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Spineless Oaf
Total Posts: 463
Member Since: 12/99
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 09:00 AM
This message was edited by .Flight. on Jul 04, 2005 06:39 PM
This series, which was originally speculated to be an Old Republic series focusing around the period of the Tales of the Jedi comics and the Knights of the Old Republic game, has since been announced to be a new post-NJO series, co-authored by Troy Denning, Karen Traviss, and Aaron Allston. You can read more about the annoucement here:
http://www.starwars.com/eu/lit/novel/news20040915.html
http://www.starwars.com/community/event/celebration/f20050419/indexp25.html
~EDITED by JTS & .Flight.
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Once and Future Dreven Strobe
Total Posts: 349
Member Since: 11/01
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 09:15 AM
This is definitely something I'm looking forward to.
Some of my favorite novels are the one's that focus on minor characters only glimpsed in the films, or completly new additions (X-Wing series, I, Jedi, Traitor, just to name a few.)
I really hope that they delve more into the history of the Jedi and Sith. As it is, I'm becoming bogged down in the political intrigue of the current Clone Wars Era line of novels, and I'm finding it hard to motivate myself to keep reading.
I also hope the authors show better coordination than the authors of the NJO. While it was probably a good idea in theory, I got the impression that there were too many hands in the NJO pot, and some toward the end were left with the unenviable job of tying up a whole lot of loose ends.
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 09:30 AM
what do you think? could this be the sith war? with the survival of Darth bane at the end?
It's already been done, I don't think they want to retread old ideas.
~JTS
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Hofylax
Total Posts: 6
Member Since: 03/03
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 09:41 AM
I fear for this series. Kevin Anderson and Tom Veitch have done a piece of good work and created Ancient Star Wars with specific climate and visible distance of the ages.
Much later anti-talented programmists from Lucasarts created KOTOR - a game with beautiful graphics, music and many options but full of Lucas Trilogies repeats (podracing, sith general almost the same as imperial officer,completely modern cloths and starships, yoda-grandfather playing same role as Yoda in prequels)which
were commercial in their nature, projected to give gamers well-known universe from films instead of something new. Lucasarts completely ignored the aesthetics contained in comics like Golden Age of Sith or Sith War...this was the great undoing of KOTOR becouse it was too MODERN.
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Hofylax
Total Posts: 6
Member Since: 03/03
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 09:42 AM
This message was edited by Hofylax on May 21, 2004 09:47 AM
I fear that Lucasbooks will go the way of commercial success and will be also afraid to create a real ANCIENT STAR WARS. What I want from this series is a distance of the ages wchich we can see in Kevin Anderson's comics (different look of lightsabers, babylon-like
cloths, ancient empires) similar to our Earth's distance between our modern world and Mesopotamia.
I think that Kevin Anderson should be a General Editor of this upcoming series. He is responsible for creation of ancient star wars, so he should continue his ideas...
leading authors like Greg Keyes, Elaine Cunningham, RA Salvatore, Troy Denning - the Great Ones from NJO who
really didn't dissapoint...they all write fantasy novels so they are natural choice for writing about heroic and legendary Star Wars.
A great responsibility holds on Lucasbooks.They can continue great Tales of the Jedi or they can screw it up
on KOTOR-like commercial flaw.
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 09:47 AM
I'll try to check in here once in a while...
To stem the too-many-heads situation that arose in the NJO, we're going to use just three authors on this series, getting them all together before we start, to plot out the series. Authors won't be writing three books in a row, though, as that's too overwhelming, and the plot can always be tweaked along the way. But, hopefully, having just three folks writing, and Shelly and I involved, will keep things tighter than NJO. This is our hope, at any rate.
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 09:49 AM
In addition, the series won't be tied to the KOTOR game -- not like Ruins of Dantooine and the upcoming Republic Commando. Games have their own agenda -- to provide an excellent gaming environment. Books should provide an excellent immersion experience. Shelly and I, and the authors, will be reading through all the comics and other material to decide where in time to set the series and what, if any, existing characters we want to use.
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Nur_Ab_Sal
Total Posts: 91
Member Since: 05/04
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 10:21 AM
Let's hope that Lucasbooks will go ambitious and create fantasy-like
heroic times of ancient Star Wars that Anderson shown so brilliantly...and that these folks ignore commercial mistake that was KOTOR!
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 10:37 AM
Are you and Hofylax the same person?
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 10:45 AM
This message was edited by James T. Skywalker on May 21, 2004 10:46 AM
I was wondering that myself...
And I see now that it's probably correct. Both screennames are to be locked, and if you want them unlocked, please come to Forum Feedback.
~JTS
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JediFurball
Total Posts: 14653
Member Since: 10/01
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 10:50 AM
So
This
Old
Version
Encompassing
Really old stuff seems like a good idea, espeically with putting the authors together...seems like this series will definitely be stronger in continuity than the NJO. Just out of curiosity, any chance we'll have some stuff on Skywalkers from ages ago in it?
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Once and Future Dreven Strobe
Total Posts: 349
Member Since: 11/01
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 11:16 AM
Oh man this is gonna hurt...
Just out of curiosity, any chance we'll have some stuff on Skywalkers from ages ago in it?
Since GL came out in TPM and introduced us to midichlorians (ugh), along with the fact that Anakin was "concieved by the midichlorians" (double UGH). I seriously doubt there will be any reason to link the Skywalker name with this new Old Republic era series...
*shrug*...just my 2 cents.
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 11:36 AM
Well, no, we certainly haven't considered any Skywalker tie-in. I can't see us doing that, unless one of the authors comes up with something especially brilliant and realistic. I doubt that'll happen though.
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Old Skool Jedi
Total Posts: 313
Member Since: 04/04
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 12:34 PM
Sounds exciting! Can't wait to read them.
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Nas Choka, Warmaster
Total Posts: 785
Member Since: 04/03
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Date Posted: May 21, 2004 01:20 PM
Well, if this series aren't set in the Sith War times or Darth Bane times, then why not in a middle point?
--Nas Choka, Yuuzhan Vong Leader--
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