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Mira Lodo
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Date Posted: Jun 03, 2004 10:25 PM

I'm most curious to see what direction they go with this. My own fan fiction was completely unrelated to the main saga in terms of characters, but had a Shakespearian ending during the Clone Wars, so it brought things up to date. X-Wing dealt with tangential characters. The Tales of the Jedi comics were tied in with Dark Empire. So what will the "connection" be here? I'm not expecting there to be a bunch of continuity-reference-happy writing, but at the same time, I'm hoping that it will, at least have some bearing on the saga, dealing with an important event of the past, or in some way establishing new territory without being irrelevant. I'm assuming that it will be good, given the fact that they're following my dictum of fewer cooks for a better broth, but will this be the equivalent of a spin-off series, or more like the "Legends of Dune"?

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

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Date Posted: Jun 04, 2004 12:07 AM

CommanderThire, there is already a story about the formation of the Second Order of the Sith. It takes place in the Dark Horse Comic series Jedi vs. Sith, a six-issue series that explored Darth Bane's rise to the top of the Sith and also explained the Valley of the Jedi from the Dark Forces saga.

It's collected in a trade paperback format, and should cost anywhere between $14 and $18 American.

~JTS

AnakinActionHero
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Date Posted: Jun 04, 2004 09:50 AM

Sorry JTS thats wrong Jedi vs. Sith doesn't start when they formed, it starts around the time when Bane remade that current Order into just having 2 individuals, I'm talking about the origin of it, starting around 2032 BBY.

Thats what I'm interested in. I hope that clears it up.

		whiteknight767 Member Profile Total Posts: 478 Member Since: 02/03

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Date Posted: Jun 09, 2004 01:08 PM

I would really like them to take place after TOTJ: Redemtion, but before KOTOR (the game). And I know that they will not feature main characters from the game, I just want to keep continuity. But apparently there were drastic changes happening in the 40 years between The Great Sith War and the second Sith War. (As Nomi Sunrider begins to explain at the beginning of Redemtion).

		Sue Rostoni Member Profile Total Posts: 2798 Member Since: 11/01

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Date Posted: Jun 16, 2004 12:16 PM

Hi -- I haven't read all the pages of posts, but there's been a change.... We've reconsidered where to set this 9-book series and have decided that the old Old Republic era may not be the best place. We're now seriously considering post-NJO, something like 35 years after A New Hope. The thinking is that there is more opportunity here for substantial storylines using characters that people already have feelings about, and the outcome wouldn't be known at the start of things. We still want to play in the Old Old Republic time frame, and will try to get a trilogy there. I hope you all aren't disappointed - I'm trying to gauge whether it's best to give you NO information at all, or information (like this) that's subject to change.

mavrick889
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Date Posted: Jun 16, 2004 12:34 PM

Hmm, interesting. As long as the KOTOR/TOTJ era isnt alltogether ignored, I'll be happy.

Dark Faith
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Date Posted: Jun 19, 2004 06:19 PM

No, NO! NO! PLease, why not keep the books in the Old Republic era with all NEW FRESH characters?!!! Please?!!!! Post-ROTJ has ENOUGH Novels!!!!

Yuuzhann Vong
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Date Posted: Jun 19, 2004 06:39 PM

This message was edited by Yuuzhann Vong on Jun 19, 2004 06:40 PM

I agree completely about changing the series' timeframe!! While I would personally like a trilogy set within the old Old Republic timeframe, I'd much prefer a multi-book arc Post-NJO (or even another trilogy. Whatever). I always thought Denning's trilogy wouldn't be enough to cover this limitless new environment that the NJO opened up. Plus, as you said Sremmuy, we already know and (hopefully) care for the characters and won't know how it ends.

I for one, am happy by the potential change, but like the others have said, I agree that we need something around TOTJ/KOTOR.

Old Skool Jedi
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Date Posted: Jun 19, 2004 09:02 PM

Sremmuy,

Moving the 9-book series to post-NJO sounds good to me.

Please don't ignore the TOTJ/KOTOR era of the Old Republic, though. At least a trilogy of books would be nice, maybe exploring what happens to Nomi and Vima Sunrider.

I'm assuming these 9 books would be after the Denning post-NJO trilogy? Would they affect his series, or would the 9-book authors just have to adapt their ideas to follow his?

Thanks for the update. We'd love to know the final decision, too, if you're able to tell us.

Tresk Im'nel
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Date Posted: Jun 19, 2004 09:07 PM

This message was edited by Tresk Im'nel on Jun 19, 2004 09:07 PM

Hi -- I haven't read all the pages of posts, but there's been a change.... We've reconsidered where to set this 9-book series and have decided that the old Old Republic era may not be the best place. We're now seriously considering post-NJO, something like 35 years after A New Hope...

...We still want to play in the Old Old Republic time frame, and will try to get a trilogy there. I hope you all aren't disappointed - I'm trying to gauge whether it's best to give you NO information at all, or information (like this) that's subject to change.

Sounds good to me.

I'm glad the KOTR (more or less) era is still slated to receive some attention in future novels, but I'm personally more interested in post-NJO.

But what I'm most looking forward to are the Dark Times between EP III and ANH. Sorry to drop hints.

Darth Rebelo (clonewarseu)
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Date Posted: Jun 19, 2004 11:21 PM

Hi -- I haven't read all the pages of posts, but there's been a change.... We've reconsidered where to set this 9-book series and have decided that the old Old Republic era may not be the best place. We're now seriously considering post-NJO, something like 35 years after A New Hope.

Sue,
I think this is a good idea. A whole nine book series in the Old Old Republic era would probably be risky. How many people, besides us die-hard completists, would actually read a nine book series about characters they know absolutly nothing about. The books would have to be pretty damn good. So from a business standpoint it makes a lot of sense to NOT have a series that long in an era such as that.

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Darth Rebelo (clonewarseu)
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Date Posted: Jun 19, 2004 11:21 PM

Personally, a trilogy in the Old Old era would probably be enough for me. I would much rather see lots of post-NJO novels, some novels set between Episode 3 and A New Hope, and some more Clone Wars novels that take advantage of the hindsight light that Episode 3 will shed on that era. Old Old Republic is definitly not number 1 on my list. I would love to see some novels there, but not neccessarily nine of them.

darthdubious
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Date Posted: Jun 20, 2004 03:10 AM

at first i was disappointed that changes were being made ,but i think you are doing the right thing focussing on post NJO.also it will let you focus in the events after episode 3. a trilogy wouldn't be abad idea though or even a novel the same length as Star By Star.

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

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Date Posted: Jun 20, 2004 07:32 AM

Should I change the title to reflect the new direction of the series, with a note in the first post of the thread regarding the original plan and how it changed?

~JTS

Mira Lodo
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Date Posted: Jun 20, 2004 08:50 AM

Sometimes I wonder if we don't know too much about upcoming projects. I look over the number of cancelled titles that have been announced before they are completed, and I cringe (Lightside, Escape from Dagu, Crimson Empire III, the cancelled Bantam novels, the Shadows of the Empire prequel, etc.). Perhaps in the future it would be good to keep "plans" quiet until they are definite?

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