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Something I noticed. Why are there different Dark Tide II covers?

StarWars.com has this picture:
http://www.starwars.com/eu/feature/2000 ... uin_bg.jpg

My cover looks like this:
http://lookinside2-images.amazon.com/Qf ... xvUia3MyhE

Amazon has pics of both covers (the StarWars.com one as the thumbnail, and the other one as the expanded pic).

Why the different covers?

Oh, and secondly, what the heck is that thing that encircles half the planet??? I assume that is Ithor, and those glowie dots are the city-ships, but what is that ring?

The first one is clearly just a cover mockup, since the X-wings are pasted in model shots.

Ironic, since I seem to see that pic all over the place.

Praxis wrote:Oh, and secondly, what the heck is that thing that encircles half the planet??? I assume that is Ithor, and those glowie dots are the city-ships, but what is that ring?

No, I think that's Hosk Station or something. It was basically a ring around the entire planet.

Crayz9000 wrote:

Praxis wrote:Oh, and secondly, what the heck is that thing that encircles half the planet??? I assume that is Ithor, and those glowie dots are the city-ships, but what is that ring?

No, I think that's Hosk Station or something. It was basically a ring around the entire planet.

Hosk station wasn't in the book. It was only briefly mentioned in one scene of one of the later books, where it gets nuked.

Hosk station didn't encircle an entire planet, either. The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels show it as spherical, and if I recall it was attached to a moon, no? (A moon the Vong dropped on its home planet)

The only planets in Dark Tide II that I can recall at the moment are Agamar, Ithor, Garqi and Coruscant. And only Ithor had a massive battle (hence the X-wings). And notice the black spots? Looks like the Vong virus, that was black and spread through the trees rapidly on the surface (the entire planet was a mega-forest), liquifying and blackening everything. Plus the massive explosion in the atmosphere would correspond to the Legacy of Torment when it exploded and ignited the planet's atmosphere.

I'm fairly certain that's Ithor. But what the heck is that ring?

I always though it was a Trade Federation ship.

And as for Hosk Station's destruction, it occured at the beginning of Balance Point.

JME2 wrote:I always though it was a Trade Federation ship.

That's what I thought too. A very poorly drawn one.

LOL, it does look a bit like that, eh? But it obviously has continents and water, and the Trade Federation wasn't even mentioned (this book was before Episode 1, wasn't it? Maybe? I read it so long ago I forgot).

If it wasnt the wrong book, id have said it was the Jubilee Wheel over Ord Mantall

I always assumed it was a Trade Fed ship myself. Taken over or rustic or something. Which they are mentioned in that duology just in a briefing on how the coralskippers work. Btw, Vector Prime IRC came out sometime in '99 same as TPM so, these books would have been sometime after.

Cal Wright wrote:I always assumed it was a Trade Fed ship myself. Taken over or rustic or something. Which they are mentioned in that duology just in a briefing on how the coralskippers work. Btw, Vector Prime IRC came out sometime in '99 same as TPM so, these books would have been sometime after.

I can't seem to remember Trade Fed ever being mentioned, anywhere, anytime. I just finished re-reading the first book and half the second, too.

But it couldn't possibly be a tradefed ship- look at the water!

The Ithorians live in giant floating cites. Maybe that's it?

StormTrooperTR889 wrote:The Ithorians live in giant floating cites. Maybe that's it?

Nope. Way too big.

Personally, I think it may be some kind of giganormous power station, sort of like a Dyson Sphere or ringworld; certainly it's well within the Empire's capability to build some such thing, even more so if it's mostly empty space (less materials consumed).

Was there anything of the sort around any planets in the book? (I don't think so, else you wouldn't need to ask what it was...)

Who knows -- maybe the Vong hit Cybertron instead and we're seeing the end result...

Actully, Tade Fed Battle Doids and drone fighters have been mentioned several times during the NJO

Dartzap wrote:Actully, Tade Fed Battle Doids and drone fighters have been mentioned several times during the NJO

...when?
Maybe in an idle conversation, but there was never one in the actual books.

Thier refferd to in tho8ght mostly, in the early books, as Skips are discribed as being similier in control to a old Trade Fed Droid Fighter

I'll have to go dig my books out. I put most of NJO up in storage. I know what was somewhere in Stackpole's duology cuz he's the only author in the series that makes bullshit passages like that.

According to Stackpole, the giant thing is a left over Trade Federation ship that they used in the novel to sneak the team in

Hmmm, I thought it was the 'World ship' in construction at Seripadipitythshdf (what ever the hell the planet where Chewie died was).

Knife wrote:Hmmm, I thought it was the 'World ship' in construction at Seripadipitythshdf (what ever the hell the planet where Chewie died was).

No, there's obviously a metal ring around it. Additionally, the worldship was shown on the cover of Edge of Victory II.

Ender wrote:According to Stackpole, the giant thing is a left over Trade Federation ship that they used in the novel to sneak the team in

Trade Federation ship?
They were on a small infiltration ship that self destructed/broke apart and had an escape pod hidden inside it so the crew members (three jedi and a couple noghri) would survive.

I highly doubt that if they were on a Trade Federation battleship that self destructed- the escape pod inside the ship would have been SMASHED by the debris.

Praxis wrote:
No, there's obviously a metal ring around it.

So because its called a 'world ship' it can't have a ring like structure around it, because?

Additionally, the worldship was shown on the cover of Edge of Victory II.

I don't see any ship on the cover of EoV II. Just a skirmy, squidlike thing, that could be a yamosk (sp?) or if a ship, would probably look like the slaver ships that attacked the Duro's stations than a world ship.

Knife wrote:

Praxis wrote:
No, there's obviously a metal ring around it.

So because its called a 'world ship' it can't have a ring like structure around it, because?

Additionally, the worldship was shown on the cover of Edge of Victory II.

I don't see any ship on the cover of EoV II. Just a skirmy, squidlike thing, that could be a yamosk (sp?) or if a ship, would probably look like the slaver ships that attacked the Duro's stations than a world ship.

It's the thing in the background; you can also find images of it on the CD included with the TUF hardcover and in the NEGTV/V.