Lit The Official StarWars.com Blog Thread - That's right, I went there

Indeed.

More Hirams, please.

 

You say silly I say Star Wars

 

That or the Taung were always just a little strange

 

Well humanity on Earth considers itself advanced and proto-spacefaring... and I still would wield a Sword over any gun there is! Nobody can take my swords away!

PS: V for Vendetta and TWD proof why guns are worthless but a good blade is not.

 

No, a movie. Something like 300, showing over-the-top and ridiculous battle scenes with mythological creatures. This professor could then write an IU review of it pointing out all the errors.

 

Not to mention Raiders of the Lost Ark.

...oh.

 

As I said I have a problem with them being the primary weapons, not that they exist. Those sort of weapons are useful in many situations and it is cool to see them still being used. I have no problem with fantasy elements in the stories, I actually enjoy them quite a bit, I just want a little balance with sci-fi.

 

But the problem is that lately too much sci-fi have created unbalance in the Star Wars space opera

 

Oh don't get me wrong, I do enjoy that as well. The best world building isn't being fixated on a single thing but rather everything concerning the civilization. So, historical events, beliefs etc etc are all the best things to see. Though in this case, I would definitely like to see more about the other military units since it was a book about military stuff and don't expect wider stuff to feature in the material unless it was relevant. Like whether their belief system involved glorifying warfare or things like that. On the latest cut content, the thing about the Sun Guard adds to the world building since it shows their historical development and their methodology in combat which is nice.

All in all, I am quite enjoying reading about this cut content. If anything, it makes me want another Warfare guide now The New Essential Guide to Warfare! Followed by the New New Essential Guide to Warfare.

 

well.. would you put your hand into the fire for that... ah wait you already did, damn!

 

I haven't done the math, but I'm pretty confident that 200,000 years isn't enough time to go from the Core to the Outer Rim going below the speed of light. So they'd have to have at least a primitive form of FTL travel.

edit: Well, I guess they could, but they'd have to find a way to propel themselves to a significant fraction of the speed of light without using magic hyperdrive technology. Which means they basically would have had to invent a whole other set of magic technologies.

 

In the Corellia trilogy, we get a ballpark figure of 2 months to travel 1 light-week at sublight speeds (3 months for a slower ship, like the Gentleman Caller.)

So - that would be 1/8 the speed of light.

At that speed, a ship travelling for 200,000 years would go 25,000 light years. Possibly just enough to go from somewhere in the Core to the part of the Outer Rim nearest it.

edit edit
I've looked at The Essential Atlas- and using 1 square = 6,000 light years (since the galaxy's 20 squares wide, and supposed to be 120,000 light years wide in at least one book) Mandalore looks to be just over 4 squares away from Coruscant (which would be 24,000 light years)
So- if they were somehow able to build sublight engines on a par with "modern" ones- then getting from Coruscant to Mandalore at sublight in 200,000 years is not too unfeasible.

 

I would contend that in some situations and aspects of the SW verse it is quite the opposite, but to each his own.

Nice to have the calculated distance on the potential Mandalore trip, though I would hope some slower FTL was used instead, especially since it looks like they settled on Roon first before 7,000 BBY.

 

Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author’s Cut, Part 2 – Ancient Coruscant

 

A nice story to round out your Remembrance Day.

 

Really great stuff, thanks for the link. Never knew about Christopher Lee being in the war. I have to check the SW blog more often.

 

I always wondered how the Taung got off Coruscant at that point in history.

 

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In an similar way to this guy?

 

He wasn't just in the war ...

There's a lot you probably didn't know about Christopher Lee. (Language most assuredly NSFW.

 

It doesn't even include my favorite anecdote about him:

 

How do people keep not knowing about how amazing Christopher Lee is? He's the guy The Most Interesting Man in the World wants to grow up to be.

 

Great, they deleted all the comments on the Blog posts and replaced them by some stupid social media plugin.