What's a Veamon?

[Kurgan]

In Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight there was a multiplayer skin (that was quite cool I might add, I used it a lot) labelled "Veamon."

It was a humanoid character with silver skin, bald, squarish face (though they all had somewhat squarish faces since the polycount wasn't very high in the game, but still, the textures brought this out a lot). This character was called "Veamon" (was that his name? species?) in the skin selection screen, and called "Silver" in the game data files.

Is this something made up solely for the game, or is this part of some obscure EU alien species or character?

Anybody know? I'm inclined to think they just made it up, but I still wonder...

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I get nothing on either the CUSWE or Google, so I'm venturing that they made it up.

[Kurgan]

I get nothing on either the CUSWE or Google, so I'm venturing that they made it up.

What's the CUSWE?

[2000AD]

I get nothing on either the CUSWE or Google, so I'm venturing that they made it up.

What's the CUSWE?

Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia IIRC.

[Old Plympto]

Here if you want it. It's good for quick references for names and sources, but not so for in depth technical write-ups.

[Molyneux]

In Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight there was a multiplayer skin (that was quite cool I might add, I used it a lot) labelled "Veamon."

It was a humanoid character with silver skin, bald, squarish face (though they all had somewhat squarish faces since the polycount wasn't very high in the game, but still, the textures brought this out a lot). This character was called "Veamon" (was that his name? species?) in the skin selection screen, and called "Silver" in the game data files.

Is this something made up solely for the game, or is this part of some obscure EU alien species or character?

Anybody know? I'm inclined to think they just made it up, but I still wonder...

Hm...if you win a lot of games using that skin, does it evolve to "X-Veamon"?

[Jadeite]

This is just a guess, but the "Silver" thing reminded me of the Aquaris entry in the Essential Guide to Planets and Moons. There's a picture of two characters, Silver Fyre and her deputy commander Kraaken. Kraaken has a squarish face and pointed ears, could it be something like him?

[Kurgan]

In Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight there was a multiplayer skin (that was quite cool I might add, I used it a lot) labelled "Veamon."

It was a humanoid character with silver skin, bald, squarish face (though they all had somewhat squarish faces since the polycount wasn't very high in the game, but still, the textures brought this out a lot). This character was called "Veamon" (was that his name? species?) in the skin selection screen, and called "Silver" in the game data files.

Is this something made up solely for the game, or is this part of some obscure EU alien species or character?

Anybody know? I'm inclined to think they just made it up, but I still wonder...

Hm...if you win a lot of games using that skin, does it evolve to "X-Veamon"?

You're thinking along the lines of "pokemon" perhaps? I found "V-Mon/Veemon" a part of Digimon on wikipedia. Digimon came out in June of 1997, JK1 came out in October of the same year (though it was delayed multiple times before that).

[Molyneux]

In Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight there was a multiplayer skin (that was quite cool I might add, I used it a lot) labelled "Veamon."

It was a humanoid character with silver skin, bald, squarish face (though they all had somewhat squarish faces since the polycount wasn't very high in the game, but still, the textures brought this out a lot). This character was called "Veamon" (was that his name? species?) in the skin selection screen, and called "Silver" in the game data files.

Is this something made up solely for the game, or is this part of some obscure EU alien species or character?

Anybody know? I'm inclined to think they just made it up, but I still wonder...

Hm...if you win a lot of games using that skin, does it evolve to "X-Veamon"?

You're thinking along the lines of "pokemon" perhaps? I found "V-Mon/Veemon" a part of Digimon on wikipedia. Digimon came out in June of 1997, JK1 came out in October of the same year (though it was delayed multiple times before that).

*sigh* It's a joke. Veemon was the central character (Daisuke/Davis)'s Digimon from Season 2, and he evolved to X-Veemon.

[Kurgan]

Lost on one not familiar with the show... sorry *whiiiizz!!!*


Perhaps Justin Chin and the lucasarts JK1 team were some early digimon fans?

They dropped other jokes/references in the game, like "pinot noir" being a cheat code (I can't remember for what) and Eriamjh (close to the secret code in "Brazil").