Books Imperial Handbook - A Commander's Guide

Indeed, I too have my stand-alone copy. It's pretty interesting, but bounty hunters and Mandolorians have never been my favorite aspect of SW, so for me interesting is about the highest praise I can give the contents. The book however smells great, of sawdust and wonder, the pictures are pretty good (and funny, as in one of the early pages, a bounty hunter is using a holoscreen with x-box buttons that someone forgot to edit out), and it even has some use in the fantasy flight roleplaying games - quite a few of the exotic bounty hunter tools are given details descriptions, and prices.

 

Ah...I can see why there's not a lot of places to find it yet. According to some sites the solo book was just recently released.

Will look into it. In the meantime, I eagerly await the Imperial Handbook. This one I'm probably the most excited for. But it begs the question, after talking about Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunters, and the Imperial Navy, what's next?

 

Rebel Alliance Forces is a safe bet, though if they actually want to be creative.


http://boards.theforce.net/threads/new-essential-guide-announced.50011151/

 

Smugglers, of course!

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Nothing too exciting, but here is a new pic of the book itself and the deluxe packaging:

 

Didn't notice until just looking at its becker & meyer page, but here is their official description:

I know we have seen Madine and Skywalker so far, so two more additions to that. I am assuming they mean the first Death Star, though since its post-Endor it could be the DSII.

If its in the new canon, nice to see the Stormtrooper Corps as being a separate branch of the Imperial military.

 

Oh, drat.

 

I'm afraid this may not be canon, since other new sources such as "Star Wars Rebels: Rebel Journal by Ezra Bridger" indicate that stormtroopers are part of the Imperial Army.

 

That's not Ezra himself, that's what a propaganda poster says:


See? Pic of a stormie and then "Join the Imperial Army." Not just the military, but specifically the army.

 

Everything did, everything does, and everything will indicate that, from 1977 to the end of SW time. This book was a perfect chance to stop pretending that having a non-stormtrooper Army would ever work due to the nature of tie-in fiction (and the whole "clone troopers" thing).

But if it's not canon, I'm definitely buying it. It'll feel like reading Star Wars again, you know? Like in the good old days.

 

Oh yes I know... I understand perfectly. I guess that, as a Temple Guard-type of fan, I still haven't come to terms with that Legends/Canon radical separation. It will take some time...

I don't think there are actual new canon posters that both depict TIE Fighters and specifically mention the exact words "Imperial Army." (As far as I know, they're all here.)

However, I do agree with you as regards the mental faculties of young Bridger--although we're probably not supposed to think like that.

 

No need to get used to it. If the new Disney stuff doesn't measure up to the best of the old universe, screw it, I say. With TCW being 45 hours of canonical Star Wars and, hmm, something like 70% of TCW episodes being of substandard quality (following a 5% of bottom-of-the-barrel-scrapingly awful crap, and followed by 20% of excellent and 5% of mind-blowingly #$%&ing brilliant), most of the new universe in terms of quantity looks to be made of... blegh.

The separation could have been a good thing; take out all the dross that bogged the EU, and keep the good stuff. That's not what they're doing obviously, since I haven't seen any indication they're keeping any of the good stuff, but I count the Stormtroopers ≠ Imperial Army business as an outdated, ill-informed conception that never had any hope of "sticking" to the SW universe as portrayed not only in tie-in material, but in the movies themselves.

 

The only thing that would make me think twice about this being in the new canon would be the bit about it being found after Endor. Sure they could not mention anything about the events after Endor in their running commentary, but who knows.

It said Stormtroopers are in the Imperial Army in the Rebels Visual Guide as well. If they are in the new canon so be it, not a big deal, but I liked them as a separate force, sort of like the Marines of the Imperial military.

 

So we're back to square one - if the Imperial Handbook and FFG both have the stormtroopers as not Imperial Army, are they Legends? NEU? Something else? Can StoryGroup be bothered to tell us?

 

https://www.facebook.com/beckermayerbooks/posts/865867973431390

So turns out it is not New EU but Legends

 

Who's becker&meyer?

 

Manufacturers of specialty books...

 

For me it wouldn't matter. The forced 'radical seperation' as some call it is needless. If I get any ref books again in the future I'll consider hard trying to start with this.

 

Ha! All that great work demoted to expansive fanfic. What a wasted opportunity...

 

I thought that was going to be case. Especially today after I saw the give away art on the main page, thinking that with such characters in the book that might get into post-Endor stuff or canon issues with Rebels.

Oh well, still looking very much towards it coming out.

 

Interesting interpetations on the characters.

 

I always expected this would be deemed Legends. Don't know why it's taken them so long to admit it though.

Still can't help myself but laugh at how there continues to be more Legends material released than NEU.