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		Leland Y Chee Member Profile Total Posts: 1396 Member Since: 05/00

Date Posted: Sep 08, 2005 07:14 PM

Steve Perry and Michael Reaves are scheduled to write a yet-to-be-titled Death Star novel. Check out the article here.

		Dark Spork Member Profile Total Posts: 7922 Member Since: 03/00

Date Posted: Sep 09, 2005 12:10 AM

Oh man. As I said elsewhere, they're gonna need some industrial-strength spackle for that book.

Nex: The T is Hott!!
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Date Posted: Sep 09, 2005 01:47 PM

Indeed, as well as other fundamental issues such as, the structure in RotS. Was it the Death Star or a prototype? And if the former, how can that be?

Unfortunately, I doubt this issue will even be addressed.

Darth Talas
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Date Posted: Sep 10, 2005 03:12 AM

I hope they put in a funny story regarding the crane that was stuck in the superstructure and built around, shown in "Inside The Worlds of the Star Wars Trilogy"!

And of couse, let's hope they use the correct size of the Death Star (160km diameter) as shown in "Star Wars Incredible Cross-Sections"

Master Omar
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Date Posted: Sep 10, 2005 11:03 AM

There are so many "ifs" in the production of this novel.

I will be amazed if it is all accurate and encompassing.

Jeff Ferguson
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Date Posted: Sep 13, 2005 09:27 PM

I get the feeling it will, Nex. If it weren't for all the continuity bugs, this novel probably wouldn't exist.

I would ask if it would really require a whole novel, rather than a comic a la Open Seasons, but since it's Reaves and Perry, I'll refrain from asking.

		James T. Skywalker Total Posts: 13094 Member Since: 12/00

Date Posted: Sep 14, 2005 09:44 AM

> I hope they put in a funny story regarding the crane
> that was stuck in the superstructure and built
> around, shown in "Inside The Worlds of the Star
> Wars Trilogy"!

Highly improbable. Might be an offhand reference, like most books tend to do, but it doesn't sound like this new story is going to be a "comprehensive Death Star technical manual" type of thing.

> And of couse, let's hope they use the correct size of
> the Death Star (160km diameter) as shown in
> "Star Wars Incredible Cross-Sections"

I'm just hoping that the book answers more questions than it is bound to create.

~JTS

Nex: The T is Hott!!
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Date Posted: Sep 14, 2005 01:12 PM

I'm just hoping that the book answers more questions than it is bound to create.

Exactly. As long as the size stays consistant with the ICS and the Holocron, there should be any questions in that department.

Policrat'
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Date Posted: Oct 01, 2005 02:46 PM

NO! There is another...

'Ewok

		O.J. Member Profile Total Posts: 22957 Member Since: 12/99

Date Posted: Oct 01, 2005 03:12 PM

Another what?

(I didn't feel like reading the whole thing)

Policrat'
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Date Posted: Oct 01, 2005 03:20 PM

Yet another Death Star, potentially as canonical as the Star Tours one or even the JA3 prototype...

Or perhaps it's S- or N-Canon... though that seems a waste of good fun to me...

'Ewok

Nex: The T is Hott!!
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Date Posted: Oct 01, 2005 03:30 PM

Maybe this is the "Great Weapon" of the Seperatists that the Empire confiscated at the end of the Clone Wars (and seen in RotS).

Monitor Supreme
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Date Posted: Nov 02, 2005 01:06 PM

I went down to the newsagents today and bought my copy of Star Wars Magazine (which I assume is the UK analogue to Star Wars Insider) and the review for Star Wars: Dark Lord said that the Death Star has been hampered by slower than expected construction and technical difficulties.

Signing off

Nex: The T is Hott!!
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Date Posted: Nov 06, 2005 11:54 AM

IIRC, I heard somewhere (somebody please corroborate this!!) that there's been a retconn involving the inconsistant structures of the ROTS battlestation and the ANH Death Star.

If I'm remembering correctly, the construction was facing all sorts of problems and eventually Tarkin was asked to create a research base in the Maw Cluster. The Prototype was a testbed for a larger superlaser and the design innovations were implemented in a redesign and rebuild of the structure seen in RotS.

Do I have it right? Or did I just pick up on some idle speculation?

		TalonCard86 Member Profile Total Posts: 13 Member Since: 08/04

Date Posted: Jan 09, 2006 01:03 AM

This message was edited by TalonCard86 on Jan 09, 2006 01:06 AM

The "other" Ewok spoke of is a prototype Death Star called the Nocturno that appears in a French RPG adventure called The Sum of All Their Fears (La somme de toutes les peurs). It was published in Casus Belli #99, an RPG magazine, back in '96. My question: was this adventure part of the official publishing program, or is it mere fan fiction?

TC

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