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Admiral Daala's age
Posted: 2002-12-13 04:15pm
by Peregrin Toker
Just a question: I'm not much into EU - so I just want to know how old Admiral Daala is supposed to be. In most illustrations of her that I have seen, she appears to be 25-30, (OK, perhaps in her early thirties) and doesn't that seem like quite a low age for such a high-ranking officer?
Posted: 2002-12-13 04:37pm
by Jason von Evil
She slept with Tarkin inorder to become an Admiral, I believe.
Posted: 2002-12-13 05:13pm
by Master of Ossus
Aya wrote:She slept with Tarkin inorder to become an Admiral, I believe.
She actually seemed to get very defensive about that topic. She actually thinks she would have made it without that [ahem] other factor running in her favor. Most of her soldiers seemed to disagree. The truth is likely somewhere in between. She probably could have made it eventually, but it would have taken her much longer if Tarkin hadn't been pulling strings for her.
Posted: 2002-12-13 10:18pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
Aya wrote:She slept with Tarkin inorder to become an Admiral, I believe.
What does that have to do with anything? Anna Nicole Smith married a man 3 times her age just for his money.
I'm sure it would have taken her much longer to become an admiral without Takrin, perhaps she'd have to settle for a lower rank. Why else would she sleep with him?
Posted: 2002-12-13 10:23pm
by IRG CommandoJoe
That is the point he's bringing out. That she's such a young admiral because she slept with Tarkin.
Posted: 2002-12-13 10:40pm
by Jason von Evil
Actually, if you read her bio at starwars.com, it says that she was constantly overlooked when it came time for promotions, until she won some simulations against various people and Tarkin took her under his wing, teaching her and promoting her to admiral.
Posted: 2002-12-13 10:57pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
Aya wrote:Actually, if you read her bio at starwars.com, it says that she was constantly overlooked when it came time for promotions, until she won some simulations against various people and Tarkin took her under his wing, teaching her and promoting her to admiral.
[non-suspension of disbelief] She is KJA's [failed] attempt at created a Thrawn. She's a moronic idiot who expects 11 year old tactics to work.
Posted: 2002-12-13 10:58pm
by IRG CommandoJoe
Yeah, but I think she slept with him too.
Posted: 2002-12-14 12:15am
by Darth Yoshi
Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Aya wrote:Actually, if you read her bio at starwars.com, it says that she was constantly overlooked when it came time for promotions, until she won some simulations against various people and Tarkin took her under his wing, teaching her and promoting her to admiral.
[non-suspension of disbelief] She is KJA's [failed] attempt at created a Thrawn. She's a moronic idiot who expects 11 year old tactics to work.
Of course you'd say that, Admiral. But you have to remember, Daala's first and only assignment until Han, Kyp, and Chewie showed up was to guard the Maw. It's an 11 yr. comm blackout.
Posted: 2002-12-14 12:44am
by Crown
Well her
mental age is somewhere in the range of 6 or 7. Anyone want to contest this?
Posted: 2002-12-14 12:56am
by Moonshadow
DAMN! she must be pretty good if she slept with the dude and he made her an Admiral afterwards
Posted: 2002-12-14 01:17am
by Shinova
Moonshadow wrote:DAMN! she must be pretty good if she slept with the dude and he made her an Admiral afterwards
But if you're as old as Tarkin is, I think you'd jump at the chance to sleep with any decent-looking woman.
Posted: 2002-12-14 01:17am
by Shinova
Shinova wrote:Moonshadow wrote:DAMN! she must be pretty good if she slept with the dude and he made her an Admiral afterwards
But if you're as old as Tarkin is, I think you'd jump at the chance to sleep with any decent-looking woman.
Whoops, nevermind.
Posted: 2002-12-14 10:21am
by Peregrin Toker
Aya wrote:Actually, if you read her bio at starwars.com, it says that she was constantly overlooked when it came time for promotions, until she won some simulations against various people and Tarkin took her under his wing, teaching her and promoting her to admiral.
