp, I know what my gamertag for Battlefront II is going to be now.

I might have to reread YJK with First Order gear standing in for all the Second Imperium stuff.