Lit History of the Old Republic

Also give me an explanation for Marka Ragnos.

 

And you guys said they'd never continue Legends.

 

Did they say they'd 'never' present any new Legends material? I don't recall anything definite, statements concerning 'no present plans', yes, etc. But wasn't familiar with any definitive NO NEVER.

 

Whatever this is, I don't think it could be seen as "continuing" Legends in any way that FFG and TOR haven't been doing all along. If the bar is just "new products set in that universe", then Legends never really stopped.

 

The problem is, Coop, is that there has been fans that are insistent that there are no new Legends material after the announcement, and that every exception somehow doesn't count, or something. I'm sure they'll just be moving the goalposts further on this one, too.

But on a more positive note, this new work sounds fantastic. Definitely on my 'buy' list.

 

Was that silly name one of the things McEwok came up with? It definitely seems like one of the things he would have found deeply clever.

 

Who is McEwok?

 

I hope we learn about Soa, Daegen Lok, Sek'nos Rath, Ajunta Pall, and Xoxaan.

 

Paul Urquhart, the co-author of Essential Guide to Warfare. He was a regular in Lit, under the name Thrawn McEwok.

 

I'll take a Kipling pun over Sheev any day of the week.

(Isn't a "sheev" a homonym for a bunch of wheat? Or a misspelling for a crude knife? )

Any chance we might hear more on this book at or after Celebration? It seems like something they'd want to hype at that event.

 

The problem with books like these is that Lucasfilm also promised they'd make all material going forth canon. (Reprints aside of course)

Bringing out new "Legends" material sort of defies that.

Not saying I don't want this book, just that if they're going to allow these new legends source-books, they need to more clearly define this fact. And define TOR and the other titles.

Then again, I suppose I like the ambiguity, because I personally have not abandoned any pre-PT canon, nor do I intend to until left with no choice.

 

It's meant at face value. I've vaguely heard of a "Thrawn McEwok" before, but I didn't know which of the real life authors of TEGTW to associate him with until just now.

 

Now I want to see that in a book.

Also is this book Canon or legends.

 

They are extinct, their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion.

 

My first encounter with the name was seeing it on st-vs-sw.net, where he was mentioned as an example of someone whose point of view differs significantly from stardestroyer.net (and got insulted a lot as a result - which was one of the things that convinced me never to join star destroyer.net in the first place).

I then saw it in the back of The Essential Atlas, as one of the "with thanks to" bit in the credits at the end.

I then saw it on the temporary forums, in the thread discussing The Essential Guide to Warfare.

I joined that forum, then this one when it reactivated.

I haven't seen him post for a few months, but after a recent marathon read-through of the Fleet Junkie thread, I got a pretty good idea of what McEwok's preoccupations were - who tended to agree with him (at least some of the time) and who tended to disagree strongly with him.

 

I do have to admit, for something promising to make sense of Legends, the presence of Mon Cal and Nikto in a very PT looking senate building in an artwork labeled "Birth of a Republic" does not sound...well...promising. Especially since the Mon Cal's facial expression looks a bit odd to me.

On the other hand, I always like seeing races not being pigeonholed, so seeing a Nikto as an important Republic politician instead of a thug is interesting.

 

Maybe it's the birth of the post-Ruusan Republic. The post-Ruusan Republic is often said to be a different Republic.

 

I hope to get more info from between DOTJ to TOTJ. 20,000 years of history.

 

Pretty sure the cleverest parts of that book, including Darth Naga Sadow and Vergere torturing Tahiri, all trace back to him.

 

I wonder how much he had to restrain himself (or how many times Jason Fry had to veto him) from including a reference that Anakin Solo was really Ben's father.