A&A The Official Jason Fry Discussion Thread

Plenty of people think magic is real in THIS world, yet still expect if they parked one car in the garage last night that they won't find two cars in their garage today.

The existence of magic or cinematic physics doesn't render irrelevant the need for consistency and at least a veneer of realism.

 

And even those cultures that believe in magic think it has rules. As I've said many times, "It's magic!" isn't/shouldn't be the go-to handwaving for everything.

 

Though the EU before the prequels assumed the Empire was around longer, what the prequel era has showed us is that the Empire didn't become the Empire overnight. It was a slow crawl, basically starting when Palpatine became chancellor and then really ramping up during the Clone Wars.

 

Hey NY/CT! I'll be at the John C Hart Memorial Library TOMORROW 6/30 at 11am for a fun discussion of Star Wars reading/writing/fandom. Fun! Snacks! Darth Vader! Plus I'll be signing and have books to buy! COME SAY HI! Details at https://www.yorktownlibrary.org/

 

Howdy! So my next Star Wars book, Solo: Tales From Vandor, comes out Tuesday. It’s a replica journal published by Studio Fun, along the lines of Rey's Survival Guide and Bomber Command. The book's narrator is Midnight, the bartender at the Lodge. He’s seen a lot and has plenty of tales to tell about scoundrels such as Han, Chewie, Lando, L3, Beckett and others. Some of those tales are even true! (And some will make Wookieepedians cross with me.) Use this link and part of the proceeds will go to support the Jason Fry Beer & Mortgage Fund. We sincerely thank you for your patronage.

 

@jasonfry No matter how hard I try, I never get crossed with you for very long. ;-)

 

Because suddenly I'm everywhere ... fun interview just dropped with Jamie at The Big Beautiful Podcast in which we cover a lot about writing, the TLJ novelization, etc.:
-- my writing process/learning from journalism
-- The Jupiter Pirates and developing an idea
-- how world-building's like matte painting
-- writing the TLJ novelization
-- that prologue and extra scenes
-- my favorite Star Wars movie/book
Hope you'll give it a listen!

 

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I have a question on the Harbinger/Tector Class that you named in The Levers of Power short about Rae Sloane. This was published in October 2015.

The Harbinger/Imperial Class was destroyed the following year in the comic story The Last Flight of The Harbinger that started in July 2016 and the ship appeared in August 2018 (per the Wook).

Did you have advanced knowledge of the destruction of the ISD so knew you would not be duplicating names or did you just like the name Harbinger and used it with the fact of the ISD being named Harbinger was just coincidence?

I kind of head canoned it that the Tector was built and named after the ISD went kablooey.

 

No advance knowledge. Sounds like a coincidence -- Star Wars storytellers seem to really like that name.

 

Wouldn't be the only sci-fi verse with common ship names. According to the Choose Your Enemies novel, the 40K universe has thousands of ships with the name Indestructible (some have II, or IV, or similar, after it).

 

...I love that the first thing that makes you think of is the trivia and not the joke.

 

Hey Jason, I had a question.

In the essential guide to warfare admiral Teshik describes his vision of the galaxy's eternal war.

I found this interesting from an IU perspective-Teshik as far I know is a non force sensitive, so my question is how did he have this vision? Was it "given" to him or is there some other explanation?

 

Hmm, never really thought about it. I suppose my answer would be that the Force acts according to its will, and those actions can affect "regular folks" as well as Jedi, Sith, etc. Because the Force, to steal a recent line, is so much bigger.

 

Truth be told, I always just assumed that Teshik was hallucinating. He'd just suffered grievous injuries that would require three-quarters of his body to be replaced by cybernetics and was floating through space for god knows how long. Combining that with his presumed Generational status, one would assume that he had a firm grasp of military history which is why his mind was able to conjure up such images.

That being said, he did glimpse future conflicts such as the Yuuzhan Vong War, so I suppose the Force probably could have been at play. Given that we know that death causes living beings to "return to the Force," perhaps being on the threshold of death causes even those who aren't sensitive to the Force to be more in tune with it. Sort of like the metaphysical weirdness some people claim to go through during near-death experiences in the real world.

 

Jason,

Do you know if there will be a cross section book or the like for Resistance? With all the ships we have seen it just seems to call for it.

 

Teshik has visions of worlds ripped in two and other more vague things he says "he will take with him into the vanishing" this tells me he saw farther into the future than even the end of the legends timeline in 140 ABY. He also saw glimpses of what appear to be the celestials so this leads me to assume it was the force, my point of curiosity was how a non-force sensitive "unlocked" such knowledge. Maybe it was a near death experience bringing him closer to the realm of the metaphysical. I dunno.

 

No idea. I'd write it if they let me, though.

 

Well, that'd be nice of course. But there wasn't even one for Rebels, so...

 

If it comes up it would be cool to bring in a lot of old Legends ship companies that have not been brought back yet.

Rebels really did not have a lot of new ships....Resistance has at least a dozen that we have seen in episodes or the preview stuff.

 

Hi Jason,

I have a question regarding the Raddus' armament as listed in the TLJ Incredible Cross Sections.

For a 3km long warship, the Raddus is pretty badly under-armed; Home One and the ISD, both of which are less than half the Raddus' size, feature well above twice the number of heavy turbolasers and ion cannons, among others.

Am I correct in assuming this comparatively weak armament is unique to the post-retirement Raddus only, and that the base MC85's armament was more appropriate for its size? Something like 120 heavy turbolasers, 120 heavy ion cannons, 100 point defense cannons and 8 proton torpedo launchers. The Dawn of Tranquility being stripped of most of its weapons while in mothball wouldn't be entirely out of the question.

 

I like that idea, at least - extending it to that the Raddus was like the Errant Venture - stripped down to "civilian standard" for a ship of its size.

 

I just finished rereading the Servants of the Empire series last week and I really want to know more about these characters after the ending. Jason, you really need to write a novel featuring Merei as a slicer for the rebellion...

 

So, uh... Does this mean Mr. Fry is writing something? Maybe just a reflection on past drafts, but one can hope!

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The Rise of Skywalker Novelization with more hints to sheev hiding his clone Rey in Jakku