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It may not be the prettiest thing ever, but the entirety of A Test of Wills has been sitting on my hard drive as a bunch of htm files for more than a decade. Download link to zip is here: https://www.4shared.com/s/f-MHjm-mvca.

I want to see a Spurs final if it'll result in LeBron not getting a ring this year.

I'll always think fondly of the X-Wing games, but I agree that the dogfights could have been more swift and lethal (you know something is really off if a fighter can survive a direct missile hit and fly like nothing was wrong). At best, all that shielding should do is allow a fighter to survive one ...

Question about Naval Station Validusia: was it inspired by the Imperial dry dock that appeared in cutscenes from X-Wing ? I certainly got that impression when staring at your artwork. PS: I, for one, would really like to see how the Missle Boat turns out (thanks for sticking with the original sleek ...

To be technically anal, the ANH opening crawl does not actually state that the Rebel Alliance itself scored its first victory. Rather, that a bunch of spaceships from a hidden fortress won their first victory. There is still room for other Rebels not based on Yavin IV to be out and about kicking Imp...

kk. On or about July 9, 2008, VAN DER KOLK sent an e-mail to a third-party, entitled “funny chat-log.” In the e-mail, VAN DER KOLK copied the text of a previous online conversation between himself and ORTMANN, in which VAN DER KOLK had stated, “we have a funny business . . . modern days pirates :)”...

The minimalism in CW is getting ridiculous. We are fighting for a planet and we see less than 1000 combatants on screen. Why are 80% of the combatants just footsoldiers? Where are the mechanized vehicles? Apart from the Jellyfish and the cyclone-making machine, there was none... and the Mon Cals lo...

It happened again: Mavs beat Heat in a 86-83 last-minute victory.

Perhaps you can finish up that Imperial Fleet Carrier you worked on a while back? PS: Have you ever considered inserting stats and short descriptions in each vehicle page on your website? I think it would be handy to check up on the intended firepower of a Bellator or an Assertor without having to d...

Looks like you've been given a shout-out in the latest Star Wars Insider (check issue 125, page 11). Congrats!

That Mav/Laker game was a complete disaster for the Lakers; the least they could have done was not have two of their players ejected for flagrant fouls in the 4th Quarter.

On a slight aside, I do find it funny when people have a big problem with Starkiller being too powerful a force user, since most of the people who make the biggest deal about it are also the ones who are fully aware of EU Palpatine being able to mind-control whole planets and blow up entire fleets ...

As a government that managed to exist for 25,000 years, the vast majority of the Galactic Republic's wars would have been nothing more than historical footnotes in the grand scheme of things. The occasional protracted war would come along, and sometimes the Core Worlds and other economic interests s...

Strangely enough, I also saw this ad on LA-area TV yesterday. My understanding was that this ad was meant only to play during the midterm elections last year.

...with North Koreans. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/16/entertainment/la-et-china-red-dawn-20110316 Reel China: Hollywood tries to stay on China's good side Without Beijing even uttering a critical word, MGM is changing the villains in its 'Red Dawn' remake from Chinese to North Korean. It's ...

Ah well.... I never really thought highly of the freak artist accident called Anon 3 anyway.

By the way, I like how the underside of Crv 2 is turning out. Does that ship have a name yet?

To be honest, I kinda prefer Evillejedi's Anon3 design over yours, Fractal. Visually, Evillejedi's has more of a literal "edge" to it while the other design looks kinda blunt. That's just my personal preference, though.

For those who don't check up on the Official Site all that often, its Clone Wars section now has a set of "cards" for characters appearing in Season 3. Among them is a card for Captain Rex, who is stated to be commander of the 501st Clone Trooper Battalion. Aside from previously-establishe...

Taskforce Cruiser/Hauler - that's an odd one. The modularity probably wouldn't be much, from what I can see - it's still going to be a large box, with more or less windows and docking bays probably. Star Galleon is also an interesting concept; I like weird and overlooked auxiliaries. Another oddbal...

Moreover, it uses the term "unit", which usually refers to a battalion or regiment, not an individual solider. To be honest; I kinda like the concept of the Kaminoans refering to their individual clones as units. That issue doesn't bother me in the least anyway, since ITW:AOTC states clea...

You don't mind if I use your Sonic drawing as my avatar, do you Publius? I think your stuff is great.

I absolutely love your work, fractal. Sorry for bothering you with a request, but I'd be interested in your take on the Modular Taskforce Cruiser. In particular, it would be interesting to see how you deal with some of its various modules (hospital, inquisition, observation, rescue, survey, and ect.)

OTOH, your hiding behind someone else' dogma doesn't change the fact that for the odds to be so severely imbalanced and the war not over in days or weeks, would require the active collusion by the -entire- Separatist forces in their own defeat. Or just by Darth Sidious and Darth Tyrannus. Read the ...

Until these _troop not unit_ numbers change-Grand Army—10 systems armies, a total of 3,000,000[source?] units, with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine as commander-in-chief. Hahaha.... the ROTS novelization explicitly states that Palpatine didn't become the GAR commander-in-chief until after the Battle o...

And it was 3 million clones because that is the Lucas acknowledged canon number. Completely wrong; Ryan Kaufman had to officially retract the 3 million number (which Lucas DIDN'T come up with) when everyone that had a brain complained about how pathetic that number was. Meanwhile, Count Dooku in th...