Moo moo. However, the SW.com page was down IIRC... either that, or I'm trying to make up a dumb excuse.
Posted: 2002-12-14 10:26am
by Jason von Evil
Posted: 2002-12-14 10:59am
by Lord Pounder
I've been over this before, Daala was a good tatician, she deserved her comission. People take it all out of context that she was screwing Tarkin at the time. The man was a Grand Moff he coulda shagged any woman he wanted. She was a cadet at Cardia and she was over looked. So she forged an identidy for herself and started playing war games online. Her tatics were new and inovative and this drew the attention of Tarkin, he sent 3 slicers to find her. When the bosses of cardia found out that their great tatician was a female they punished her. So tarkin whisked her way and put her in charge of his most important instalation. No shag is worth 4 ISD's, and Tarkin wasn't that inept that he would let his johnson make his decisions
Posted: 2002-12-14 12:18pm
by Peregrin Toker
Moonshadow wrote:DAMN! she must be pretty good if she slept with the dude and he made her an Admiral afterwards
Just a question, Moonshadow - can I add that quote to my signature?
Posted: 2002-12-15 02:52am
by Moonshadow
sure. in a way she's Star Wars most expensive prostitute. Four the price of 4 ISDs and the rank of admiral, she love you long time!
Posted: 2002-12-15 03:37am
by Peregrin Toker
Moonshadow wrote:sure. in a way she's Star Wars most expensive prostitute. Four the price of 4 ISDs and the rank of admiral, she love you long time!
Thanks!!
Posted: 2002-12-15 03:39am
by Shinova
Moonshadow wrote:sure. in a way she's Star Wars most expensive prostitute. Four the price of 4 ISDs and the rank of admiral, she love you long time!
Now THAT is sigworthy! Though I won't put it on my sig, someone else should
Posted: 2002-12-15 01:45pm
by Lord Pounder
I know Daala is considered a huge joke here, but i like her caracter. Even if KJA keps trying to fuck over his own creation. What can i say i have a thing for Powerful women and red heads. But serriously is any woman worth 4 ISD's and your head on the chopping block. Don't forget Tarkin made that disicion to promote her on his own, he would have been severely repremanded if not killed if Palpy found out.
Posted: 2002-12-16 12:36am
by IRG CommandoJoe
But he put her in charge of the Maw Installation because NO ONE AT ALL knew of its existence! He isolated it from the rest of the galaxy and even the rest of the Empire and gave her four pretty ISDs to make her feel important so that he could take her military tactics and use them as his own to get in good with Palpatine. THAT is why he had the interest in her. To screw her over
both ways.
Posted: 2002-12-16 12:39am
by IRG CommandoJoe
Moreover, if he really did care about her advancing in the Imperial Navy, he would have assigned her to active combat duty. Then she would have actually made a difference before her tactics became obsolete in the 11 years she was at the Maw Installation. If she had been commanding those 4 ISDs in actual combat areas, she would have definitely made things a lot harder for the Rebellion. But no, Tarkin had to selflishly hide her at the Maw Installation and use her tactics for his own advancements in the Empire.
Posted: 2002-12-16 10:40am
by Peregrin Toker
Darth Pounder wrote:What can i say i have a thing for Powerful women and red heads.
Redhead?? In all the illustrations I have seen, Daala appears to be a brunette.
Posted: 2002-12-16 05:15pm
by Raptor 597
IRG CommandoJoe wrote:But he put her in charge of the Maw Installation because NO ONE AT ALL knew of its existence! He isolated it from the rest of the galaxy and even the rest of the Empire and gave her four pretty ISDs to make her feel important so that he could take her military tactics and use them as his own to get in good with Palpatine. THAT is why he had the interest in her. To screw her over
both ways.
You sick fuck, you.
I dunno if she would of done all that well on the field. She defintely had the organizational abilities.