Fanclub X-wing Series Fan Club: Home of the Dancing Gamorrean

Quotes by an Air Force pilot (judging by the F-35A footer) and then with an image of a US Navy Tomcat... I know you didn't put it together, and it's nitpicking on my part, but really, couldn't they have put a Lightning II on there?

The rest of it is awesome though.

Edit: oh and no need for anyone to respond to my post there in the game. It's just a little teaser of what we can expect in my update next week. Guess it's a good thing the Black Sheep won't be going directly back to the Intrepid and so will be using a different jump point...

 

So, I first read the X-wing novels when they were first published (I can remember getting each one as they appeared at the local bookstore... how times have changed). Frankly I was probably a little too young to read them. Wedge had been my favorite character from the first time I saw Star Wars (odd how I came out of that movie liking "the other X-wing pilot who survived" and Obi-Wan Kenobi the most).

About a year ago I re-read them as part of my quarantine routine; I started by listening to the Thrawn Trilogy audiobooks (the new ones, narrated by Mark Thompson, which are spectacular good), and decided to review the rest of the old EU. The Allston Wraith Squadron books in particular are really great, but I like the Stackpole books almost as much (with the exception of Wedge's Gamble, which just has too many coincidences in it for my taste. Coruscant is a big planet.) It really rejuvenated my love of Star Wars, which had been pretty well slain by Disney. So many good characters! It's really amazing how Allston manages to give you a feel for so many different characters so quickly (unlike Stackpole; you can predict well in advance which characters are going to die by the number of adjectives you can use to describe them. If it's less than 2, they're going to die.)

That led me back to the old 90s Stackpole comics, which are also great... ahh, the late-90s, when they just let Zahn, Stackpole, and Allston sort of do their own thing, in a tiny Star Wars bubble universe. It's really great.

 

I have never tried the audio books, definitely on my list of things to try out. I hear they are pretty good, is it true you get like combat sounds and stuff as well? If so that is awesome.

If I get quarantined I plan on doing a Star Wars movie marathon and reading at least three books and completing at least one game So far my only quarantine was cancelled after day one so I barely made it to Episode II and it was over.

EDIT: Bardan, I was about to point that out in hopes of saving the Black Sheep, glad to see you already know the flaw in the plan when the pilots go rogue!

 

Oh no! So, the Thrawn Trilogy has actually been recorded twice, once ages ago close to its original release, and once more recently (I think for the 20th or 25th anniversary). The re-release is not abridged, and it comes with music at scene transitions and background sound effects and combat sound effects. Plus Mark Thompson gives everyone their own voice: when he talks you know who is Han, Luke, Karrde, Thrawn, etc. by his narration alone. (It's actually helped me in writing my post-TLC fanfiction, because I can hear Karrde's voice, and think about his intonations, etc.)

You can listen to a sample here.

Seriously, if you're looking to renew your memories of the original Thrawn Trilogy, the audiobooks are most definitely worth it. I'd love to have the X-wing novels re-recorded by Thompson, but sadly it's never going to happen.

 

Fuelling Max's suspicions further...and what if we finished and jumped BEFORE they showed up? Heh, heh, heh... Max needs to run an idea past @The Real Kyp Durron and Kayn when we get back.

 

Apparently, Intrepid's leak is not one of us, but someone who only knows about our assigned mission. Unless it is one of us who decided to keep the extracurricular activity to him/her/itself in order to divert suspicion...

 

You have my attention.

 

Hey folks, found an old gem of a website where you can build Ugly fighter schematics. Hope this helps/is fun.
https://rpggamer.org/main.php?page=ugly-workshop/ugly-designer.php

 

The best of two worlds

 

TCW Z-95 with Naboo engines.



Model: Toscan / Z-95 Atmospheric Ugly


@Adalia-Durron: Not much of an RP-er but I'd be interested to learn more about how/where y'all play.

 

Give it time. We have to get back from SonTay. Might need Kayn, too.

*Jedihandwaveythingy to @SnubJockey* Join ussss....You know you WAAAANT to.....

 

I can DO it...doesn't mean it actually WORKS!

 

Sorry, double post, but I just saw the news...

RIP DAVID PROWSE. Thank you for bringing menace to GFFA for our enjoyment.

 

His Vader body language defined intimidating movements. A true performance artist.

 

@Rebecca_Daniels , thanks for the suggestion, now we have a new goal to strive for.