Next Essential Guide

[General Mung Beans]

After the Essential Guide to Warfare and the Reader's Companion what'll be the next original Essential Guide? I wonder if an Essential Guide to Culture is coming up with information on the Galactic economy and customs of various Galactic cultures.

[Havok]

Is Orange County really this boring? You should go drive through Compton or something... spice up your life man.

[Srelex]

The Essential Guide to ASS, that's what! Ever pictured what George Lucas's hairy derriere looks like? Or what just Natalie Portman looks like in the absence of clothing (you know you have)? And not just human ass, either! Vehicular ass! Robotic ass! The engines of a Star Destoyer--that technically counts as ass! More ass than you can handle!

Yeah, I'm bored. Bite me.

[Ronsu]

Robotic ass!

BOO TO THAT

We absolutely need a guide to every little background character in every movie who has a special fate and inadvertedly enables the heroes to actually save the day. Bonus points for off-screen confrontations with Darth Maul or IG-88 being the second Death Star or whatever. Tragic, galaxy-shaking demises optional.

[eion]

Ever pictured what George Lucas's hairy derriere looks like?

I have now. Damn overactive imagination.

Can they just stop beating the dead horse of the EGs already? I stopped buying them years ago. They're copy and paste jobs of the lowest quality, the art sucks, the little original writing there is sucks, and the numbers are pulled out of the ass of whatever EU-wanking fanboy they got to jerk-off all over the pages. They're not even beating it anymore, they've moved on to reanimating the horse through the force, killing it again, and then beating the zombie horse into a horse-like pulp before starting over again.

I miss Drs. Saxton & Reynolds, they actually gave a damn.

[VT-16]

Jason Fry did a damn good job on the Essential Atlas, it's my favorite next to Saxton's ICS books. He's doing the Essential Warfare one as well, so I got my hopes up. The illustrations in Atlas were also new and didn't seem recycled.

[Srelex]

As a question, is there any sign of deliberate minamalism in the Atlas? Because that's something we'll have to hope won't be present in the Warfare guide...

[VT-16]

The book has a population estimate throughout known galactic space in 26 ABY. Given that it's taken after two major galactic wars, it still shows a small band of Core Worlds (might be thousands or tens of thousands of worlds in reality) having inhabitants in their hundreds of billions to trillions, on average. Not too shabby, imho.

[VT-16]

Fry's suggestions for the book's ship pages make me think this will be a great resource.

[Srelex]

So the author's taking an active part in discussions? Cool. If you're reading this, Fry, remember to keep the numbers big. We'll like you that way.

[VT-16]

I especially like how he's planning to use info from all sources, including Saxton/Dorling Kindersley. I was also amused at his puzzlement of the star dreadnaught retcon-retcon in SOTG SE, mirroring my own. I think he'll be good for this book.