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  1. I am also on Star Forge and am a Shadow Tank Main but I have a Sorc heals that can also run it
  2. Hello everyone, I am writing this because I seem to have a small problem. Ever since the Ancient Threat was put on Yavin, I have been struggling to find a group or guild willing to kill it, yet I have seen plenty of people with the titles associated for killing it. I have been asking around forever, but I have had no luck. Could anyone possibly help me out here? Would be really appreciated.
  3. The Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn is one of the most well-regarded pieces of work from the Star Wars Expanded Universe, selling 15 million copies worldwide since the release of book 1, Heir to the Empire, in 1991. It was devoured by an entire generation of Star Wars fans, who were too young to see Return of the Jedi at the cinema, and still almost a decade away from The Phantom Menace. The latest Star Wars update from Disney is that there is going to be an extensive review into the EU and a reconsideration of what stories are going to be considered canon. Up to now, the entire EU was considered canon, with every story being vetted by Lucasfilm prior to publication, and a vast database of events and characters being kept. But with a new series of films on the way, Disney wants the freedom to create new stories, and not be beholden to a canon that will be totally unfamiliar to the average movie-goer. This is fair enough. Disney wants to tell stories in the post-Return of the Jedi universe in which most of the major EU works take place. And let’s face it, some of the EU stories are bad, some of them are crazy, and some of them take Star Wars to places it really shouldn’t have gone. Some of the EU stories are fantastic. Some of them are true to the characters, are exciting adventures, and unfold in a way that makes them logical and worthy follow-ups to the original Star Wars trilogy. And the Thrawn trilogy is a prime example of this kind of EU story. Does it matter if Thrawn is considered canon or not? I guess it doesn’t really, the books will still be there, and will be just as good as they always were. But it’s another slap in the face to the die-hard Star Wars fans, who have had to put up with a lot of bad decisions, from the Special Editions, to the death of Chewbacca, to the love story in the prequel trilogy. Can’t we be allowed to keep this in the canon, as part of the ongoing story we’ve invested in for more than 20 years now? The fans ultimately don’t matter to the bean-counters at Disney. Fans seemed to hate the prequels, but they earned over $2 billion at the global box office and spawned a merchandising wave that continues to be hugely profitable to this day. The fans will come, they are locked in to visiting a cinema in December 2015 to witness Episode VII, JJ Abrams would pretty much have to turn Star Wars into a musical to keep the fans away, and even then we’d probably still watch it. Thrawn is a great story. It takes place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi. The new republic is in a delicate period of expansion and negotiation, and things are getting tough as the realities of governance begin to take their toll. But a Grand Admiral of the Empire has been biding his time, building a fleet and gaining loyal worlds, and he begins a mission of conquest and revenge. Throw into this long-lost battle fleets, cloning technology and a demented dark Jedi who wants to kidnap Han and Leia’s kids, and you have the makings of a *great trilogy. The trilogy has some of the most vivid and interesting characters in the entire EU, from Grand Admiral Thrawn himself, a blue-skinned, red-eyed alien who goes everywhere with a creature that can suppress the force, to dark Jedi Mara Jade, the former hand of the Emperor, who has sworn revenge against Luke. These are great, interesting and viable characters and it would be a shame if they were suddenly considered non-canon. More than that, the Thrawn trilogy really proved that tie-in or spin-off novels could add a huge amount to the worlds that they took place in. They didn’t have to be self-contained adventures that returned everything to normal at the end, they could grow and expand, and connect with millions of readers, instead of a narrow group of super-fans.
  4. Diplomacy requires both sides be willing to negotiate. If they arent you have to bringing them down until they will be open to negotiations, and its the bringing down part that im questioning with Trebor.
  5. Oh look at this, we actually agree on something.
  6. George Lucas also said Thrawn isnt canon, yet he is considered canon. So as far as i see, his statements are unreliable.
  7. Havent seen Coleman Trebor do that, I have only seen him do pure diplomacy,so as far as I know, Council of Reconciliation is where he should have been.
  8. Well if you wish to believe in things without actual evidence, then be my guest, there is no point in bringing in personal philosophies into a discussion that is apparently over.
  9. Indeed, my mistake, its the Council of Reconciliation.
  10. No evidence, no quote, that was the arrangement. Also a decree is written in paper, thats not verbal evidence, thats a document.
  11. Um Mace Windu chopped Jango's head off. Also : The High Council was a group of twelve wise and powerful Jedi Masters who were elected to guide the Order as well as to serve as an advisory body for the Office of the Supreme Chancellor. Wisdom is not being argued here. The High Council members are some of the most skilled and powerful combatants in the Jedi order. Again as I said, Coleman Trebor would serve better as the head of the Jedi Diplomatic Corps, that doesnt make him good for the High Council.
  12. If you do a debate or go to court and present no evidence for your claim, you will be dismissed. So, im afraid your argument is done. Word of mouth is useless without evidence. Also, word of mouth is not considered evidence by any debate or legal standards, so using the argument of verbal evidence is useless.
  13. So you are telling me that a practicioner of a style specifically geared toward defense and blast deflection, failed to defend himself? Yes, Jango is no ordinary individual, but im willing to bet anyone else on the High Council would have been able to at least get away.
  14. Well, if evidence cant be provided for Palpatine, the statement is useless. Without evidence, the argument falls apart.
  15. Again, those Jedi he killed, not High Council members, also Coleman Trebor was assumingly trained in Niman, which while a Jack of all trades style, is dependent roughly on the persons creativity and intelligence, the best example of Niman philosophy being Exar Kun. Its called the Diplomats form for a reason, its ment for people who want to study the force or different arts, so either way you put it, Coleman Trebor was defective somewhere.
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