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  1. They were arrogant and self-righteous, but they didn't think of clones as meat-droids, little better than slaves, only useful to be thrown to their deaths by the millions as Traviss depicts them. Every Jedi-Clone interaction outside of the Travissty novels depicts exactly the opposite: The Jedi are the ones pushing the clones to be more individualistic and telling them they matter, the Jedi are the ones telling them that their lives are worth saving, the clones themselves are the ones who by-and-large see themselves as nothing but biological droids whose only purpose is to die for the Republic, the Jedi weren't the vanguard of the Republic aristocracy who care not for the peasantry that Traviss likes to depict. Karen Traviss wanted to write a story about unrecognized heroes being stepped on by their oppressive government and be damned whether it made sense within the setting, this is why her Star Wars and Gears of War novels are virtually identical from a readers perspective. No, if you read it again, I clearly disclaim the piece as being my own. It was written by a female acquaintance of mine.
  2. But it's not, it's not even a cipher. There is no reason to refer to it as a language.
  3. Yet we never hear Jango speak a word of it even when he should be alone with his sone. You are. If you're defending Karen Traviss and her works or Mando'a, you are a Traviss Fanboy, because there's no rational reason to defend her. Explicitly contradicted by every other example of a Mandalorian ever. This literally only appears in Travissty's works. Canderous wasn't speaking Mando'a to his troops on Dxun, Jango never talked it to Boba, we never hear of it in the pre-Traviss Mandalorian depictions. Hell we don't even see it in most of the post-Traviss depictions like in The clone Wars where one would expect to see Death Watch using Mando'a exclusively. Except the Rasol'nare is ********.
  4. Why is using special effects rendered to extrapolate data wrong? He is affiliated with Lucasfilms, as soon as LFL licenses and hires him to write the book he becomes affiliated. Except we do. In 'Pegasus' Riker states it would take the Galaxy-class E-D's entire photon torpedo payload to destroy a 5km asteroid, which works out to between 25 Megatons total if it's hard granite and 600MT if it's nickel-iron, which works out to a photon torpedo being between 1kT and 3MT. This coincides with 'Relics' in which the E-D is pulled in close to a class-G star with less than 45% the luminosity of Sol (given there is water and vegetation inside the Dyson Sphere), at 150,000km from the surface of the star the power intensity would be 25-30MW/m^2. At 610m long and 130m tall the surface area (if it were a solid rectangle) would be 78,000m^2, the shield being an ellipsoid bubble would bump this up to 100,000m^2. Multiply 1E5m^2 by 30MW/m^2 works out to 3TW. At about 25% strength the shields were able to withstand this barrage for about three hours, which would give us a total shield strength of 325000MJ, a little under 31MT. Which would put the average Trek shield able to take about ten of their own photorps, which is about what we see in the show.
  5. No you're not, since that's quite clearly against the Jedi Code. This is like trying to say you're a vegan, but you love your nightly Big Mac.
  6. Well that's not true either, the Spartans had a huge slave underclass to focus on agrarian things whilst the free citizens focused on war matters.. So you freely admit to not caring about quality and you think it's okay for authors to be lazy? It's quite clear that she's trying to emulate the likes of Tolkien and Marc Okrand but isn't willing to put the effort into making a working sensible language for them. It's pure laziness as there's plenty of people willing to do linguistics work and fabricate an alien language, we see it all the time. Oh and by the way, the criticism of Mando'a was written by a lady.
  7. Name one society where the warriors are also farmers. If you say Sparta I will laugh my *** off. And the Jedi were able to manufacture a tomb for Freedon Nadd out of it, it wasn't some super secret only Mandos could do.
  8. A lot of it's in Dark Empire, Dark Empire II, and Empire's End.
  9. And? So? Therefore? Irrelevant. That's what Suspension of Disbelief is. Show me where I'm making stuff up.
  10. No he doesn't. The Empire Strikes Back novelization explicitly says so.
  11. For Sith Pick an appropriately violent or sinister name for a Sith, find a Dutch translator (Vader is Dutch for Father), plug in your word and see if it comes up with something apropros. For example Moord is Murder.
  12. I'm sorry that you can't make a cogent argument, it's not my fault you have to make up blatant ad hominem attacks because you can't validate your own opinion.
  13. Complete Cross Section, p.63, Republic Assault Ship main reactor peak output 2x10^23watts 10^23=100000000000000000000000 or 100 sextillion, multiply by 2 to get 200 sextillion 1 GW=1000000000 or 1 billion Watts 200 sextillion/1billion=200000000000000 or 200 trillion Gigawatts. Even if you were right, and I'm not seeing an episode named or a quotation given to validate what you're saying, Star Wars generates three orders of magnitude higher energy output. A Venator has vastly greater power than that and an ISD still even more. You're wrong. Star Wars canon is anything not explicitly and irreconcilably contradicted by higher canon is canon. No, only explicit things. Give precedence, for example when someone in the EU says the Executor is only 12km long that's explicitly contradicted by the scaling of the mile-long ISDs around it. You are wrong.
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