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General Discussion / Re: Speculation/WMG Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 09:44:31 pm »
Point is, they were still a lot slower than Joruus, who might have been cloned to adulthood in under a year.
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General Discussion / Re: The Crossover Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 09:43:40 pm »Yeah, that's what I was trying to say.He used dry firings IIRC.QuoteAnother good one? Equip a bunch of asteroids with cloaking fields, and drop them in orbit over a inhabited planet, in stable orbits. Sure, space is huge, but do you really want to gamble your life?That's only half of the genius. He figured out a way to make it look like his ships were dropping something like 3 times the number of asteroids that they actually did. So even after the Republic managed to find all of the real asteroids, they stayed safe under the shield because they feared that there were far more still waiting.
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General Discussion / Re: The Crossover Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 09:42:12 pm »Quote
Another good one? Equip a bunch of asteroids with cloaking fields, and drop them in orbit over a inhabited planet, in stable orbits. Sure, space is huge, but do you really want to gamble your life?That's only half of the genius. He figured out a way to make it look like his ships were dropping something like 3 times the number of asteroids that they actually did. So even after the Republic managed to find all of the real asteroids, they stayed safe under the shield because they feared that there were far more still waiting.
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General Discussion / Re: Speculation/WMG Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 09:39:55 pm »That wasn't quite it. The problem was clones being grown to adult age too rapidly, before their minds had time to adjust to the Force's everpresent quality. Joruus was a quick-grow clone, and his rapidly-changing mind snapped. Note that Boba (assuming he was actually a clone) and the other clone troopers were reasonably stable, but they took much longer to grow.The EU is a bit weird re: clones. In the Thrawn trilogy, the discovery that Thrawn had access to clone troops was enough to incite fairly considerable panic, and that took place a good amount of time before the Sun Crusher trilogy IIRC.
It gets a bit complicated. See, after the Clone troopers, cloning technology became somewhat... Rare. Extremely rare. And a major problem with cloning is that it leaves the clone highly vulnerable to going utterly insane. (Joruus C'Boath) The solution to this was to put Ysalamiri in with the cloning devices, to cut the clones off from the Force. Because apparently being cloned and not having a soul makes you crazy.But it's okay if you aren't in contact with the magical bacteria.
Really, it was the knowledge that Thrawn had large scale, non-insanity cloning technology that scared everyone shitless.
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General Discussion / Re: The Crossover Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 09:33:39 pm »Knew about dejarik, but didn't include it because it seems like a very different game than chess. Didn't know about chess, and I must bow to your superior knowledgeSure. Thrawn is most definetely interested in the game (I think), and I'm fairly sure chess has survived to the 41st millenium.It has, though the name has been changed to "regicide" and the piece names have changed.
Other than that, as far as I can tell it's identical.
Thrawn, on the other hand...I'm not sure chess exists in the SW verse, or at least not in any way we'd recognize. I think we'd have to assume that Thrawn is at least allowed to read the rulebook ahead of time, maybe have a practice game or two.
There's that holoboard game, Dejarik. And also there actually is Chess in the GFFA. Chess. Note, Wookieepedia is not my only source, it's just the easiest and I'm lazy.
Okay, so Thrawn probably would know about chess. He'd probably be pretty good at it as well. So the question remains:
Creed or Thrawn?
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General Discussion / Re: The Crossover Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 09:21:36 pm »Tis only fair.Considering his knowledge of art...
Although knowing him he could probably figure out the rules by looking at each piece.
You have a fair point there
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General Discussion / Re: The Crossover Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 09:19:04 pm »Sure. Thrawn is most definetely interested in the game (I think), and I'm fairly sure chess has survived to the 41st millenium.It has, though the name has been changed to "regicide" and the piece names have changed.
Other than that, as far as I can tell it's identical.
Thrawn, on the other hand...I'm not sure chess exists in the SW verse, or at least not in any way we'd recognize. I think we'd have to assume that Thrawn is at least allowed to read the rulebook ahead of time, maybe have a practice game or two.
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General Discussion / Re: The Crossover Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 09:15:47 pm »
Are we assuming that they're both familiar with the game?
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General Discussion / Re: Speculation/WMG Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 09:12:33 pm »That's a better descriptor.Hmm, true, that was crass.Not sure I'd call him "evil", really. Fighting for the other side, yes. Willing to use clones and crazy Jedi? Sure. But he was much better at leading his men than Vader or the Emperor ever was.The EU is a bit weird re: clones. In the Thrawn trilogy, the discovery that Thrawn had access to clone troops was enough to incite fairly considerable panic, and that took place a good amount of time before the Sun Crusher trilogy IIRC.Yeah, but that was Thrawn. He's basically Picard turned evil.
Picard turned ruthless.
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General Discussion / Re: Speculation/WMG Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 09:10:03 pm »Not sure I'd call him "evil", really. Fighting for the other side, yes. Willing to use clones and crazy Jedi? Sure. But he was much better at leading his men than Vader or the Emperor ever was.The EU is a bit weird re: clones. In the Thrawn trilogy, the discovery that Thrawn had access to clone troops was enough to incite fairly considerable panic, and that took place a good amount of time before the Sun Crusher trilogy IIRC.Yeah, but that was Thrawn. He's basically Picard turned evil.
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General Discussion / Re: Speculation/WMG Thread
« on: April 15, 2013, 08:54:59 pm »
The EU is a bit weird re: clones. In the Thrawn trilogy, the discovery that Thrawn had access to clone troops was enough to incite fairly considerable panic, and that took place a good amount of time before the Sun Crusher trilogy IIRC.
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General Discussion / Re: Plug.dj - Listen to the B12 musical collective.
« on: April 15, 2013, 08:28:36 pm »
Lotta people, lotta music. Some of it is even good!
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Fire Emblem on Forums (FEF), OOC Thread.
« on: April 15, 2013, 05:54:08 pm »
As long as you don't abandon this one, I'd be willing to check it out if you made it
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Fire Emblem on Forums (FEF), OOC Thread.
« on: April 15, 2013, 04:03:38 pm »* Sirus has yet to be downed as well.
Gregor's not quite a tank yet, but he'll get there
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Fire Emblem on Forums (FEF), OOC Thread.
« on: April 15, 2013, 03:56:02 pm »Eh, sure.Hey, you came awfully close a number of times* Haspen will never kill any PC if he will be that lenient with rules.